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Tom Lee's BitMine ether holdings rise to 5.77 million tokens, or 4.8% of total supply

The company expanded its ETH treasury while Chairman Tom Lee pointed to Robinhood Chain's rapid growth on Ethereum.

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Policy

Wall Street transfer agents lobby SEC, warning that third-party tokens pose risks to market integrity

The Securities Transfer Association, an industry group for transfer agents, said company-authorized tokenization should receive preferential treatment under future rules.

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Tech

Robinhood Chain surges into top five by DEX volume: Bernstein

Robinhood's new blockchain quickly became a top-five network by DEX volume, signaling strong early demand for its tokenized asset platform, the broker said.

Robinhood's Vlad Tenev speaks at Token2049 in Singapore (Token2049)

Markets

Michael Saylor’s Strategy added $467 million in cash, made no changes to bitcoin holdings

The company raised the fresh cash via sales of common stock; its USD Reserve now stands at $3 billion.

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Finance

SBI Holdings' blockchain initiative pivots to Solana for tokenization, stablecoin issuance

The SBI Solana Global joint venture now includes the Solana Foundation, the Swiss organization that oversees the layer-1 network.

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Finance

BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley join UK government's tokenization taskforce

The 54 firm-strong group, which is backed by the City of London Corporation, will spend the next year working on live tokenisation use cases across UK financial markets.

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Markets

Profit-taking, MidEast hostilities drag crypto lower after bullish week

Crypto's weekend gains gave way to a Monday selloff as Middle East tensions resurfaced, South Korea's Kospi lost 9.2% and $253 million in leveraged positions were wiped out.

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Markets

Paradigm shifts vs bubbles: AI chips and bitcoin show powerful trends can still produce severe corrections

Structural change can create lasting opportunities, but explosive rallies in semiconductors, metals and bitcoin show how quickly strong narratives can become speculative excess.

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Markets

U.S. inflation, second-quarter earnings reports: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting July 13.

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Markets

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Live markets: Bitcoin slips below $63,000 as Korea's Kospi plunges 9% overnight

The liquidations were minor, running at about a sixth of what the market saw at its worst over the past 30 days, per CoinGlass.

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Markets

Bitcoin holds near $63,800 as war-driven selloff hits everything but crypto

Gold, oil, stocks and bonds all moved sharply on the fourth round of U.S. strikes on Iran, but bitcoin is little-changed.

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Policy

Signs of life?: State of Crypto

Several sources told CoinDesk that a new draft of the Clarity Act may drop this week, but challenges remain.

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Markets

Stablecoin market cap has shrunk by $10 billion since May, but analyst sees no reason to panic

The market shrank by $7.7 billion in June alone, the largest dollar amount since May 2022's Terra-Luna crash, but stablecoins will likely resume their long-term growth, one analyst said.

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Markets

Bitcoin is nearing a power law support line Fidelity has tracked since 2015

The group's Dir. of Global Macro Jurien Timmer calls it an accumulation zone but notes the lack of a catalyst to bounce yet.

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Markets

Bitcoin, ether little changed as U.S. launches fresh Iran strikes

The U.S. hit Iran for the third time this week and Tehran has reportedly closed the Strait of Hormuz again.

Iran war reignites
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