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BREAKING: Bitcoin ($BTC ) is no longer legal tender in El Salvador

JUST IN: Polymarket now prices Fed hold at 94% odds heading into July meeting, after softer inflation data.
Bitcoin ($BTC ) rallied 1.3% on the macro relief. Market's pricing in a pause, not cuts, but that's enough to ease rate-hike fears that have weighed on crypto.

Altcoin Season Index: 53/100. Neutral territory, was 51 yesterday.
Biggest alt movers (90d):
• BEAT +379%
• LIT +131%
• DEXE +127%

Elon Musk settles with the SEC for $1,500,000.
Judge signed off but noted "significant misgivings" about the deal.
$1.5M to a man worth $300B+ is roughly 18 seconds of earnings.

Strategy's cash reserve sits at $3,000,000,000.
Saylor's take: corporations are the necessary bridge for Bitcoin ($BTC ) to become a global currency network. Legal structures that can hold BTC at scale, indefinitely.
Not a new thesis. But $3B in dry powder makes it louder.

Bitcoin ($BTC ) flat over 7 days (-0.3%) but funding rates positive for 240 hours straight.
Longs paying 0.0061% every 8 hours.
Leverage still leaning bullish despite the chop.

JUST IN: Spot Bitcoin ($BTC ) ETFs logged $79M in net inflows today, with BlackRock's IBIT leading the charge.
Institutional adoption keeps finding a floor, even in quiet markets.

Quietly: The Coinbase Bitcoin ($BTC ) Premium Index has been negative for 30 consecutive days, averaging -0.108%.
US selling pressure or arb outflows continue.

JUST IN: $64,000 Bitcoin ($BTC )

Quietly: Coinbase Bitcoin ($BTC ) Premium Index has been negative for 30 consecutive days (avg -0.109%).
US-side selling pressure or arb outflow continues.

🇸🇻 BREAKING: El Salvador Becomes First Country in the World to Adopt Bitcoin ($BTC ) as Legal Tender

Ethereum ($ETH ) daily transactions hit 2M, a 34% jump, while fees dropped 34% YoY to $344M.
Q1 saw 200.4M total transactions (+43% QoQ) and $8 trillion in stablecoin volume as L2s gain traction.
Network fundamentals strengthening.

JUST IN: Two hackers sentenced for their role in the Scattered Spider cybercrime group, which extorted dozens of companies for $115M in crypto ransoms.
Law enforcement is finally catching up to major cybercrime operations.

JUST IN: Ondo Finance partners with SBI Group to tokenize Japanese equities using a yen-backed stablecoin for settlement.
$ONDO up 15-17% on the news.

JUST IN: Bitcoin ($BTC ) dropped below $63,000 as a broad risk-off wave sweeps from equities into crypto.
The AI selloff that hammered Big Tech is now bleeding into digital assets. Broader crypto following lower: ETH -2.7%, SOL -2.0%.

JUST IN: Solana ($SOL ) core developer team merged major parallel transaction processing upgrade.
PR #13799 adds send_and_confirm_transactions_in_parallel_v3 to solana-client. Protocol-level change signals imminent throughput improvements ahead.

BREAKING: Supreme Court blocks Trump's attempt to remove Fed Governor Cook, upholding protections for Fed board members.
Polymarket now prices Powell removal by Dec 31 at 32% YES.

JUST IN: Spot Bitcoin ($BTC) ETFs logged $79.2M inflow Thursday, pushing their three-day total to $368M.
Institutional buyers stepping in as BTC attempts recovery. Steady accumulation despite price pressure.