| 👋 GMGN, Shib Army! | It's Tuesday, and the air smells like cheap money, nervous regulators, and one very loud orange human playing fetch with crypto headlines. You know that moment when your Shiba zooms through the living room and knocks over a vase and your grandma's gin? That's today's energy in the cryptosphere. | Today's sponsor |  |
| The humans are tweaking interest rates, politicians are playing watchdogs, and somewhere in Europe, your group chat is getting side-eyed harder than a squirrel in a dog park. | The market's tail is wagging tentatively, with whispers of incoming rate cuts giving risk assets a little extra pep in their step. | So what's the scent on the wind today? Let's sniff the market breeze before we chase the big bones. | | Alright, leashes on — time to sprint into today's top stories, paws first. | | 🇺🇸🐘 Trump Throws a Bone: EO to Halt Crypto Debanking | 🔥 Chokepoint 2.0 might finally get neutered — if Trump's pen has any bark left. | Brace for barks on Capitol Hill: Trump's reportedly preparing to sign an executive order shielding crypto firms and conservative groups from alleged "debanking." The EO would direct banking watchdogs to sniff out violations of fair lending laws where banks cut off services — a direct jab at what critics call "Operation Chokepoint 2.0." While an EO can't write new law, it can unleash regulators — and that's enough to make some banks whimper. | 🐾 SHIB Angle: If crypto firms get a safer path to bank access, it's good news for the whole pack. Easier on-ramps, fewer chokeholds — and maybe fewer rug pulls too.
🐶 Shib Take: Finally, a chew toy for the crypto industry! | 📉🕊️ Goldman Growls: Fed Rate Cuts Unleashed! | 🔥 Goldman's gone full dove. Cue the liquidity leash tug. | Goldman Sachs, usually quieter than a sleepy Shiba on a Sunday, just perked up its ears: it now expects the Federal Reserve to roll out three 25-basis-point rate cuts, starting September 2025. And this isn't just a wild tail chase — the market's already priced in an 85% chance of a September cut, up from just 43% in July. Blame the weak job data and that eyebrow-raising twist where Trump booted the Bureau of Labor Statistics head. The data may be sketchy, but the doves are circling. | 🐾SHIB Angle: Looser money leashes mean more treats on the floor. If liquidity floods in, risk assets — SHIB included — could see some serious tailwinds.
🐶 SHIB Take: Looks like the economy's getting a belly rub, and SHIB might just catch some happy wags! | | 🕵️♂️📱 EU's 'Chat Control' Sniffs Out Your DMs! | 🔥Your end-to-end encryption just got a snitch. | Leashes are tightening across the pond: the EU's "Chat Control" proposal — which would force platforms like Signal and WhatsApp to scan all messages before they're encrypted — just got support from 19 out of 27 member states. Imagine licking your paw in private only to find out the mailman's been watching. That's "client-side scanning," and while it's framed as a move to stop CSAM, privacy watchdogs are howling. Telegram's Pavel Durov even warned France of creeping censorship. | 🐾 SHIB Angle: Moves like this push users toward decentralized, privacy-first protocols — right in the wheelhouse of Web3. SHIB's ethos of autonomy and decentralization fits pawfectly with that shift.
🐶 Shib Take: My DMs are for belly rubs, not Big Brother's sniffs! | 👩⚖️🧱 Crypto Mom Barks Back: Peirce Defends Privacy as Tornado Trial Brews | 🔥 Devs aren't criminals. But good luck telling that to the DOJ. | SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce — a.k.a. Crypto Mom — is back on the leash defending the right to build. In a fiery speech at the Science of Blockchain Conference, she said devs shouldn't be punished for writing neutral code, a clear reference to the Tornado Cash trial. She drew comparisons to the 1990s "crypto wars," calling forced surveillance "antithetical to a free society." She also took a playful chomp at the now-defunct DeFi broker rule. | 🐾SHIB Angle: If open-source devs can't innovate freely, the SHIB ecosystem — and all of DeFi — gets muzzled. Peirce's stance helps keep the decentralized dream alive.
🐶 SHIB Take: Privacy isn't just a luxury; it's a fundamental right to wag your tail freely! | | 💨💰 Vaping, Vanished: CEA's BNB Pivot Rakes In $500M | 🔥CEA rebrands, reloads, and apes into BNB — totally normal. | CEA Industries just went full crypto — and we're not talking meme coins. Formerly NASDAQ:VAPE (yes, VAPE), the company raised $500 million in a private placement and is now rebranding to "BNC" for "BNB Network Company." Their new play? Adopt BNB as their primary treasury reserve asset, with 10X Capital driving the strategy and Galaxy Digital's David Namdar stepping in as CEO. Vape pen to blockchain boss? That's one helluva pivot. | 🐾SHIB Angle: Institutional bets on altcoin reserves boost the whole kennel. If BNB gets corporate adoption, SHIB might not be far behind. Altcoins, assemble.
🐶 SHIB Take: BNB's got a new best friend, and it's stacking some serious bones! | | 💥 Markets bark, policymakers bite — but beneath the noise, strategy stacks. | While headlines chase heat, the sharp ones read between the barks — accumulating quietly, watching who commands and who obeys. | 👋 We'll be back Wednesday. Until then, stay alert, stay liquid, and don't fetch every stick they throw. | -The Shib Crew | Business news doesn't have to be boring | | Morning Brew makes business news way more enjoyable—and way easier to understand. The free newsletter breaks down the latest in business, tech, and finance with smart insights, bold takes, and a tone that actually makes you want to keep reading. | No jargon, no drawn-out analysis, no snooze-fests. Just the stuff you need to know, delivered with a little personality. | Over 4 million people start their day with Morning Brew, and once you try it, you'll see why. | Plus, it takes just 15 seconds to subscribe—so why not give it a shot? | Check it out |
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