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Ethereum (ETH) starts July 2026 trading near $1,570, close to multi-month lows, after recording its first period of three consecutive red quarterly candles in its history.
Blockchain and price chart data now tell conflicting stories. Network usage continues to fall, but large holders appear to be buying, making the direction for July wide open.
ETH in July 2026: The number of active addresses falls to new lows
Glassnode data on active addresses shows declining engagement. The average over 14 days peaked at nearly 795,000 in early February 2026. Since then, it has fallen to about 420,000, a drop of around 46%.

Aksjene til Circle Internet Group (CRCL) falt tirsdag etter at Open Standard lanserte Open USD (OUSD), en dollar stablecoin støttet av over 140 selskaper, inkludert Visa, Mastercard og Coinbase, som retter seg mot markedet hvor USD Coin (USDC) har en ledende rolle.
Lanseringen samler betalingsnettverk, banker og kryptoaktører bak én enkelt token. Den kommer samtidig som Circles USDC og Tethers USDT dominerer mesteparten av stablecoin markedet.
Circle (CRCL) aksjeutvikling. Kilde: TradingView Hvorfor Circles USDC opplever press
Open USD retter seg mot bedriftsbrukere som i stor grad driver adopsjonen av USDC. Bedrifter kan utstede og innløse den gratis, mens partnere beholder inntektene fra reservene etter et lite gebyr.
Introducing Open USD: a stablecoin built for the internet economy, designed by the businesses growing it.https://t.co/jqgDRs6mKf
— Open Standard (@openstandard) June 30, 2026
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Denne modellen utfordrer hvordan Circle tjener penger. Renteinntekter fra reserver sto for 99 % av omsetningen deres i 2024, ifølge deres innlevering.
Circle betalte Coinbase $ 908 millioner det året for å distribuere USDC. Nå har Coinbase sluttet seg til en konkurrent som lar partnere beholde slike reserveinntekter.
Circle-aksjen falt nesten 15 % på nyheten og nådde det laveste punktet for dagen. Dette utvidet en svak utvikling etter Circle-aksjens oppgang fra $ 50 til $ 129 på seks uker tidligere i år.
Den største risikoen er distribusjonen. Circle tok innpå etter at USDC passerte Tether på bedriftsoverføringer. Men støttespillerne til Open USD inkluderer nettverkene som håndterer mesteparten av disse pengene.
Circle har fortsatt fordeler. USDC har reguleringsstatus i USA og Europa, samt høy likviditet på børser.
Et konsortium står bak Open USD
Open Standard skal drifte tokenet gjennom et uavhengig styre med partnere. Zach Abrams leder selskapet midlertidig. Han var med på å grunnlegge Bridge, stablecoinselskapet Stripe kjøpte for $ 1,1 milliarder i 2025.
Støttespillerne dekker både finans- og teknologisektoren, fra BlackRock og BNY til Google og Shopify. Mange av dem har allerede egne stablecoins eller bygger stablecoin infrastruktur, som ligner Mastercards nylige stablecoin-betalingsintegrasjoner.
Stripe har direkte koblet betalingsvirksomheten sin til tokenet.
«Open USD vil være den foretrukne stablecoinen for bedrifter som bruker Stripe …» heter det i kunngjøringen hvor Will Gaybrick, teknologidirektør og forretningspresident i Stripe, kommenterer.
Circle, Tether og PayPal deltok ikke i initiativet. Tethers USDT leder med cirka $ 185 milliarder og Circles USDC følger med rundt $ 74 milliarder.
Samlet markedsverdi for stablecoins. Kilde: DefiLlama
Til tross for dette er ikke historien særlig lovende for slike konsortium. Visa, Mastercard og Stripe støttet alle Facebooks Libra stablecoin i 2019, men trakk seg ut etter få måneder på grunn av regulatorisk press.
Open USD lanseres senere i år på Plasma og andre blokkjeder laget for stablecoin-betalinger.
Open USD is the new standard for global stablecoins, now coming to Plasma.The stablecoin backed by Visa and Mastercard, launching on the chain built for stablecoin payments. https://t.co/LzVwH3MpxS pic.twitter.com/n1RhfMNtZm
— Plasma (@Plasma) June 30, 2026
Tidspunktet er viktig for Circle, som skal reforhandle avtalen om inntektsdeling på USDC med Coinbase i august.

XRP (XRP) holds above the $1.00 support level despite a broader downturn. At the same time, activity on the blockchain is increasing.
New wallets, whale activity, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) show that users are entering while the price is perceived as fragile, pointing to demand beneath the surface.
XRP price decline meets steady demand
XRP, like the rest of the market, has seen significant drops this month. The altcoin reached a 19-month low of $1.01 on June 25. It is now trading near $1.05, down 0.18% over the last 24 hours.

Australia’s crypto version of the Travel Rule comes into effect on 1 July and requires all regulated exchanges to include sender and recipient ID details for all inbound and outbound transfers, with no minimum threshold.
The rules are introduced at the same time as Europe’s MiCA licensing deadline expires on the same day, placing Australia in the middle of a broader tightening of crypto regulations across major markets.
This changes Australia’s Travel Rule for crypto users
The measure is the final phase of an AML/CTF overhaul that Australia adopted in November 2024, with most changes having been in effect since March. It is enforced by AUSTRAC, the country’s financial intelligence agency, and applies to transfers of any size.

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), became part of the U.S. Defense Policy Board on June 29, placing one of Silicon Valley's most influential venture capitalists at the center of the United States' national security strategy.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the board and appointed former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer as chair. Andreessen is one of 13 new members appointed alongside former Senator Norm Coleman as vice chair.
Andreessen enters the inner circle of Pentagon

Solana (SOL) outperforms the broader crypto market, showing gains over the past seven days. This stands out in a week of general declines.
Data shows that SOL is strengthening as two different types of trading activity—real assets and speculation—attract users to the network at the same time.
Solana stands out in a falling market
SOL trades around $73.54, up about 7% over the last 7 days. Bitcoin (BTC) fell by roughly 4.9% in the same period, while Ethereum (ETH) declined by about 6%.
The rise comes as network usage increases. Active addresses, which clearly show how many users are trading on the chain, rose to 4.51 million on Solana, the highest level since February.

China has just launched its largest AI model trained entirely without NVIDIA chips. Meituan has unveiled LongCat-2.0, an open-source large language model with 1.6 billion parameters. The Beijing-based food delivery giant ran the project on domestically developed hardware from start to finish.
This breakthrough is now changing how the global AI industry views China’s push for technological self-reliance.
This means Meituan’s LongCat-2.0 for the AI race
A large language model is an AI system trained on massive datasets. Such systems understand, generate, and reason about human language across many subject areas. LongCat-2.0 is among the largest ever, with 1.6 billion parameters and a context window of 1 million tokens.

Crypto whales reposition themselves for July, and on-chain flows tell the story. Even though several large tokens have fallen over the past day, BeInCrypto analysts who track large wallets have found three altcoins where new accumulation is coming for July.
The selection is based on changes in whale balances along with hard protocol figures, not price assumptions.
Aave (AAVE)
Aave tops this list of altcoins for July because its on-chain base continues to grow. Whale demand originates here from mid-sized holders, not one large address.

According to Jordi Urbea, managing director at Ogilvy Spain, artificial intelligence can scale advertising to one message per person, but it still cannot replace human creativity. He believes AI only processes the past, while creativity builds the future.
Urbea spoke with BeInCrypto at the Ibiza Tech Forum 2026. He uses AI daily in major brand campaigns. This experience gives weight to his claim that feelings and surprises remain human traits.
AI in advertising enables personalized tailoring at scale

The MiCA deadline of July 1 is crypto news, but some of the biggest winners can be traded on exchanges. As Europe pushes out unauthorized players, a few exchange-listed MiCA companies—so-called MiCA stocks—stand out.
BeInCrypto's analysts have analyzed institutional cash flows and options positions to find three names where the diagrams reveal how traders position themselves.
Circle Internet Group (CRCL)
Circle is at the center of the MiCA deadline of July 1, making it the first of three MiCA stocks worth keeping an eye on. The regulation does not force non-compliant euro stablecoins out of EU markets, and this consolidation gives Circle a major advantage. Their EURC now has roughly half of the euro stablecoin market, while USDC is among the only top 10 stablecoins approved under the rules.

Employment is falling across industries with established AI use cases, where these sectors have lost an average of about 11,000 jobs each month over the last three months.
The figures, divided by The Kobeissi Letter, point to one of the clearest signs that automation is changing hiring for office roles.
Hiring turns around in industries exposed to AI
The Kobeissi Letter notes that since mid-2023, the affected sectors have only had net job growth in two separate months.
The affected group includes management consulting, graphic design, office administration, call centers, and data systems.

Real-world assets (RWA) and tokenization have surpassed decentralized finance (DeFi) as the main sector for Web3 founders, according to a new Proof of Talk report.
The report “The State of Web3 Capital 2026” is based on more than 200 startup applications to Proof of Pitch 2026, as well as a survey of 13 active Web3 venture funds. Overall, they show that demand from founders and investors is now shifting toward RWA products ahead of DeFi.
Real-world assets and tokenization lead among both founders and investors
RWA and tokenization were the main focus for 29% of applicants. DeFi followed with 23%, while decentralized AI accounted for 11%. The report describes the rise of tokenized assets as the clearest signal in its dataset.

California has entered a groundbreaking agreement with Anthropic that gives state agencies, cities, and counties access to the Claude assistant with a 50% discount.
Governor Gavin Newsom announced the deal on June 29. It combines discounted access with free training, technical assistance, and workflow support from Anthropic developers.
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Gold fell to its weakest level since early November 2025 on Tuesday, as uncertainty about the war in the Middle East weighed on the metal.
The sell-off spread across precious metals. Silver fell 1.4% to $57.4, platinum slipped 1.25% to $1,572, and palladium fell 0.45% to $1,216. All four precious metals recorded monthly losses.
Why the gold price keeps falling
According to market data, gold reached an intraday low of $3,942 during early Asian trading hours. As of writing, gold is trading near $3,956, down 1.5% for the day.

WhatsApp began rolling out username reservations on June 30, so the platform’s three billion users can secure a handle before the feature launches in full later in 2026.
This change makes it possible to contact others without sharing a personal phone number, meeting demand for pseudonymous identity in messaging apps. The rollout happens at the same time as the parent company Meta is betting on privacy as a hallmark of the platform, with reservations being opened gradually throughout the week.
How usernames work on WhatsApp

Ouster (NASDAQ: OUST) rose by more than 28% on June 29, extending a multi-week rally that has pushed the stock to nearly $55.
The ramp-up follows a series of recently announced production and partnership agreements related to the company's Rev8 lidar platform.
What’s driving Ouster’s stock higher
Ouster is a San Francisco-based lidar company founded in 2015 by Angus Pacala and Mark Frichtl, which makes high-resolution digital lidar sensors for 3D vision for vehicles, robots, drones, and fixed infrastructure such as traffic systems.

The Japanese yen fell to its weakest level since 1986, putting pressure on Tokyo to defend the currency.
The currency has weakened by more than 2% this quarter. The latest decline marks its fourth consecutive quarter of losses, the longest losing streak since 2022, when the currency weakened for seven straight quarters.
Tokyo signals readiness to act
On Tuesday, the yen reached an intraday low of 162.4 per dollar. As of this writing, it stands at 162.1.
At the same time, Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said the authorities are ready to respond to currency moves at any time.

Tesla (TSLA) had its biggest single-day stock surge in more than a year on June 29, rising more than 8% after the company began rolling out a major software update to millions of older vehicles.
The catalyst was Full Self-Driving (FSD) v14 Lite, a new version of Tesla’s self-driving software developed for older cars that hadn’t received a significant update in over 14 months.
Why did Tesla stock rise?
Tesla has sold millions of cars with the promise that they would eventually gain self-driving features. Delivering a major upgrade to the existing fleet, without owners having to buy a new car, shows that Tesla can retain older customers.

Israel plans to list two of its largest state-owned defense companies in the US, partly because authorities believe that US regulators will have more room to withhold information about secret programs than their Israeli counterparts.
A government delegation travels to the US in mid-July to assess IPO options for Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, which produce the Arrow and Iron Dome anti-missile systems. Officials familiar with the trip say that the US market offers something the local one does not: flexibility regarding national security secrets.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on June 29 that President Donald Trump cannot remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, at least not now. Nevertheless, the decision upholds the Fed’s independence at the worst conceivable time for Bitcoin.
The decision locks in a tight monetary policy at the Fed, which has already removed expectations of rate cuts for 2026 and is again considering rate hikes. High interest rates keep pressure on assets without returns such as Bitcoin, and Monday’s decision removes one of the few possible paths toward a more cautious and “dovish” policy in the short term.