Anchorage Digital, the only federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, has integrated with Lido, the largest liquid staking protocol on Ethereum.

FBI Director Kash Patel bought as much as $250,000 in Strategy stock last November and waited six months to tell federal ethics regulators about it, a NOTUS analysis details.

Metamask has launched Money Account, a self-custodial feature that lets users earn up to about 4% APY on mUSD while trading, sending, and spending from the same balance.

Bitcoin climbed to $61,211 early Thursday, a rebound of more than 5% off its 24-hour low. The move puts price back near the top of its daily range as short-term momentum indicators turn bullish while longer-term averages keep sellers in control.

Centralized crypto lending loan books fell 6% in Q1 2026 to $23.3 billion, marking the sector’s first quarterly contraction since Q3 2024. Tether remains dominant, but Maple, Nexo and Coinbase gained share as Galaxy and Ledn saw the steepest pullbacks.

Crypto ETF flows remained uneven on Wednesday, July 1, as bitcoin funds posted a $294.62 million outflow, extending their redemption streak to 10 trading days. Ether, HYPE and solana ETFs drew fresh inflows, while XRP products slipped into the red.

French Minister of the Interior Laurent Nuñez announced a new security plan to protect cryptocurrency professionals following a sharp rise in violent crimes targeting the sector.

Ionic Digital, the bitcoin miner formed out of the Celsius bankruptcy, filed to go public on Nasdaq after a sharp pullback in its mining operations and a rapid shift toward AI infrastructure leasing.

Theo has allocated $20 million from its thBILL product into Fidelity International’s tokenized USD Digital Liquidity Fund. The move makes thBILL one of the few onchain Treasury products backed by instruments from both Fidelity International and Wellington Management.

A Thailand-based crypto billionaire’s attempt to influence Nigel Farage and Reform UK is set to be blocked by an upcoming UK legislative crackdown on political donations, despite his efforts to bypass the rules.

BNB Chain has launched BNB Agent Studio, a developer platform for creating AI agents with wallets, onchain identities, payments and cloud hosting from a single prompt. The tool is built with AWS infrastructure and is designed to make autonomous agents easier to deploy, own, and operate.

Robert Kiyosaki said an Indian guru’s advice led him to rethink his life’s mission, eventually prompting him to leave manufacturing and teach the financial lessons he learned from his “rich dad,” a pursuit he says grew into a global business.

Bitcoin retreated toward $58K despite improving financial conditions, highlighting an unusual market divergence. Analysts said persistent crypto-specific selling, rather than broader macroeconomic pressure, has kept the asset disconnected from equities, Treasury yields, and gold.

Robinhood launched Robinhood Chain as part of what it called “our most ambitious global expansion and product vision to date,” positioning the new blockchain as a bridge between traditional finance and decentralized finance.

RLUSD is gaining broader institutional traction as Ripple highlights eight developments across payments, infrastructure, and global access. Mastercard support, Japanese approval, and new regional integrations show the stablecoin’s expanding role.