$BTC FALLS BACK UNDER $69,000.

📢 Anchorage Digital Boosts $STRC Holdings

• Anchorage Digital adds $STRC to its balance sheet
• Expands its custody partnership with Strategy
• Signals growing institutional confidence in $STRC

📢 The Federal Reserve plans to add $8.07B in liquidity to the financial system today.

📢 Anthropic has rolled out Auto Mode in Claude Code, allowing the AI to handle permission decisions on its own with built-in safeguards. It’s currently in research preview for Team plan users.

📢 About 14,100 BTC from short-term holders has just been moved onto exchanges.

📢 The Anthropic Economic Index shows that long-term Claude users tend to work more carefully, take on higher-value tasks, and get better results than newer users.

📢 Irish drug dealer Clifton Collins has deposited 500 BTC (about $35.44M) into Coinbase after nearly a decade. The funds were long thought lost after his private keys were discarded during his 2017 arrest.

📢 Elon Musk has put the planned regional exposure boost for creators on X on hold, even though the rollout was originally scheduled for Thursday.

📢 U.S. 5-year Treasury yields have risen to 4.10%, reaching their highest level in nine months.

📢 Fluid has started repaying users following the Resolv incident, with $70M already reimbursed across multiple chains.

📢 About $14.16B worth of BTC options are set to expire on Friday, making up nearly 40% of Deribit’s open interest, with max pain around $75K.

📢 Bhutan is reportedly offloading around $30M worth of Bitcoin, according to Arkham data.

📢 An Indian court has cleared the founders of CoinDCX, ruling that the scam was tied to a fake website and not the official platform.

📢 Simon Dixon has criticized Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin strategy, warning it could raise concerns about growing centralization in BTC.

📢 Franklin Templeton Goes 24/7 with ETFs

• Franklin Templeton launches tokenized ETFs
• Trade anytime, 24/7 access through crypto wallets
• Blends traditional finance with $BTC and on-chain markets

📢 South Korea recorded about $60B in crypto outflows in H2 2025, moving into overseas exchanges and private wallets.

📢 Bitmine Launches MAVAN Staking Platform

• Bitmine officially rolls out MAVAN staking platform
• Over 3.14M $ETH already staked at launch
• Signals strong early demand for on-chain yield

📢 The Binance XAUT contract has reached a new peak, recording $6.4B in trading volume, according to CryptoQuant.

📢 X has introduced a new option that lets users limit who can reply to their posts based on region.

📢 Lawmakers have introduced the bipartisan PREDICT Act, which would bar members of Congress, the president, and senior officials from trading on political prediction markets, according to Politico.