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XRP (xrp) rose near $1.05 on Jul. 2, but weaker holder demand and softer derivatives activity left the rebound exposed.
Key Points:
XRP gained about 2%, but the move came with lower trading volume.
Long-term holder net buying fell about 11% from Jun. 30 to Jul. 1.
Lower futures exposure may reduce the risk of a sharper leveraged sell-off.
XRP Price Risk
XRP’s latest price gain lacked strong confirmation from volume, a setup that can leave short rebounds vulnerable when buyers do not expand with price.
Trading volume has thinned since Jun. 26, even as XRP moved higher, while the Relative Strength Index sat at 37.97, below the neutral 50 level that traders often use to separate stronger momentum from weaker conditions.
The chart also showed a developing hidden bearish divergence, with price making lower highs while the RSI made higher highs.
The signal remains incomplete, but it would strengthen if XRP fails to retake about $1.069 and then closes lower on the next daily candle.
TradingView data placed first resistance at $1.069, while a stronger bullish test sits at $1.099, the 0.618 Fibonacci level. Below current levels, $1.046 is the first support, followed by $1.00 and then $0.979 if selling pressure builds.
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XRP Holder Demand
On-chain data from Glassnode added to the caution, as HODLer Net Position Change fell to 213.6 million XRP on Jul. 1 from about 239.3 million XRP on Jun. 30, a drop of roughly 11%.
That decline came while the token was rising, suggesting long-term holders slowed accumulation into strength rather than chasing the move. For traders, that matters because sustained rebounds often need support from conviction buyers, not only short-term demand.
Derivatives data from Santiment offered a different kind of signal. XRP open interest fell about 11%, from $865.52 million on Jun. 23 to $766.32 million, showing that fewer leveraged futures positions remained active.
Funding rates also stayed negative, pointing to cautious positioning instead of crowded long exposure. That can cap upside enthusiasm, but it also reduces the fuel for a severe liquidation-driven drop if XRP turns lower.
The latest setup leaves XRP between weak momentum and thinner downside leverage. In recent sessions, the price has struggled to build distance from the $1.00 area, making the $1.069 and $1.099 levels the main tests for any firmer recovery.
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Fresh head-to-head reviews pit OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, holder of an 88.8% score on a leading coding benchmark, against Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and its 80.3% software engineering mark.
Key Points:
GPT-5.6 Sol tops Terminal-Bench 2.1 at 88.8%, and its Ultra mode pushes the score to 91.9%.
Claude Fable 5 keeps the widest published lead on SWE-Bench Pro at 80.3%, versus 58.6% for GPT-5.5.
Sol remains in a limited government-approved preview, while Fable 5 returned to global availability on Jul. 1.
GPT-5.6 Sol Benchmark Claims
OpenAI previewed the GPT-5.6 family on Jun. 26, its first release since GPT-5.5 in April, splitting the line into three tiers with Sol as the flagship.
The company says Sol reaches 88.8% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, a test of command-line coding agents that plan, iterate and coordinate tools. A compute-heavy Ultra mode, which spins up coordinated subagents to accelerate complex work, stretches that figure to 91.9%, the top published mark on the Terminal-Bench chart.
Reviewers who compared the published charts place Fable 5 several points behind Sol on the same terminal test, though cited figures vary between 83.4% and 84.3%. On the ExploitBench security suite, Sol reportedly matches Mythos-class performance while spending roughly one third of the output tokens, a cost compression that matters in long agent runs.
Almost nobody outside the preview can verify those numbers independently yet, a caveat several reviewers flagged while acknowledging the raw scores.
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Fable 5 Coding Lead And Pricing
Fable 5 still owns the benchmark most reviewers treat as decisive for autonomous software work, and its edge there is not small. It scores 80.3% on SWE-Bench Pro, which measures end-to-end fixes of real GitHub issues, against 58.6% for the older GPT-5.5, and OpenAI has published no GPT-5.6 figure there.
Analysts who found gaps of that size across coding, reasoning and knowledge tests doubt a single incremental release can close them fully.
Price cuts the other way, since Sol is reportedly listed at $5 per million input tokens and $30 for output, half of Fable 5's $10 and $50. Several reviewers argued that the sensible setup routes terminal-driven agents toward Sol, once it opens up, and repository-level fixes toward Fable 5.
Access draws the sharpest line, since Sol remains in a limited preview for roughly 20 government-cleared partners, while Fable 5 returned worldwide on Jul. 1 with a temporary usage bonus for paid subscribers through Jul. 7.
June turned frontier model access into a moving target for both laboratories, and that whiplash frames every review. Washington forced Fable 5 and its more powerful sibling Mythos 5 offline on Jun. 12, citing severe cybersecurity risks, after Amazon researchers surfaced a jailbreak that produced exploit code. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed the reversal on Jun. 30 following a two-week review, days after Mythos 5 quietly returned to about 100 vetted American organizations.
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Trump Administration is reportedly nearing a voluntary AI standards deal with major technology companies as Washington sharpens its focus on frontier model risks.
Key Points:
The reported agreement would set standards for frontier AI models, with cybersecurity capabilities at the center.
The Financial Times said CAISI and the NSA are expected to play central roles once the standards are formalized.
The talks follow recent U.S. pressure on Anthropic and a shift away from the administration’s early light-touch stance.
Trump AI Standards
The Financial Times reported that the Trump administration could announce the standards “as early as next week,” citing people familiar with the talks.
The agreement would be voluntary and would involve several major U.S. frontier AI companies. It is expected to focus on model capabilities that could affect cybersecurity, now a central part of Washington’s AI risk agenda.
One person cited by the FT said the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, which sits under the Commerce Department, and the National Security Agency, which sits under the Pentagon, would help guide the standards after they are formalized.
The report did not make clear which companies would sign on. It mentioned Anthropic, OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft and Google, but not Meta, which earlier reporting described as a holdout.
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Anthropic Pressure
The expected deal follows a clear change in the administration’s approach to AI oversight.
At the start of the second Trump administration, J.D. Vance signaled a more hands-off approach to AI regulation. That stance has since narrowed, with White House action against Anthropic, a new executive order on AI and the reported standards talks.
On Jun. 12, the U.S. delivered an export control directive to Anthropic that disabled its latest publicly released model for the rest of June. OpenAI has reportedly held back its newest models, apparently to avoid a similar disruption.
The executive order calls for a classified benchmarking process to assess advanced cyber capabilities in AI models. It also directs officials to determine when a model should be treated as a “covered frontier model.” That structure would leave the public without full visibility into the tests used on frontier AI systems. Still, common safeguards adopted across several companies could reveal parts of the standards over time.
The talks build on a broader shift in Washington’s AI policy. A voluntary deal would not settle every regulatory question, but it would give companies a clearer process after weeks of uncertainty.
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Kalshi and Polymarket handled $44.8 billion in combined trading volume in June, a 75% jump from May, as World Cup wagers flooded prediction markets.
Key Points:
Combined June volume across Kalshi, Polymarket, and Polymarket US reached $44.8 billion, up 75% from May's $25.66 billion.
Kalshi grew fastest, climbing 87.4% to $31.5 billion, while its World Cup winner market drew more than $832 million in bets.
More than a dozen American state authorities are pursuing legal action against both platforms over sports contracts.
World Cup Betting Lifts Prediction Markets
The three venues together climbed to the new total from $25.66 billion in May, continuing a rise that began late last year. Kalshi posted the largest gain, growing 87.4% to $31.5 billion from $16.81 billion. Polymarket's main platform took in $10.26 billion, up 45%, while its regulated American arm, Polymarket US, rose to $3.04 billion from $1.77 billion.
The June surge reversed a slide for Polymarket's main venue, which had shed volume every month from March through May. Its American arm moved in the opposite direction over the same stretch, climbing steadily as regulated products gained ground with domestic traders.
The FIFA World Cup, which kicked off Jun. 11 and runs through Jul. 19, has driven much of the increase. Kalshi's tournament winner market alone has attracted more than $832 million in bets, with traders assigning France a roughly 35% chance of winning. Individual match contracts on Polymarket draw between $500,000 and $2 million each, with prices shifting after every knockout result.
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Analysts See Super Bowl Effect, Regulators Push Back
Piper Sandler analyst Patrick Moley wrote in mid-June that the tournament was "like the Super Bowl every day" for the platforms, driving record daily volumes on Kalshi. Bernstein analysts estimated the event could generate roughly $3 billion in additional wagers and as much as $10 billion in volume across betting and prediction venues.
The scale now rivals traditional gambling, since combined monthly volume on the two platforms has overtaken the roughly $14 billion wagered each month through legal American sportsbooks in 2025. Sports contracts account for about 80% of Kalshi's volume since mid-2024, against 39% on Polymarket. The two apps also captured nearly three-quarters of new betting-app downloads during the tournament window.
The growth carries legal risk, as more than a dozen American state authorities escalate lawsuits, bans, and new taxes accusing the platforms of offering unlicensed sports betting or gambling to residents. Abroad, Spain, Indonesia, and India have moved to restrict access to both sites during the tournament.
June capped a months-long run for Kalshi, which recorded its largest week ever in the middle of the month, clearing $7.49 billion across six trading days.
The platform crossed $100 billion in lifetime volume during the same stretch and logged its first back-to-back billion-dollar days. Kalshi also raised $1 billion this spring at a $22 billion valuation, roughly doubling its worth in five months.
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SpaceX shares fell 7% on Wednesday after Elon Musk denied a report that the company showed investors a prototype AI-powered handset device ahead of its blockbuster initial public offering.
Key Points:
SpaceX stock dropped about 7% on Wednesday after Elon Musk denied a report that the company showed investors an AI device prototype.
The handset-like device was described as slimmer than an iPhone, running a proprietary operating system with xAI technology and Qualcomm chips.
SpaceX has previously denied plans for a competing phone, and the company has not issued a detailed rebuttal beyond Musk's social media post.
Musk's AI Device Emerges
SpaceX privately showed investors and stakeholders a prototype AI-powered handset before its recent stock market debut, according to people familiar with the matter who were briefed on the plans. The device is reportedly slimmer than an iPhone and built to run on a proprietary operating system rather than existing mobile platforms, resembling something between a compact touchscreen phone and a standalone AI gadget. It draws on technology from xAI, the artificial intelligence venture Musk folded into SpaceX earlier this year in an all-stock deal, and is expected to use Qualcomm chips.
SpaceX told investors the project remains early-stage, cautioning that the design could still change significantly and that the device may never reach production or public release.
The push comes as rivals across Silicon Valley chase similar ambitions in consumer AI hardware. OpenAI is developing its own AI device with former Apple design chief Jony Ive, and the ChatGPT maker recently hired another Apple executive, who previously led development of the Vision Pro headset, to help move the project along. Turning a dedicated AI gadget into a mainstream product has proven difficult industrywide, with earlier entries such as the Humane AI Pin and Rabbit R1 largely failing to gain traction.
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SpaceX Stock Slides On Denial
Musk called the report "utterly false" in a post on X, offering no further detail beyond the two-word rebuttal. Shares of SpaceX fell about 7% Wednesday, extending a slide that has left the stock roughly 30% below its June peak.
The slide also erased more than $50 billion from Musk's net worth in a single session, according to one estimate, ending his brief run as a trillionaire and underscoring how closely his fortune tracks SpaceX's volatile stock.
Vital Knowledge analysts wrote that it's hard to imagine SpaceX becoming a force in consumer electronics. Musk-led companies still draw outsized valuations built partly on promised products, the analysts noted, even when those products remain years from reality. The mixed reaction left investors with little clarity on how much weight to put behind an unconfirmed report that SpaceX has not directly addressed beyond Musk's brief denial.
The denial follows a familiar pattern. Musk rejected a similar report in February that SpaceX was developing a Starlink-linked phone, and the company has since deepened its wireless ambitions through a satellite-to-phone partnership with T-Mobile and separate talks over broader mobile infrastructure.
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Meta’s plan to lease surplus data center capacity sent AI compute stocks lower worldwide, while its own shares climbed nearly 9%.
Key Points:
Meta is building Meta Compute, a business that will rent idle data center capacity to outside clients.
Chipmakers and GPU cloud providers sold off after investors read the plan as a warning on AI compute supply.
The pressure spread from Wall Street to Asia, where major memory stocks fell sharply.
Meta Compute
Meta’s proposed business, called Meta Compute, would lease unused computing capacity from its data centers to outside customers.
The plan mirrors a model used by SpaceX, which has rented spare capacity to companies including Anthropic. Meta’s shares moved above $600 after the announcement, reversing the pressure seen across much of the AI hardware trade.
The market reaction was sharp because investors had treated AI compute as scarce for years. Meta’s move suggested that at least some major buyers may now have more capacity than they need, which changed the way traders viewed chip demand.
Nvidia fell only 1.25%, a limited decline compared with the broader selloff. Micron dropped more than 10% on July 1, while SanDisk, Intel and AMD each lost between 6.9% and 10.6%.
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AI Stocks
The damage was deeper among neocloud firms that rent graphics processing unit capacity to AI developers.
CoreWeave fell 14%, while Nebius lost 17%, as investors weighed the risk that Meta could undercut providers that sell similar access to developers. Meta has bought comparable cloud services before, but its new plan puts it in competition with some of its own vendors.
The split across Big Tech was clear. Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Tesla closed higher, as some strategists linked the move to a rotation away from pure AI hardware plays and toward companies seen as better positioned in the next spending phase.
The selloff then moved into Asia. Samsung and SK Hynix fell more than 7% and 9%, respectively, in early trading, while the KOSPI triggered another trading halt.
The reaction followed a familiar pattern from earlier this year, when weakness in U.S. Big Tech spilled into Asian chipmakers. This time, the trigger was more specific: a single announcement that challenged the assumption that AI compute supply would remain tight.
For much of the AI boom, investors rewarded companies tied to chips, memory and GPU rentals because demand appeared to exceed available capacity. Meta Compute pushed the market to reconsider that view, at least for companies most exposed to hardware pricing.
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Open USD is not being viewed by market experts as just another dollar-backed stablecoin.
The larger threat, they say, is that OUSD gives major payment firms, exchanges, custodians and asset managers a direct economic reason to distribute it.
Open Standard, a consortium backed by more than 140 companies, has launched the Open USD stablecoin, or OUSD, with a model built around zero-fee minting and redemption, partner-led governance and shared reserve economics.
The project is expected to go live later this year and has drawn support from names across traditional finance and crypto, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase, BlackRock, BNY and Ripple.
The structure is already being read as a challenge to the stablecoin market’s existing power centers, particularly Circle’s (USDC). The key difference is not only the roster of backers, but how the economics are arranged. Rather than allowing one issuer to retain most of the income generated from reserves, OUSD is designed to distribute most of those earnings to participating companies after a small management fee.
That design could change how stablecoins compete.
Alex Witt, general partner at Verda Ventures, said the project’s main advantage is distribution. In his view, OUSD is entering the market with a built-in network of companies that already move money, onboard users and serve institutional clients.
“Distribution is king and value will accrue to built-in distribution networks,” Witt said in a note to Yellow.com. “OUSD can leverage the distribution of 140 partners, including Mastercard, Stripe, and Coinbase.”
Witt argued that this puts pressure on Circle because USDC does not fully control all of its own distribution channels. He pointed to Circle’s reserve-sharing arrangements with large partners as evidence that the company already has to share economics to maintain reach.
“Thus, we view that OUSD could dramatically erode Circle’s first-mover advantage,” Witt said.
Shared Reserve Income Changes The Stablecoin Fight
Bernardo Brites, CEO and co-founder of Trace Finance, described the launch as a structural shift in how stablecoin networks are built. He said OUSD brings together companies that often compete with each other across payments, custody, exchanges, asset management and banking.
“The launch of Open USD is a real structural break from how stablecoins have competed,” Brites said.
The mechanics, he argued, matter as much as the partner list. OUSD charges no minting or redemption fees at scale, allocates most reserve earnings to partner companies and uses a board structure without a single controlling issuer. That gives partners a direct reason to help grow the network.
Brites said the reserve-sharing model turns what was traditionally an issuer’s private profit pool into a shared incentive system for distribution partners. That is the core challenge to Circle and Tether, whose business models have relied heavily on the economics of reserve income.
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Markets appeared to notice that threat quickly. Circle shares fell after the OUSD announcement, as investors weighed the risk that a broad consortium could compete directly with USDC’s institutional adoption strategy.
Brites said the overlap between OUSD’s backers and Circle’s existing ecosystem adds to the pressure. Some of the same institutions that have supported USDC infrastructure are now backing a rival stablecoin with a different economic model.
For card networks, he said, the move also looks like a hedge. Visa and Mastercard do not need to own a stablecoin issuer outright to participate in reserve economics if they can gain exposure through a consortium model.
Execution Risk Remains High
Despite the strong launch roster, experts warned that OUSD still has to prove it can build actual liquidity.
Brites said the project begins with no established market depth, no major trading pairs and a complex governance structure that will require coordination across a large number of stakeholders. The low-fee model could also limit how much capital OUSD can spend on incentives compared with incumbents that retain more economics.
The existing stablecoin market is still dominated by Tether’s (USDT) and Circle’s USDC. That lead will not disappear quickly, even with a large consortium behind OUSD.
Still, Brites said the scale of the partnership makes the project more significant than earlier consortium models. Bringing together card networks, processors, banks, exchanges and asset managers behind one stablecoin is unusual, and potentially important for enterprise adoption.
“Distribution has always been the hardest problem in stablecoins, and OUSD is launching with more of it than any issuer before,” he said.
Traditional Finance Moves Deeper Into Stablecoins
Kyle Sonlin, president and co-founder of Global Settlement Network, said the OUSD announcement shows how far the digital asset industry has moved into mainstream finance.
Rather than being driven only by crypto-native firms, the new stablecoin initiative includes legacy financial institutions, global payment companies and digital asset businesses. Sonlin said that mix reflects a broader shift in how large institutions now view stablecoins.
“In my opinion, this announcement reflects how much the industry has matured over the past few years,” Sonlin said.
He said trust, interoperability and seamless value movement across institutions will become increasingly important as businesses adopt tokenized payment rails at scale.
Sonlin also pointed to the speed of the change. Discussions that once happened mainly at crypto conferences are now taking place inside major banks, payment firms and financial institutions.
“That is a huge shift in a relatively short period of time,” he said.
Open Standard’s launch comes as stablecoins are moving from crypto trading infrastructure toward broader payment and settlement use cases. The OUSD model attempts to solve one of the sector’s largest commercial questions: how to give the companies that distribute stablecoins a direct share of the economic upside.
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Changpeng Zhao believes Bitcoin (BTC) could reach $1 million by 2033 as global ownership of the asset stays below 1%.
Key Points
Changpeng Zhao says Bitcoin reaching $1 million by 2033 is realistic given low global ownership.
Bitcoin spot ETFs posted a ninth straight day of net outflows on Jun. 30, capping a record monthly withdrawal.
Bitcoin trades near multi-month lows after breaking below a key long-term moving average.
Zhao's Bitcoin Case
Zhao, the Binance founder, told an interviewer this week that fewer than one percent of the world's population currently owns Bitcoin. He said that scarcity leaves substantial room for new demand as adoption widens across coming market cycles, particularly among institutions.
He estimated Bitcoin could climb toward $600,000 if the next major cycle repeats an earlier fivefold gain. A further cycle, he said, would only need to double that figure to push the price past $1 million. Zhao called the milestone "totally possible," while acknowledging he could not pinpoint an exact timeline.
Zhao framed the case as adoption-driven rather than a product of short-term speculation, echoing a similar bullish call he made in January. He told U.S. media then that Bitcoin could enter a "supercycle" this year that might break its historical four-year pattern.
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Institutional Caution Grows
Zhao's bullish long-term outlook lands against a far more cautious institutional backdrop right now. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $222.6 million on Jun. 30 alone, a ninth consecutive session of net withdrawals. BlackRock's IBIT fund accounted for the bulk of that daily total.
June's combined withdrawals reached $4.5 billion, the worst month for the funds since their January 2024 launch, topping the previous monthly record by roughly 29%. Total net assets held across the ETFs stood near $70.95 billion by month's end.
Wincent's Paul Howard said the pressure reflects a broader macro rotation rather than a deterioration in Bitcoin's long-term fundamentals. Analysts also flagged heavy rotation into SpaceX's record initial public offering as a factor pulling fresh capital away from crypto markets this quarter. Cumulative inflows into Bitcoin ETFs since their debut, however, remain positive at more than $51 billion.
Bitcoin's Rough June
Bitcoin has fallen sharply over the past month, sliding from roughly $74,000 in early June to near $58,600 by month's end. The token is down about 20% over the past 30 days and roughly 45% over the past year, a stretch marked by heavy volatility.
The decline pushed Bitcoin below its 200-week moving average for the first time since 2023, a threshold traders often watch as a marker of deep cycle lows. Support near $58,000 has held through the recent selloff, even as prices drifted further from earlier 2026 highs. A confirmed break below that zone could open the way toward $50,000, a level last tested in 2024.
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President Donald Trump said US-Iran talks in Qatar were making progress, sending oil lower and lifting market bets on a longer ceasefire.
Key Points:
Trump said Iran’s denuclearization was “moving along well” after meetings tied to talks in Qatar.
WTI crude fell below $70 as traders priced in lower risk around the Strait of Hormuz.
Polymarket odds put the chance of extending the 60-day negotiation period at 62%.
Trump Iran Talks
Trump said Wednesday that relations with Iran had improved and that recent meetings in Qatar had gone well. “The denuclearization of Iran is moving along well,” he told reporters, adding, “They’ve had very good meetings, and we’ll see.”
The talks are centered on the next stage of a fragile diplomatic process after the US and Iran entered a 60-day window for negotiations. The discussions include efforts to preserve a ceasefire and address shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil route.
US representative Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff were in Qatar for meetings with regional officials, while Qatar and Pakistan acted as mediators. Iran and Oman had also formed a joint committee to discuss Hormuz and ceasefire issues.
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Polymarket Ceasefire
Markets reacted quickly to the diplomatic signals. WTI crude dropped more than 2% and closed below $70, easing from levels reached during the latest US-Iran tensions.
Gold also drew attention after adding more than $74 billion in market value in a single day. Crypto moved higher as altcoins led gains, though analysts warned that negotiations still carried headline risk.
Polymarket priced the chance of extending the US-Iran 60-day negotiation period at 62%. That figure showed traders leaning toward a longer diplomatic process, but it did not make a deal certain. Trump’s “we’ll see” comment captured the market’s caution. If the Qatar talks produce a concrete agreement, the repricing could continue, but a failed round or expired deadline could quickly reverse the move.
The Strait of Hormuz remains central to the talks because it is one of the world’s most important energy chokepoints. Recent tensions around the waterway pushed oil risk higher, so any credible sign of de-escalation can move crude prices fast.
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OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing toward stock listings that could add roughly $200 billion to Wall Street, chasing SpaceX's record initial public offering.
Key Points:
SpaceX's June IPO raised $75 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation, the largest public offering in U.S. history.
Anthropic has confidentially filed for an IPO targeting about $30 billion at a $965 billion valuation, with OpenAI expected to follow above $1 trillion.
Analysts say the combined $200 billion in new share supply could pressure AI stocks without triggering a market-wide crash.
OpenAI, Anthropic Chase SpaceX
SpaceX completed the largest initial public offering in U.S. history in June, raising $75 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation, edging out Saudi Aramco's 2019 debut by roughly $70 billion.
Demand reportedly topped $250 billion, more than three times the shares on offer.
Anthropic, the maker of Claude, has since confidentially filed for its own offering, targeting roughly $30 billion at a $965 billion valuation, following a $65 billion funding round that pushed annualized revenue near $47 billion.
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OpenAI is expected to follow at a valuation above $1 trillion, though it has weighed pushing its own listing into 2027 after SpaceX's volatile post-debut trading rattled bankers. Its shares briefly topped $225 before sliding back toward $150.
Wall Street Weighs The Risk
Financial strategist Ed Yardeni called the combined strain on available capital "manageable," noting the three offerings represent roughly 0.4 percent of investable equity markets against $8 trillion sitting in money-market funds. Commentator Mark Hulbert cited research showing every dollar pulled from equities can shrink total market value by five dollars, implying a trillion-dollar hit if all three companies list within a year, though he stopped short of forecasting a crash. Not everyone agrees the math holds up.
Separate research on past IPO waves has linked heavy new-issue volume to softer stock returns over the following year, a pattern some analysts see repeating now.
Both companies are structured to qualify for fast-track inclusion in major stock indexes once they list, a status SpaceX secured within roughly two weeks of its own debut under a rule change adopted this spring. That forces index funds to buy in fast, regardless of valuation.
Fund managers funding new allocations typically sell existing holdings rather than raise fresh cash, and AI infrastructure stocks already absorbed some of that pressure in June. The Nasdaq slid more than four percent in a single session that month, its worst day in over a year, as investors trimmed chip and cloud stocks ahead of SpaceX's pricing. Crypto markets felt the same pull, and Bitcoin (BTC) tumbled as spot funds posted billions in monthly outflows.
SpaceX shares have swung wildly since their mid-June debut, spiking above $225 before slipping back toward $150 as broader tech shares wobbled through the summer. That volatility is now the benchmark both rivals will study closely before setting their own terms.
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Bittensor TAO (TAO) is trading near $200 as institutional access grows, while its chart still points to short-term risk.
Key Points:
Bittensor has built custody, fund administration and staking access at a pace analysts compare with early crypto leaders.
TAO remains below its 100-day simple moving average, with $196 as first support.
A break below that zone could shift attention toward $180 and $150, despite stronger institutional infrastructure.
TAO Infrastructure
AI market commentator aixbt said Bittensor has built much of the infrastructure needed for institutional adoption in about two years.
The comparison is notable because Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) needed roughly four to five years to reach a similar stage, according to the analyst.
BitGo now offers segregated custody for TAO, while Coinbase Custody and BNY Mellon support custody and fund administration. Grayscale also moved quickly, filing an S-1 for its TAO trust six months after launch, compared with about 17 months for its Ethereum trust.
Asset manager interest has widened as well. Bitwise filed for a TAO Strategy ETF in Apr. 2026, and FalconX, which has more than $1B in digital assets under custody, now supports subnet-level staking for Bittensor.
About 67% of circulating TAO supply is locked in staking after the protocol halving cut emissions to about 3,600 TAO per day. That reduces tokens available for trading on exchanges.
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TAO Price
The price signal is weaker than the adoption story. TAO recently traded near $202, about 73% below its late-2025 high near $600, and it remains below a falling 100-day simple moving average around $263.50.
The daily chart still shows lower highs and lower lows, which means sellers have not lost control. The RSI stood near 34.50, close to oversold territory, though higher RSI lows alongside lower price lows suggest bullish divergence.
The first level for buyers is $196, matching the prior daily low. If that area holds, TAO could attempt a move toward $220 before traders test the 100-day average near $263.50. A failed defense would leave $180 and $150 as the next downside areas. CoinCodex projected a one-month move to $150.85, which would align with a breakdown below $196 and another failed recovery attempt.
TAO’s recent history explains why the market remains cautious. The token has fallen through 2026 after peaking near $600 in late 2025, and each rebound has stalled below the last major high.
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Anthropic's Claude Code secretly embedded hidden markers to flag users linked to 147 Chinese domains and AI labs, developers disclosed this week.
Key Points
Claude Code encoded proxy and timezone details into invisible Unicode markers hidden in system prompts, developers found
The mechanism checked configurations against 147 Chinese domains and eleven AI lab keywords before altering a date line in the prompt
Anthropic said the code will be pulled in Claude Code's next release after developers and researchers raised alarm
Hidden Prompt Markers
A developer reverse engineering Claude Code version 2.1.196 while restoring a disabled remote control feature found obfuscated code silently present since April.
The findings surfaced on Reddit on Jun. 30 under a screen name and were confirmed in a technical writeup posted on GitHub.
Analysts examined three separate Claude Code releases and found the mechanism worked identically in each one, with no mention of it in any release notes despite months of updates. It only activates when a user points Claude Code at a custom server address instead of Anthropic's own. Once triggered, the tool reads the system's timezone and checks whether it matches two cities linked to mainland China.
The proxy address is then compared against a hidden domain list of 147 entries, obfuscated to avoid turning up in a plain text search and including Baidu, Alibaba, Ant Group and ByteDance, plus eleven keywords tied to Chinese AI labs. Results get folded into the ordinary looking sentence "Today's date is...", where a hyphen switches to a slash for a Chinese timezone and a standard apostrophe swaps for one of three near identical characters.
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Developer Trust Fallout
Developers reacted with alarm once the mechanism became public, arguing that a tool with access to source code and shell commands owes users a higher standard of disclosure than a chat window. A bug report filed against the project's code repository called the practice covert fingerprinting and asked what other signals might be hidden from users. Commenters noted the check could be defeated simply by changing a hostname or system clock.
That means it mostly tags ordinary developers using legitimate corporate proxies rather than the sophisticated operators it was built to catch. Anthropic has previously accused Chinese labs including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax of using more than 24,000 fraudulent accounts and over 16 million exchanges to copy Claude's reasoning and coding behavior earlier this year.
An Anthropic engineer acknowledged the code on social media and said it would be pulled in the following day's release, though the company had not issued a formal written statement. The episode adds to a string of security questions around Claude Code this year.
Researchers at Microsoft disclosed a prompt injection flaw in its GitHub integration in June, Check Point flagged three separate vulnerabilities in February, and Anthropic's own source code briefly leaked in April.
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TRON (TRX) set fresh network records, but bearish positioning on Binance kept traders cautious about a stronger TRX recovery.
Key Points:
TRON daily active accounts rose to 26.97 million, while transactions reached 385.77 million.
Binance top traders still favored shorts, with 60.23% of positions bearish.
TRX held support near $0.314, but weak technical signals kept recovery risk high.
TRON Activity
TRON’s latest on-chain data showed daily active accounts rising to 26.97 million, while daily transactions climbed to 385.77 million. The figures marked fresh all-time highs for both measures.
The increase pointed to sustained use rather than a short-lived burst of activity. Higher throughput also suggested that decentralized applications and stablecoin transfers continued to draw users across the network.
The move stood out because active accounts and transaction volume reached record levels together. That combination signaled broader ecosystem growth, not just a single pocket of demand.
Market reaction remained limited despite the stronger blockchain data. Traders continued to treat TRX defensively, showing that network growth alone had not restored confidence in the token’s near-term recovery.
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TRX Pressure
CoinGlass data showed Binance top traders still leaned bearish on TRX. The long-short ratio stood at 0.66, with 39.77% of positions long and 60.23% short.
That split showed professional traders had not moved in line with TRON’s stronger on-chain metrics. Still, the ratio stayed above the month’s weakest readings, which suggested bearish conviction had eased from earlier sessions.
TRX traded near support around $0.314, while immediate resistance sat close to $0.332. A stronger resistance level remained near $0.376, after price had rejected that area and moved back toward support.
Technical indicators also favored caution. The Relative Strength Index fell to 38.70, below the neutral 50 level, while the Parabolic SAR printed dots above price and showed sellers still controlled short-term momentum.
The main test is whether buyers can keep defending the lower support zone. If they do, TRX could make another attempt at $0.332, though a move toward higher resistance would likely require weaker short positioning. TRX’s recent pattern explains why traders remain cautious even as network use improves. The token rejected the higher resistance area, lost buying pressure and returned to support, leaving the recovery dependent on both price defense and sentiment.
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Europe's new crypto rulebook (MiCa) took full effect Wednesday, leaving just 244 of more than 3,000 previously registered firms authorized to keep serving European Union clients.
Key Points
Just 244 of the more than 3,000 firms once registered under national rules have secured authorization under Europe's new Markets in Crypto-Assets framework.
Binance enters the regime unlicensed after withdrawing its Greek application in June, though the exchange says it intends to reapply.
Executives are split on what comes next, from market consolidation to unresolved questions over stablecoin oversight.
MiCA Deadline Arrives
The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, known as MiCA, closed its final transition window this week, ending 18 months of overlapping national licensing rules across the European Union.
Just a fraction of the roughly 3,000 firms that once operated under those old regimes have secured full authorization, according to the European Securities and Markets Authority's interim register. Germany led the continent with 57 approvals, followed by France and the Netherlands with 26 each, while Greece, Hungary and Poland had none.
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, entered the deadline without a license after withdrawing its Greek application in June. Founder Changpeng Zhao said the filing was fully compliant and near approval before unspecified political forces intervened, calling the outcome a loss for both Binance and Europe.
The exchange says it plans to reapply in another member state.
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Executives React
Kraken's head of policy for EMEA, Beata Sivak, said authorization means a regulator has reviewed how a firm is run and how it safeguards client assets, holding it to EU conduct rules. Coinbase, OKX and Crypto.com also secured licenses and remain free to operate across the bloc. Field Digital chief executive Joe Buttram predicted fragmentation as capital, users and trading activity shift toward compliant platforms.
Not everyone views the shakeout the same way.
Ari10 chief executive Mateusz Kara argued the bloc has favored Western nations, noting Poland has roughly 2,000 unlicensed crypto entities and only his firm holds a license. Parfin chief executive Marcos Viriato expects a wave of mergers as companies that missed the deadline for timing reasons rather than poor business practices look for buyers.
Ripple, issuer of the RLUSD (rlusd) stablecoin, said the treatment of multi-jurisdictional stablecoin issuance remains unclear in practice, leaving some European businesses at a disadvantage relative to firms operating in other jurisdictions.
The European Commission opened a review of the framework in May to determine whether amendments are needed. Users of unlicensed platforms are expected to migrate funds toward authorized exchanges or move assets into self-custody.
MiCA has advanced in stages since entering into force in 2023, with stablecoin rules taking hold in mid-2024 and full licensing requirements for exchanges arriving that December. The rules replaced a patchwork of national regimes that had governed crypto firms differently across each of the bloc's 27 countries for years.
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Bitcoin (BTC) may still deliver a parabolic rally, but CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju says the next move needs deeper institutional capital.
Key Points:
Ju said Bitcoin’s next major bull cycle likely requires trillions in net inflows.
CryptoQuant data shows each new cycle has needed more capital to move prices.
Treasury firms and ETFs have expanded access, but Bitcoin still trades below $60,000.
Bitcoin Capital
Ki Young Ju said Bitcoin can still see a seismic price surge, but only if institutional allocation grows enough to absorb trillions in new capital.
The CryptoQuant founder made the argument in a post on X, where he said Bitcoin’s capital efficiency has weakened as the asset has matured.
In earlier cycles, smaller inflows produced extreme gains. Ju said $2.7 billion in net inflows helped drive a 55,436% Bitcoin surge in 2011, while $68 billion supported a 10,000% rally from 2015 to 2017.
The pattern has changed. From 2018 to 2021, about $364 billion in inflows coincided with a roughly 2,000% gain, while nearly $700 billion since 2022 has produced a 689% increase.
Ju said Bitcoin must become a core macro asset and absorb more than $1 trillion in realized capitalization before a larger rally can take hold.
“The next parabolic bull cycle will likely require trillions in net capital inflows, which means institutional adoption needs to truly take off,” Ju wrote on X.
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Institutional Bitcoin
Institutional exposure has reached record levels, but the market has not responded as it did in earlier cycles.
Bitcoin trades below $60,000, down 53% from its October 2025 record high of $126,198. In early June, a CryptoQuant analyst said the asset could bottom near $53,000 before attempting a recovery.
Public companies now hold more than 1.2 million BTC, according to Bitcoin Treasuries data cited in the report. That represents more than 5% of the total supply.
The buying has followed the Strategy model, with firms such as Metaplanet, Twenty One Capital and Strive adding Bitcoin to their balance sheets.
Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have also pulled traditional investors into the market, with assets under management above $100 billion.
The debate follows Bitcoin’s sharp reversal from late 2025, when the asset set its record high in October before sliding below $60,000. That drop explains why Ju’s capital argument matters now: institutions are present, but not yet large enough to overpower selling pressure.
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Circle’s MiCA approval has turned Europe’s stablecoin deadline into a market opening as licensed exchanges remove Tether USDT (USDT).
Key Points:
Circle enters MiCA’s full phase with USDC and EURC cleared for regulated European venues.
Tether did not seek the e-money-token authorization required under MiCA.
The next test is whether EU trading volume moves from USDT to USDC in size.
Circle USDC
Circle entered Jul. 1 with a clear advantage as the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation reached its final deadline and licensed exchanges began removing USDT from their platforms.
The divide reflects two different regulatory bets. One issuer spent years preparing for MiCA, while the other decided Europe was not worth the compliance cost.
Circle secured MiCA compliance for USD Coin (USDC) and EURC (EURC), making it the only issuer among the top 10 stablecoins by market value to clear that standard.
Tether did not apply for the e-money-token authorization MiCA requires, leaving its roughly $185 billion USDT outside licensed European exchanges. Paolo Ardoino, Tether’s CEO, has argued that MiCA’s rule requiring 60% of e-money token reserves to sit in European bank deposits creates risk of its own.
Rather than change its reserve structure for Europe, Tether has focused on markets outside the bloc.
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Stablecoin Market
Circle’s timing also improved outside Europe. BNY, the Bank of New York Mellon, confirmed one day before the deadline that USDC became the first stablecoin on its Digital Asset Custody platform, where institutional clients can store, transfer, mint and burn the token.
The broader MiCA transition shows how narrow the new market has become. About 1,200 virtual-asset firms held pre-MiCA national registrations across the EU, but only around 210 moved to full CASP authorization, a conversion rate near 17%.
For Circle, the business question now matters more than the legal milestone. Regulated venues can no longer rely on USDT liquidity, and Circle is positioned to capture flows that need a compliant dollar stablecoin.
Stablecoin liquidity in Europe had long depended on USDT because traders used it as the default bridge between crypto assets and dollars. The next few weeks will show whether that habit survives MiCA, or whether volume shifts toward USDC in regulated markets.
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Bitcoin (BTC) spot ETFs posted $4.5 billion in net outflows in June, the worst month since the U.S. funds began trading in January 2024.
Key Points:
U.S.-listed Bitcoin spot ETFs lost $4.5 billion in June, breaking the prior monthly outflow record set in February 2025.
BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for nearly 79% of the withdrawals as Bitcoin fell 20.48% during the month.
XRP and Hyperliquid ETFs still drew inflows, showing rotation inside crypto rather than a full exit from the sector.
Bitcoin ETFs
U.S.-listed Bitcoin exchange-traded funds suffered their heaviest month on record in June 2026, with net redemptions reaching $4.5 billion, according to the figures cited in the report.
The total surpassed the previous monthly outflow record of $3.56 billion, which was set in February 2025 during another period of market stress.
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, known as IBIT, drove most of the retreat. The fund lost $3.55 billion during June, close to 79% of all Bitcoin ETF redemptions for the month.
That single-fund withdrawal nearly matched the prior categorywide monthly record by itself, underscoring how concentrated the pullback became among institutional Bitcoin products. The selling coincided with a sharp market decline. Bitcoin fell 20.48% in June, its steepest monthly drop since June 2022, when the asset lost 37.28% during that cycle’s broader collapse.
Bitcoin also closed four of the first six months of 2026 in negative territory. June was the deepest decline of the year, making ETF flows a direct measure of how investors cut exposure as price pressure intensified.
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Crypto Rotation
The weakness spread beyond Bitcoin, but it did not hit every crypto ETF category with the same force. Ethereum (ETH) ETFs recorded $528.99 million in June outflows, according to SoSoValue data cited in the report.
Solana (SOL) ETFs posted about $786,580 in net redemptions. The amount was small, but it marked Solana ETFs’ first monthly outflow since launch.
Other funds moved in the opposite direction. XRP (XRP) ETFs drew $59.46 million in June inflows, while Hyperliquid (HYPE) ETFs led the group with $161.05 million in new money.
The split suggests investors did not leave crypto ETFs altogether. Instead, some capital moved away from the largest incumbents and toward newer altcoin products, even as Bitcoin and Ethereum absorbed sustained redemptions.
That rotation could remain fragile. If Bitcoin rebounds in July, flows may shift back toward the dominant ETF category, because Bitcoin still anchors institutional crypto allocation and often sets the risk tone for the wider market.
The June numbers also fit a longer pattern in ETF trading. Bitcoin products can amplify market stress when price declines and redemptions arrive together, just as inflows can strengthen rallies when investors rebuild exposure after a drawdown.
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Wedbush initiated coverage of SpaceX with an Outperform rating and a $190 price target, calling the company more of an artificial intelligence infrastructure play than a space business.
Key Points
Wedbush rates SpaceX Outperform with a $190 target, about 11% above Tuesday's close of $170.86.
Analyst Dan Ives says SpaceX's AI compute unit could turn it into a leading hyperscaler.
Wedbush's sum-of-the-parts model implies roughly $2.48 trillion in enterprise value, led by Starlink.
Wedbush Backs SpaceX
Wedbush initiated the coverage on Tuesday, setting a $190 price target that implies roughly 11% upside from SpaceX's closing price of $170.86. The firm built its number on a sum-of-the-parts model that leans heavily on future AI compute demand rather than current launch or satellite revenue alone, using 2028 estimates to arrive at the figure.
Dan Ives, Wedbush's Global Head of Tech Research, made the case on CNBC's Fast Money. He argued that SpaceX's AI compute business could eventually rank among the market's top long-term hyperscaler bets, even as the stock climbed more than 4% that session and extended its gains after hours.
Ives conceded the stock looks expensive against current revenue. He said execution over the next two to three years could still make it one of the market's strongest AI plays, citing supply chain checks in Taiwan and Korea showing chip demand outstripping supply by roughly twelve to one.
That optimism, he added, should eventually spread into software names tied to the broader AI buildout, with memory chips described as foundational to the trend.
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Starlink Anchors Valuation
The debate over SpaceX's price tag runs wider than one analyst note. Evercore's Roger Altman has warned that traditional valuation models struggle with SpaceX and IPO-bound Anthropic because of their scale, AI exposure and uncertain long-term cash flows. Elon Musk responded publicly this week, saying short-term economic setbacks are inevitable but that AI and robotics would drive powerful long-term growth for the company.
Starlink remains the real engine. Wedbush's sum-of-the-parts model yields roughly $2.48 trillion in implied enterprise value, with Starlink's subscriber base and expanding margins carrying much of that weight. Launch operations and the newer AI unit contribute far smaller slices of the total.
The satellite broadband unit counts about 12 million subscribers and generates roughly $66 in average revenue per user, producing close to $19.3 billion in trailing revenue with a gross margin near 49%. That business alone could carry a large share of SpaceX's valuation even without the AI upside Wedbush is betting on.
Shares have swung sharply since the company's Jun. 12 debut, testing key support levels before a recent bond sale stirred fresh concerns about a valuation bubble among some investors.
SpaceX also priced new unsecured notes this year and drew a BBB-range credit rating from Fitch and S&P as it works to repay an earlier bridge loan.
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The Trump administration lifted export controls on Anthropic's two most advanced AI models Tuesday, clearing the way for global access to return this week.
Key Points
The Commerce Department withdrew restrictions on Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5 roughly two and a half weeks after imposing them.
Anthropic said Fable 5 will roll out globally starting Wednesday with a new safeguard designed to block jailbreak attempts.
The reversal follows warnings that the restrictions were giving Chinese AI developers extra time to close the gap.
Commerce Department Reverses Restrictions
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Bureau of Industry and Security withdrew the controls it imposed on Jun. 12, ending a standoff that lasted just over two weeks. The agency's review of diversion risks tied to Mythos 5 and Fable 5 no longer justified a license requirement, he confirmed in a post on X.
Anthropic will begin restoring global access to Fable 5 on Wednesday. Mythos 5 has already returned for select U.S. organizations that received approval on Jun. 26.
The company called the resolution a relief after weeks of uncertainty.
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Officials And Experts React
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles wrote on X that the government and industry had cooperated in an unusually close way over the past two weeks. OpenAI, Anthropic's closest rival, faced a similar request from officials last week, when it limited the rollout of its new GPT-5.6 models to trusted partners.
Industry groups had criticized the original restrictions as overly broad.
Tech executives and investors had grown concerned that the controls were handing Chinese open-source developers extra time to close the capability gap, since Beijing's models are advancing quickly and cost far less to run. The government's approach to regulating frontier AI before release remains unsettled, creating what analysts describe as an ad hoc environment for developers.
The standoff began Jun. 12, when Commerce ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign nationals, including its own non-citizen employees, from the new models over national security concerns. Anthropic disabled both models for all users to ensure compliance, then negotiated with officials in Washington for over two weeks. A partial fix arrived Jun. 26, when Mythos 5 access returned for more than 100 approved U.S. organizations, before Tuesday's broader reversal cleared the way for Fable 5's return.
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President Donald Trump reported earning more than $1.2 billion from crypto ventures in 2025, disclosing over $50 million in Bitcoin (BTC) holdings in a Tuesday filing.
Key Points:
Trump's 2025 financial disclosure lists more than $1.2 billion in total crypto income, led by his TRUMP meme coin and World Liberty Financial token sales.
The president holds over $50 million in Bitcoin and up to $25 million in Ether, according to the 900-plus page filing.
The disclosure lands as Senate Democrats hold up the Clarity Act over ethics language tied to Trump's crypto business.
Disclosure Reveals Crypto Windfall
The U.S. Office of Government Ethics released Trump's annual disclosure Tuesday, and crypto payouts ranked among its largest line items. Covering the first year of his second term, the 927-page report detailed income from hotels, golf resorts and digital-asset ventures alike.
Trump's TRUMP meme coin generated $635 million in royalties, tied almost entirely to a licensing deal with a group called Celebration Coins. The token launched on the Solana (SOL) network days before Trump returned to office in January 2025, and it briefly touched a multibillion-dollar market cap before fading.
World Liberty Financial, a decentralized finance venture co-founded by Trump family members, added another $588 million from token sales, the filing showed. Trump also disclosed holding between $5 million and $25 million in Ether (ETH), on top of his Bitcoin stake.
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Anna Kelly Defends Trump
White House spokesperson Anna Kelly dismissed conflict-of-interest concerns tied to the filing. She argued the administration's crypto policies are meant to boost U.S. innovation, not personal gain, and called criticism of Trump's business ties a recycled political narrative.
Ethics experts and watchdog groups see it differently. They contend a president whose wealth is tied to crypto has an incentive to favor policies that benefit his own ventures, a concern that has stalled the Clarity Act, a market-structure bill still awaiting a Senate floor vote.
Senate Democrats say they won't back that bill without enforceable guardrails on officials' crypto holdings. Republicans counter that ethics limits should apply uniformly rather than target one administration.
The TRUMP token's own trajectory captures the swings behind the disclosure. It rocketed to a multibillion-dollar valuation within hours of its January 2025 debut, then slid for months and now trades near $1.66, a market cap of roughly $394 million, about 98% below its all-time high.
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