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Lighter to Burn Repurchased LIT, Fund Staking from Ecosystem Reserve
The perpetuals exchange will start burning the LIT it buys with revenue and tap its token reserve to keep staking yields flowing.

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DraftKings Launches Proprietary Prediction Markets Exchange With $3.4B Annualized Consumer Volume
DraftKings has launched DKeX, a proprietary prediction markets exchange, reporting $3.4 billion in annualized consumer volume as it enters a field increasingly crowded by Kalshi, Polymarket, Meta Arena, and Robinhood.

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Strategy's Enterprise mNAV Drops Below 1 for the First Time
Strategy's enterprise market-to-NAV ratio crossed below 1 on Thursday for the first time, putting the combined weight of its debt, preferred stock, and equity above the value of its 847,363-bitcoin treasury and closing the equity-accretion channel that powered its buying spree.

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Strategy Executives Issue Coordinated Investor Reassurances as STRC Hits Record Lows
Three Strategy officials published separate posts within hours Friday defending the company's balance sheet, as bitcoin fell to around $59,600 and STRC preferred shares traded near historic lows.

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Tether's USDT Closes In on Ether for No. 2 Crypto Spot by Market Cap
USDT has drawn level with ether for the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, briefly overtaking it earlier in June. Rising stablecoin issuance is meeting a falling ether price.

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Securities Probe Lands on Strategy as MSTR Sinks and STRC Slips Below Par
The Rosen Law Firm opened a securities investigation into Strategy and is soliciting shareholders for a potential class action, as MSTR hit a two-year low below $100 and its STRC preferred traded about 26% below par.

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Strategy's STRC Preferred Stock Hits Record Lows as Leverage Cascade Deepens
Strategy's Series A perpetual preferred stock has fallen to record lows around $73-78, down roughly 25% from its $100 par value in two weeks, as a leverage-driven selloff accelerates despite the company's bitcoin balance sheet staying intact.

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Bitcoin Slips Under $60,000 as Tech Rout, Hawkish Fed Hit Crypto
Ether falls harder than Bitcoin in a market-wide risk-off move, while Aave bucks the selloff on V4 and Grayscale tailwinds; total DeFi value drops to about $69 billion

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A16z-Linked Wallet Pulls 25,560 ETH From Binance in Apparent Accumulation Move
A wallet attributed to venture firm a16z withdrew $42.62M worth of ETH from Binance on Tuesday, per onchain intelligence tracker Lookonchain, as ETH trades near 30-day lows.

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Strategy Stock Falls Below $100 for First Time in Two Years as Analysts Pick Apart Its Bitcoin Bet
The break below $100 puts MSTR at a discount to its roughly $50 billion in Bitcoin and shifts the question from how much more Bitcoin Strategy can buy to which slice of its capital stack — the common stock, the preferreds, the debt or the coins themselves — is still worth owning, according to analysts at Arca and Zero Knowledge.



