🧑‍💻 Bitwise Will Launch Storage on the Blockchain Through Morpho - Cointelegraph link

🚀 Base co-founder Jesse Pollak stated that the Base core team will not manipulate markets or coordinate capital deployments to influence asset prices. He emphasized that such actions would harm other assets, violate market principles, and could be illegal. Pollak noted that the team aims to promote high-quality assets and applications to enhance visibility for the Base ecosystem while maintaining free and fair markets. link

🇺🇸🔮 Kalshi bolsters US lobbying efforts with new DC office - link

🆕 $USAT listed on Bybit spot link

🤝 European Union and India officially announce free trade agreement.

🇰🇷🤔 RTHK reported that Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Chang-yong, speaking at the Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong, noted that South Korea has allowed residents to invest in overseas-issued virtual assets amid market pressure. Regulators are considering a new registration regime for domestic institutions to issue virtual assets. He warned that a KRW-denominated stablecoin could be used to circumvent capital-flow management, and exchange-rate swings could lead to rapid shifts into USD stablecoins and large fund transfers, complicating oversight with non-bank issuance. #stablecoin link

🔮 Polymarket Signs Agreement With Major League Soccer (MLS) - Cointelegraph link

🇺🇸⛏️ Bitcoin Hashrate Drops Amid U.S. Cold Storm

“When it drops sharply, it means miners are reducing their activity by voluntarily shutting down machines.” link link

😱🤑 Fear&Greed Index for #BTC and #ETH

🏴‍☠️ Open-source AI assistant ClawdBot (now Moltbot) founder Peter Steinberger posted on X that he has never issued any tokens. He urged crypto practitioners to stop harassment, stating that any projects listing him as a "token project party/holder" are scams.

Steinberger also mentioned that due to trademark issues, an operational error during account renaming led to his GitHub and X accounts being squatted by crypto scammers. He is currently seeking GitHub's official assistance to recover the accounts and reiterates that he will not accept any token-related fees. link

🐳 A whale spent 2.58M $USDC to buy 295,917 $HYPE at $8.74 and staked them 14 months ago.

Today, he unstaked and sold the entire position for 7.51M $USDC, realizing a $4.92M profit.

At the peak, his profit exceeded $15M. link

🧑‍💻 Active accounts on TronNetwork have surpassed 4.59M, up 36% from a month ago. link

🗣 Steak n Shake says its store sales are up an unbelievable 18%.

“Thanks to growing support from our loyal customers and our Bitcoin champions.”

Bitcoin is good for businesses.

🇯🇵🗽 Japan’s regulator seeks public input on bonds eligible for stablecoin reserves - #stablecoin link

📊 #BTC Alphractal: Bitcoin has liquidated a large portion of long positions opened over the past 30 days.

This clearly shows that the majority of traders are positioned for upside in the crypto market.

However, exchanges and OGs consistently move against consensus, capturing easy liquidity from unprepared participants.

🇺🇸💰 Ray Dalio's article highlights that the US is in the late stage of a significant cycle, facing pressures from fiscal debt, politics, society, and international order. He warns that unsustainable debt could lead to money printing or inflation, weakening currency credit, while severe political polarization and wealth gaps may result in capital controls and restrictions on funds. As traditional bonds lose their appeal, gold and freely transferable assets are becoming more attractive for investors. #macro link

📊 Gold’s surge above $5,000 and Clarity Act limbo frame contrasting futures for crypto markets, Bitwise CIO says - link

🇺🇸🕵️ Trump Family-Backed American Bitcoin Increased Its Holdings by 416 BTC

They now hold 5,843 Bitcoin.

📊 Interview with Vitalik and Suji: Vitalik analyzed why most decentralized social products have struggled to succeed, citing hard-to-break network effects, misaligned incentive structures, and excessive financialization. He emphasized that social products should be redesigned by focusing on the problems of social interaction rather than layering crypto-financial mechanisms on top. Suji highlighted that user migration is inherently slow and phased, necessitating the coexistence and evolution of centralized and decentralized models. The discussion also covered the integration of social protocols with wallets, prediction markets, AI, and community governance. link

📉 Bitcoin holds below $90K as markets remain cautious ahead of Fed decision: analysts #macro link

🇺🇸🚀 USDT: Tether Announces the Launch of USA₮, the Federally Regulated, Dollar-Backed Stablecoin, Made in America #stablecoin link