Strategy Sells AGAIN & Europe's Crypto Crackdown Begins! x.com/i/broadcasts/1qKDzznOZ…

🚨BREAKING: TRUMP RINGS OPENING BELL FOR "TRUMP ACCOUNT" LAUNCH President Donald Trump joined the NYSE and Nasdaq in ringing the opening bell from the White House Oval Office for the first time ever, per CNBC. The event marks the launch of Trump Accounts, the administration’s new tax-advantaged investment accounts for U.S. children.

🚨CRYPTO LOSSES DOWN 47%, BUT KEEP GUARDS UP Crypto losses fell 46.8% YoY to $1.32B in H1 2026, but CertiK warned the drop is misleading. Q2 losses still jumped 59% QoQ to $807.5M, driven by wallet compromises and major KelpDAO and Drift Protocol exploits. CertiK said attackers are becoming more sophisticated, with North Korean-linked hackers still one of crypto’s biggest threats.

🚨BREAKING: SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell says she and her husband will donate a share of their SpaceX stock to the Trump Accounts, per WSJ.

🚨BREAKING: Forbes report reveals the Trump family is still up $3.1B in crypto, even after cashing out $1.9B, while their supporters are down $7B.

🇷🇺RUSSIA’S LARGEST BANK TO ALLOW CRYPTO TRADING SOON Sberbank says it plans to add authorized crypto transactions after Russia’s new crypto law takes effect on September 1. The bank expects to build crypto trading infrastructure and launch a crypto wallet by December 1. Currently, Russia does not yet allow this kind of fully regulated retail crypto trading.

⚡UPDATE: Strategy has confirmed it sold 3,588 BTC for $216M to pay dividends on its Digital Credit securities. The sales happened in two parts: 1,363 BTC for $80.8M from June 29–30, and another 2,225 BTC for $135.2M from July 1–5. Strategy also reports an $8.32B loss on digital assets in Q2, including $8.31B in unrealized losses and $0.9M in realized losses.

🚨ALERT: BITCOIN FALLS 1%, SLIPS BELOW $62K $BTC dropped 1% within the hour after news surfaced that Michael Saylor's Strategy sold Bitcoin. The move erased Bitcoin’s green weekend gains and quickly flipped market momentum as defensive.

🚨BREAKING: Strategy may have sold 3,588 BTC, worth around $225.6M. The company’s website shows Bitcoin holdings have dropped to 843,775 BTC, after the company approved a plan allowing it to sell up to $1.25B in Bitcoin.

🔥TOM LEE: STOCKS COULD RISE IN JULY BEFORE TURNING BEARISH BY AUGUST Tom Lee says "July will be a stronger month for stocks" but warns of a “bear-market-like” selloff to hit between August and October.

🚨JUST IN: India orders Meta to remove Instagram ads promoting child sexual abuse after BBC found paid ads on the app. A BBC investigation found its test account in India was shown with sexual content despite not searching for it. After following 10 suggestive profiles, the account began receiving paid adult ads, and days later was shown ads promoting child sexual abuse. Meta denies knowingly targeting such ads and denies prioritising revenue over safety.

🇰🇷 SOUTH KOREA COULD FORCE DEBTORS TO SELL CRYPTO TO PAY UP The country's Supreme Court has proposed new rules for taking crypto from debtors and using it to repay creditors. The rules would allow courts to freeze, seize, and sell them in civil cases. South Korean prosecutors have already frozen around 246.8B won, or about $186M, in Terra-linked assets, including some tied to Do Kwon.

🚨BREAKING: Ripple has officially received an EU CASP license, making it fully MiCA-compliant across 30 EEA countries. Ripple now joins Coinbase, Kraken, and OKX among other major crypto firms cleared under Europe’s MiCA rules.

🔥SAYLOR FIRES BACK AT BUTERIN: BITCOIN DOESN’T NEED AN ETHEREUM-STYLE REBUILD Michael Saylor says Bitcoin will evolve by "changing less" at the protocol layer, just after Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum is entering its "biggest rebuild" since the Merge. Saylor’s thesis is that Bitcoin’s base layer should harden over time while wallets, apps, institutions and markets build around it. Meanwhile, Buterin says Ethereum’s new era could replace nearly every major part of the network for quantum resistance, privacy and scaling.

🚨HUGE: SPACEX’S NASDAQ-100 INCLUSION ON JULY 7 COULD TRIGGER $4.3B IN BUYING Nasdaq confirmed SpaceX will be added to the Nasdaq-100 before market open on July 7, one of the fastest entries after its IPO. Funds tracking the Nasdaq-100 may be forced to buy $SPCX, creating automatic demand that could boost the price. JPMorgan estimates the index inclusion could draw around $4.3B in passive buying.

JUST IN: $3.6T Goldman Sachs says the yen will crash to 165 per dollar in a year, making it one of Bloomberg’s most bearish calls. Goldman raised its 12-month forecast from 155 as the yen hits 162.8, its weakest level since 1986.

🚨NEW: SOUTH AFRICA UNVEILS NEW CRYPTO TAX FRAMEWORK South Africa's tax authority has released draft guidance clarifying how crypto assets will be taxed under existing tax laws. The proposal treats crypto as an intangible asset rather than currency, meaning activities such as trading, swapping, spending, and certain donations will trigger taxable events depending on the taxpayer's intent and circumstances.

🔥BULLISH: ROBINHOOD CEO EXPLAINS WHY CRYPTO IS THE FUTURE “I believe that the future of crypto is in real-world assets.” “If an asset is not tied to an underlying utility, it’s not a productive asset.” “Everything that is running on traditional rails will eventually become on-chain, tokenized.”

🚨 ETHEREUM'S ON-CHAIN YIELD PLUNGES 61% YEAR-OVER-YEAR TO 2.68% IN Q2 Ethereum's total on-chain yield fell to 2.68% in Q2, down 61% from a year ago, with 94% of that yield now coming from issuance rather than network activity. Ethereum's Real Economic Value (REV) rose 7% QoQ to $88.4 million but remains 68% BELOW year-ago levels, highlighting continued weakness in L1 fee generation despite improving network throughput.