A renewed ethics fight over President Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency earnings has sharpened as U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand pushes to ban elected officials from profiting from digital assets they create or promote while in office.

Strategy’s CEO linked his family’s escape from Vietnam in 1978 to his belief that bitcoin can provide individuals with monetary freedom through transparent rules, property rights, and individual sovereignty.

Gold and silver posted their strongest weekly performance in more than a month after a disappointing U.S. jobs report forced traders to rethink Federal Reserve policy.

The Esports World Cup 2026 will bring the world’s largest competitive gaming festival to Paris with a $75 million prize pool, 25 tournaments, and a Club Championship race built to reward the deepest organizations in esports.

Zcash developers are closing in on a July 21 mainnet launch for Ironwood, a network upgrade built to let any node operator verify the coin’s circulating supply on day one.

A pseudonymous bitcoin holder has become the first named defendant to challenge New York’s closely watched lawsuit seeking ownership of roughly 3.8 million BTC, as another wallet named in the case moved 500 BTC on July 2, further undermining claims the coins were abandoned.

The U.S. money supply climbed to $23.05 trillion in May, the first time the Federal Reserve’s M2 gauge has ever crossed the $23 trillion mark. The record lands as critics have accused the Fed of quietly restarting stimulus.

Crypto trader Ansem’s portfolio has gained more than $193 million in a single week on the back of his namesake ANSEM meme coin, per Lookonchain. The same firm flagged an airdrop recipient who left $2.38 million on the table by selling early.

Robinhood deepened its onchain push with the launch of Robinhood Chain, while Metaplanet expanded its bitcoin treasury to 43,000 BTC. Grayscale then outlined two possible paths out of bitcoin’s bear market as key catalysts approach, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong tied crypto more directly to America’s debt and monetary problems. Metamask also entered the yield-and-payments race with Money Account, showing how wallets are evolving into fuller self-custodial financial hubs.

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.