SharpLink has acquired 10k $ETH directly from the Ethereum Foundation The purchase closed at ~$25.7M, with $ETH acquired at an average price of ~$2,572
The SEC is pushing issuers to amend and refile applications for spot Solana
ETFs by the end of July, hinting at faster-than-expected approvals: coindesk
BlackRock iShares Bitcoin ETF Surges Past 700K BTC in Record-Breaking Run, BlackRock's bitcoin ETF becomes fastest ever to hit $80 billion
Jack Ma-Backed Ant to Add Circle’s Stablecoin to Global Net
Circle Has USDC Revenue Sharing Deal With Second-Largest Crypto Exchange ByBit: coindesk Sources
Judge Recommends Dropping Logan Paul’s Ex-Assistant From 'CryptoZoo' Lawsuit
Last weekend 80k BTC were transferred from eight P2PKH format (Pay-to-Public-Key-Hash) wallets to modern SegWit (Bech32) addresses. These coins (dormant since 2011) were not transferred to any exchanges for sale. However, the movement represented one of the largest single-day transfers of “Satoshi-era” (2009-2011) coins and sparked speculation about the motives behind it, with some linking it to concerns about quantum computing’s potential to compromise bitcoin’s cryptographic security: Coinbase
DWF Labs’ USDf Stablecoin Briefly Depegs amid Doubts over Collateral and Yield
Head of S.E.C.’s Crypto Task Force Says ‘Tokenized’ Stocks Are Securities: NYT This feels like a bit of a warning to all the companies and protocols planning to build bridges for tokenizing securities. A sort of "hey, pay attention here" This SEC is more accommodative toward crypto but they're not "Go ahead & ignore securities laws" accommodative: James Seyffart
Binance exchange has been a coder, a promoter and an early adopter for World Liberty Financial’s stablecoin, people familiar with the matter say. Critics say the relationship poses a conflict of interest for President Trump.
The Shady Financial Past of a DWF Labs ‘Andrei Grachev’ In April 2015, a Moscow criminal court charged Grachev and an accomplice with fraud
Trump's letters—particularly to the nations covered by USTR term sheets—should be seen as negotiating tactic in the late stages of talks, the people said, rather than a statement: WSJ
Dollar Has Best Week Since February on Tariff Inflation Risks
U.S. customs duties top $100 billion for first time in a fiscal year
Tech:
Meta Acquires Voice AI Startup PlayAI, Meta Invests $3.5 Billion in World’s Largest Eye-Wear Maker in AI Glasses Push, Meta Poached Apple’s Pang With Pay Package Over $200 Million, Apple seriously considers buying Mistral, Mistral in Talks With MGX, Others to Raise Up to $1 Billion, Musk Don't Support A Merger btw xAI & Tesla, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has agreed to invest $2 billion in xAI, SpaceX Valuation to Hit Around $400 Billion in Share Sale
OpenAI’s open language model is imminent, OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome, OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
Alibaba-backed Moonshot releases new Kimi AI model that beats ChatGPT, Claude in coding — and it costs less
AI data centre group CoreWeave strikes $9bn deal to buy rival Core Scientific
