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Cantor Equity Partners and BSTR Holdings terminated their original July 2025 merger agreement on July 8, 2026, dropping the $1.5 billion PIPE and postponing the shareholder vote wi…
Russia enacted a full ban on diesel exports July 8, 2026, after Ukrainian drone strikes drove crude-processing rates to multi-year lows. With Russia supplying ~11% of global diesel…
Bull Bitcoin petitioned France's Conseil d'État on February 24 to annul Decree No. 2025-1276, the French rule implementing DAC8's mandatory crypto identity and transaction reportin…
Trump declared the June 17 US-Iran MoU 'over' at the NATO summit in Ankara on July 8, after Iran attacked three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and CENTCOM retaliated with strikes…
The Commerce Department's June 12 export control order on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models was reversed in under three weeks. The market shift it triggered may not be…
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins published the agency's 2026 regulatory agenda on July 7, formally committing to propose rules that would allow Bitcoin to trade alongside equities on SEC-l…
Anthropic embedded steganographic tracking logic inside Claude Code that silently altered system prompts to flag users in Chinese time zones or routing through Chinese AI labs. It…
Payward disclosed a $22 million arbitration win against Mazars USA on July 7, 2026, after the auditor walked away from a nearly complete 2022 audit days before finishing, citing SE…
The U.S. Treasury sold $58 billion in 3-Year notes at 4.179% on July 7, stopping through the When-Issued level by 0.6 basis points, even as Iran struck three commercial vessels in…
Polymarket has switched on instant Bitcoin Lightning deposits powered by Spark, crediting funds in under a second with no confirmation wait. The integration is self-custodial and r…
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces struck eight sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tankers in the Sea of Azov overnight July 6-7, following two more strikes the previous night, as part…
The NY Fed's June 2026 Survey of Consumer Expectations shows 1-year inflation expectations at 3.7%, the highest since September 2023, with the medium-term anchor also breaking high…
Galaxy Digital completed Phase I of its Helios data center campus on July 6, delivering 133 MW of critical IT load to CoreWeave under a 15-year lease. The former Bitcoin mining sit…
On March 6, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14233 establishing the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve with a hard no-sell mandate. Here is what the order does, what it doe…
UAE crude output surpassed 3.8 million bpd in June, its highest since April 2020, after Abu Dhabi formally exited OPEC on May 1. Chinese teapot refiners entered ADNOC tenders for t…
The White House confirmed on July 6 that structuring work on the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is ongoing. Crypto adviser Patrick Witt's promised 'big announcement' is now 10 weeks ove…
TeraWulf signed a 20-year, ~$19 billion lease with Anthropic for its 401 MW Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky. The implied ~$950M/year contracted rate sets a new benchm…
Strategy's Michael Saylor declared Bitcoin's four-year halving cycle dead, arguing institutional capital flows and bank credit now set price. The 2026 drawdown is already stress-te…
Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina declared 'everything is ready' for the September 1 digital ruble rollout, requiring all 12 systemically important banks and retailers abov…
CZ proposed a 6-to-12-month migration window before freezing Satoshi's estimated 1.1 million BTC. BIP-361 targets 1.7 million BTC in legacy addresses. The community is split three…
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