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Strategy says it raised $466.7 million last week by selling common stock and funneled all of it into cash, lifting its US dollar reserve to $3 billion and passing on a Bitcoin purchase for the third consecutive week.
The company sold about 4.8 million MSTR shares between July 6 and July 12 and

Bolivia is considering whether to bring Tether’s USDT into its national payments system, letting the stablecoin circulate alongside the boliviano and the US dollar. It would be a striking reversal for a country that outlawed crypto transactions until 2024.
Economy and Public Finance Minister José

Strategy founder Michael Saylor and Blockstream co-founder Adam Back have come out against BIP-110, a proposal to temporarily restrict non-financial data such as NFTs and similar data on the network, weeks before an activation deadline it is on track to miss entirely.
Saylor said in a Saturday

A revised version of the crypto market structure bill could emerge as soon as next week, giving the long-stalled effort a final chance at Senate action before Congress breaks for summer, according to CoinDesk.
Lawmakers have merged the texts from the Senate Banking and Agriculture committees into a

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to propose a major crypto-specific rule as soon as this month, a move that would exempt a range of digital asset activities from securities requirements. An updated regulatory agenda, flagged Tuesday, lists the proposal among the agency’s

Bitcoin swung from a 2% loss to a marginal 0.6% gain on Monday, closing at $64,042, after President Donald Trump affirmed support for the crypto industry, reversing a slide triggered hours earlier by Strategy‘s largest-ever bitcoin sale.
Trump called himself “a big crypto guy” at a press

Trump insisted there’s nothing wrong or illegal about the $1.4 billion he and his family earned from crypto ventures in 2025, defending the windfall in a CNBC interview at the White House on Thursday.
The financial disclosure, released by the Office of Government Ethics last week, showed $636

Senator Elizabeth Warren is pressing to add ethics language to the Senate’s crypto market structure bill that would stop President Donald Trump and his family from profiting off digital assets, a demand that gained fresh urgency after a government filing revealed the family cleared more than $1.4 bi

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) updated its designation of ISIS-K on July 1 to add 134 cryptocurrency wallet addresses to its Specially Designated Nationals list, and stablecoin issuer Tether froze the balances on all 131 Tron addresses in the batch. The remaining three s

Robinhood announced the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain on Wednesday at a London event called “The World Is Flat,” marking one of the brokerage’s biggest steps yet into onchain financial infrastructure.
Robinhood Chain features day-one integrations from Uniswap, which is deploying a dedicated

A new independent nonprofit called Ethereum Institutional launched Wednesday with the goal of accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum, its layer-2 networks, and the broader ecosystem. The organization aims to give banks, asset managers, and other enterprises a “credible, independent front do

A federal judge sentenced Chinese businessman Miles Guo to 30 years in prison Tuesday for orchestrating what U.S. prosecutors described as more than $1 billion in fraudulent schemes perpetrated over five years against thousands of victims across the United States and abroad.
Guo, 57, also known as

President Donald Trump earned more than $1 billion from cryptocurrency last year, according to financial disclosures released Tuesday by the Office of Government Ethics.
Trump collected $635 million in royalties from his $TRUMP token memecoin business, which launched days before his inauguration on

Strategy (MSTR) closed last week at about $82, down approximately 47% year-to-date pushing the company’s so-called enterprise mNAV below the bitcoin value on its balance sheet for the first time. The enterprise mNAV, the ratio of Strategy’s equity market cap, debt, total perpetual preferred stock an

Senators John Curtis (R-Utah) and Adam Schiff (D-California) wrote to CFTC Chair Michael Selig on Thursday calling for a federal investigation into Polymarket after a Wall Street Journal report alleged the prediction market platform paid social media influencers to film fake winning bets on

Securitize, the world’s largest tokenized real-world assets platform by assets under management, is on track to raise approximately $400 million in gross proceeds from its business combination with Cantor Equity Partners II (Nasdaq: CEPT), close the transaction on July 1, and begin trading on the

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has directed a small internal team to develop a standalone prediction markets app internally called Arena, placing the social media giant in direct competition with Polymarket and Kalshi, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
Arena is being developed as a standalone app,

Cboe Global Markets entered the prediction markets space Tuesday with the launch of Cboe Predicts, a new product suite that uses binary option contracts on the Mini-S&P 500 Index (XSP) to let retail traders take yes-or-no positions on where the index will close, all within the same regulated