Billionaire investor and one of Wall Street's most famous bubble hunters, Jeremy Grantham, criticized the crypto market.

According to him, cryptocurrencies are a "worthless speculative asset" that will end "not in a loud crash, but in a quiet demise."

He stated that crypto is not a reliable store of value, is rarely used for real-world payments, and its main function is to help criminals transfer money without leaving a trace.

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#Chainalysis proposed bringing order to blockchain investigations, preventing the same crypto address from being classified as either clean or suspicious by different #AML services.

The company proposes separating findings by level: where addresses are simply linked into a group, where a connection to an organization is found, and where the owner can be identified.

In such a system, #AI should only be a tool for finding connections, not independent evidence.

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🇰🇿 #Solana Company will support Kazakhstan in the creation of a $6 billion crypto megacity – the project aims to become a major hub for blockchain, digital assets, and Web3 infrastructure.

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Director Carl Erik Rinsch has been sentenced to 2.5 years in prison after blowing an $11 million #Netflix series budget on the stock market.

His "production" process looked less like Hollywood and more like Wall Street:

* The Options Flop: He started by burning about $6 million on stock options.
* The Crypto Plot Twist: He threw his remaining $4 million into #Dogecoin, miraculously turning it into nearly $27 million.
* The Luxury Wrap Party: Instead of finishing the show, he spent the massive profits on a Ferrari, a Rolls-Royce, high-end watches, and luxury goods.

On top of his prison sentence, the director has been ordered to pay Netflix $11 million in restitution.

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#Tether entered the top 5 most active investors in 2026 – the company closed 17 deals in the first six months, the same number as in all of 2025.

Among the largest investments were #Replit at $400 million, #Whop at $200 million, and #Gold at $150 million.

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⚡US Macroeconomic Data

🔴CB Consumer Confidence.
• Fact: 91.2
• Forecast: 94.4
• Previous: 93.1

🔴JOLTS Job Openings.
• Fact: 7.59 million
• Forecast: 7.28 million
• Previous: 7.62 million

Consumer confidence came in below forecast, strengthening expectations for a softer Fed policy — this is moderately positive for #BTC and other risk assets.

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⚡️ Dozens of companies, including #Visa, #Stripe, #Mastercard, #BlackRock, and #Coinbase, will launch a new stablecoin called #OUSD.

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Trump revealed that he owns crypto assets worth over $100 million, including BTC and #ETH

In addition, the US President received about $635 million in royalties and other income related to memecoins and the crypto project #WLFI.

Vice President JD Vance also revealed that he owns #BTC worth more than $250,000.

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FG Nexus recorded a loss of $86.6 million on ETH

Initially, the public company purchased 50,770 ETH for $196 million at an average price of $3,860 in August–September 2025.

However, starting in November, it began selling off and ultimately realized 51,145 ETH for $109.4 million at an average price of $2,138.

A year ago, the company's management announced its intention to become the largest corporate holder of #ETH in the world, but today they sold all their reserves, recording a loss of $86.6 million.

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🇹🇼 Taiwan has passed one of the strictest crypto laws in Asia—all crypto exchanges are now required to obtain a license, and stablecoin issuers must keep 100% of their reserves in Taiwanese banks, undergo regular audits, and will not be able to pay interest to holders.

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Spot #Bitcoin ETFs had their worst month since launch — investors pulled $4.5 billion from funds in June, beating the previous anti-record by 29%.

#BlackRock lost the most — $3.55 billion was withdrawn from #IBIT, and total #ETF assets shrank from over $110 billion to $70.9 billion.

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Which crypto exchanges received, and which did not receive, permission to operate in the EU from July 1 (MiCA).
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⚡US Macro Data

🔴Non-farm employment change according to ADP.
• Actual: 98K
• Forecast: 118K
• Previous: 122K

The ADP report showed that the US private sector created fewer jobs in June than expected.

For the crypto market, this is a moderately positive signal: a weak labor market increases the likelihood of a softer Fed policy and potential rate cuts.

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#Circle's shares, the issuer of the stablecoin #USDC, have already fallen 18% in the last 24 hours amid the company's exclusion from the #Russell indices.

Additional pressure was exerted by reports that a group of major banks is considering launching its own stablecoin, #OUSD.

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🐋 Ethereum has launched a separate "entry point" for big players — the Ethereum Institutional organization has been created to help banks, funds, and custodians navigate #Ethereum, L2, and tokenization.

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⚡US Macroeconomic Data

🔴ISM Manufacturing Sector Business Activity Index.
• Actual: 53.3
• Forecast: 53.8
• Previous: 54.0

🔴ISM Production Prices.
• Actual: 73.0
• Forecast: 77.7
• Previous: 82.1

ISM shows a slowdown in production and a decrease in price pressure in the US, which is moderately positive for the crypto market overall due to expectations of a softer Fed policy.

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#Cloudflare launches Monetization Gateway — a tool that will allow charging for access to pages, APIs, datasets, and MCP tools directly through Cloudflare.

Payments will be made in stablecoins via the x402 protocol — essentially, the internet gets a built-in paywall without a separate payment system.

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The largest public company with an #Avalanche reserve announced that it may go bankrupt — its stock has lost 95% of its value over the past year.

The company bought ₽AVAX worth approximately $265 million, but the current value of these reserves is only $120 million.

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🇫🇷 The French Minister of the Interior reported 77 attacks on cryptocurrency sector participants in 2026 — for comparison, only 45 such incidents were recorded throughout 2025.

Previously, a French tax official was arrested on charges of leaking confidential data about crypto investors to organized criminal groups.

The video shows an attempted kidnapping of the daughter of the head of a French crypto company and her two-year-old child.

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⚡US Macro Data

🔴Average Hourly Earnings (m/m).
• Fact: 0.3%
• Forecast: 0.3%
• Previous: 0.3%

🔴Non-farm Employment Change.
• Fact: 57K
• Forecast: 114K
• Previous: 172K

🔴Unemployment Rate.
• Fact: 4.2%
• Forecast: 4.3%
• Previous: 4.3%

🔴Initial Jobless Claims.
• Fact: 215K
• Forecast: 219K
• Previous: 215K

The labor market turned out weaker than expected: only 57k new jobs were created against a forecast of 114k. This increases the likelihood of a softer Fed policy, which is usually positive for BTC and altcoins.

At the same time, unemployment fell to 4.2%, and jobless claims did not rise, indicating that the economy remains resilient for now.

Conclusion: The data is moderately bullish for crypto. Weak employment growth strengthens expectations of Fed rate cuts, which could support the digital asset market.

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Crypto-friendly bank #Erebor, backed by people from Peter Thiel's and Palmer Luckey's circles, discusses a new funding round at a valuation above $8 billion.

The idea is simple — to create a bank for crypto companies and those startups that regular banks often don't want to deal with.

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