1. BlackRock deposited an additional 3,625 BTC and 20,598 ETH, bringing the total amount of BTC deposited into Coinbase over the past three days to $918.5 million;
2. Michael Saylor: Digital credit has enabled Strategy to purchase 175,000 BTC this year amid the bear market;
3. Circle Co-founder responds positively to OUSD competition: Consortium-based stablecoins are unlikely to succeed; network effects will ultimately determine the winner;
4. Analyst: Don’t expect Wash to provide forward-looking guidance tonight;
5. A whale used four newly created wallets to go long on 800 BTC with 20x leverage within five days, worth $47 million;
6. Citigroup lowers its 12-month Bitcoin forecast from $112,000 to $82,000;
7. Senior Iranian official: Iran and the U.S. held indirect talks in Qatar, focusing on the unfreezing of Iranian funds and the Strait of Hormuz;
8. Amazon Cloud Technology will invest $1 billion to establish a new AI division;
9. An ARK Invest executive questions the stablecoin alliance project OpenUSD, suggesting it may repeat the “Diem-style collaboration failure.”