🗞 Catch up on the news over the last 24 hours!
⚡️ Ripple’s co-founder Arthur Britto breaks silence with his first post on X after 14 years.
🚨 Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest dumps 415,844 of its Circle shares worth $110M on June 23.
🇺🇸 Texas allocates $10 million to buy Bitcoin for its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, potentially making it the first US state to buy $BTC.
🇯🇵 Japan’s Financial Services Agency has proposed classifying crypto under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act.
🇺🇸 The Federal Housing Finance Agency will study how crypto holdings affect mortgage qualifications, a move led by new director Bill Pulte, a longtime Bitcoin investor.
🔥 $USDT supply hits all-time high, surpassing $156B.
🚨 Nasdaq-listed Nano Labs enters $500M convertible note agreement to start buying $BNB, plans to accumulate up to $1B worth, targeting 5–10% of total supply as part of new treasury strategy.
🇺🇸 POWELL: Reaffirms wait-and-see stance, offers no signal on rate cuts in prepared testimony.
🔥 The world's biggest prediction market Polymarket is nearing a deal to raise more than $200 million in a funding round that will value the company at over $1B.
🇺🇸 President Trump's admin may issue executive order to stop banks from cutting off crypto firms, aiming to end “Operation Chokepoint 2.0,” per WSJ.
🔥 Chainlink partners with Mastercard to let 3B+ cardholders buy crypto directly onchain.
⚡️ Anthony Pompliano's ProCap buys 3,724 $BTC for $386.5M at $103,780 per coin one day after announcing $1B merger.
🔥 NBA team The San Antonio Spurs sign multi-year jersey deal with French crypto firm Ledger.
🚨 President Trump's Truth Social files for Bitcoin & Ethereum ETF with NYSE.
🔥 CZ : “If you sold the dip, you need to unfollow the weak minds, and follow right people.”
🇺🇸 The SEC Crypto Task Force met with the New York Stock Exchange to discuss crypto regulation approaches.
Read more: ct.com

