Happy Wednesday all!
If you missed the past 24 hours in crypto and stocks, here's your full recap:
🚨 Major Headlines & Market Moves 🚨
- Bitcoin fell under $84,000 as about $479 million in long positions were liquidated over the past 24 hours, with 104,836 crypto traders wiped out.
- BlackRock ETF clients bought $122 million worth of Bitcoin.
- The CFTC said it will provide a federally regulated path for crypto. Chairman Mike Selig told CNBC he is disappointed in Congress, but the agency has statutory authority and intends to use it.
- Kalshi launched the first stock-index perpetual future in America, tied to the US 500. Single-stock perps on Nvidia, Meta and Amazon are planned later this year.
- South Africa’s First National Bank opened crypto trading to nearly 9 million clients, covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP and USDT.
- The S&P 500 closed above 7,800 for the first time, its 28th record of the year.
- Ray Dalio said the AI bubble may burst soon.
- Elon Musk’s net worth officially passed $1.1 trillion.
- The US goods trade deficit jumped 13.7% to $105.6 billion, a 17-month high. Over the last 20 months the goods deficit was $2.06 trillion, about 8% wider than the prior 20 months, despite tariffs.
- South Korea stocks are up 97% in 2026 and Taiwan stocks are up 86%, while China stocks are down 12%.
- Micron’s net income has surged 42x in two years to $38 billion, about $8 billion more than Apple earned last quarter, as chip supply stays tight. Seagate fell about 9% and Western Digital about 7% as the two battle Toshiba for TDK’s HDD magnetic-head business.
- Marvell rose about 5% after targeting $20 billion in fiscal 2028 revenue, above the roughly $18.2 billion Wall Street expected, driven by custom AI chips and data-center connectivity.
- Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan published “Bitcoin Is Right on Schedule” in The Wall Street Journal. Bitcoin is also in its most shallow cycle since the prior halving.
- A former UBS Asia investment-banking head said China will eventually reopen access to crypto and could trigger a new supercycle.
- The top 0.1% of US households now own 15% of all household wealth, a record, while the bottom 50% own 2%.
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- Ethereum fell under $2,600 during the same long liquidation wave.
- Bitwise ETF clients bought $10.55 million worth of XRP.
- Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin passed a $2.5 billion market cap.
- Circle’s USDC bridge now supports Solana, so USDC can move directly between Solana and 18 other ecosystems.
- JPMorgan is helping Solana build a system that lets financial institutions settle trades onchain in seconds.
- Ripple Prime will provide multi-asset prime brokerage, clearing and financing to Brevan Howard.
- Ethereum layer-2 AbstractChain is shutting down.
- OKX raised at a $25 billion valuation from Standard Chartered and Circle, extending a round from March.
- Coinbase is listing PONS.
- Moonshot expanded onto Robinhood Chain, and Gomo v2 went live with Robinhood Chain added to its trading terminal.
- Mysten Labs and Google Cloud launched Verifiable Agent Arbiter, anchoring AI agent proofs on Sui and Walrus for enterprise compliance.
- Sunrise enabled VVV, the AskVenice token, on Solana, with pairs now supported on Raydium, Pump.fun and LaunchOnSF.
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