Income for a Comfortable Life in U.S. Cities. 56 of America’s largest cities are ranked by the required annual income for a family of four.
The most expensive: • San Francisco — $407.6 thousand • San Jose — $402.8 thousand • Oakland — $371.5 thousand • Boston — $368.7 thousand • Arlington (Virginia) — $368.3 thousand
Also in the top 10: New York, Seattle, Irvine, Honolulu, Washington. California has 6 of the 10 most expensive cities. Even in San Antonio, you need nearly $193 thousand.
The main reason is the high cost of housing. Transport, healthcare, and childcare expenses are also important. $SOL $AAVE $MORPHO
Volkswagen plans to close four plants in Germany over the next eight years
About 40,000 people work there. Another 50,000 employees, the company plans to reduce by 2030. The goal is to cut costs and improve global competitiveness. $SPCXB $NVDAB $TSLA
🛰 SpaceX for the first time put a commercial satellite powered by a nuclear energy source into orbit — the BOHR spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket
Technology based on tritium will allow satellites to operate for years without solar panels and could pave the way for missions in the most remote and dark regions of the Solar System. $SPCXB
Washington stated that Tehran’s strikes on three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz were not provoked in any way and violate the ceasefire regime — the US carried out retaliatory strikes and revoked the license that allowed Iran to sell oil, and also reinstated sanctions
Donny threatens further strikes on infrastructure if a deal is not reached
The IRGC responded by firing on 85 American military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait, and Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Aragchi, said that talks on the final deal will not resume while threats continue to be directed at Tehran
Oil reacted with a 6% rise, while crypto went down again—predictably; we only wrote yesterday that Iran has been out of the news for a long time $BTC
🚀⚡ IPO SpaceX drives record trading of tokenized shares worth $860 million in June
🔹 SpaceX tokens attracted $1.9 billion in trading volume — 31% of the total monthly volume of tokenized assets 🔹 A $5 billion IPO priced at $35 per share created a $1 billion market cap, the fastest inclusion in an index ever 🔹 Retail investor frenzy led to trading of more than 500 million shares per day on the debut as DeFi and traditional finance convergence accelerated ⚡🌐 🔹 Only 4% of shares are in free float — scarcity fuels demand for 24/7 tokenized exposure 🔹 Rapid inclusion in the Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 indices triggers mass ETF purchases 📈💸 $SPCXB
China developed a chip that simulates brain activity
The chip combines data storage and computing in a single array of memory, which speeds up information processing.
The developers claim that the chip reconstructs complex brain surfaces in less than 0.5 seconds—up to 478 times faster than Nvidia A100.
The technology could enable earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, improve brain–machine interfaces, and increase the accuracy of neurosurgery. $TAO $NEAR $RENDER
🚨💸⚡ BONK DAO just got REKT: $20 million in treasury funds stolen in a governance takeover attack
🔹 4,426 trillion BONK stolen via a malicious proposal — the attacker bought voting rights to carry out an attack on the treasury 💰🗳️ 🔹 Price down 8–10% to $0.00000445 — the market is panicking as $20 million vanished from the treasury overnight 📉💥 🔹 Brilliant, but malicious — not a smart-contract exploit, just buying tokens to gain control over votes in governance 🎯🔓 🔹 Law enforcement notified — exchanges are freezing wallets as the stolen funds are being moved to centralized exchanges 🚔💻 $BONK
Sberbank of Russia is preparing the launch of a crypto wallet
In Russia, it seems that the legalization of cryptocurrencies is beginning. All processes will be tied to internal infrastructure to control and allow only certain cryptocurrencies. Other exchanges and crypto providers may be blocked or driven out. $SOL
🔄💰📈 USDC overtakes USDT by volume — the great stablecoin war begins
🔹 USDC from Circle now accounts for ~70% of adjusted transaction volume on the blockchain versus 30% for Tether — the first time since 2019 🔹 USDC processed $18.3T in transfers in 2025 versus $13.2T for USDT — the volume gap is growing by 39% 🔹 The total stablecoin market reaches $320B in circulating supply, $28T+ in quarterly volume — 75% of all crypto trading 🔹 USDT still leads by supply ($185B vs $79B), but institutions are choosing the regulated rails of USDC
The thesis of regulated stablecoins is winning where it matters most: real economic flows. $USDC
A couple of guys opened a short on the market. Poor fellows are in big trouble. They’re just getting swept away, Trump said.
According to him, he never liked short sellers, because he believes they are betting against the country.
Trump also said that his economic policy makes the biggest financial companies geniuses.
In his words, Blackstone, BlackRock, and Goldman Sachs support his course, while traders who were betting on the market to fall are suffering huge losses. $BTC
⏺ JPMorgan analysts cut their short-term gold forecast but still expect it to rise in 2027
A temporary lull before a new rally. Despite the sharp drop in the forecast for end-2026 to $4,500, JPMorgan maintains an optimistic long-term outlook.
The bank believes that the upward trend will resume as early as 2027, and that the main driver of the metal’s long-term price growth will remain stable, high demand from global central banks. $BTC
Interpol searched for a 65-year-old World Cup fan all over Europe—turns out he just lost his phone and was hanging out in bars in Barcelona.
Michael Hewitt missed a flight to Boston, lost his phone, and didn’t even try to text anyone. The family raised an international alert after his passport hadn’t shown up at any border crossing for 10 days. They found him—alive, happy, and with a beer. No comments needed. $SPCXB
📉 The market could crash tomorrow. Key factors: 🔴 The Fed confirmed its course toward further increases in interest rates. 🔴 Japan has begun currency interventions. 🔴 China continues to reduce investments in U.S. Treasury bonds. 🔴 Large funds are taking profits and cutting positions amid fears that the AI boom is starting to lose momentum. $BTC $SPCXB
Vitalik presented Lean Ethereum and a roadmap for the next 3–4 years, which should make the network simpler, cheaper, and more efficient.
For everyday users, almost nothing will change; DeFi and familiar applications will continue to work. But inside the network, it will be seriously revamped: they will improve transaction verification, increase privacy, and prepare Ethereum to defend against future quantum threats. $ETH