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Iran formally announced it suspending MOU with the U.S. | Per Mehr News Iran is suspending the implementation of all commitments undertaken under the agreement

Trump Media pitched a $100,000 monthly fee for faster access to the president’s social posts

Argentine judge orders exchanges to freeze 25 crypto accounts linked to the LIBRA investigation and hand over KYC, IP and transaction records, with enforcement still pending

$1.9 trillion asset manager T. Rowe Price launches first actively managed multi-token crypto ETF

VISA LAUNCHES NEW PLATFORM TO PROVIDE STABLECOIN SERVICES TO MORE THAN 200 MILLION MERCHANTS

IRAN TELLS HOUTHIS TO CLOSE RED SEA GATEWAY IF US HITS POWER NETWORK | PER RTRS

South Korea temporarily halts new single-stock leveraged ETFs and raises minimum deposit requirements for leveraged chip funds

US HAS EXPLORED THE POSSIBILITY OF AIR ASSAULT ON CUBA | PER CBS

TRUMP TO MEET WITH SENATORS ABOUT CRYPTO BILL ON THURSDAY

Ondo launches the first tokenized US stocks backed directly by securities held at DTCC, starting with BlackRock’s IVV ETF and Micron shares

DTCC begins production tokenization of Microsoft, SPY, QQQ and US Treasurys for Wall Street firms, ahead of a wider October launch

U.S. producer prices fell 0.3% in June, below the flat forecast

US Treasury freezes more than $130M in crypto held in wallets linked to Iran’s central bank

Stripe and Advent have offered $53B to acquire PayPal at $60.50 per share, a 28% premium, with PayPal’s board yet to respond | per Reuters

Iran officially withdraws from commitments made under its MOU with the US

INTERACTIVE BROKERS ADDS 12 CRYPTO TOKENS AND LAUNCHES STABLECOIN WITHDRAWALS

Warsh says the Fed should not be in the bailout business and should avoid rescuing any sector, including crypto

Japan’s largest payment network JCB partners with Circle to explore USDC for cross-border payments, treasury transfers and merchant transactions

US pays $81B in tariff refunds after the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s emergency tariff program

Trump says the Strait of Hormuz will remain open, reinstates a blockade on Iranian ships and customers, and imposes a 20% security charge on all other cargo shipments

Hyundai completes cross-border USDT treasury settlement pilot between its US and Mexico units on Avalanche

Robinhood Chain records $3.1B in DEX volume in its first week, ranking among the top five chains by trading activity

TRUMP SAYS WE'RE TAKING OVER THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ $CL

Strategy sold 4.82M shares for $466.7M last week and made no $BTC purchases, leaving holdings unchanged at 843,775 $BTC and cash reserves at $3.0B

Iran’s Foreign Ministry says the US‑Iran MoU is “completely dead” after continued American attacks and warns that countries supporting US strikes could be treated as legitimate military targets The ministry also says Washington derailed Mu

Japan’s SBI Group plans to launch JPYSC stablecoin lending service as early as this month

IRAN LAUNCHES MISSILE ATTACKS ON QATAR, UAE AND JORDAN $CL

Iran claims rogue factions within the regime carried out recent attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

CIRCLE RECEIVES FINAL OCC APPROVAL TO ESTABLISH NATIONAL TRUST BANK FOR DIGITAL ASSET CUSTODY

IEA warns renewed US‑Iran fighting could trigger another global oil shortage

Metaplanet, JPYC and Progmat launch a joint study into Bitcoin-backed digital credit products with 24/7 trading and daily interest accrual

CFTC blocks CME’s plan to bring 24/7 trading to oil futures

EU lawmakers back temporary Chat Control rules letting major platforms keep scanning for child abuse material, while encrypted apps remain excluded and governments still need to approve

BitGo launches quantum protection for institutional Bitcoin wallets

PUTIN IS LIKELY TO ESCALATE THE WAR IN UKRAINE | PER TWO SOURCES CLOSE TO THE KREMLIN

Russia’s largest private bank Alfa is launching crypto custody and trading

1,000,000,000 $USDT minted at Tether Treasury

VanEck expects Bitcoin to be "materially higher" in a year. Matthew Sigel is advising clients to gradually build their BTC positions in the next few months

IRAN'S MILITARY SOURCE SAYING THAT IRANIAN ARMED FORCES WILL LAUNCH 'MASSIVE' ATTACK ON U.S. ARMY BASES IN THE REGION IN RESPONSE TO THE U.S. STRIKES

Trump says the US may impose a blockade on Iran, strike more Iranian boats tonight and take over Kharg Island

Trump says the US will probably strike Iran again tonight, adding that the issue is nuclear weapons rather than regime change

Strike launches Bitcoin-backed loans with no scheduled liquidations Strike says borrowers can keep their Bitcoin even during sharp price declines as long as loan payments remain current. However, the company's terms still allow collateral

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards say they struck 85 US military sites across Bahrain and Kuwait, including the US Fifth Fleet HQ and Ali Al Salem airbase in retaliation for today’s US strikes | per Reuters

TRUMP APPROVES IRAN STRIKE WHILE AT NATO SUMMIT IN ANKARA, MEETS WITH HEGSETH, RUBIO, BESSENT ON AIR FORCE ONE TO DISCUSS PLAN U.S. OFFICIAL SAYING THE DURATION OF IRAN STRIKES UNCLEAR, WILL ASSESS RESULTS BEFORE NEXT DECISIONS

US launched strikes on Iran, accusing it of a “dangerous” and “unjustified” ceasefire breach, after Iran attacked three commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz

US revokes license allowing Iran to sell oil

China’s DeepSeek is building its own AI chip to cut its reliance on Nvidia $NVDA and Huawei

IRAN ATTACKS THREE SHIPS IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ OVER THE LAST 24 HOURS | PER US OFFICIALS

Nigel Farage says he is quitting as MP and will stand in a by‑election

Tether’s former CIO Richard Heathcote is seeking buyers for part of his 1.26% stake, with PJT Partners handling the sale

BONKDAO TREASURY DRAINED OF $20M IN $BONK TOKENS VIA MALICIOUS GOVERNANCE PROPOSAL | PER BONK X

The UNDP just expanded its partnership with Stellar $XLM to make blockchain payments a standard tool for delivering global aid, after live pilots in Haiti, Syria, Kenya, Guatemala and the Gambia

TRUMP, ON WHETHER TRUMP ACCOUNTS COULD INCLUDE BITCOIN: SOMETHING COULD HAPPEN

Microsoft is cutting more than 3,000 jobs in its Xbox division, with more changes ahead | per WSJ $MSFT

BitMine buys 42,197 $ETH last week, bringing total holdings to 5,742,237 $ETH ($10 B) or 4.8 % of total supply

STRATEGY BTC HOLDINGS DECREASES BY 3,588 BTC (~$225.606M) TO 843,775 $BTC

South Korea will introduce crypto-specific civil seizure rules from Oct. 1, allowing courts to freeze, transfer anvd liquidate digital assets through exchanges

Ripple receives EU CASP license, making it fully MiCA-compliant across the European Economic Area $XRP

Ethereum is preparing its biggest overhaul since The Merge, Vitalik Buterin says

TRUMP SAYS “WE'RE GETTING ALONG GREAT. NETANYAHU KNOWS WHO THE BOSS IS" | PER AXIOS

AI data centers may use far more water than reported, as Microsoft, Google and Amazon largely exclude power-related water use from disclosures | per WSJ

BofA says US stock funds saw $17.2B in weekly outflows, the largest since March, while its sell signal remains active for a sixth week

US spot $BTC ETFs break 10-day outflow streak with $222M in net inflows | Data: SoSoValue

TRUMP SAYS HE WAS IN CRYPTO BEFORE IN OFFICE

U.S. OFFICIALS BELIEVED ISRAEL MAY HAVE PLOTTED TO KILL IRAN'S TOP NEGOTIATORS DURING PEACE TALKS | PER NYT

Traders now fully price in a Fed rate hike by December, pushed back from October previously

U.S. employers added 57,000 jobs in June, below the 114,000 forecast

BlackRock deposits another 4,917 $BTC worth $301M to Coinbase, bringing total deposits this week to 20,359 $BTC worth $1.23B

Metaplanet added 2,823 $BTC in Q2 for roughly $221 M, bringing total holdings to 43,000 $BTC

OpenAI is proposing to give the US government a 5% stake in the company as part of a public wealth fund model, with talks still in early stages.

U.S. private employers added 98,000 jobs in June, below the 118,000 forecast

Nearly 1,700 UK investors sue Binance and founder CZ, seeking at least £150M over alleged unauthorized crypto derivatives sales The lawsuit alleges Binance illegally offered leveraged crypto products to UK retail investors between 2019 and

Taiwan passes landmark crypto law, creating its first comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets and stablecoins The law requires licensing for crypto firms, sets rules for stablecoin issuers, and opens the market to traditional

US GOVERNMENT RELEASES TRUMP'S FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE SHOWING CRYPTO ASSETS INCLUDING OVER $100M IN BTC AND ETH

Metaplanet says Bitcoin adoption in Japan is accelerating through its stock. In a presentation, Dylan LeClair said Metaplanet now has 250,000+ shareholders, equal to roughly 1 in every 600 people in Japan, making it one of the country’s to

Dozens of financial firms, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock and Coinbase, are reportedly launching a new stablecoin, OUSD, with revenue shared among partners

SK Hynix files for a Nasdaq IPO targeting up to $29.6B The company plans to use the proceeds to expand chip production in South Korea and buy EUV lithography equipment for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.

Qatar says US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are in Doha, but no direct meeting with Iranian officials is planned

US gross federal debt has surpassed 120% of GDP, its highest level on record

Ukraine transfers $8.3M in seized $USDT into state management as it moves toward creating a national crypto reserve The reserve would be funded with confiscated crypto assets rather than government purchases

Amazon is evaluating alternative AI models after renegotiating its Anthropic deal from compute-hour pricing to token-based billing

Japanese yen falls to 161.97 per dollar, its weakest level since 1986

BYBIT WILL CEASE PROVISION OF CRYPTO TRADING SERVICES TO ALL USERS RESIDING IN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY

Strategy made no Bitcoin purchases last week, leaving holdings unchanged at 847,363 BTC, while raising $1.2 B for its USD reserve and approving a $1 B digital‑credit buyback program

Iran denies Axios’ report of US‑Iran technical talks in Doha this week, saying meetings will only happen after frozen funds are released and Israel ends operations in Lebanon | per Tasnim

Trump says Iran requested a meeting, with talks set to take place tomorrow in Doha

BlackRock deposits 7,432 $BTC worth $446 M to Coinbase Prime, marking its largest single‑day net Bitcoin outflow on record.

Iran says Qatar will release $6B in frozen Iranian funds as part of a preliminary US‑Iran deal The funds are half of the $12B held in Qatari banks, with US and Iranian teams set to meet in Doha to coordinate the release.

US-Iran peace talks scheduled for this week in Switzerland have been canceled due to renewed fighting

Bitcoin-backed mortgages are live, Fannie Mae just issued its first

Araghchi says Iran alone controls the Strait of Hormuz over the next 30 days

U.S. MILITARY CONDUCTS STRIKES IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ AREA | PER AXIOS

Trump's war on Iran becomes 'most unpopular conflict' in US history

Lenovo says cheap RAM and SSD prices may not come back this decade AI demand is pushing DRAM and NAND into a new pricing era, with Apple already raising MacBook and iPad prices, Xbox raising console prices by up to $150, and Micron warning

Iran proposes charging service fees for ships using the Strait of Hormuz, with revenue shared among Gulf countries | per WSJ Iran estimates the fees could generate around $40B annually

Strategy's $STRC preferred stock falls to a record low of $75, while $MSTR shares drop below $90

U.S. economy grew 2.1% in the first quarter, topping the 1.6% forecast

Iran IRGC is threatens any ship using the new US-backed Hormuz route | per Lloyd’s

Circle and Nomura plan stablecoin settlement service in Japan, aiming to offer instant FX and cross-border payments for companies as early as 2027