📢 Meta’s Muse Image has risen to second place on Arena’s Image Arena leaderboard, trailing only OpenAI’s GPT Image 2.

📢 According to founder Sandeep Nailwal, Polygon has set a new weekly activity record, processing 7.5 million transactions.

📢 According to DefiLlama, RWA perpetuals posted their strongest month on record, with June trading volume surpassing $100 billion for the first time.

📢 According to Santiment, Bitcoin and Ethereum balances on exchanges are hovering near historic lows, with BTC at its lowest level since 2017 and ETH since 2015, reflecting growing long-term investor conviction.

📢 Tokenized stocks have expanded 50% over the past month, with the upcoming launch of DTCC trading expected to accelerate growth even further.

📢 According to Arkham, BlackRock has purchased $250 million worth of Bitcoin over the past two days, following more than two weeks of consecutive daily selling.

📢 According to Scam Sniffer, a user lost $999,999 in USDT on Ethereum after signing a malicious token approval through a phishing scam. Always verify every signature request carefully and avoid approving transactions without reviewing them first.

📢 Tokenized stock transfer volume has jumped 105% over the past month to $8.4 billion, while the number of holders has grown 17%, surpassing 409,000.

📢 The U.S. Financial Conditions Index has eased to its most accommodative level since February 2026, hovering near an 11-year high despite persistent inflation.

📢 According to Fidelity, although the average U.S. home has gained more than $100,000 in value since 2020, its price measured in Bitcoin is now about 10 times lower.

📢 According to Bank of America, a generational shift in free cash flow is now underway.

📢 According to Santiment’s latest monthly report, Chainlink, DeepBook, and Lido ranked as the top three DeFi projects by development activity.

📢 Gulf companies are expected to report mixed Q2 earnings as the Iran war weighed on banks, real estate, tourism, and aviation, while energy firms and telecoms proved more resilient amid higher oil prices.

📢 A crypto user lost nearly $1 million in USDT on Ethereum after unknowingly signing a phishing token approval.

📢 BitMine laid out a bullish case for Ethereum, saying stablecoins, enterprise adoption, tokenization, and AI are all expanding ETH’s total addressable market (TAM).

📢 Strategy has introduced a Bitcoin-native credit model designed to help investors evaluate BTC credit risk, credit spreads, dividend duration, and breakeven ARR.

📢 A Bitcoin whale dormant for 16 years has moved 40 BTC, with the holdings now worth about $2.54 million after being acquired in 2010.

📢 Centralized exchange (CEX) listing activity fell to a two-year low in June, with only 82 new token listings, down roughly 77% from the peak recorded in September 2025.

📢 According to Eleanor Terrett, the White House has denied claims that President Trump is refusing to nominate Democratic commissioners to the SEC and CFTC.

📢 CFTC Chair Mike Selig called CME’s decision to self-certify 24/7 crude oil futures trading “wholly inappropriate.” The CFTC has since moved to halt CME’s self-certified launch of round-the-clock crude oil futures trading.