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The Japanese firm's 43,000-BTC stack now sits well below its cost basis, and it has leaned on debt over equity to keep buying.

Dogecoin is trading around $0.074 after recovering from recent lows, yet it remains below a key resistance area. What's next? The post Every Setup Says Dogecoin Is Due a Big Rally: One Barrier Could Trigger the Next Leg Higher appeared first on Cryptonews.

UK regulators published an update to a national retail payments blueprint, calling for infrastructure support for tokenization and interoperability with new forms of digital money. UK regulators are calling for tokenization and “new forms of digital money” to be part of the core infrastructure of the country's future retail payment ecosystem. In a Thursday update to the government's roadmap for modernizing retail payment systems, HM Treasury on behalf of the Payments Vision Delivery Committee said that including tokenization and digital money would advance its efforts to create a “diverse multi-money ecosystem.” “Programmable payments, including those that rely on tokenization,” were named as potential “product-level arrangements” that may support payment innovation in the country, the agency update said. Read more

Aave launched its V3 lending protocol on Monad with 12 supported assets as the network commits $15 million in first-year incentives to build liquidity and adoption. Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Aave has deployed its V3 lending protocol on Monad, expanding the layer-1 blockchain’s lending ecosystem with support for 12 assets at launch.  On Thursday, Aave announced that the initial market supports USDT0, USDC, Aave’s GHO stablecoin, USDe, mUSD, AUSD, WETH, cbBTC, wstETH, weETH, syrupUSDC and sUSDe. It is also Aave's first deployment with Chainlink Smart Value Recapture enabled from day one, allowing part of the value generated from liquidations to be redirected back to the protocol. The deployment expands Aave’s multichain lending network while giving Monad users and developers access to an established borrowing market, Aave’s GHO stablecoin and liquidity incentives intended to support early adoption.  Read more

Ripple's latest 1 billion XRP escrow release arrived this week, yet the coin price barely blinked. Here's why. The post XRP Price Prediction: 1 Billion Unlock Fails to Suppress Rally as Ripple Pushes Above Key Resistance appeared first on Cryptonews.

This morning's data could slow market expectations for a Fed rate hike as soon as this summer or early Fall.

Venice, the AI platform behind the VVV token, raised $65 million in a Series A led by Dragonfly at a $1 billion equity valuation, its first outside capital raise. The company chose stock over its own token, and the market is already arguing about what that choice means for VVV holders. Series A investors received […] The post Venice’s $65M raise makes VVV holders ask how much of Venice’s growth reaches the token appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Nasdaq-listed Korean media company once lined up $1 billion in financing to buy 10,000 bitcoin. A recent filing confirms its balance is now zero as it pivots to AI infrastructure and fights to stay listed.

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Europe’s MiCA regime is now up for review, known colloquially as “MiCA 2.0,” through a consultation that closes around September.

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Robinhood is pushing deeper into crypto infrastructure with the launch of its own blockchain network, tokenized stocks and decentralized lending products, even as one of its fastest-growing revenue opportunities may be forming outside crypto. On July 1, the brokerage launched the public mainnet for Robinhood Chain at a London event, marking its most direct move […] The post Robinhood’s expanding crypto bet meets a faster-moving prediction market boom appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Standard Chartered and Circle launch bank-led USDC minting and redemption for institutions, starting in Dubai’s DIFC with planned global expansion. Standard Chartered and USDC issuer Circle have developed a system that lets institutional clients mint and redeem the USDC stablecoin through a bank-led onboarding process. Standard Chartered said Thursday it is the first Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB) to offer such services for USDC, bringing stablecoin access into the same risk, compliance and governance frameworks used in traditional banking. Clients will be able to mint and redeem the US dollar-backed stablecoin directly through StanChart's platform instead of opening separate accounts with Circle. “By embedding USDC access directly within Standard Chartered’s institutional offering, Standard Chartered will bring together banking, custody, and digital asset services within one integrated offering,” the announcement said. The initial rollout will be through the Dubai International Financial Centre (...

Bitcoin and major cryptocurrencies rebounded on dovish Federal Reserve signals, with speculative tokens like Memecore’s M and Audiera’s BEAT leading gains.

Bitcoin price is attempting a recovery, with it trading at $61,000 after bouncing from lows of $58,000 and breaking the bearish prediction. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: Price Recovering as Central Banks Tighten Liquidity appeared first on Cryptonews.

Ethereum price is trading near $1,650, remaining below its major moving averages and preserving a bearish prediction. But, a major.. The post Ethereum Price Prediction: Lubin, Bitmine, and Sharplink Launch Independent Non-Profit Institution to Bring Institutional Wealth Onchain appeared first on Cryptonews.

The Solana Foundation launched a framework for protocol-level governance, enabling validators with at least 100,000 delegated SOL to publish new proposals. The Solana Foundation, the Swiss organization that supports the Solana network’s development, launched a new framework for protocol-level governance that enables proposing and voting on governance decisions for the Solana blockchain.  The Solana Governance Proposals (SGPs) establish a standard that enables validators to submit core protocol proposals and vote onchain, with voting power based on their delegated Solana (SOL) stake, the Foundation announced in a Thursday X post. “An SGP captures a stake-weighted directional decision. It records what the community wants. It is not strictly focused on the technical detail of how to build the feature,” according to the GitHub repository, launched on Thursday. Read more

Ethereum Institutional announced its launch on July 1, folding a year of the Foundation's go-to-market work into a group pitching Ethereum to banks and asset managers on tokenization and stablecoins. Ethlabs, built by five former senior Ethereum Foundation (EF) researchers, surfaced days earlier with the goal of faster settlement and ETH's monetary case. Bitmine, Sharplink, […] The post Ethereum is splitting into three power centers and ETH treasury firms are paying for two appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ethereum is having a tough time at the moment, with sentiment at rock bottom, but underlying supply dynamics paint a different picture.

"Your window to buy crypto this cheap is almost gone," one analyst argued.