Crypto News. July 3, 2026
eToro led a $12.5M strategic funding round in perp exchange Extended
Metaplanet bought 2,823 BTC, bringing its total holdings to 43,000 BTC.
Standard Chartered launched institutional USDC minting and redemption through DIFC in partnership with Circle.
Securitize is now a public company listed on the NYSE, ticker SECZ.
Humanity Protocol founder Terence Kwok is pivoting the project toward enterprise AI following last month’s $36M exploit, and says odds of recovering stolen funds are low.
Rialto launched an onchain spot exchange on Robinhood Chain and Arbitrum for trading crypto, equities, ETFs, commodities, and pre-IPOs.
Robinhood Chain integrated Virtuals AI agent infrastructure, enabling agent creation, funding, ownership, and tokenization.
Pumpfun launched a 2-week mobile app trading competition with a $50,000 prize pool
Ondo launched tokenized versions of BlackRock IVV ETF and Micron shares
VALR to launch Perps, a cross-asset perpetuals product with 200+ markets built on Hyperliquid infrastructure, going live on July 6
National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives became the first major law enforcement organization to endorse the Clarity Act, which includes the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act.
Deadline for proposing non-headlining EIPs for Ethereum’s Hegotá upgrade is August 6th.
EIP-7954 to raise Ethereum’s max contract code size from 24KiB to 64KiB and initcode size from 48KiB to 128KiB, arriving as part of the Glamsterdam hard fork later this year.
