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Vanguard, a $12 trillion asset management company, is hiring a Digital Assets Chief, reversing its stance after Bitcoin ETFs attracted more than $113 billion.
Vanguard, a $12 trillion asset management company, posted a job listing on Monday for a Managing Director position overseeing Digital Assets in the U.S., marking the company’s first formal effort in many years to build a deeper strategy for participating in the crypto assets market. According to the job description, the successful candidate will lead the strategy, roadmap, and enterprise-level deployment of crypto assets within Vanguard Personal Wealth, while also serving as the company’s senior expert on crypto assets across the entire division.

Germany will scrap tax-free holding of crypto assets for more than 12 months, expected to raise 1 billion euros per year, as part of the 6.2 billion euro fiscal consolidation package.
The German federal government is planning to raise at least one billion euros per year from domestic cryptocurrency asset investors by abolishing the tax exemption mechanism for long-term cryptocurrency asset investments.
Under the draft federal budget for 2027 and the financial plan through 2030 prepared by the German Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) and approved by the cabinet of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the measure “against financial and tax crimes, while also introducing a tax on crypto assets” is expected to contribute 1 billion euros to the state treasury as early as next year.

Dune: USDT settles $9.5 billion in commercial payments in the first half of 2026, while USDC handles $2.6 trillion in DeFi transactions on Base.
Data from Dune’s Digital Asset Newsletter shows that the two largest stablecoins in the world, Tether’s USDt (USDT) and Circle’s USDC, are gradually becoming blockchain-specific financial products, playing distinct roles within the crypto asset ecosystem rather than competing head-on the way the traditional understanding goes.

Payward, the parent company of Kraken, won a $22 million arbitration award against Mazars, following the controversial withdrawal during Choke Point 2.0.
Payward, the parent company of the Kraken exchange, has just won an important legal victory against Mazars USA, which suddenly withdrew from an audit that was close to completion at the peak moment of the 2022 Choke Point 2.0 operation.

The CFTC sues a North Carolina man and the Argent Capital company for defrauding 60 investors of $14 million through a purported commodities and crypto asset fund.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has officially charged a man in North Carolina and his company after the agency determined he defrauded about 60 investors with a total amount of up to $14 million through a fake commodities fund, trading in multiple asset classes, including crypto assets.

The Kenya Capital Markets Authority wants to monitor more than 20 blockchains in order to trace $1.9 billion in transactions involving crypto assets and enforce new virtual asset regulations that are now in effect.
The Kenya Capital Markets Authority (CMA) is seeking a blockchain monitoring system to help manage the country's rapidly growing market for crypto assets, as the agency prepares to license and oversee virtual asset firms under a new regulatory framework.

Tether injects $20 million into Mercado Bitcoin, an entity that has tokenized more than $387 million in assets and serves 4.5 million users in Brazil.
Tether, the issuer of the stablecoin USDT, on Tuesday announced a strategic investment of $20 million in Mercado Bitcoin, Brazil’s leading crypto asset exchange, as both companies work to expand blockchain-based financial services across Latin America.

Market capitalization of 8 euro stablecoins complying with MiCA reaches $673.9 million, up 128%, while the market still accounts for only about 1% globally.
The euro-denominated stablecoin market in the European Union has recorded remarkable growth over the past year, according to the 2026 Euro Stablecoin Trends Report.
The total market capitalization of eight euro stablecoins fully compliant with the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation increased from $295.6 million to $673.9 million, representing a 128% rise over 12 months, with a peak of $704.9 million in the week ending June 8. Average daily trading volume also climbed to $67.3 million, having surpassed the $202 million mark earlier this year.

Anthropic removed a hidden tracking system from Claude Code amid a privacy dispute, as the company accused 28.8 million message exchanges of being improperly extracted.
Anthropic has removed a hidden tracking system from Claude Code after a security researcher discovered that this AI programming assistant used undisclosed identifiers to determine a user’s location, proxy usage, and potential links to AI labs in China.

The U.S. SEC updates its agenda, expected to introduce a legal safe harbor for crypto assets in July, paving the way for an exemption of up to $75 million in fundraising.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday said the agency plans to introduce long-awaited rules on crypto assets as soon as in July, taking another step toward establishing a legal safe harbor for certain crypto-asset activities in the United States.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) successfully expanded the Stellar blockchain into a global standard tool, after reducing the cost of distributing aid in Syria from 10% to 2%.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has just announced a new agreement with the Stellar Development Foundation to make the Stellar blockchain the standard payments tool for aid across all national offices, marking an important shift after nearly two years of field testing.

KCSC South Korea delays ban on Polymarket, allowing presentations before a decision is made, as global trading volume reaches 51 billion USD in 2025.
The Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC), South Korea’s regulator of harmful online content, said on July 6 that it will conduct a thorough review before deciding whether to restrict South Koreans’ access to Polymarket, and will grant the crypto asset prediction market platform an opportunity to present its official arguments.

The U.S. Department of Commerce and the Treasury disagree over oversight of $21.1 billion in Bitcoin, causing the plan to set up a strategic reserve fund to stall.
The efforts by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve are facing significant obstacles, as the Department of Commerce and the Treasury disagree over how to structure the reserve fund and which agency should have primary oversight over the amount of Bitcoin held, according to a Bloomberg report on Monday citing people familiar with the matter.

The Supreme Court of South Korea proposes detailed regulations on the seizure and liquidation of cryptocurrency assets, expected to take effect from October after collecting public feedback until 11/8.
The Supreme Court of South Korea has just proposed a series of legal amendments to establish detailed procedures for the seizure and liquidation of cryptocurrency assets, according to a report from the local news agency Newsis.
This move is intended to formalize how courts implement rulings related to cryptocurrency assets, amid a growing number of civil cases involving such assets in the country, requiring a clearer and more uniform legal framework than the current regulations, which mainly apply to traditional assets.

Sberbank, the largest bank in Russia, is expected to launch a crypto asset wallet and digital custody on 1/12 after the crypto asset law takes effect on 1/9.
Sberbank, the largest bank in Russia by total assets, is planning to integrate a crypto asset wallet with its crypto asset custody system into its mobile applications, right after the new legal framework for crypto assets in Russia is expected to take effect next month in September.

Strategy sells 3,588 BTC for $216 million to pay dividends, amid an $8.3 billion quarterly loss and a 26% drop in the stock within the month.
Strategy, the company led by Michael Saylor that holds the largest Bitcoin stake within the corporate group, has just sold 3,588 BTC over the past week, raising about $216 million, according to a disclosure released on Monday. The proceeds will be used to pay dividends for the company’s preferred shares and to add to its USD reserves, which stood at $2.55 billion as of July 5.

Ripple was licensed by Luxembourg for CASP under MiCA, expanding its crypto-asset services to 30 EEA countries, bringing the total number of global licenses to over 75.
Ripple, a digital asset infrastructure company headquartered in San Francisco, has officially received a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from the Luxembourg Financial Sector Supervisory Commission, completing the entire approval process under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation framework.

BitMine raised its treasury to nearly $10 billion in ETH, staking 85% of its holdings, while Strategy sold $216 million in BTC to pay dividends.
BitMine Immersion Technologies, a publicly listed Ethereum treasury company led by Chairman Tom Lee, continues to push its ETH accumulation strategy by adding approximately $73 million over the past week, a significant increase from the $43 million in the previous week.
This development contrasts with the move by Strategy, the largest Bitcoin treasury company, when it sold $216 million worth of BTC to meet dividend payment obligations, showing a clear divergence in digital asset management strategies between the two market-leading institutions.