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Good morning everyone! Happy to start the day with a new all time high for Bitcoin 🎉.

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If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:

🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨

→ Bitcoin hits a new all-time high above $125,000.

→ Bitcoin surpasses Google to become the 5th largest asset in the world by market cap.

→ El Salvador’s Bitcoin holdings show over $470 million in unrealized profit.

→ Ark Invest’s CEO Cathie Wood says their bull case for Bitcoin is well over $1,000,000 in 5 years.

→ President Trump says interest rates should be at 1%.

→ Treasury Secretary Bessent says rates should be 150-175 bps lower now and is pushing for a ban on single-stock trading in Congress.

→ The S&P 500 closes at another all-time high, its 17th of the year.

→ The S&P 500 is now trading at over 3.2x sales, its highest valuation in history.

→ The S&P 500's price to peak earnings ratio moves up to 26.7, highest since 2000.

→ International stocks are on pace for their best year since 2009, with the Eurozone up 30% YTD and Greece up 74%.

→ Thailand cuts rates for the 4th time in the last year, down to 1.50%.

→ The ratio of US real estate stocks to the S&P 500 is at its lowest level since 2000.

→ Over the last 30 years, the purchasing power of the US dollar has been cut in half due to inflation, while the S&P 500 has gained 874% after adjusting for inflation.

→ Former Goldman Sachs & JPMorgan executive indicted for gambling away $4 million in investor funds for his online casino company.

→ Google drops plan to ban non-custodial crypto wallets from Play Store following backlash.

→ Tencent revenue up 15% Y/Y to $25.7B, with gaming up 22% and capex up 119% to $2.7B.

📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊

→ Ethereum reaches $4,700.

→ Over $116,000,000,000 added to the crypto market cap in the past 24 hours.

→ Standard Chartered Bank raises its 2025 year-end Ethereum price target to $7,500.

→ Fundstrat’s Tom Lee says Standard Chartered’s $7,500 Ethereum forecast for end of 2025 might be low.

→ BlackRock buys 76,497.89 Ethereum worth $318 million.

→ BNB overtakes Shopify in market capitalization.

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If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:

🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨

→ Over $116 billion added to the crypto market cap in the past 24 hours.

→ Kazakhstan approves first spot Bitcoin ETF in Central Asia, trading starts tomorrow.

→ The number of addresses holding more than 100 Bitcoin hits new all-time high.

→ Bitcoin passes Amazon in market cap.

→ Norway’s pension fund increases its Bitcoin-related exposure.

→ Belarus President inquires about using crypto to facilitate payments.

→ Only 0.27% of the population can hold 1 full Bitcoin.

→ US inflation at 2.7%, below expected 2.8%.

→ US Treasury Secretary suggests Fed consider 50bps rate cut in September.

→ US Treasury Secretary says India not cooperative in trade talks.

→ President Trump considering major lawsuit against Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

→ US National Debt hits $37 trillion.

→ S&P 500 closes at another all-time high.

→ US collects record $28 billion in customs duties in July.

→ Shelter CPI down to 3.7%.

→ Core CPI up to 3.1%.

→ US auto insurance rates up 94% over last decade.

→ Australia cuts rates to 3.60%.

→ China orders tech giants to suspend NVIDIA chip purchases over security concerns.

→ Perplexity bids $34.5 billion for Chrome browser.

→ Sea Limited reports Q2 revenue up 38% to $5.3B.

→ Bitfarms Q2 revenue $77.8M, mined 718 BTC.

→ Bitcoin Depot Q2 revenue $172.11M.

→ eToro Q2 revenue $2.09B, AUA $17.5B.

→ Paysafe Q2 adj EPS $0.46, revenue $428M.

→ Cardinal Health Q4 adj EPS $2.08, revenue $60.2B.

📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊

→ Ethereum reaches $4,600.

→ $135 million worth of ETH shorts liquidated in the past 60 minutes.

→ XRP surpasses $194 billion market cap.

→ Do Kwon pleads guilty to fraud over $40B LUNA collapse.

→ Publicly traded BTCS Inc adds 3 Pudgy Penguins NFTs to treasury.

→ Publicly traded SharpLink Gaming buys 5,226 ETH worth $23.1 million.

→ Publicly traded ETHZilla buys 82,186 ETH worth $351 million.

→ Publicly traded Bitmine Immersion to raise up to $20 billion to buy more ETH.

→ Paradigm’s Matt Huang to lead Stripe's blockchain Tempo as CEO.

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Written by Timothy Assi, an Elite Popular Investor on eToro.

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Good morning all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:

🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨

→ Metaplanet buys another 518 Bitcoin worth $61 million. They now hold 18,113 BTC worth $2.1 billion.

→ Elon Musk says xAI will take immediate legal action against Apple for alleged antitrust violations.

→ Stripe is developing a new payments-focused blockchain.

→ President Trump officially extends China tariff deadline by 90 days.

→ Former White House Crypto Council Executive Director says there is a clear directive to build a strategic Bitcoin reserve.

→ President Trump says gold will not be tariffed.

→ Total cryptocurrency market cap reaches a new all-time high of $4.1 trillion.

→ Nakamoto CEO says the company will buy over $1,000,000,000 worth of BTC today.

→ President Trump says tariffs are making the US strong and rich.

→ Jeff Bezos' Space company Blue Origin to accept Bitcoin and crypto for payments.

→ US companies are projected to buy back over $1.1 trillion in shares this year, another all-time high.

→ Strategy buys another 155 Bitcoin for $18 million.

→ S&P 500 operating earnings are on pace to hit another record high, up 11% over the last year.

→ Nvidia and Microsoft now make up over 15% of the S&P 500, the highest weighting for any two stocks in the index on record.

→ Bitcoin surged to $122,000, liquidating $30 million in shorts, now trades at $118,800.

📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊

→ Publicly traded ETHZilla raises $156,000,000 to buy more ETH.

→ Total spot ETH ETF volume surpasses $2,725,000,000 today.

→ Moonbirds flip Azuki in floor price.

→ Publicly traded Fundamental Global buys 47,331 ETH worth $202.8 million.

→ Bitmine Immersion Tech becomes the first strategic ETH reserve entity to cross the 1 million ETH milestone.

→ Publicly traded Bitmine Immersion buys another 317,126 ETH worth $1.32 billion.

→ ALT5 Sigma Corporation announces $1,500,000,000 raise to initiate WLFI treasury strategy.

→ Jack Kay , from the Ibiza Boss meme, launches memecoin which is currently down 98%.

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Happy morning, hope you had a great weekend! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:

🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨

→ Bitcoin is approaching the all time high mark as it hits $122,000

→ $30,000,000 worth of Bitcoin shorts liquidated in the past 60 minutes

→ El Salvador now allows banks to operate entirely as Bitcoin banks for accredited investors

→ Michael Saylor's Strategy holds 628,791 BTC with $28,400,000,000 unrealized profit five years after first purchase at $11,500

→ Michael Saylor posts Bitcoin tracker, often signaling an upcoming purchase

→ Nvidia and AMD agree to pay 15% of Chinese chip sales revenue to US government

→ S&P 500 trading at 3.15x sales, its highest valuation in history

→ Dubai officially approves first crypto options license

📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊

→ Ethereum surpasses $4,300 for the first time since 2021. It had the highest weekly close since December 2021.

→ $ZORA price hits new all-time high as Zora app gains traction with creators

→ SEC and Ripple end legal battle following joint dismissal of appeals

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Happy Sunday. What a time to be an Ethereum holder. If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:

🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨

→ Bitcoin hits $118,000 , now trades around 118,400.

→ BlackRock buys 3,089 BTC worth $360 million

→ Gold (+29%) and Bitcoin (+27%) are the top performing major assets so far in 2025

→ US national debt reaches an all-time high of $37 trillion

→ President Trump slams Nancy Pelosi, accusing her of insider trading

→ White House Crypto Council Executive Director Bo Hines steps down

→ S&P 500 2nd quarter operating earnings are up 11% over the prior year

→ The bond market is now fully pricing in 2 rate cuts by year-end and 3 more in 2026

→ The S&P 500's price to peak earnings ratio has moved up to 26, its highest level since 2000

→ Nvidia now makes up over 8% of the S&P 500, the highest weighting for any single stock

→ US Tech sector outperformance hit new record high

→ The Ratio of US Large Caps to US Small Caps is at its highest level since the April 1999 peak

→ The ratio of Growth stocks to Value stocks in the US has hit a new record high

→ The median household income necessary to purchase the median priced home is now 57% higher than current

→ US Rents were down 0.8% over the last year

📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊

→ Ethereum briefly hits $4,300, after being up +6,3% on the day on a Saturday.

→ Ethereum flips Netflix & MasterCard to become the world's 22nd largest asset by market cap

→ BlackRock buys 65,167.33 ETH worth $271.8 million

→ $209,000,000 worth of ETH shorts liquidated in the past 24 hours

→ DOGE overtakes Adidas in market capitalization

→ PEPE surpasses $5,200,000,000 market cap

→ PENGU 24 hour trading volume exceeds $500,000,000

→ BAGS becomes 3rd largest revenue-generating protocol on Solana in the past 24 hours

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Good morning! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:

🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨

→ Harvard University bought $117 million of BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF. They hold more in Bitcoin ETFs than Google shares.

→ Michael Saylor: Bitcoin is digital gold with no tariffs in cyberspace.

→ El Salvador announces Bitcoin Banks are coming.

→ Spain’s third largest bank BBVA partners with Binance to keep Bitcoin and crypto off exchange.

→ President Trump fires IRS Commissioner Billy Long.

→ Canada loses 40,800 jobs in July, largest decline since COVID.

→ Mexico cuts interest rates by 25 bps to 7.75%.

→ India pauses plans to buy U.S. arms after Trump's tariffs.

→ Used Tesla prices now lower than average used cars.

→ Q2 Revenue Growth: Palantir +48%, AMD +32%, Meta +22%, Broadcom +20%, Microsoft +18%, Netflix +16%, Google +14%, Amazon +13%, Apple +10%, S&P 500 +5%, Tesla -12%.

→ Trump's Crypto Czar questions why banks still prohibit Bitcoin ETFs.

→ Block Inc. CFO: Bitcoin can be the open protocol that powers the internet.

📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊

→ BlackRock currently has no plans to file for SOL or XRP ETF.

→ Coinbase to add DEX trading for Base-native tokens.

→ Ethereum hits $4,000.

→ Eric Trump says: smile to see ETH shorts get smoked; stop betting against BTC and ETH, you will be run over.

→ $25,000,000 worth of ETH shorts liquidated in the past 60 minutes.

→ China cracks down on stablecoin hype, orders brokerages to cancel seminars.

→ BlackRock buys 28,115.76 ETH worth $110.3 million.

→ Bags flips Phantom in 24h revenue.

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Happy Friday! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:

🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨

→ President Trump signs executive order allowing cryptocurrencies in 401(k) retirement plans

→ President Trump signs executive order to stop unlawful debanking of the Bitcoin and crypto industry

→ Bitcoin briefly reclaims $117,000, now trades at $116,800.

→ Bank of England cuts interest rates by 25bps to 4%

→ Institutions have bought 545,579 bitcoin while miners have only mined 97,082 new bitcoin in 2025

→ Asset manager 'Parataxis Holdings' to raise $640,000,000 to buy Bitcoin for their treasury

→ Gas station giant SHEETZ announces 50% discounts when paying in Bitcoin & crypto "every day"

→ Mike Novogratz says “monster pool of capital” will get exposure to Bitcoin and crypto with Trump’s executive order

→ Elon Musk reposts animated Bitcoin wizard on X.

→ 82% of S&P 500 companies beat quarterly earnings estimates, despite President Trump's tariffs

→ Amazon's AWS revenue over the last 12 months ($117 billion) was higher than the revenue of 468 companies in the S&P 500

→ Apple has bought back $704 billion in stock over the past 10 years, greater than the market cap of 488 companies in the S&P 500

→ The US Bond Market has now been in a drawdown for over 5 years, the longest in history

→ US imposes tariff on one-kilo gold bars

→ President Trump says reciprocal tariffs take effect at midnight and "billions of dollars" will start flowing into the US

→ Federal Housing Director says Fed Chair Jerome Powell is hurting the housing market

→ OpenAI officially launches GPT-5

→ Elon Musk says "OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive"

→ President Trump to make 'major' announcement on the economy

→ Crypto Czar David Sacks says the executive orders President Trump signed today will give 90 million Americans access to crypto

📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊

→ Ethereum reclaims $3,900 & $460,000,000,000 market cap

→ BlackRock buys 9,251.59 Ethereum worth $34.2 million

→ Publicly traded SharpLink Gaming raises $200,000,000 to buy more Ethereum.

→ Ethereum daily transactions (7DMA) hit new all-time high

→ SEC vs Ripple $XRP case is officially over

→ Ripple to acquire Rail for $200 million, expanding leadership in stablecoin payments

→ Chainlink announces Chainlink Reserve and was up +10% on the day.

→ Paradigm’s FrankieIsLost says Solana already has the technology to support ‘internet capital markets’ at scale, but perception is the obstacle

→ Axiom flips Hyperliquid in 24h revenue

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Happy Thursday everyone! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:

🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨

→ Federal Reserve report hints future gold revaluation could help fund purchasing $BTC.

→ Over $18,000,000,000 worth of $BTC short positions are at risk of liquidation if price reaches $125,000.

→ Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings files for ‘Crypto-Assets ETF’ to offer direct exposure to $XRP and $BTC.

→ Asset manager Parataxis Holdings announces its will buy up to $640 million in #Bitcoin for its treasury reserves.

→ Vice President JD Vance says "I am an owner of Bitcoin...it's a way of transacting and storing value in a modern, digital age."

→ Michael Saylor on Bitcoin: "If it's not going to zero, it's going to a million."

→ The amount of Lightning Network nodes has increased over 924.78% since 2018 ⚡️ Bitcoin is scaling to the masses.

→ Michael Saylor says, “You do not sell your #Bitcoin”.

→ Rich Dad, Poor Dad author says, “Anyone can become a millionaire” with Bitcoin.

→ President Trump says reciprocal tariffs take effect at midnight and "billions of dollars" will start flowing into the US.

→ Federal Housing Director says Fed Chair "Jerome Powell is hurting the housing market."

→ President Trump announces 100% tariff on all semiconductors entering the US, exempting companies that build in America.

→ President Trump officially announces $600 billion Apple investment plan to bring manufacturing facilities to the US.

→ BRICS to discuss joint response to President Trump's tariffs.

→ Dubai officially approves first crypto options license.

→ President Trump signs executive order imposing an additional 25% tariff on India for buying sanctioned Russian oil.

📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊

→ China to allow launch of its first crypto stablecoin.

→ Publicly traded Cosmos Health secures $300,000,000 to launch $ETH treasury strategy.

→ BlackRock buys 23,874.75 ETH worth $88.8 million.

→ Tom Lee says “There is probably a significant probability that Ethereum could flip Bitcoin as well in terms of network value”.

→ Tom Lee says “Ethereum’s had zero downtime... that is what matters to Wall Street... I think that Wall Street has already decided Ethereum is the chain they're going to build Wall Street onto”.

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Good morning all! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:

🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨

→ Brazil Parliament to hold first hearing on national BTC reserve on August 20th.

→ Indonesia explores adding BTC to its national reserves.

→ El Salvador bought more BTC today for their strategic reserve.

→ Bitcoin Hashrate hits a new all-time high.

→ White House prepares executive order to fine banks that discriminate against crypto companies and conservatives.

→ Public traded Capital B buys another 62 BTC worth $7 million.

→ President Trump says 4 people are being considered to replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve Chair.

→ $3 trillion Goldman Sachs expects the Federal Reserve to begin cutting interest rates in September.

→ Trump says he’s raising the tariff on India very substantially over the next 24 hours.

→ Coinbase plans to raise $2,000,000,000 through convertible notes.

→ Coinbase enables PayPal integration for Canadian users to buy and sell crypto.

📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊

→ $PENGU trading now live on Robinhood.

→ BDACS, a regulated institutional-grade digital asset custodian in South Korea, will now offer custody support for $XRP.

→ $BACHI price rallies 25% in the past 24 hours, closing in on new all-time high after signing contract with Top 10 exchange.

→ SEC declares crypto liquid staking activities are not considered securities.

→ Crypto Punk #1021 sold for 720 ETH ($2.58M).

→ BAGS flips Pumpfun in 24h launchpad revenue.

→ Base stopped producing blocks.

→ Kraken Chief Security Officer warns that there is a phishing scam targeting crypto users, impersonating Kraken.

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Happy Tuesday everyone! If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:

🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨

→ Bitcoin briefly reclaims $115,000 and now trades around $114,400.

→ Bitcoin mining difficulty hits new all-time high.

→ Metaplanet buys another 463 Bitcoin worth $53 million. They now hold 17,595 $BTC worth $2 billion.

→ BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF $IBIT is now the 2nd best ETF in monthly flows.

→ CFTC launches initiative to enable spot crypto trading on federally registered exchanges.

→ CFTC starts new ‘Sprint’ initiative to advance Trump’s crypto regulatory roadmap.

→ Goldman Sachs expects the FOMC to deliver three consecutive 25bp cuts starting in September.

→ President Trump to announce new Fed governor and BLS chief this week.

→ White House prepares executive order to fine banks that discriminate against crypto companies & conservatives.

→ President Trump says he will be substantially raising the tariff paid by India to the USA.

→ President Trump says anti-crypto Elizabeth Warren is a "LOSER."

→ Hong Kong ETFs in China experience record inflows due to dip buying spree.

→ $1.1 trillion added to the US stock market today.

→ Tesla approves 96,000,000 $TSLA share award to Elon Musk.

📊 Altcoin Market Updates 📊

→ Ethereum briefly reclaims $3,700 and now trades around ,$3,600.

→ Publicly traded ‘The Ether Machine’ buys another 10,605 $ETH worth $38.7 million.

→ Publicly traded Bitmine Immersion buys another 208,137 $ETH worth $757.5 million.

→ Publicly traded SharpLink Gaming buys another 18,680 $ETH worth $66.63 million.

→ Publicly traded GameSquare buys another 2,717 $ETH worth $9.68 million.

→ $MOTION rallies over 100% in the past 24 hours, following release of Binance article.

→ Solana Foundation head of comms Arielle Pennington is stepping away.

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