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BREAKING: No single blockchain can handle DTCC’s $4 quadrillion in annual settlements, according to its Head of Digital Assets. “We're working with Canton, Stellar and a few others.”

🚨 LATEST: Cardano’s Van Rossem hard fork is set to activate tomorrow. The upgrade goes live on July 18 at 21:44:51 UTC, bringing lower transaction costs, cheaper dApp execution, and laying the foundation for the Leios scaling upgrade.

🚨 UPDATE: $BTC supply in loss surpassed supply in profit for the first time this cycle, while LTH supply reached a record 14.85 million $BTC.

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BREAKING: The US national debt hit $39.5 TRILLION for the first time in history. Debt grew by $286B in the last 30 days, climbing $110,000 per SECOND.

Your future self will make mistakes your present self can't predict. #Privacy is the only thing standing between those future mistakes and a permanent public record. That's not a privilege. That's just being human. $FIRO

🔥REP FRENCH HILL: PASSING THE CLARITY ACT IS "THE BIGGEST ETHICAL OVERSIGHT RESPONSIBILITY" Hill said the framework puts all crypto under the same rules. "If you're concerned about meme coins, they'd have to meet a listing standard, they'd be on an exchange, they'd have disclosure." The president "has worked hard with his lawyers" to meet Senate Democrats' ethics requirements on the bill.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 CNBC reports on CLARITY ACT progress: Sen. Mark Warner "supports the goals of the broader bill" Sen. Bernie Moreno was quoted, "It would prevent any elected official from issuing or promoting a digital asset" Negotiations continue 👀

One of the more interesting dynamics is the race for second on the Bitcoin Banking Adoption Index. Goldman, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and Citi are all working on multiple Bitcoin and crypto projects launching this year, with more Clarity by year end.

🔥 INSIGHT: DTCC’s Head of Digital Assets says the company processes $4 quadrillion in settlements annually, a scale no single blockchain can handle. “So, we’re working with Canton, Stellar and a few others.” h/t: @EricBalchunas

AMERICA NEEDS CRYPTO CLARITY The House passed the CLARITY Act 294–134. Senate Banking advanced it 15–9. It still needs 60 Senate votes. CLARITY would: Define SEC vs. CFTC authority Protect consumers Fight fraud and money laundering Keep crypto capital and jobs in America Reach out to these senators are blocking the current bill: @ChrisMurphyCT @ChrisVanHollen @SenJeffMerkley @SenWarren Others: @SenJackReed @MarkWarner @SenCortezMasto @SenTinaSmith @SenatorWarnock @SenatorAndyKim @SenatorLBR Then stop blocking it and vote yes. America needs clear rules not regulation by lawsuit.

LATEST: 🇺🇸 Former House Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry says the CLARITY Act is the most important technology law since the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

It's official: US oil prices are now up over +20% in 15 days as the Iran War has resumed. In another sudden turn of events, Brent oil prices are on the verge of rising back above $90/barrel.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Bitcoin ETFs have seen a $368 million inflow over the past three days 🚀

$BTC Is Sitting at the Point of Maximum Asymmetry Spot: $63.4K The market is pricing Bitcoin like the cycle is broken. The data says the cycle is compressed directly onto a structural base that is still rising. SHORT TERM: 30-day net flow impulse: −$5.1B Dealer gamma: −$102M Gamma flip: $62.9K Major support: $60K The launch is not confirmed. But despite flows ranking in the 3rd percentile, price resilience ranks in the 98th percentile. That means billions in selling are being absorbed without equivalent price destruction. MEDIUM TERM: DEEPLY UNDERVALUED 405-day cycle average: $90.5K Upside to cycle mean: 43% Fitted adoption spine: $76.3K Structural repair: 20% The power-law model fails below one year. But at the 365-day horizon, it beats a random walk with an out-of-sample R² of +0.48. Model median one-year return: +71% LONG TERM: EXTREME ASYMMETRY 5-year model-conditional range: P10: $231K Median: $466K 10-year model-conditional range: P10: $672K Median: $1.46M Not guaranteed. Structural failure remains possible. But markets are set by the marginal seller. Value is set by adoption, scarcity and time. Right now, the marginal seller is temporarily overpowering price— while the structural foundation continues to compound. Short term: compression. Medium term: mean reversion. Long term: monetization of absolute scarcity. That is a generational asset being mispriced by short-duration capital. $BTC

🔥 LATEST: Tradable plans to bring up to $1B in private credit assets to Stellar.

Guide on Smart Contract Escrow System by Rootstock Ambassador @pranav_konde 👇

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 US CONGRESSMAN JUST ANNOUNCED LIVE ON FOX TV THAT THE SENATE WILL PASS THE MARKET STRUCTURE BILL NEXT WEEK TRILLIONS ARE ABOUT TO FLOW INTO BITCOIN AND CRYPTO HERE WE GO 🚀

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇶 US oil giant Chevron explores new pipeline routes in Iraq to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.

The largest $BTC transaction ever recorded moved 550,000 $BTC. Date: November 16, 2011 Value then: ~$1.3 million Value today: ~$35 billion Transaction fee: $0 It was likely a Mt. Gox wallet consolidation not a $35 billion purchase. But the engineering remains extraordinary: $35 billion of value can be transferred globally, without a bank, without permission and without moving a single physical object. Bitcoin is not merely an asset. It is a global settlement rail.