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Bitcoin Volatile Around $60K as Fed Inflation Comments Clash With Technical Breakdown

Standard Chartered Forecasts Morpho to $60 by 2030, Sparking 33% Open Interest Surge

ARK Invest Deploys $75M in Crypto During June Downturn, Allocates $44M to Coinbase

Panther Hollow Launches Compliant Merchant Bank for RWA and Yield

Tokenized Google Stock Exploited for 7,700% Price Inflation in DeFi Lending Protocol

World XYZ Launches Chainlink-Powered Prediction Market on Solana

Standard Chartered Backs Morpho as DeFi TVL Surpasses $10B

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Forward Industries Expands Solana Treasury to 7.55M SOL, Stock Surges 17%
Forward Industries announced Wednesday that it has expanded its Solana treasury to 7.55 million SOL, adding over 500,000 tokens in a purchase representing approximately $38 million in capital deployment. The announcement triggered a 17% jump in the company's stock price, cementing its position...

Bitcoin Volatile Around $60K as Fed Inflation Comments Clash With Technical Breakdown
Bitcoin is caught between two competing narratives as Federal Reserve Chair Warsh's dovish inflation comments provide bullish support near $60,000, yet technical analysts warn of a potential breakdown below this critical level.

ARK Invest Deploys $75M in Crypto During June Downturn, Allocates $44M to Coinbase
ARK Invest purchased over $75 million in cryptocurrency-related shares during June 2026, with $44 million flowing directly into Coinbase stock. The allocation underscores the firm's contrarian playbook of buying when prices fall and sentiment sours.

Panther Hollow Launches Compliant Merchant Bank for RWA and Yield
Panther Hollow has launched a multi-strategy merchant bank designed to bridge traditional finance and crypto through real-world asset integration and yield strategies. The platform operates as a hybrid merchant bank, fund complex, and incubator supporting Ethereum, Canton, Solana, and StarkNet.
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South Korea Prosecutes Crypto Whale in Pump-and-Dump Scheme
South Korean authorities have launched a criminal prosecution against a cryptocurrency whale for allegedly manipulating token prices across international exchanges, exploiting regulatory gaps between markets.

South Korea Prosecutes Crypto Whale in Pump-and-Dump Case
South Korean authorities have launched a prosecution against a cryptocurrency whale for allegedly orchestrating a pump-and-dump scheme that exploited price differences between overseas and domestic exchanges. The case signals a hardening enforcement stance in one of Asia's largest crypto markets.

Goliath Ventures CEO Pleads Guilty to $250Mโ$400M Crypto Ponzi Scheme
Christopher Delgado, founder and CEO of Goliath Ventures, pleaded guilty to operating a massive cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of between $250 million and $400 million. The guilty plea to fraud and money laundering charges marks another high-profile conviction in a steady...

Shanghai Court Sentences Five to Prison for $29M Crypto Forex Scheme
A Shanghai court has sentenced five individuals to prison terms ranging up to six years for operating an illegal cryptocurrency and foreign exchange scheme that moved $29 million across borders, marking the latest enforcement action in China's sustained crackdown on crypto-enabled capital flight.
DeFi

Standard Chartered Forecasts Morpho to $60 by 2030, Sparking 33% Open Interest Surge
Morpho (MORPHO) surged 13% to $2.11 on July 1 after Standard Chartered issued a bullish price forecast predicting the DeFi token could reach $60 by 2030, representing a potential 2,840% return. The institutional endorsement triggered a sharp spike in derivatives positioning, with open interest...

World XYZ Launches Chainlink-Powered Prediction Market on Solana
World XYZ, a previously mysterious Solana project, has launched as a fully on-chain prediction market platform integrated with Chainlink's oracle infrastructure. The integration aims to address trust and liquidity challenges that have historically plagued prediction markets on layer-1 blockchains.

Standard Chartered Backs Morpho as DeFi TVL Surpasses $10B
Standard Chartered has publicly endorsed Morpho, positioning the DeFi lending protocol as critical infrastructure poised for scaling. The backing marks a significant moment for institutional validation of decentralized finance, arriving as the sector's total value locked crossed the $10 billion...

MetaMask Launches Yield Money Accounts on Monad Blockchain
MetaMask has rolled out Money Account, a new product that bundles stablecoin yield generation, payments, and trading into a single self-custody wallet interface on the Monad blockchain.
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Inception Labs' Mercury 2 Outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma in AI Showdown
Inception Labs released Mercury 2, an AI model that outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma while preserving model intelligence during the shift from sequential to parallel processing. The development marks a significant architectural transition in the post-autoregressive era.

Quantinuum Surges 13% on Nasdaq IPO Debut, Raising $1.68B
Quantinuum's shares opened at $68 on their first day of trading on Nasdaq, a 13% jump from the $60 IPO price, raising $1.68 billion in total proceeds and valuing the quantum computing company at approximately $17.63 billion market capitalization.

Starkware Cuts Jobs as Starknet Revenue Collapses 98%
StarkWare Cuts Staff as Starknet Fee Revenue Drops 98% From Peak StarkWare, the Israeli company behind the Starknet Ethereum Layer 2 network, has laid off a portion of its workforce as on-chain rev
Kraken Refuses Extortion Demand After Insider Data Breach Exposes 2,000 Accounts
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