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• Bitcoin fell below $115,000 on August 1, reaching its lowest level since July 11. The drop marked a retracement from the asset’s July 14 peak, when it hit an all-time high of $123,000. The retreat to $114,000 punctuates a 7% pullback from the July high.

  August 1, 2025

• Coinbase’s stock slid 8.4% after hours on July 31 as second-quarter results fell short of Wall Street expectations. Despite the plunge, COIN price quickly recovered part of the drawdown. The exchange reported total revenue of $1.5 billion for the second quarter.

  August 1, 2025

• REX Shares announced its REX-OspreySOL+ Staking ETF (SSK) will make its first monthly distribution on Aug. 1. With 5,075,000 shares outstanding, the inaugural payout totals approximately $618,000. SSK launched on July 2 and amassed over$100 million in assets under management just 12 trading days later.

  August 1, 2025

• Blockstream launched Simplicity on the Liquid Network, enabling smart contract programability on Bitcoin. Simplicity was designed as a clean-slate smart contract language that is more expressive than Bitcoin Script yet tighter and safer than general-purpose platforms.

  July 31, 2025

• Tether has minted over $20 billion worth ofUSDT since the start of 2025. This pushes the stablecoin’s total circulation beyond $157 billion. Tether reported a net profit of approximately $4.9 billion for Q2 2025.

  July 31, 2025

• Ethereum researcher Justin Drake sketched a post-quantum, high-throughput roadmap for the next decade. The vision argued that the network can simultaneously harden security and radically scale. According to the roadmap, “if the internet is up, Ethereum is up” is the goal.

  July 31, 2025

• Global economic standards have been updated to formally recognize Bitcoin and other crypto assets in national wealth statistics. New international standards classify crypto as a critical component of national financial systems, without impacting GDP. The revision comes as part of a broader effort to modernize how countries track production, income, and wealth in a rapidly digitizing world.

  July 31, 2025

• US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) could soon approve spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for digital assets with a strong futures market presence. SEC’s focus on futures trading criteria could elevate Coinbase’s role in crypto ETF decisions.

  July 31, 2025

• Bitcoin (BTC) registered a1.11% hourly drawdown after the Federal Reserve kept its target range at 4.25%–4.50%. This is the largest correction recorded during a single hour of trading since July 14, when BTC retraced 1.14%. The drop happened in tandem with Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’sspeech following the latest FOMC meeting.

  July 30, 2025

• The 163-paged document consolidates the administration’s position across stablecoin regulation, tax reform, and federal market oversight. The report affirms a commitment to digital innovation but stops short of introducing new initiatives or expanding on earlier announcements.

  July 30, 2025