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Cointelegraph.com - 17:30 Jul 07, 2025
Vietnam is leveraging crypto regulation to meet FATF standards, combat digital asset fraud and rebuild its international financial reputation. On June 14, 2025, Vietnam’s National Assembly approved the Law on Digital Technology Industry, effective Jan. 1, 2026. Vietnam’s crypto regulation is part of a broader effort to meet FATF standards after being gray-listed in 2023 due to AML/CFT deficiencies. The law distinguishes between crypto assets (e.g., Bitcoin, Ether) and virtual assets (non-financial digital items), excluding CBDCs and securities. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 17:23 Jul 07, 2025
Bit Digital is now the second-largest publicly traded ETH holder, behind Coinbase. Digital asset company Bit Digital has pivoted its corporate treasury strategy from Bitcoin to Ether, saying the shift reflects its conviction that Ethereum will “rewrite the entire financial system.” Bit Digital used $172 million in proceeds from a recent public offering, along with funds from the sale of 280 Bitcoin (BTC), to acquire Ether (ETH), the company disclosed on Monday. As of the end of the first quarter, Bit Digital held 24,434 ETH — a position that has since grown to 100,603 ETH. The company's stock, which trades under the symbol BTBT, surged more than 29% on the news, bringing its market capitalization back above $1 billion. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:08 Jul 07, 2025
The TON Foundation distanced itself from initial Golden Visa claims, saying the move is an independent initiative with no official backing from the United Arab Emirates government. The foundation behind The Open Network (TON) has released a statement clarifying its role in a program that could lead to legal residency in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) following conflicting reports over the weekend. In a Monday blog post, the TON Foundation said it was in the “early stages of development” with a licensed partner to explore the creation of a UAE Golden Visa. The group added that any authority for the program rested entirely with the UAE government entities and was subject to applicable laws and regulations. “To clarify, no official Golden Visa program has launched in partnership with the government of the United Arab Emirates, nor has any governmental endorsement been granted to TON,” said the foundation. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:07 Jul 07, 2025
Despite Ether’s repeated rejection at $2,800, more bullish signs suggest that ETH price is still on its way toward $5,000 in 2025. Key takeaways: Ethereum ETF inflows reflect persistent demand from institutions. ETH supply on exchanges hits eight-year low alongside rising whale accumulation. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:28 Jul 07, 2025
CoreWeave acquires Bitcoin mining giant Core Scientific for $9 billion in an all-stock deal, boosting its data center capacity for AI and high-performance computing. AI infrastructure provider CoreWeave (CRWV) has finalized its acquisition of Core Scientific (CORZ), aiming to expand its data center capacity to support artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. The deal values Core Scientific at approximately $9 billion through an all-stock transaction. Under the terms of the agreement, existing Core Scientific shareholders will receive 0.1235 shares of newly issued CoreWeave Class A common stock for each CORZ share they hold, CoreWeave announced Monday. “Through this acquisition, CoreWeave will own approximately 1.3 GW of gross power across Core Scientific’s national data center footprint with an incremental 1 GW+ of potential gross power available for expansion,” the announcement said. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:00 Jul 07, 2025
The collapse of play-to-earn gaming has exposed the dangers of tying fun to financial speculation. A new play-to-own model offers a sustainable future over speculative rewards. Opinion by: Tobin Kuo, founder and CEO at Seraph The play-to-earn (P2E) model has largely collapsed, which promised a future in which anyone could grind digital gold and cash out for real-world income. Funding for Web3 games dropped more than 70% in Q1 2025, major projects have shut down, and player engagement is declining at a staggering rate. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:00 Jul 07, 2025
French company The Blockchain Group and the UK-based Smarter Web Company each boosted their corporate Bitcoin treasuries on Monday with multimillion-dollar BTC purchases. Two European companies — France’s The Blockchain Group and the United Kingdom’s Smarter Web Company — have expanded their Bitcoin holdings. In a Monday announcement, The Blockchain Group said it acquired 116 Bitcoin (BTC) for about 10.7 million euros ($12.55 million), and the Smarter Web Company announced the purchase of 226.42 BTC for 17.9 million pounds ($24.34 million). Following its latest purchase, The Blockchain Group’s holdings total 1,904 BTC, acquired at an average price of $106,000 per coin. The Smarter Web Company’s holdings have reached a total of 1,000 BTC, bought for an average price of $106,750. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:13 Jul 07, 2025
Authorities in Shenzhen, China, urged the public to be vigilant after uncovering illegal fundraising schemes masked as stablecoin investments. Authorities in Shenzhen, China, warned citizens about illegal fundraising schemes disguised as stablecoin and cryptocurrency investments. Shenzhen’s city government task force for combating illicit financial activity issued an alert on Monday, urging the public to be cautious of unlicensed entities promoting digital asset investments. Officials said the groups exploit the public’s limited knowledge of stablecoins and crypto-related terms to mislead investors and fuel speculative investments. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:41 Jul 07, 2025
Michael Saylor’s Strategy skipped weekly Bitcoin buys for the first time since April, announcing a new $4.2 billion stock sale and reporting $14 billion in unrealized gains in Q2. Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, reported $14 billion in unrealized gains on its holdings in the second quarter of 2025. The company recorded an unrealized gain on its digital asset holdings of $14.05 billion, along with a deferred tax expense of $4.04 billion, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday “As of June 30, 2025, the Company’s digital asset carrying value was $64.36 billion, with a related deferred tax liability of $6.31 billion,” the filing stated. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:37 Jul 07, 2025
Solana’s newest memecoin launchpad, LetsBonk, doubled Pump.fun’s daily revenue with $1.04 million, shaking up the leaderboard in the memecoin space. Solana memecoin launchpad LetsBonk surpassed rival Pump.fun in 24-hour revenue, according to data aggregated by decentralized finance (DeFi) platform DefiLlama. The latest DefiLlama figures show that LetsBonk generated $1.04 million in revenue in the last 24 hours, nearly doubling Pump.fun’s revenue of $533,412. LetsBonk’s revenue surge marked a rare shift in dominance in the Solana memecoin sector, where Pump.fun has typically held the top spot. Both platforms offer simplified tools for launching and trading memecoins. However, LetsBonk appears to be gaining traction due to the support of the Bonk (BONK) memecoin community and its social campaigns. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:56 Jul 07, 2025
Damcho Rinzin, the director of Bhutan’s Department of Tourism, said the sector has struggled because of its payment infrastructure. The Kingdom of Bhutan is integrating cryptocurrency payments into its tourism infrastructure in a bid to modernize its economy and attract younger, tech-savvy travelers. In a panel discussion during Binance’s Crypto-Powered Tour in Bhutan, Damcho Rinzin, the director of Bhutan’s Department of Tourism, told the audience that the country’s tourism sector has long struggled because of the country’s payment infrastructure. On May 7, Binance Pay partnered with local bank DK Bank to let users pay for their expenses in Bhutan using crypto. During the panel discussion, DK Bank president Ugyen Tenzin said almost 1,000 merchants nationwide have been onboarded to accept the payment method. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:43 Jul 07, 2025
Japan’s Metaplanet has become the world’s fifth-largest corporate Bitcoin holder after acquiring 2,204 BTC. Japan’s top corporate Bitcoin treasury company, Metaplanet, has acquired another 2,204 Bitcoin for $237 million. In a filing on Monday, the company said it acquired an additional 2,204 Bitcoin (BTC) at an average price of 15,640,253 Japanese yen per Bitcoin (about $107,700). This brings Metaplanet’s total holdings to 15,555 BTC at an average purchase price of about $99,985 each. According to BitcoinTreasuries.NET data, Metaplanet is the fifth-largest corporate holder of Bitcoin. The company overtook the holdings of electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla in late June with an acquisition of 1,234 BTC, which brought its holdings to 12,345 BTC, with Tesla holding 11,509 BTC. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:25 Jul 07, 2025
A widely used Bitcoin technical analysis indicator suggests that BTC is on the verge of a “big move” toward new all-time highs. Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s Bollinger Bands indicator now sees the potential for BTC price breakout above $110,000. Bitcoin eyes new all-time highs in July due to multiple tailwinds. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:24 Jul 07, 2025
Bitcoin ETPs saw $790 million of inflows last week, a slowdown from the previous three-week average of $1.5 billion, with dynamics shifting in favor of Ether, according to CoinShares. Cryptocurrency investment products clocked another week of inflows last week, even as volatility persisted across major digital assets, including Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH). Global crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) recorded $1.04 billion of inflows for the trading week ended Friday, CoinShares reported on Monday. With the fresh inflows, crypto ETPs continued breaking year-to-date (YTD) inflow records, setting a new historical high just under $19 billion, said CoinShares’ head of research, James Butterfill. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:11 Jul 07, 2025
Bitcoin sets another record high weekly close as traders determine where the BTC price tops and bottoms will be. Bitcoin (BTC) was inches away from all-time highs after it sealed another record weekly close. Bitcoin traders are eyeing both a return to price discovery and a “false move” to take liquidity at $105,000. The weekly close sealed July as a month for the record books, with “final resistance” now next on bulls’ to-do list. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 06:26 Jul 07, 2025
Elon Musk announced the formation of a new political party on Sunday, telling one of his followers on X that it will embrace Bitcoin as “fiat is hopeless.” Tesla CEO and tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has confirmed that his newly formed political party — the America Party — will accept Bitcoin. “Fiat is hopeless, so yes,” Musk replied to an X user who asked if his new party would embrace Bitcoin. Elon Musk is no stranger to Bitcoin as Tesla was an early adopter, holding BTC in its treasury. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 06:23 Jul 07, 2025
Two men who admitted to running a crypto scheme that defrauded 65 investors have both been sentenced to over five years in prison. The UK has sentenced two men to a combined total of 12 years in prison after they admitted to running a crypto scheme that stole over 1.5 million British pounds ($2 million) by cold-calling victims. The Financial Conduct Authority said on Friday that a central London court handed the scheme’s operators, Raymondip Bedi and Patrick Mavanga, their sentences after the pair pleaded guilty to multiple charges in November. Bedi was sentenced to five years and four months behind bars, while Mavanga was sentenced to six years and six months. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 05:47 Jul 07, 2025
Bitcoin trades 2% below ATH as analysts eye new records amid looming US tariff deadline and upcoming “Crypto Week” volatility. Bitcoin could set a new record high as early as this week, with all eyes trained on the United States’ trade tariff deadline on Wednesday, which could unlock risk appetite, along with an upcoming “Crypto Week” in the country’s capital. “Bitcoin is likely to set a new all-time high this week or next,” the head of research at 10x Research, Markus Thielen, told Cointelegraph on Monday. He added that post-July 4th seasonality “tends to be bullish, and markets have largely shrugged off tariff-related risks.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 03:59 Jul 07, 2025
Block CEO Jack Dorsey has released a white paper and launched a beta for Bitchat, a decentralized messaging app using Bluetooth mesh networks for internet-free, encrypted communication. Block CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has launched the beta version of a new decentralized peer-to-peer messaging service that runs entirely over Bluetooth. Jack Dorsey said his weekend was spent learning about “Bluetooth mesh networks, relays, store and forward models, message encryption models, and a few other things” as he introduced Bitchat on X on Sunday. The “Bluetooth mesh chat” system has “IRC [Internet Relay Chat] vibes,” Dorsey added, harking back to the early days of web-based messaging systems in the late 1990s. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 01:30 Jul 07, 2025
Emirates News Agency has refuted The Open Network’s claim that applicants who stake $100,000 worth of TON for three years would be eligible for 10-year golden visas. The native cryptocurrency of The Open Network has retraced 6% from its 24-hour high after United Arab Emirates regulators refuted claims that staking Toncoin (TON) could create a pathway to UAE residency. Toncoin initially shot up 10% to $3.03 on Sunday after The Open Network claimed that applicants staking $100,000 worth of Toncoin for three years make applicants eligible for the UAE’s golden visa program. However, the cryptocurrency partially retraced after the Emirates News Agency shared a joint statement from several regulators denying that claim. Read more
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