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El Salvador says it continues buying Bitcoin ($BTC) daily, raising its national Bitcoin reserve to 7,696 $BTC worth approximately $460 million. However, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says no net new government Bitcoin purchases have occurred since early 2025, citing the country’s $1.4 billion bailout terms that prohibit voluntary public-sector Bitcoin acquisitions. El Salvador Claims Daily Bitcoin Purchases, But the IMF Disputes President Nayib Bukele’s government has been pushing a narrative about buying one $BTC a day to continue building its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. As of June 28, 2026, official trackers show that El Salvador holds about 7,696 $BTC, worth…

Solana-based digital art marketplace Exchange Art has announced it will cease operations on August 1, marking the end of a platform acquired by memecoin project Bonk (BONK) just over a year ago. The decision, shared via the platform’s official X account, was attributed to a prolonged downturn in the on-chain art market that made continued operation financially unsustainable. Return of Funds and Artworks Before the shutdown, Exchange Art has committed to returning all artworks and funds currently held in sales and escrow contracts to their rightful owners. The platform emphasized that all digital artworks are minted on the Solana blockchain,…

Ethereum price traded near $1,715 on July 3, according to crypto.news price data, after rising more than 6% over 24 hours. The move pushed $ETH back above the $1,700 area, a level traders have watched closely after weeks of selling pressure. The rebound came as U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs returned to inflows. On July 2, spot Ethereum ETFs recorded total net inflows of $29.08 million, according to SoSoValue data. BlackRock’s ETHA led the group with $29.74 million in net inflows, while Grayscale’s ETHE recorded outflows of $2.75 million. Ethereum spot ETF net inflow, source: SoSoValue The token had already been…

Hyperliquid’s priority fee mechanism is gradually evolving from a trading narrative to a structural source of demand for $HYPE. Since the 14th of April mainnet launch, Hyperliquid [$HYPE] traders have burned around 21,895 tokens through priority fees. This move confirms that execution demand now creates a measurable supply sink. More importantly, while weekly spending was limited to only 24 $HYPE in the first week after the launch, it has increased drastically to 1,106 $HYPE in the last seven days, marking a 45-fold increase. Source: X Meanwhile, distinct payers expanded from 14 to 130, suggesting adoption is broadening instead of remaining…

Donald Trump Jr. stands to make a large profit from his share in the prediction market company Kalshi, but the deal is already drawing heavy criticism over possible conflicts of interest. Trump Jr. received roughly $300,000 in Kalshi equity after he signed on as a strategic adviser on January 13, 2025. Just two months after his father returned to the White House, he had publicly praised how well Kalshi predicted the 2024 election. In a post on X, he wrote that “while biased outlets called the race a coin toss, my family and close friends used prediction market @Kalshi to…

The opportunity has drawn growing interest across Wall Street. Citi projected that tokenized securities could reach $5.5 trillion by 2030, while Boston Consulting Group and Ripple estimated the market could grow to $18.9 trillion by 2033. “We have long said that public equities are moving onchain, and there is no stronger validation of that belief than tokenizing our own public stock on day one,” CEO Carlos Domingo said in a statement. Issuer-sponsored tokenization Unlike many existing tokenized stock products, which are issued by third parties or offered outside the United States, Securitize said SECZ is an issuer-sponsored tokenization of the…

Financial commentator and long-time crypto skeptic Peter Schiff has warned that the new “$BTC Monetization Program,” which was recently announced by Strategy, could actually trigger a market death spiral. According to Schiff, the program will make the price of $BTC plunge lower, which will force the Virginia-based firm to sell even more. From a supreme buyer to an active seller According to Strategy’s official press release, the firm, which remains the leading corporate holder of $BTC by an enormous margin, liquidated portions of its massive cryptocurrency holdings. The aforementioned monetization program makes it possible for the company to sell Bitcoin…

Solana now beats Ethereum on trading volume, active users, and fee revenue. Ethereum still holds the money. Halfway through 2026, the question is no longer who is faster. It is whether the two chains are even running the same race. There was a time when the Ethereum versus Solana debate could be settled with a smirk and an outage screenshot. Solana was the chain that went down. Ethereum was the chain that mattered. Then Solana stopped going down, its trading volume flipped Ethereum’s, its ETF launched to institutional inflows while Ethereum funds bled for seventeen straight days, and the smirk…

Warsh-Led Fed Reprices Rate Expectations as Inflation Risks Move Higher Crypto markets entered a tighter liquidity environment after the Federal Reserve held rates steady while signaling a firmer stance on inflation. Wintermute, a crypto market maker and liquidity provider, said the shift created a more challenging backdrop for digital assets reliant on sustained capital inflows. Referring to the Fed’s policy shift and its implications for capital flows into digital assets, Wintermute wrote: “For an asset class that needs liquidity arriving through ETFs, stablecoins and DATs, a Fed leaning toward tightening is the opposite of what gets those funnels flowing.” Exchange-traded…

Republican lawmakers are making another push to move the CLARITY Act through the Senate as the legislative calendar tightens ahead of the August recess. Industry participants believe the next four weeks will decide whether the bill becomes law this summer or faces a long delay. The renewed push comes after political pressure increased following the debate around the Housing bill. At the same time, senators recognize there is little room left on the calendar. Once lawmakers return to Washington on July 13, they will have only 20 working days before leaving again for the August recess, leaving a narrow window…