📢 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.

📢 Michael Saylor says Strategy has updated its Bitcoin performance metrics, introducing new frameworks to measure Bitcoin, Digital Credit, and Digital Equity.

📢 Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has regained access to his X account after it was compromised and used to promote a fake memecoin, confirming that Robinhood has not launched or issued any tokens.

📢 The U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation found that Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 trails leading U.S. frontier models in cybersecurity capabilities, while noting that its safety measures can still permit the development of exploits.

📢 According to River, businesses accumulated 115,000 BTC in Q2, while individual investors sold off 78,000 BTC over the same period.

📢 According to Eleanor Terrett, the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has warned Senate leaders that the CLARITY Act could accelerate bank deposit outflows.

📢 According to Barchart, global central banks now hold the largest gold reserves on record, marking an all-time high in official gold holdings.

📢 Jack Dorsey claims India is targeting Bitchat, suggesting the government is uncomfortable with technologies like it.

📢 Jensen Huang has joined more than 20 tech companies in signing an open letter advocating for frontier open-source AI models, arguing they are just as important as closed AI models.

📢 The National Fraternal Order of Police has officially thrown its support behind the amended CLARITY Act.

📢 According to Binance Research, Gen Z has emerged as the largest trading cohort in Direct Stocks and TradFi Perpetuals, accounting for $80 billion in trading volume.

📢 U.S. equity ETF inflows have climbed to nearly $880 billion year-to-date, putting 2026 on track to attract roughly twice the inflows recorded over the same period in 2025.

📢 Bitcoin's long-term holders are accumulating at their fastest rate in six years, according to a CryptoQuant analyst.

📢 BloombergNEF projects that U.S. data center power demand will reach 194 gigawatts by 2035, accounting for roughly 20% of the nation's total electricity consumption.