Bitcoin Breaks $63K as Trump's Election Odds Increase Post-Shooting!

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In today’s Alpha Bytes👇

Bitcoin crossed $63K as the market reacted to Trump’s failed assassination attempt. He still plans to speak at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville. The Dutch court denied bail for Tornado Cash dev Alexey Pertsev while the appeals process is ongoing. The German government has nearly dumped all of its BTC.

BTC $63,008 (+5.09%), ETH $3,351 (+4.89%), SOL $153.19 (+5.74%)

Crypto News 📰

• Donald Trump memecoin spikes 52% following assassination attempt

• Lazarus is moving millions from $305M DMM Bitcoin hack: ZachXBT

• South Korea proposes pushing back crypto gains taxation to 2028

• The UK’s Economic Secretary faces scrutiny over the potential ‘Crypto Crackdown’.   

• Dough Finance loses $1.8M in flash loan attack

• CoinStats says $2.2M worth of crypto was stolen in June hack by 'sophisticated attacker'

• SEC drops investigation of Bitcoin Stacks developer Hiro — Filing

• Binance tax evasion verdict set for October

• Nigeria’s SEC urged to regulate Bitcoin, Ether as commodities

• Whistleblowers asked the SEC to investigate OpenAI over alleged illegal NDAs

Project Updates 🔥 

• Tether freezes $28M in USDT linked to Cambodian fraud

• Abra buys Valkyrie’s Tron and Zilliqa trusts

• Bitfarms announces special meeting date

• Tapbit announces new security upgrades and user experience enhancements.

• Wemade plans to sell lightscale shares and resign as major Shareholder

• Bonk DAO burns 84B BONK tokens

• Uniswap front-end trading fees surpass $48.75M

Threads 🧵 

• Thoughts and reflections on EthCC

• Crypto consumer space

• Trading objectives

• How grass works and why it matters

• Hot chick

Launches 🚀 

• @lmaohq is getting close to launch

• @Babypiexyz_io is being developed to provide liquid staking for Bitcoin

• @KrangHQ to the public for the first time

• Spay launches a VIP card and multi-chain wallet to bridge Web2 and Web3.

• Solana launches a new promo featuring Tesla's Cybertruck.

Fundraise 💰

• ZAP announces a $15M funding round

• Partior raises $60M in Series B funding led by Peak XV Partners.

• Pixelverse raises additional $2M

• Skild AI announces $300M funding from Jeff Bezos, Softbank to build ‘robot brains’

Calendar 🗓️

• 15 July : $STX - Nakamoto Upgrade

• ~16 July : $DNX - $0xDNX Release

• 16 July : $AGI - Lucy Beta + PancakeSwap

• 19 July : Coinbase - COVAL·RAI·wAMPL Delisting

• ~19 July : AGIX·FET·OCEAN - ASI Merger (Phase 2)

• ~19 July : $LDO - Community Staking Module testnet (Permissionless)

That's a wrap for today!

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