Author: 行政
ISIS-K, the Islamic State affiliate active across Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of Central Asia, had USDT balances frozen on 131 TRON addresses after an OFAC sanctions update, creating an enforcement test for stablecoins. Once public-chain intelligence, a sanctions list, and issuer controls were in place, Tether could freeze the balances within its own token system.The July 1 action updated the ISIL Khorasan designation with digital-currency identifiers. Chainalysis said OFAC added 134 crypto addresses, including 131 TRON addresses and three Monero addresses.It also said Tether froze the balances on all 131 TRON addresses.The outcome turns a sanctions entry into a map…
A pseudonymous respondent has appeared in New York court to challenge a lawsuit seeking control of over $200 billion worth of long-dormant coins tied to the network’s earliest days, including those linked to Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s pseudonymous founder.The respondent, using the name John Doe 33, filed a notice of appearance on June 30 in New York Supreme Court, saying he is a “natural person and a real human being” with constitutionally protected property rights.He said he is not “a Bitcoin blockchain address string, a digital wallet, a line of source code, or any other form of inanimate data.”The filing marks…
Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) is offering a $5,000 reward for the first 1776 ~ 2026 Declaration of Independence quarter bearing the limited “JULY 4th” privy mark submitted through its Quarter Quest promotion. PCGS is offering a $5,000 reward, First Discovery pedigree and special 250th anniversary label for the earliest qualifying July 4 privy quarter submission The U.S. Mint released only 250,000 of these quarters into circulation. They are randomly mixed with standard Declaration of Independence quarters and distributed through banks and financial institutions nationwide. The winning coin will receive a PCGS “First Discovery” pedigree on the company’s Semiquincentennial Special…
Ethereum Institutional announced its launch on July 1, folding a year of the Foundation’s go-to-market work into a group pitching Ethereum to banks and asset managers on tokenization and stablecoins.Ethlabs, built by five former senior Ethereum Foundation (EF) researchers, surfaced days earlier with the goal of faster settlement and ETH’s monetary case. Bitmine, Sharplink, and Joe Lubin fund both initiatives.The timing lines up with an organizational unraveling within the Foundation itself, as Hsiao-Wei Wang stepped down as EF co-executive director on June 18, joining Tomasz Stańczak’s earlier resignation and at least eight senior departures over five months.The Foundation’s own March…
Glassnode’s latest Week Onchain report shows that roughly 10.83 million BTC are now in the red, against 9.22 million still in profit.Loss-making supply now accounts for roughly 54% of the measured total, compared with 46% still in profit, meaning underwater coins exceed profitable coins by about 1.61 million BTC.Infographic showing 54% of Bitcoin’s circulating supply (10.83 million BTC) is held at a loss, exceeding the 46% held in profit by roughly 1.61 million BTC.Glassnode describes this as one of the sharpest deteriorations in investor profitability since the current bull market began, a threshold with real psychological weight.Crossing it before has…
Venice, the AI platform behind the VVV token, raised $65 million in a Series A led by Dragonfly at a $1 billion equity valuation, its first outside capital raise. The company chose stock over its own token, and the market is already arguing about what that choice means for VVV holders.Series A investors received 8.98% equity, a 1.5 million VVV vesting grant, and warrants to purchase 5 million additional VVV over 8 years. That package brings together Dragonfly, Coinbase Ventures, North Island Ventures, and other participants on both sides of Venice’s capital structure, with equity and tokens held in the…
Robinhood is pushing deeper into crypto infrastructure with the launch of its own blockchain network, tokenized stocks and decentralized lending products, even as one of its fastest-growing revenue opportunities may be forming outside crypto.On July 1, the brokerage launched the public mainnet for Robinhood Chain at a London event, marking its most direct move yet into onchain financial infrastructure.The Ethereum layer-2 network, built on Arbitrum, is designed to support tokenized real-world assets, decentralized finance applications and trading activity tied to Robinhood’s expanding global product suite.The launch gives Robinhood more control over the infrastructure behind its tokenized stock ambitions. Stock Tokens…
K Wave Media has become a new case study for corporate Bitcoin trade stress.In a June 30 Form F-3, the Nasdaq-listed company disclosed that it sold all of its Bitcoin holdings on May 6 and said the sale generated aggregate proceeds of $64.2 million.The filing also said K Wave had liquidated 88 Bitcoins under an April 29 amendment to its securities purchase agreement with Anson Funds and used part of the transaction to repay $6 million of initial notes.The filing frames the sale through financing, collateral and strategic-priority disclosures rather than an explicit forced-sale statement. Its value lies in the…
Coinbase helped build USDC – Why is it now backing the stablecoin trying to replace it, Open USD?
The stablecoin market has long rewarded the companies that issue digital dollars. They take in customer cash, hold reserves in short-term government securities, and earn the yield.Now, the companies that distribute those tokens want more of the economics.That tension is at the center of Open USD (OUSD), a planned stablecoin backed by more than 140 financial, technology, and crypto firms, including Coinbase, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, and Google.The project promises free minting and redemption for businesses, as well as a reserve-income model that sends more value to the platforms driving adoption.For Circle, the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin issuer, the most…
Robinhood has launched its Ethereum layer-2 blockchain to support tokenised assets, DeFi applications and AI-enabled trading. The new network introduces Stock Tokens on the public mainnet while expanding lending, perpetual futures and wallet capabilities. The launch forms part of Robinhood’s broader international growth strategy, with expansion across Canada, the UK and Singapore. Robinhood has launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum layer-2 network built on Arbitrum, marking its latest expansion into decentralised finance while seeking to connect blockchain-based services with traditional financial markets. The permissionless network has been described as AI-native and launches with integrations including BitGo, Chainlink…