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❕ Financial industry group pushes back on tokenized equities, urges SEC to reject crypto firms' exemptions
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🪙 Chinese Addentax Group Corp. enters into US $1.3B term sheet for proposed acquisition of up to 12,000 BTC
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🪙 Michael Saylor says: "Bitcoin is money. Everything else is credit".
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❕ Whale Alert: 1,244 BTC (~$133,764,580) transferred from unknown wallet to Kraken
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⚡️ Through a stock offering, Bit Digital* obtained $163M in net proceeds to bolster its Ethereum strategy.
* — Mining company.
⚡️ AllUnity* will launch EURAU, a MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin
* — Joint venture of Deutsche Bank, Galaxy, and Flow Traders.
📣 Jack Mallers, 21 Capital CEO, says: “When their stock is listed they will "buy as much Bitcoin as we possibly can".
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⚡️ Arizona governor vetoes bill establishing the Bitcoin and Digital Assets Reserve Fund
🔄 Earlier: Arizona lawmakers advance bill to establish crypto reserve using seized funds.
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📣 Vlad Tenev, Robinhood CEO, says: “It’s time to move beyond Bitcoin and memecoins into real-world assets”.
🔄 Earlier: Robinhood to offer tokenized shares to EU users in growth push.
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⚡️ South Korean exchange Upbit and Naver Pay* to create a won-based stablecoin
* — Mobile payment service in South Korea.
🔥 Circle to launch Circle Gateway
Developer service for a unified USDC balance, instantly usable across blockchains, like a single bank account.
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🔥 Deutsche Bank aims to launch crypto custody service in 2026
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⚠️ ZachXBT: "USDC is the primary infra used by DPRK IT workers to facilitate payments. They currently do nothing to detect and freeze the activity while boasting about compliance".
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❕ Connecticut state government is now prohibited from accepting, holding, or investing in Bitcoin
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⚡️ Ripple has applied for a national US banking license
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🔥 Over 75% of all payment volume on Oobit in the past 30 days was completed using stablecoins including EURR & USDR
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🪙 BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF now holds 696,874 BTC, currently valued at $74,000,000,000.
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🔥 Paul Atkins, SEC Chair: “Tokenization is an innovation. My whole goal is to make things transparent”.
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⚡️ Under MiCA*, OKX and Bybit exchanges are expanding their crypto services across Europe
* — EU regulation to govern crypto-assets and ensure financial stability.
🪙 In the third quarter, Standard Chartered* forecasts BTC to achieve a new high of $135K
* — British multinational bank.
💲 Court allows Celsius to proceed with $4B lawsuit against Tether
In a New York court, Celsius claims Tether conducted a "fire sale" of over 39,500 BTC in June 2022, using the proceeds to offset Celsius’s $812M debt, bypassing agreed procedures.
⚡️ Global Dollar (USDG), backed by Kraken and Robinhood, launches in the EU
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⚡️ EU Central Bank to focus on DLT* to make its payment system more efficient
* — decentralized system for secure, including blockchain as a key implementation.
📣 Jerome Powell, Fed Chair, says: “We need a regulatory framework for stablecoins and is looking forward to it”.
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💲 Tether and the Zanzibar eGovernment Authority have signed a partnership agreement to boost blockchain use and digital asset education
🔄 Earlier: Shiga Digital receives investment from Tether to enhance Africa's on-chain financial infrastructure.
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💎 TON network proposes major update to boost efficiency and scalability
This upgrade allows the basechain to split at higher TPS*, ensuring faster operation modes for longer periods. Validator voting is scheduled for July 3.
* — Transactions per second.
⚠️ US DOJ: North Koreans posed as US citizens to steal crypto and data from American firms
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🔥 Solana’s advisor Nikita Bier announces joining Musk's X as the Head of Product
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🪙 Eric Trump-backed American Bitcoin raises $215M for BTC purchases
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