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Balaji Srinivasan is opening his Network School in Kazakhstan after Malaysian authorities revoked the license of his Forest City community and ordered it to shut down.
The former Coinbase chief technology officer announced Tuesday that Network School had signed a memorandum of understanding with th

Bitcoin has dipped below $66,000 after climbing as much as 2.5% to trade just shy of $67,000 on Tuesday for the first time since mid-June amid optimism around the Clarity Act and AI.
The move mirrors a broader market correction as investors await Alphabet’s earnings today.
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Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator allegedly used his advance knowledge of the president’s speeches to win more than $100,000 on the prediction market Kalshi, according to ABC News, citing sources familiar with a federal investigation on the matter. Gabriel Perez, a technical assistant to the pr

Crypto.com has said it has received a $400 million investment from Citadel Securities at a $20 billion valuation.
The investment marks Crypto.com’s first institutional funding round, the exchange said in a statement Thursday.
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Aave has deployed Aave V4, the newest version of its lending protocol, on Avalanche. This is the first time the software has run on a blockchain other than Ethereum.
The rollout extends Aave’s Hub and Spoke architecture, the redesign that launched on Ethereum in March, to a network where Aave’s

Strategy says it raised $466.7 million last week by selling common stock and funneled all of it into cash, lifting its US dollar reserve to $3 billion and passing on a Bitcoin purchase for the third consecutive week.
The company sold about 4.8 million MSTR shares between July 6 and July 12 and

Bolivia is considering whether to bring Tether’s USDT into its national payments system, letting the stablecoin circulate alongside the boliviano and the US dollar. It would be a striking reversal for a country that outlawed crypto transactions until 2024.
Economy and Public Finance Minister José

Strategy founder Michael Saylor and Blockstream co-founder Adam Back have come out against BIP-110, a proposal to temporarily restrict non-financial data such as NFTs and similar data on the network, weeks before an activation deadline it is on track to miss entirely.
Saylor said in a Saturday

A revised version of the crypto market structure bill could emerge as soon as next week, giving the long-stalled effort a final chance at Senate action before Congress breaks for summer, according to CoinDesk.
Lawmakers have merged the texts from the Senate Banking and Agriculture committees into a

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to propose a major crypto-specific rule as soon as this month, a move that would exempt a range of digital asset activities from securities requirements. An updated regulatory agenda, flagged Tuesday, lists the proposal among the agency’s

The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) updated its designation of ISIS-K on July 1 to add 134 cryptocurrency wallet addresses to its Specially Designated Nationals list, and stablecoin issuer Tether froze the balances on all 131 Tron addresses in the batch. The remaining three s

Robinhood announced the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain on Wednesday at a London event called “The World Is Flat,” marking one of the brokerage’s biggest steps yet into onchain financial infrastructure.
Robinhood Chain features day-one integrations from Uniswap, which is deploying a dedicated

A new independent nonprofit called Ethereum Institutional launched Wednesday with the goal of accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum, its layer-2 networks, and the broader ecosystem. The organization aims to give banks, asset managers, and other enterprises a “credible, independent front do

A federal judge sentenced Chinese businessman Miles Guo to 30 years in prison Tuesday for orchestrating what U.S. prosecutors described as more than $1 billion in fraudulent schemes perpetrated over five years against thousands of victims across the United States and abroad.
Guo, 57, also known as

Strategy (MSTR) closed last week at about $82, down approximately 47% year-to-date pushing the company’s so-called enterprise mNAV below the bitcoin value on its balance sheet for the first time. The enterprise mNAV, the ratio of Strategy’s equity market cap, debt, total perpetual preferred stock an