🇺🇸 UPDATE: Bitcoin Policy Institute joined the fight against the NYC case that would treat long-held self-custodied Bitcoin as abandoned.
If coins are untouched for 5 years, are the abandoned or HODLed?

🚨 ALERT: Bonzo's alleged exploiter is now sitting on $7M in $ETH.
Bonzo reports $9M total missing.
The same wallet saw over 920 ETH enter the account in under an hour, with another 77 ETH landing less than 40 minutes ago.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Trump DOJ to drop charges against the mastermind of $722,000,000 crypto Ponzi scheme, Bloomberg reports.

JUST IN: Crypto prediction platform Polymarket officially launches combo trading.

📊 The week that was, the stories that moved the market
You voted: 37% said Bitcoin's comeback was THE story of the week. Here's the full picture 👇
🟠 Bitcoin reclaimed $64K as ETF money finally came back, $221.7M flowed into US spot ETFs in a single session, snapping a 10-day, $2.73B outflow streak, with another $265.7M following on Monday.
⛔️ The 'never sell' era is officially over. Strategy sold 3,588 BTC for $216M, the largest sale in its six-year history to fund dividends on its preferred stock, under a new program authorizing up to $1.25B in BTC sales. The company that built its identity on never selling is now a seller.
💧 XRP jumped to $1.18 and flipped USDC to become the #5 crypto by market cap (~$73B), whales accumulating while retail sits at record average losses.
💥 BONK DAO was drained of ~$20M through a malicious governance proposal. Governance is an attack surface vote counts are only as safe as the voters.
🤖 The AI trade lifted Wall Street semis surged, and Bank of America flagged a generational shift in cash flow: falling at hyperscalers, exploding at chipmakers.
🛢 Middle East tensions hit oil and risk markets the wildcard nobody can price in.
⚖️ The CLARITY Act missed its July 4 signing target the Senate now aims for final text by August 7. Regulation delayed, not dead.
🇪🇺 Meanwhile in Europe: Ripple secured a full MiCA license.