Scroll crypto Twitter this week and you'll see it in all caps: the UK Treasury has "crowned" Ripple, "government-level integration" is here, and even Manchester mayor Andy Burnham is supposedly backing XRP.

Strategy sold nearly $109 million worth of Bitcoin and more than $650 million of its own shares last week as Michael Saylor's company continues a major shift toward managing its increasingly complex capital structure.

The U.S. Senate has delayed a vote on the CLARITY Act until September, complicating efforts to pass landmark cryptocurrency market structure legislation before the end of the year.

Bitcoin trades near $64,800 on August 7, and Michael Saylor picked this exact moment to reaffirm the most audacious goal in corporate finance: making Strategy the largest company on Earth by market capitalization.

Hyperliquid's HYPE token trades around $55 on August 7, up roughly 5% on the day but a long way below the $76.81 all-time high it printed back in June.

Bitcoin traded above $64,000 on Thursday after recovering from an early-week pullback, while investors turned their attention to a $101 billion SpaceX share unlock, declining AI-related stocks and upcoming earnings from SoftBank.

Bitcoin's famous 500-day rule is signaling another potential buying opportunity later this year, but market experts say the rise of spot ETFs and institutional investors could weaken a strategy that worked across previous halving cycles.