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🚨 Saudi Fund’s SpaceX Stake Surges
🇸🇦 Kingdom Holding’s 42.4M SpaceX shares are now worth $6.83B after the IPO, up $2.36B in unrealized gains.
📈 SpaceX closed its debut session at $160.95, valuing the company at over $2.1T.

⚠️ MINING ALERT: Bitcoin is on track for its 11th-largest downward mining difficulty adjustment on record this Saturday, with an estimated decline of 10.3%.
The adjustment comes as falling BTC prices and reduced miner revenue put pressure on mining operations, forcing less efficient miners offline and lowering overall network hash rate. ⛏️

🚨 Bitcoin Reclaims $63K
📈 BTC jumped above $63,000 after Trump announced that the U.S. and Iran have agreed on the final terms of a peace deal, easing fears of further Middle East escalation.
🟠 The news sparked a relief rally across risk assets, helping Bitcoin recover from earlier losses triggered by inflation concerns.

🚨 JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran has announced a full shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz following recent U.S. strikes, marking a major escalation in regional tensions.

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🇺🇸 The CFTC will propose new prediction market rules, allowing most sports contracts while reserving the right to block markets vulnerable to manipulation, per WSJ.

🏛️ CLARITY Act Momentum Expands To Tax Reforms
📑 While the Senate continues advancing the CLARITY Act, the U.S. House is now discussing major crypto tax reforms covering stablecoins, staking, mining, lending, and crypto transactions.
⚡ Together, these efforts signal that Washington is working on both regulatory clarity and tax rules for the digital asset industry.

🚨 CLARITY Act Approval Odds Slip
Prediction markets have lowered the chances of the CLARITY Act becoming law in 2026 as lawmakers shift attention toward upcoming AI policy discussions.
Despite the decline in short-term expectations, the bill remains on the Senate calendar, with Senator Cynthia Lummis signaling that a Senate floor vote could still happen before the August recess.

📊 INSIGHT: Perpetual DEXs recorded an increase in average monthly trading volume to $611.57 billion in 2026, up from $531.65 billion in 2025, highlighting continued growth in on-chain derivatives trading.

The stock market lost more than $1 trillion in market cap within the first three hours of trading.
A brutal open for equities and another reminder that when risk starts repricing, the move can get violent fast.

🌉 RLUSD Goes Multichain
Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin is now live across more than 40 blockchain networks through Wormhole’s Native Token Transfers, including Ethereum L2s like Base, Optimism, and Unichain, as well as the XRPL EVM Sidechain.
The expansion marks a major step in Ripple’s multichain strategy, bringing RLUSD to a wider range of DeFi, payments, and tokenization use cases.

🚨 JUST IN: More than $200,000,000,000 has been erased from the crypto market cap over the past 24 hours as digital assets face broad selling pressure.

🇺🇸 President Trump has signed a new AI Executive Order focused on boosting AI innovation while strengthening cybersecurity defenses.
The order directs federal agencies to create an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse, identify vulnerabilities in critical systems, and establish a framework for assessing advanced AI models.
The move comes as AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI reportedly prepare for IPOs that could value them at over $1 trillion.

Bitcoin is once again being compared with gold in long-term market discussions.
Some analysts argue that if BTC follows a similar macro path, much higher valuation scenarios could remain part of the conversation.
For now, this is a narrative to watch, not a confirmed forecast.

📉 NEW: The Cardano network, valued at $8.2B, has generated just $352K in fees this year. Q1 2026 fees fell to $238K, the lowest level since late 2020, compared to an all-time quarterly peak of $4.2M.

🚨 Could a nation-state disrupt the XRP Ledger?
Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz says state actors could potentially cause temporary disruptions to XRPL, but he’s skeptical about any lasting damage. ⚡
According to Schwartz, blockchain networks can adapt, upgrade, and evolve to defend against emerging threats over time. 🔒
As XRPL expands into tokenization and institutional finance, security remains a key focus for the ecosystem. 👀

Market reaction to the latest Strait of Hormuz headlines:
BTC is back above $74K.
HYPE printed a new ATH.
But the headline is not fully confirmed yet. Fars News, Iran’s state-linked news agency, says informed sources have rejected Trump’s latest claims about a possible deal with Iran.
So for now, the market is reacting to the de-escalation narrative — but confirmation remains mixed.

🚨 LATEST: FalconX has confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC and hired bankers to prepare for the listing process.

📉 INSIGHT: Bitcoin’s expected 30-day volatility has fallen to a nine-month low as trading activity declines and investor interest shifts elsewhere.

🇺🇸 JUST IN: President Donald Trump says he will not allow other countries to replace the U.S. as the Bitcoin and crypto “capital of the world.”
“It is a major industry, and we must protect it.”

Pavel Durov says Telegram has “never disclosed a single byte” of private messages to third parties while still facing multiple charges in France.