🔥 U.S. macro data:

▪️ Basic price index of personal consumption expenses (y/y) (June)

FACT: 2.8%
FORECAST: 2.7%
PRE.: 2.7%

▪️ Basic price index of personal consumption expenses (m/m) (June)

FACT: 0.3%
FORECAST: 0.3%
PRE.: 0.2%

▪️ Price index of personal consumption expenditures (y/y) (July)

FACT: 2.6%
FORECAST: 2.5%
PREVIOUS: 2.4%

▪️ Price index of personal consumption expenses (m/m) (July)

FACT: 0.3%
FORECAST: 0.3%
PRE.: 0.2%

▪️ Number of primary applications for unemployment benefits

FACT: 218K
FORECAST: 222K
PREVIOUS: 217K

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🔥 #IP Grayscale launched a new fund for investing in Story Protocol (announcement)

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#scam #breaking
❌ Hackers launched advertising of fake crypto applications to a multi-million audience.

The cyber company Check Point disclosed the JSCEAL operation - since March 2024, fake ads under the guise of Binance, MetaMask and Kraken have been distributing malware.

➥ Advertising leads to fake sites with infected software.

➥ After installation, the virus steals:
- Passwords and seed phrases.
- Telegram data.
- Access to crypto wallets.

➥ Also modifies extensions (e.g. MetaMask) to steal funds.

➥Coverage: More than 10,000,000 users worldwide.

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2️⃣ #ETH The Ethereum Foundation has set goals for the next decade.

Ethereum turned 10 yesterday. Today, the Lean Ethereum strategy has been published, which will make the network: faster, safer, resistant to quantum attacks - and all this without losing decentralization.

Main goals:

Fort Mode - survival mode
• The network has been operating without failures since 2015.
• $130,000,000,000 in ETH is protected.
• Ethereum must withstand everything from states to quantum threats.
• Principle: if the Internet works, Ethereum too.

Beast Mode - scaling
• L1: up to 10,000 TPS
• L2: up to 1,000,000 TPS
• zkVM and random data validation (DAS)
• Blockchain check - right in browsers and phones

Updates of all layers:
• Lean Consensus - the finality of blocks in seconds.
• Lean Data - post-quantum blobs with flexible size.
• Lean Execution is a new version of EVM compatible with SNARK.

Cryptography of the future:
• Everything is built on hash functions.
• Protection against quantum attacks.
• SNARK technologies will become the standard for data execution and verification.

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🤯 Mill City Ventures III decided to make an analogue of Strategy with #SUI - the company bought a token for $450,000,000 - release

To be a little more precise, 98% (from $450m) go to the purchase of SUI coins, and only 2% - to the traditional credit business.

76,271,187 SUIs have already been purchased through an OTC deal + a contribution from the Sui Foundation at an average price of $3.63 per token.

A.G.P. / Alliance Global Partners is the only placement agent; Galaxy Asset Management will take over asset management. (again they...)

The company intends to continue buying SUI on the open market!

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🇺🇸 Donald Trump set a trade duty rate for 66 countries at once + he decided to «punish» Canada and raised their import rate from 25% to 35%.

Everything comes into force on August 1st!
(No decision has been made on China yet)

🩸Bitcoin breaks through $116,000...

U.S. import duty rate:

Afghanistan - 15%
Algeria - 30%
Angola - 15%
Bangladesh - 20%
Bolivia - 15%
Bosnia and Herzegovina - 30%
Botswana - 15%
Brazil - 10%
Brunei - 25%
Cambodia - 19%
Cameroon - 15%
Chad - 15%
Costa Rica - 15%
Ivory Coast - 15%
Democratic Republic of Congo - 15%
Ecuador - 15%
Equatorial Guinea - 15%
Falkland Islands - 10%
Fiji - 15%
Ghana - 15%
Guyana - 15%
Iceland - 15%
India - 25%
Indonesia - 19%
Iraq - 35%
Israel - 15%
Japan - 15%
Jordan - 15%
Kazakhstan - 25%
Laos - 40%
Lesotho - 15%
Libya - 30%
Liechtenstein - 15%
Madagascar - 15%
Malawi - 15%
Malaysia - 19%
Mauritius - 15%
Moldova - 25%
Mozambique - 15%
Myanmar (Burma) - 40%
Namibia - 15%
Nauru - 15%
New Zealand - 15%
Nicaragua - 18%
Nigeria - 15%
North Macedonia - 15%
Norway - 15%
Pakistan - 19%
Papua New Guinea - 15%
Philippines - 19%
Serbia - 35%
South Africa - 30%
South Korea - 15%
Sri Lanka - 20%
Switzerland - 39%
Syria - 41%
Taiwan - 20%
Thailand - 19%
Trinidad and Tobago - 15%
Tunisia - 25%
Turkey - 15%
Uganda - 15%
Great Britain - 10%
Vietnam - 20%
Zambia - 15%
Zimbabwe - 15%

Source: White House USA

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🫡 The end of the 50-year era - Ray Dalio sold the last shares of Bridgewater and left the board of directors - Reuters

His recent statements:

«The picture has not changed: if the United States does not reduce the budget deficit to 3% of GDP, in three years we will have an economic attack»

«When the country is overloaded with debts, the preferred way is to lower rates and devalue the currency, so it is worth betting on what will happen»

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#RedDreams #Altcoins

🤔 Rarely, but aptly on Twitter you can find such predictions with classic bearish theses: now everything is in euphoria, ETF for the crypt is a trap, analogues of Strategy are bait, early miners will destroy Bitcoin, etc.

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😳 Metaplanet wants to buy BTC for another $3,700,000,000 in the near future! - release

The company dreams of increasing the reserve to 210,000 BTC by the end of 2027 - this is about 1% of the total coin issue...

Now on the balance sheet: 17,132 BTC ($1.96b)

For comparison, Strategy already has 628,791 BTC on its balance sheet.

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🔽 SoSoValue: The outflow of money from spot Bitcoin ETFs has resumed, -$131,350,000 for yesterday.

Inflow to Ethereum ETF (#ETH) for yesterday = +17,000,000$ (20 green trading days in a row).

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🔥 U.S. macro data:

▪️ Unemployment rate (July)

FACT: 4.2%
FORECAST: 4.2%
PRE.: 4.1%

▪️ Change in the number of employees in the non-agricultural sector (July)

FACT: 73K
FORECAST: 106K
PREVIOUS: 14K

▪️ Average hourly wage (compared to the same period last year) (y/y) (July)

FACT: 3.9%
FORECAST: 3.8%
PRE.: 3.8%

▪️ Average hourly wage (m/m) (July)

FACT: 0.3%
FORECAST: 0.3%
PRE.: 0.2%

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📈 The probability of reducing the Fed rate in September to 75% (based on Kalshi rates) has sharply increased

The reason is the latest statistics on employment in the United States.

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🔞 FAIL: Cryptoinvestor lost $908,551 due to a phishing permit signed 458 days ago.

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#breaking #scam
❌ Hackers have learned to hide malware in ordinary photos.

The North Korean group APT37 sends ZIP archives with «innocent» files.

When opened, a virus is activated that steals documents, takes screenshots and accesses Dropbox, Yandex.Disk and other cloud services.

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#Calendar
⚡️ Calendar of key events for this week:

Monday, August 4:
- nothing important

Tuesday, August 5:
🇺🇸 USA - S&P Services PMI (July) - 16:45
🇺🇸 USA - ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI (July) - 17:00

Wednesday, August 6:
- nothing important

Thursday, August 7:
🇺🇸 USA - Initial Jobless Claims - 15:30
🇺🇸 USA - Fed Balance Sheet - 23:30

Friday, August 8:
- nothing important

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😳 Japanese network of nail salons Convano plans to accumulate 21,000 BTC by March 2027 (original)

➤ Since July, Convano has bought 165 BTC in the amount of ¥2.9b (~$18m).

➤ Purchases are financed through the bond issue.

➤ By the end of the month, the company plans to buy BTC for another ¥20b (~$124m).

➤ The company has created a separate BTC strategy department, which is managed by crypto veteran Teruaki Higashi.

P.S. The Japanese company Metaplanet currently has 17.132 BTC on its balance sheet.

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#breaking
🤯 Arkham revealed the largest crypto theft in history - 127.426 BTC for $3.5b at the 2020 exchange rate (now ~$14.6b).

At the peak in 2020, the Chinese mining pool LuBian controlled almost 6% of the hashrate of the Bitcoin network. But in December of the same year, it was hacked:

⊹ December 28 - hackers withdrew more than 90% of BTC from wallets.
⊹ December 29 - another $6m was stolen in BTC and USDT through an address in the Bitcoin Omni network.
⊹ December 31 - the remaining funds were transferred to backup wallets.

LuBian tried to contact hackers through OP_RETURN messages in the blockchain - 1516 transactions and 1.4 BTC went to requests to return assets.

No one reported it publicly - neither the company nor the attackers.

The reason for hacking is a vulnerable private key generation algorithm that can be brute-forced.

All stolen BTC are still stored in one address - it is the 13th largest BTC wallet in the world.

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#breaking
❌ The hacker hacked the access rights management system in CrediX and emptied the liquidity pool (SlowMist)

The attacker was added in the role of Admin and Bridge. Having received the right roles, he minted secured tokens through the pool and withdrew a large amount of assets.

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