💳🙋‍♂ Mastercard poised to acquire crypto startup ZeroHash for nearly $2 billion, sources say: Fortune

📊👀 #BTC Stockmoney Lizards: We are nowhere near the top. The Satoshimeter reads around 7 today, far from the extreme greed levels that marked prior cycle peaks in 2013, 2017, and 2021.

If history rhymes, the final leg of this bull run likely plays out many months into 2026.

🇺🇸🦊 Consensys (developer of MetaMask and ETH) has picked JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs to lead its IPO. axios

🗽👀 #FOMC #BTC Santiment: Many traders had positioned themselves for a dovish message from the Fed and were betting that cheap money would continue into year-end. When Powell pushed back on that idea, those bets began to unwind.

Liquidations across crypto exchanges added to the sell-off, and funding rates are pretty neutral. Ideally, exchanges will start to see a growing amount of shorts, leading to short liquidations that can propel Bitcoin back up to $115K and beyond.

📊🤔 #ETH Ethereum L1 transactions & active addresses are at all-time highs, while gas fees are close to all-time lows.

📉 #ETH Buy/Sell Pressure Delta is negative, and On-Chain Volume is starting to drop - Alphractal

The social disbelief + a slightly negative Buy/Sell Pressure Delta may suggest that ETH’s real euphoria hasn’t even started yet, despite the overall bearish sentiment.

📈🗣 #BTC Michael Saylor predicts Bitcoin will reach $150,000 by end of this year.

🧐 Bitwise reports, Institutional Crypto Adoption Hits New Heights

— Major banks including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citi, and Deutsche Bank are now active in crypto trading and custody.
— BlackRock, Fidelity, and Franklin Templeton lead in crypto ETPs and tokenization.
— Visa and Mastercard expand crypto-enabled payment services.
— Wells Fargo, UBS, and BNY Mellon also deepen crypto operations.

Bitwise says the data marks the broadest wave of institutional participation in digital assets yet.

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump and Xi Jinping meeting to discuss trade deal has begun. #tradewars

🇺🇸🇰🇷 South Korea agrees to pay $350 billion to the U.S. for duty cuts. #trade wars

📉 #BTC #ETH #ETF Yesterday, total net outflows of spot BTC-ETFs totaled ~$470.7 million.

Total net outflows of spot ETH-ETFs amounted to ~$81.4 mln.

#SOL Volume in Bitwise's Solana ETF surpassed $70M on day two. theblock

👍 #SOL #ETF Fidelity submitted an updated S-1 filing for its Solana spot ETF.

🇺🇸🍿 #TRUMP Fight Fight Fight LLC, the issuer of the TRUMP token, is in talks to acquire the Republic platform. bloomberg

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump said his meeting with Xi Jinping was "terrific."

👍 Reuters: OpenAI is preparing for an IPO with a $1 trillion valuation.

🇺🇸🤝🇨🇳 Trump announced that the U.S. and China have reached a 1-year trade agreement on rare earth metals and essential minerals. US cuts tariffs for China. #tradewars

🇭🇰 Hong Kong said it has raised objections to the Digital Asset Treasury's (DAT) plans for at least five companies, none of which have been approved for listing. wenweipo

👍 #RWA Securitize, BNY Mellon launch tokenized fund based on structured credit. cointelegraph

🔍 SpaceX moved another 281 #BTC ($31.28 million) to a new wallet - probably for storage purposes. SpaceX has moved their BTC assets three times in the last 10 days.

🔍🐳 Whale Transactions:

1. 0xc2a3 opens longs on #BTC and #ETH again. Positions: 1,039 BTC ($114 million), 560,840 #SOL ($109 million), 13,419 #ETH ($52.66 million);
2. LeBron spent 102 #SOL ($18.3k) to buy 2.9 million shares of #GHOST. He previously made $8.9M on #MELANIA, $4.56M on #LIBRA , $3.2M on #TRUMP and $1M on #HARRYBOLZ;
3. Whale spent 5346 #SOL ($1.07 million) to buy 165,401 #TRUMP ($1.4 million), also opened a max leveraged long on Hyperliquid for 1.13 million #TRUMP ($9.5 million).

🤖💰 #AI YZi Labs announced their first AI investment in VideoTutor, an AI-based educational service.