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Main news about crypto world from @Major team.
✔️ OKX appointed former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to its board of directors
Cuomo, who acted as an adviser to OKX since 2023, will co-chair the exchange's joint venture with NYSE parent ICE as it expands into the US.
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✅ Brazil's securities regulator has formed a working group to create a regulatory sandbox for securities tokenization
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⚡️ US regulators have missed the GENIUS Act's one-year deadline to finalize stablecoin rules
The comment periods for major rulemaking remain open through September, but the law's January 2027 effective date is unchanged, reducing the time issuers have to comply.
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⭐️ Just Rise & Fall of the selected tokens over the past week.
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✅ ESMA has added 14 new CASPs to its MiCA register, raising the count of licensed crypto-asset service providers to 294
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⚡️ Bitcoin Japan announced a financing package that could raise up to $60 million through convertible bonds and warrants
The company stated that about $4 million of these funds will be allocated to bitcoin investment after an earlier round failed to support its treasury strategy.
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⚡️ Volvo said it has created a proprietary cryptocurrency to pilot blockchain-based transactions with its material and transport suppliers
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❗️ US President Trump is expected to meet with senators Thursday to address the CLARITY Act’s crypto ethics provisions before the Senate’s August recess
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🔥 Japan has recognized crypto assets as financial products after its Senate enacted amendments to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act
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📢 The US and UK said they plan to adopt stablecoins for cross-border financial transactions
Both governments stated: "well-regulated stablecoins have the potential to promote efficiency and competition in our financial systems, modernise financial market infrastructure, and improve cross-border payments and transactions."
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❗️ ABC reported that US forces are currently conducting airstrikes in Iran
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⚡️ Strategy announced a new Bitcoin Banking Adoption Index
Michael Saylor stated that "major-bank Bitcoin adoption is accelerating, but still early: 32% overall as measured by the index."
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📢 Trump said the US will reintroduce a blockade on Iranian ships and seek a 20% reimbursement for other cargo passing through the Strait of Hormuz
Oil prices jumped following the announcement, with Brent briefly hitting $80 per barrel.
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📢 Trump said Iran broke an agreement that was previously in place
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⚡️ SBI Holdings and Solana Foundation announced a partnership to develop an onchain financial market in Japan
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⚡️ Russia's State Duma reported it will review a bill on Bitcoin and crypto regulation tomorrow
The initiative is designed to establish legal conditions for cryptocurrency operations in the country.
🪙 Michael Saylor hinted at another Bitcoin announcement coming tomorrow
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📈 Bloomberg Intelligence said Bitcoin ETFs are expected to follow a pattern similar to Gold's 22-year ETF history
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❗️ CENTCOM reported US military strikes on Iran
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⚡️ US House Committee on Financial Services will host a field hearing for the Clarity Act this morning
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⚡️ Visa announced a new stablecoin platform aimed at banks and fintech firms
Visa revealed that this initiative is designed to help institutions issue and manage stablecoins more efficiently.
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⚠️ US Senate adopted a unanimous resolution against a pardon or commutation for Sam Bankman-Fried
The non-binding resolution states that the former FTX CEO should not receive executive clemency.
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⚡️ US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said OFAC sanctioned crypto wallets linked to Iran, freezing over $130 million
The wallets were associated with the Central Bank of Iran and were targeted as part of actions to disrupt the country's illicit financial operations.
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❕ US government transferred $297M in Bitcoin and Ethereum to Coinbase Prime on Monday
According to Arkham, these assets came from three different criminal forfeiture cases.
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⚡️ The South Korean government reaffirmed its support for blockchain and digital assets, planning to enact the Digital Asset Basic Act and further advance a CBDC project in H2 2026
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💲 The US Government moved $8.8M in BTC to Coinbase Prime
The receiving Coinbase Prime deposit previously accepted seized BTC linked to the Samourai Wallet founders.
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⚡️ President Trump says "The US Senate should pass the Clarity Act"
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💲 Strategy sold $466.7 million in MSTR shares last week, with no change to its bitcoin holdings.
Strategy’s US dollar reserve rose by $450 million to $3 billion, leaving its bitcoin balance at 843,775 BTC.
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⭐ The Most Important Only.
— MicroStrategy sold 3,588 BTC
— Swift says 17 commercial banks will pilot cross-border transactions using its new blockchain ledger
— PayPal announced the native issuance of $PYUSD stablecoin
— Revolut has integrated its Revolut X crypto exchange with AI assistants
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