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Standard Chartered has partnered with Circle to launch institutional USDC minting and redemption services. The new service enables qualified institutions to use the bank to access USDC. Furthermore, Standard Chartered is the first Global Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB) to provide this integrated service.

The service is now offered via Standard Chartered’s presence in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). USDC can be minted and redeemed by eligible institutional clients in one onboarding process. Therefore, clients do not have to open an account with Circle.

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According to Metaplanet’s July 2 disclosure, the Tokyo-listed company purchased 2,823 BTC at an average price of 12.7 million yen per coin, lifting its total Bitcoin balance to 43,000 BTC. The company said its overall average purchase price now stands at 15.3 million yen per Bitcoin.

The latest purchase keeps Metaplanet among the largest public corporate holders of Bitcoin, alongside companies such as Strategy and Twenty One Capital. The company had ended the first quarter with 40,177 BTC, bought for roughly $4.18 billion at an average cost of $104,000 per coin.

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The Public Mainnet is built using the Arbitrum Platform and connects to Robinhood’s on-chain users. Its partners include Uniswap and Pleiades, with integrations from Alchemy, BitGo, and Chainlink.

Robinhood said the chain supports real-world assets and DeFi functions like lending and borrowing. Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood’s senior vice president and general manager of crypto and international, said the company is combining traditional finance and DeFi.

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Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss moved about $60 million in Bitcoin and $7 million in Ethereum from custody wallets to Gemini, putting exchange-side flows from the Gemini co-founders back under market attention.

Arkham identified the activity as a custody-to-hot-wallet pattern that has previously appeared before selling activity. The transfer does not by itself confirm an open-market sale, because exchange deposits can also support custody movement, internal rebalancing, liquidity preparation or later execution.

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Ju compared Bitcoin’s early-cycle capital efficiency with the current market. In 2011, he said $2.7 billion in net capital inflows drove a 55,436% price increase. In the current cycle, $697 billion in net capital produced a 689% return. The comparison points to a market that now needs much larger inflows to generate smaller percentage gains.

His argument centers on realized capitalization, a metric that values Bitcoin supply by the price at which coins last moved rather than only by current spot price. A larger realized cap means more capital has settled into the network at higher cost bases, making each new parabolic move more expensive to produce.

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Former Goliath Ventures CEO Christopher Alexander Delgado pleaded guilty to his role in a crypto investment scheme that prosecutors said raised at least $400 million from investors.

On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said Goliath promised investors monthly returns generated through digital asset liquidity pools between January 2023 and January 2026.

Prosecutors said the funds were instead used to pay earlier investors, process withdrawals, fund luxury spending and finance business events.

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Crédit Agricole, Europe's third-largest bank by assets, has launched the **EURO eXchange Token (**EURXT), a euro-backed stablecoin issued through its asset servicing arm, Crédit Agricole Caisse d'Epargne Investor Services (CACEIS).

CACEIS announced the launch on Wednesday, alongside the first subscription using EURXT into a tokenized Amundi Money Market Fund.

Issued on the Ethereum blockchain, EURXT is an electronic money token (EMT) pegged 1:1 to the euro. It is initially targeted at institutional investors and corporate clients as part of Crédit Agricole’s plan to accelerate its push into tokenized finance.

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Taiwan’s rules outline seven types of VASPs, including exchanges, trading platforms, custodians and lenders, which will all be subject to rules for internal control and audits, cybersecurity systems, crypto listing and delisting rules, customer asset segregation and financial reporting.

The rules outlaw crypto-based fraud and price manipulation, with violators facing between three and 10 years in prison and fines ranging from about 10 million New Taiwan dollars ($300,000) to 200 million New Taiwan dollars ($6.3 million).

Those caught operating a VASP or issuing a stablecoin without a license face up to seven years in prison and fines of up to 100 million New Taiwan dollars ($3.1 million), Taiwan’s national news agency, CNA, reported on Tuesday.

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Vance spoke about his bitcoin ownership at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Las Vegas last May. He told the crowd he was one of the only candidates running for office who actually owned bitcoin when he ran for Senate. He said he still owns a fair amount of bitcoin today.

The bitcoin holding sits inside a much larger financial picture. Propublica’s review of the same filing puts Vance’s total reported assets between $6.1 million and $22 million or more. His biggest positions are in exchange-traded funds held through Charles Schwab, including $1 million to $5 million each in the Invesco QQQ Trust and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF.

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New York Life Investment Management, known as NYLIM, partnered with Centrifuge to launch the NYLIM Anemoy U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Segregated Portfolio. The product will trade under the ticker HYB and marks NYLIM’s first tokenized offering.

NYLIM has about $807 billion in assets under management, according to the announcement. The asset manager said the launch gives eligible investors access to its high-yield corporate bond strategy through digital infrastructure.

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Almost 1,700 British investors are seeking at least £150 million, or about $200 million, from Binance and Changpeng Zhao, according to Reuters. The case was filed in London’s High Court and names Binance Holdings, UAE-registered Nest Exchange, Zhao and “persons unknown” linked to the Binance trading platform.

The claimants allege Binance sold risky and complex crypto derivative products without the needed regulatory authorization. They say the products included leveraged tokens, futures contracts and options, which can raise gains but also deepen losses when markets move against traders.

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Goldman Lampe Private Bank has purchased €120 million (roughly $137 million) worth of Bitcoin, the UAE-based institution announced Monday, timing the buy to coincide with a recent pullback in cryptocurrency markets.

The Ras al Khaimah-headquartered bank said the acquisition strengthens its institutional Bitcoin holdings and reflects its conviction in digital assets as a long-term store of value. The move positions Goldman Lampe as one of the more aggressive institutional buyers to act on the current market downturn.

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Ondo Finance brings more than 430 tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs to Uniswap on Ethereum and BNB Chain, expanding 24/7 on-chain trading.

Ondo Finance has launched more than 430 tokenized U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the Uniswap platform. It is integrated into both Ethereum and BNB Chain. This has led to the availability of popular U.S. stocks on one of the largest decentralized exchanges for eligible users worldwide.

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Open Standard announced that OUSD is scheduled to launch later this year, introducing a stablecoin framework that allows partner institutions to mint and redeem tokens without fees while sharing income generated from the underlying reserves.

The organization said participating firms will also take part in governing the network through a joint board rather than relying on a single issuer.

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Bitcoin infrastructure company Breez has added a feature to its developer toolkit that lets users send USDC (USDC) and USDt (USDT) across more than 30 blockchain networks directly from a Bitcoin balance, without first converting or holding stablecoins.

According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, the feature uses the Lightning Network alongside automated conversion to route payments from Bitcoin (BTC) to USDC or USDT before delivering funds to the recipient's preferred blockchain.

When a user enters a recipient's wallet address, the Breez SDK identifies the destination blockchain, calculates a conversion route and displays the amount, network and fees before the payment is confirmed. The transaction is then routed through liquidity providers, including Flashnet and Boltz, which convert the sender's Bitcoin into stablecoins and deliver it on the recipient's chosen blockchain.