Robert Kiyosaki acknowledged that his recent gold call missed the market’s direction, stating “I was wrong,” and using the setback to reinforce a long-term investing lesson about disciplined buying.

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BNB Chain says cumulative tokenized stock trading volume has surpassed $5.2 billion, putting it ahead of rival networks including Solana. Growth is being driven by a widening issuer base, more than 700 tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and rising demand for pre-IPO exposure.

Muriel Siebert & Co., a Wall Street broker-dealer with roughly $19.5 billion in retail client assets, has selected Tzero’s end-to-end digital securities infrastructure to enter the tokenized securities market.

Bolivia’s Economy Ministry recognized that the current regime had failed, as the country’s oil exports had been reduced since 2005, making it impossible to continue with the exchange regime. The exchange rate had been fixed in 2011 at nearly 7 Bolivian bolivianos.

The crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) market entered the final week of June with one foot on the brake and the other still searching for growth. Bitcoin and ether funds suffered another bruising stretch of redemptions, yet the same market continued to send capital into XRP and HYPE products, underscoring a sharp split in investor appetite.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a detailed technical breakdown on Monday, calling cryptographic obfuscation the “final boss of cryptography” and laying out why solving it would let developers build nearly any trustless protocol imaginable.

BNY has added USDC mint and burn capabilities to its Digital Asset Custody platform, giving institutional clients a direct path between U.S. dollars and Circle’s stablecoin without leaving the bank’s infrastructure.

Strategy’s potential bitcoin sales have raised concerns among market watchers after Peter Schiff warned the company could put pressure on prices if it begins selling up to $3.25 billion worth of bitcoin.

Bitmine now holds 5.70 million ETH, accounting for about 4.7% of ethereum’s total supply, bringing it close to its stated goal of holding 5%. The company also joined the Russell 1000 and began trading its preferred stock on the NYSE under BMNP.

Zano has set block 3,833,000 as the on-chain activation height for Hard Fork 6, expected to go live between Aug. 25 and 27, 2026, giving network participants a concrete deadline to prepare for one of the project’s most consequential upgrades.

Michael Saylor looked back on Strategy’s 2022 bitcoin crisis as proof the company could survive extreme stress, while more than 1,200 tech firms pushed the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act. XRP then showed signs of changing exchange behavior as withdrawals outpaced deposits, Satoshi’s famous lost-coin quote resurfaced amid renewed scarcity debate, and Elon Musk’s X rolled out X Money to Premium+ users as the platform pushed further into finance.

South Korea’s Kiwoom Securities is reportedly in early negotiations to buy a stake in Bithumb through a private placement of new shares, adding a major brokerage to the list of traditional financial (TradFi) firms moving into domestic crypto infrastructure.

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes has bought about $2.2 million of synapse (SYN), throwing his weight behind an onchain options exchange he says could take on Deribit within the Hyperliquid ecosystem.

Strategy Inc. rolled out a sweeping five-part Digital Credit Capital Framework on Monday morning, authorizing bitcoin sales, boosting its STRC preferred dividend rate, and opening $1 billion buyback programs for both preferred stock and common shares as bitcoin trades around $60,032 per coin at 8 a.m. Eastern time and MSTR shares sit around $82.