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Top Stories

BTC $105,907 (-2.6%) | ETH $2,621 (-3.6%) | SOL $164 (-5.3%)

• FTX to distribute over $5B in stablecoins to creditors today

• Over $700M gets liquidated from leverage traders as crypto dumps across the board — Hyperliquid trader James Wynn gets liquidated for $100M

• The US and Binance agree to drop lawsuit — CZ trolls Gary Gensler

• The SEC says crypto staking transactions are not securities transactions — Hester Peirce says memecoins are “like collectibles”

• US Treasury Secretary says trade deals with China have stalled

• Coinbase adds perps trading for HYPE

• Open interest on Bitcoin options hits a new ATH

• Nigel Farage will introduce Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill in the UK

• ETH crosses 200 day moving average for first time since February

• Revolut to relaunch crypto services in the US

• Webus international announces non-equity financing to establish $300M XRP reserve

• Trump meets with Jerome Powell to discuss economy and inflation

• Kazakhstan announces launch of “CryptoCity” — Jupiter partners with Kazakhstan to allow companies to IPO with tokenized shares on Solana

• SBET is up over 2700% after launching its Ethereum treasury strategy

• Nansen launches season 1 of points

• Hyperscale Data looks to create XRP treasury with $10M initial purchase

• The SEC delays decision on Grayscale’s AVAX and ADA ETF filings

• Justin Sun gifts Ross Ulbricht $2.6M banana art

• Panamanian mayor announces that a Bitcoin strategic reserve is coming

• Claynosaurz’ Popkins mint goes live on SUI

• OpenSea 2.0 goes live as beta concludes

• The LOUD token announces “Initial Attention Offering” presale going live Saturday at Noon — LOUD crosses 70% mindshare on Kaito