Bitdeer has begun construction on a $36 million electronics manufacturing facility in Sparks, Nevada, its first U.S. assembly site for Sealminer machines.

The Brussels-based institution highlighted that the blockchain ledger underneath this project progressed from proof of concept to activation and pilot use in nine months. Seventeen banks on six continents will now conduct pilot payments with tokenized deposits on top of Swift’s ledger.

The stablecoin giant announced that this investment will support Mercado Bitcoin’s expansion efforts in payment infrastructure, tokenized investment offerings, lending and credit, and on-chain capital markets. The move follows several capital injections by the company for several Latam-focused initiatives.

A White House letter dated July 9 says President Donald Trump sought Democratic candidates for Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) vacancies before Senate Democrats accused the administration of leaving bipartisan seats open across independent agencies.

Elon Musk said SpaceX could one day be worth more than the rest of Earth if the company achieves its goals, shifting a debate over a reported Anthropic, xAI, and SpaceX deal toward the company’s long-term ambitions.

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden urged Senate leaders to preserve legal protections for non-custodial blockchain developers in the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, drawing crypto policy support while leaving his final vote on the bill uncertain.

North Carolina has broken with the wave of states fighting prediction markets in court, using its new budget to tax platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket at 6% while explicitly declining to regulate them – a posture that effectively recognizes federal authority over the sector even as other states sue to assert their own. Sportsbooks in the state, by contrast, will now pay 23% in tax.

Robinhood Chain is seeing a sharp rise in speculative trading, with daily DEX volume topping $560 million and nearly 16,000 new tokens created in one day. Pumpfun has added support for Robinhood tokens, widening access for Solana-based traders without requiring bridging.

Investors utilizing the newly launched Robinhood Chain are facing a swathe of scammy “honeypot” tokens that result in the total loss of funds traded for those specific assets. Relay Protocol, a major cross-chain interoperability platform, confirmed it is aware of user reports regarding tokens disappearing from wallets immediately following purchase.

Strategy raised the dividend on its flagship preferred stock to 12% in late June, but the security is still changing hands well below the $100 price the company says it wants investors to see.

Bitcoin rebounded to test the $63,000 threshold, recovering from a 3% drop to under $61,500. Recovery came despite growing military tensions and exchanges of fire between U.S. and Iranian forces.

British airline Jet2 reported a $536 million balance sheet windfall for the fiscal year ending March 31, defying broader industry panic over Middle East geopolitical instability.

This week, Strategy founder and bitcoin bull Michael Saylor turned to X to argue that Bitcoin has “no spam problem,” pointing to persistently low network fees as evidence for his position. Saylor’s remarks arrive amid an increasingly heated debate within the Bitcoin community over BIP-110, a proposed soft fork designed to limit non-monetary data recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain.

XRP is flashing several warning signs as key market indicators continue to weaken. Market signals suggest deeper changes in momentum and liquidity. The full picture reveals why this moment could be important.

Bitcoin traded near $62,743 on Thursday morning at 8 a.m. EDT, up 1.0% over the past 24 hours as the asset consolidated inside a $61,507 to $63,116 range. Short-term technical readings point to consolidation, while longer-term moving averages continue to signal a corrective phase across the one-hour, four-hour, and daily charts.