The US and UK Treasuries jointly recommend full 1:1 liquid-asset backing for stablecoins via the Transatlantic Taskforce — a major regulatory alignment signal, though non-binding.
ARK Invest purchased 220,000 Circle (CRCL) shares for $13.9M on July 14, extending a July buying spree to 725,517 shares despite a 22% year-to-date decline.
Stripe and Advent International have jointly offered $60.50/share — over $53B — to acquire PayPal at a 28% premium. PYPL stock surged nearly 15% on the news.
A UK government-backed fraud review warns magistrates and judges lack the expertise to handle crypto money laundering and AI-enabled fraud cases as digital crime surges.
Japan's parliament passes law reclassifying Bitcoin, Ethereum and 103 other cryptocurrencies as financial products under the FIEA, introducing insider-trading rules by FY2027.
Velocity closes a $38M Series A led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, with Coinbase Ventures joining, to build enterprise stablecoin treasury and payments infrastructure.
Kalshi is caught between a Michigan court demanding trade cancellations and a CFTC order blocking them — facing $120,000-per-day fines with no legal exit.
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says AGI is 'probably only a few short years away' and calls for a new U.S. federal body to test frontier AI models before public release.
US Treasury's OFAC sanctioned Iran-linked crypto wallets as Tether froze $344M in USDT. Bitcoin trades at $64,552 amid Extreme Fear as Middle East conflict escalates.
China's Supreme People's Procuratorate proposes treating crypto mixer and privacy coin use as presumptive evidence of money laundering, shifting burden to defendants.
