OpenAI has reportedly proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% equity stake in the company, a move that would mark one of the most consequential attempts yet to link frontier AI profits directly to public ownership. The proposal, reported by the Financial Times and Reuters, remains in early discussions and has not been finalized. The
Crypto card deposits have surpassed $10 billion for the first time in history, marking a major milestone for one of the clearest real-world payment use cases in digital assets. Paymentscan data shows cumulative crypto payment-card volume at approximately $10.33 billion across tracked card programs. Market coverage said the milestone was crossed around July 1, with
FBI Director Kash Patel has reported holding between $100,001 and $250,000 in Strategy stock, renewing scrutiny over senior federal officials’ exposure to crypto-linked public companies. The disclosure centers on a purchase of Strategy shares made on November 21 and reported to federal ethics officials on May 26. Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, is the world’s
Tether has frozen USDT balances across 131 TRON wallet addresses linked to ISIS-K after U.S. sanctions officials added the wallets to a counter-terrorism blacklist, marking another high-profile example of stablecoin issuers acting as enforcement chokepoints in crypto markets. The action followed a July 1 update by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control,
South Korean media company K Wave Media has exited its Bitcoin treasury position after once setting an ambitious target of accumulating 10,000 BTC, marking another reversal in the digital asset treasury trade as weaker market conditions pressure balance-sheet strategies. The Nasdaq-listed company sold its remaining 88 BTC and used the proceeds to repay $6 million
Solana has launched an onchain governance system that allows validators and delegators to vote on major network decisions through stake-weighted ballots, marking a significant shift in how the high-performance blockchain coordinates protocol direction. The new process, called Solana Governance Proposals, or SGPs, is designed to give the validator set a formal mechanism for signaling support
Cloudflare has opened the waitlist for its Monetization Gateway, a new stablecoin-based payments product that will allow customers to charge for digital resources behind Cloudflare’s network. The product is designed to let publishers, developers and data providers monetize web pages, APIs, datasets, files and Model Context Protocol tools without building their own payment infrastructure. Cloudflare
Bitcoin briefly reclaimed the $61,000 level after buyers stepped back into the market following a late-June selloff that pushed the world’s largest cryptocurrency below $60,000. Live market data showed Bitcoin reaching an intraday high of about $61,030 before easing back toward $60,182. The move marked a rebound from an intraday low near $58,279, suggesting that
U.S. spot crypto exchange-traded funds recorded approximately $280.7 million in combined net outflows on Wednesday, July 1, as continued Bitcoin ETF redemptions outweighed modest inflows into Ether and Solana products. Spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $296.0 million on the day, extending a late-June outflow streak into the first trading session of July. BlackRock’s IBIT led the
Why Is France Escalating Its Response To Crypto Ransom Attacks? French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez has promised a more ambitious response to crypto-linked ransom attacks after confirming that authorities recorded 77 kidnapping, extortion, or attempted extortion incidents tied to crypto in the first half of 2026. The figure marks a sharp increase from the 45