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Members of the UK’s ruling Labour party are considering a total ban on digital asset donations in response to Nigel Farage’s resignation from Parliament and the potential influence crypto billionaires had on his policies. The Guardian reported Thursday that Labour MPs are looking to overhaul existing rules on donations to political parties and candidates. Specifically, lawmakers have proposed that a moratorium on crypto donations enacted in March be made permanent after it was revealed that the Reform leader personally accepted millions of British pounds in what he called “gifts” from industry figures. “Amendments to the representation of the people bill…

In brief On Thursday, MoonPay launched support for MoonAgents on Telegram, bringing its AI crypto assistant to the messaging platform. Users can ask MoonAgents to analyze markets, create dashboards, and prepare transactions using natural conversations. MoonPay says Telegram acts as an interface, while user data and private keys remain on their computers. MoonPay is bringing its AI crypto assistant to Telegram, letting users interact with MoonAgents through the messaging platform, the company announced on Thursday. According to MoonPay Agents Product Lead, Kevin Arifin, the integration builds on the company’s MoonAgents desktop app by giving users access to their AI assistant…

Optimism argues fintechs can use blockchain infrastructure to settle in seconds, cut processing fees and retain transaction economics that legacy rails capture. Compliance can run at the sequencer layer through sanctions screening, allowlists and filtering before transactions are accepted. OP Enterprise offers managed deployment with audit logging, monitoring and partner integrations, while examples include Bitpanda, Kraken Ink, OKX and ether.fi, which reports 70,000 active cards and $2 million daily volume. Optimism is making the case that fintechs are no longer just experimenting with blockchain; they are using dedicated infrastructure to take back settlement, revenue and compliance controls from legacy payment…

Global publicly traded companies significantly accelerated their Bitcoin purchases in the second quarter of 2025, acquiring a total of 110,000 $BTC, according to data from BitcoinTreasuries. This volume represents roughly 1.8 times the combined Bitcoin purchases made by listed firms during the previous two quarters, signaling a marked shift in corporate treasury strategies toward the digital asset. Institutional Buying Spree Gains Momentum The report, published as part of BitcoinTreasuries’ monthly tracking of corporate Bitcoin holdings, highlights a notable acceleration in institutional adoption. In the first quarter of 2025, public companies purchased approximately 35,000 $BTC, followed by around 25,000 $BTC in…

Spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds listed in the United States recorded a net inflow of $70.5 million on July 8, marking the fifth consecutive trading day of positive capital flows. The data, compiled by investment research firm Farside Investors, signals sustained institutional interest in the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Breakdown of the Inflows Fidelity’s Ethereum fund, trading under the ticker FETH, led the day’s activity with a net inflow of $69.2 million. VanEck’s ETHV product followed with a more modest addition of $1.3 million. No other spot Ethereum ETFs reported net inflows or outflows for the session, according to the…

Circle Ventures, the venture arm of the global financial technology firm Circle, has made an undisclosed investment in Elliptic, a leading blockchain analytics provider. The investment marks a deepening relationship between the two companies, as Circle also joins Elliptic’s newly formed agent-based design partner program. Strategic Investment and Partnership Details As part of the agreement, Circle will collaborate with Elliptic and other industry participants within the agent-based design partner program. This initiative brings together infrastructure providers, compliance specialists, and technology teams to develop next-generation compliance solutions tailored to the evolving digital asset landscape. The exact amount of Circle’s investment has…

Neo SPCC released coordinated updates to both NeoFS gateways in early July, covering the REST API interface and the S3-compatible protocol gateway. REST Gateway v0.18.0 landed on July 3 and S3 Gateway v0.45.0 on July 2, with both releases targeting performance improvements, API surface cleanup, and shared dependency upgrades. The updates follow a similar pattern to the previous gateway pair released in April, when REST v0.17.0 and S3 v0.43.0 introduced session token v2 support. Both new releases depend on NeoFS SDK RC20 and NeoGo v0.120.0, aligning them with the recently covered NeoFS Node v0.54.0 and completing a stack-wide upgrade cycle.…

The unified version of the Clarity Act — which is said by one person to have had more than 70 pages of text added — hasn’t yet solidified a position on the major sticking point: A Democrat-demanded restriction keeping senior government officials (including the president) from maintaining business ties with the crypto sector. Without a compromise on such ethics limits, several lawmakers have said they won’t vote yes on a final bill. The merged text that may be released next week will not represent a simple combination of the two bills the respective committees voted to approve earlier this year.…

Phantom Technologies and the Hyperliquid Policy Center filed a joint comment with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission asking the agency to update its rules for onchain market infrastructure. The comment responds to the CFTC’s request for information on regulations that may limit fintech firms from partnering with financial infrastructure and intermediaries regulated by the Commission. Phantom and HPC said current rules generally assume a custodial market structure where intermediaries handle customer orders and funds, while onchain markets can allow users to trade directly and retain control of their assets. The groups asked the CFTC to confirm that developing or contributing…

The shift began after the $292 million Kelp bridge exploit earlier in the year, which increased scrutiny of LayerZero-powered bridge configurations. Kelp later announced it would migrate more than $1.5 billion in assets to Chainlink CCIP. Since then, Solv Protocol migrated $700 million in tokenized bitcoin, Re moved $475 million, Kraken transferred $330 million in wrapped assets, Lombard migrated more than $1 billion, Virtuals Protocol moved $700 million and Yuzu Money transferred $54.5 million. Mantle said its Super Portal will be suspended during the migration, which is scheduled to take place between July 9 and July 15. Existing $MNT on…