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JUST IN: $215.31M worth of shorts liquidated in the past 60 minutes as Bitcoin drops below $79,000.

JUST IN: Michael Saylor’s Strategy $BTC holdings are back in profit, with an unrealized gain of approximately $1.4 billion.

JUST IN: Bitcoin at $77,000.

JUST IN: Anthropic adds Citigroup as a top adviser for its upcoming IPO, joining Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Pentagon orders Harvard, MIT and 28 other U.S. universities to cut ties with China, Russia and Iran or risk losing federal funding.

NEW: Elon Musk says Tesla’s Optimus robot and Grok will one day provide incredible medical care to everyone on Earth.

JUST IN: 🇮🇳 India’s market regulator bars a JPMorgan unit over alleged Sensex closing auction manipulation.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 CFTC Chairman Mike Selig says blockchain, AI and prediction markets will transform finance, warning the U.S. must innovate or risk losing its global lead.

NEW: Franklin Templeton has received SEC clearance to use its tokenized money-market fund BENJI in traditional ETFs and mutual funds.

TODAY: 🇺🇸 The CFTC is holding its first-ever Innovation Advisory Committee meeting to discuss crypto, AI and prediction markets.

JUST IN: Peter Schiff says investors should "sell" Bitcoin for gold.

JUST IN: Elon Musk’s X is reportedly exploring using stablecoins like USDC to pay creators and influencers for their content.

JUST IN: 🇰🇷 BitGo becomes the first global crypto firm to secure a VASP registration in South Korea.

JUST IN: $190 billion has been added to the crypto market cap in the past 24 hours.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump announces the “most crushing economic operation ever” against Iran. He warns that any country providing Iran with a financial lifeline will face severe consequences.

Bitcoin has reclaimed $70,000 for the first time since early June.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US national debt officially surpasses $40 trillion.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Federal Reserve says U.S. stock valuations are near dot-com bubble levels.

JUST IN: Bitcoin now has a 76% chance of reclaiming $70,000 this month, according to Polymarket.

JUST IN: Bitcoin at $66,000.