BTC traded at $76,876, up 1.12% over 24 hours, while ETH stood at $2,459.79, up 2.04%. Gold was at $4,394.60 and silver at $65.630; the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 fell 0.45% and rose 0.02%, respectively, while WTI and Brent fell 2.95% and 3.59%.
1. BlackRock moves over $285M of BTC and ETH to Coinbase Prime
Per Lookonchain, BlackRock transferred 2,015 BTC (about $153.8 million) and 54,096 ETH (about $131.7 million) to Coinbase Prime, worth roughly $285.5 million in total.
Assets to watch: BTC, ETH
2. Tether lends about $1.5 billion to gold dealer Gold.com
Per Cointelegraph, Tether has extended a loan of about $1.5 billion to U.S. gold dealer Gold.com. As of June, the loan accounted for most of Gold.com's roughly $1.7 billion outstanding precious-metal lease book.
Assets to watch: XAU
3. CleanSpark plans $2.227 billion senior secured notes offering
Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin miner and data-center developer CleanSpark announced its wholly-owned subsidiary CSDC Finance I plans to privately place senior secured notes due 2031 to raise $2.227 billion, mainly to fund its Sandersville, Texas data center.
Assets to watch: CLSK, BTC
4. AI compute firm Crusoe raises $3.9 billion Series F
Per the Wall Street Journal, AI infrastructure firm Crusoe closed a $3.9 billion Series F at a post-money valuation of about $30.9 billion, led by Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners and Mubadala Investment. Crusoe previously built a large AI data center in Abilene, Texas, providing compute for OpenAI and Microsoft.
Assets to watch: MSFT, OPENAI
5. CoreWeave plans up to $3.5 billion convertible notes
Per Business Wire, CoreWeave (Nasdaq: CRWV) announced plans to privately place $3 billion of convertible senior notes due 2033, with a $500 million over-allotment option for initial purchasers, for up to $3.5 billion in total.
Assets to watch: CRWV
6. Ripple payment kit adds MPP protocol and open wallet standard
Per CoinDesk, Ripple added support for the Machine Payment Protocol (MPP) and an open wallet standard in XRP Ledger AI Starter Kit 1.1, letting AI agents pay for data and compute with XRP and RLUSD. MPP was co-developed by Stripe and Tempo.
Assets to watch: XRP
7. Genius launches BNB Chain-based RWA launchpad
Per Genius.fun, Genius launched an RWA launchpad on BNB Chain, planning to let projects convert tokenized-stock exposure into real shares held by a Cayman foundation to exercise shareholder governance rights; the feature is still in the planning stage.
Assets to watch: BNB
8. A smart-money trader closes ETH and SOL longs, up $1.89 million
Per on-chain analyst Ai Yi, a smart-money trader who went long ETH and SOL before this rally has closed out, booking $1.89 million over 30 days, with long positions of 1,859 ETH and 46,239 SOL.
Assets to watch: ETH, SOL
9. PayFi sector leads, Zcash and Dash jump
Per SoSoValue, the PayFi sector rose 5.03% over 24 hours, led by Zcash up 23.28% and Dash up 17.21%.
Assets to watch: ZEC, DASH
Market snapshot
BTC: $76,876 (24h +1.12%) | ETH: $2,459.79 (24h +2.04%)
Gold: $4,394.60 (+0.16%) | Silver: $65.630 (+1.10%)
WTI: $99.41 (-2.95%) | Brent: $102.03 (-3.59%)
S&P 500: 7,551.81 (-0.45%) | Nasdaq 100: 28,945.06 (+0.02%)