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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is planning to set a fixed IPO price of $135 per share ahead of its roadshow, according to CNBC, marking an unusual move for a company preparing what could become the largest public listing ever. The company plans to sell 555.6 million shares, implying a $75 billion offering size. At that price, SpaceX would be valued at $1.75 trillion, assuming the EchoStar spectrum and Cursor transactions close. The valuation would place SpaceX above Tesla, which has a market cap of about $1.6 trillion, and make it the seventh largest company in the US. The company is expected…

Key Highlights Aave’s founder, Stani Kulechov, has praised the UK’s new tax policy for crypto lending and liquidity pools. On July 13, HMRC introduced a “No Gain, No Loss” (NGNL) rule for crypto lending and liquidity pools, which means that deposits into protocols like Aave will no longer trigger immediate capital gains tax. The new tax policy is a major breakthrough for the UK’s crypto users as it makes lending and liquidity pools more tax-friendly for everyday users. On July 13, the biggest lending protocol, Aave’s founder, Stani Kulechov, publicly shared his excitement over the United Kingdom’s new tax legislation…

OI – which measures the total amount of money sitting in active, unsettled derivatives contracts (like futures or options) – later retraced to around $10.9bn. The year-to-date record is significant as it shows that Hyperliquid is recovering from OI lost in the crash of the cryptocurrency market in October 2025 and that its prospects are no longer as tightly intertwined with the price of crypto. October 2025 crypto crash fallout On 6 Oct, 2025, with Bitcoin ($BTC) at an all-time high of more than $126k, OI on Hyperliquid was right there with it, reaching a record $15bn. When the price…

Tether makes the most money in crypto, and it is not close. Over the last 30 days it retained $481.74 million in revenue, against $193.08 million for Circle in second place. Canton (@CantonNetwork) is third with $56.1 million, less than an eighth of what Tether keeps. They do charge fees, but the fees barely matter. Circle books $653 million of its $694 million in Q1 2026 revenue as reserve income, the interest on the T-bills and cash backing $USDC. Everything else it charges for, cross-chain transfers included, came to $42 million. The float is the business. Usage is a rounding…

Strategy founder and chairman Michael Saylor has raised expectations that the company may announce a new update regarding its Bitcoin holdings with a recent social media post. In his latest post, Saylor included purchase chart data and stated, “Bitcoin is digital energy.” Based on past posts, Strategy is known to typically issue official statements regarding Bitcoin purchases the day after such posts from Saylor. According to the shared data, Strategy’s Bitcoin reserve value currently stands at $53.09 billion. The company’s total $BTC holdings are recorded as 847,363 $BTC. Strategy’s total $BTC cost is $64.11 billion, with an average purchase cost…

Key takeaways Golf Genius has achieved remarkable growth, reaching $53 million in annual recurring revenue. The company has maintained profitability for eight consecutive years. A strategic focus on sustainable growth has been pivotal to Golf Genius’s success. Employee ownership is a key factor contributing to high retention rates. The pricing model is based on low price per unit and high quantity of users. Golf Genius serves 11,000 courses, highlighting its expansive market reach. The average price for golf software at a private club is about $4,200 per year. The company has more cash on its balance sheet than all the…

Reed Smith has launched an automated MiCA compliance platform as crypto firms across the European Union have entered full regulatory supervision following the end of the bloc’s transition period. According to global law firm Reed Smith, the new platform, called Aquarius, automates key compliance tasks under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, including crypto-asset classification, regulatory white paper generation, due diligence and environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures. Designed for companies entering the European market or expanding existing crypto services, the platform combines automated compliance workflows with legal support to simplify MiCA requirements. Reed Smith said future versions…

The decentralized exchange aggregator announced the launch of a beta phase initiative on Monday, July 13, 2026. The system tokenizes graded physical cards sealed in plastic slabs to enable direct trading on the platform. The platforms Collector Crypt and Courtyard also record transactions of these digitized real-world collectibles on blockchain networks. This Monday, Solana’s decentralized exchange aggregator, Jupiter, announced that a new digital space designed for the acquisition and trading of physical collectible cards from the Pokémon and One Piece franchises directly on the blockchain is in its beta phase and ready for the market. Introducing Jupiter Gacha Real graded…

Ondo Finance [$ONDO] announced the launch of the first tokenized stock representations backed by DTC tokenized entitlements. Through this initiative, Ondo Finance joins a host of other TradFi giants, including BlackRock, J.P. Morgan, and Goldman Sachs, in participating in “DTCC’s largest tokenization initiative to date”. Source: Ondo Finance on X Ian de Bode, CEO of Ondo Finance, said Ondo is the only company simultaneously building all pathways for US securities tokenization. Today’s initiative with DTCC demonstrates that Ondo Stocks infrastructure is purpose-built to interoperate with institutional market infrastructure, not to compete with it. The announcement has helped bolster the bullish…

David Bailey, the founder of Nakamoto, said yesterday that the BIP-110 proposal will not be moving forward anymore, just weeks before it was set to go live. He made the announcement on X, where he called the failed soft fork “incredibly bullish for Bitcoin” and described the campaign behind its cancellation as a “hostile takeover attempt.” What is BIP-110? BIP-110, also known as the Reduced Data Temporary Softfork (BIP-444), was introduced in December 2025 by developer Dathon Ohm. The proposal was introduced to cut down on unnecessary data being added to Bitcoin transactions, which some say distorts the way the…