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A UK parliamentary group launched an inquiry into banking restrictions on crypto firms and consumers, including their impact on investment and competition.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $227 million in inflows as BTC climbed above $65,000, extending their longest winning streak since early May.

The Coinbase-backed Ethereum layer-2 is preparing to expand its financial offerings as it pivots away from its earlier social-first strategy.

The filing expands Grayscale’s growing lineup of crypto-related exchange-traded products outside of Bitcoin and Ether.

The settlements add to former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky’s $10 million FTC settlement in April.

Retail users in Vietnam who trade on offshore crypto exchanges like Binance or OKX face heavy penalties. Network School controversy in Malaysia over Israeli citizen ban.

The move comes as traditional exchanges face growing competition from crypto markets and tokenized equity platforms that offer around-the-clock trading.

The decision keeps the administration’s chief crypto policy negotiator in place during what could be a decisive few weeks for the CLARITY Act.

Coinbase vice chair Ryan VanGrack said that Democratic lawmakers had added provisions on customer protection to a digital asset market structure bill under consideration in the US Senate.

The recognition allows regulated firms in Abu Dhabi Global Market to offer services involving Tether Gold as tokenized commodities gain broader adoption.

Despite muted derivatives sentiment, Bitcoin’s decoupling and Strategy’s cash raise set the stage for a potential rally to $70,000.

The SEC alleges Mining Automatic and its founder raised $22 million from investors by promising guaranteed crypto mining returns while spending only a fraction of the funds on mining operations.

The wallet company said it expected the layoffs to generate between $10 million and $13 million in savings as part of its strategy to build a full-stack card issuance and payments platform.

Bitcoin miners rallied as investors cheered multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure contracts, underscoring the sector’s accelerating shift toward data centers and cloud computing.

The West African country’s executive order established a virtual asset council and addressed the fragmentation of crypto regulation for oversight and enforcement.

The brokerage’s blockchain strategy, including tokenized equities and its Arbitrum-based Robinhood Chain, could reduce its reliance on traditional crypto trading, analysts said.

Bitcoin faced troublesome resistance at $65,000 while traders still saw a potential BTC price breakout into a “bullish market structure.”

The Bitcoin miner raised its year-end AI cloud revenue target to more than $4 billion after signing $2.8 billion in new contracts with AI developers.

Renowned trading analyst Peter Brandt says investing in Bitcoin today, will pay off much better in two to three years than buying AI stocks at current prices.

Strategy boosted its cash reserve to $3.225 billion after selling MSTR shares, while investors weighed the value of its STRC preferred stock.

Hyperliquid plans to require developers to stake 500,000 HYPE, worth about $30.4 million, to deploy permissionless prediction markets under HIP-4.

The new rules establish penalties as much as $1,900 for crypto violations, including unlicensed trading and AML breaches, ahead of Vietnam’s regulated crypto market launch.

Zilliqa said exchanges paused ZIL deposits and withdrawals after an exchange partner’s cold wallet was compromised, with the amount stolen still undisclosed.

Institutional due diligence is shifting toward continuous monitoring, signer controls and incident readiness after operational failures accounted for most crypto losses.

Europe’s second-biggest Bitcoin treasury company said the September reverse stock split should attract more institutional investors to the French company.

Russia’s State Duma is set to consider the crypto regulation bill in second and third readings, with rules for investors and cross-border payments included.

Grayscale plans to establish regular cash distributions from staking rewards generated by its Ether and Solana exchange-traded products.

Bitcoin preserved a key long-term trend line as support for a third week as US-Iran war tensions delivered new five-week highs in oil prices.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak to two weeks with $75.7 million in net inflows, but analysts said demand remains insufficient to fuel a sustained uptrend.

The Bank of Korea’s CBDC pilot will add two regional banks, new payment features and tests of government subsidy payments using tokenized bank deposits