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According to CoinDesk, the long-established asset management company Baillie Gifford from Edinburgh, Scotland (founded over 118 years ago) announced on Monday in collaboration with global custodian giant BNY the launch of a tokenized fixed income fund—Baillie Gifford Enhanced Yield Fund (BAGEY), deployed simultaneously on the Ethereum and Solana public chains.The fund is denominated in US dollars and operates under an open-ended investment company (OEIC) structure within the UK regulatory framework, targeting qualified investors from the UK, Switzerland, and the Cayman Islands. It offers an actively managed short-duration corporate bond portfolio, with a current yield of approximately 7%.Unlike most tokenized products on the market, Baillie Gifford's Head of Digital Assets Theo Golden emphasized that BAGEY is not a traditional fund wrapped in a token shell, but rather a fund issued directly on-chain, with the blockchain itself serving as the rights registry, allowing investors to directly hold shares and enjoy direct recourse.BNY will provide tokenization and wallet infrastructure for the fund, with NatWest acting as the custodian. The Global Head of Investor Solutions at BNY stated that this issuance marks the transition of tokenization from concept to real application, as regulated fund structures evolve towards a more digital and interconnected market.

According to Bitcoin.com, the High Court of Windhoek, Namibia, revoked the bail of 8 absent defendants in a cryptocurrency fraud and human trafficking case and confiscated approximately $29,800 in bail money. The prosecution stated that the 8 individuals include 6 Chinese nationals, 1 Vanuatu national, and 1 Singaporean national, with 6 Chinese suspects tracked down to China. Namibian authorities have requested assistance from Interpol to locate them.The criminal group operated under a front company called Raylon Investments from December 2022 to October 2023. The group is suspected of recruiting unemployed Namibians and forcing them into labor. The state government stated that these employees were compelled to create fake social media accounts impersonating women from Europe and the United States to lure international victims into romantic relationships. Once trust was established, victims were manipulated into transferring money to cryptocurrency accounts controlled by the criminal group. Investigators estimate that the group stole approximately $267,800 from victims worldwide.

According to Bloomberg, informed sources revealed that the prediction market Kalshi has raised an additional $200 million from two new investors, Baillie Gifford and Layer Global, expanding the previous $1 billion financing led by Coatue Management, with the company's valuation remaining unchanged at $22 billion.Earlier, Kalshi announced at the beginning of this month the completion of a $1 billion Series F financing led by Coatue Management, with a valuation of $22 billion. Other participants included Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, Paradigm, Morgan Stanley, and ARK Invest. Kalshi's monthly trading volume in April exceeded $14 billion, with an annualized revenue of over $1.5 billion.

According to The Crypto Times, the High Court of Himachal Pradesh, India, rejected Abhishek Sharma's bail application. Sharma is one of the key promoters of a large-scale cryptocurrency MLM scam, which is suspected of defrauding over 80,000 investors across India, with estimated losses reaching 500 million rupees and a total investment pool of about 2 billion rupees.The report states that the scam involved several fraudulent crypto platforms such as Korvio, Voscrow, DGT, Hypenext, and A-Global, with investors promised double returns. In the early stages of the project, small returns were paid to attract more participants, but all payments suddenly stopped on December 25, 2021. Subsequently, the promoters directed users to other platforms, ultimately failing to pay any returns.The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had previously conducted searches at eight locations in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, freezing approximately 12 million rupees in lockers and bank deposits. Investigators stated that the funds in the case were laundered through real estate developers, shell companies, and family bank accounts, with some senior individuals involved having fled to Dubai.

The identities of the bail guarantors for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried have been disclosed, including former Stanford Law School Dean Larry Kramer and research scientist Andreas Paepcke, who provided guarantees of $500,000 and $200,000, respectively.Reports indicate that the total bail amount of $250 million for SBF is primarily secured by properties owned by his parents in California. Previously, his lawyers attempted to keep the identities of the guarantors confidential, but the court requested their disclosure in response to media requests. Currently, the related case is still under review, and SBF is facing multiple fraud charges.

David Bailey's "Nakamoto" DAT has sold approximately 20 million dollars worth of Bitcoin, at a transaction price of about 70,422 dollars, which is lower than its average holding cost of 118,171 dollars.

According to Cointelegraph, the Thane District Court in India ruled on March 23 that there was no preliminary evidence of a crime involving CoinDCX co-founder Sumit Gupta and Niraj Khandelwal in a fraud case involving 7.1 million rupees (approximately $75,000), and granted bail to the two.The court investigation revealed that the fraudulent activity actually occurred on the counterfeit website coindcx.pro, which has no connection to the official CoinDCX platform. The main suspect, Rana, has fully refunded the victims, who also confirmed in court that the two founders were not the parties they met at the café.CoinDCX subsequently issued a statement characterizing the incident as "third-party impersonation" and reminded users to verify domain names and interact only through official channels to guard against the increasingly rampant impersonation and phishing scams in India's cryptocurrency industry.

According to Jinshi, U.S. Democratic Senator Warren urged Federal Reserve Chairman Powell to firmly reject providing cryptocurrency bailouts.

According to Cointelegraph, Senate Banking Committee senior member Elizabeth Warren has written to Treasury Secretary Scott Basset and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, urging the government not to use taxpayer funds to bail out the cryptocurrency industry.In her letter, Warren warned that any form of bailout would mean "transferring wealth from American taxpayers to cryptocurrency billionaires," which is not only "extremely unpopular" but could also directly benefit President Trump and his family's cryptocurrency project, World Liberty Financial.The letter comes at a time when the price of Bitcoin has fallen over 50% from its historical highs, reaching a local low of $60,000. On the same day, World Liberty Financial held its first "World Liberty Forum" at Mar-a-Lago, inviting several executives from the cryptocurrency industry and policymakers who support cryptocurrencies to attend.Warren also referenced the Financial Stability Oversight Council hearing on the 4th of this month, pointing out that Secretary Basset had "avoided core concerns" when responding to questions about a bailout for Bitcoin.She emphasized that the government should not intervene in the Bitcoin market through direct purchases, guarantees, or liquidity tools, to avoid "making cryptocurrency billionaires the biggest beneficiaries of a bailout."

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testified before Congress that the U.S. government will not "rescue" the asset by requiring private banks to purchase more Bitcoin during market downturns. He emphasized that neither the Treasury nor the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) has the authority to do so.Bessent also revealed that the $500 million in Bitcoin obtained by the U.S. government through asset forfeiture has appreciated to over $15 billion. According to an executive order signed by Trump in 2025, the U.S. can only increase its strategic reserves through asset forfeiture or budget-neutral strategies (such as converting oil or precious metals into Bitcoin), and not through open market purchases.Although this move has been criticized by some in the Bitcoin community as insufficient, Bitcoin advocates believe that U.S. government purchases could encourage other countries to establish their own strategic reserves, thereby impacting Bitcoin prices and market demand.

The virtual asset trading platform JPEX is under new developments in a fraud case, where three men involved were granted continued bail after appearing in the Eastern Magistrates' Court today. They are 27-year-old student Yu Kwan-lam, 30-year-old Wong Tsz-kin, and 30-year-old technician Tang Chi-chung. Yu Kwan-lam is charged with two counts of money laundering, involving the laundering of 7.79 million Hong Kong dollars. His case has been approved for referral to the District Court and will be heard on January 8 next year.Wong Tsz-kin is charged with obstructing justice, accused of conspiring with a person known as "Brother Lu" in September 2023 to dispose of items at a location on Cheung Sha Wan's Castle Peak Road to hinder authorities' investigation. Tang Chi-chung faces dual charges of obstructing justice and money laundering, involving the disposal of items and documents at a unit in Starry House, Cheung Sha Wan, on September 28, 2023, as well as handling approximately 880,000 Hong Kong dollars in cash and two Rolex watches valued at around 240,000 Hong Kong dollars. The cases of Wong Tsz-kin and Tang Chi-chung have been adjourned to January 16 next year in the Eastern Court for the prosecution to prepare referral documents.JPEX was revealed to be involved in fraud in 2023, with a total of 16 individuals charged in the entire incident.

ChainCatcher news, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes posted on X that Bitcoin is currently "on sale," and warned that if the turmoil among regional banks in the U.S. escalates into a systemic crisis, the government may implement financial rescue measures similar to those in 2023. He stated that he is ready to "buy the dip" after the rescue and encouraged investors to consider opportunities in the crypto market when they have idle funds.

ChainCatcher news, Bitcoin holding company Nakamoto CEO David Bailey stated that the price of Bitcoin may only rise to $150,000 after the two major Bitcoin whales complete their sell-off. Bailey posted on the X platform on Tuesday: "The reason Bitcoin hasn't reached $150,000 yet is because of these two whales. Once they finish selling (one has already sold over half, and the other is in the process) ... the price will only continue to rise."Recently, multiple whale transactions have caused turbulence in the Bitcoin market. A certain Bitcoin whale sold 24,000 BTC (approximately $2.7 billion), leading to a flash crash in the Bitcoin market. According to QCP analysis, this crash resulted in about $500 million in leveraged positions being liquidated within minutes. A few days ago, a whale holding Bitcoin for over five years began transferring funds into Ethereum, selling $4 billion worth of Bitcoin through the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid. The sentiment in the cryptocurrency market has intensified, with the cryptocurrency fear and greed index dropping to the "fear" range on Saturday. Although it rebounded to a "neutral" level of 49 on Tuesday, it had previously fluctuated between "fear" and "neutral."

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi Data and the Financial Times, Nobel laureate Jean Tirole has warned that current regulation of stablecoins is "insufficient." He stated that if these tokens collapse during a future financial crisis, the government may be forced to inject billions of dollars for a bailout. In an interview, the 2014 Nobel Prize winner in Economics expressed that he is "very, very concerned" about the regulation of stablecoins and the possibility of a bank run if doubts arise about the underlying reserve assets linked to these digital tokens.Tirole noted that while stablecoins may be viewed as "absolutely safe deposits" by ordinary users, they could actually become a source of losses and trigger calls for the government to spend huge amounts on bailouts. He also warned that using U.S. Treasury bonds as backing assets for stablecoins may become unpopular due to the relatively low yields of these underlying assets. As a result, stablecoin issuers may be tempted to invest in "higher-yield but riskier" other assets.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Bitcoin holding company Nakamoto and Utah-based KindlyMD have officially completed their merger and launched a Bitcoin financial strategy. BTC Inc. co-founder David Bailey will serve as the CEO of the new company. The merger aims to increase Bitcoin holdings through equity, debt, and other issuance methods, enhancing the Bitcoin earnings per share. KindlyMD has raised $540 million through a PIPE (Private Investment in Public Equity) and expects to complete a $200 million convertible bond issuance.

According to ChainCatcher, Protos reports that David Bailey, the head of the Bitcoin Treasury Company Nakamoto, announced plans to establish a new Political Action Committee (PAC) and intends to raise between $100 million and $200 million to promote Bitcoin priorities and become part of the Bitcoin voter platform.Bailey stated that he hopes the PAC will be based on Nakamoto, although Nakamoto currently holds only 21 bitcoins, plans to purchase hundreds of millions of dollars in bitcoins before August 11. Bailey has already raised about $1 billion for Bitcoin investments, and the funding for this new PAC will be used to influence the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, with a budget potentially approaching 4% of total super PAC expenditures.

According to ChainCatcher news reported by Protos, two suspects, John Woeltz and William Duplessie, accused of kidnapping and torturing a Bitcoin trader to obtain his keys, have been granted bail by a New York court. The two are charged with 12 counts, all of which they plead not guilty. Each was released on a $1 million bond and will be subject to electronic monitoring, while being required to surrender their passports.Suspect Woeltz is referred to as the "Crypto King of Kentucky." They are accused of kidnapping an Italian crypto trader in Woeltz's Soho mansion and subjecting him to torture, including threats with a gun, attacks with a stun gun and chainsaw, and setting him on fire with alcohol. It is alleged that the two also threatened to kill the victim's family.Although the prosecution claims there is evidence showing the two had engaged in similar behavior, Judge Gregory Carro found numerous credibility issues and decided to grant bail while continuing to review the evidence.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, a key strategist behind the lobbying effort that transformed Donald Trump into the most powerful supporter of cryptocurrency is making a big bet in one of the hottest areas of the industry and has achieved astonishing returns.According to insiders, David Bailey's hedge fund 210k Capital achieved a net return of 640% over the 12 months ending in June, far exceeding the rise of Bitcoin itself. The fund has invested in about a dozen companies that have transformed into Bitcoin buyers. As of June 30, 210k Capital's assets under management totaled $433 million.Tyler Evans, the managing partner of 210k Capital, stated in an interview on July 15 that the company is considering an additional 30 investments in existing and potential Bitcoin proxies.