Phantom wallet and the Hyperliquid Policy Center petitioned the CFTC on July 9 to open registered derivatives markets to non-custodial wallets, backed by $1.8B in perp volume.
SpaceX moved Bitcoin on-chain for the first time in six months as Gwynne Shotwell donated $325M in stock and Raymond James set an $800 price target.
Japanese lender CRYL Inc. launches regulated Bitcoin-backed loans from $6,200 to $6.2M at 3.5% APR, letting BTC holders access yen liquidity without selling.
DOJ charges convicted money launderer Rossen Iossifov with draining $290K in court-seized Kraken crypto from prison, exposing a US forfeiture custody gap.
Goldman Sachs has banned employees from trading on Polymarket and Kalshi over insider trading fears. Morgan Stanley and other Wall Street banks are following suit.
Crypto market cap holds $2.27T with Fear & Greed at 26/100. BTC dominance hits a cycle-high 56.3% while SOL, XRP and DOGE slide. Zcash leads with a +9.83% weekly gain.
Bonzo Lend lost ~$9M on July 11 after an attacker exploited a flaw in Supra's oracle verifier to inflate SAUCE token collateral prices on the Hedera network.
South Korean super-app Toss partners with Optimism on a 3-month KRW stablecoin proof of concept on the OP Stack, targeting 30 million users.
The Federal Reserve has appointed a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen to co-lead an AI productivity task force under Kevin Warsh — raising sharp conflict-of-interest questions.
Circle has received final OCC approval to charter Circle National Trust Bank — a federally regulated entity for USDC reserves and custody, barred from consumer deposits or loans.
