Bitcoin support $108,500, resistance $116,200; reclaiming $114,000 is the base for a move higher; $115,600 remains the tactical gate for the bullish market.
Mid-tier wallets 100–1,000 BTC continue to accumulate; BlackRock bought over $1 billion of BTC last week; U.S. government holdings now roughly $22.95 billion in BTC and $803.26 million in ETH.
S&P 500 hit 6,600, up roughly 36% since April lows; Fed cut odds remain high (CME ~93.4% for 25 bps).
Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded a weekly net inflow of $2.34 billion, Ethereum spot ETFs $638 million, both ending last week in the green.
Solana treasury buys and a rising altcoin-season index (84) keep high-beta exposure attractive but riskier.
The industry's biggest lobbying group backs Custodia Bank's petition arguing the Federal Reserve has no discretion to deny master accounts to eligible state-chartered banks — a question Kraken's own path around the same wall already shows has more than one answer
The regulator dismantled Australia's largest cash-to-Bitcoin network using powers it already had; the AML/CTF bill now before Parliament would let it do the same to the whole sector without waiting for a company to fail first.
Jeong Sang-ho gets the same sentence as Do Kwon, but on a fraction of the alleged victim count — after a court threw out evidence tied to the case's largest fraud allegation
The Aug. 19 gathering lands a day before a CFTC advisory panel takes up the same state-versus-federal jurisdiction fight now playing out in courtrooms in at least a dozen states.
