SWIFT's blockchain ledger is live after nine months of development. Seventeen banks — HSBC, Citi, UBS, BNP Paribas among them — will pilot tokenized cross-border deposits available 24/7, even on weekends.
SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, built on a 1.5-trillion-parameter architecture. Elon Musk called it an Opus-level rival to Claude — faster and priced at just $2 per million input tokens.
StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson argues Bitcoin's 21M cap is flawed: lost keys permanently shrink accessible supply. His fix — 4% annual issuance tied to population growth — drew fierce backlash from the community.
The Reserve Bank of India is pushing for banks and financial institutions to be barred from holding, trading, or offering any exposure to crypto assets or private stablecoins — citing tax evasion and contagion risks.
SambaNova Systems closed a $1B Series F at an $11B valuation — five times higher than five months ago. JPMorganChase picked its SN40L and SN50 chips for secure on-premises AI inference.
Vanguard, the $10 trillion asset manager that once blocked Bitcoin ETFs and called crypto immature, has posted its first-ever Head of Digital Assets role. The last major holdout in traditional finance is changing course.
The SEC is set to propose its first-ever crypto-specific rulemaking this July, creating a safe harbor that lets token-based startups raise up to $75 million without registering as securities issuers.
Japan's SBI Holdings became the sole investor in EDX Markets' $76M Series C, backing the institutional-only crypto exchange with central clearing as it pushes for a US national bank charter.
Coinbase secured a UK investment services licence from the FCA, letting institutional traders access perpetual futures and UK retail customers buy equities on the platform for the first time.
An attacker bought $4M in BONK tokens, reached quorum with just seven wallets, and drained $20 million from BonkDAO's treasury. The token fell 8.5%; Upbit froze deposits.
The Claude-maker signed a 20-year lease with TeraWulf for a 401 MW campus in Kentucky worth $19 billion. A former Bitcoin miner just became the infrastructure backbone for one of the world's top AI companies.
Starting July 6, Revolut users across the EU can no longer buy USDT. Tether refused to seek MiCA e-money authorization, forcing Europe's biggest fintech to delist the world's top stablecoin.
Luxembourg's CSSF has granted Ripple full CASP authorization, allowing the company to offer regulated crypto payment services across all 30 EEA countries after MiCA's transition period ended.
Aave deployed on Monad and pulled in $100 million in deposits inside 48 hours — more than a quarter of the network's total value. Monad Foundation committed $15M in incentives to land the protocol.
Vitalik Buterin published the Lean Ethereum roadmap — a 3–4 year plan to overhaul nearly every layer of the protocol: STARK proofs, quantum-resistant cryptography, and a potential EVM replacement.
Nansen tracked 1.48 million TRUMP token wallets: two-thirds are underwater with $3.81 billion in losses. Trump collected $636M in fees regardless of price performance, his 2026 disclosure confirmed.
Hexens found a critical type-confusion flaw in Aptos's Move VM: a $3,000 attack with near-90% success could have seized Wormhole, LayerZero, and USDC minting controls. Systemic risk: $70 billion. Patched in February.
The EU top securities watchdog ESMA classified prediction market event contracts as binary options — already banned for EU retail investors since 2018, with no transition period and no licensed platforms in Europe.
A researcher found obfuscated code in Claude Code that silently detected Chinese users via timezone checks and steganographic prompt changes. Anthropic removed it July 1, one day after public exposure.
BIP-110 proposes a one-year soft fork to ban Ordinals and BRC-20 data on Bitcoin. Its mandatory signaling window opens in August with only 0.42% miner support. Adam Back and Jameson Lopp warn of a chain split.