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The firm’s latest fund backs AI and robotics startups but leadership says it remains committed to crypto investing.

The move comes as firms race to build the infrastructure for blockchain-based stocks and debate how tokenized stocks should work.

BSTR and Cantor Equity Partners will not complete their merger under the original July 2025 agreement, with the shareholder postponed indefinitely.

The network aims to process over 100,000 transactions per second by streaming them directly, eliminating public queues to make trades faster and more secure.

After winning a 6 million-pound London arbitration award, Citadel dropped its U.S. trade secrets case, saying another judgment would likely go uncollected.

Onchain trackers found the newly public company shifted a tiny amount of bitcoin between its own addresses. Nothing reached an exchange.

Your day-ahead look for July 8, 2026

Bitcoin fell, altcoins slid after Trump said the ceasefire with Iran is “over” as U.S. and Iran traded airstrikes.

Indian regulators maintained a hawkish stance despite the growing embrace of digital assets and technology by governments worldwide.

The new software leads among the network’s validators, yet by node count it sits behind the older v3.1.3, and the security amendment bundled with it remains a separate, slower vote. The upgrade needs 80% of the trusted validator list to activate.

Hedge funds have turned the most bearish on the yen since 2007, boosting bets on further losses to nearly 138,000 contracts as of June 30.

Major cryptocurrencies are trading in the red as renewed U.S.-Iran airstrikes push oil higher.

The decline fits into a pattern of recently-public digital asset companies sliding after debut, Arca’s Jeff Dorman said.

Kraken’s focus is on Lithuania as the jurisdiction to secure the license, according to a person familiar with the plans.

SpaceX tokens captured $1.19 billion, or 31% of total monthly volume, with Backpack’s SPCX leading trading at $1.08 billion.

A newly updated agenda from the securities regulator shows so-called Reg Crypto high on its near-term list.

Major brokerages initiated coverage on Tuesday with mostly buy ratings following the company’s $75 billion June IPO.

The new role would oversee tokenization, stablecoins and blockchain initiatives as Vanguard reassesses digital assets.

Record earnings, rising competition and concerns over slowing AI spending are forcing investors to reassess one of the market’s biggest trades.

EDX’s model targets institutional clients by separating trading from custody through a central clearinghouse to minimize counterparty risk.

Richard Heathcote is reportedly working with PJT Partners to find a buyer for a small part of his 1.26% holding in the issuer of USDT following his transition to an advisory role.

The license allows institutional traders to access perpetual futures and gives U.K. retail customers the ability to trade equities to begin with.

Your day-ahead look for July 7, 2026

BTC retreated from a two-week high of $64,500 as falling open interest and weak spot demand cast doubt on the sustainability of July’s 8.4% advance.

The product, called BTC Yield, is designed exclusively for people who already hold bitcoin.

Japanese bond yields continue to rise, lifting their U.S. counterparts and posing a potential headwind for risk assets.

Spot bitcoin ETFs still lost a net $526.6 million over the shortened holiday week, an eighth straight week of negative flows.

The attacker bought enough of the memecoin’s tokens to pass a governance proposal that sent the group’s holdings to a wallet they controlled, then began selling.

Buyers defended the session lows and pushed XRP back toward resistance, but muted overall volume left traders waiting for confirmation above $1.13-$1.14.

The token touched $64,400 overnight before easing back, still up about 6% on the week. A fresh missile strike on a Qatari gas ship in the Strait of Hormuz lifted oil and tested the late-June peace deal as Asian tech sold off again.