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GM to all of you nutcases. It’s Crypto Nutshell #659 lightin’ the fuse… 🧨🥜

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What we’ve cooked up for you today…

• 🏦 The accumulation game

• 🚀 Nowhere near the top

• 🔥 Twelve

• 💰 And more…

What’s in the Crypto Nutshell Portfolio?

THE ACCUMULATION GAME 🏦

BREAKING: Strategy pauses bitcoin buying spree for first time in 3 months

After three straight months of relentless buying, Strategy finally took a breather.

No new Bitcoin added this week…

Saylor posted the following to X earlier in the week:

But while the king of corporate Bitcoin hit pause, a new contender just went full send…

Bit Digital has officially flipped.

Dumping its entire BTC stash, the Nasdaq-listed firm splashed $173 million into Ethereum - acquiring over 100,000 ETH and instantly becoming the second-largest public ETH holder behind Coinbase.

CEO Sam Tabar didn’t hold back:

The market loved it.

BTBT shares ripped higher, sending its market cap back above $1 billion.

And this isn’t a one-off.

BitMine Immersion and SharpLink have made similar pivots, betting big on Ethereum’s staking yield, tokenization boom, and future role as financial infrastructure.

A pattern is emerging…

While Bitcoin purists cling to scarcity and simplicity - Ethereum’s camp is playing the long game: programmable money, real-world assets, institutional staking.

Even as Strategy sat out, Metaplanet swooped in with a $239M BTC buy, and Semler added another $20M - pushing total corporate BTC holdings past 852,000 coins.

Still…

The narrative is shifting.

And Ethereum just raised its flag.

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NOWHERE NEAR THE TOP 🚀

Julien Bittel just dropped a new signal…

And it’s crystal clear:

We’re nowhere near the top.

If you know his work with Raoul Pal at Global Macro Investor, you know they don’t guess.

They model.

Their latest chart?

The GMI Bitcoin Cycle Top Finder

It’s nailed every cycle top - 2011, 2014, 2018, 2021.

Each peak corresponded almost perfectly with Bitcoin’s blow-off tops.

But right now?

It’s nowhere close.

According to Julien, this cycle still has legs - and the biggest move is still ahead.

We agree.

Not financial advice.

But when the guys who built The Everything Code say we’re not done…

You might want to listen. 🚀

TWELVE 🔥

For the twelfth week in a row, digital asset funds saw net inflows of $1.04 billion.

That brings the year-to-date total to nearly $19 billion.

And thanks to strong price action across the board, total assets under management just hit a new all-time high of $188 billion.

Let’s break it down.

As always Bitcoin led the charge, pulling in $790 million in inflows.

Ethereum followed with $226.4 million.

While Solana and XRP continued their inflow streaks with flows of $21.6 million and $10.6 million respectively.

Regionally, the United States dominated with $1.03 billion in inflows.

Germany contributed $38.5 million, Switzerland added $33.7 million, and Australia brought in $4.1 million.

In contrast, Canada, Sweden, and Brazil each saw outflows of $29.3 million, $19.2 million, and $9.7 million respectively.

And here’s the kicker - this all happened during a week when U.S. markets were closed for the 4th of July holiday.

The message?

Even with a day off, the flows didn’t stop.

Institutional demand is still alive. Capital is still moving in. And the conviction behind this market keeps building.

CRACKING CRYPTO 🥜

Jack Dorsey launches Bitchat, a Bluetooth-based messaging platform. Bitchat operates fully over Bluetooth, ensuring private, internet-free communication with resilience against outages.

Court ends Coin Center-US Treasury appeal over Tornado Cash. Following a joint filing with Coin Center and the US Treasury, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit granted a motion to vacate a lower court ruling.

SEC Sets July Deadline for Solana (SOL) ETF Refilings, Clearing Path for Pre-October Approval. The first final deadline for a spot Solana exchange-traded fund is October 10, but the SEC is under pressure to keep the approval process moving smoothly, sources say.

Solana-based memecoin generator Pump.fun plans to list its upcoming PUMP token on July 12. The Pump.fun team will apparently offer 150 billion PUMP tokens priced at $0.04 worth of USDT with a 1 trillion max supply.

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