Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has charged Usie Otukpa Osang with eight counts of fraud for his alleged role in a multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency scam.

Metaplanet purchased 2,823 bitcoin during Q2 2026 for $225 million at an average price of $78,872 per bitcoin. This grew its total treasury to 43,000 BTC, with an aggregate lifetime cost basis of $4.09 billion.

SBI Crypto is shutting down its bitcoin mining pool, closing out more than five years of operation on July 31, 2026.

Euroclear, one of the largest European clearinghouses, argues that the trial it faced in Russia, where courts ordered it to release nearly $232 billion in blocked assets, was unfair. Euroclear fears that some of its assets in international jurisdictions might be affected.

Bitcoin rebounded to a daily high of $62,137, marking a 3% 24-hour gain and establishing a bright start to July after bouncing off a recent low of $57,735.

Bitcoin core developer Jon Atack is telling users to hold off on transactions during the second week of August 2026, pointing to reorg risk tied to BIP-110’s activation window.

Ondo Finance tokenized U.S. securities for the first time inside existing regulatory boundaries, using Blackrock’s Ishares Core S&P 500 exchange-traded fund (ETF) and Micron stock as its opening deployment.

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.