📈 Saylor: 'You Just Need to HODL'

You’ve held $UNI since 2020. You voted, hoped, waited… and got nothing. That might finally change. But only if Uniswap dares to flip the switch.

Here’s what we got for you today:

• ⭐ 5 Things You Shouldn’t Miss

• 🙄 Politics x Crypto: What is Elon Musk Really Up …

• 📈 $UNI in 2025: Is It Time to Pay Attention Again …

• 🤡 Meme Of The Day

⭐ 5 Things You Shouldn’t Miss

🚨 PUMP token might launch this Saturday? Many people noticed that Gate.io briefly posted a page announcing a token sale for pump.fun (then deleted it fast). If true, the sale would offer 150 billion PUMP tokens. $0.004/token. Sale would be first come, first served, no buying limits, and run for 72 hours. Let’s see what happens on July 12.

🚀 Phantom just launched perpetual futures trading directly inside the wallet! It supports 100+ markets, powered by Hyperliquid’s API, including both top coins & memecoins, up to 40x leverage. And also stop-loss / take-profit tools and real-time trade alerts. Phantom Perps is fully integrated with Hyperliquid.

😮 2 ancient Ethereum ICO wallets (possibly from the same owner) just woke up after 9+ years! They just moved a total of 1,140 $ETH.X ( ▲ 7.44% ) , worth around $2.89 million today. These tokens were bought at just $0.31/ETH. From dormant $BTC.X ( ▲ 6.3% ) whale wallets to now ETH ICO veterans waking up… This market’s feeling extra sensitive lately.

📉 Strategy just paused Bitcoin buying for the first time in 3 months, after 12 straight weeks of stacking BTC. “There are weeks when you just HODL.” On July 7, Strategy also launched a new $4.2B At-The-Market (ATM) program for its STRD stock (10% Perpetual Preferred) to support more BTC buys (yes, it’s not over)

🧠 Vitalik Buterin wants to fight copyright… using copyright. He’s calling on the Ethereum community to use copyleft licenses instead of force code-sharing. Today, Ethereum only limits gas per block (~36 million). But Vitalik also proposed a new limit: 16.77M gas (2²⁴) per transaction.

🙄 Politics x Crypto: What is Elon Musk Really Up To?

On July 5, 2025, Elon Musk announced a new third party, the "America Party", right on his platform, X.

🗳️ Backed by a poll with 1.2M+ votes, where 65.4% supported breaking the U.S. two-party system.
📄 Just 24 hours later, "America Party" was officially registered with the FEC.

So what’s Musk doing here? And why does this matter to crypto?

🔻 Why is Elon Musk entering politics, and why now?

For years, Musk has slammed the two-party system as a “uniparty” - a hidden alliance between Democrats and Republicans that exists mainly to keep power and split up the budget.

But the tipping point came when Trump backed multi-trillion-dollar spending bills, directly clashing with Musk’s push for leaner government and reduced spending.

According to Gallup and Pew, over 40% of U.S. voters now identify as independents - the largest voting bloc, yet often ignored in policy and power distribution.

→ The “America Party” isn’t a random idea. It’s a calculated political tool, launched at a time when faith in the old system is collapsing, but no one else has stepped up with a serious alternative.

🔻 Why isn’t Elon Musk running for president → just Congress seats?

Musk has the money, the influence, and the vision. But he also understands one thing:

👉 The U.S. federal election system is a fortress built to protect the two-party system - especially at the presidential level, where you need deep infrastructure and long-term political alliances across many states.

So instead of going head-on, he’s choosing a smart flank move:

👉 Targeting 2–3 Senate seats and 8–10 House seats in the 2026 midterms, according to Reuters.

Just look at the 2024 U.S. House election:

• Republicans: 218 seats

• Democrats: 212 seats

That slim margin gave Republicans full control of Congress and power to push or block bills as needed → Musk sees this narrow gap as the perfect entry point.

🔻 If Elon Musk is rich enough to build a party… what’s the real barrier?

With a net worth of $421 billion (Forbes 2025), Musk doesn’t need donations, PACs, or fundraisers. He can pay for everything himself, ads, logistics, ground game.

Money isn’t the problem. The real obstacle is legal and structural

→ The U.S. election system is built to preserve the two-party grip through state laws, ballot access rules, and voting systems that sideline outsiders.

And he’s not the first to try:

• Ross Perot (1992): Won 19% of the popular vote, but zero Electoral College seats

• George Wallace (1968): Had huge support, still couldn’t shift the power structure

They had the public. But they couldn’t beat the system.

So Does Elon Musk actually stand a chance?

Here’s the difference: Ross Perot and George Wallace didn’t have two things Musk does: Massive capital + A global media platform (X) that he owns and controls.

The public reaction has been instantly polarized:

• Some see Musk as the only one bold enough to challenge the broken two-party system.

• Others fear the “America Party” will split Republican votes, accidentally handing wins to Democrats.

The America Party won’t win a majority yet. But it could create gridlock in swing states, forcing both major parties to negotiate with Musk’s movement.

🔻 What happens to crypto if Elon Musk actually pulls this off?

If the America Party turns out to be more than PR, and wins seats, shapes laws, then Elon Musk becomes the first in U.S. history to fuse tech, money, media, and crypto into real political power.

To see how real this could get, just look at Trump, he once dismissed crypto then launched the $TRUMP.X ( ▲ 8.69% ) meme coin, which raised tens of millions in days, functioning like a new form of political funding.

Now imagine Musk, who’s always played 10 steps ahead. On July 7, when asked where America Party stands on Bitcoin, he said it straight: “Fiat is hopeless.”

So what might this future look like?

• Tesla shares tokenized, tradable on-chain, no broker needed.

• An America Party token that lets holders vote, fund campaigns, or just have a voice in politics.

• A campaign system run by smart contracts, no PACs, no lobbyists, just on-chain transparency.

Right after Musk announced the party, a meme token called “AP” pumped hard, then dumped → proof the crypto crowd is desperate for a real narrative from Elon, not just hype.

And if he goes through with it? We’re not just talking about a new political party. We could be watching the first real fusion of memecoins and government. Not a joke anymore.

📈 $UNI in 2025: Is It Time to Pay Attention Again?

Uniswap has been a DeFi pioneer since 2017, and let’s be real, it’s still the top player when it comes to decentralized finance, also as a builder of key infrastructure for the entire DeFi space.

And through its governance token $UNI.X ( ▲ 8.69% ) , Uniswap created a long-term value-sharing mechanism for both its users and investors.

Now in 2024–2025, things are heating up. We’re entering a massive innovation cycle in blockchain, unlike anything we’ve seen.

That’s where the synergy between Uniswap, Unichain, and UniswapX comes in. We’ll explore what this means for UNI holders and how these updates could shape the token’s value going forward.

1️⃣ What’s Really Happening with Unichain?

Unichain officially launched in February 2025 as Uniswap’s Layer 2 network. It’s built using OP Stack (same tech used in the Superchain ecosystem), so it’s fast, 1-second block times, aiming to drop even lower to just 250 milliseconds soon.

Unichain was built to be the core hub for DeFi and cross-chain liquidity, with big-name support behind it: Circle, Coinbase, Lido, and Morpho are all in.

Quick Timeline:

• Oct 2024 (Testnet): Handled 50 million transactions. Deployed 4 million smart contracts. Maintained 99%+ uptime

• Feb 2025 (Mainnet): Launched with strong momentum thanks to ecosystem incentive programs to attract projects and builders.

Based on early projections, stakers could earn $16M–$33M/year, depending on trading volume, similar to what we’ve seen on other L2s like Base.

Now that we’re 5 months post-mainnet, the real question is: Are the actual numbers living up to Uniswap’s early expectations?👇

🤡 Meme Of The Day

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