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Whether you read every Daily this week, only a few, or none at all — here's the shape of the week, seen from a distance.

In this week's Digest:

💎 The week that told one story — stocks up, crypto earnings down, and why
💎 CLARITY Act support keeps growing — so does the opposition
💎 Chip stocks crash, then rebound, in three days
💎 Kaupr launches Onchain by Kaupr

Morten

Five days, five separate stories on their own. Put next to each other, they read like one.

Samsung confirmed stablecoins are coming to Samsung Wallet — no issuer, no date, no details, just the confirmation. Telegram went further, announcing a self-custody wallet for its billion-plus users, putting people in control of their own keys at a scale no one has tried before.

Hyperliquid started trading more in tokenized stocks than in crypto itself. Robinhood, several major exchanges and even the memecoin platform Pump.fun all raced into the same space — more places to trade both crypto and stocks than existed a month ago.

The SEC kept quietly writing its own crypto rules, independent of Congress. The CLARITY Act itself stayed stuck in the Senate — a fight we cover in more depth below.

Robinhood's prediction markets business overtook its crypto trading revenue for the first time ever. Coinbase missed Q2 estimates. Strategy booked an $8.2 billion paper loss even as it kept buying bitcoin.

Microsoft led a record-breaking Wall Street rebound. Crypto didn't follow — a new report found institutional trading now makes up a record 72% of crypto volume, because retail money went to stocks instead. Through it all, bitcoin's own price quietly held its ground.

Read the days in order and it stops looking like five stories. It looks like one: crypto quietly expanding into new places, while the money deciding whether to show up went somewhere else.

Fidelity ($7.1 trillion) publicly urged the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act. Goldman Sachs broke ranks with JPMorgan to back it. Franklin Templeton joined too, bringing combined institutional support past $30 trillion.

New York's attorney general came out against it, warning it would weaken states' power to investigate crypto fraud. The Senate's own majority leader still expects the chamber to miss its window before the August recess.

More than $30 trillion in support hasn't moved the number that actually matters — the vote count.

Chip stocks lost over $1 trillion in value early in the week, then Microsoft's earnings triggered one of the sharpest rebounds Wall Street has seen this year — same stocks, opposite direction, three days apart.

A swing that violent is a reminder that a lot of the "AI trade" right now is running on sentiment, not just fundamentals.

We launched a new home this week for everything Kaupr covers about the industry and people building onchain finance across the Nordics and Baltics:
Onchain by Kaupr, with two publications at launch — Onchain Growth, a briefing on the companies and market shaping where onchain finance goes, and Onchain Build, a more frequent read for builders and ecosystem initiatives.

One thing we covered here last week is a good example of where Onchain Build picks up: Fati Hakim's case for blockchain beyond crypto (watch the interview), and the first blockathon in the Nordics she's building in Stockholm this September. If you want to keep following that story as it develops, that's now happening over on Onchain Build.

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Best regards
Morten Myrstad
Founder & Editor