Daily Summary, July 18 

🏦 Sber proposed making banks central hubs for cryptocurrency accounting and storage — it has submitted its market regulation proposals to the Central Bank.

📈 According to CoinGecko, the total cryptocurrency market cap has exceeded $4 trillion for the first time.

⛽️ A user paid a transaction fee of 31.2 ETH ($112,700) for a single transfer.

🪒 This morning, Binance became the leader in short liquidations — one trader was liquidated for $22,490,000.

🪙 SharpLink Gaming will raise an additional $5 billion to purchase Ethereum.

🤖 OpenAI introduced a new universal AI agent in ChatGPT that can independently perform tasks on behalf of the user — for example, manage calendars, create presentations, write and execute code.

🪙 Adam Back sold $9.5 billion worth of BTC over the last 3 days — tonight, he transferred the remaining 40,000 BTC to Galaxy Digital.

🗽 Thumzup Media, another company tied to the Trump family, received approval to create a $250,000,000 treasury in BTC, XRP, DOGE, and other cryptocurrencies.

🇦🇺 Australia is launching BTC-backed mortgages.

🪙 Yesterday, July 17, Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen transferred $30,000,000 worth of XRP to Coinbase, and the very next day, the coin hit an all-time high of $3.65.

🚓 A British officer was sentenced to over 5 years in prison for stealing 50 BTC seized from a Silk Road 2.0 co-founder.