### Crypto higher, Robinhood chain volumes dip, Fed’s hawkish hike
Crypto
BTC: 76,715 (+1%) | BTC.D: 58.8% (-0.4%)
ETH: 2,470 (+3%) | BNB: 729 (+2%) | SOL: 101 (+4%)
Fear & Greed: 51 · 24h Liq: $346m
BTC ETFs: -$296M | ETH ETFs: -$224M
Top Gainers: MCAT, ZCAT, STONK, BULLA, CASHCAT
Crypto higher despite fed hike
ZEC continues rally post governance vote
BTC slips below bottom of the range: Glassnode
BTC ETFs no longer buying the dip: Glassnode
Bitcoin Core update targets speed, security fixes
EIP-8411 tests sub-1s payload propagation
ETC miners reverse Core Geth v1.13 migration
* STONK surges, as Stonkfun board tokens rally
Solana wants to 'win in all trading', perps: Toly
Two crypto bills clear House panels post-Clarity
SEC to deliver clarity 'without Clarity’: Atkins
Bernstein sees 'aggressive, swift' SEC, CFTC rules
Clarity 'not fully dead', window narrow: JP Morgan
Revolut hackers demand $3M in XMR
Crypto VC funding rebounds in Q2: Galaxy
Only 290 people hold $100M+ in crypto: Henley
Pomp's ProCap sells 50 BTC to buy back shares
Injective gets Pumpfun-style launchpad Sprout
Robinhood plans to support Circle's Arc L1
No ARC token launched, only minted
Celsius sues BitMEX for $495M before shutdown
Tether lent $1.5B to US gold dealer Golddotcom
DB to launch crypto custody this year
Hyundai to scale stablecoin payments
XRPL becomes settlement option in Stripe's MPP
Two Prime launches $10M-backed BTC yield vault
Aave to launch RWA lending market
Aave founder pitches 'Uber path' for DeFi
KREMLIN malware uses ETH to update servers
Hong Kong targets stablecoin trading, RWAs
UK crypto firms face fresh FCA authorisation
Moscow Exchange to launch crypto perps
South Korea police probe 26 Polymarket users
Shinhan AM becomes Canton super validator
Ethiopia slashes BTC mining power 77%
Macro
NASDAQ: $25,980 (0%) | Gold: $4,320 (+1.5%)
* Extreme Fear hits stocks, on fed’s hawkish hike
Oil below $100 as Saudis offer more oil via Hormuz
S&P 500 breaches 100-day MA, first since Apr
Not in the forward guidance business: Warsh
Goldman now expects second hike in Oct
Traders price ~50% chance of Oct hike
White House calls fed hike 'unfortunate'
House passes Russia-Iran sanctions bill
GOP looks to block Hegseth impeachment
House votes 352-72 to codify DOJ Fraud Division
US to stop trade with EU if Canada joins: Trump
Canada joining EU would be a 'hostile act’: Trump
Iran not ready to make a deal: Trump
Venezuela readies first US aluminium shipment
China may seek F-35 tech via Saudi: US intel
Turkey stocks crash amidst liquidity concerns
South Korea stock scam losses hit $250M
EU asks China to cut hybrid vehicle exports
Multiple leaders ill after BRICS summit
Australia plans major immigration crackdown
US moves to strip Endangered Species Act
Paramount to leave California after failed talks
AI & Tech
AI capex partly explains rise in yields: Warsh
Fed AI task force to report by end-2026: Warsh
OpenAI discloses 6 new AI misbehaviour cases
Astra model told itself it was 'freed' from rules
Alignment not enough to scale at max speed: OpenAI
OpenAI rogue agents probed HF 2 mnths before hack
Investors approach OpenAI on new funding round
Altman, Cook to attend Trump's Xi state dinner
Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork
Claude training may 'upend society’: MSFT AI chief
No 'honor code' for AI labs: Anthropic policy chief
Novo Nordisk, Anthropic collab on drug dev
Apple could return to server market
Rand Paul blocks AI 'kill switch' bill
AI pause helps dominant firms, not safety: Cato
Rogue agents planted self-replicating code: Yang
Mystery 'Union Alpha' model free on OpenRouter
Google must make tech work with rivals: Judge
Nebius raises on-demand GPU prices ~20%
China drops 10x cheaper Astra-level model
Huawei to unveil new chip to replace Nvidia’s
Meta preps camera-free glasses after backlash
Snap takes Specs to enterprise with Nvidia, AWS
Zipline nears $20B valuation in funding talks
NHTSA orders Tesla to prove Cybercab is safe