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In brief Robinhood launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain, an “AI-native” Ethereum layer-2 network. The chain further bridges the firm’s traditional financial offerings with its crypto products, beginning with Stock Tokens. Shares finished the day up more than 8% on the news, though are still well off their 52-week high. Publicly traded brokerage and financial app Robinhood launched the public mainnet Wednesday for its Ethereum layer-2 network, Robinhood Chain. The Arbitrum-powered network aims to “bridge the gap” between crypto and the traditional finance world, opening with integrations from BitGo, Chainlink, and partnerships with Uniswap and Pleiades to offer dedicated automated…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Solana’s meme coin machine is heating up again, with daily token creation reportedly climbing to an 80-day high in late June and early July. The jump has been tied to meme coin launch programs, Raydium-linked activity, and renewed attention around new tokens such as ANSEM. TL;DR Solana daily token launches reportedly reached an 80-day high. Meme coin creation remains a major driver of the spike. Raydium integrations and launch tools helped support the burst of activity. New meme coins are extremely risky and should not be…
July 1st, 2026 – Chicago, United States Liquid Mercury announced today that its MERC crypto-asset white paper was submitted to the Central Bank of Ireland and officially added to ESMA’s MiCA white paper register. MiCA, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, is the EU framework for crypto-asset offers, admission to trading, disclosures, and market integrity. It requires a published white paper before a non-exempt crypto-asset can be offered or admitted to trading in the EU. With the white paper in the ESMA register, MERC meets the disclosure requirements that support its admission to trading on regulated venues across the EU and…
A pair of executive orders signed by President Trump on June 22 has pushed the quantum computing question from the research lab into the boardrooms of crypto exchanges, custodians and stablecoin issuers. In a June 24 sector comment, Moody’s Ratings warned that the credit implications for digital assets are significant, and that the industry now faces pressure to prove it can defend the cryptography at its foundation. The orders make quantum computing and its security a strategic national priority. One directs the development of a quantum computer “powerful enough to initiate the era of quantum-enabled scientific discovery,” with system specifications…
July 1st, 2026 – Tortola, British Virgin Islands VCT combines blockchain transparency, agribusiness intelligence, export-finance infrastructure and real-world asset tokenization on BNB Smart Chain. Valle Capital Token (“VCT”) today announced the development and expansion of its blockchain-powered ecosystem designed to connect global digital capital with Brazilian agribusiness operations and international commodity exports. Built on BNB Smart Chain, Valle Capital Token combines utility-token functionality with a real-world asset-focused model intended to support greater transparency, operational visibility and digital infrastructure across agricultural production, commodity financing, logistics and export activity. The project is structured around a British Virgin Islands tokenization entity and aims…
In brief The UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI released its first preliminary report Wednesday, drawing on 40 experts. Panel co-chair Yoshua Bengio said mounting evidence of deceptive AI behavior means science can’t guarantee the technology won’t cause catastrophic harm as it grows more capable. The report lands days before the UN’s inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance opens in Geneva on July 6. The United Nations published an independent scientific assessment of artificial intelligence on Wednesday, and the conclusion is blunt: nobody can currently guarantee the technology won’t cause catastrophic harm.The finding comes from the Independent International Scientific…
A new class of Wall Street securities has grown from an experiment into a multibillion-dollar market in under two years, and a June 2026 research report from BitcoinTreasuries.net argues the expansion has just begun. The report, produced in partnership with the DeFi protocol Apyx, tracks the rise of preferred shares issued by public companies and backed by their bitcoin holdings. Such shares now carry a combined market value of about $13 billion. That figure represents close to 1% of the $1.3 trillion global preferred market, a share the report’s authors expect to reach 3 to 5% by 2030 and as…
July 1st, 2026 – Florida, United States Streamex is making commodities easy to acquire and trade, and the latest step puts it in regular brokerage accounts. Buying gold has long meant choosing between two inconveniences: take physical delivery and pay to store and insure it, or buy a fund and accept the fees and market-hours trading that come with it. A run of moves by Streamex Corp. (NASDAQ: STEX) is aimed at dissolving that trade-off, and the latest landed on June 29, when the company announced its gold-backed, tokenized yield-bearing security GLDY can now be bought through an ordinary brokerage…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Ripple is securing additional licenses in Singapore and Europe to expand utility-driven institutional products. The key caveat: Keep the focus on global compliance licenses and utility, separate from court updates on the SEC suit. For traders, the story matters because it affects how capital, liquidity or confidence is being priced across crypto right now. What Happened Ripple Pushes Global Compliance Expansion Ahead Of US Clarity Act Debate. The update comes from Tokenpost, with the core claim checked against Ripple Newsroom Press Releases. That matters because…
In brief Bitcoin clawed its way back to $60,000 Wednesday after falling below $58,000, its lowest level since September 2024. The rebound followed softer-than-expected U.S. jobs and factory data and noncommittal comments from Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, easing fears of further rate hikes. It caps a brutal June in which U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs shed a record $4.5 billion, even as Glassnode data shows long-term holders quietly accumulating. Bitcoin bounced off its lowest level in nearly two years Wednesday, as soft U.S. economic data and noncommittal comments from the Federal Reserve chair gave respite to a battered market.The largest cryptocurrency…
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