LATEST: 🏦 SharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom told The Rollup that institutions want security, trust, and liquidity, "and Ethereum is dominating on all three."

LATEST: 📈 Trader Peter Brandt told Cointelegraph that Bitcoin could hit a $300K–$600K cycle peak in late 2029 if its June low holds.

LATEST: 📊 Bitwise's European head of research André Dragosch told Bitcoin Magazine that BTC's fair value is $197,000, well above its current price.

LATEST: 🏦 75% of US banks have blockchain programs underway, with 22% live or scaling and 53% piloting or assessing use cases, per an Uphold/American Banker survey.

LATEST: 📊 Grayscale's Zach Pandl says Zcash has room to keep gaining vs. Bitcoin, noting ZEC sits at just ~1.5% of BTC's market cap while XRP, BCH, LTC and DASH all reached at least 3% during the 2017-18 cycle.

LATEST: 💰 OpenAI is targeting a $30B funding round that would value the company at $1.4T, up from its $852B valuation in March, per Bloomberg.

LATEST: ⚡ Ondo signed an MOU with Kakaopay Securities to explore expanding international access to South Korean-listed equities.

LATEST: 🇺🇸 President Trump and top executives from Google, Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia, and SpaceX signed a "morally binding" AI accord calling for internal controls, external audits, and board oversight.

LATEST: ⚡️ Kalshi is in advanced talks to raise about $1B at a roughly $40B valuation, up from $22B in May, per Reuters.