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  • Solana dominates real value rankings, DEX volume during H1
    by Gino Matos on July 3, 2025 at 1:00 am

    Solana dominated major cryptocurrencies in real economic value (REV) and DEX volumes during the first half of 2025, according to Helius’ “Solana Ecosystem Report H1 2025.” The report highlighted that Solana has led all blockchains in REV since October 2024 and reached $551 million in January 2025.  REV is a metric that measures the monetary The post Solana dominates real value rankings, DEX volume during H1 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Crypto VC funding drops 22% in Q2 despite strong June finish
    by Gino Matos on July 3, 2025 at 12:00 am

    Venture capital funding directed towards crypto startups totaled $4.5 billion during the second quarter, down 22% versus the previous three months. According to DefiLlama data, the breakdown of the second quarter shows monthly flows of roughly $1.29 billion in April, $624 million in May, and $2.5 billion in June.  June’s figure is over 4x larger The post Crypto VC funding drops 22% in Q2 despite strong June finish appeared first on […]

  • End of the quarter wipes out billions from Bitcoin open interest
    by Andjela Radmilac on July 2, 2025 at 11:15 pm

    Bitcoin’s derivatives market saw a quiet but meaningful repositioning in July, marked by two liquidation-driven drawdowns in futures and a record expiry event that wiped out over $15 billion in options open interest. These changes took place alongside relatively muted price action, as Bitcoin hovered between $101,000 and $110,000 throughout June before stabilizing near $107,000 The post End of the quarter wipes out billions from Bitcoin open […]

  • DeFi Development Corp. to raise $100M for Solana treasury acquisitions ahead of ETF launches
    by Assad Jafri on July 2, 2025 at 10:28 pm

    DeFi Development Corp has unveiled plans to raise $100 million through a private offering of convertible senior notes to strengthen its Solana-focused treasury strategy as anticipation for potential U.S. approval of Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs) ramps up. DeFi Development Corp. said proceeds will be used partly to repurchase its own shares through a prepaid forward The post DeFi Development Corp. to raise $100M for Solana treasury […]

  • OpenAI disavows Robinhood’s ‘OpenAI tokens,’ says demo stock was not approved and has no equity backing
    by Gino Matos on July 2, 2025 at 9:45 pm

    OpenAI said on July 2 that digital tokens trading under its name on Robinhood’s new blockchain platform do not represent OpenAI equity and were listed without the company’s consent. In a statement posted on X, the artificial intelligence developer wrote:  “These ‘OpenAI tokens’ are not OpenAI equity. We did not partner with Robinhood, were not The post OpenAI disavows Robinhood’s ‘OpenAI tokens,’ says demo stock was not […]

  • SEC temporarily halts Grayscale’s multi-asset crypto ETF debut despite conversion greenlight
    by Gino Matos on July 2, 2025 at 9:00 pm

    Grayscale’s conversion of its Digital Large Cap Fund (GDLC) into an exchange-traded fund (ETF) has been frozen by a stay order, despite receiving approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on July 1. Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart said in a social media post on July 2 that the stay blocks the conversion “for now” The post SEC temporarily halts Grayscale’s multi-asset crypto ETF debut despite conversion greenlight […]

  • StanChart predicts Bitcoin’s new cycle may defy past patterns with ETF and policy tailwinds
    by Assad Jafri on July 2, 2025 at 8:30 pm

    Bitcoin (BTC) could see its strongest half-year performance ever in late 2025, driven by record ETF inflows, policy risks to the Federal Reserve, and broadening sovereign adoption, according to Geoffrey Kendrick, head of digital assets research at Standard Chartered. In a July 2 research note, Kendrick forecasted that ETF inflows and corporate treasury purchases will The post StanChart predicts Bitcoin’s new cycle may defy past patterns with […]

  • CleanSpark’s Tennessee expansion boosts stock 11% amid local unrest
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on July 2, 2025 at 8:00 pm

    Bitcoin miner CleanSpark has reportedly received approval to build a new mining facility in Mountain City, Tennessee, local media outlet WCYB reported on July 2. According to the report, the Mountain City Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved the mine’s development after a 3-1 vote to rezone the targeted 50-acre site. The land will shift The post CleanSpark’s Tennessee expansion boosts stock 11% amid local unrest appeared first on […]

  • Canadian fintech Mogo’s $50M Bitcoin reserve plan ignites 140% share surge at market opening
    by Gino Matos on July 2, 2025 at 7:16 pm

    Canadian fintech Mogo announced on July 2 that its board had cleared up to $50 million for staged Bitcoin purchases as a long-term treasury reserve, prompting its shares to jump 140% at market opening on the Toronto Stock Exchange. MOGO closed July 1 priced at 1.74 Canadian dollars, worth roughly $1.28. It opened on July The post Canadian fintech Mogo’s $50M Bitcoin reserve plan ignites 140% share surge at market opening appeared first on […]

  • Ripple seeks a national bank charter approval to place RLUSD under state and federal oversight
    by Gino Matos on July 2, 2025 at 6:31 pm

    Ripple applied for a national bank charter with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on July 2, CEO Brad Garlinghouse wrote in a post on X.  The filing would place Ripple USD (RLUSD) under federal supervision while maintaining its existing oversight by the New York Department of Financial Services, creating a “new The post Ripple seeks a national bank charter approval to place RLUSD under state and federal oversight appeared […]

  • Schengen Shaken? Poland To Introduce Border Controls With Germany As Migration Crisis Grows
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 9:00 am

    Schengen Shaken? Poland To Introduce Border Controls With Germany As Migration Crisis Grows Via Remix News, Poland is set to reinstate temporary controls on its borders with both Germany and Lithuania, a decision that has already drawn a reaction from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the measure on Tuesday, stating: “We have decided that we are restoring temporary control on the […]

  • This Is Where Millionaire Populations Are Growing
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 8:15 am

    This Is Where Millionaire Populations Are Growing The number of millionaires rose fastest over the past 10 years in Montenegro, the United Arab Emirates and Malta, according to a new report by Henley & Partners.  As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, the growth by up to 124 percent was largely driven by millionaires immigrating to the locations, the researchers concluded. Malta’s and Montenegro’s investment for […]

  • The Latest Trouble In Russian-Azerbaijani Relations Might Be Part Of A Turkish-US Powerplay
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 7:30 am

    The Latest Trouble In Russian-Azerbaijani Relations Might Be Part Of A Turkish-US Powerplay Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Turkiye sees an opportunity to turbocharge its rise as a Eurasian Great Power along Russia’s entire southern periphery in ways that autonomously align with American grand strategic interests… Russian-Azerbaijani relations are in trouble as a result of two scandals. The first concerns […]

  • Tobacco-Free Future – Moving Forward Or Backwards?
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 6:45 am

    Tobacco-Free Future – Moving Forward Or Backwards? In France, a new ban limiting smoking in several public outdoor places went into effect on July 1, marking a major step for the country once known as a nation of smokers. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, tobacco use is falling around the world and control measures have reached a critical mass of people, expanding public smoking bans and even a total phase-out of […]

  • AfD Ban Looms Closer With Likely Election Of New Far-Left Judge To Germany’s Top Court
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 6:00 am

    AfD Ban Looms Closer With Likely Election Of New Far-Left Judge To Germany’s Top Court Via Remix News, Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf, a lawyer described as far-left, is poised to become a new judge at the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany’s top court, and it is very bad news for Germany’s conservatives. This new development could significantly increase the chances that a ban on the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) […]

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  • “Buckle The F**k Up”: Trumpworld Rages At GOP Holdouts After Tax Bill Stalls In House
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 4:20 am

    “Buckle The F**k Up”: Trumpworld Rages At GOP Holdouts After Tax Bill Stalls In House Update (0018ET): Wednesday night came and went without the House GOP advancing the ‘Big Beautiful Bill Act’ to the floor for debate, after roughly a dozen Republicans stood their ground.   As such, things have officially gotten ugly – with longtime Trump aides Jason Miller and Chris LaCivita telling the holdouts that they can either vote with […]

  • How The Supreme Court Went Wrong In The ‘Ghost Gun’ Case
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 3:25 am

    How The Supreme Court Went Wrong In The ‘Ghost Gun’ Case Authored by Rob Natelson via The Epoch Times, In its term just ended, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) may regulate weapons parts kits as “firearms.” The case was Bondi v. VanDerStok. It also is called the “ghost gun case.” Under a congressional statute known as the Gun Control Act of 1968, […]

  • Queens Driving School Busted For Running Bribe-for-License Scam For Illegal Immigrants
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 3:00 am

    Queens Driving School Busted For Running Bribe-for-License Scam For Illegal Immigrants A Queens driving school bribed DMV employees to illegally fast-track driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants—many of whom couldn’t drive or speak English—according to Staten Island prosecutors. T&E Driving School allegedly took cash from Chinese immigrants and paid off DMV examiners in Staten Island to skip required road tests, […]

  • Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Bans Rainbow Crosswalks
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 1:45 am

    Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Bans Rainbow Crosswalks Authored by Catherine Salgado via PJMedia.com, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy struck a blow at radical LGBTQ activism as “Pride Month” ended. Duffy sent a letter to all 50 state governors, the D.C. mayor, and Puerto Rico’s governor, a letter which he also shared with The Daily Signal. Trump’s transportation secretary told the governors to work on removing […]

  • China Erodes US AI Supremacy As Chatbot Race Defines Path To 2030 Dominance
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 1:20 am

    China Erodes US AI Supremacy As Chatbot Race Defines Path To 2030 Dominance Former PBOC Deputy Governor Zhu Min recently warned of a coming tsunami of domestic AI innovation, predicting that China could see 100 breakthroughs of the same magnitude as DeepSeek over the next 18 months. The rise of DeepSeek—a powerful, low-cost alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT—has ignited a bull market in Chinese tech stocks and positioned itself […]

  • Judge Blocks Trump’s Order Barring Illegal Border Crossers From Claiming Asylum
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 12:55 am

    Judge Blocks Trump’s Order Barring Illegal Border Crossers From Claiming Asylum Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on July 2 ruled against a Trump administration directive that blocked foreign nationals who cross the U.S.–Mexico border illegally from seeking asylum. The White House has touted historically low border crossings in recent weeks. In an order issued on July 2, U.S. District Judge […]

  • Delhi Bans Fuel for Older Vehicles in Pollution Crackdown
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 12:30 am

    Delhi Bans Fuel for Older Vehicles in Pollution Crackdown Starting July 1, Delhi has enforced a strict ban on refueling older vehicles as part of a broader effort to reduce air pollution, according to the Economic Times.  Under the new rule, petrol vehicles older than 15 years and diesel vehicles over 10 years are prohibited from buying fuel at any petrol pump in the capital. This measure is aimed at removing End-of-Life Vehicles […]

  • DHS Head: Cannibal Illegal Tried To Eat Himself On Deportation Flight
    by Tyler Durden on July 3, 2025 at 12:05 am

    DHS Head: Cannibal Illegal Tried To Eat Himself On Deportation Flight Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem related a bizarre event to the media during the press conference for the new “Alligator Alcatraz” deportee holding facility, telling reporters that an illegal alien, suspected to be a cannibal, attempted to eat himself during a recent deportation flight. […]

  • Thiel Joins Luckey & Lonsdale To Launch New Bank Aimed At Filling SVB Void For Stablecoins, AI, Defense & Advanced Manufacturing
    by Tyler Durden on July 2, 2025 at 11:40 pm

    Thiel Joins Luckey & Lonsdale To Launch New Bank Aimed At Filling SVB Void For Stablecoins, AI, Defense & Advanced Manufacturing A group of high-profile tech investors, including military tech entrepreneur Palmer Luckey and venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, is preparing to launch a new bank designed to serve the niche left behind by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank — and to do so with ambitions that extend deep into […]

  • What’s Next For CDC’s Remade Vaccine Advisory Committee?
    by Tyler Durden on July 2, 2025 at 11:15 pm

    What’s Next For CDC’s Remade Vaccine Advisory Committee? Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The vaccine advisory committee remade by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to look at multiple other vaccines, after it voted to advise officials to stop recommending influenza shots that contain mercury. Dr. Robert Malone (C) speaks during the first meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and […]

  • India’s Hindustan Zinc Eyes Five Year Timeline To Move Into Rare Earth Metals
    by Tyler Durden on July 2, 2025 at 10:50 pm

    India’s Hindustan Zinc Eyes Five Year Timeline To Move Into Rare Earth Metals India’s Hindustan Zinc is moving into rare earths, but commercial production could take up to five years, underscoring the hurdles of building a domestic supply chain to challenge China’s grip on the sector. “This (rare earth) is of strategic interest (to India),” said CEO Arun Misra in an interview, according to Nikkei Asia. The company was the only […]

  • Democrats, Animated By Loathing Of Trump, Are Driving Their Party To Self-Destruction
    by Tyler Durden on July 2, 2025 at 10:25 pm

    Democrats, Animated By Loathing Of Trump, Are Driving Their Party To Self-Destruction Authored by Conrad Black via RealClearPolitics.com, The Democrats are now implacably self-destructive. They resemble nothing so much as a slowly capsizing ship, but show by their frenzied skullduggery that America is not in decline — the opposition is rotten and hopeless but it still fights savagely. I hope readers will pardon a recitation of […]

  • Fiji Says Chinese Military Base, Missiles Not Welcome In Pacific
    by Tyler Durden on July 2, 2025 at 10:00 pm

    Fiji Says Chinese Military Base, Missiles Not Welcome In Pacific The tiny South Pacific archipelago country of Fiji has come out firmly against China establishing a military base in the Pacific Islands, according to a statement of Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka issued Wednesday. He emphasized that China has no need for such a provocatively located base to demonstrate its military strength, citing its recent intercontinental […]

  • Public Companies Are Buying More Bitcoin Than ETFs For Third Quarter In A Row
    by Tyler Durden on July 2, 2025 at 9:40 pm

    Public Companies Are Buying More Bitcoin Than ETFs For Third Quarter In A Row Authored by Jenna Montgomery via BitcoinMagazine.com, Corporate treasuries have surpassed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in Bitcoin accumulation for the third consecutive quarter, according to new data from Bitcoin Treasuries. Public companies acquired approximately 131,000 BTC in Q2 2025—an 18% increase from the previous quarter—compared to an 8% […]

  • Putin Defends Iran’s Right To Nuclear Enrichment In First Macron Phone Call In 3 Years
    by Tyler Durden on July 2, 2025 at 9:20 pm

    Putin Defends Iran’s Right To Nuclear Enrichment In First Macron Phone Call In 3 Years On Tuesday Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron spoke by phone for the first time in almost three years, at a moment of various global hotspots of interest to both countries. A nearly two week war between Iran and Israel just ensued last month, at the end of which the US launched a major bombing campaign on three […]

  • Moderna To Ask For Clearance For Combination COVID-Influenza Vaccine
    by Tyler Durden on July 2, 2025 at 9:00 pm

    Moderna To Ask For Clearance For Combination COVID-Influenza Vaccine Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Moderna is going to ask regulators to approve its combination vaccine against COVID-19 and influenza, the company said on June 30. The company said a phase 3 study evaluating its influenza vaccine candidate, mRNA-1010—which utilizes the same messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) platform as its […]

  • Del Monte Bankruptcy Won’t Spark Canned Food Shortages  
    by Tyler Durden on July 2, 2025 at 8:40 pm

    Del Monte Bankruptcy Won’t Spark Canned Food Shortages   Del Monte Foods, a major player in America’s canned food supply chain, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New Jersey as part of a broader strategic restructuring effort. The company does not anticipate that the bankruptcy process will cause any disruptions to the canned food market.  The 138-year-old food company, a U.S. unit of Singapore-based Del Monte Pacific, […]

  • Ron Paul: A Big Beautiful Bill For The Military-Industrial Complex
    by Tyler Durden on July 2, 2025 at 8:20 pm

    Ron Paul: A Big Beautiful Bill For The Military-Industrial Complex Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute, The US Senate worked through the weekend on the “Big Beautiful Bill.” The goal was to pass it quickly to ensure the House will then pass it and send it to President Trump’s desk before the July 4th holiday. However, disagreements among Republican Senators over reductions in spending on programs including […]

  • Japan Finally Admits Its Carmakers Have Been Paying All Trump Tariff Costs As Trade Talks Collapse
    by Tyler Durden on July 2, 2025 at 7:43 pm

    Japan Finally Admits Its Carmakers Have Been Paying All Trump Tariff Costs As Trade Talks Collapse Last week, we sparked a stir within the financial community when we were the first to show, clearly and without doubt, that contrary to months of false narratives by the liberal “expert” class, the costs of Trump’s tariffs are actually not borne by either US companies or US consumers, but rather by the exporting nation and its […]

  • Iranian Hackers Say They Have 100GB Of Trump Emails
    by Tyler Durden on July 2, 2025 at 7:20 pm

    Iranian Hackers Say They Have 100GB Of Trump Emails Authored by José Niño via Headline USA, Hackers claiming ties to Iran say they possess 100GB of emails from President Donald Trump’s inner circle and may soon leak or sell the trove, after previously distributing a batch to the media before the 2024 U.S. election. In online conversations with Reuters on Sunday and Monday, the hackers—who use the pseudonym […]

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