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Hong Kong’s stablecoin licensing regime is set to go live on August 1, a move confirmed by Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Christopher Hui.
Speaking at the Hong Kong Digital Finance Awards on July 3, Hui stated the region is committed to building a comprehensive virtual asset ecosystem through a prudent regulatory regime that fosters market innovation.
The new regulations are a...
Bitcoin’s price history shows four instances of year-over-year declines on July 4, interrupting its general uptrend. These decreases occurred during broader market corrections and periods of distress for the digital asset industry.
The most recent drop was in 2022, when the price fell to $19,750, a sharp contrast to the $34,973 level seen one year prior. The downturn coincided with a widespread...
Prediction market data shows traders are wagering millions on the price of Bitcoin reaching levels above $120,000 in 2025.
On the decentralized platform Polymarket, a market asking what price Bitcoin will hit in 2025, has attracted over $15.5 million in volume. Traders assign a 75% probability that the asset will exceed $120,000 by the end of the year.
The data provides a quantifiable look at...
MARA (formerly Marathon Digital) reports its Bitcoin holdings have increased to 49,940 BTC, bringing the digital asset miner to the edge of a major corporate milestone and reinforcing a broader market trend of miners retaining their produced assets.
MARA’s holdings position it as the second-largest public corporate holder of Bitcoin, with a treasury valued at over $5.4 billion based on recent...
Two Bitcoin wallets inactive for 14 years transferred a combined 20,000 BTC, valued at approximately $2.18 billion, on July 4. The transactions originated from separate addresses that held 10,000 BTC since April 3, 2011, when the asset price was roughly $0.78.
The analytics account Lookonchain first flagged the on-chain movements, which detailed the two separate 10,000 BTC transfers that occurred...
The DeFi market has rebounded at the beginning of July, with total value locked (TVL) rising to $116.416 billion, a level last seen in April. The 24-hour increase of 4.95% reflects rising crypto asset prices and renewed deposit flows into lending protocols, restaking services, and yield-bearing primitives.
As Ethereum and Solana continue to absorb most DeFi capital, restaking-led protocols such...
Geneva, Switzerland, July 3 2025 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), proudly participated as a WAGMI Sponsor at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC), held from June 30 to July 3 in Cannes, France.
As Europe’s largest annual Ethereum-focused event, EthCC brought...
Ondo Finance and Pantera Capital have launched a $250 million fund to accelerate investments in tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), Axios reported on July 3.
According to the report, the fund, named Ondo Catalyst, will invest in equity stakes and tokens of projects developing tokenized versions of traditional financial assets.
Ian De Bode, chief strategy officer at Ondo, told the newswire that...
Backpack halted trading for scheduled maintenance at 10 a.m. UTC on July 3 and reopened two hours later, but the restart triggered account errors that forced CEO Armani Ferrante to promise reviews and compensation.
Backpack had warned users on X that the platform would go offline at 10 a.m., enter post-only mode at noon, and resume full trading at 12:10 p.m. The post-only window lets customers...
Two major Russian insurance firms, Renaissance Life and BCS Life Insurance, have launched investment life insurance policies (ILIPs) linked to Bitcoin, according to a July 2 local media report.
According to the report, the innovative policies allow investors to gain exposure to BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), the largest Bitcoin ETF by assets under management.
These ILIPs are designed...