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An increasing number of traditional companies are beginning to attempt to integrate digital assets into their corporate treasury strategies, reflecting a reassessment of the role of cryptocurrencies in financial management.

This week, companies from agriculture, consumer manufacturing, and even a nearly 80-year-old Japanese textile company announced investments in tokens such as Bitcoin (BTC), XRP, and Solana (SOL).

On Wednesday, the agricultural technology company Nature’s Miracle announced it would invest $20 million to buy XRP for its company treasury, becoming one of the latest companies to adopt an alternative token treasury strategy.

On the same day, the consumer manufacturing company Upexi announced the purchase of 83,000 SOL worth $16.7 million for its treasury.

Jack Dorsey's tech company Block joined the S&P 500 on Wednesday, becoming the third publicly traded company holding Bitcoin to join this global index.

According to data from BitcoinTreasuries.NET, Block holds 8,584 Bitcoins, valued at approximately $1 billion, making it the 13th largest corporate Bitcoin holder.

Since announcing its entry into the S&P 500, Block's stock price on the New York Stock Exchange has increased by nearly 14% in the past five days.

The S&P 500 tracks the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the United States. Other companies involved in Bitcoin include Tesla and Coinbase.

President Trump announced a plan on Wednesday to make the United States the 'world capital of artificial intelligence (AI),' taking measures to ease data center regulations, revise federal content standards, and prioritize government contracts for specific AI developers.

The report released by the White House proposes a three-pillar plan, including encouraging open-source AI development in law, healthcare, defense, science, education, and manufacturing.

One of the key policies of the plan is to 'Protect Freedom of Speech' and online expression, with the Department of Commerce leading this free speech initiative in cooperation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to eliminate references to misinformation, diversity, equity, inclusion, and climate change.

Cryptocurrency payment and Web3 infrastructure company MoonPay has announced the launch of a new liquid staking project for Solana holders. The product leverages liquid staking to provide users' SOL tokens with an annual yield of 8.49%.

Users can invest a minimum of $1 in Solana (SOL) and receive a liquid staking token called mpSOL. Rewards are distributed approximately every two days, and users can cancel their staking at any time without a lock-up period.

This feature has been available since July 23, except for New York State and the EEA region.

MoonPay's mpSOL faces competition from native Solana liquid staking platforms (such as Marinade and Jito), which also offer similar yields and flexible liquidity options.

Global asset management firm WisdomTree has entered the comprehensive stablecoin market in the U.S. following the GENIUS Act, committed to enhancing its digital dollar infrastructure for on-chain financial products.

WisdomTree's dollar-backed stablecoin USDW is a key component of its comprehensive strategy, serving retail and institutional users. WisdomTree's head of digital assets, Will Peck, stated that USDW is issued by WisdomTree Digital Trust Company, which is registered in New York, facilitating the flow of digital dollar payments and supporting the company's tokenized investment products, particularly its U.S. money market funds.

Mara Holdings is one of the largest publicly listed cryptocurrency mining companies and has announced plans to issue convertible senior notes worth up to $1 billion, part of which will be used to purchase Bitcoin.

According to Wednesday's announcement, $850 million in notes will be offered to qualified institutional buyers, maturing in 2032. The company will also grant buyers an option to purchase an additional $150 million in notes, with a total amount potentially reaching $1 billion.

It is expected that up to $50 million of the proceeds will be used to repurchase some of the existing 1.00% convertible senior notes due in 2026, with the remaining funds allocated for transaction costs, Bitcoin (BTC) purchases, and other corporate purposes.

Author of the opinion: Senator Tim Scott and Senator Cynthia Lummis

The U.S. Congress has recently taken significant steps to seek to re-establish American leadership in financial innovation. The bipartisan-supported @ a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/explained/what-does-the-us-genius-act-mean-for-stablecoins" title="null">GENIUS Act has passed—this is a landmark bill that establishes a framework for payment stablecoins at the federal level for the first time.

This achievement is a milestone for consumer protection, national security, and U.S. competitiveness, and it proves that principled leadership can still yield tangible results.

Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Bank of America are providing institutional investors with access to tokenized money market funds, enabling real-time settlement, 24/7 market access, and enhancing the efficiency of capital markets.

Clients of Bank of America, the largest custodian bank globally, will soon be able to invest in money market funds whose ownership is directly recorded on Goldman Sachs' private blockchain, according to a press release issued on Wednesday.

"As the financial system shifts to a more digital and real-time architecture, Bank of America is committed to providing scalable and secure solutions that shape the future of finance," said Laide Majiyagbe, head of Global Liquidity, Finance and Collateral at Bank of America.

According to a report published by Reown in collaboration with YouGov, payments and artificial intelligence have become the two pillars of cryptocurrency adoption by 2025.

The study surveyed over 1,000 active cryptocurrency users in the United States and the United Kingdom, with 37% of respondents stating that artificial intelligence and payments are key driving forces.

Crypto payments have shown significant annual growth, with 34% of respondents reporting active participation. The report states that this growth surpasses traditional decentralized finance (DeFi) use cases but still lags behind trading.

The report notes that 27% of respondents believe that payments will become the dominant on-chain experience within three to five years, indicating their confidence in the practicality of cryptocurrencies in the real world.

CoinShares, a leading cryptocurrency investment firm in Europe, obtained the local regulatory framework MiCA license through its French subsidiary, CoinShares Asset Management.

The announcement noted that CoinShares has become the first qualified 'regulated asset management company on the European continent.'

CoinShares is not only a major provider of exchange-traded products (ETPs) in Europe, but has also expanded into the US market since acquiring Valkyrie Funds last year.

Triple License Portfolio

The new licenses enable CoinShares to hold three regulatory licenses in Europe: MiCA, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) license, and the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFM) license.

OpenAI announced a partnership with Oracle to add 4.5 gigawatts of power to support future AI development.

This agreement is part of OpenAI's vision to deploy 10 gigawatts of computing power in the U.S., which will expand the Stargate I facility located in Abilene, Texas, and go beyond its original commitment announced at the White House.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated on social media: 'This is a massive infrastructure project.' He revealed that over 1 million GPUs will be operational by the end of the year.

The new collaboration with Oracle will bring the total development capacity of Stargate to over 5 gigawatts, supporting more than 2 million AI chips.

76-year-old Oz Osbourne passed away on Tuesday, sparking a buying frenzy in the non-fungible token (NFT) market. Fans rushed to purchase Osbourne's CryptoBatz series to commemorate the heavy metal icon.

Within hours of the announcement of Osbourne's death, the floor price of his CryptoBatz NFTs surged over 400%, rising from less than 0.02 ETH to a peak of 0.08 ETH, according to OpenSea data.

At the current market price, the peak floor price of its NFTs reached $295 at 8 PM UTC on Tuesday, according to data from CoinGecko.

Osbourne entered the NFT space about four years ago, launching the CryptoBatz series containing 9,666 unique digital bats in December 2021.

The Financial Supervisory Service of South Korea (FSS) recommends that domestic asset management companies avoid excessive exposure to cryptocurrency companies.

According to a report by the Korea Herald on Wednesday, the FSS verbally instructed domestic asset management companies to limit exposure to cryptocurrency companies, specifically mentioning Coinbase and Strategy stocks as examples.

The guideline is informal and advisory, as passive exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in South Korea cannot easily remove specific stocks unless approved by the index provider.

"Since we track the index directly, removing stocks without changes to the index could lead to significant tracking errors. We understand the regulatory stance, but we cannot respond immediately," an anonymous fund manager told the Korea Herald.

Denver, Colorado-based online pastor Eli Regalado and his wife, Kaitlyn, were indicted on Tuesday on charges related to a cryptocurrency fraud scheme that raised more than $3 million.

The couple was indicted on 40 counts for a "multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency scam," according to Denver District Attorney John Walsh.

The Regalados are accused of raising nearly $3.4 million from January 2022 to July 2023 by persuading people through their religious network to buy the INDXcoin tokens they created. They allegedly used at least $1.3 million for personal expenses, including home renovations they claimed were directed by "the Lord."

According to SoSoValue data, spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continued to maintain strong momentum on Tuesday, recording a net inflow of $533 million, marking the 13th consecutive trading day of inflows.

Among them, BlackRock's iShares Ethereum Trust (ETHA) led the way with a single-day net inflow of $426 million, bringing its asset size to over $10 billion and capturing the largest share of the Ethereum ETF market. Fidelity's FETH followed closely with an inflow of $35 million.

The inflow of spot Ethereum ETFs has been driven by the decline in Bitcoin dominance and increased institutional demand for exposure to Ethereum, said Vincent Liu, Chief Investment Officer of Kronos Research.

The U.S. plans to seize cryptocurrency worth $7.1 million that the Department of Homeland Security intercepted last December, related to an alleged fraudulent oil and gas investment scheme.

The Seattle U.S. Attorney's Office stated that a civil lawsuit has been filed seeking to forfeit a portion of the $97 million obtained by the fraudulent scheme between June 2022 and July 2024.

Acting prosecutor Tiar Lucy Miller stated: 'The conspirators of this fraud case transferred illegal proceeds through various cryptocurrency accounts in an attempt to launder money.'

Miller's office stated that the cryptocurrency accounts to be seized belong to individuals residing in Russia and Nigeria who used victims' funds to purchase cryptocurrency and transferred part of the funds to exchanges in their home countries.

Reports indicate that the Bank of England is considering abandoning its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) plan due to concerns that it may not be beneficial for banks or the financial system.

The Bank of England (BOE) is reassessing its consumer-facing digital pound plan, as doubts about its necessity and advantages grow. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that the bank is encouraging commercial banks to accelerate payment innovations instead of creating a consumer CBDC. Bank Governor Andrew Bailey stated that if commercial banks innovate successfully, he would need 'a lot of convincing' to consider a digital pound.