☕️ GM! Here are the top events in #Crypto from the past 24 hours

📊Market Updates

🔸The crypto market plunged after U.S. strikes on Iran, with over $1B in liquidations and BTC falling below $100K for the first time in 45 days.

🔸Metaplanet buys 1,111 BTC worth $111M, boosting its holdings to 11,111 BTC. Japan's corporate Bitcoin adoption continues to accelerate.

🔸Grant Cardone’s firm bought 1,000 BTC worth $101M, aiming to add 3,000 more as part of a dual real estate and Bitcoin strategy.

🔸Michael Saylor hints at another Bitcoin buy as Strategy faces lawsuit over $5.9B Q1 loss and insider stock sale allegations.

🔸An ETH whale bought $39M during the sell-off, joining others who added $263.5M+ in ETH as technicals hint at a 25% rebound.

🔸Kraken’s Ink Layer 2 hits 500K+ daily txs as hype builds for its INK token airdrop. TVL still low, but activity is surging pre-rollout.

🌟Highlights

🔸OKX is weighing a US IPO after relaunching its US operations in April, following a $500M DoJ settlement and HQ move to California.

🔸Coinbase secures MiCA license via Luxembourg, enabling EU-wide crypto services and establishing its European hub for expanded growth.

🔸FTX lawyers push to dismiss 3AC’s $1.5B claim, calling it baseless and blaming 3AC’s own trading for its collapse, not FTX actions.

🔸Hong Kong's stablecoin licensing begins Aug 1, giving it a regulatory edge as it eyes yuan-pegged coins and boosts offshore RMB role.