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Daily Digest June 19: Saylor's STRC Snaps Its Peg as a Hawkish Fed and Iran Chaos Drag Crypto Into Extreme Fear
A brutal red Friday. Strategy's STRC preferred cracks the $100 peg it was engineered to hold, Iran walks out of peace talks, and Microsoft tells Windows users to watch their clipboards. BTC $62.3K, Fear & Greed at 19.
WhiteBIT Grabs an Austrian MiCA License With 11 Days to Spare Before Europe's Crypto Cutoff
WhiteBIT EU just secured a full MiCA license from Austria's financial regulator, locking in passported access to 30 EEA countries days before the July 1 grandfathering deadline that could push three-quarters of unlicensed rivals out of the bloc.
Franklin Templeton's 'Bitcoin DRIP' ETFs Would Quietly Stack BTC From Your Stock Dividends
The $1.78 trillion asset manager filed for two ETFs that hold US equities and automatically funnel their dividends into Bitcoin — a novel structure that builds crypto exposure without an upfront allocation.
Breaking News
Daily Digest June 19: Saylor's STRC Snaps Its Peg as a Hawkish Fed and Iran Chaos Drag Crypto Into Extreme Fear
A brutal red Friday. Strategy's STRC preferred cracks the $100 peg it was engineered to hold, Iran walks out of peace talks, and Microsoft tells Windows users to watch their clipboards. BTC $62.3K, Fear & Greed at 19.
Daily Digest June 19: Warsh's Hawkish Fed Debut Drags Crypto Lower as ETF Outflows Hit $4.4B
A red day across the board. New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh killed the rate-cut trade, Bitcoin slid near $62K, ETF outflows stretched to a record 13 days, and Fear & Greed sank to 14. Hyperliquid was the lone bright spot.
Saylor's Dividend Machine Springs a Leak: Strategy's STRC Crashes to a Record Low Below Par
Strategy's variable-rate preferred STRC slid to a record low near $88.50 this week, breaking below the $95 line that forces Michael Saylor's company to pay shareholders more, roughly $53 million more a year.
Macro Trends
Daily Digest June 19: Saylor's STRC Snaps Its Peg as a Hawkish Fed and Iran Chaos Drag Crypto Into Extreme Fear
A brutal red Friday. Strategy's STRC preferred cracks the $100 peg it was engineered to hold, Iran walks out of peace talks, and Microsoft tells Windows users to watch their clipboards. BTC $62.3K, Fear & Greed at 19.
Franklin Templeton's 'Bitcoin DRIP' ETFs Would Quietly Stack BTC From Your Stock Dividends
The $1.78 trillion asset manager filed for two ETFs that hold US equities and automatically funnel their dividends into Bitcoin — a novel structure that builds crypto exposure without an upfront allocation.
Schwab Brings Prediction Markets to Main Street With S&P 500 Binary Bets
Charles Schwab is teaming up with Cboe to let its customers wager on whether the S&P 500 closes above or below a target — pulling prediction markets out of crypto-native venues and into a mainstream brokerage.
Altcoin Analysis
Uniswap Rips 20% as Standard Chartered Slaps a $100 Target on UNI
UNI surged roughly 20% in a day, outrunning Bitcoin and Ethereum, after Standard Chartered floated a near-40x path to $100 by 2030 and Uniswap rolled out tokenized stocks.
Pre-IPO Perps Exploded 6,000x in Three Months — and Hyperliquid Just Crossed $10B
Pre-IPO perpetual futures volume hit roughly $12 billion in June, a 6,000-fold jump from March, as Hyperliquid's open interest topped $10 billion and traders raced to bet on SpaceX before it ever rang the bell.
UNI Rockets 20% as Standard Chartered Slaps a $100 Target on Uniswap
UNI surged nearly 20% in a day after Standard Chartered called for $100 by 2030 and Uniswap rolled out tokenized stocks like SpaceX and NVIDIA. Here's why the DeFi blue chip suddenly has Wall Street's attention.
Government Involvement
WhiteBIT Grabs an Austrian MiCA License With 11 Days to Spare Before Europe's Crypto Cutoff
WhiteBIT EU just secured a full MiCA license from Austria's financial regulator, locking in passported access to 30 EEA countries days before the July 1 grandfathering deadline that could push three-quarters of unlicensed rivals out of the bloc.
New House Bill Would Bar Lawmakers — and Their Families — From Betting on Politics
Rep. Bryan Steil's proposal would block members of Congress and their spouses and children from placing policy and election wagers on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, with fines for violators.
No Clemency for SBF: Lummis and Gallego Build a Bipartisan Wall Against a Pardon
Senators Cynthia Lummis and Ruben Gallego introduced a four-page resolution urging Trump not to pardon Sam Bankman-Fried, days after an appeals court upheld his 25-year sentence.
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