Bitcoin Breaks $66K on Clarity Progress, ETF Inflows Hit Five-Day Streak as Refinery Squeeze Lifts Gas Above $4

Bitcoin surges past sixty-six thousand dollars as traders price in progress on the Clarity Act's ethics provisions and institutional capital returns with a five-day ETF inflow streak-the longest since May. Ethereum reclaims nineteen hundred forty dollars while XRP targets a triangle breakout toward one dollar thirty-five. Semiconductor stocks rebound from bear market lows, lifting A I compute plays including Hut Eight and IREN after securing nearly thirteen billion in new contracts. Gasoline prices climb above four dollars per gallon despite crude fundamentals as crack spreads triple to their widest since twenty twenty-two on constrained global refining capacity. Grayscale files for the first U S Worldcoin ETF. Russia passes comprehensive crypto regulation effective September first. The U K parliament probes banking restrictions on crypto firms.