The UN's ITU launched the AI for Good Global Commission on July 2 — the first body to seat Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft CEOs alongside heads of state. 44 founding members, first meeting July 7 in Geneva.
Senator Gillibrand proposed a bill banning the president, Congress members, and their spouses from issuing crypto. The direct trigger: Trump's $636M income from the $TRUMP memecoin in 2025.
The IMF mapped the hidden dangers of blockchain tokenization: near-instant settlement is real, but so is near-instant shock propagation — and risk is shifting from bank balance sheets onto a handful of platforms.
June was the worst month on record for U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs: $4.5 billion withdrawn. On July 3, Fidelity and Ark led a $222M reversal after a miss on U.S. jobs data eased rate-hike fears.
Bank of Russia governor Nabiullina confirmed all systems are ready. From September 1, systemically important banks and major retailers must accept the digital ruble — with full market coverage phased in by 2028.
Ondo Finance tokenized BlackRock's IVV ETF and Micron shares on Ethereum — first US-listed securities on a public blockchain under the SEC's official model. Token holders get full shareholder rights via Broadridge.
Sam Altman proposed giving 5% of OpenAI to a US sovereign wealth fund — worth $42.6 billion at the $852B valuation. Anthropic, Google, and Meta would contribute similar stakes to the same fund under the plan.
Microsoft launched Frontier Company with a $2.5 billion budget and 6,000 engineers embedded inside enterprise clients — a push to close the gap between AI tools purchased and AI actually deployed.
US Treasury sanctioned 134 crypto addresses tied to ISIS-K on July 1. Tether instantly froze 131 USDT wallets on TRON. Three Monero addresses were listed but technically can't be touched.
Anthropic's most capable public model is running again. Claude Fable 5 returned on July 1 — two and a half weeks after it was pulled worldwide over sudden US export controls tied to a security incident.
The UN's first independent AI safety assessment, led by Nobel laureate Yoshua Bengio and 40 scientists, finds no guarantee that AI won't cause catastrophic harm as capabilities outrun governance.
Robinhood went live with its own Ethereum Layer 2 network on July 1, offering 24/7 trading in tokenized U.S. stocks across 120+ countries, perpetual futures, and AI agent accounts powered by the Trading MCP protocol.
Europe's largest cooperative bank issued a MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin on Ethereum, using it to settle the EU's first-ever tokenized UCITS fund subscription.
President Trump disclosed $1.2B in crypto earnings for 2025 — from meme coins and World Liberty Financial — while his administration dismantled Biden-era restrictions on the industry.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, a model that nearly matches Opus 4.8 on agentic benchmarks while costing developers less than half as much — starting at $2 per million tokens.
Taiwan passed the Virtual Asset Service Act: mandatory licensing for all crypto platforms, 100% reserves for stablecoin issuers, and up to 7 years in prison for violations.
New York Life Investment Management — a $807 billion asset manager — made its tokenization debut with a high-yield corporate bond fund that settles in USDC on Centrifuge's platform.
A 140-company consortium — Stripe, Visa, BlackRock, Google — launched Open USD to challenge USDC. The key selling point: reserve yield goes to all partners, not one issuer. Circle shares fell 8%.
Britain's FCA published its final crypto rulebook, cutting the capital buffer for stablecoin issuers from 2% to 1% — below the EU's MiCA threshold. The rules take effect in October 2027.
Strategy filed an 8-K unveiling a five-part Digital Credit Capital Framework: up to $1.25B in authorized Bitcoin sales, a 12% STRC dividend, and a $2.55B USD reserve floor.