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Victoria, Seychelles, July 3rd, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, announced key highlights for June 2026. The platform recorded $437 billion in monthly trading volume and expanded user investment options through the launch of the “RealStocks” product. The new product gives users real ownership of over 7,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs—complete with dividend eligibility—breaking down traditional market barriers and connecting users to global assets, all within their existing MEXC account. In June, MEXC continued to expand access to emerging assets, listing 153 new tokens across spot and futures markets and driving $1.03 billion in new listing…

US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded their first daily net inflow above $200 million since early May, snapping weeks of sustained withdrawals.The funds attracted $221.7 million in net inflows on Thursday, according to SoSoValue data, ending a 10-day streak of net outflows that totaled more than $2.7 billion.The rebound follows one of the weakest stretches for US spot Bitcoin ETFs this year, with the funds posting a record $4.5 billion in net outflows in June.Daily flows in US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs. Source: SoSoValueThe inflows came as Bitcoin reclaimed the $61,000 level after briefly falling below $59,000, with some investors,…

In brief OpenAI has proposed handing the U.S. government a 5% stake worth roughly $42.6 billion, based on its $852 billion March 2026 valuation, according to the Financial Times. Sam Altman pitched the idea directly to President Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and wants Anthropic, Google, and Meta to contribute similar stakes. The talks follow a month of escalating government intervention in frontier AI releases—including a delayed GPT-5.6 rollout and a temporary export ban on Anthropic’s top models. OpenAI has been in talks with the Donald Trump administration about handing the U.S. government a 5%…

Concerns over the impact of AI chatbots on mental health, personal safety, harassment, and disinformation have forced AI developers to implement safeguards to better control how and what their AI models are allowed to respond or do. But concerns and worries can’t erode demand. AI offers a lot of promise, and people don’t want a faceless tech company to restrict their access to that potential. And if they can preserve their privacy while they use AI models however they want, why not? Venice AI, which offers access to more than 200 AI models while allowing users to retain their privacy,…

Brazil’s central bank just rattled crypto markets. A notification sent to financial institutions about the potential misuse of so-called “purpose structures” in cryptocurrency imports pushed stablecoin prices up 2% almost immediately — a fast, sharp move that caught a lot of traders off guard. The warning didn’t come with a full policy overhaul. No new law, no emergency decree. Just a communication. And yet the market moved hard, which pretty much tells you everything about how sensitive crypto participants in Brazil are to anything coming out of the central bank right now. What the Central Bank Actually Said The Banco…

A teenager suspected of involvement with the “Scattered Spider” hacking group has been extradited to the US over his alleged role in an $8 million crypto ransom.The US Justice Department said on Wednesday that Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian national, was arrested in Finland in April on an Interpol Red Notice and extradited to the US last week to appear in a Chicago federal court on Tuesday.A criminal complaint unsealed in court accused Stokes and others of breaching a luxury jewelry retailer’s computer system in May 2025 to steal data and demand a ransom payment of $8 million in…

Friday is upon us again, and with it the first Bitcoin options expiry event of the second half of 2026. Around 31,000 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, July 3, with a notional value of roughly $1.9 billion. This event is much smaller than last week’s big end-of-quarter expiry, so there is unlikely to be any impact on spot markets. Crypto markets have been flat for most of this week but picked up on Friday, with $70 billion entering the space since Monday as losses have slowed from last month’s rout. Bitcoin Options Expiry This week’s batch of Bitcoin…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 2nd, 2026, Chainwire Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has officially launched the Bybit Card in Peru, marking a significant step in bridging the country’s growing digital asset ecosystem with the practicalities of everyday spending. Over 3 million users globally use the Bybit Card to pay at merchants. Offering year-round rewards on everyday spending, the Bybit Card also unlocks up to 10% cashback and 100% rebates on eligible digital subscriptions including popular services essential to the modern lifestyle, such as Netflix and Spotify.  120 USDT Welcome Bundle To celebrate the launch, new…

Eightco treasury composition as of July 1, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $149M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $386 million Worldcoin token (WLD) now listed on Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD), expanding access to millions OpenAI recently announced that it submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself up for an initial public offering World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries EASTON, Pa., July 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco…

Tortola, British Virgin Islands, July 1st, 2026, Chainwire VCT combines blockchain transparency, agribusiness intelligence, export-finance infrastructure and real-world asset tokenization on BNB Smart Chain. Valle Capital Token (“VCT”) today announced the development and expansion of its blockchain-powered ecosystem designed to connect global digital capital with Brazilian agribusiness operations and international commodity exports. Built on BNB Smart Chain, Valle Capital Token combines utility-token functionality with a real-world asset-focused model intended to support greater transparency, operational visibility and digital infrastructure across agricultural production, commodity financing, logistics and export activity. The project is structured around a British Virgin Islands tokenization entity and aims…