🔥 BIG: Stripe is close to finalizing a deal to acquire AI startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion.

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🚨 TODAY: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong asserts that AI agents require programmable, global, low-cost money to function—proclaiming, "crypto is the currency of AiFi (agentic finance)."

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🚨 ALERT: US national debt is now less than $100 billion away from reaching $40 trillion.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 TODAY: The 60-day U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding comes to an end.

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🚨 JUST IN: Strategy raised $333.7M last week through stock sales—but purchased zero Bitcoin.

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🇺🇸 BREAKING: The Treasury has unveiled proposed stablecoin regulations under the GENIUS Act, launching a 60-day window for public feedback.

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🔥 BULLISH: Jane Street boosted its Bitcoin ETF holdings by $630M in Q2, bringing total investments to $1.06B—just after slashing positions by 71% the previous quarter.

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🇺🇸 UPDATE: The OCC has conditionally approved Trump-linked WLFI for a national trust bank charter, paving the way for USD1 issuance and digital asset custody.

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🇺🇸 TODAY: President Trump says he supports the idea of declaring the Strait of Hormuz U.S. territory, claiming the United States already has full control over the waterway.

He also states, “The oil prices are coming down—and they will keep falling.”

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🇰🇷 JUST IN: Ripple has partnered with Jeonbuk Bank, becoming the first regional bank in Korea to adopt Ripple Payments for real-time cross-border settlements.

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🚨 UPDATE: Ethereum Foundation has launched the Platåberget testnet, kicking off early public testing for the Glamsterdam upgrade ahead of its August 20 fork.

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🔥 HISTORY: 18 years ago today, Satoshi Nakamoto registered Bitcoin.org.

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🇺🇸 BREAKING: President Trump posts a map designating the Strait of Hormuz as U.S. territory.

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🔥 BREAKING: $2.89T Citi launches Custody+ and plans to roll out digital asset custody later this year, starting with Bitcoin.

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🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: BTC, ETH, LINK, and AVAX ETFs all saw net inflows on August 17.

BTC: $297.56M
ETH: $30.85M
LINK: $2.07M
AVAX: $514.60K

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⚡️ BREAKING: MoonPay now supports Cash App Pay for US users — a crypto industry first.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/moonpay-cash-app-pay-crypto-purchases-us-customers

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 TRUMP: "There are no talks or conversations happening—or scheduled—with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The naval blockade remains fully active and enforced."

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🚨 BREAKING: Senator Cynthia Lummis just announced at the SALT Conference that the CLARITY Act is set for a Senate vote on September 15 at 2 p.m.

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🔥 NOW: Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says "we are in the early stages of a global tokenization supercycle" — one he believes will eventually "reshape the entire financial system."

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🚨 LATEST: The Wyoming Stable Token Commission has transitioned its Frontier Stable Token (FRNT) to Chainlink CCIP, moving away from the LayerZero bridge following a comprehensive security assessment.

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🚨 NEW: VanEck signals Bitcoin may be nearing the end of its correction phase, with 8 out of 12 capitulation indicators now triggered. Meanwhile, long-term holders have offloaded 356K $BTC over the past month.

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