⚡️ Pakistan establishes Regulatory Body for virtual assets to enhance crypto economy

🔄 Earlier: Michael Saylor appointed as crypto advisor to Pakistan’s government.

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💲 Tether partners with Blockchain forensics company Crystal Intelligence to tackle crypto crime

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❕ EU’s MiCA grants licenses to 53 companies, but Binance and Tether face delays due to strict compliance hurdles.

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🪙 BlackRock and Strategy₿ now hold a combined 1,297,325* BTC worth $140.8B

* — 6.18% of the total BTC supply.

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📣 Vlad Tenev, Robinhood CEO, described tokenization as the most significant innovation of the past decade

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🪙 Cointelegraph: Roughly 463,000 BTC is currently held by governments around the world

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💲 Bloomberg: Tether holds an $8B pile of gold in a secret Swiss vault

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❕ Vietnam is legalizing crypto and tightening KYC/AML to shake off its FATF* gray list status

Vietnam’s crypto regulation is part of a broader effort to meet FATF standards after being gray-listed in 2023 due to AML/CFT deficiencies.

* — Financial Action Task Force is the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog. 

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🔥 Four US-dollar stablecoin issuers hold roughly $182,000,000,000 in US Treasury bills.

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⚡️ South Korea seeks to grant startup benefits to crypto firms through reclassification

Korea’s startup ministry proposed amendments to allow crypto firms to register as “venture companies”, which would make them eligible for government benefits such as tax cuts.

🔄 Earlier: Won-based stablecoin.

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🪙 Whale Alert: 9,000 BTC (~$977144480) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown new wallet

🔄 Earlier: 50,000 BTC.

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❕ New Zealand is banning crypto ATMs and capping international cash transfers at $5,000

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🔥 Emirates airline signs MoU with Crypto dot com for future integration of Crypto dot com Pay as a payment option for customers

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💎 Cointelegraph: Ethereum whales have increased their holdings by 9.31%, a stronger buildup than before the 2022 rally

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⚡️ Ripple selects The Bank of New York Mellon to custody USD reserves for its RLUSD stablecoin

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🔥 Japanese credit card users can now convert loyalty points into crypto

SBI VC Trade and APLUS cardholders can redeem points for Bitcoin, Ether or XRP, with 2,100 points equating to over 2,000 japanese yen worth of tokens.

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🔥 Pavel Durov held a meeting with Lex Fridman, an American journalist, and Jack Dorsey, the creator of Twitter

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⚡️ PumpFun to officially launch its own token PUMP on July 12th

🔄 Earlier: Rumors.

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📣 Tim Scott, US Senator, says: "Blockchain technology and digital assets are not going away, they are here to stay".

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⚡️ TRON pledges to acquire 100M $TRUMP tokens

🔄 Earlier: $TRUMP memecoin will also launch on TRON.

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🔝 ETH = $2,714

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