PCE came in hotter than expected — 0.2% monthly vs 0.1% forecast, yearly still at 3.7%. Real spending flat. Market's not gonna love that.

Canada hit back with 15-50% tariffs on $20B+ of US goods. Steel and aluminum doubled to 50%. Trade war getting real.

Hyperliquid flipped the switch on Aligned Quote Asset v2 — now routing ~90% of USDC reserve yield into $HYPE buybacks. That's... actually interesting.

$ZEC dropped 7.6% to $787 after Grayscale's spot ETF (ZCSH) started trading. Still up 56% on the week though. Wild ride.

$SOL processed 4.2B transactions in July — new record, up 13.5% from June. That's 91% higher than December. Usage is real.

Monero and Zcash holders can now swap $XMR and $ZEC natively on THORChain 3.20 against $BTC, $ETH, and stables. No wrapped tokens. Privacy coins getting some love.