[PRESS RELEASE – Tortola, British Virgin Islands, July 1st, 2026] VCT combines blockchain transparency, agribusiness intelligence, export-finance infrastructure and real-world asset tokenization on BNB Smart Chain. Valle Capital Token (“VCT”) today announced the development and expansion of its blockchain-powered ecosystem designed to connect global digital capital with Brazilian agribusiness operations and international commodity exports. Built…

[PRESS RELEASE – Florida, United States, July 1st, 2026] Streamex is making commodities easy to acquire and trade, and the latest step puts it in regular brokerage accounts. Buying gold has long meant choosing between two inconveniences: take physical delivery and pay to store and insure it, or buy a fund and accept the fees…

Ethereum Institutional was announced on Wednesday as a new independent non-profit to serve as a neutral front door for institutions navigating Ethereum, its layer-2s, tokenization, stablecoins, and on-chain markets. The new organization has been founded by the former Ethereum Foundation Enterprise team, David Walsh, Matthew Dawson, and Marius Smith, with funding coming from Bitmine, Sharplink,…

1,700 UK investors have launched a group lawsuit in London’s High Court against Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao. The claimants say the pair sold risky crypto derivatives products to retail investors without authorization. UK Investors Demand $200M from Binance The plaintiffs allege that between around late 2019 and 2020, Binance offered products such as leveraged…

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Melania Trump made 28 times as much income from NFTs in 2025 as she did the year before, according to a 2026 annual federal disclosure report. Of her roughly $17 million in total earnings, she raked in $6 million from the digital collectibles. The page of the report listing her assets and income states Melania…

Bitcoin Magazine The 2036 Issue: The Future Is Now, Words of Wisdom from Jeff Booth SPOILER ALERT: Jeff Booth does not know what the world will look like in 2036. I know, I know… You probably wanted to hear from Jeff — author of The Price of Tomorrow and someone with incredible foresight and vision…

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Reclaims $60,000 As Strategy (MSTR) and Strive (ASST) Jump More Than 10% Bitcoin price climbed above $60,000 on Wednesday, a level the asset had ceded during the last couple weeks of turbulence, after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh told a central bank forum that the threat of persistent inflation had moderated.…

The second-largest cryptocurrency has been severely damaged by the prolonged bear market, closing Q2 firmly in the red. Even more striking is that this marks the third consecutive quarter of losses for ETH – something unseen in the asset’s history and a clear signal of how persistent the current downturn has become. Analysts speculate that…

Bitcoin Magazine AI’s Bitcoin Moment: Why the Open-Source Fight Looks Like Crypto Back in 2014 A new installment of Chain of Thought, the Brownstone Research newsletter written by Ben Lilly, argues that the battle over open-source artificial intelligence is following the same path Bitcoin walked a decade ago, and that investors who recognize the pattern…

Bitcoin Magazine Moody’s Flags Quantum Threat to Bitcoin and Digital Assets After Trump Orders A pair of executive orders signed by President Trump on June 22 has pushed the quantum computing question from the research lab into the boardrooms of crypto exchanges, custodians and stablecoin issuers.  In a June 24 sector comment, Moody’s Ratings warned…

Crypto exchange balances saw a notable withdrawal wave heading into July 1, with USDC and Bitcoin leading approximately $850 million in net outflows from centralized platforms. The move adds another layer to a market already watching liquidity, ETF flows, and investor positioning closely. TL;DR Centralized exchanges reportedly saw around $850 million in net withdrawals over…

Bitcoin Magazine Preferred Stock Is Becoming Bitcoin Treasury Firms’ Financing Tool of Choice: Report A new class of Wall Street securities has grown from an experiment into a multibillion-dollar market in under two years, and a June 2026 research report from BitcoinTreasuries.net argues the expansion has just begun. The report, produced in partnership with the…

US spot Bitcoin ETFs ended June with the kind of flow number that forces the market to pay attention. According to flow data tracked by Farside Investors, the group recorded roughly $4.5 billion in net outflows across the month, making it the weakest monthly showing since the products began trading in January 2024. TL;DR US…

Bitcoin’s US demand signal is still struggling to recover, with the Coinbase Premium Index reportedly sitting in negative territory for eight straight weeks. The run began on May 6, 2026, and now marks the longest continuous negative stretch for the metric in more than a year. TL;DR The Coinbase Premium Index has reportedly been negative…

Bitcoin Magazine Standard Chartered and LMAX Group Execute First Live Digital Asset Prime Brokerage Trades Standard Chartered has executed its first digital asset prime brokerage trades with LMAX Group, a milestone in the build-out of institutional market infrastructure for crypto.  With this move, the bank became one of the first Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs)…

US President Donald Trump’s latest federal financial disclosure has put crypto back in the political and business spotlight, with the filing reportedly showing at least $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency-related income for the 2025 calendar year. The disclosure was filed on June 30, 2026, through the US Office of Government Ethics. TL;DR Trump’s 2025 disclosure reportedly…

Bitcoin Magazine Citi Slashes Bitcoin Target to $82,000 as ETF Money Heads for the Exits Citigroup took a red pen to its crypto forecasts on Tuesday, cutting its 12-month price targets for bitcoin after the ETF flows that carried the market higher went into reverse. The bank now sees bitcoin at $82,000 a year out,…

Solana has received another major injection of stablecoin liquidity after Circle reportedly minted an additional $1 billion in USDC on the network around July 1. The move adds to a year that has already seen unusually large gross USDC issuance on Solana, a chain where stablecoins have become central to swaps, leverage, payments, and on-chain…

US spot Bitcoin ETFs continued to see money leaving the funds on June 30, as investors pulled out $223 million – for the last nine days in a row. In total, the ETFs saw $4.51 billion exit during June, their biggest monthly outflows since launching in January 2024. Tim Sun, Senior Researcher at HashKey Group,…

Ondo Finance has expanded its tokenized asset push by integrating more than 430 tokenized stocks and ETFs with Uniswap across Ethereum and BNB Chain. The move gives eligible users a decentralized route to trade tokenized representations of major traditional assets, but the access restrictions are just as important as the headline number. TL;DR Ondo has…

Bitcoin Magazine Trump-Backed American Bitcoin (ABTC) Sets Reverse Split for July 2 American Bitcoin Corp. (Nasdaq: ABTC), a Bitcoin accumulation platform focused on the buildout of America’s Bitcoin infrastructure backbone, has set the effective time of its 1-for-15 reverse stock split for 5:00 p.m. on July 2, 2026.  The board fixed the ratio after shareholders…

Bitcoin Magazine SEC’s Peirce Sees Clarity Act Passing This Summer as Crypto Rules Take Shape America’s top securities regulators marked the nation’s 250th anniversary with a common theme: open markets, broader investor access, and a clear legal framework for digital assets. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, in an interview on the Searching for Mana podcast, said…

Ethereum is sending two very different signals at the same time. On the price chart, ETH remains under pressure near the $1,500 area. On-chain, however, staking deposits on the Beacon Chain continue to push toward record levels, removing more ETH from liquid circulation and tightening the pool of easily available supply. TL;DR ETH price remains…