Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) now pairs a $3 billion U.S. dollar reserve with 843,775 BTC worth roughly $55 billion, a barbell structure executive chairman Michael Saylor is pitching as the company’s path through the bear market.

Luno has formally challenged South Africa’s proposed capital flow regulations, which aim to place digital assets under a modernized exchange control regime.

Emirates NBD has gone live on the blockchain-based Partior network, becoming the first financial institution in the region to offer blockchain-enabled cross-border U.S. dollar payments.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has stopped Kalshi from liquidating sports event contracts that a Michigan court ordered cancelled and refunded. The intervention leaves Michigan’s restriction on new sports trades intact while opening a direct federal-state confrontation over who controls transactions already executed on a regulated derivatives exchange.

Cleanspark has signed a 20-year triple-net lease at its Sandersville, Georgia, campus, expected to generate $6.6 billion in contracted revenue. The tenant has also secured exclusivity over Cleanspark’s 885 MW Texas portfolio, signaling a broader artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure partnership.

The Bank of Tanzania is reportedly finalizing a new regulatory framework to oversee cryptocurrencies and stablecoins.

Bitcoin whales have not identified quantum computing risks as a reason for selling, according to Galaxy Digital, while institutional investors have flagged quantum concerns as a reason to avoid buying the crypto asset.

Tim Draper says he passed on Coinbase after underestimating how quickly retail crypto adoption would arrive, but his son invested early and helped turn a rejected opportunity into one of the venture capitalist’s biggest wins.

Blackrock CEO Larry Fink said he is bullish on markets, citing early gains from technology-driven margin expansion. He also said the washout of excessive leverage has left bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency market more stable.

Ripple executives are pressing senators to support the CLARITY Act, arguing that rejecting the digital asset legislation would preserve regulatory gaps that leave consumers vulnerable to misconduct, uncertainty, and risks similar to those exposed by the FTX collapse.

Quickswap is integrating Orbs’ perps as its default perpetual futures infrastructure across all supported blockchain networks.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs logged $4.5 billion in net outflows in June, their worst month since launching in January 2024, as Bitcoin slid 20.48% and later hit a 21-month low of $58,190 on July 1. Citigroup cut its 12-month Bitcoin target to $82,000 from $112,000, while leveraged futures open interest fell from about $31.3 billion to $21.6 billion, setting up a debate over whether the washout marked a bottom or another leg down ahead of the Fed’s July 28-29 meeting.

More than 30 traditional finance and digital asset firms joined a live DTCC tokenization event that moved securities held at its central depository onto blockchain networks for real institutional transactions.

Securitize and Cantor Fitzgerald have agreed to build a regulated pathway for public companies to conduct initial public offerings and follow-on stock sales using blockchain-based infrastructure.

Blackrock reported record second-quarter results on Wednesday, with revenue climbing 31% year over year to $7.1 billion as the firm’s chairman and chief executive officer, Larry Fink, detailed new steps toward tokenizing money market funds and expanding the company’s digital asset business.