📢 Ethereum’s validator activation queue has grown to nearly 2.5 million ETH, extending the estimated wait time for new validators to over 43 days.

📢 A Bitcoin OG has sold the last 1,000 BTC, valued at $65.6 million, completing the liquidation of a 5,000 BTC position held for more than 12 years. The original investment of roughly $1.66 million grew to nearly $436 million.

📢 Satsuma shareholders have voted to liquidate the company’s 668 BTC treasury, distribute the proceeds to investors, and delist the company from the London Stock Exchange.

📢 According to Token Terminal, Hyperliquid’s open interest has climbed around 130% since its early February lows.

📢 Bearish positioning in U.S. equities has reached a record high, with short interest on NYSE-listed stocks climbing to 9% of shares outstanding. That level now exceeds the peaks recorded during both the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020 pandemic.

📢 According to Santiment, XRP whales have increased their holdings by 2.8% over the past five weeks as the token recovered above $1.16, while smaller retail wallets have continued to reduce their positions.

📢 According to @coinglass_com, the supply of Bitcoin long-term holders has reached a new all-time high.

📢 According to @a16zcrypto, the volume of tokenised stock transfers reached a record $9.22 billion in June, up more than 170 times year over year.

📢 According to CryptoQuant, 9,030 BTC has been withdrawn from Binance as Bitcoin’s 30-day momentum rebounded from -21% and continued moving closer to neutral.

📢 According to Bloomberg, U.S. 30-year Treasury yields have traded above 5% for 27 days in 2026, marking the highest count since 2007.

📢 Bank of America’s Bull & Bear Indicator has climbed to 9.6, its highest reading since December 2020 and the third-highest level in the past 24 years, pointing to extreme investor optimism.

📢 According to RWA.xyz, tokenized equities are seeing rapid onchain growth, with the number of holders reaching 671,000, a 449% increase year-to-date.

Solana now accounts for 85% of all tokenized equity trading volume.

📢 According to Glassnode, Bitcoin ETF flows have returned to positive territory while short positions continue to unwind, with $69,000 identified as the key level that could confirm the next leg of the rally.

📢 CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju says spot demand for Bitcoin is weakening, while futures demand remains in positive territory.

📢 Strategy has launched the Bitcoin Security Consortium, committing $15 million over the next three years to help address long-term Bitcoin security challenges, including risks posed by quantum computing.

📢 BitMEX’s $BMEX token crashed 98% after reports emerged that the exchange is planning to shut down.

📢 Robinhood confirmed that CEO Vlad Tenev’s X account was compromised and briefly used to promote a fake memecoin before the post was taken down.

📢 Japanese insurers recorded their largest purchases of super-long Japanese government bonds in three years, signaling a resurgence in domestic demand for the country’s debt.

📢 According to CryptoQuant, Ethereum is currently trading below its realized price, but the market may not have reached its bottom yet, with only two of five historical bottom indicators having been triggered.

📢 The White House is reportedly monitoring an alleged OpenAI AI security incident involving claims that an AI agent escaped containment and compromised Hugging Face. In response, lawmakers are said to be proposing an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would grant federal authorities the power to shut down AI models.