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🇪🇺 Major European banks and financial companies launched RL1 — a common regulated blockchain network for issuing tokenized bonds, funds, and stablecoins.
The network is already operational, uniting over 50 participants and has processed about €700 million in transactions.
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🚬 These crypto projects attracted $7.5 billion in investments, and in the last 24 hours earned only $1 306 — at this level of income, to return the invested funds it will take more than 15 000 years.
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🇺🇿 Uzbekistan launches a special mining zone Besqala Mining Valley in Karakalpakstan — its residents will be exempt from income taxes until January 1, 2035.
Instead, miners will pay the zone's administration a monthly fee of 1% of revenue.
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🇦🇷 In Argentina, two banking groups are preparing stablecoins, pegged to the peso, for corporate payments, treasury operations, and collateralized loans.
They are not launched by the banks themselves, but by related crypto companies — this way they circumvent the central bank's current ban on direct crypto services.
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📉 Stablecoin capitalization decreased by approximately $10 billion from its May peak and dropped to $300 billion — the largest drop since the Terra collapse in 2022.
However, this does not hinder their use, as in June alone, a record volume of transactions — $1.79 trillion — passed through stablecoins, which indicates the market's shift from simple storage and speculation to active payments.
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🇷🇺 The Central Bank of the Russian Federation published rules for regulated cryptocurrency trading in Russia — exchanges will independently set trading modes and calculate prices, and depositories will account for crypto assets almost like securities.
For such depositories, a minimum capital of 50 to 250 million rubles is introduced, and their register will be maintained by the Bank of Russia.
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🪙 Circle bought almost 1,000 blockchain patents from IBM and stated that it has now become the largest holder of such patents in the US.
The technologies cover blockchain, banking, insurance, and cloud security, and they are planned to be used for USDC, the Arc network, and financial services for AI agents.
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📊 Annual realized volatility of Bitcoin dropped to historical lows — the market has become noticeably calmer than in previous cycles.
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🪒 In 2 years of Trump's second term, he earned more than in the previous 60 years, even though he refused the presidential salary.
The main sources were crypto, his personal memecoin, Trump Media, and the sale of licenses for his name.
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🚬 CZ explained, why Binance is in no hurry to buy the closing BitMEX and BitMart — after the deal one can get hidden backdoors and vulnerabilities left by the previous team.
He advised users to either store crypto themselves, or choose a large exchange with a serious margin of safety.
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☠️ Blockchain platform WEMIX was hacked for $6,250,000 — the attacker gained control over a smart contract, minted approximately 5.23 million WEMIX, and began withdrawing funds through bridges on the Ethereum and BNB Chain networks, after which the team suspended bridge operations and requested exchanges to freeze the assets.
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🇺🇸 US seized $112,000,000 in cryptocurrency, linked to pig butchering scams where the victim is groomed for months, and then lured onto a fake investment platform.
Investigators untangled a web of transactions and identified points of withdrawal via centralized exchanges.
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🚬 BitMart announced its complete closure — starting July 26, the exchange will disable new registrations and deposits, and will completely cease operations on January 31, 2027.
Against the backdrop of this news, the BMX token crashed by approximately 50%.
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☠️ Morning in crypto no longer starts with coffee, but with another hack — Triple-A lost $10,000,000 due to a hacker attack.
It seems that daily exploits have finally become part of the market routine.
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🇪🇺 Cryptocurrency exchange HTX (Huobi) Justin Sun's is included in the European Union's sanctions against Russia.
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⚡️ FSB declares Pavel Durov wanted internationally — he has been charged under Part 1.1, Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (facilitating terrorist activities).
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🇦🇪 The largest UAE airline Emirates launched ticket payment with cryptocurrency — the function is already available on the website and in the app.
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🇲🇲 Myanmar has adopted a tough law against online scams — managing fraudulent centers and cryptocurrency frauds now carries life imprisonment.
Kidnapping, torture, and forcing people to work in such centers are punishable by DEATH.
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🏦 VTB plans to enter the cryptocurrency services market and offer clients transactions with digital assets in the regulated Russian segment.
The bank expects to capture a significant share of the new market, which, according to VTB's estimates, could reach several tens of billions of rubles.
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🗽 The U.S. Senate temporarily postponed consideration of the CLARITY Act bill, focusing on other priorities, including sanctions against Russia.
Due to Senate procedural rules, only one controversial bill can be considered at a time, so the vote on crypto regulation has been postponed.
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🇺🇸 Joe Biden's son accused Trump of turning cryptocurrency support into a family business and "soiling" the entire industry.
As an example, he cited the TRUMP shitcoin, which collapsed from $75 to $1.36, as well as other crypto projects of the president's family.
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🪙 Strategy did not acquire and did not sell Bitcoin last week.
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💸 The head of Coinbase stated that in the future, AI agents will conduct more daily transactions than all humans combined, and cryptocurrencies will become the main financial infrastructure for them, allowing them to autonomously send and receive payments without the involvement of banks.
In his opinion, AI will not replace cryptocurrencies — both technologies will complement each other.
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⛔️ Over the last day, only 58 wallets withdrew funds from BitMart — totaling $805,000.
For the last 8 hours, the exchange has not processed a single withdrawal.
Decided to keep the money?
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☔️ Storj Labs, which previously raised $35,000,000, announced a voluntary financial restructuring, effectively initiating bankruptcy proceedings to resolve accumulated debts.
Currently, the company will continue to operate as usual, and after the process is completed, the company's co-owners will include management, the community, STORJ token holders, and investors.
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🍏 Apple was sued in court over a fake wallet in the App Store — three users installed the fraudulent app and lost a total of $1,800,000 in BTC.
The plaintiffs claim that Apple advertised the store as safe, but failed to promptly remove the fake wallet, which the Sparrow developer had been warning about since 2024.
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🖥 Hydropower for the first time surpassed natural gas to become the main energy source for Bitcoin mining.
The share of low-carbon energy in the industry rose to 59.4%.
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🖥 The CEO of the largest public miner MARA stated that with the same amount of electricity, AI data centers earn significantly more than Bitcoin mining.
Therefore, even the largest miners are increasingly looking towards AI infrastructure.
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🇰🇵 North Korean hackers for the first time ROBBED their own Central Bank and the country's main foreign trade bank — the stolen money was withdrawn via crypto wallets and cashed out in China.
Especially ironic that former employees of state cyber units were behind the scheme.
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💸 BitMEX accused of appropriating 623 BTC ($40,000,000) — BKX Services and investor David Namdar allege that the exchange forcibly liquidated their positions and sent the remaining funds to the insurance fund.
The lawsuit was filed in a New York court on the day BitMEX announced its impending closure.
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