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According to Cointelegraph, Bitcoin mining company Ionic Digital has submitted a direct listing application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a Nasdaq listing, with the stock ticker IOND. This listing does not raise new funds but aims to establish a public trading market for existing shareholders, including former Celsius creditors who obtained Ionic shares through the bankruptcy plan.Ionic was established in 2024, acquiring its mining assets through the restructuring of the bankrupt crypto lending platform Celsius. Starting in 2025, Ionic will transition from pure Bitcoin mining to becoming a digital infrastructure company serving AI and high-performance computing workloads.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the Ethereum Foundation has staked 4,938 ETH (7.86 million USD) with Lido and may continue to stake more.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, INFINIT (IN) will unlock approximately 35.73 million tokens at 17:00 Beijing time on July 7, worth about 4.38 million USD.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), a16z affiliated entities have stopped accumulating $HYPE in the past week and have transferred a total of 77,402 HYPE to various exchanges in the last 5 hours, worth approximately 5.18 million dollars. It is worth noting that this entity does not have a low frequency of transferring coins to exchanges, but this transfer amount is still relatively small compared to the scale of their previous large-scale accumulation.

According to official news, OpenClaw announced the launch of the native mobile version of the OpenClaw app on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Users can pair their phones with the private OpenClaw gateway to achieve localized AI assistant functions, including chat, voice calls, approval management, and device-aware automation. The app adheres to the "local first" principle, with all keys, configurations, and permissions controlled by the user, and device permissions enabled as needed.

According to Cointelegraph, Grant Cardone, the CEO of real estate investment company Cardone Capital, stated that Cardone Capital is increasing its Bitcoin holdings at the price level of $59,000, and currently holds more than 2,700 BTC.

According to official data, Ark Invest, led by Cathie Wood, increased its holdings in Coinbase, Circle, Bullish, and Robinhood stocks on Monday, with a total increase of approximately $16.9 million based on the closing price.In specific operations, ARK bought 45,164 shares of Coinbase ($6.85 million), 81,757 shares of Circle ($6.21 million), 149,422 shares of Bullish ($3.54 million), and 2,943 shares of Robinhood ($300,000), with all four stocks closing up on that day.

According to Reuters, GameStop (GME) stated that despite eBay (EBAY) rejecting its acquisition offer of approximately $56 billion in cash and stock in May, the company will continue to push forward with the acquisition plan and will soon release detailed strategic logic and operational integration plans. GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen previously argued that the reason for acquiring eBay is that the merged company would become a stronger competitor to Amazon.Meanwhile, GameStop disclosed that the adjusted EBITDA for the fiscal year 2026 is expected to exceed $600 million, a significant increase from $345.4 million in the fiscal year 2025.

According to CoinPost, Kinexys, a blockchain division of JPMorgan, announced the addition of five currencies to its Blockchain Deposit Account (BDA) network: Australian Dollar (AUD), Hong Kong Dollar (HKD), Japanese Yen (JPY), Renminbi (RMB), and Singapore Dollar (SGD). This expands the total supported currencies to eight, including the existing Euro, British Pound, and US Dollar, making it the platform with the most supported currencies in the global blockchain settlement and on-chain foreign exchange field.The BDA operates on JPMorgan's private blockchain, supporting 24/7 settlement and programmable payment features. Japanese energy giant JERA Global Markets became the first enterprise to adopt the Yen BDA, aimed at optimizing internal fund flow management and liquidity allocation. Currently, Kinexys has processed a cumulative transaction volume exceeding $40 trillion, with a daily transaction volume of over $7 billion.

According to CoinDesk, tokenization infrastructure provider Securitize has received shareholder approval to merge with Cantor Equity Partners II (CEPT) SPAC, with the transaction expected to be completed on Wednesday. The merged company will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday under the stock ticker SECZ. CEPT's stock price surged by 20% at one point during trading on Monday.

According to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of the Solana ecosystem meme coin ANSEM once exceeded 140 million USD, reaching a historical high, and then fell back to about 127 million USD, with a daily increase of over 41%. The price of meme coins is highly volatile, mainly driven by market sentiment and conceptual speculation, lacking clear practical application scenarios, and investors should be aware of the associated risks.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $62,604.81 in the "Brazil vs Japan - More Markets" event, specifically on "O/U 2.5". Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this bet is 57%.

According to The Block, Binance founder Zhao Changpeng stated that the MiCA license application submitted by Binance in Greece fully complied with regulatory requirements and was close to approval before being withdrawn, but ultimately the process was interrupted due to "external political factors."In an interview, Zhao Changpeng mentioned that several countries within the EU had expressed interest in the license, and there was even a certain degree of "competitive pursuit," but the regulatory progress was ultimately affected by non-regulatory factors, forcing the application to be withdrawn. Binance officially withdrew its application in Greece last week and stated that it would turn to other EU member states to continue pursuing MiCA authorization.In response to market rumors regarding his connections with high-level EU politicians, Zhao Changpeng stated that he had not seen any verifiable documents and only saw similar claims online, which he did not confirm. Zhao Changpeng also pointed out that the EU MiCA transition period will officially end on July 1, at which time platforms that have not obtained licenses must cease related services. Regulatory agencies in various countries have made it clear that they will not postpone enforcement, and they evaluate this outcome as a "lose-lose situation," using the regulatory processes in Japan and Singapore as examples to emphasize that compliance processes often require a longer period.Additionally, when discussing Strategy's STRC preferred stock product, Zhao Changpeng stated that its structure is "too complex" and expressed difficulty in fully understanding its mechanism, but emphasized that he does not comment on the credibility of its founder Michael Saylor, considering him a "staunch supporter of Bitcoin."

FameEX Exchange, which just celebrated its 8th anniversary, will hold a side event, AI Agents Night, with GAEA Ventures during Tokyo WebX 2026.Today, AI Agents are evolving from conversational models into on-chain autonomous executors, handling intent parsing, multi-step transactions, and dynamic asset allocation. This event will bring together Web3 founders, investors, and developers to discuss the future of cross-ecosystem collaboration and AI-driven trading architecture.

According to CoinDesk, Wall Street broker Bernstein pointed out in a recent report that the rapid integration of the market technology stack is increasing the likelihood of a new round of mergers and acquisitions in the field of sports event contracts and financial markets.The report states that in the past eight months, major prediction platforms have been developing towards simultaneously controlling customer distribution and exchange infrastructure. Although Kalshi and Polymarket have core technology stacks, their distribution capabilities are relatively lagging, making them potential acquisition targets.Recent actions include DraftKings acquiring Railbird to launch DKeX, Robinhood collaborating with Susquehanna to create Rothera, and Coinbase acquiring The Clearing Company. Bernstein believes that Robinhood and Coinbase are currently in a relatively advantageous position in the competitive landscape, as both have large consumer user bases and fully owned regulated infrastructures, while Kalshi and Polymarket are viewed as potential acquisition targets due to their lack of large-scale distribution capabilities.

According to DataCenterDynamics, Bitcoin mining company and data center Hive Digital Technologies announced that it will raise $100 million by issuing zero-coupon convertible senior notes maturing in 2031 to further expand its computing power infrastructure.In addition, the company has signed a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) with a Swedish sovereign technology company that has an investment-grade credit rating, intending to lease approximately 30MW of computing power resources at its data center for a term of up to 10 years.According to the agreement, Hive will deploy approximately 25MW of IT computing capacity and plans to use up to 10,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs; however, the letter of intent still requires further negotiation and the signing of a final formal agreement.

According to PR Newswire, BitMine increased its holdings by 27,084 Ethereum last week. As of June 28, 2026, its total Ethereum holdings reached 5,700,040, accounting for approximately 4.7% of the total Ethereum supply.Currently, the total value of cryptocurrencies, cash, and other investment assets held by BitMine is approximately $9.8 billion, which includes $555 million in cash and securities, 206 Bitcoin, $180 million in equity assets from Beast Industries, and a $74 million investment in Eightco Holdings. In addition, the amount of Ethereum it has staked has increased to 4,879,157 (over 85% of total holdings), valued at approximately $7.7 billion, with a current annualized staking yield of about $211 million.Tom Lee stated that BitMine was included in the Russell 1000 large-cap index during the Russell index annual reconstitution on June 26, 2026. This inclusion is expected to bring hundreds or even thousands of new institutional investors, as passive funds and ETFs typically hold 18% to 20% of the outstanding shares of publicly listed companies.However, this week has been challenging for crypto investors, with ETH down 8%, despite positive developments in the Ethereum ecosystem such as the establishment of Ethlabs, and a softening stance from the Bank of England on stablecoins. He believes that the "earnings manipulation" effect that appears near the end of the quarter has led investors to reduce holdings in assets that have underperformed over the past three months, but the long-term development path of the crypto industry remains positive, with the dual driving forces of Wall Street infrastructure moving on-chain and proxy AI payment systems still in place.

According to the 8-K document submitted to the SEC by Strategy, the company announced the launch of a digital credit capital framework, which includes five core components: dollar reserve policy, adjustment of STRC dividend policy, preferred stock repurchase plan, common stock repurchase plan, and BTC monetization plan.Under the dollar reserve policy, the reserve can only be used to pay preferred stock dividends and debt interest, and management must maintain a reserve sufficient to cover expected dividends and interest expenses for at least the next 12 months. As of June 28, the dollar reserve balance was $2.55 billion.Regarding the STRC dividend, the company will dynamically assess the dividend rate on a monthly basis, considering factors such as trading price, market yield, credit spread, and Bitcoin price volatility, and will not increase the dividend solely because the STRC trading price is below par value. The company also announced an increase in the annualized dividend rate for STRC to 12% from the previous level, effective July 1.In terms of the repurchase plan, the company has established two repurchase authorizations of $1 billion each, to repurchase preferred stocks such as STRC, STRF, STRD, STRK, and Class A common stock, with STRC being the primary target of the preferred stock repurchase plan. Neither of the repurchase plans will utilize dollar reserve funds.In addition, the company's board of directors has authorized the BTC monetization plan, allowing the company to raise up to $1.25 billion by selling Bitcoin, to supplement the dollar reserve, pay preferred stock dividends and interest expenses, or fund the aforementioned repurchase plans.