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Tether is investing $20 million in Mercado Bitcoin as part of a strategic financing round, the company announced Tuesday. The move strengthens its commitment to expanding blockchain-based financial infrastructure in Latin America. Mercado Bitcoin, one of the region’s largest regulated digital asset platforms, serves 4.5 million customers and has issued more than R$2 billion in tokenized assets. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the investment reflects confidence in the company’s regulated digital financial platform and its leadership in tokenization and blockchain-based financial services across Latin America. “Tether’s mission is to build open, accessible, and efficient financial infrastructure for the world. Mercado…

A cryptocurrency trader has turned an $838 investment into more than $1 million in just 20 days after backing the rapidly surging Cash Cat ($CASHCAT) memecoin on Robinhood Chain. The trader, identified by wallet address 0xDE4C, purchased 15.04 million $CASHCAT tokens for just $838, roughly three weeks ago. Following the token’s explosive rally, the trader sold 13.5 million $CASHCAT for approximately $917,600 while continuing to hold 1.5 million tokens valued at about $133,700, according to the latest on-chain data retrieved from Lookonchain on July 8. The combined value of realized and unrealized gains pushed the position above $1.05 million, representing…

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has announced a temporary suspension of deposits and withdrawals for Metal (MTL) beginning at 3:00 p.m. UTC on July 8. The scheduled pause is intended to support an upcoming network upgrade and hard fork for the Metal blockchain. Details of the Scheduled Suspension According to Binance’s official announcement, the suspension will affect all MTL deposit and withdrawal services on the platform. The exchange stated that the halt is necessary to accommodate the network’s upgrade and hard fork, which typically requires coordination between node operators, exchanges, and wallet providers to ensure a…

The metric, however, no longer carries the weight that it used to, not least because supply has been low for months even as bitcoin has languished at around 50% of its peak value. The interpretation is outdated, some industry observers say, because it does not account for the rise in institutional custody. The financialization of bitcoin through alternative investment vehicles has changed the market in ways that make the indicator unreliable. “People always used to look at low exchange supply as a clear bullish sign,” said Eneko Knorr, CEO of Stabolut, a multicurrency, yield-bearing stablecoin platform. “We’ve had this super-low…

Tom Lee has reaffirmed that Ethereum will play the central role as traditional finance and cryptocurrency converge into a single market. According to a post published by Bitmine chairman Tom Lee on X, he believes the line separating traditional financial markets and digital assets will eventually disappear, with Ethereum positioned at the center of that transition. Yes @carriepresley thx for the memories 🥹And yes, tradfi and crypto “will all be the same market”$ETH https://t.co/HsFWZm7qIW — Thomas (Tom) Lee (not drummer) FundstratDirect.com (@fundstrat) July 10, 2026 Lee shared the view while responding to a post from Fundstrat Capital head of distribution…

Tokenized equities posted record trading activity in June as investors piled into blockchain-based versions of SpaceX (SPCX) stock following the aerospace company’s blockbuster initial public offering. On-chain trading volume climbed 145% from May to $3.86 billion, according to CoinDesk Data’s latest Stablecoins & Tokenized Assets report. Tokenized SpaceX shares accounted for $1.19 billion of the total, or about 31% of all tokenized equity trading during the month. The surge followed SpaceX’s $75 billion IPO, the largest on record, which valued the company at roughly $1.8 trillion on a fully diluted basis. Backpack Securities’ SPCX token was the most popular tokenized…

A fundamentally new driver of long-term value has quietly formed inside the $XRP Ledger (XRPL), as according to the latest on-chain metrics, the volume of commercial transactions executed exclusively by artificial intelligence via the x402 protocol has officially surpassed 1,000,000 transactions. The historic milestone became clear alongside today’s launch of the XRPL AI Hub platform by t54 and the $XRP Ledger Foundation (XRPLF). This event forces a new look at the fundamental utility of $XRP and the Ripple USD stablecoin. Number of $XRP and RLUSD settlements by AI agents, Source: XRPL AI Hub The published statistics break the myth that…

The CLARITY Act did not become law by July 4, despite earlier hopes from White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt. Attention has now moved to Aug. 7, the Senate’s final session day before its summer break and the campaign season. The bill remains one of the most watched U.S. crypto market structure proposals. Crypto.news reported that the CLARITY Act has passed the House, cleared the Senate Banking Committee, and sits on the Senate calendar. It still needs a full Senate vote before it can move closer to the president’s desk Staff work continues on Senate text Senate staff are still…

Australian crypto exchange Swyftx says it will be seeking opportunities in the crypto payments space after securing a license from Australia’s market regulator. Swyftx said on Wednesday that it received its Australian Financial Services License (AFSL), joining the likes of Coinbase, $BTC Markets and Crypto.com. The license allows it to offer derivative products, such as crypto options or futures, to retail customers, as well as non-cash payment facility authorization, setting up the fintech to offer payment services to business and retail clients. It does not hold an AFSL to offer spot crypto. “Swyftx won’t be a pure crypto spot exchange…

Joe Burnett, vice president of Nasdaq-listed Strive — a company that maintains a strategic Bitcoin reserve — has outlined a framework that he believes is essential for understanding how global capital will enter the Bitcoin market. In a detailed post on X, Burnett argued that the concept of Bitcoin’s break-even Annualized Rate of Return (ARR) is the linchpin for decoding the current and future market structure. Three Investment Strategies Defined by Break-Even ARR Burnett identified three primary approaches that global capital uses to invest in Bitcoin, each defined by its relationship to $BTC’s break-even ARR. The first is a long-term…