🔔 Pi coin vs its own halving: the mining rate math, explained

❗️ Few words in crypto carry the weight of “halving.” Bitcoin built a 16-year religion around it: a clockwork cut to new supply, every four years, that has preceded every major bull market the asset has had.

⚠️ So when Pi Network describes its own mining system in halving language, and when its team points to halvings as the reason a 100 billion token supply will not drown the price, the word does a lot of persuading on its own. That persuasion needs an audit. Pi does have halvings, real ones, with a history and a schedule of sorts. It also has a supply system in which those halvings are close to irrelevant for the question holders actually care about.

📊 The tokens pressuring the price in 2026 were not mined yesterday at the current rate. They were mined years ago at far higher rates, and they are arriving on the market through a different door entirely. With PI trading near $0.12, down from a $2.99 peak in the first days of open trading, the gap between the scarcity story and the supply reality has become the most important piece of math in the ecosystem. What follows walks the math from the beginning: the original mining formula, the milestone halvings, the switch to monthly supply caps at mainnet, the unlock schedule that now dominates everything, and what would have to change for the halving narrative to start mattering.

🔔 CoinMENA taps Standard Chartered for UAE payment rails

❗️ The CoinMENA release said the exchange will use Standard Chartered’s banking capabilities for fiat on-ramps, off-ramps, safeguarded client money accounts and virtual account-based transaction management. The deal gives CoinMENA more structured banking support as regulated crypto firms seek smoother access to local currency flows. The company said the setup is designed to support faster funding, more efficient settlement and better transaction transparency for customers and approved counterparties.

⚠️ Standard Chartered UAE, Middle East and Pakistan CEO Rola Abu Manneh said the UAE has become “one of the world’s leading regulatory environments for digital assets.” She added that trusted banking infrastructure will remain essential as the sector matures.

🌐 CoinMENA co-founders Dina Sam’an and Talal Tabbaa said the industry’s future depends on “strong banking, regulatory, and operational foundations, not just technology.” Their statement points to a wider shift in the UAE, where crypto firms are moving closer to mainstream financial infrastructure instead of relying only on crypto-native rails.

❗️ Senate recess puts CLARITY Act’s July vote at risk

⚠️ The adjournment matters because the CLARITY Act still needs floor time. The crypto market structure bill has already reached the Senate Legislative Calendar, but leadership must still schedule debate and a vote. As cryptonews reported, the bill entered the Senate queue after clearing the Senate Banking Committee. The report noted that it still needs full Senate debate, possible amendments, and a 60-vote path before it can move forward.

📣 Senator Cynthia Lummis has said the final CLARITY Act text should be released around July 4 for public review. She said Senate leaders were working to place the bill on the July agenda after months of negotiations with lawmakers, banks, and industry groups. That plan now faces a shorter working calendar. If senators return on July 13, the chamber will have fewer days to handle the crypto bill before the longer August recess.

📊 The bill also faces open policy disputes. Law enforcement groups and anti-trafficking advocates have raised concerns over Section 604 and related oversight language. Banking groups have also questioned how the bill treats crypto rewards and bank-like services. The Senate must also align the Banking Committee work with other committee input. If the Senate changes the House-passed version, both chambers would need to settle the text before sending a final bill to the president.

🔔 Can XRP price break the stubborn $1.07 barrier after multiple June failures?

🔖 XRP has rebounded toward the stubborn $1.07 resistance after Ripple’s latest XRP Ledger lending plans and rising network activity revived buying interest, but another breakout attempt now faces a level that repeatedly rejected bulls throughout June. According to data from cryptonews, XRP climbed nearly 5% from around $1.03 to an intraday high near $1.08 on July 2 before stalling at the same resistance level that repeatedly rejected buyers throughout late June.

⚠️ On-chain activity strengthened alongside the price recovery. Daily active addresses on the XRP Ledger jumped more than 72%, while new wallet creation reached its highest level in roughly three months as investors accumulated after XRP’s June decline. Exchange balances also continued falling as coins moved into self-custody, reducing immediately available supply during the latest rally.

🔗 The 1-day chart shows XRP still trading beneath every major moving average despite the latest bounce. The 20-day moving average sits near $1.11, followed by the 50-day around $1.21, the 100-day near $1.30, and the 200-day close to $1.49. A descending trendline connecting lower highs since May continues to cap every recovery attempt, leaving the primary trend bearish until those barriers are reclaimed.

⚠️ XRP price prediction after breakout puts $1.14 and $1.18 back in focus

📊 XRP has recovered from this week’s sharp sell-off after defending the $1.07 support zone, with traders weighing an emerging bullish chart breakout against persistent geopolitical and regulatory risks that continue to cap upside. According to data from crypto news, XRP price was trading near $1.09 at press time after rebounding from Tuesday’s low of around $1.07, though it remained below the July 4 peak near $1.18. Adding to the recovery narrative, analyst Gerla believes XRP has completed a notable technical milestone.

🔖 While the short-term bounce has attracted fresh buyers, institutional sentiment has yet to fully recover. Spot XRP exchange-traded funds recorded roughly $7.29 million in net outflows on July 8, the largest single-day withdrawal since March.

➡️ The daily chart shows XRP stabilizing just above its 20-day simple moving average near $1.05 after briefly slipping below the psychologically important $1.10 level. Although price remains beneath the 50-day, 100-day, and 200-day moving averages clustered between $1.17 and $1.46, the 20-day average has flattened, while Chaikin Money Flow has climbed back above zero, suggesting capital has started returning after several weeks of distribution.

❗️ Strategy stopped buying Bitcoin. The flywheel runs backward

📊 Four weeks without adding a coin, two of them spent selling, a $1.25 billion sale authorization on file, and stock sales now funding a cash pile instead of Bitcoin. The most influential machine in crypto has shifted into reverse, and the entire treasury sector is watching its own future run at MicroStrategy speed.

⭐️ For five years, the most reliable event in crypto was not the halving or the Fed meeting. It was Michael Saylor’s Sunday night chart. The orange dots, the coy caption, the Monday 8-K, another tranche of Bitcoin added to the largest corporate stack on earth: 108 purchases, 843,775 coins, a ritual so dependable that traders built indicators around it and dozens of companies built entire business models by imitation.

🔗 The ritual has stopped. Strategy has now gone four consecutive weeks without adding a single Bitcoin, its longest fallow stretch in two years, and the composition of those weeks is the story: two of them were spent selling, 3,588 BTC liquidated for roughly $216 million to pay preferred dividends, under a standing authorization to sell up to $1.25 billion more. The company is still raising hundreds of millions weekly through stock sales, and the money now flows to a $3.2 billion cash reserve instead of coins.

⚠️ Hyperliquid, Multicoin back CFTC prediction market rules

➡️ The Hyperliquid Policy Center and Multicoin Capital have filed a joint comment supporting the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s proposed prediction-market framework. The groups said written federal standards would help operators design event contracts and reduce policy swings between administrations. The CFTC proposed amendments to Regulation 40.11 in June after an earlier consultation. Its three-step test would ask whether a product is an event contract, whether it involves a listed activity and whether trading would conflict with the public interest.

📣 The plan does not ban every contract connected to those subjects. The CFTC would review products case by case during a process lasting up to 90 days. Chairman Michael Selig called it a “durable, transparent framework,” although the Commission may change the text before adopting a final rule.

🔖 Hyperliquid Policy Center and Multicoin said “clear rules beat guesswork.” They argued that standards written into regulations would offer more certainty than policies based mainly on staff interpretation. Their filing presents an industry position and does not resolve current legal disputes.