The Weekly Grind (Jul 7–Jul 9): SEC's $75M Crypto Free Pass & $450M Liquidation Frenzy
SEC drops $75M crypto safe harbor; Trump triggers $450M in liquidations. Rust devs eye $300K in 2026 salaries.
SEC drops $75M crypto safe harbor; Trump triggers $450M in liquidations. Rust devs eye $300K in 2026 salaries.
Bitcoin dropped below $62K and $450 million in leveraged positions were liquidated after Trump declared the US-Iran ceasefire dead at the NATO summit, as US jets struck IRGC vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.
16 months after Trump signed an executive order creating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, two cabinet departments are locked in a turf war — and America hasn't added a single satoshi to its holdings.
Michael Saylor's Strategy dumped $216M in Bitcoin between June 29 and July 5, selling at $60K a coin against a $75K cost basis. The 'never sell' gospel just met preferred stock reality.
For the first time this cycle, more BTC supply is underwater than in profit. Glassnode data shows 10.83M coins held at a loss versus 9.22M in profit — a crossover that has marked every major bear market bottom in Bitcoin's history.
Strategy's new Digital Credit Capital Framework authorizes up to $1.25B in BTC sales to prop up its preferred stock and fund buybacks — a stunning reversal for the company that built its entire identity on never selling a single satoshi.
Strategy's mNAV just collapsed below 1.0 for the first time in its history. The company Michael Saylor built to be the purest Bitcoin play on earth is now trading at a discount to the Bitcoin it holds. Here's why the entire corporate treasury model is under pressure.
IBIT investors went from +30% to -40% in under a year. This week marked the second-worst ETF outflow since launch, with 7 straight days of redemptions and $7.2B drained in 2026 alone.
Crypto chaos: North Korea's $6.75B crypto heist, $580M liquidations, Binance's EU ban looms.
The US-Iran peace signing in Switzerland was supposed to be Bitcoin's green light. Then Israel bombed Lebanon again, Iran walked out, and $580M in crypto positions got wiped in hours.
CME Group CEO Terrence Duffy announced on CNBC that the $76B exchange will file suit against the CFTC on Thursday — the same agency that regulates it — over its approval of Kalshi's bitcoin perpetual futures contract.
SpaceX holds 18,712 Bitcoin; EU & Russia escalate crypto tensions. Japan's tax cut awakens a giant.
Trump declared the US-Iran peace deal 'complete' on June 14. Oil crashed 5%. Bitcoin ripped to $66K. Here's exactly how a Middle East ceasefire became crypto's biggest macro catalyst of 2026.
Asia's MicroStrategy paid $13M for a securities firm so it can sell Bitcoin yield products directly to 126 million Japanese savers — and the deal closes next month.
Michael Saylor coins the 'Mag8' after SpaceX's record IPO: two of the eight biggest tech giants on Earth hold Bitcoin on their balance sheets. Elon Musk controls both.
SPCX opened 30% above its $135 IPO price today, raising $75 billion in the biggest market debut ever. Hidden in the S-1: SpaceX holds more Bitcoin than Coinbase.
Crypto sees a $4.4B Bitcoin ETF exit while Arthur Hayes faces dumping accusations. Jobs in DeFi surge.
Bitcoin crashed to $59,100, broke its 200-week moving average for the first time since the FTX collapse, and printed an RSI of 16 — one of the most oversold readings in the asset's history. Here's what comes next.
A record 13-day, $4.4 billion outflow streak just flipped 2026 Bitcoin ETF cumulative flows negative for the first time in history. BlackRock's IBIT alone shed $3.3 billion. Here's what happened.
Bitcoin has shed 50% from its $126K ATH while AI stocks set records. $1.5B in longs got liquidated today. Strategy is $10B in the red. And the biggest Bitcoin bull on Earth is pointing at Nvidia.
Mt. Gox transferred 10,422 BTC to a new wallet today — its largest move in months — as the October 31 repayment deadline closes in and Bitcoin breaks below $70,000 for the first time since April.
Bitcoin ETFs saw $1.26B outflows as quantum hacking fears rise. CFTC's new perps rule stirs hope.
Strategy quietly offloaded 32 BTC last week — its first Bitcoin sale in nearly three years — sparking a 5% stock crash and a furious debate about whether the world's biggest corporate Bitcoin holder just blinked.
Security experts warn that nation-states are quietly harvesting encrypted institutional crypto data today — planning to decrypt it once quantum computers arrive. Bitcoin has no plan. Ethereum does. 6.9 million BTC hangs in the balance.
The CFTC approved the first regulated Bitcoin perpetual futures in U.S. history today — at Kalshi and through Coinbase's Deribit. Perps are a $90 trillion annual market that American traders couldn't legally touch. Until now.
U.S. airstrikes on Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz wiped out $958 million in leveraged crypto positions in a single day — 93% of them longs. Bitcoin fell to $72,912. Here's the full breakdown.
A single anonymous whale offloaded 29.2 million shares of BlackRock's IBIT in a dark pool, the largest institutional Bitcoin ETF trade on record. Bitcoin dropped just 1.5%. Here's what that tells us about the new market.
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs hemorrhaged $1.26 billion across six consecutive sessions—the worst outflow week since January—as the Fed's hawkish pivot spooked institutional holders.
Trump Media's Truth Social quietly withdrew all three of its spot crypto ETF filings from the SEC — the Bitcoin ETF, the BTC/ETH ETF, and the Crypto Blue Chip ETF — before a single share was ever sold. Here's why the market murdered them before launch.
Trump's new executive order directs the Federal Reserve to evaluate giving crypto firms direct access to Fedwire — the same payment rails that process trillions in bank transfers daily. Ripple, Anchorage, and Coinbase are next in line.
Bitcoin Depot, once the dominant force in Bitcoin ATMs with 9,000 machines across North America, filed Chapter 11 today and pulled the plug on its entire network. The era of the crypto ATM is ending — and regulators killed it.
A single Truth Social post warning Iran 'the clock is ticking' sent Bitcoin below $77K and triggered the biggest crypto liquidation event since February — wiping out leveraged longs in hours.
Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy's largest bank with ~$1 trillion in assets, more than doubled its crypto exposure from $100M to $235M in Q1 2026, added Ethereum and XRP for the first time, bought Bitcoin call options — and slashed its Solana position by 99%.
Bhutan's sovereign wealth fund CEO told CoinDesk he doesn't recall selling any BTC. Arkham Intelligence's on-chain data shows $1 billion in outflows since mid-2025. Someone is wrong — and the blockchain doesn't lie.
Kevin Warsh just replaced Jerome Powell as Fed Chair on May 15, 2026. He holds Solana, dYdX, Bitcoin Lightning equity, and a stablecoin stake. The most crypto-native person to ever run the Federal Reserve is now in charge of US monetary policy.
Senator Kennedy was the last holdout who could kill the CLARITY Act. Today he voted yes. The most comprehensive crypto market structure bill in US history just cleared the Senate Banking Committee and is headed to the Senate floor.
Trump boarded Air Force One to Beijing with Elon Musk, Larry Fink, Jensen Huang, and Tim Cook. Nearly 40% of the 16-CEO delegation has direct crypto exposure. Bitcoin is watching every minute of these talks.
Charles Schwab launched spot BTC and ETH trading for retail clients today — no new exchange account, no seed phrase, 0.75% flat fee. The largest non-bank brokerage in the US just went full crypto.
Bitcoin Core quietly patched its first-ever memory safety bug in late 2024, disguising the fix as a logging improvement. The vulnerability — now public — let miners remotely crash nodes running versions 0.14.0 through 28.x. Nearly half the network is still exposed.
CME Group is launching Bitcoin Volatility futures (BVI) on June 1, giving institutional traders the first CFTC-regulated way to bet on how wild Bitcoin gets — not just where it goes. The VIX just got a crypto twin.
Geopolitical escalation in the Middle East sent Brent crude above $100 a barrel overnight, wiping out $300 million in leveraged crypto bets by morning. This is what war does to 24/7 markets.
Consensus Miami 2026 opened with a jaw-dropper: Wall Street didn't just attend — they sponsored. Institutional attendance doubled to 35% of the crowd, representing $10 trillion in AUM. Bitcoin noticed.
Tomorrow is Jerome Powell's final FOMC press conference before Kevin Warsh takes the chair on May 15. Bitcoin is up 21% since early April — and history says the 48 hours after a Fed decision are the most dangerous window in crypto.
Kash Patel and Acting AG Todd Blanche take the stage at Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas today — the nation's top law enforcement officials declaring 'Code is Free Speech' at the world's biggest Bitcoin event.
Strategy's 815,061 BTC hoard just eclipsed BlackRock's ETF holdings after a record $2.54B single purchase. Michael Saylor says he's not done.
Kevin Warsh — Trump's pick to replace Jerome Powell as Fed Chair — heads into his Senate confirmation hearing tomorrow with 30+ crypto investments in his portfolio. Here's what it means for rates, regulation, and the entire industry.
A new 'canary address' proposal would only freeze 6.5 million vulnerable BTC — including Satoshi's coins — if a quantum computer actually proves it can break Bitcoin first. Adam Back says there's a better way.
The PARITY Act gives stablecoins a federal de minimis tax exemption while explicitly leaving Bitcoin behind. Bitcoin Policy Institute calls it a bill that 'picks winners and losers.' Coinbase earned $1.35B in stablecoin revenue last year — make of that what you will.
MSBT debuted on NYSE Arca at 0.14% — nearly half BlackRock's IBIT fee — making Wall Street's biggest wealth manager the most aggressive new entrant in the Bitcoin ETF war.
A two-week US-Iran ceasefire sent Bitcoin past $72,700 and liquidated nearly half a billion dollars in bearish positions — one of the fastest short squeezes of 2026.
MicroStrategy's rebranded successor posted the largest Q1 Bitcoin loss since 2018, then spent another $330 million on BTC the following week. This is what conviction looks like — or what it costs.
Charles Schwab — the brokerage that manages $12 trillion in client assets — just announced direct spot Bitcoin and Ethereum trading. This isn't Fidelity or a crypto-native firm. This is the brokerage where America's retirees keep their 401(k)s.
One year after Trump's Liberation Day tariffs shook global markets, Bitcoin is down 20%+ from its peak and crypto job postings have collapsed 80% from a year ago. Here's what's really happening to crypto careers right now.
SpaceX has confidentially filed for a $1.75 trillion IPO — potentially the biggest public offering ever. Its Bitcoin treasury is about to go fully transparent, and the ripple effects for crypto hiring are massive.
Google says breaking Bitcoin may need 20x fewer qubits than thought. 6.9M BTC already exposed. The race to hire post-quantum crypto engineers starts now.
Only 1 million BTC remain after the 20 millionth was mined. The engineers building infrastructure around that scarcity are crypto's most in-demand hires.