🌶️ Surprise surprise, Goldman Sachs holds more than $400 million in Bitcoin ETFs

Today is an interesting day. We got to know that even a few banks from the US and Europe hold Bitcoin ETFs. It seems that institutions are buying heavily. What’s going to happen next? Well, of course, they want prices to increase and the rest is clear and bright as the sunshine in summertime.

Also here are other topics you’ll find in today’s edition:

• USDC payments on iPhones

• Claim $based token

• Swell introduces WBTC staking

• Sahil’s story & investigation

• and more…

📰 Crypto & Finance News

• Crypto.com announces a partnership with the Champions League. This football league attracts more than 3 billion fans worldwide.

• Bitcoin price fell by 5% despite the announced positive results of the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

• Mastercard and Baanx to launch debit card powered by Mastercard.

• Norwegian Central Bank buys more Microstrategy shares.

• USDC payments are soon to be available on iPhones, the CEO of Circle says.

• Morgan Stanley reports holding 5.5 million shares in BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF. But they said crypto is…

🪂 Airdrops

• The holders of a Base Introduced NFT can claim a $BASED token now (not connected to Coinbase).

• A great blog post about the upcoming Mitosis airdrop: must read if you farm its points.

• Founder Pirates holders can claim up to 5,000 Drunk points.

• Xion presents its foundation and $XION token.

🤡 Degen Section

• Kamala Harris's lead on Polymarket increases.

• Bubblemaps investigation on Sahil, the famous celebrity tokens creator. You probably know how most of them have ended.

🔒 Security

• WazirX exchange soon to restore balances of users after hack when $230 million were stolen.

• “Compromised private keys accounted for 52.2% of all attacks in 2024 and 55.7% of the total value lost” - analysis by Zoltan Vardai from Cointelegraph.

🦁 Alpha, Opportunities & Insights

• Sahara Labs, a crypto-AI company raises more than $37 million. The round is co-led by Pantera Capital and Polychain Capital.

• Mint Dawn of Daylight NFT on Coinbase, Base network. It might be beneficial in the future (not guaranteed).

• Swell offers to stake WBTC and get swBTC and earn black pearls.

• Alliance DAO announces MVP hackathon. $500k in funding awaits.

📈 Other Metrics & Numbers

• Pump Fun surpassed the combined revenue of the top 20 protocols over the last 24 hours.

• Wallet linked to the government of the US transferred 10,000 BTC worth $590 million to Coinbase Prime. Are we cooked?

😎 Cool Stuff

• Smart fridges accept USDC on Solana in France now.

😶‍🌫️ To Cheer You Up

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