Trump wants to punish banks for refusing to serve crypto companies
According to the draft decree, financial regulators will have to investigate cases of violations of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, antitrust legislation, and consumer financial protection laws. Authorities should be granted the right to impose various penalties, including fines, on counterparties who have been found to be engaged in such practices.
The Wall Street Journal reminded that the fight against the debanking of crypto companies was one of Trump's campaign promises, who threatened to put an end to "Operation Choke Po

Buterin proposed to limit the size of fees in the Ethereum network
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin and developer Anders Ehlosson suggested capping the transaction fee on the ETH network.
They proposed to create a "unified multidimensional fee market" to limit the maximum allowable fee for various operations in the blockchain. If the initiative by programmers called EIP-7999 is implemented, there will be no need to calculate multiple components of the fee. Instead, a maximum fee size for any operations will be used, which will simplify the transaction process and make it more predictable.
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Bitcoin briefly fell below $113,000 after Trump announced new tariffs

Pipe Network launches Firestarter Storage — a decentralized alternative to cloud storage on Solana

Vitalik Buterin introduced a simplified gas calculation system in Ethereum
The founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, and researcher Anders Elouson proposed to rethink the approach to transaction payments in the network. The plan involves creating a unified multidimensional market for fees to simplify the calculation of transaction costs and improve the economic efficiency of the entire Ethereum ecosystem.
Currently, Ethereum uses separate fee systems: EIP-1559 regulates regular gas, while EIP-4844 regulates blob object gas, designed to transfer large volumes of information without overloading

Experts predict the imminent launch of an ETF based on Solana and a rise in SOL.
A number of crypto experts believe that the first exchange-traded funds (ETF) based on Solana may be approved in the near future, which will lead to a rapid rise in SOL.
The yield of SOL over the past two and a half years has been astronomical, although the token fell below $10 after the FTX crash in 2022. Since then, the price of SOL has risen by approximately 2000%.
Analysts noted that seven asset managers took another step towards the launch of (ETF) Solana on the US markets. On August 1, organizations Bitwise,

Metaplanet is purchasing an additional 463 Bitcoin, increasing its reserves to 17,595 coins.

Adjustment of Bitcoin difficulty and supply-to-flow ratio
The stock-to-flow ratio measures the total available supply of a financial asset or commodity compared to the newly created supply added by miners or producers.
The higher the coefficient, the more resilient the asset or commodity is to price changes caused by overproduction; the lower the coefficient, the more the asset or commodity will be affected by new supply.
This ratio partly explains why silver has been supplanted by gold. Silver has a lower stock-to-flow ratio than gold. Rising silver prices attract mining companies and produce

Analysts: The USA lags behind the global trend in rate reductions, delaying the rally of cryptocurrencies.

Tether holdings in US Treasury bonds exceeded the reserves of South Korea.
The issuer of the largest stablecoin USDT has become the 18th largest holder of US Treasury bonds in the world, surpassing South Korea.
According to Tether's report for the second quarter of 2025, its Holdings in US Treasury bonds are estimated at $127 billion: $105.5 billion in direct Holdings and another $21.3 billion in indirect. This is $7 billion more than in the first quarter.
In mid-May, Tether ranked 19th among the largest holders of U.S. Treasury bills, leaving Germany behind. The company has now surpassed Sout

Ethereum price forecast (ETH) for August 2
After several weeks of rallying that pushed the price of Ethereum to the psychological barrier of $4000, bears have returned to trading, driving ETH below key short-term support levels. Given the downward momentum oscillators and increasing outflows, the price of Ethereum today stands at $3630, fluctuating near the lower boundary of the key ascending channel.

Investments in bitcoins brought Strategy $14 billion in the second quarter.

The analyst predicts that the next cycle minimum for XRP will not occur until at least 2026.

The largest bitcoin miners hold a total of 772,652 BTC worth $91.2 million

In one day, large investors purchased 130 million Dogecoin memecoins.

Russians will be able to buy shares of companies from the USA, despite the ban.
Soon ordinary Russians will be able to buy shares of American companies, despite the ban on purchasing securities of enterprises located outside the Eurasian Economic Union, which was introduced on January 1, 2025.
The thing is that the trading platform eToro will issue tokenized stocks of the 100 most popular companies in the USA on the Ethereum blockchain. Users of the platform will be able to purchase ERC-20 standard tokens, which are digital analogs of the organizations' securities, transfer them to their walle