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The Korea Exchange (KRX) announced on July 2nd that the KOSDAQ listing rules have been changed so that public companies cannot covertly change their original technology businesses to investing in cryptocurrencies. This rule, which restricts one of Asia’s largest equity markets and sends a clear message to the growing trend in companies around the world to invest in Bitcoin or any other form of cryptocurrency as part of their cash treasury strategy, is being put into place by the KRX to stop companies from making these kinds of business changes without any warning or oversight from their investors. The new…

Paying 140 Times the Market Price The transaction was flagged yesterday and the math behind it was brutal. At $2.01 million for 5,776 tokens, the trader paid an effective price of roughly $348 per $LIT, about 140 times the token’s market price of $2.46 at the time of the trade. Had the same 1,126.44 $ETH, implying an ether price near $1,784, been routed through a deep venue at market rates, it would have bought roughly 817,000 $LIT. The wallet received 5,776. Onchain data showing 1,126.44 $ETH ($2.01M) being swapped for only 5,776 $LIT ($14,208), resulting in a $2M loss. Losses…

Optimism recently highlighted key insights from a Citi Institute report predicting that $5.5 trillion in assets will transition to on-chain by 2030. This emphasizes the need for enhanced privacy solutions to bridge the gap between regulated finance and blockchain technology, as cited in their official tweet. Inside the Move The crypto market is experiencing mixed signals, with various assets showing different levels of momentum. Optimism’s focus on privacy solutions is particularly timely, given the projected shift of $5.5 trillion in assets to the blockchain by 2030. This move, highlighted by Citi, underscores the critical need for secure transactions in a…

Strategy And FTX: Similarities? This was followed by a surge in withdrawals, an $8 billion deficit in FTX’s accounts, culminating in a liquidity crisis when FTX suspended user withdrawals, and eventually the exchange’s collapse. Martinez said the event marked the “final bottom” of the 2022 Bitcoin bear market. Is This Leading To $BTC Bottom? Martinez then suggested that the current situation around Strategy felt “eerily similar.” “I am not saying Strategy is FTX. My point is about market psychology,” Martinez added. “Rumors create doubt. Doubt creates selling. Selling exposes vulnerabilities.” They argued that these dynamics could mark a bottom for…

If you’ve ever placed a large trade and watched the price move against you before it even filled, you’ve felt the exact problem dark pools were built to solve. The Problem With Public Order Books Most exchanges and stock markets use a public order book. Every buy and sell order is visible to anyone watching, including the size and the price. That transparency sounds good in theory. In practice, it creates a hidden tax on big trades. The moment you place a large order, other traders can see it sitting there. Some will trade ahead of it, buy up the…

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has explained why the company chose not to apply for a license under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework. According to Ardoino, the regulation creates unnecessary risks for stablecoin issuers instead of making the market safer. He said MiCA requires issuers to keep 60% of their reserves as uninsured cash deposits in European banks. Ardoino argued that such a rule could expose stablecoin issuers to banking risks during periods of heavy redemptions. Tether’s decision means $USDT, now valued at roughly $186 billion, has no MiCA authorization and can no longer trade on regulated crypto…

Aster’s buyback program removes $ASTER tokens from circulation by pairing every open-market purchase with an equal token burn, targeting a supply cut from 8 billion tokens down to 3 billion, a reduction of 62.5%. The mechanism started on June 17, 2026, and ties the pace of supply reduction directly to how much trading activity happens on the platform. How Does The Buyback Mechanism Work? Aster is a decentralized exchange built on BNB Chain, with additional support across Ethereum, Solana, and Arbitrum. Under its updated tokenomics, 99% of daily platform fees are used to buy back $ASTER on the open market.…

The RWA narrative needs examples that look like real finance, not just token launches. Fidelity’s FILQ integration with Chainlink is useful because it touches one of the most ordinary but essential parts of fund operations: valuation data. That makes the story more important than it might look at first. If tokenized funds are going to scale, investors need trustworthy information about what the assets are worth and how those values are updated. For more details, visit the official Chainlink platform. TL;DR Fidelity’s FILQ fund is using Chainlink technology to publish NAV information. The integration connects traditional fund valuation data to…

Bitcoin is caught between a failed breakout and a possible support reset, with analysts watching whether $BTC can hold the $59,000-$61,000 area. If that zone holds, price could bounce back toward $65,000, but another rejection there may keep the bigger downside risk alive. Bitcoin Break Above $63K Puts $65K Back in Play Bitcoin has broken above the $63,000 level, putting bulls back near a key short-term decision zone. If $BTC holds above $62,800 on the daily close, the next move could target $65,000. $BTC/USDT daily chart. Source: Ted on X, TradingView The chart shows Bitcoin reclaiming the $62,500-$62,800 area after…

Galaxy Digital (GLXY) has launched an institutional vault curation business on decentralized lending protocol Morpho, expanding its push into onchain finance with a product designed to help clients earn yield on idle stablecoin balances without managing decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure themselves. The offering, called Galaxy Curator, is available through Fireblocks Earn, giving the custody platform’s more than 2,400 institutional clients access to curated onchain lending strategies from within their existing treasury and custody workflows, the company said in a press release Thursday. The launch targets a longstanding challenge for institutional crypto holders. Large stablecoin balances often remain uninvested between settlements,…