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⚡Gold Just Made History. Again.
For the first time since 1789, gold’s worth over $30 trillion — as traders flee stocks, banks crumble, and crypto joins the rush through tokenized gold. BlackRock rebuilds its stablecoin engine, Florida wants a Bitcoin reserve, and even DeFi’s buying bars.
🧠 Whales, Gold, and the Great Speculation Phase
A new class of Bitcoin whales is trading like hedge funds while gold smashes records above $4,200. France debuts its first MiCA-compliant stablecoin, OTC desks keep markets calm amid tariff chaos, and Binance sets up a $400M relief plan. Old money meets new liquidity — and both are bullish.
🌊 CEXs Froze. DeFi Floated.
PLUS: Centralized exchanges faltered, but DeFi protocols thrived as the market’s backbone. While XRP bounced 66%, CME expanded crypto options, and BlackRock’s IBIT stayed green, altcoins continued to bleed. Amid chaos, DeFi quietly proved it’s the most resilient part of crypto’s new market cycle.
💵 Solana just got its own Dollar — meet JupUSD
Jupiter x Ethena are minting Solana’s native stablecoin, JupUSD, to anchor its DeFi future. Meanwhile, the Fed’s opening its doors to crypto, tokenized gold hits $3B, privacy coins like ZEC roar back, and Arthur Hayes says Trump’s pumping Bitcoin harder than any halving.
🐶 The retail comeback starts here — on BNB
PLUS: 70% of BNB meme traders are in profit, 40 new millionaires minted, and retail energy is roaring back. Solana’s losing mindshare, Dubai’s tokenizing gold, Russia’s betting on $250K BTC, Solana reports $2.85B in revenue, and S&P launches a crypto index on-chain.
🏦 Citadel’s Ken Griffin: “BTC is part of the debasement trade”
PLUS: ETFs pull $3.2B in inflows, MetaMask launches a $30M Linea rewards push, Dubai fines 19 crypto firms, Grayscale adds staking to ETFs, Zcash revives privacy hype, and Standard Chartered bets $1T on stablecoins by 2028.