🇹🇼 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#BlackRock lost the most — $3.55 billion was withdrawn from #IBIT, and total #ETF assets shrank from over $110 billion to $70.9 billion.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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🇰🇷 The Open USD (#OUSD) launch was contradictory — the project announced 140+ partners, but Korean companies Samsung, Dunamu, K Bank and Shinhan stated that no formal agreements were made — at most they were offered to "consider participation".

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⛔️ #Revolut will stop supporting #USDT due to #MiCA regulations on August 31.

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Millions of Germans will soon be able to buy and sell crypto directly through their regular banks — without separate exchanges or extra apps.

The reason is simple — banks have seen the demand and do not want to hand over customers to crypto platforms, especially since people in Germany trust their banks significantly more than separate crypto services.

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Ethereum is preparing for a major update. Vitalik Buterin presented Ethereum — a roadmap for 3–4 years that should simplify the network core, reduce fees, and enhance privacy.

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🇿🇦 South Africa begins a tax hunt for crypto users — the regulator will audit about 6,000,000 crypto users and has released a guide on how to declare transactions, income, and profits.

The tax authority wants to see wallets, trades, and taxes.

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⚠High volatility time this week

Monday:
• 17:00 — ISM Services PMI.

Wednesday:
• 21:00 — FOMC Meeting Minutes.

Thursday:
• 15:30 — Initial Jobless Claims

🗓Time in UTC+3.

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Ethereum Foundation almost sold off its ETH — from 17% of the supply at launch to about 0.1% today — now the foundation is cutting the budget, downsizing the team and living on a cash reserve of only a few months.

Meanwhile #Bitmine holds almost 5% of all #ETH and earns more from staking than the organization that once launched #Ethereum.

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🇪🇺 #Ripple received full MiCA license.

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#SpaceX will enter the Nasdaq-100 as early as tomorrow.

This will be one of the fastest inclusions in the index immediately after an IPO.

As a result, funds tracking the #Nasdaq-100 will be forced to automatically buy #SPCX shares to match the index structure.

#JPMorgan estimates the volume of such demand at approximately $4.3 billion.

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