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

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.

Will history repeat for bitcoin with another major leg down?

The FCA’s vision for agentic AI points toward a financial system where programmable money and tokenized assets could play a much larger role. The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a broad regulatory blueprint for retail financial services, warning that retail financial services are hurtling toward total automation driven by autonomous “agentic AI.” The landmark report, “AI and the future of retail financial services,” spearheaded by executive director Sheldon Mills, details a structural shift away from periodic, human-led decisions toward continuous, automated financial services that could increasingly rely on programmable financial infrastructure. “The central shift is from human-led, episodic financial activity towards services that are AI-enabled, continuous and delegated,” Mills wrote. In January, the FCA launched a review into the implications of advanced AI on consumers, retail financial markets and regulators. Read more

The protocol’s SUMR token fell by over 18% after the incident.

Prediction-market traders are giving the United States a narrow edge over Belgium after FIFA cleared striker Folarin Balogun to play in Monday’s World Cup round-of-16 match, a decision that followed direct lobbying from US President Donald Trump and triggered criticism from European soccer officials. Prices on Polymarket showed the US with about a 39% chance […] The post Crypto bettors believe Balogun’s suspended red card will give USA edge over Belgium appeared first on CryptoSlate.

[PRESS RELEASE – Vilnius, Lithuania, July 6th, 2026] WhiteBIT, the largest European exchange by traffic, has redesigned its VIP Program to make VIP status easier to reach and easier to keep. Instead of meeting two metrics at once, members now qualify by satisfying any single criterion — average balance, spot volume, futures volume, or crypto […]

Solana hit a quarterly all-time high of $5.77B in tokenized asset spot volume in Q2 2026, with Raydium leading and a 95% global weekly market share. The post Solana News: Solana Hits $5.77B Tokenized Asset Volume in Q2 2026 All-Time High appeared first on Cryptonews.

Tom Lee also weighed in on the potential impact of the CLARITY Act on the crypto market, and ETH in particular.

Bringing Strategy's preferred shares back to $100 is key to restarting Strategy's capital engine, the bank said, with repeated management actions expected to support both preferred and common shareholders.

Crypto exploits rose 59% quarter-on-quarter to $807.5 million in Q2, due partly to the KelpDAO and Drift Protocol exploits, which came at the hands of North Korean hackers. Crypto losses fell 46.8% year-on-year to $1.32 billion in the first half of 2026, but crypto security firm CertiK says the drop is misleading, warning that attackers are becoming more sophisticated and destructive.  Phishing drove the bulk of losses in the first quarter, totaling $508.2 million. Wallet compromises were the biggest attack vector in the second quarter, contributing to $807.5 million in losses, CertiK said in a report.  More than 70% of the losses in Q2 came from the KelpDAO and Drift Protocol hacks, which are believed to have been carried out by North Korean state-sponsored hackers.  Read more

Strategy sold $216 million in Bitcoin to fund its dividend payments, as wealth manager Bernstein maintained its year-end Bitcoin price target of $150,000. Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 3,588 Bitcoin (BTC) to fund preferred stock dividend payments and replenish its cash reserves. Strategy sold the Bitcoin for $216 million, reducing its total holdings to 843,775 Bitcoin, according to a Monday 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. This included 1,363 Bitcoin sold at an average price of $59,256 between last Monday and Tuesday, and 2,225 Bitcoin sold at an average price of $60,773 between Wednesday and Sunday. Read more

The second-largest digital asset treasury increased its buying pace, while Strategy sold a chunk of its bitcoin 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 company sold 3,588 bitcoin last week to replenish its dollar reserves for dividends on its preferred stock.

Belgium’s FSMA warned consumers about six crypto-asset service providers it added to a fraudulent CASP list days after the EU’s MiCA transitional period expired. Belgium’s financial markets regulator warned consumers against six crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) it said were operating in the country without authorization, days after the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) licensing deadline took effect.  On Monday, the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) identified several CASPs active in Belgium without authorization under MiCA regulation. FSMA named Aurum Foundation, Bank Bit, Bithf Pro, Dxago, Global Dynamic Trade and ZeriaFunding. The regulator said it had added these entities to its list of fraudulent CASPs.  The warning indicates that national regulators are beginning to apply the MiCA licensing perimeter following the EU’s transitional period, which ended on July 1.  Read more

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

Saylor hinted at another BTC move yesterday on X. However, it wasn't what many anticipated.