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Crypto lower, MSCI could drop BTC DATs, S&P 500 ATH

Crypto

• BTC: 62,664 (-2%) | BTC.D: 58.3% (-0.4%)

• ETH: 1,871 (-1%) | BNB: 605 (-1%) | SOL: 75 (-1%)

• Fear & Greed: 30 | 24h Liq: $226m

• BTC ETFs: -$131M | ETH ETFs: +$6M

• Top Gainers: AKE, VELVET, H, 2Z, ETHFI

• MSCI could drop Strategy, Metaplanet from indexes

• $5B BTC shorts face liquidation at $66.6K

• Trezor data breach exposes ~14K wallet buyers

• BTC approaching a cyclical bottom: VanEck

• Riot sold 4,300 BTC in Q2 to fund DC expansion

• ETH L1 to drop Poseidon for SHA/BLAKE

• SharpLink to stake $200M ETH through Lido

• FG Nexus sells all ETH

• Tether passes first full audit from KPMG

• SEC abruptly cancels today’s crypto vote

• White House to host crypto execs Wednesday

• CFTC crypto regulatory clarity meeting on Aug 20

• Neutrl halts NUSD redemptions on reserve issue

• Kimi K3 scan flags 7,958 Bitcoin code flaws

• JPMorgan cut Polymarket banking ties last year

• Baltimore sues Kalshi, Polymarket

• Only 0.2% of EU firms accept crypto: ECB

• Pumpfun introduces Callout Rewards

Macro

• NASDAQ: $26,800 (+1%) | Gold: $4,360 (0%)

• S&P 500 closes at ATH as rate hike worries ease

• Oil higher as US plans economic isolation of Iran

• HFs bought $6.8B stocks last week, most in 18 yrs

• Japan backs BoJ rate hike as soon as Sep

• South Korea’s retail piling into stocks again

• Oil tanker struck in Strait of Hormuz

• US deploys fresh carrier to Middle East

• US has lost 25% of Reaper drones in Iran war

• Trump slaps 100% tariff on drones, aircraft parts

• US budget deficit hits $432B

• AOC now favorite for 2028 Dem nomination

• US drug prices see sharpest drop since 1963

• Houthis hit Saudi Aramco Jazan refinery

• PBoC injects $52B in banking system

• China bullet train hits ATH 800km/h in 5.3 secs

• 70% of Gen Z depend on parents for money

• ICE arrests hit 50K a month, 2x Obama peak

• Selena Gomez accused of fraud by investors

AI & Tech

• Anthropic investors eye $2T valuation

• OpenAI revenue run rate tops $40B

• GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast hits 14x speed on Cerebras

• ChatGPT can now recall user activity across apps

• OpenAI sheds senior execs in pre-IPO refresh

• Gemini 3.7 Flash posts solid coding gains

• Grok 4.6 built for Grok Build harness: Elon

• Microsoft retires Mico as face of Copilot

• Apple trained China AI model with Alibaba

• DeepSeek hikes prices on V4 models

• 2027 DRAM, HBM capacity already sold out

• TSMC 3nm output to hit 180K wafers early

• Judge asks Google to ease rival app store installs

• Foxconn July revenue +54% on AI servers

• Uber taps Pony for 2,000 EU robotaxis

• Tesla-SpaceX Terafab construction begins

• Elon discloses 48.4% SpaceX stake

• X open-sources its For You feed algorithm

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