🚀 Macro & Regulation
• U.S. July Core PCE YoY at 2.9% (in line with expectations, prior 2.8%).
• Traders still expect a Fed rate cut in September after the data release.
• Investors drop class-action lawsuit against Bitcoin treasury company Strategy.
• CFTC: Non-U.S. firms may apply to register as “foreign exchanges” to access U.S. markets.
• Philippine senator proposes putting the national budget on-chain.
• Circle tells Korean regulators it has no plans to launch a KRW stablecoin; suggests focus on USD-backed stablecoins.
🍀 Corporate Treasuries
• South Korea’s Bitplanet to form a Bitcoin treasury company, planning $40M BTC purchase.
• ARK Invest acquires $15.6M stake in ETH custody firm Bitmine.
• Caliber unveils treasury strategy centered on LINK.
• Falconedge completes pre-IPO fundraising to establish BTC reserves.
• Dutch firm AMBTS raises $23.4M to launch a Bitcoin strategic reserve.
• Nasdaq-listed DFDV increases SOL holdings by 407,254 tokens.
• AMBTS (BTC Netherlands) raises €20M for Bitcoin purchases.
• Nasdaq-listed STSS raises $400M to establish a SOL treasury.
• Canada’s Luxxfol to raise $73M for additional LTC purchases.
• Japanese gaming giant Gumi Inc. to buy ¥2.5B (~$17M) worth of XRP.
🔍 Projects & Protocols
• U.S. Commerce Dept. pilots GDP data release using Pyth + Chainlink oracles (BTC, ETH, SOL, TRX, AVAX, ARB, MATIC, OP).
• $TRON — network fee vote reduces fees by 60%.
• $PENGU — Pudgy Penguins launch mobile game Pudgy Party.
• $MNT — Mantle × Bybit release roadmap, upgrade MNT utility.
• $SAND — Sandbox founder steps down, 50% layoffs, pivots to Web3 apps & Launchpad.
• $FAI — Freysa AI launches privacy-focused reinforcement learning app.
• $TON — Robinhood US lists TON.
• $SOON — Simpforfun Season 1 launches.
• $SEI — 21Shares files for SEI ETF (with staking yield).
• Sony kicks off Soneium L2 points season.
• Linea: TGE in September; ETH yield function to launch in October.
• Tether plans to launch native USDT on Bitcoin via RGB protocol.
• CyberKongz airdrops $KONG to active OpenSea users.
• Ethereum Foundation releases UX roadmap: cross-chain interoperability, faster settlement, privacy wallet Kohaku.
• M0 raises $40M to build stablecoin network.
• Frax founder Sam Kazemian joins L1 Stable as CTO while continuing to lead Frax.
• Guotai Junan International launches crypto trading services.
• Fosun Wealth’s FinChain Starlink officially debuts in Hong Kong.
• HashKey Exchange launches wealth channel with tokenized notes (STBL).
• OpenSea unveils on-chain assistant MCP, with open standard for AI data integration.
• Lombard introduces yield-bearing BTC asset LBTC on Solana.
