Every few weeks there’s a new acronym making the rounds ie. CO-STAR, CRISP, CREATE, PREP, each one promising to be the missing piece that finally makes an LLM do what you actually meant. I got tired of guessing. Too much of my week was going into rewriting prompts, cleaning up hallucinated details, and going back […]

TL;DR: The Korea Exchange modified listing rules on July 2, 2026, to subject firms that change their main business within five years of their IPO to a formal delisting review process. Data from the Financial Supervisory Service indicate that 79.1% of the companies that used the tech-exception process between 2022 and 2024 failed to meet […]

Highly speculative “fast money” has abandoned both Bitcoin and precious metals in a massive capital rotation toward semiconductors.

Standard Chartered has become the first global systematically important bank (G-SIB) to let institutional clients mint and redeem USDC directly through its banking platform, the lender has said. The service removes the need for eligible clients to open separate accounts with Circle, the issuer of USDC, giving them a single onboarding process for both traditional […]

The Cryptocurrency News Everyone Missed While Pepeto Quietly Crossed $10.3 million Before BTC and ETH Recover. 07-02-2026 04:19 PM CET | Business …

This is not just another ticker-level move. It points to a deeper shift in how capital, infrastructure, or regulation is moving through crypto. XRP Price Faces Stubborn $1.07 Barrier After Repeated June Rejections gives NewsBTC readers a clean angle on XRP Price at a point where the market is trying to separate durable signals from […]

Bitcoin Magazine Preferred Stock Is Becoming Bitcoin Treasury Firms’ Financing Tool of Choice: Report A new class of Wall Street securities has grown from an experiment into a multibillion-dollar market in under two years, and a June 2026 research report from BitcoinTreasuries.net argues the expansion has just begun. The report, produced in partnership with the […]

Key Takeaways: Robinhood Chain public mainnet is now live, bringing an AI-native Layer 2 network for DeFi and tokenized assets. In addition to Robinhood Earn, which provides an estimated 7% APY, Stock Tokens have gone live in 120+ countries. Robinhood is also expanding globally, with plans to enter crypto trading in the UK and an […]

Standard Chartered and Circle launch bank-led USDC minting and redemption for institutions, starting in Dubai’s DIFC with planned global expansion.

Bitcoin climbed to $61,211 early Thursday, a rebound of more than 5% off its 24-hour low. The move puts price back near the top of its daily range as short-term momentum indicators turn bullish while longer-term averages keep sellers in control. Bitcoin Fights Back After the June Selloff The bounce follows a pullback that traders […]

Clients at a billion-dollar lender may have had their personal information exposed after a cybersecurity incident. River Bank & Trust says in a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that a hacker gained access to its network on June 16th and deployed ransomware in its server. River says it discovered the […]

A man from Shasta County, California has admitted to orchestrating a financial scam using stolen identities and fake documents. The U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of California says James Raymond Hanes obtained the personally identifiable information of certain individuals to produce at least 16 counterfeit driver’s licenses that bear his photo but use someone else’s […]

TL;DR The Kraken API Partner Program connects trading platforms directly to Kraken’s infrastructure for spot, futures, and xStocks tokenized equities trading Partners earn lifetime commissions through a tiered commission framework with no fixed term limitations on eligibility The program includes a real-time partner dashboard, joint marketing support, and a dedicated account manager with 24/7/365 support […]

Bitcoin (BTC) remains trapped in a multi-week downtrend that has consistently invalidated traditional bullish continuation signals.

Binance is set to enter the Philippine market through a regulatory sandbox after the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission granted final approval to BlockShoals Technologies Inc. to begin testing crypto-related financial products and services. Binance’s return follows regulatory action in the Philippines in 2024, when the Securities and Exchange Commission said the exchange was operating […]

So why is cryptocurrency now getting a pass to work with American enemies? The CLARITY Act would preserve significant loopholes for decentralized …

TL;DR: Centralized finance lending books decreased by 6% quarter-on-quarter, reaching a total value of $23.3 billion. Tether retained absolute dominance of the sector with a lending portfolio of $15.8 billion and 68% of the market share. Platforms Galaxy Digital and Ledn recorded the largest institutional pullbacks, contracting by 21% and 19% respectively. During the first […]

The cryptocurrency market has staged an evident rebound over the past 24 hours, with Bitcoin (BTC) rising by 4% and Solana (SOL) surging by 9%. MemeCore (M), though, has outperformed all top 100 digital assets by skyrocketing 80% in a single day. Following the rally, it has become the third-biggest meme coin and could soon […]

Ethereum is sending two very different signals at the same time. On the price chart, ETH remains under pressure near the $1,500 area. On-chain, however, staking deposits on the Beacon Chain continue to push toward record levels, removing more ETH from liquid circulation and tightening the pool of easily available supply. TL;DR ETH price remains […]

Bitcoin Magazine Metaplanet Adds 2,823 Bitcoin, Reaches 43,000 BTC and Becomes World’s Third-Largest Corporate Treasury Metaplanet crossed the 43,000 BTC threshold on July 2, a milestone that places the Tokyo-listed firm as the world’s third-largest corporate Bitcoin holder. The company now trails Strategy and Twenty One Capital across the global corporate ranking, and its climb […]

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.

Key Takeaways: Standard Chartered institutionalised the minting and redemption of its odd units of USDC with Circle. When a client chooses to access USDC, they don’t have to open an account on Circle. Launching in DIFC and addressing settlement, treasury and liquidity use cases. User Score 8.7 Follow us on Google News Now, Standard Chartered […]

Metamask has launched Money Account, a self-custodial feature that lets users earn up to about 4% APY on mUSD while trading, sending, and spending from the same balance. Mastercard and Metamask Bring up to 4% APY Stablecoin Accounts to Everyday Payments Metamask is turning its wallet into something closer to a full financial account. The […]

The head of research and co-founder of the investment management firm Fundstrat says the firm has set a higher year-end target for the S&P 500. Tom Lee says that six months after forecasting that the stock market index will end 2026 at 7,000, Fundstrat is now bullish that the S&P 500 will go higher and […]

Wall Street is rapidly souring on Strategy’s highly leveraged Bitcoin accumulation strategy.

Robinhood has launched its Ethereum layer-2 blockchain to support tokenised assets, DeFi applications and AI-enabled trading. The new network introduces Stock Tokens on the public mainnet while expanding lending, perpetual futures and wallet capabilities. The launch forms part of Robinhood’s broader international growth strategy, with expansion across Canada, the UK and Singapore. Robinhood has launched […]

President Trump earned millions through a variety of cryptocurrency holdings, royalty payments and property investments during his first year back …

Ondo Finance has expanded its tokenized asset push by integrating more than 430 tokenized stocks and ETFs with Uniswap across Ethereum and BNB Chain. The move gives eligible users a decentralized route to trade tokenized representations of major traditional assets, but the access restrictions are just as important as the headline number. TL;DR Ondo has […]

Ondo Finance has expanded its tokenized asset push by integrating more than 430 tokenized stocks and ETFs with Uniswap across Ethereum and BNB Chain. The move gives eligible users a decentralized route to trade tokenized representations of major traditional assets, but the access restrictions are just as important as the headline number. TL;DR Ondo has […]

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 published an update to a national retail payments blueprint, calling for infrastructure support for tokenization and interoperability with new forms of digital money.

July 2nd, 2026 – George Town, Cayman Islands BTCC, the world’s longest-serving cryptocurrency exchange, is recording a standout result from its 15 Years in the Game: The BTCC World Cup Showdown campaign, with futures trading volume surging up to 55% ahead of Argentina’s World Cup match days. The surge is a direct result of the […]