Saylor's Strategy Sell $216M of Bitcoin, Reverses Crypto's Holiday Weekend Pump, ANSEM Taps $400M

Crypto majors are green up 1-3%, with HYPE leading; BTC +1% at $62.8k; ETH +1% at $1,770; SOL +1% at $81; HYPE +3% at $71. ZRO (+7%), LIT (+6%) and AAVE (+6%) led top movers. Oil even at $68; Gold +1% at $4,170. Stock futures are green as chip stocks rebound; DOW flat, Nasdaq +1%. President Trump defended his crypto ventures after his disclosure showed over $1 billion in 2025 earnings, pushing back on conflict-of-interest criticism as Democrats renew calls to bar politicians and their families from the industry. Odds of the CLARITY Act passing briefly surged to 55% after two major law enforcement groups shifted their stance, but has since retraced to 44%; now only 1 month remains until the key Aug 7 deadline marking the Senate summer break. Vitalik Buterin outlined Ethereum's "Lean Ethereum" roadmap, a 3-4-year plan to make recursive STARKs a native verification layer, swap remaining quantum-vulnerable cryptography for post-quantum alternatives, introduce a "scalable state" type reaching 100 TB by 2030 to cut some transaction costs more than 10x, and explore RISC-V or leanISA VMs for programmable privacy. Bitcoin miner stress hit a historically rare level, with the Miner Cycle Stress Composite falling to a new 2026 low and entering its "undervalued" range, a level that previously showed up near major bottoms in 2015, 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024. Powered by https://myriad.markets/markets