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Saylor's Strategy sold 3,588 Bitcoin worth $216 million as it moved to bolster liquidity and fund dividends.
Bitcoin whale Strategy (MSTR) last week sold 3,588 Bitcoins for $216 million from June 29 to July 5, 2026, with the cash used for payments related to its preferred stock and to replenish some of its dollar reserves. The company did not buy any shares through its repurchase plans during that same period, according to...
Mon, Jul 6
Apple extends chip deal with Broadcom till 2031
Broadcom will continue to supply Apple with its custom silicon till 2031 under the new long-term agreements agreed by the the two companies on Monday, locking in one of the chipmaker’s biggest revenue streams for the rest of the decade. The chipmaker’s shares surged by almost 4% in premarket trading after the news, according to...
Mon, Jul 6
BitTorrent finally sets BTT buyback and burn in motion for Q3 2026
BitTorrent announced early Monday that the project will formally launch buybacks and burn its BTT token, starting from the third quarter of this year. According to the announcement, BitTorrent will be directing virtually every revenue from its decentralized services into buying its own tokens once every quarter. BitTorrent clarified that the funds for the program...
Mon, Jul 6
ZachXBT liquidates $41K in memecoins for charity, distances himself from Zach tokens
On-chain investigator ZachXBT liquidated memecoins that had been sent to his wallet and gave the money to earthquake relief programs in Venezuela to help the country’s recovery. He clarified to followers that the memecoin sales should not be regarded as any kind of endorsement. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has a similar history of turning unsolicited...
Mon, Jul 6
Ripple enters final MiCAR compliance stage with EU CASP license
Ripple has secured an official Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license in Luxembourg, one step before receiving compliant MiCAR status.
Mon, Jul 6
South Korea to hear Polymarket's defense before deciding on a block
South Korea’s media regulator, the Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC), is considering banning Polymarket in the country, but it will let the company argue its case before deciding. The main issue is whether or not the crypto prediction market breaks South Korea’s gambling laws. South Korean law bans nearly all gambling except state-run channels like...
Mon, Jul 6
Exploiters drain $6M in Summer.fi Lazy Summer contract hack
Attackers have drained around $6 million from Summer.fi‘s Lazy Summer protocol on July 6, exploiting a USDC vault whose advertised yield briefly jumped past 2 million percent, according to on-chain security firms Blockaid and PeckShieldAlert. Blockaid wrote on X that its exploit detection system had identified the exploit when it was ongoing. The security firm...
Mon, Jul 6
South Korea drafts rules for court-ordered crypto seizures
South Korea, where more than 16 million people—roughly one-third of the population—hold cryptocurrency accounts, is in the process of formulating one of the tightest judicial frameworks anywhere when it comes to seizing digital assets for satisfying civil debts. The country’s Supreme Court published proposed amendments to the Rules of Civil Execution on July 2, opening...
Mon, Jul 6
Binance halts crypto trading in France after MiCA license setback
Binance’s EU-wide MiCA licensing efforts in France fall short. As a result, the exchange has currently paused all services in France, including crypto trading, and is only allowing users to withdraw their assets. French users can now only withdraw their crypto assets, while spot trading, margin trading, and other trading-related services have been disabled. Binance...
Mon, Jul 6
Meme coin trading lifts Solana addresses 38%, BNB Chain volume 45%
Increased speculation on meme coins resulted in higher on-chain activity levels on Solana and BNB Chain during the week. On-chain activity on Solana increased by 38%, reaching 31.4 million active addresses; on BNB Chain, on-chain activity increased by 45% in trading volume over the period, according to DefiLlama data. The surge suggests a strong level...
Mon, Jul 6
China’s AI rules push ByteDance and Alibaba to shut down companion bots
ByteDance and Alibaba are phasing out their user-built AI companion tools ahead of new legislation governing human-AI interactions in China. ByteDance’s Doubao is set to disable its custom AI persona function on July 15. The corporation has explained that the discontinuation is part of “product function adjustments.” It also noted that it will delete all...
Mon, Jul 6
Won stablecoins are arriving before South Korea’s rulebook
BNK Busan Bank, along with AhnLab Blockchain Company, announced that they completed a proof of concept for a won-backed stablecoin payment and settlement system by running the trial on the Kaia blockchain and developing a “policy-type” currency or local currency that would limit where and how to spend the money. This result gives another South...
Mon, Jul 6
Maryland to Host First International BlockchAIn Bootcamp & Workforce Expo, Building Careers Across Blockchain, AI, and Web3
Maryland, USA, 2026 — The Maryland Blockchain Association will host Block chAIn Bootcamp 2026, the first International BlockchAIn & Workforce Expo Conference, from July 13 to July 17, 2026, at Capitol Technology University. Built around the Building Careers, Blockchain, Investment & Business theme, the weeklong event is designed as Maryland’s gateway to the emerging-technology economy. The goal is to create a...
Mon, Jul 6
Vitalik Buterin shares roadmap to Ethereum becoming leaner and more scalable
Vitalik Buterin has published an updated long-term roadmap for Ethereum, calling the multi-year effort “Lean Ethereum” as the network’s biggest redesign since the Merge. He posted it to X on July 4, 2026, days after Ethereum researchers gathered in Berlin to work on the protocol’s long-term trajectory. Buterin’s post is important to those...
Sun, Jul 5
Aave hits $100M in Monad deposits within 48 hours of launch
Aave’s lending market on Monad had already surpassed $100 million in total deposits in two days of launching on July 2. That’s a milestone some DeFi projects spend months trying to reach. The top DeFi lending protocol went live on Monad on Thursday with its V3 deployment. This launch marks the first time Aave’s lending,...
Sun, Jul 5
Revolut drops Tether's USDT in Europe, handing regulated market to USDC
Tether’s USDT will no longer be available to European customers in Revolut from August 31, 2026, after the company decided to end direct access to the cryptocurrency amid the tightening regulations in the market. Per the customer notification issued by the company, the move was based on a periodic assessment of the assets it supports....
Sun, Jul 5
Nakamoto founder David Bailey calls failed BIP-110 fork bullish for Bitcoin
David Bailey, the founder of Nakamoto, said yesterday that the BIP-110 proposal will not be moving forward anymore, just weeks before it was set to go live. He made the announcement on X, where he called the failed soft fork “incredibly bullish for Bitcoin” and described the campaign behind its cancellation as a “hostile takeover...
Sat, Jul 4
Trump's billion-dollar crypto gain came with almost $4B investor losses
President Donald Trump earned a $636 million payout from his Official Trump (TRUMP) memecoin while the people who bought it lost considerably more, according to blockchain data from Nansen and Trump’s own 2025 financial disclosure. The analytics firm counted 988,905 wallets that lost a total of $3.81 billion by the end of June. Nansen’s tally,...
Sat, Jul 4
Tether CEO Ardoino warns AI infrastructure spending rests on four mismatches
In an opinion shared on X today, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino warned that Big Tech’s efforts to build AI data centers depend on subsidized computing and hardware that lose value within three to five years. He believes four structural mismatches are putting the sector at risk. This warning comes as hyperscalers invest record amounts in...
Sat, Jul 4
IMF flags fragmentation risk as assets shift to shared digital ledgers
IMF financial counselor Tobias Adrian warned on July 2 that tokenization represents a structural shift in financial architecture, not just a faster payment rail, and that poor policy choices could fragment the global financial system.
Sat, Jul 4
