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13 Jul 2026

THIS WEEK COULD RESHAPE THE FUTURE OF CRYPTO.

Two major structural catalysts are approaching. • Monday: The Senate returns, and the CLARITY Act enters its final push before the August recess. If passed, it would split crypto oversight between the CFTC and SEC, protect DeFi developers, and permanently ban a federal CBDC. • Wednesday: DTCC targets its first limited production tokenization trades. The firm behind $114T+ in cleared assets is bringing stocks, ETFs, and Treasuries on-chain with backing from BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Citi. Regulatory clarity. Institutional tokenization. Both converging in the same week. Source: Crypto Rover

7 Jul 2026

Bitcoin ETFs bled -$4.1 billion in June, the largest monthly outflow in history

Source: Barchart, Bloomberg

2 Jul 2026

Trump personally made more from crypto than EVERY publicly traded US crypto company.

Pro-crypto president indeed... Source: Nic @puckrin

1 Jul 2026

President Trump earned over $1.4 billion in 2025 from crypto and memecoin-related businesses.

Full Breakdown: 1) Trump meme coin: $635 million 2) World Liberty Financial token sales: $526 million 3) USD1 Stablecoin venture ownership divestment: $196 million 4) Corporate share buyback and stake sale: $65 million 5) Melania NFT business revenue: $6.01 million 6) Ethereum network validator staking rewards: $1.82 million 7) Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDC token reserves: $125 million Source: Bull Theory

30 Jun 2026

The odds of the Clarity Act passing into law this year spikes up to 49% on Polymarket

Source: Bitcoin Magazine

30 Jun 2026

You could've held a McChicken and outperformed Ethereum

Source: StockTwits

25 Jun 2026

Strategy ($MSTR) is now down over 80% from its high.

Painful? Yes. Unprecedented? No. After the dot-com bust $MSTR fell 99.86%. If it were to match that, it mean another -99% decline from here. Source: Charlie Bilello

24 Jun 2026

Wall Street closes. Tokenized markets don't.

The era of 24/7 equity trading is no longer a vision—it's happening. The numbers are staggering: 📈 Monthly tokenized stock trading volume reached a record $5.3 billion last month, up 44% month-over-month. ⚡ On Solana, cumulative tokenized stock transfers have officially surpassed $10 billion for the first time. 🚀 In just one month, tokenized equity trading on Solana surged 180%, fueled by growing demand for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs). Even more telling: One-third of traders are now active over the weekend. Think about that. For over a century, stock markets have operated on bankers' hours. Tokenization is rewriting the rulebook. Markets are becoming: • Global • Instant • Borderless • And increasingly... always on. The biggest innovation isn't simply putting stocks on the blockchain. It's removing the concept of market hours altogether. The future of capital markets may not be defined by what gets tokenized... but by the fact that markets never sleep.

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