Daily Summary, July 25

🇷🇺 The Central Bank of Russia lowered its key rate from 20% to 18%—the biggest cut in three years.

📊 The classic BTC cycle model no longer works.

🏘 Auction house Christie’s has launched a crypto division in real estate—now deals can be conducted entirely in cryptocurrency, without bank involvement.

🌕 Tether reported that around 250,000 Tether Gold (XAU₮) tokens are in circulation, each backed by one troy ounce of physical gold—totaling over 7.66 tons.

🛰 Tonight, Elon Musk’s Starlink went down worldwide, with a global outage lasting 2.5 hours.

🪙 Adam Back’s Galaxy Digital transferred around 13,000 BTC ($1.5 billion) to exchanges in the past 8 hours.

🪙 New research shows that MEV arbitrage on the Ethereum network is becoming increasingly centralized.

🤖 Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has integrated the Grok chatbot with the betting platform Kalshі.

🇰🇵 An Arizona resident was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for assisting North Korean hackers in infiltrating over 300 U.S. crypto and IT companies.

🪙 American biotech company Windtree Therapeutics will spend $720,000,000 to build a BNB reserve.

🤖 GPT-5 will launch in early August—but OpenAI won’t present it as a single specific model.

🇻🇳 Vietnam has launched its national blockchain platform, NDAChain—it will serve as the foundation for the country’s entire digital infrastructure.

💤 An Ethereum ICO participant with 37 ETH in their account woke up after 10 years of inactivity—they received their coins for $11, now worth $140,000.