Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said security forces recently dismantled four hideouts belonging to what it described as “terrorist and extremist organizations” linked to U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies. According to Jin10, the ministry said it worked with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the national police to carry out multiple operations in locations including Zahedan in Sistan and Baluchestan Province. The statement said authorities arrested five key members of an operational team and killed two armed individuals. The statement also said security forces found and dismantled another five-person operational team at two sites in the province. It said the group was suspected of involvement in attacks targeting military units and judicial institutions, and that those involved had been arrested. Iran said searches led to the seizure of a large quantity of firearms, multiple grenades, four radio devices, one Starlink satellite communications device, and a large amount of ammunition. The statement said the individuals had previously received military and explosives-use training abroad and had planned to enter Iran to carry out sabotage, assassinations, and terrorist activities. It added that they were detained before taking action and that their organizational network had been dismantled.

Circle has minted 280 million USDC on the Solana blockchain, according to Onchain Lens monitoring. According to Odaily, Circle has minted a total of 64.53 billion USDC on Solana so far this year.

U.S.-Iran negotiations are set to take place in Pakistan on July 11, Saudi media reported. According to Jin10, the report cited Al Hadath and Al Arabiya as sources.

Former Moelis & Co. banker Benjamin Taylor returned to the US to face an insider trading charge that carried as much as five years in prison, after spending much of the past decade in the south of France beyond the reach of US law enforcement, according to Bloomberg.

A “heat dome” blanketing the US as the country marks its 250th Independence Day is driving extreme temperatures across the densely populated East Coast, with Philadelphia forecast to top 38°C on July 4 and a heat index reaching 43.3°C, prompting the city to cancel events including the “Salute to Independence Parade,” according to Jiemian News. Since last Thursday, the region has set more than 30 daily high-temperature records; Washington, DC broke a more-than-120-year record for the period and is expected to see its hottest Independence Day on record, leading officials in multiple locations to cancel or postpone dozens of parades, concerts and fireworks shows. The US National Weather Service said more than 185 million people were under heat alerts on July 3. PJM, the largest US power grid operator, asked participants in its emergency energy-saving program to reduce electricity use to manage surging demand. The report also cited Europe’s recent heatwave impacts, including more than 1,300 heat-related excess deaths since late June, and noted research warning that several US World Cup host cities face very high heat risk.

Allianz Chief Economist Subran warned that there is an "irrational exuberance" in the market's expectations for AI to boost productivity, and the reality will be a "mixed situation" in which different industries benefit to varying degrees.

Ali Azmai has been appointed commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy. According to Jin10, Azmai previously served as deputy commander of the IRGC Navy and had worked in the force’s naval branch for a long period.

CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. published a specific and consequential assessment on July 4: Bitcoin has entered the later stages of a bear market, and US spot ETFs are showing signs of easing selling pressure for the first time. Thursday's $223 million net inflow — the first daily total above $200 million since early May and the largest in over six weeks — is the specific data point that marks the first ETF signal consistent with the later-stage bear market transition Adler describes. Bitcoin in the Later Stages — Not the End, but a Different Phase Adler's characterization of Bitcoin as being in the later stages of a bear market is analytically distinct from declaring the bear market over. Later-stage bear markets are defined by exhaustion rather than panic — sellers gradually running out of willing sellers, patient capital absorbing available supply, and the macro environment beginning to shift from headwind to tailwind. All three conditions have been developing simultaneously in June and into July. The on-chain evidence supporting Adler's later-stage assessment is dense. The realized profit and loss ratio has fallen to −0.35 — a 43-month low not seen since December 2022 following FTX's collapse, and a level that has marked cycle bottoms with extreme precision in 2015, 2019, and 2022 according to CryptoQuant's own analysis. Loss-making Bitcoin supply has overtaken profitable supply for the first time this cycle. The UTXO profit/loss ratio has entered the historical bottoming range. Cycle momentum sits at −30. The Sharpe ratio matched the −20 level seen at the 2015, 2018, and 2022 lows. Long-term holders control a record 79% of circulating supply. And whales absorbed 270,000 BTC — $16.7 billion — over two weeks while ETFs were bleeding a record $4.06 billion in June. Each of these signals individually is consistent with a market in a later bear market phase. Together they represent the densest cluster of simultaneous historical bottom indicators Bitcoin has produced in the current cycle. The First ETF Easing Signal — $223 Million Led by FBTC and ARKB The ETF flow reversal is the new element in Adler's July 4 analysis. Thursday's $223 million in net inflows — led by Fidelity's FBTC at $166 million and ARK's ARKB at $91.8 million — ended a 10-day outflow streak that had totaled more than $2.7 billion and represented the worst stretch of institutional redemptions since the products launched in January 2024. Adler characterizes this as the first sign of easing selling pressure rather than a confirmed reversal — a distinction that reflects the same caution embedded in every other analytical framework applied throughout the correction. One strong inflow day ends an outflow streak. It does not reverse six consecutive weeks of net redemptions totaling $4.06 billion in June alone. BlackRock's IBIT — the largest Bitcoin ETF and the product most closely associated with broad-based institutional re-engagement — continued its outflow streak on Thursday with $40.4 million in redemptions even as Fidelity and ARK posted their strongest single-day inflows in weeks. The catalyst behind Thursday's inflow is identifiable and specific: June nonfarm payrolls at 57,000 — half the 110,000 forecast — pushed Fed rate-hike probability from 65% to 50% for September and gave institutional allocators who had been reducing Bitcoin ETF exposure throughout June a data-driven reason to begin reversing that positioning. The inflow is therefore a response to a specific macro catalyst rather than an unprompted return of institutional risk appetite — which is precisely why Adler frames it as a first sign of easing rather than a confirmed structural shift. What Comes Next — the Remaining Conditions for Confirmation The later-stage bear market framework and the first ETF easing signal define where Bitcoin is. The conditions that would confirm the transition from later-stage bear market to early-stage recovery are equally specific. The 200-week SMA at $62,660 must be reclaimed on a sustained weekly closing basis — Bitcoin ended the week at $61,600, just below that level. BlackRock's IBIT outflow streak must end and turn to positive inflows, confirming that institutional re-engagement is broad-based rather than concentrated in Fidelity and ARK's buyer profiles. And June CPI — the next major scheduled macro catalyst — must come in softer than May's 4.2% to validate the payrolls-driven rate repricing as the beginning of a sustained disinflationary shift rather than a single-week data anomaly. Until those three conditions are met, Adler's later-stage bear market framing remains the most accurate single characterization of Bitcoin's current position: past the worst of it structurally, not yet confirmed as having exited it.

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