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Trump threatens Europe with 100% tariffs over digital tax, crypto braces for macro shock Donald Trump has warned Europe that digital services taxes on American companies could trigger 100% tariffs on goods shipped to the United States. He posted the threat on Truth Social. I'll be hones ...

ZEC Long Positions on Hyperliquid Point to Possible Price Move Almost all of the top 10 ZEC traders on Hyperliquid are long right now. That is hard to ignore. My take: this is not a clean bullish signal, but it is a loud one. Bigger Zcash traders on the platform are leaning bullish, at ...

Telegram client "Telega" is shutting down. Crypto should pay attention. The unofficial Telegram client "Telega" will stop working on July 1. Small story. Easy to miss. My take: it still deserves a second look because it comes out of Russia and sits close to Telegram. Crypto still lives ...

Elon Musk's X Money Payments Launch Points to a Payments Push Elon Musk's X Money launched today, with early access for Premium+ subscribers. This does not suddenly rewrite the crypto market. It does not. My take: the more important shift is behavioral. X is trying to m ...

Crypto market cap slips below $2 trillion as macro pressure hits The total crypto market cap briefly dipped below $2 trillion today. Traders notice that line. Not because it has magic in it. Because $2 trillion is round, visible, and ugly when the tape slips under it. ...

Base Outage Resolved: A Stress Test for L2 Stability Base stopped producing new blocks for more than 2 hours. That is hard to wave away. I’ll be honest: this is exactly the kind of failure people mentally file under “unlikely” until it actually happens. The network is ru ...

Russian official VPN fatigue points to Russia's digital wall Russia's Deputy Minister of Construction, Nikita Stasishin, said he is tired of constantly switching his VPN on and off. Small complaint. Big tell. If even a government official is sick of the workaround, ordinary Russian inte ...

Michael Saylor Lawsuit: MicroStrategy Securities Under Scrutiny, Crypto Market Watches "Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy are facing a class-action lawsuit from Rosen Law Firm, investigating potential securities fraud related to MSTR, STRF, STRC, STRK, and STRD." If this ...

Kazakhstan Stock Exchange Lists Solana ETF: Crypto Keeps Edging Into Regular Markets The Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) has listed a Solana ETF. Small headline, real signal. Crypto traders now have another regulated product to point at when they argue that digital assets are creeping ...

Russia's stablecoin proposals: a regulatory tightrope for crypto Russia's Central Bank, the CBR, wants feedback on ruble-backed stablecoins by September 1. Big headline, smaller move. The bank is not preparing to turn stablecoins into everyday payment money inside Russia. It is asking a ...