Crypto morning brief: top moves, key quotes, and what to watch 🌅 • BoJ held rates at 1.0% with a tightening bias; Japan's MoF confirmed yen-buying/dollar-selling intervention on July 30. Hawkish tone, but Bitcoin barely flinched, holding near $63,900. • Texas led the U.S. in crypto kiosk losses at .8M in 2025 (1,179 of 13,400+ cases), per FBI figures presented to a Texas House committee. Lawmakers are weighing a ban. • Senate will take up the CLARITY Act before the August recess — confirmed by Senator Lummis, citing Majority Leader Thune. A 616-page draft bars the president, VP, federal judges and members of Congress from crypto dealings until 2029. Treasury Secretary Bessent invoked a Satoshi quote to push Democrats to act. • NY AG Letitia James sued Kalshi, seeking at least over alleged unlicensed gambling. Separately, the CFTC and U.S. filed an emergency TRO against New York — regulators are now sparring in court. • South Korea's 22% crypto tax is locked in for January 1, 2027, Deputy PM Koo Yun-cheol confirmed on July 29, ending delay speculation. • Ripple secured full MiCA CASP authorization in the EU. XRP hovered near .10. • BIS Project Agorá settled ~CHF 800,000 (~) in tokenized cross-border payments across 17 institutions. • Coldcard Mk3 users warned: firmware-generated seeds may be predictable. 594 reportedly drained. Migrate funds. • Strategy (MSTR) posted an .2B Q2 net loss after bitcoin's price decline. Coinbase Q2 revenue .22B missed .29B est.; slipped ~5%. • Aave considers closing V3 markets on six chains and retiring 50 low-use reserves (~.1M supplied, ~.6M debt). pinned – as Bollinger Bands squeeze to six-month lows. Watch: CLARITY Act floor vote, CFTC vs. NY Kalshi hearing, Coldcard migration status, BoJ follow-through. NFA. Figures from cited reports.