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Injective said Thursday it has filed a transfer agent registration with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, seeking to bring one of the core record-keeping functions of securities markets onto blockchain infrastructure.
Transfer agents are a core part of US market infrastructure, maintaining shareholder records and tracking changes in securities ownership. Injective, a layer-1 blockchain focused on decentralized finance and tokenized real-world assets, said bringing that function onchain would create a regulated pathway for issuing and managing tokenized assets.
Source: Injective
If approved, the registration would move Injective beyond blockchain infrastructure for tokenized assets and into the regulated systems that determine who legally owns a security. Injective said the approach could reduce delays and reconciliation between intermediaries.
“Tokenized securities and RWAs need compliant ownership records on infrastructure that settles in less than a second,” Injective wrote in an X post, adding that it aims to offer the capability at scale in the United States.
Injective did not identify the legal entity behind the application or provide a public SEC filing, and Cointelegraph could not independently verify the submission at the time of publication.
Capital markets infrastructure moves onchain
Traditional financial institutions have increasingly turned to blockchain to modernize the infrastructure underpinning capital markets. Beyond tokenizing assets, exchanges and market operators are applying the technology to market data distribution, securities issuance, settlement and other post-trade functions.
Nasdaq has been among the most active. Last month, the exchange partnered with onchain financial data network Pyth to distribute its proprietary TotalView market data to blockchain applications. Earlier this year, Nasdaq also partnered with Kraken and tokenization firm Backed to develop infrastructure linking traditional equities to blockchain networks.
Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, has also expanded its tokenization strategy through a partnership with Securitize to develop infrastructure for onchain stocks and exchange-traded funds designed to support 24/7 trading and instant settlement.
Meanwhile, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, the primary post-trade infrastructure provider for US securities markets, is preparing to launch its tokenized Collateral AppChain platform to automate collateral management and settlement across financial markets.
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Das Krypto-Zahlungsunternehmen BitPay gab bekannt, dass es eine Lizenz von der niederländischen Aufsichtsbehörde für Finanzmärkte erhalten habe, die es dem Unternehmen ermöglicht, in den Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union unter dem Rahmenwerk „Markets in Crypto-Assets“ (MiCA) zu operieren.
Am Donnerstag erklärte BitPay, dass die Genehmigung als Krypto-Asset-Dienstanbieter (CASP) durch niederländische Finanzbehörden es dem Unternehmen ermöglichen würde, seine Dienstleistungen in der Region auszubauen, darunter Krypto- und Stablecoin-Zahlungen. Das Unternehmen gehörte zu den jüngsten, die unter MiCA lizenziert wurden, nachdem es ab dem 1. Juli eine Pflicht gab, dass alle Unternehmen, die Krypto-bezogene Dienstleistungen anbieten, reguliert werden müssen.

Bitcoin (BTC) cooled off with US stocks on Thursday as tech selling tempered gains from low inflation.
Key points:
Bitcoin follows US stocks as they come off local highs sparked by bullish US inflation data.
Tech sell pressure contributes to slowing momentum as retail investors take profits.
The BTC price rebound is seen rejecting at overhead resistance.
Tech selling puts the brakes on crypto, risk-asset upside
Data from TradingView showed BTC/USD circling $64,500, down 1.5% from its three-week highs seen the day prior.
BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView
These had accompanied two straight days of lower-than-expected US inflation data, with both the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) dropping in June.
While crypto and equities initially gained, tech stocks came under pressure on Thursday, with the closely-watched Micron Technologies down 15%.
“Micron is now down over -30% since its June 22nd record high,” trading resource The Kobeissi Letter commented in a response on X.
Micron Technologies one-day chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView
Kobeissi additionally noted profit-taking in action by retail tech-stock investors, with sales of Tesla and Apple hitting $200 million over the past two weeks.
“Meanwhile, the total retail turnover in single stocks rose to a record $370 billion, up from $220 billion at the start of 2026,” it continued.
“Retail investors are locking in gains following a historic tech rally.”
Retail investor equity sales data. Source: The Kobeissi Letter/X
Earlier, Cointelegraph reported on Bitcoin speculators cashing in on the recent local highs.
“Rejection” becomes new BTC price keyword
Turning to BTC price action itself, the mood among market participants remained conservative on the day.
Commentator Exitpump flagged anchored volume-weighted average price (AVWAP) as measured from Bitcoin’s run to $82,000 in early May, as the level to end the current rebound.
“Price is finally going to retest the AVWAP from 82K top that lead to strong local downtrend. To me such retest should cap the upside and give stronger rejection,” they told X followers.
BTC/USD four-hour chart. Source: Exitpump/X
Trader and analyst Rekt Capital argued that BTC/USD was “showing initial signs of rejection” from its 50-month exponential moving average (EMA) at $65,900.
https://x.com/rektcapital/status/2077748952791756803
Rekt Capital reiterated the concept of current price behavior copying the 2022 bear market, having already warned that the next macro bottom would not come until later in the year.

Summer Mersinger, the CEO of the Blockchain Association and a former commissioner at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), anticipated a vote on a cryptocurrency market structure bill as soon as next week with the window closing for lawmakers before August state work periods.
Speaking at the Injective Summit in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Mersinger said that US lawmakers working to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act in Congress had a “few little nits that they’re still working out” but were “very close on the main part of the language” around the bill. According to the Blockchain Association CEO, a vote in the Senate could come as early as next week, provided lawmakers reached an agreement on ethics.
“Ethics is the big elephant in the room,” said Mersinger on the crypto bill. “That’s what we hear from every office is that we’ve gotta figure out ethics. Today there’s a meeting at the White House with some Republican senators. We’re hopeful that an agreement comes out of that and that it’s something the Democrats will accept or that they can make some changes but get to an agreement.”
She added:
“For my members and what we are advocating for on the Hill... look, whatever you decide on ethics, that’s really not our concern. That is politics. That’s Congress. That’s elected officials. But please don’t let it kill all the hard work that we put in the rest of the bill.”
Summer Mersinger speaking at Injective Summit on Thursday. Source: Injective
Mersinger’s comments on a White House meeting followed reports that US President Donald Trump planned to discuss CLARITY with a group of Republican senators on Thursday, potentially including his ties to the industry, after Senate Democrats held their own meeting on the bill on Wednesday. Trump disclosed in June that he had earned $1.4 billion from ventures related to digital assets, including his memecoin and his family’s business World Liberty Financial.
A former CFTC commissioner, Mersinger departed the agency in 2025 to become the CEO of the Blockchain Association. The organization was involved in discussions with lawmakers over the market structure bill as it passed the Senate banking and agriculture committees.
CLARITY needs bipartisan support to become law, but some Democrats are opposed
On Tuesday, three Senate Democrats held a press conference saying that they would not support a crypto market structure bill without clear ethics provisions, citing Trump’s financial disclosures and the potential for corruption by lawmakers and the White House. Republicans hold a slim majority in the Senate and would need several Democrats to vote yay on the bill for it to pass.
At the time of publication, traders on prediction market Kalshi had a 75.1% chance on CLARITY going for a floor vote in the Senate before the August break, up from 47% on July 10.
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Morgan Stanley’s E*TRADE platform has launched spot cryptocurrency trading, allowing eligible clients to buy, sell and hold Bitcoin, Ether and Solana through a partnership with crypto infrastructure provider Zero Hash.
Clients can view their crypto holdings alongside stocks and other traditional investments on the E*TRADE platform, while transfer functionality for moving digital assets on and off the platform is expected later this year.
The self-directed channel served 8.6 million households and held about $1.56 trillion in client assets as of March 31, according to Morgan Stanley’s latest financial supplement.
According to Thursday’s announcement, trades carry a 50-basis-point fee, while custody and transaction services are handled through separate Zero Hash accounts that are not covered by FDIC or SIPC protections. Morgan Stanley said it expects to transition the digital asset services to Morgan Stanley Digital Trust, its national trust bank currently in organization.
Morgan Stanley also introduced several non-crypto updates across the customer platform, including fractional share trading, a revamped retirement planning tool and new features for its Power E*TRADE Pro desktop platform.
The rollout follows a pilot launched in May, when the company began testing the service with a limited group of users before expanding access to eligible E*TRADE clients.
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Morgan Stanley broadens crypto strategy
Beyond retail spot trading, Morgan Stanley has expanded its digital asset business into stablecoin reserve services and crypto exchange-traded funds this year.
In April, the Wall Street giant launched a stablecoin reserve offering that allows issuers to hold the assets backing their tokens in one of the firm’s money market funds while earning interest.
The same month, the company launched its spot Bitcoin ETF with a 0.14% management fee, making it the lowest-cost Bitcoin ETF on the US market at the time. The fund debuted on NYSE Arca as the first spot Bitcoin ETF launched by a major US commercial bank.
During its first six trading days, the ETF attracted more than $100 million in net inflows, surpassing the cumulative inflows of WisdomTree’s spot Bitcoin ETF, which launched in January 2024. At the time of writing, the fund has attracted about $385 million in cumulative net inflows, according to SoSoValue data.
In June, Morgan Stanley amended its proposed spot Ether and Solana ETF filings to set management fees at 0.14% after first applying to list the funds in January.
Top 10 Bitcoin ETFs. Source: SoSoValue
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Die Tokenisierungsplattform Tradable will bis zu 1 Milliarde US-Dollar an Private-Credit-Assets auf der Stellar-Blockchain platzieren und damit den Zugang institutioneller Anleger zu tokenisierten Real-World-Assets (RWAs) erweitern, während die Nachfrage nach Onchain-Private-Märkten weiter wächst.
Tradable teilte am Donnerstag mit, dass bei Start der Initiative ein Nominalwert von 500 Millionen US-Dollar verfügbar sein soll, und dass der Betrag im Laufe der Zeit auf 1 Milliarde US-Dollar steigen werde. Das Unternehmen wird das Netzwerk von Stellar nutzen, um institutionelle Funktionen zu unterstützen, darunter Compliance, Investor-Onboarding und Asset-Lifecycle-Management.

Brokerage infrastructure provider Alpaca said Thursday that it raised $135 million in a funding round led by Peak XV, along with as much as $300 million in debt financing from Kraken parent Payward and BMO.
A January Series D round pulled in $150 million that brought the fintech’s value to $1.15 billion, according to the statement. Earlier investors include the venture capital arm of BNP Paribas.
Alpaca said it will use the new financing to accelerate its agent-first brokerage and API-first prime brokerage infrastructure.
“As tokenization reshapes access to global markets and AI accelerates the creation of new financial applications and market participants, demand is growing for regulated infrastructure built for this paradigm shift,” said Yoshi Yokokawa, co-founder and CEO of Alpaca.
The global market capitalization of tokenized stocks is at a record $2.3 billion, data aggregator Token Terminal shared in a Wednesday X post. More crypto platforms are bringing traditional investment products onto blockchain rails, in many cases opening up assets to investors outside of the United States.
Last month, Binance disclosed a revenue-sharing arrangement with Alpaca, which provides brokerage, clearing and custody infrastructure for Binance’s stock trading product.

June 2026 was brutal for the crypto market. Bitcoin (BTC) fell more than 20%, hitting a 21-month low, while spot Bitcoin ETFs saw a record $4.5 billion in outflows.
That did not stop users from spending a record $324 million on onchain gacha during the month, according to Blockworks Research. A year earlier, the monthly figure was closer to $50 million.
Spending hit a new all time high in the depths of a bear market. While crypto prices were tanking, people were opening more and more packs of tokenized Pokémon cards — driven by the thrill, the hope of a profit or the urge to expand a collection.
It’s an entire randomized Real World Asset (RWA) sector that’s flown under the radar… until now.
Onchain gacha spending hit an all-time high in June 2026. Source: Blockworks.
Booster packs, grades and slabs
Gacha is a mechanism borrowed from Japanese vending machines, where a fixed payment yields a random item. In the trading card game (TCG) market, it usually works through booster packs: sealed packs holding a random assortment of cards. The buyer does not know in advance what they will get.
The cards inside a booster are not created equal. Print run, rarity, condition and year of release drive prices orders of magnitude apart: from cents for an ordinary card, to hundreds of thousands of dollars for a rare copy in pristine condition. A market has grown up around those collectibles, which Global Market Insights values at $9.2 billion and Mordor Intelligence at $15.11 billion.
Some cards can fetch several hundred thousand dollars. Source: PriceCharting.
When a card can cost as much as a car, its authenticity and condition have to be assessed.
That is what grading is for — a process in which an independent company such as PSA, Beckett or CGC checks a card against several criteria. The card is inspected for image centering, the condition of its corners, edges and surface, and for scratches and stains, after which it is assigned a grade and sealed in a plastic case known as a slab.
The grade directly affects the price: two identical cards can be worth completely different amounts, while a raw, ungraded card sells as a riskier asset.
A Pokémon card sealed in a PSA slab. Source: eBay.
Projects such as Collector Crypt and Courtyard are moving these real world assets onto the blockchain. They accept physical cards — usually ones that have already been graded — hold them in vaults and issue NFTs tied to a specific copy.
When a user buys and opens a pack, they receive a token backed by a real card in a real vault. The token can be kept, listed on a marketplace, sold back to the platform or redeemed for the physical card.
Crucially, the value of these NFTs rests on the assumption that the partner vault really does hold that exact card in the stated grade. The user takes on custodial risk — the safety of the asset, the integrity of the authentication and the durability of the platform itself — and with grading companies themselves reporting a rise in counterfeits, that assumption is far from trivial.
Why now?
The growing popularity of onchain gacha, and of TCG-focused blockchain platforms more broadly, is probably down to several factors.
Pokémon cards are the core product for many of these projects, and the franchise is on a roll right now.
According to research firm Circana, Pokémon became the most popular toy brand in the US in 2025, with $2.5 billion in sales, up 87% from a year earlier.
The interest is not coming from children alone. Wealthier members of Generations Y and Z sometimes prefer cards to expensive paintings. Demand for grading is so high that in June, PSA temporarily suspended card submissions across four basic service levels as it tried to work through a backlog of almost 10 million cards.
Tokenization simply plugged into this frenzy by providing a useful service and removing friction.
High-profile buyers like Logan Paul have helped push Pokémon cards into the spotlight. Source: Logan Paul.
The real world trading card market suffers from a problem common to all collectibles markets: the absence of instant liquidity. To sell a card offchain, the owner has to find a counterparty, verify its authenticity and grade, and ship the item.
“Traditional marketplaces are slow and expensive,” Dakota Campbell, head of marketing at Collector Crypt, told Cointelegraph. “With tokenized trading cards, collectors can buy, sell, trade, and verify ownership instantly while the physical asset remains securely vaulted until they want it shipped.”
Collector Crypt has tokenized roughly $40 million worth of cards and comic books, according to Campbell. About $23 million of that inventory belongs to the platform itself, while the rest sits in user wallets or has already been redeemed. To keep up with demand, the company buys around $2 million worth of cards every week.
Gambling on collectibles
As with the NFT boom, it’s hard to deny that price speculation and gambling-style dopamine hits from the random prizes are part of the appeal.
The instant buyback mechanism, available on most platforms, creates an almost perfect “gacha loop”: Buy a pack, and if the card is unappealing or not worth much, sell it back for, say, 85% of its value and go open the next one. Pull something rare, and either list it on a marketplace or keep it. Unlike with physical cards, there’s no searching for a buyer, no shipping, no waiting.
The “instant buyback” option is available on nearly all TCG platforms. Source: Phygitals.
The gagcha mechanism is similar to loot boxes within video games: The user pays for a random outcome, knowing only the odds. Some jurisdictions have already tried to bring loot boxes under gambling regulations. Whether that logic will reach tokenized TCGs probably depends on how big the sector grows.
Either way, this is exactly how the traditional TCG market works. The only difference is speed: Offchain, closing the gacha loop takes weeks. Onchain, it takes a few seconds.
Sometimes users are driven by nothing more than the desire to “try their luck.” Source: X.
“There is always speculation in an emerging market, especially in the crypto sector,” Campbell said, while arguing that the platform benefits most from committed collectors hunting for their next “grail.”
No country for collectors?
Genuine collectors of physical cards still make up a proportion of the market. According to Dune, users burn 5% to 8% of the NFTs issued on Courtyard each week, with each burn representing a real physical claim.
Users burn 5% to 8% of Courtyard’s issued NFTs each week for physical cards. Source: Dune.
Collector Crypt reports that around 30% of its users eventually redeem a card, according to Campbell, and many more hold their cards in their onchain inventory past the 72-hour buyback window rather than flipping them.
“In just the last 30 days, 5,400 assets shipped to 634 unique users at $3.29 million insured value,” he said.
New tracks for an old train
Essentially, blockchain startups are running the classic tokenization play: moving a proven business model onto more efficient rails and removing some of the friction.
Concerns about the speculative nature of this market, or the role of gambling in it, are warranted to the extent that platforms build their marketing around this aspect.
Beyond that, this is simply how gacha works. People sift through the “junk” in pursuit of a rare card. And if there are complaints to be made, they should be addressed to the entire TCG industry, not just its onchain segment.
As for June’s records, they are the result of several factors converging. The traditional card market is booming, tokenization has proved mature enough to plug into it, and the gacha mechanic sits neatly on blockchain rails.
How sustainable that is remains an open question. The gacha loop runs fast in both directions, and record inflows can reverse just as fast.
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Cryptocurrency markets struggled broadly in the second quarter of 2026, with declines across stablecoins, spot trading and derivatives, but prediction markets reached record highs.
Spot trading volume across the top 10 centralized exchanges (CEXs) fell to $1.95 trillion in the second quarter of 2026, a 27.9% drop from $2.7 trillion in Q1, according to CoinGecko’s latest Crypto Industry Report published Thursday.
CEX perpetual futures volume also declined 10% to $12.7 trillion, while the stablecoin market slipped 1.6% to $305.1 billion. In contrast, prediction markets recorded their strongest quarter on record with $113.8 billion in notional volume.
The divergence highlights the growing role of prediction markets, with sports and politics emerging as the sector’s biggest drivers. Polymarket’s World Cup winner market alone has attracted more than $3.3 billion in trading volume, while contracts tied to the 2028 US presidential election rank among the platform’s largest markets, according to Polymarketscan data.
Source: Polymarketscan
Binance extends dominance despite bear market as DEX activity falls
Despite the bear market, Binance extended its dominance, with a 38.7% market share in Q2. In contrast, MEXC saw the biggest slump among spot CEXs, with trading volume more than halving from $275.2 billion in Q1 to $121.2 billion in Q2.
DEX activity also weakened during the quarter, with the top 10 spot DEXs processing $408.9 billion in volume, down from $556.4 billion in Q1. Uniswap strengthened its position as the leading DEX, holding a 41.2% market share despite a 21.4% drop in volume to $168.5 billion.
Source: CoinGecko
The declines came as the broader crypto market weakened, with total market capitalization falling 12.6% to $2.1 trillion during the quarter. April also marked a record month for hacks in decentralized finance (DeFi), highlighting ongoing security concerns across decentralized platforms.
Kalshi holds lead as prediction markets expand
Prediction market activity peaked in June, coinciding with the start of the FIFA World Cup, as monthly notional volume — the total value of all contracts traded — reached an all-time high of $50.7 billion, up 91.9% from the average of the previous five months.
Kalshi, the largest prediction market platform, maintained its lead over the quarter with a 58.9% market share, while Polymarket lost share from 35.8% to 30.2%. Robinhood-backed Rothera Markets climbed to fourth place.
The growth has drawn regulatory attention. In the US, regulators and states have clashed over whether prediction markets should be treated as financial markets or gambling platforms, with lawsuits involving platforms such as Kalshi escalating in 2026.
Authorities in other jurisdictions have also moved to restrict prediction markets, citing concerns including gambling rules, market integrity and potential insider trading risks.
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MoonPay has acquired the crypto infrastructure startup Glide, integrating Glide’s deposit and routing technology, the companies said in a joint announcement shared with Cointelegraph on Thursday.
MoonPay, a financial technology platform that provides fiat-to-crypto payment services, said the deal is part of MoonPay’s broader effort to become a digital asset infrastructure provider, adding capabilities beyond its original crypto payments business.
Glide was founded in 2023 by Tushar Soni and Qinyu Tong, former members of the team behind Robinhood Wallet. The company was founded to help applications accept deposits from different tokens, wallets, exchanges and payment sources. Glide supports more than 100 tokens across 30 blockchain networks, according to the platform’s documentation.
Glide aims to remove friction from crypto deposits
Soni and Tong founded Glide to solve recurring problem they observed while working with Web3 consumer startups, where users struggled to fund their wallets, Soni told Cointelegraph.
“Funds sat on the wrong chain, in the wrong token, on an exchange, or on a card, and every deposit meant bridges, swaps, and drop-offs,” he said.
The Glide co-founders met at Robinhood, where they worked together on Robinhood Wallet. “We got into Y Combinator with a plan to build wallet infrastructure for Web3 consumer startups, but working with those startups showed us that users struggled to get money into their wallets,” Soni said.
Qinyu Tong (left) and Tushar Soni. Source: Y Combinator
Glide eventually shifted its focus from wallet infrastructure to building a unified deposit flow that allows users to fund wallets from different chains, tokens, wallets, exchanges or cards without manually completing bridges and swaps.
MoonPay pushes deeper into digital asset infrastructure
Following the acquisition, Glide’s technology will be integrated into MoonPay Deposits, a product already used by applications including Wallet in Telegram, Moonshot and Paysafe.
MoonPay CEO and co-founder Ivan Soto-Wright told Cointelegraph the acquisition fits into the company’s broader infrastructure strategy, following recent deals for security, trading and accounting capabilities.
“Every acquisition this year has added a layer of the infrastructure that businesses and their users need to operate with digital assets: moving money, securing it, trading it, accounting for it,” Soto-Wright said.
He added that Glide addresses one of the biggest pain points in crypto transfers: users losing funds because they send the wrong token on the wrong chain, predicting that future blockchain-based platforms will require infrastructure that makes those complexities invisible.
MoonPay has not disclosed the financial terms of the Glide acquisition.
The deal marks MoonPay’s sixth acquisition announcement of 2026, as the company continues expanding its digital asset infrastructure stack through acquisitions including Sodot, Decent and DFlow, Entendre and Dawn Labs.
Its investors include Thrive Capital, Paradigm, Valhalla Ventures, Tiger Global Management and Coatue, according to startup data platform Tracxn.
Former acting chair of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Caroline Pham, was named chief legal officer and chief administrative officer late last year.
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Die globale Marktkapitalisierung tokenisierter Aktien stieg am Mittwoch auf einen Rekordwert von 2,3 Milliarden US-Dollar, da mehr Anleger eine Exponierung gegenüber blockchainbasierten Equity-Produkten suchten.
Das Ethereum-Netzwerk hatte den größten Marktanteil mit 34 %, gefolgt von der BNB-Chain mit 30 % und dem Solana-Netzwerk mit 23 %. Der Datenaggregator Token Terminal teilte dies in einem Mittwoch-X-Post.
Den größten Anstieg verzeichneten die xStocks der Kryptobörse Kraken, die für tokenisierte Aktien im Wert von 507 Millionen US-Dollar standen, sowie Binances bStocks mit 334 Millionen US-Dollar. Ondo Finance blieb laut den Daten von Token Terminal der größte Emittent tokenisierter Aktien mit 955 Millionen US-Dollar an Onchain-Aktien.

Die Financial Action Task Force (FATF) warnte, dass Kriminelle zunehmend Stablecoins für illegale Finanzgeschäfte nutzen; die meisten identifizierten Onchain-Kriminalitätsaktivitäten betreffen inzwischen USD-gebundene Kryptowährungen.
In ihrem neuesten Bericht, der am Donnerstag veröffentlicht wurde, erklärte die globale Aufsichtsbehörde für Geldwäschebekämpfung, dass kriminelle Netzwerke außerdem begonnen hätten, proprietäre Stablecoins zu entwickeln, die darauf ausgelegt sind, das Einfrieren und die Beschlagnahme von Vermögenswerten zu vereiteln.
Die FATF forderte die Behörden auf, die Umsetzung der Krypto-AML-Standards (Geldwäschebekämpfung) zu beschleunigen, da illegale Akteure regulatorische Lücken ausnutzen.

Der Direktor für Forschung von ARK Invest widersprach der These des a16z-crypto-Investors, dass der traditionellen Finanzwelt der Durchbruch von Blockchain über permissionierte Infrastruktur statt über dezentrale Finanzstrukturen (DeFi) gelingen werde.
Lorenzo Valente sagte in einem X-Post am Mittwoch, dass öffentliche Blockchains bereits private Blockchain-Initiativen übertroffen hätten, unter Verweis auf das Wachstum tokenisierter Assets auf Ethereum und anderen offenen Netzwerken.
Außerdem führte er aus, dass Krypto-nativen Unternehmen wie Circle und Coinbase, statt etablierten Finanzinstitutionen, am besten positioniert seien, um die nächste Generation der finanziellen Infrastruktur aufzubauen.

Künstliche-Intelligenz-(KI-)Agenten stellen laut einem gemeinsamen Bericht, der von dem Zahlungsriesen Visa und der Investment-Thesis-Plattform Artemis veröffentlicht wurde, eine Herausforderung für die bestehende globale Karten-Zahlungsinfrastruktur dar. Diese kämpft damit, hochfrequente Mikrozahlungen zu verarbeiten.
Der gemeinsame Bericht, der am Mittwoch veröffentlicht wurde, stellte fest, dass traditionelle Karten für den menschlichen Handel mit Transaktionen mit geringer Frequenz ausgelegt waren, was für KI-Agenten nicht ausreicht. Diese benötigen eine Infrastruktur mit nahezu null Gebühren und schnelleren Abwicklungszeiten, um agentische Mikrozahlungen kommerziell tragfähig zu machen.

Der US-Senat hat eine Resolution verabschiedet, die sich gegen eine Begnadigung durch den Präsidenten für den ehemaligen FTX-CEO Sam Bankman-Fried richtet, den verurteilten Krypto-Manager hinter einem der größten Zusammenbrüche der Branche.
Der Senat hat laut einem am Mittwoch veröffentlichten X-Post der Senate Press Gallery mit einstimmiger Zustimmung die schlichte Resolution (S. Res. 772) angenommen; dabei handelt es sich um eine nicht bindende Maßnahme, wonach Bankman-Fried keine Begnadigung durch den Präsidenten erhalten sollte.
Die Resolution bekräftigt die Entschlossenheit des Senats, an die Rechtsstaatlichkeit und die Integrität des US-Finanzsystems zu halten, nachdem Bankman-Fried wegen Betrugs- und Verschwörungsdelikten im Zusammenhang mit dem Zusammenbruch von FTX verurteilt worden war.

Der Stablecoin-Gigant Tether habe Berichten zufolge 20 Millionen US-Dollar in die argentinische Neobank Ualá investiert, im Rahmen seiner breiteren Vorstöße in Lateinamerika.
Laut Bloomberg gehörte die Anlage zu einer Eigenkapital-Finanzierungsrunde in Höhe von 197 Millionen US-Dollar, die Ualá im März angekündigt hatte und die von Allianz X angeführt wurde. Ualá gab zum damaligen Zeitpunkt Tether als Teilnehmer der Runde bekannt, machte jedoch keine Angaben zur Höhe seiner Investition.
Cointelegraph wandte sich an Tether, um eine Bestätigung einzuholen, hatte jedoch bis zum Zeitpunkt der Veröffentlichung keine Antwort erhalten.
Anfang Juli hatte Tether eine Investition in Höhe von 20 Millionen US-Dollar in die brasilianische Krypto-Börse Mercado Bitcoin angekündigt, um die Ausweitung seiner On-Chain-Infrastruktur in ganz Lateinamerika zu unterstützen.

Bitcoin-„Cycle-Peak-Käufer“ könnten bereits den Weg zum nächsten Tiefpunkt eines Bärenmarkts weisen.
Kernaussagen:
Bitcoin-Hodler, die BTC vor ein bis zwei Jahren gekauft haben, kühlen den Verkaufsdruck ab.
Die realisierten Verluste der Kohorte führten zu Marktböden, sobald ihre Aufwärtstrend-Wende eintritt, wie Daten von Glassnode zeigen.
Die Cost-Basis der Spekulanten untermauert die nächste Preis-Schlachtzone für BTC bei 69.000 US-Dollar.
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In einem X-Beitrag am Freitag zeigte Cryptovizart, der pseudonyme leitende Research-Analyst der On-Chain-Analytics-Plattform Glassnode, ein klassisches Bottom-Signal, das sich möglicherweise wiederholt.

Robinhood Chain-Memecoin-Launchpad Vlad.fun hat den Betrieb ausgesetzt, nachdem es laut eigener Aussage eine „schwerwiegende interne Integritätsproblematik“ festgestellt hatte, die Mitglieder seines eigenen Teams betrifft.
Das Projekt teilte am Mittwoch mit, dass es die Plattform offline genommen habe, während es den Vorfall untersucht und juristischen Rat zu möglichen Maßnahmen gegen die Verantwortlichen einholt. Vlad.fun legte nicht dar, worin die angebliche Fehlverhaltensweise bestand.
Stunden bevor Vlad.fun die Abschaltung ankündigte, warnte es Nutzer davor, dass ein Token mit dem Namen der Plattform, das in seinem Leaderboard kursierte, nicht offiziell sei. Damit erinnerte es Händler daran, dass jeder Token auf dem permissionless Launchpad erstellen könne. Das Projekt gab nicht an, ob die beiden Vorfälle miteinander zusammenhingen.

Der an der Nasdaq gelistete Hyperion DeFi teilte mit, dass es eine Vereinbarung mit Skew Technologies geschlossen hat, um 500.000 Hyperliquid-(HYPE)-Tokens bereitzustellen, um institutionellen Perpetual-Futures-Märkten auf den HIP-3-freien Listings von Hyperliquid Unterstützung zu geben.
Im Rahmen der Vereinbarung werde Hyperion laut einer Pressemitteilung vom Mittwoch eine Beteiligung am Eigenkapital von Skew erhalten sowie einen Anteil an den Einnahmen aus dem Listing-Service, die über die Plattform generiert werden.
Die Unternehmen erklärten, der Dienst sei darauf ausgelegt, institutionellen Kunden dabei zu helfen, maßgeschneiderte Märkte für Perpetual Futures auf Hyperliquid zu starten.

US-Präsident Donald Trump wird am Donnerstag im Weißen Haus mit mehreren Senatoren zusammentreffen, um den Fortschritt beim Gesetzentwurf zur Marktstruktur im Kryptosektor zu besprechen.
Laut Politico sagte Senator Bernie Moreno, eine Gruppe von Senatoren werde den Präsidenten über den Gesetzentwurf und „seinen Weg zum Erfolg“ informieren. Senatorin Cynthia Lummis wird ebenfalls anwesend sein, wie ein republikanischer Mitarbeiter des Senats mitteilte.
„Wir werden über den gesamten Gesetzentwurf sprechen. Ich meine, offensichtlich ist der Präsident sehr in dieses Gesetz eingebunden“, sagte Moreno. „Er ist es, der wirklich die Innovation vorangetrieben hat, von der ich denke, dass sie sich auszahlen wird.“