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Bitcoin's price increased by 5% to $81,000, accompanied by the liquidation of $140 million in short positions.

Standard Chartered announced the launch of spot Bitcoin trading services in the United Arab Emirates, adding to its earlier roll‑outs in other markets.

Bitcoin (BTC) is experiencing volatility around the $77,000 price level, with ETF investors reacting by withdrawing $70.1 million in a single day, raising questions about short-term demand trends.

Anthony Pompliano, a well-known Bitcoin advocate, asserts that Bitcoin (BTC) and artificial intelligence (AI) are the only assets required for a portfolio over the next two decades.

The EU announced a strategy to expand the Savings and Investments Union to €10 trillion in deposits, explicitly excluding Bitcoin as a policy objective.

On-chain analyst Willy Woo suggests Bitcoin's traditional 4-year halving cycle may be ending, proposing a shift to a 6-8 year cycle aligned with traditional finance (TradFi) debt cycles.

Bitcoin (BTC) is trading near $77,381, with Glassnode data indicating that 68% of its circulating supply is now in profit, an increase of 3 percentage points from May.

Standard Chartered, a systemically important bank, is now providing direct Bitcoin and Ethereum custody services to institutional clients in Dubai, distinguishing it from 29 other 'too big to fail' banks.

Strategy, a public company, disclosed that it sold millions in Bitcoin when prices were in the low $60,000 range and subsequently repurchased the asset at approximately $80,000.

Michael Saylor compares Bitcoin investment strategy to golf, framing it as a long-term, strategic reserve asset despite recent re-buying activity.

Strive's CEO Matt Cole indicated that Strive may accumulate over 27,000 Bitcoin by the end of the year, signaling continued corporate adoption of Bitcoin as a treasury asset.

Hargreaves Lansdown, a UK investment platform, announced plans to offer Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded notes (ETNs) to retail investors following the UK Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) lifting of a four-year ban on crypto ETNs.