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Swedish truck manufacturer Volvo Group is testing its own cryptocurrency for use in its supply chain payment system, Crypto Briefing reported. According to Ivan Branco, Head of Information Management at Volvo Group, who appeared on a Cardano Foundation (ADA) podcast, the company is conceptualizing a system to record payments and order ledgers between material suppliers and transporters on a shared blockchain. This system would use a cryptocurrency for instant settlements within the supply chain, bypassing traditional banking networks. The cryptocurrency is designed for internal supply chain payments rather than as a public, speculative token. The specific blockchain to be used has not been disclosed, and there is no officially announced partnership with the Cardano Foundation.

Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, has invested $20 million in Argentine neobank Ualá as part of its expansion into Latin America, Cointelegraph reported.

Swedbank AB, one of Sweden's leading banks, has purchased an additional 8,278 shares of Strategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), a firm known for its Bitcoin accumulation strategy. This brings the bank's total holdings to 90,590 shares, Crypto Briefing reported.

Kwak Hyun-joon, currently the senior staff member for the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee, has been appointed as the new senior staff member for the National Assembly's National Policy Committee, which oversees the financial sector, including virtual assets. According to Digital Asset, National Assembly Speaker Cho Jung-sik announced the appointment of 13 senior staff members today, with the changes taking effect on July 20. Senior staff members are responsible for professionally reviewing and analyzing legislation and policies under their committee's jurisdiction.

According to Coinglass data, an estimated $1.01 billion in short positions on major centralized exchanges (CEX) will be liquidated if BTC breaks through $66,186. Conversely, a drop below $63,526 would trigger the liquidation of $298.46 million in long positions.

The Bitcoin market trend has shifted from bearish to bullish over the past two weeks, with increased alignment among various indicators, according to on-chain analyst Axel Adler Jr. In a blog post, Adler noted that his Regime Score, a composite market direction indicator, is currently at a moderate +34.7, having remained in positive territory for about 80% of the past week. He added that the accompanying Regime Confidence metric is at 79.4%, well above the monthly average of 57.3%, indicating higher reliability for the bullish signal. Adler explained that the trend would be further confirmed if the score reaches +50 with confidence holding near 80%. However, he warned the trend could collapse if the score drops below zero for more than 24 hours and confidence falls below 40%. The Regime Score synthesizes data from taker flows, open interest, funding rates, ETF flows, exchange activity, and price trends to gauge market direction on a scale of -100 to +100.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $64,000. BTC is trading at $63,991.98 on the Binance USDT market.

South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has announced plans to delist Gracy (GRACY), Tottenham Hotspur (SPURS), ZTX (ZTX), WIKEN (WIKEN), and Step App (FITFI) at 6:00 a.m. UTC on Aug. 18. According to the announcement, the decision was made because the issues that led to the assets being placed under an investment warning have not been resolved.

DeltaDeFi, a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on Cardano's (ADA) Layer 2 solution Hydra, is indefinitely suspending its services due to operational difficulties, The Crypto Basic reported. User refunds will be processed as soon as the necessary funds for withdrawals are secured. Several other Cardano-based applications, including JPG Store and TapTools, have also ceased operations this year.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said on X that while AI is great, it cannot protect against inflation, whereas Bitcoin can.

South Korean financial officials specializing in virtual assets are increasingly moving to major law firms, News1 reported. Recently, major law firms, including Kim & Chang, Lee & Ko, Yulchon, and Yoon & Yang, have been bolstering their expertise by consistently hiring specialists from both regulatory bodies and the virtual asset industry. The move comes as the industry anticipates a growing demand for regulatory compliance from financial companies and virtual asset service providers as the country's formalization of its crypto legal framework accelerates.

The Ethereum Foundation will hold a luncheon meeting with officials from major South Korean financial institutions in Yeouido, Seoul, on July 21, ZDNet Korea reported. Attendees are expected to include representatives from the Korea Financial Investment Association, Koscom, the Export-Import Bank of Korea, and DB Financial Investment. The foundation is anticipated to discuss Ethereum's technical advantages and security as a financial infrastructure, as well as potential adoption strategies.

The U.S. House Financial Services Committee is scheduled to hold a field hearing at 2:00 p.m. UTC on July 17 to discuss the impact of the CLARITY Act on financial innovation. The bill passed the Senate Banking Committee in May and now awaits a full Senate vote and reconciliation with the House. Industry observers view the bill's core as its ethics provisions aimed at preventing conflicts of interest related to the Trump family's cryptocurrency businesses, and see the period before the August congressional recess as the final deadline for its passage.

The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a non-binding resolution stating that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) should not receive a presidential pardon or have his sentence commuted, CoinDesk reported. Although U.S. President Donald Trump said in January that he had no plans to pardon SBF, speculation about the possibility arose after he previously pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao and Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. SBF was convicted in November 2023 on seven charges related to the collapse of FTX, with damages estimated to be over $8 billion. The U.S. Department of Justice has described the case as one of the largest financial frauds in U.S. history.

South Korean crypto exchange Coinone announced that it has designated 12 tokens for its delisting watchlist: Streamr (DATA2), Nestree (EGG), StaFi (FIS), Hifi Finance (HIFI), Mon Protocol (MONPRO), FanC (FANC), dELABS Games (DELABS), Saros (SAROS), Xpass (XPASS), AgentLisa (LISA), Sperax (SPA), and Galaxia (GXA).

South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb announced that it has placed Azit (AZIT), Cudis (CUDIS), Fancy (FANC), Temco (TEMCO), Nestree (EGG), and Stat (STAT) on its delisting watchlist.

The following are the 24-hour long/short ratios for BTC perpetual futures on the world’s three largest crypto futures exchanges by open interest: Overall: 51.28% long, 48.72% short - Binance: 52.33% long, 47.67% short - OKX: 51.69% long, 48.31% short - Bybit: 51.72% long, 48.28% short

South Korean crypto exchange Coinone has announced that it is removing THORChain (RUNE) from its delisting watchlist.

According to the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA), Iran has stated that it will keep the strait closed until the United States accepts Iranian law.

On July 15, the Hyperliquid (HYPE) spot ETF recorded net inflows. The XRP spot ETF saw no change in flows, while the Solana (SOL) spot ETF experienced net outflows of under $1 million. - HYPE: +$2.1 million - SOL: -$700,000

Payments giant Visa predicts that traditional card payments and stablecoins will coexist to serve a growing market for transactions conducted by AI agents, according to a joint report with on-chain platform Artemis. The report distinguishes between two types of AI-driven commerce: macro-commerce, where agents perform tasks delegated by humans, and micro-commerce, which involves transactions like API calls and computing resource purchases between agents. For micro-commerce, where most transactions are under $1, the report argues that stablecoins are more suitable due to the economic inefficiency of existing card fee structures. It concludes that while cards will remain dominant for general consumer payments, stablecoins will handle the high volume of micro-payments between AI agents. However, the report identified the need to establish a clear regulatory framework as a remaining challenge.

A sharp decline in cryptocurrency-related discussions on major social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter), Reddit, and Telegram is being interpreted as a potential bullish signal for Bitcoin. CryptoPotato reported that social media conversations about crypto have fallen to their second-lowest level since October 2024. While this indicates waning interest from retail investors, the outlet noted that such periods have historically preceded trend reversals in the market. Separately, on-chain analytics firm Santiment explained that as retail participation decreases, the influence of large-scale investors grows. The firm's analysis suggests that strong market rebounds often occur when retail interest is low, market sentiment is exhausted, and there is less resistance during a rally.

U.S. Ethereum spot ETFs recorded a net inflow of $53.9 million on July 15, marking the second consecutive day of inflows, according to data from Farside Investors. - BlackRock ETHA: +$45.3 million - BlackRock Staking ETHB: +$4.0 million - Grayscale Mini ETH: +$4.6 million

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a net inflow of $107.7 million (159.7 billion won) on July 15, according to data from Farside Investors. This marks the second consecutive day of net inflows. - BlackRock's IBIT: +$80.8 million - Fidelity's FBTC: +$16.9 million - Grayscale's Mini BTC: +$10 million

The number of holders of real-world asset (RWA) tokens issued on Solana has surpassed 300,000, reaching an all-time high, Cointelegraph reported. This marks the largest number of RWA holders on any single blockchain.