•K× launсhes free Visa Platinum cards for Venezuelans, allowing you to pay online with USDT or USDC. If you’ve already verified, review your account to activate it at no cost; if you haven’t, simply complete your identity verification to access the benefit.
📢 •K× launches free Visa Platinum card and for an upcoming 15 USDT campaign for Venezuela
The exchange presented two initiatives aimed at Venezuelan users: a free Visa Platinum card to make payments with USDT and USDC, and a support campaign that will grant 15 USDT to 2,000 users, announced in the context of the recent earthquakes recorded in the country. •K× announced a new series of initiatives …
🐳 A “whale” received about $25.1 million in USDT and bought 14 007 $ETH at an average price of $1,798.
💹 Exchanges no longer want to be just cryptocurrency platforms. Now they offer tokenized stocks, ETFs, and commodities to compete with traditional markets.
🇯🇵 Japan is preparing a reform that could change the cryptocurrency market: it aims to allow regulated ETFs, cut taxes on capital gains from 55% to 20%, and bring digital assets closer to the traditional financial system.
💰 After losing $4.4 million with $SKHYNIX and not securing any profits in two long trades, this investor gave up and switched to long trading with $NVDAB .
He opened a 3x long position on 96 251 xyz:NVDA ($20.22 million).
🇺🇸📊 Rob1nh00d reports that US users will soon be able to use AI agents to trade cryptocurrencies.
🕵️♂️ A “whale” withdrew 440,822 $BTC (approximately $28.27 million) from Core and transferred it to a new wallet in less than an hour.
🟢 🟢⚠️ A whale that had Bitcoin for 15 years has just sold thousands of BTC.
Why sell now and not for more? Does it have information or does it believe that BTC will keep falling? 🤔
🟢⚠️ A month after the mandatory signaling of BIP-110, the OCEAN pool will include default signaling on its platform. Meanwhile, F2Pool rejects it, and large pools like Foundry USA and Antpool still haven’t signaled in favor of the proposal.
🏦 Aave launched Stable Vaults, a tool that enables fintechs and wallets to integrate stablecoin yield without building their own DeFi infrastructure. The move opens up a new competitive front with protocols like Morpho.
Aave has launched **Stable Vaults**, a strategic solution designed to help fintechs and digital wallets integrate *stablecoin* yields directly into their platforms without having to develop complex DeFi infrastructure from scratch.
This move marks a significant step toward democratizing access to decentralized financial products.
By enabling everyday-use applications to offer competitive returns to their end users through Aave liquidity, the company aims to attract a broader user base that has traditionally been kept away from the technical complexity of native DeFi protocols.
With this rollout, Aave intensifies competition in the performance layer sector (*yield layers*), directly coming into conflict with protocols like **Morpho**.
Aave’s strategy is to become the infrastructure standard for crypto banking, leveraging its vast liquidity and proven security to attract institutional partners that require "turnkey" solutions.
Ultimately, this tool could accelerate mass adoption, blurring the lines between traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance.
🚗💰⚡ Hyundai adopts Blockchain technology to make transfers of $20,000 in just 7 minutes.
🔹 The world’s third-largest automaker becomes the first major Korean company to use the Avalanche blockchain to make direct fund transfers. This is not a pilot process, but an operation with real money 🇰🇷🔥💸 🔹 $20,000 was moved from Hyundai USA to Mexico in just 7 minutes, using USDT, while it took between 3 and 4 hours to make the payment through traditional banking. A 95% time savings ⏰💨🎯 🔹 The next phase extends to Europe, with collaboration from Circle USDC and Visa. Tests are underway to make local-currency transfers among various subsidiaries 📈🌍🤝
The corporate DeFi revolution is already here. While banks sleep, automakers spend billions of dollars faster and cheaper 👀💎
📢 Circle obtains final approval to create a national trust bank under OCC supervision
Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, received final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish First National Digital Currency Bank, N.A., an entity that will operate under the name Circle National Trust. The decision marks a new step in the integration of the industry of the…
📢 Interpol dismantles network that laundered $122 million in crypto romance scams: how you can protect yourself
Interpol announced the dismantling of an international network that used cryptocurrencies to launder money obtained through romance scams, as part of a global operation against financial fraud that resulted in 5,811 arrests across 97 countries and territories. The most striking finding: a single suspect’s crypto wallet, barely…
🗣 Pavel Durov says that the procedural tricks previously associated with banana republics are now being used in the EU to pass surveillance laws.
Pavel Durov claims that the European Union is eroding democratic values by adopting opaque legislative tactics, similar to those of "banana republics", to impose mass surveillance laws. According to the founder of Telegram, these procedural maneuvers are intended to evade public debate and citizen scrutiny, violating the fundamental right to privacy.
**Key points of his criticism:**
* **Institutional Deterioration:**
The EU is abandoning transparency, using "back door" mechanisms to approve digital control regulations that it previously rejected.
* **Surveillance as a priority:**
The current approach prioritizes centralization and state oversight over security and individual freedoms.
* **Contradiction of values:**
Durov argues that Europe has stopped being a haven for digital freedom, aligning itself with models of power without checks and balances.
In conclusion, Durov warns that the use of these tactics undermines trust in the democratic system, transforming the European legal architecture into a tool for technological surveillance that puts global privacy at risk.
🇨🇦📊 Francis Pouliot stated that chain analysis is a scam and just a live-roleplaying game. He highlighted that it was never a legal obligation and criticized the industry for conforming to it in order to dispel the myth of a lack of transparency—something that is now becoming law.
🇺🇸🗣 Rob1nh00d says that U.S. users will soon be able to use AI agents to trade cryptocurrencies.
🗽 Apple sues OpenAI for alleged theft of trade secrets.
🗣 «It’s not a sign of weakness». Leonardo Rubinstein, CEO of Zonda Bitcoin Capital, argues that Strategy’s sale of bitcoin adds flexibility to the business model and removes pressure from the company’s stock.
✅🔥BULLISH:
🇺🇸 The U.S. Treasury injected $36,000,000,000 in liquidity this week.
📈 The MA lines are gradually tightening, and their intersection could be a sign of an upside reversal.
❗️But don’t forget: before breaking this pattern, the price often goes to seek the lower liquidity first.
👀 Therefore, be prepared for this scenario as well.
Bitcoin, for the first time in two months, has exited the daily downtrend zone. 📈
To continue its growth, BTC needs to break above the resistance level in the $64,500 – $65,500 range and hold above it. 📊
The market is forming a bullish "head and shoulders" pattern, which could indicate a possible rally if confirmed. 🐂
Is a summer price rebound coming in July–August? ☀️🚀
Cryptocurrencies since the start of the Trump administration 😄
Historically, July is a bullish month for BTC and crypto; even in bearish markets we see growth, though it may be small 📈
For now, I wouldn’t say we’ll fly to $70k tomorrow. The goal is to close July above $58,600; even if we stay where we are, July will still close in positive territory 💵
Also, nobody says we can’t drop throughout all of July and then, by the end of the month, in just one week, soar above $70k 😁
🟢✅🚨 An anonymous investor, with more than $3.5 million in profits, has bet $340,000 that Spain will NOT win today’s match against Belgium, and another $248,000 that the game ends in a draw.
If they get both bets right, they would receive a total of $1.61 million.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Trump Media has just bought Bitcoin worth $95,900,000.
Binance criticizes self-custody wallets after having to leave Europe
🛑 Binance criticized self-custody wallets after suspending operations in Europe due to the MiCA law. The CEO of the exchange argues that, in his view, using wallets has disadvantages compared to using a centralized exchange. Richard Teng says that up to 70% of withdrawals went to their own wallets, with «fewer guarantees» and little visibility for authorities. MiCA does not regulate self-managed wallets: using them does not mean operating illegally. History shows that custody platforms are not as secure as they advertise.
📊 🤔 The digital euro will sacrifice your savings to protect banks' business. Brussels will impose a per-person holding limit (between 3,000 and 4,000 euros), with no interest and fully trackable.
💸 A lone miner using a mini ASIC Bitaxe processed a Bitcoin block and took home more than USD 200,000 in reward. At the time of finding the block, this miner contributed about 995.2 GH/s—just 0.00000011% of Bitcoin’s total hashrate.
⚠️ A month after the mandatory signaling of BIP-110, the OCEAN pool will include signaling by default on its platform. Meanwhile, F2Pool rejects it, and major pools like Foundry USA and Antpool still do not signal in favor of the proposal.
🚀 Bitcoin surpasses $64,000, driven, among other factors, by developments in the U.S. Clarity Act. Some analysts are already calling for caution. There is still a risk of further price drops.
📱Argentina’s financial life is already digital. QR payments, cards, and virtual wallets have pushed cash aside. Our Markets and Finance editor, Nicolás Antiporovich, says that a de facto and trackable digital peso is already in operation, making a state CBDC unnecessary.
🚨 Scam alert. Criminals impersonate the European Securities and Markets Authority to demand payments from cryptocurrency companies. They use the MiCA transition as their modus operandi.
❌ Tom Zschach, former SWIFT executive, denied the viral rumor that the interbank network will provide support for XRP.
China has just built a beast that is literally fireproof.
This new robot dog, the Q25, survived a brutal test inside a chamber at 300 °C for 40 minutes and then spent another 2 minutes right next to an open flame at 500 °C.
Basically, it’s designed for the most dangerous disaster zones, such as factory fires and chemical product leaks. In these situations, it’s too risky to send people to carry out emergency service.