With President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” narrowly passing the Senate, market watchers say the broader economic fallout could create tailwinds for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and digital assets, even as direct crypto measures were left out of the legislation. What Happened: Santiment data points out how the Big Beautiful...

In a bold move similar to Strategy’s $BTC playbook, DeFi Development (formerly Janover) announced a $100M convertible note offering yesterday to fund large-scale purchases of $SOL. Such a move could significantly boost investor appetite for $SOL. It may also act as a powerful catalyst for top Solana-based altcoins. DeFi...

Behind the scenes, JPMorgan’s blockchain arm is working on a radical idea: converting carbon offsets into digital assets. The move could bring Wall Street-level efficiency to a market still burdened by manual processes and unreliable record-keeping. On July 2nd, Bloomberg…...

Singapore-based Genius Group Limited (GNS) has increased its bitcoin BTC holdings by 20%, bringing its treasury to 120 BTC at an average cost of $101,539 according to the SEC filing. The AI-powered education firm confirmed the purchase and announced plans to accelerate its buying pace in the months ahead....

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2994.89, up 1.2% (+34.94) since 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. Seventeen of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: NEAR (+3.8%) and ADA (+3.3%)....

Layer-2 network BOB has launched its testnet ahead of the mainnet going live in Q4 of this year. Describing itself as a hybrid layer-2, BOB’s aim is to combine Bitcoin’s security and reserves with Ethereum’s programmability using the BitVM computing paradigm to create a decentralized finance (DeFi) hub. BitVM...

Banca Sella, an Italian banking group known for tech experiments, has begun an internal trial that lets a handful of employees hold crypto, including stablecoins, through custody software from Fireblocks. The trial runs until the end of the summer, after which executives will decide whether to open the vault...

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) has acquired LiquiFi, a token management platform used by the likes of the Uniswap Foundation, OP Labs (Optimism) and Ethena. While the terms of the deal remain undisclosed, Coinbase said in a blog post that the acquisition will make it easier for crypto start-ups to...

Bit Digital Inc. (NASDAQ:BTBT) has successfully raised approximately $163 million through an underwritten share offering, with the full exercise of underwriters’ option enabling the company to launch an Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) treasury initiative. What Happened: The Nasdaq-listed firm issued 86.25 million ordinary shares, securing net proceeds of $162.9 million to acquire and stake...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission on 1 July approved Grayscale Investments’ Digital Large Cap Fund for uplisting as a spot exchange-traded fund, clearing the way for the five-asset vehicle—weighted predominantly to bitcoin but also holding ether, XRP, Solana and Cardano—to begin trading on NYSE Arca under the...