Bitget is engaging major financial institutions like BlackRock to expand tokenized ETF distribution across Asia, leveraging strong regional crypto adoption and investor demand.

Users paid nearly $6 million in a day to create and trade tokens through Pons, more than they paid to use Pump or Hyperliquid, and even more than they paid to use Robinhood Chain itself.

Standard Chartered has launched institutional spot crypto trading for BTC and ETH on its Dubai FX platform, becoming the first global systemically important bank to offer this service in the UAE. The move highlights the UAE's more accommodating regulatory framework, though attracting substantial hedge-fund business may require adding derivatives and providing reliable liquidity.

Yen's rise has led to a broad-based USD weakness, driving the Dollar Index lower. BTC and gold are loving it, for now.

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Harneys and droppRWA aim to issue the first catastrophe bond where legal ownership lives directly on a blockchain, targeting a live launch by 2027.

The CFTC is urging a federal judge to dismiss CME Group's lawsuit challenging the regulator's approval of cryptocurrency perpetual futures, arguing the exchange cannot prove financial harm and that the dispute is unwarranted.

Remixpoint booked gains on ether, solana and XRP, but sold DOGE below its fiscal-year opening value as it concentrated its crypto holdings in bitcoin.

Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, has pushed back its IPO to no earlier than Q2 2027 amid challenging market conditions. The company had confidentially filed for a U.S. listing in November 2025 following an $800 million funding round at a $20 billion valuation.

The U.S. Justice Department has confiscated over $560,000 in cryptocurrency destined for Hamas and seized control of domains and servers used by the group to raise funds. FBI agents took over key infrastructure, including Alqassam.ps, to intercept donations and gather intelligence on thousands of potential donors.

Adding Massachusetts incumbent Auchincloss to the list of winning primary candidates Fairshake supported, the industry's influence moves on to November.

The Euronext Growth Paris-listed firm issued 13,181,030 shares with four warrants each at 58 euro cents per share, according to a filing on Wednesday.

Crypto traders are once again calling on Bart Simpson as bitcoin and XRP retreat, with analysts debating whether the cartoon-shaped price pattern will fully play out and trigger deeper losses.

Spot XRP funds have logged nine straight sessions of inflows, while Q2 filings show Goldman Sachs, Jane Street and Millennium among their biggest professional holders.

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs experienced a $236 million outflow on Monday, driven mainly by BlackRock's IBIT.

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