According to a Glassnode report, $BTC spot trading volume has dropped to its lowest level since 2019 as institutional investors favor cash and U.S. Treasuries over digital assets amid weak ETF inflows. https://t.co/ZWf136CBds

Circle Internet Group has been granted a limited-purpose trust charter by the New York Department of Financial Services, bolstering regulatory oversight for the fintech firm and its $USDC stablecoin. https://t.co/xQtn7VcHdA

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio says that central banks will avoid holding significant amounts of $BTC, citing government desires for transaction privacy and direct monetary control. https://t.co/5d8vuP3tbX

LATEST: Tether has signed an MoU with the Nairobi Securities Exchange to boost crypto education, tokenize securities via Hadron, and assess $USDT for market settlement. https://t.co/UsdApwvj7x

Morgan Stanley launches $ETH and $SOL ETFs today at a 0.14% expense ratio, making both the cheapest in their categories, as its $BTC ETF surpasses $400M in assets just four months after launch. https://t.co/wkPXUD1lFL

LATEST: Senate Majority Leader John Thune confirms the CLARITY Act will receive a Senate floor vote before the August recess, urging Democratic support to advance the landmark crypto market structure legislation. https://t.co/Efq5XGymnZ

NEW: Bitmine has boosted its $ETH holdings to 5.78 million tokens (4.8% of total supply) while accelerating share repurchases under a $4 billion buyback program. https://t.co/5GPcfaesJN

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has rejected the "pivot to AI" narrative, arguing crypto and AI are complementary, not competing, as AI agents needing real-time programmable money will eventually transact more daily than all humans combined, driving what he calls Agentic Finance. https://t.co/NbWLfiWebc

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong argues AI and crypto are complementary, not competing, saying autonomous AI agents will need blockchain payment rails like $USDC, Base, and x402 to transact at scale as AI captures 61% of global venture capital. https://t.co/84vACkNfAd

Coinbase has expanded its AI strategy with new tools that enable businesses to accept $USDC payments from AI agents, users to automate trading, and developers to integrate agentic payments with the x402 SDK. https://t.co/4o7FflD3eb