US PPI Falls to 5.5%, Misses Forecasts — BTC Eyes Fed Pivot
Producer prices cooling faster than expected strengthens the case that the Fed's inflation fight is rolling over, just as the market was pricing in a hold.
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Producer prices cooling faster than expected strengthens the case that the Fed's inflation fight is rolling over, just as the market was pricing in a hold.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. just fired the starting gun on production-grade tokenization of US equities and Treasurys.
827 $BTC (≈53.6M) moved from Coinbase Institutional to unknown wallet.
Headline PPI printed 5.5% vs 6.2% expected and core came in 50bp light too, the cleanest disinflation print in months and a direct tailwind for risk assets and BTC.
The new rule is a countdown, not a clarification: platforms that handle EU and UK customers must block trading and withdrawals for any user who refuses to hand over a tax ID.
When listing activity cools, the categories that flooded in first tend to get cleaned out first, and H1 2026 followed that pattern: DeFi, then GameFi, then memecoins.
The quarterly burn drops BNB's total supply to 133.17M, with every future burn now executed on BSC directly rather than through Binance's off-chain mechanism.
Tether had put $800M into Heka's arbitrage strategy and waived minting fees, a relationship that only became public when Circle's arbitration filing unsealed it in Boston federal court.
The headline number looks like a rout, but the $15.1B in net inflows over twelve months tells the real story: institutional demand stayed strong while $45.8B in market depreciation did the damage.
The 2027 regime shift plus a 20% flat crypto tax rate is the first G7 framework built around the asset as investable product, not payment method.
Phong Le's threshold is an 85% drawdown from current levels, but the more pressing signal is STRC trading below par and the mNAV sitting barely above 1.0.
Senator Lummis told Fox Business bill text drops within days and a floor vote could come as soon as next week, with an August 7 recess deadline that makes the window unusually tight.
Polymarket odds of a July Fed hike collapsed from 34% to 6.7% after the CPI print, but Brent above $85 and Fed Chair Warsh's caution leave traders reading the next move as data-dependent, not dovish.
The headline grabber is the $4.3B distribution by 100–1,000 BTC wallets on July 13, but the structural read is supply rotating from older whales into newer ones while ETF demand sits roughly 22x…
955 $BTC (≈61.8M) moved from unknown wallet to #Coinbase.
812 $BTC (≈52.6M) moved from #Coinbase to unknown wallet.
BTC holds $64.6K after Tuesday's soft CPI push while Strait of Hormuz saber-rattling trims overnight gains and keeps the market consolidating rather than breaking out.
Matt Hougan argues long-term holders should anchor on the cycle ceiling rather than chasing the floor, as ETF flows keep the bid firm into mid-2026.
The Czech Ministry of Finance added the prediction market to its unauthorized-internet-games list, giving ISPs a 15-day deadline, a template other EU regulators are now watching closely.
A $60.50-a-share offer, 28% over Tuesday's close, would fold the two most visible names pushing stablecoins onto mainstream rails into a single balance sheet.