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The asset manager is hiring a head of digital assets to lead its strategy for tokenization, stablecoins, blockchain infrastructure and client-facing products.

The proposed bonds to be backed by cryptocurrency still need approval from New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte and the state’s five-member executive council.

Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.

The crypto exchange's parent company says Mazars' withdrawal from its 2022 audit caused millions in damages and tied the dispute to Operation Chokepoint 2.0.

Dune data shows Tether's USDT has become crypto’s dominant payments stablecoin while Circle's USDC powers DeFi, highlighting how blockchain choice shapes stablecoin use.

Mercado Bitcoin will use the funding to expand tokenized finance across Latin America, adding to Tether's growing portfolio of infrastructure investments.

The Reform party leader and Brexit champion confirmed that he was the subject of probes by UK authorities following reports of what he called “gifts” from figures tied to crypto ventures.

The funding round comes as institutional investors continue backing crypto market infrastructure despite slower venture investment across the digital asset sector.

Bitcoin came off two-week highs while US stocks dipped and John Bollinger described BTC price action as "at a critical point."

APO lets a Bitcoin signature authorize any compatible UTXO rather than one fixed outpoint. It allows for rebindable pre-signed transactions for Lightning, vaults, and layer-2 protocols without new key management overhead.

Some Bitcoin analysts point to a deeper downside risk, while others believes they can see the early signs of a recovery.

K33 said Bitcoin has historically bottomed within weeks of more than half of its circulating supply being held at a loss, with strong one-year returns following in most previous cycles.

The European Parliament adopted a digital assets report calling for further assessment of DeFi, staking, crypto lending and NFTs after MiCA’s transition period ended.

Coinbase said its UK investment services authorization will allow institutional and advanced traders to access derivatives, while retail users will be able to trade equities.

The move follows a June 23 exploit that has now resulted in closing down the wallet, with users urged to withdraw their assets before all functions are disabled on Aug. 3, 2026.

The Ethereum co-founder said AI recognized his intellectual habits, ending a two-week public challenge to identify an anonymous contribution he made.

Bitcoin NUPL metric data suggested that BTC price action should make new cycle lows in order to preserve historical patterns.

The Digital Chamber filed an amicus brief urging the dismissal of the New York lawsuit seeking ownership of 39,069 dormant Bitcoin wallets, arguing it would set a dangerous precedent for self-custodial wallets.

Decta's report said the market cap of eight MiCA-compliant euro stablecoins rose to $673.9 million in the year before Europe’s CASP transition period ended.

One crypto trader noted the $2 million loss could have been prevented had the victim read the transaction route before signing the transaction.

Yield Guild Games said tough crypto and video game market conditions mean its YGG Play business is no longer commercially sustainable.

“Investors are now more confident about the instrument,” said Grayscale’s Zach Pandl regarding STRC, which reclaimed $90 for the first time in three weeks.

US President Donald Trump once called Bitcoin “a scam,” but admitted on Monday that he got involved in crypto “a little bit for politics.”

Blockchains will face increasing pressure to compromise on decentralization to meet user demand for speed and scalability, Injective CEO Eric Chen said.

The report follows comments from White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt in May, who said the administration was examining the legal implications of creating a Bitcoin reserve.

The new role would oversee tokenization, stablecoins and blockchain initiatives as Vanguard reassesses digital assets.

Record earnings, rising competition and concerns over slowing AI spending are forcing investors to reassess one of the market's biggest trades.

EDX’s model targets institutional clients by separating trading from custody through a central clearinghouse to minimize counterparty risk.

Richard Heathcote is reportedly working with PJT Partners to find a buyer for a small part of his 1.26% holding in the issuer of USDT following his transition to an advisory role.

SBI VC Trade says corporate demand for crypto is rising as a weak yen pushes firms to diversify reserves, part of a run that took its registered accounts past 2 million.

The license allows institutional traders to access perpetual futures and gives U.K. retail customers the ability to trade equities to begin with.

Your day-ahead look for July 7, 2026

BTC retreated from a two-week high of $64,500 as falling open interest and weak spot demand cast doubt on the sustainability of July's 8.4% advance.

The product, called BTC Yield, is designed exclusively for people who already hold bitcoin.

Japanese bond yields continue to rise, lifting their U.S. counterparts and posing a potential headwind for risk assets.

Bitcoin and ether ETFs drew fresh inflows Monday as the bid starts to return.

The attacker bought enough of the memecoin's tokens to pass a governance proposal that sent the group's holdings to a wallet they controlled, then began selling.

Buyers defended the session lows and pushed XRP back toward resistance, but muted overall volume left traders waiting for confirmation above $1.13-$1.14.

The token touched $64,400 overnight before easing back, still up about 6% on the week. A fresh missile strike on a Qatari gas ship in the Strait of Hormuz lifted oil and tested the late-June peace deal as Asian tech sold off again.

The White House says it's still evaluating the "best structure" for the federal fund to hold bitcoin as a long-term reserve and a separate stockpile of other crypto assets.

As Wall Street banks adopt digital currencies for faster settlements, overall trading volume spiked 63% in just a single month.

First, it was a tiny amount of bitcoin sales; then, the purchase of several thousand BTC; and finally, today, the unloading of thousands of BTC. What's happening at Strategy?

The "Lean Ethereum" strawmap, updated earlier this week, has gained support from many of the network's researchers, though several say the biggest challenge won't be deciding what to build, but how quickly it can happen.

Following its NYSE debut, Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo said the firm wants to expand its institutional tokenization platform rather than buy competitors.

The onetime pure bitcoin miner signed a 20-year deal to host the AI firm at a Kentucky campus, the latest crypto-adjacent company to trade mining for the steadier money in artificial-intelligence infrastructure.

China is reportedly building the same power to cut off its AI that the US deployed against Anthropic in June.

Built on Signal’s open-source technology, Radar Chat combines encrypted messaging with self-custodial Bitcoin payments via Lightning Network.

The Capital Markets Authority wants to monitor over 20 blockchains for fraud, laundering, and sanctions evasion under Kenya's new crypto law.

Market maker Wintermute remains cautious, suggesting that recent Bitcoin action is a relief rally rather than a fundamental market change.

The FCA authorization lets the exchange offer equities and derivatives to UK users, a step toward its "everything exchange" ambitions.

Michael Saylor becomes a major Bitcoin seller. A memecoin gets "exploited" via governance. And Bernstein doubles down on a $150k BTC call.

The plaintiffs say Polymarket added a rule after the fact, turning their winning "Yes" bet on Strategy's Bitcoin sale into a loss.

TechnologyWire pitches guaranteed placement across tech media, alongside content tuned to be picked up by tools like ChatGPT and Gemini.

Beijing's first rules targeting emotional AI are forcing the country's biggest apps to shut down custom agents.

Yvette Cooper said governments must agree on AI safeguards before frontier systems transform warfare, crime, and society.

The Bonk DAO wallet was exploited for roughly $20 million worth of the prominent dog-themed meme coin on Solana.

António Guterres borrowed a Silicon Valley meme to make the starkest case yet for global AI oversight—then called for an international ban on killer robots.

The financial firm admitted Bitcoin's retrace has been painful, but still holds a lofty year-end price prediction for the top crypto asset.

Yield Guild Games is shutting down its YGG Play division and games like LOL Land, blaming the crypto market downturn and other factors.

Coinbase said it updated its systems after an AI-generated alert incorrectly reported the outcome of the Norway-Brazil match before kickoff.

Joi AI's search for 10 paid "masturbation consultants" drew more than 150,000 applicants. Here's what happened.

TeraWulf's 20-year lease deal with Anthropic is expected to generate $19 billion in revenue—and major Bitcoin mining stocks are surging.

BitMine continued its relentless accumulation of Ethereum while Bitcoin's biggest treasury firm parted ways with more of its holdings.

Nearly every core piece of the protocol will be rebuilt over three to four years, with quantum safety and privacy moved front and center.

The Bitcoin treasury giant sold $216 million worth of Bitcoin to cover preferred payouts, as an $8.3 billion quarterly loss piled up.

The ETF flows finally flip. Trump defends his billion-dollar crypto payday. And a rare set of signals says a bottom may be forming.

The crackdown on overseas cash comes after billionaire Tether investor and Reform donor Christopher Harborne registered to vote in the UK.

A new Mac infostealer dubbed PamStealer impersonates the open-source Maccy clipboard manager to steal passwords and more.

Bitcoin bounced back above $60,000 this week, but increased volatility might be on the way as crypto deposits to exchanges spike.

Andy Konwinski used Anthropic's Fable 5 debacle as exhibit A in the case against letting a handful of private labs govern who gets to do AI research.

ChangeNOW CSO Pauline Shangett digs into the infrastructure underpinning the exchange’s simple, streamlined frontend.

Did Claude Fable 5 get dumber? Two benchmarks, two wildly different conclusions—and one routing layer that explains the whole mess.

After President Trump disclosed over $1 billion in crypto-related earnings, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is calling for a meme coin ban.

Developers say security testing has uncovered no new serious bugs as Zcash's Ironwood upgrade moves toward testnet activation.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy says he's down millions on Bitcoin, but he's intent on holding this time—even if it falls to zero.

Experts warn quantum computers could someday forge Bitcoin’s digital signatures, allowing unauthorized transactions.

Israeli prosecutors charged a 21-year-old American man with spying for Iran while studying at a seminary in Jerusalem.

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Blockaid reclassified a suspected BTTC Bridge exploit as an authorized internal operation after Justin Sun said it was part the project's Bridge Sunset Program.

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Aave attracts fresh liquidity as Monad's ecosystem reaches new highs.

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The chart stayed constructive, but derivatives painted a more cautious picture.

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Summer.fi's post-mortem on the $6.04 million Lazy Summer Protocol exploit concludes that the attack was prepared over several months.

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Stablecoins are seeing a major divergence, signaling a potential shift in liquidity flows and real-world adoption.

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Tether is expanding its presence in Latin America with investment in Mercado Bitcoin, while Europe's new MiCA rules continue to reshape access to USDT.

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Bitcoin's recovery continues, though exchange flows suggest accumulation is losing momentum.

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