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JUST IN: CPI beat expectations in June, largest slowdown in six years.
Bitcoin ($BTC ) ticked up to $64K on the inflation relief.
Geopolitical tensions still weighing on broader crypto sentiment though.

JUST IN: $64,000 Bitcoin ($BTC )

JUST IN: Bitcoin ($BTC ) climbed above $64,000 after cooler-than-expected June inflation data boosted expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts.
Core inflation remains sticky, but the macro shift is giving crypto room to breathe.

🇺🇸 Bank of America profit jumped 27%, driven by AI investments and strong consumer spending.
Consumer health is the macro floor crypto needs. Risk-on sentiment flows into risk assets when employment and spending hold. Markets pricing soft landing, not recession.

JUST IN: 🇯🇵 SBI Holdings brings Solana ($SOL ) Foundation into its R3 Japan blockchain venture.
Japan's tokenization pivot now has Solana at the center. Institutional adoption stepping up.

🇺🇸 Tiger Securities upgrades $COIN to Buy.
No price target in the release. Routine analyst call, nothing structural behind it.

Strategy didn't buy BTC this week.
No announcement. No 8-K. Just cash sitting on the sideline ahead of today's CPI print.
First pause in months, and it lands exactly when macro uncertainty peaks.

IBM shares just tanked 23% on a profit warning.
Customer spending on AI infrastructure is sluggish. The company's now guiding below expectations.
Big Tech capex bets aren't translating to near-term revenue yet.

JUST IN: Starknet launches STRK20, a native privacy framework for on-chain assets.
Privacy Coins are up 9.4% today. Timing isn't accidental.

Bitcoin ($BTC ) down 1.1% over 7 days while funding rates stayed positive for 240 hours straight. Longs paying to hold through the dip.

🇺🇸 Coinbase Bitcoin ($BTC ) Premium Index negative for 30 consecutive days (avg -0.11%). US retail selling pressure or arb outflow continues.

JUST IN: Robinhood Chain hit higher DEX volume than Ethereum ($ETH ) just 2 weeks after launch.
Real adoption momentum, or exchange liquidity subsidies doing the heavy lifting? Early users betting Robinhood's distribution moat beats Ethereum's network effects.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Trump pushes Senate to pass the CLARITY Act before August recess.
"Don't let China win", his direct message to lawmakers as the window narrows.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Strive (ASST) just crossed 19,900 BTC in treasury.
Added 18 Bitcoin ($BTC ) last week for $1.2M while holding $154.1M in cash. Sitting steps away from the 20K milestone.

JUST IN: 🇬🇧 BlackRock, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Coinbase and 50+ firms are partnering to develop tokenization use cases across the UK.
That's the entire institutional stack in one coalition.

Ripple ($XRP ) just secured MiCA authorization in Luxembourg.
That gives the company a regulated base to offer services across the entire European Economic Area. De-risks institutional adoption. Crypto compliance narrative keeps maturing.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Bitcoin ($BTC) and Ethereum spot ETFs flipped back to net inflows in the week ended July 10.
BlackRock led the rebound after weeks of outflow pressure. Several rival Bitcoin funds still saw withdrawals, selective institutional demand at play.

JUST IN: 🇯🇵 SBI Holdings partners with Solana Foundation to build an on-chain financial market in Japan.
One of Asia's largest financial groups choosing $SOL as the infrastructure layer.

TSMC just posted $13,200,000,000 in June revenue, up 67% year-over-year.
Record month. Earnings Thursday. AI chip demand isn't slowing down.

JUST IN: Ethereum ($ETH ) core devs merged major PR #35347 in go-ethereum, now returning block access lists in payload bodies v2.
Protocol-level change. Signals imminent upgrade or breaking changes ahead for staking infrastructure and execution clients.