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INSIGHT: SOLANA’S Q2 STORY WAS BIGGER THAN MEMECOINS 🔥
Tokenized asset volume hit a record $5.8B, up 114% QoQ, with Solana handling roughly 97% of global tokenized-equity trading volume.
Other Q2 highlights:
📊 $160.8B DEX volume
🏦 $120M net $SOL ETP inflows
🔒 427M $SOL staked at quarter-end
⚡ 9.8B non-vote transactions
💸 Median transaction fee: $0.0004
Institutional demand and tokenized assets continued to grow.
The next major catalyst is Alpenglow, targeting confirmation times of roughly 150 milliseconds.

AMERICA’S LARGEST MINING POOL RELEASES BIP-110 RESOURCE GUIDE
Foundry USA, America’s largest Bitcoin mining pool, has published a resource guide for miners ahead of its BIP-110 vote.
The guide includes the official BIP-110 specification, the proposal’s website, Bitcoin-dev mailing list discussions, Orange Surf’s interactive explainer, Jameson Lopp’s critique, and commentary from Adam Back, Michael Saylor, Luke Dashjr, Alex Thorn, Softfork Mechanic, and others.
Foundry says the goal is to help miners make an informed decision before voting closes ahead of block 961,632.

The AI boom is transforming one of the biggest deflationary forces into a key source of US inflation:
Import prices for computer and electronic products surged +7.4% in the first 6 months of 2026, to 77.1 points, the highest since January 2016.
This also marks a +8.0% YoY jump, the largest annual increase on record.
This represents a historic reversal from a downtrend which persisted for over two decades.
Between 2006 and 2019, computer and electronic product import prices fell -30%, as improving technology and manufacturing efficiency consistently pushed costs lower.
Now, the AI investment bo

🔥 LATEST: Galaxy Digital launches a $5M grant initiative to help protect Bitcoin against future quantum computing threats.

🚨BREAKING: Micron surges 12% as Bank of America backs AI-driven memory boom
$MU jumped more than 10% after BofA added the chipmaker to its prestigious U.S. 1 List, citing soaring demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) as AI adoption accelerates.
BofA expects HBM shortages to persist through 2027, reinforcing Micron’s long-term outlook.

JUST IN: 🇷🇺 Russia's State Duma to consider bill to regulate Bitcoin & crypto tomorrow, TASS reports 👀
"Tomorrow we'll be passing the law in its second and third readings. It's aimed at creating the legal conditions for cryptocurrencies to function in our country." 🚀

A lunar or Martian settlement could not pay every transaction by requesting instantaneous permission from a bank on Earth. Commerce in space will require locally held keys, verifiable rules, and systems capable of continuing through long periods of delay, such as Bitcoin.

🚨TETHER LAUNCHES GOLD-BACKED VISA CARD
Tether and Fasset launched a Visa card that lets users spend globally while earning up to 6% cashback in XAU₮.
The card converts XAU₮ to USD₮ to fiat at checkout and auto-invests spare change into tokenized gold.

Michael Burry says Nvidia has 3 big customers and if they stop buying the whole thing is over.
Those 3 customers now account for 64% of Nvidia's entire accounts receivable.
In 2020 that number was 33%. It jumped 8 percentage points in a single quarter.
Nvidia's revenue is not spread across a broad market. It is almost entirely dependent on a handful of buyers.
Burry's argument is about why those buyers may slow down or stop entirely.
He calls it the "bezzle." The bezzle is not that AI is fake. It is that a massive portion of current AI spending is coming from companies that are benchmarking mo

🚨 TETHER-BACKED FIRM TO MINE BITCOIN USING SUGARCANE WASTE
Adecoagro is set to launch a Bitcoin mining facility in Brazil powered by electricity generated from leftover sugarcane material.
The project is expected to begin on July 1 with 10 MW of power running around 1,280 Bitcoin mining machines.

🔥 HUGE: "We've issued on Ethereum, private chains, and public chains. We don't care. We're looking for the rails that connect enough participants."
Julien Clausse of BNPParibasCIB, one of Europe's largest banks, on choosing blockchain infrastructure for tokenized assets.

🚨The Bank of Japan just issued its most direct rate hike warning of 2026.
In a speech delivered this morning, Governor Ueda said the BOJ is now more concerned about inflation running too hot than it is about the economy slowing down.
That is a significant statement from a central bank that spent decades fighting deflation.
Here is exactly what he said.
Japan's CPI is projected to hit 2.8% this fiscal year and rise above 3% for a period. The Producer Price Index hit 4.9% year on year in April, the highest reading in nearly 3 years.
Upstream price increases are already spreading into plastic pr

🚨ARTHUR HAYES CALLS FOR $150 HYPE, THEN MOVES $6.3M TO BYBIT
A wallet linked to Arthur Hayes deposited 115,453 $HYPE into Bybit, worth about $6.33 MILLION, per LookOnChain.
The same tokens were withdrawn a month ago at $39.58, leaving the wallet up around $1.76 MILLION

Japan officially recognizes $XRP as a financial asset under the FIEA framework 🇯🇵
New crypto tax regulations are now taking shape, signaling a major step toward mainstream digital asset adoption.
Many believe this could strengthen XRP’s role in the future of global finance 👀
#XRP #Crypto #Ripple #Japan #DigitalAssets

🚨LATEST: FTX’s former law firm and auditor have agreed to pay $66 MILLION to settle customer claims tied to Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud.
Fenwick & West denied wrongdoing and still faces a separate $525 MILLION lawsuit.

Strategy will be worth trillions and $MSTR shareholders will be the new wealthy elite.
Bitcoin's 4-year moving average has never gone YoY-negative in 3,964 measurable days.
Across all of those days, Bitcoin's price has traded above its 4YMA 93.3% of the time.
Median multiple: 1.87x.
Today, BTC trades at 1.26x its 4YMA. We are at the 33rd percentile of all historical valuations relative to the smoothed line.
By every reasonable definition, Bitcoin is cheap right now.
Now project the 4YMA forward five years. Assume the YoY CAGR decelerates aggressively - strip 5 percentage points off every year

The entire global financial system is a giant inverted pyramid.
$846T in derivatives.
$393T in real estate.
$348T in debt.
$149T in stocks.
And at the bottom sits the hardest collateral on Earth:
Gold: $30.8T
Bitcoin: just $1.7T
Bitcoin is still tiny relative to the asset classes above it.

#Gate13thAnniversary Happy 13th anniversary Gate.io family, wishing you a prosperous year 🎂🎉🎉🎊🎊

WHALES JUST BOUGHT $125M ETH
Two Fresh ETH Whale addresses just withdrew $125.91M ETH from Kraken and Bitgo this morning. Their purchase patterns match prior purchase patterns of Bitmine.
Is Tom Lee stacking $ETH?

Asset manager T. Rowe Price filed its TKNZ active crypto ETF April 27
Proposed weights: 42.83% $BTC , 19.09% $ETH , 10.56% $XRP , 7.93% $SOL
11 more eligible names: $LINK, $HBAR, $ADA, $SUI, others
They picked the crypto hierarchy, not an index.