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Augustus, a startup pursuing the establishment of a federally chartered payment bank, has raised $180 million to expand its dollar payment infrastructure, CoinDesk reported. The funding round was led by Tiger Global Management and included Hummingbird Ventures, QED Investors, Nubank and Circle. The company plans to accelerate its buildout of payment infrastructure as stablecoins rapidly reshape the global financial landscape.

GRAM has risen by 4.04% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, GRAM is trading at $1.5.

Ondo Perps, the RWA perpetual futures platform of Ondo Finance (ONDO), said it will support the use of stock tokens as collateral. Users will be able to use stock tokens such as SPYon and QQQon as collateral to manage perpetual futures positions. This will allow investors to build new positions without depositing funds in stablecoins or selling existing holdings.

Bitcoin may have already bottomed, and it still remains possible for BTC to reach $100,000 this year, while a long-term target of $500,000 may be too low, Standard Chartered Head of Digital Assets Research Geoff Kendrick said, according to Cointelegraph.

Binance announced it will delist AERGO/USDT perpetual futures at 6:30 a.m. UTC on July 24.

Ethereum layer-two project Aztec (AZTEC) has launched its v5 alpha, enabling fully private transactions to be processed directly on users’ devices, The Block reported. The update was applied on-chain after governance approval from token holders, making end-to-end private transaction processing possible on smartphones and standard laptops. Average transaction costs fell around 50%, while block times shortened to six seconds from 14 seconds. Rollup proof verification costs also dropped about 40%, lowering average fees for private token transactions to under $0.05. Co-founder Zac Williamson said the system was designed to provide a privacy-preserving layer first for Ethereum (ETH) and, over the long term, for cryptocurrencies more broadly.

DEX Arcus has begun offering tokenized stocks and perpetual futures trading on Robinhood Chain, Cointelegraph reported. The move expands into derivatives after the platform opened a spot market when Robinhood Chain launched on July 1. Arcus said stock token trading will not be available in some regulated jurisdictions, including the U.S., Canada and the UK. Arcus was developed by dYdX Labs and is backed by Robinhood Crypto.

The three major U.S. stock indices opened mixed today. - S&P 500: +0.62% - Nasdaq: -0.05% - Dow Jones: +0.43%

Cordant, a stablecoin and digital-asset financial infrastructure firm, said it raised $8 million in seed funding. Participants in the round included BanklessVC, FJ Labs, SignalFire, Kuona, NextStage, Celer Ventures, FlatironX, Nascent Ventures, SilverCircle Ventures and Generative Ventures. The company did not disclose how it plans to use the funds.

Jito Labs has launched JTX, a self-custody trading platform, The Block reported. JTX supports spot trading in Solana-based assets including SOL, cbBTC, HYPE and memecoins, as well as trading in tokenized real-world assets such as stocks and ETFs. The platform offers resting limit orders, automated execution and conditional orders, with trades executed on-chain while users retain control of their own keys. According to the report, 80% of trading fee revenue will be used for JTO token buybacks and burns by Jito DAO, while the remaining 20% will be distributed to referrers based on trading performance. Jito Labs plans to add perpetual futures, prediction markets and a mobile app in the future.

Morpho has officially launched Midnight, a fixed-rate, fixed-maturity lending protocol, on the Base network, The Block reported. Through the protocol, Morpho plans to bring the fixed-rate lending model common in traditional finance on-chain and expand the on-chain credit market.

Russia’s lower house, the State Duma, has given final approval to a bill regulating the cryptocurrency market, Cointelegraph reported. The bill would cap annual cryptocurrency purchases by retail investors at 300,000 rubles ($3,800) through a single intermediary and set a 100,000-ruble limit on overseas transfers. For qualified investors, the cryptocurrency purchase limit would rise to 3 million rubles, while the overseas transfer cap would increase to 1 million rubles. Once the bill takes effect, it would establish a legal framework for crypto activity in Russia, including investor rules and the operation of cross-border transactions. Key provisions are set to take effect on Sept. 1.

Bitcoin has regained $66,000, while implied volatility for options expiring this year has fallen below 40%, a level that could become the new normal in the crypto options market, Greeks.live analyst Adam said on X. Adam said Bitcoin’s recovery to $66,000 was a positive signal and marked its highest level in about two months. At the same time, Adam noted the current price range was an area that had seen heavy trading earlier this year. Adam added that implied volatility for all major expiries this year remained below 40%, indicating investors had adapted to an extremely low-volatility environment. Adam also said the only time IV rose above 50% this year was during the sharp drop in February, while it stayed below 45% for most of the period. Against that backdrop, Adam said current IV levels could become a new benchmark for the crypto options market.

Twenty One Capital, a listed company with a Bitcoin treasury strategy, has withdrawn a planned merger with Strike and Elektron Energy, Cointelegraph reported. Jack Mallers has also stepped down as CEO of Twenty One Capital, and Raphael Zagury, founder and CEO of Elektron, has been appointed as his successor. No specific reason for canceling the merger has been disclosed.

Galaxy Digital has launched the Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative to address the threat quantum computing poses to Bitcoin, Decrypt reported. The company plans to use up to $5 million to support development of post-quantum cryptography and to run a research program and an expert advisory board. Galaxy emphasized ecosystem-wide cooperation is needed to prepare for a so-called "Q-Day," when quantum computers could neutralize Bitcoin’s elliptic curve cryptography. Separately, quantum-resilience specialist Project Eleven said in May that a cryptographically significant quantum computer could be developed as early as 2030 and estimated about 6.9 million BTC are held in addresses vulnerable to quantum computers.

Hyperscale Data, a Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin treasury and AI data center company, announced it bought an additional 51.5 BTC through its subsidiary Ault Capital Group last week. The purchase brought Hyperscale Data’s total Bitcoin holdings to 1,087.4527 BTC, worth $70.3 million.

Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has created a dedicated unit to investigate money laundering and terrorist financing involving cryptocurrencies, Decrypt reported. The unit has been set up under the newly launched national command and control center (NC3), while digital asset regulation will be handled by a separate body, the Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA). NC3 also oversees Interpol coordination, open-source intelligence analysis, cyber patrols and dark web investigations.

Nasdaq-listed mining company Bitdeer (BTDR) said it mined 990 BTC in June, up 388% from the same month a year earlier. According to Bitdeer’s June production and operations update, the company’s proprietary mining hashrate reached 73 EH/s, total managed hashrate came to 86.1 EH/s, and its self-owned mining machine fleet totaled 243,000 units.

Bitcoin’s rally is being driven by a broader mix of buyers, including institutional investors, whales, long-term holders and options traders, CoinDesk reported. CoinDesk said expectations for the passage of the CLARITY Act have risen after reports that the White House agreed to the bill’s ethics provisions, helping lift the crypto market. The most prominent buyers have been institutional investors using U.S. spot BTC ETFs. According to SoSoValue data, Bitcoin ETFs have recorded net inflows of more than $700 million for five straight trading days, the longest inflow streak since May. Long-term investors who have held BTC for more than six months have also continued to accumulate the asset. Bullish signals have also emerged in the derivatives market. CoinDesk said a recent investor or group of investors appears to have built a large call options strategy targeting BTC at $72,000 by month-end. Alex Kuptsikevich, chief market analyst at FxPro, cited CryptoQuant data as saying BTC whales increased their holdings over the past two months while mid-sized investors sold. Kuptsikevich said the divergence could be a positive medium-term signal for BTC.

Ethereum's staking ratio reached a record high of 33.9%, according to Token Terminal.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s net worth has risen 183% since the start of his second term, with about 74% of the increase coming from new ventures launched during his presidency, according to a chart Wall Street financier Steve Rattner shared on X. The chart showed about 26% of Trump’s second-term wealth increase came from preexisting assets such as real estate and golf businesses, while the remaining roughly 74% came from new businesses started after he took office, including the cryptocurrencies WLFI and TRUMP, Trump Media and licensing deals. Meanwhile, the first-two-year net worth gains of the three previous presidents were 35% for Bush, 47% for Obama and 5% for Biden, with their combined total still amounting to less than half of Trump’s increase.

Robinhood Chain has reached $431 million in total value locked in less than three weeks after launch, The Block reported. Daily users have topped 250,000. Decentralized exchange volume on the network has reached $9 billion so far, with more than 80% tied to memecoin trading. Meanwhile, FalconX, a crypto prime brokerage firm, said tokenized real-world assets could become a key driver of future growth for the Robinhood network.

India's Maharashtra state is pushing to enact the Digitalization and Exchange of Land Token Assets Act, or DELTA Act, a bill that would allow real estate to be traded as blockchain-based tokens. The legislative push would be the first of its kind by an Indian state government. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on X he chaired a meeting on the draft bill and instructed relevant authorities to prepare legislation so value embedded in real estate can be used for the public interest and as a new source of tax revenue. The plan links token prices to underlying real estate values and processes related transactions and operational procedures through a blockchain-based digital system. The state government plans to form an expert committee including officials from the Securities and Exchange Board of India, or SEBI, and local stock exchanges, and to review overseas legal and regulatory cases.

JustLend DAO, a lending platform based on Tron (TRX), said it burned about 355.02 million JST, worth about $34.59 million, in the second quarter. Revenue from USDJ stablecoin stabilization fees was used to burn about 106.66 million JST, or about $10.39 million, accounting for 30.04% of the quarter's burned amount. As a result, about 1.71125 billion JST has been permanently burned since October 2025, equivalent to 17.29% of total supply and worth about $94.62 million. JustLend DAO said about $21.55 million is expected to be used for buybacks in the third quarter, although the figure could vary depending on actual revenue.

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to impose new tariffs on dozens of countries as early as this week, the Financial Times reported. The report said the administration is legally exploring a plan to keep the current 10% tariff rate for many countries while imposing higher tariffs on some others.