Real-world asset tokenization has moved beyond the question of whether assets can be brought onchain. According to RWA Inc founder and CEO Kevin Yunai, the next challenge is turning those assets into liquid, compliant, and productive financial instruments.

THEA has raised $8 million in strategic funding to expand its behavioral AI infrastructure and develop Thea Network. The project aims to create a trust-minimized settlement layer for AI services, using off-chain compute, Solana anchoring and zero-knowledge proofs.

Binance is reentering the Philippines through an SEC-approved regulatory sandbox operated by Blockshoals Technologies Inc. The supervised framework begins with a 90-day systems integration, allowing Binance to provide crypto-asset services through a locally regulated partner after testing is completed.

AI agents may soon begin transacting on their own, but the real tension lies in whether existing payment systems can handle machines that need programmable, always-on rails.

Gold climbed on July 3 after weak U.S. jobs data undermined the market’s belief that the Federal Reserve will maintain higher interest rates for longer, raising concerns that investors may have misjudged the Fed’s trajectory.

Strategy has alternatives to selling bitcoin. A new research points to options that could raise cash without reducing its bitcoin holdings. After overhauling its capital management amid pressure on its preferred-stock structure, the key question is whether Strategy can generate liquidity without selling bitcoin.

The exchange wants to help Venezuelans who were hit by twin earthquakes last week and is now giving 20 USDT to users with proof of address verifying they reside in La Guaira, the state most affected by this natural disaster.

Sharplink co-CEO Joseph Chalom, a former Blackrock executive, has pushed back on claims that Ethereum has a “culture problem,” arguing its 900,000-plus validators and one million-plus developers give it a decentralization edge Solana cannot match.

Bitcoin stabilized near $62,000 after a brief dip to $61,300, posting a modest 1.5% daily rise—far weaker than the approximately 3% surges seen on July 1–2.

Polymarket traders are pricing only a 21% chance that bitcoin hits $70,000 before the end of July, with the coin trading near $61,600. The skepticism persists even as U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs just posted their strongest daily inflow since early May.

The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives has become the first major law enforcement group to endorse the Clarity Act, handing the crypto bill fresh momentum as Senator Cynthia Lummis pushes for a Senate floor vote this month. The bill needs 60 votes to pass.

Crypto’s largest exchange logged more than 166,000 ether withdrawal transactions in a single day, a three-year record, just as bitcoin miner Riot Platforms moved 500 BTC worth $30.72 million into NYDIG custody.

President Donald Trump has brushed off ethics concerns over the at least $1.4 billion his family ventures earned from crypto in 2025, insisting there is “nothing illegal” about the haul. He also said he does not track the details of the profits.

Crypto ETF flows rebounded on Thursday, July 2, with bitcoin ETFs drawing $221.72 million, their largest inflow since May 5 and the first positive session after 10 straight days of outflows.

Michael Saylor used a Goldman Sachs digital-assets conference in London to argue that bitcoin’s next phase is “digital credit,” a market he says has swelled past $11 billion in a year. His firm, Strategy, now holds 847,363 BTC.