🌪🍿 #TORN The judge overseeing the criminal case of Tornado Cash co-founder and developer Roman Storm will allow jurors to hear testimony claiming he may have modified the platform "to deter criminals from using it." cointelegraph
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⛏️ #BTC Bitcoin Archive: only 5.3% of BTC left available for mining. #mining

🤔 Western Union is exploring the possibility of embedding stablecoins in digital wallets amid industry optimism. theblock

🔍🐳 Whale Transactions:

1. 0x8eEa withdrew 25,213 #ETH ($94.67M) from FalconX, and a total of 72,333 ETH ($267M) in the last 3 days;
2. 0xD479 withdrew 5,309 ETH ($19.96M) from Binance and in the last 3 days has withdrawn a total of 19,391 ETH ($72.38M);
3. 0x8C08 sold 8,005 ETH ($30.03M) at $3751, leaving 1,577 ETH ($5.96M). 2 weeks ago, he bought 9,582 ETH ($26.11 million) at $2725. Profit $9.87 million (+38%) in 2 weeks;
4. SpaceX transferred 1,308 #BTC ($153M) to a new wallet after 3 years of inactivity.

💸 #BTC Over the past 24 hours, contracts worth ~$589.31 million have been liquidated, of which longs have liquidated ~$370.69 million and shorts ~$218.63 million.

✏️ According to CoinGecko's report for Q2, DEX has achieved record market share over CEX in terms of spot cryptocurrency trading volume. DEX futures trading volume also reached a record high, with Hyperliquid dominating the market.

🎰 AguilaTrades is partially liquidated in the #ETH long position and is at a >$31M loss.

James Wynn was partially liquidated on #DOGE and #PEPE, losing $179k.

🤑😱 Fear&Greed Index for #BTC and #ETH

👨‍💻 Santiment: #SOL has hit the $200 milestone for the first time since June 6th, resulting in an eruption of crowd interest. Though this will lead to temporary re-tests of this level, the long term is aided by SOL's 2-month high in dev. activity.

🗣 #ETH Ether Machine CEO: The largest beneficiary of the GENIUS Act is Ethereum. The majority of stablecoins are deployed on top of Ethereum.

📊👀 CQ: #BTC is in the growth zone between the Investor Price Median ($92K) and the Hype Alert level ($139K).

This suggests that buying activity is still supported by market participants. At the same time, we haven’t yet entered a phase of excessive optimism there’s still room for further upside toward $139K without a serious risk of overheating.

🕵️‍♂️ #BTC Largest open position on Hyperliquid - SHORT in BTC/USD at $1432,219,106 with 40x leverage.

Unrealized PnL: $-11,766,635
Liquidation: $127,019

🎰 AguilaTrades closed the #ETH long with a loss of ~$3M and contributed another 5.28M #USDC on Hyperliquid. Then opened a 20x leveraged BTC long with a position of 1,695 BTC.

🗽 Coinbase launches CFTC-regulated perpetual futures for US traders. theblock.co

🕵 The price of #PUMP fell below the private/public sale price of $0.004.

- Top 1 wallet spent 100 million #USDC to buy 25 billion PUMP at $0.004 in a private sale. It has now placed 17 billion PUMP ($89.5 million) on exchanges and still holds 8 billion PUMP ($29.58 million);
- Top 2 wallet spent 50 million #USDC to buy 12.5 billion PUMP at $0.004 and has already placed all 12.5 billion PUMP ($71.37 million) on exchanges.

📈 #BTC Genius Group is increasing its bitcoin reserves to 200 BTC as part of a long-term strategy to build a 10,000 BTC reserve. cointelegraph

🇪🇺 Archax acquires Deutsche Digital Assets, expanding cryptocurrency ETP coverage in Europe. coindesk

📈 Altcoins spot trading volume has just hit $25 billion on Binance.

🇺🇸🍿 Bessent: we will announce a number of trade agreements in the coming days. Deadline on tariffs Aug. 1. #tradewars.

📊 #ETH Cost Basis Distribution Heatmap shows profit-taking from buyers around $2,520 - visible in the fading red band from around July 1. But they still hold nearly 2 million ETH.

Takeaways:
- Strategic profit taking,
- Expecting more upside,
- New demand is absorbing supply.

🇺🇸👀 Four US states still have active Reserve bills — NC, MA, MI, and OH, with North Carolina’s bill likely to fail as its legislature adjourns in 10 days.