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Digital asset investment firm RockawayX announced plans to raise $150 million for a liquidity fund that will invest in undervalued tokens and crypto-related stocks, according to Forbes.

Bitcoin is unlikely to break above its all-time high in the near term, although it could still extend a sizable rally, 10x Research founder Markus Thielen said in an interview, according to Cointelegraph. Thielen said $100,000 is an important milestone for Bitcoin and a major achievement in itself.

Japan is considering a pilot real-time settlement system for stocks and bonds using blockchain technology, Walter Bloomberg reported, citing Nikkei. To support the effort, Japan’s Financial Services Agency, the Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Japan, and major financial institutions plan to launch a related study group this summer. A detailed development plan is expected to be drawn up early next year, followed by operations beginning within the next few years and a broader system becoming operational in the early 2030s.

On-chain analyst Julio Moreno said Bitcoin’s market trend has shifted into a bull phase, with most indicators pointing to the early stage of a new upcycle. Moreno said two factors still warrant caution. For the bull market to be officially confirmed, Bitcoin needs to break above its 365-day moving average, currently at $83,000. Moreno added that a price correction remains possible, given high unrealized profits after the recent surge and potential selling pressure from a sharp increase in exchange inflows. Even so, Moreno said the overall data still signals a highly positive outlook.

Strategy’s biggest risk is not a decline in Bitcoin itself but whether it can keep tapping capital markets to cover $1.76 billion in annual financing costs, including dividends and interest, Regime Intelligence said in a recent report, according to Cointelegraph. The report said roughly $22 billion in debt and preferred equity claims sit behind Strategy’s 840,447 BTC holdings. It added that external financing is essential to sustain the company’s Bitcoin accumulation model. Because the structure is not backed by collateralized loans, the report said a drop in Bitcoin’s price would not create a risk of forced liquidation. Under its stress test, Strategy’s Bitcoin holdings and cash deposits would fail to cover convertible notes only if Bitcoin fell by about 96%, it said. Market analysts advise watching preferred stock price trends and the company’s dollar cash reserves, which currently cover about 2.6 times its annual financing costs.

Realio Network, a layer-one platform for tokenized real-world assets, halted its chain and blocked access to its web app after about 124.4 million RIO tokens were stolen, Crypto Briefing reported. Most of the compromised tokens, about 113.7 million RIO, were foundation-held tokens that had not been included in the previous circulating supply. About 10.7 million RIO, or roughly 3.3% of the prior circulating supply, was stolen from user accounts, while about 5.73 million RIO was drained from 2,374 personal accounts before the native chain was shut down. The attacker sold more than 2.5 million RIO on Stellar's DEX. No compensation plan for the 2,374 affected users or token custody measures have been announced.

Kalshi has signed multiyear partnerships with five major MLB teams — the Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants — Crypto Briefing reported. The prediction market platform secured rights for in-stadium LED billboard ads, digital and radio promotions, fan events, and naming rights to the Gold Glove Bar at the Dodgers’ home stadium. Kalshi is also expanding its marketing investment in sports as trading volume for baseball-related prediction contracts on its platform has surged 36-fold from a year earlier.

XRP Ledger Foundation community leader and validator Vet has unveiled amendments to introduce native lending and privacy features for XRP holders, outlining plans to build an in-house DeFi stack that would operate directly at the network level without external smart contracts or bridges, U.Today reported. The XLS-65 and XLS-66 amendments cover a native lending protocol, while XLS-0096 addresses privacy and delegation of authority, and XLS-70 covers digital identity verification.

Bitcoin has entered a bull market phase, according to CryptoQuant. The firm said its proprietary Bull Score jumped to 80 from 30 in a week, marking the fastest increase in a year, and described $83,000 as the last remaining resistance level before a full-fledged uptrend.

Ki Young Ju, CEO of CryptoQuant, said the Bitcoin bear market is over.

Uniswap recorded 28.9 million swaps last week, the highest weekly total on record, according to Unfolded.

Galaxy has launched a crypto-backed portfolio line of credit that lets eligible GalaxyOne clients borrow cash against Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL) without selling their holdings, The Block reported.

Japan-based Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet transferred 1,000 BTC to Coinbase Prime, Bitcoin News reported. While exchange deposits are typically interpreted as a sign of potential selling, Coinbase Prime is a prime brokerage platform offering trading, custody and financing services to institutional investors, leaving open the possibility of other uses.

World Liberty Financial CEO Zach Witkoff pushed back in a CNBC interview against allegations of conflicts of interest and preferential treatment surrounding the project. Witkoff said concerns that companies or governments were using the USD1 stablecoin to channel money to President Donald Trump’s family were not true. Witkoff said USD1 has more than $4 billion in circulation and records more than $1 billion in daily trading volume, which Witkoff described as evidence of use by real transactors. Witkoff also said Zach Witkoff has never discussed business matters with President Trump and will not do so in the future. Democratic lawmakers, meanwhile, continue to raise the possibility of foreign policy-linked conflicts of interest, citing a UAE-linked group’s acquisition of a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial and income tied to the project for the Trump family.

Strive’s perpetual preferred stock SATA raised enough funding in an hour today to buy 75 BTC, BTC Treasury reported. Strive added 1,110 BTC last week.

World Liberty Financial (WLFI) said its stablecoin USD1 will be issued natively on Canton Network.

Kraken received about 12,000 small-value deposits, or a dusting attack, from a wallet linked to HTX, formerly Huobi, Bloomberg reported. Some user accounts were temporarily frozen under compliance review procedures, but access has since been fully restored while funds subject to sanctions remain blocked. HTX denied carrying out the transfers directly and said it is investigating whether the wallet address was misidentified or whether a third party acted maliciously.

Anthony Pompliano, founder of crypto-focused investment firm Pompl Investments, said in an appearance on Fox News that Bitcoin will rise sharply. He added, "미국 정부는 절대 돈을 찍어내는 것을 멈추지 않을 것이다. 정부가 계속 돈을 찍어내는 한 비트코인 가격은 계속해서 오를 것."

THORChain, a cross-chain decentralized exchange, has announced the THORChain 3.20 protocol upgrade centered on support for native swaps of Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC), Decrypt reported. The upgrade will allow privacy coins whose market presence had narrowed amid delistings by centralized exchanges and tighter regulation to be swapped directly for Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and stablecoins without conversion into wrapped assets or the use of CEX accounts and custodial procedures.

CME Group will offer a BTIC function for Bitcoin futures traders to help manage basis risk at expiry, Crypto Briefing reported. The product allows traders to lock in a premium or discount, or spread, relative to the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate rather than at a specific outright price.

Susan Collins, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, said a rate hike could be appropriate soon unless there is evidence of sustained deflation.

Blockchain financial infrastructure firm tZERO Group has formed a strategic partnership with Sui and announced a direct network integration, FinanceWire reported. Through the integration, Sui-based projects and institutional issuers will be able to directly access token issuance, transfer agent, custody, trading, compliance monitoring, and settlement services within tZERO’s regulatory framework without building separate regulatory and custody systems.

Arcus, a decentralized exchange built through a collaboration between the dYdX development team and Robinhood Crypto, has launched the pToken protocol on Robinhood Chain, The Block reported. The protocol allows perpetual futures position accounts to be converted into ERC-20 tokens, letting users gain leveraged exposure by buying and selling them like spot tokens without directly managing complex futures accounts and margin requirements. The tokenized accounts can also be used as collateral in other DeFi protocols, including on-chain lending markets. Previously, holders of tokenized stocks had to sell those tokens to trade futures, but they can now borrow the stablecoin USDG against stock tokens such as SPY, QQQ and MAG7 and use the proceeds as futures margin, according to The Block.

Crypto custody firm Copper has received acquisition offers of around $200 million from multiple potential buyers as it pursues a sale, CoinDesk reported, citing multiple sources. Two to three parties are currently interested in an acquisition, according to the report. The offers are less than half the roughly $500 million asking price that investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald presented in May.

Upbit announced a temporary suspension of ZETA deposits and withdrawals from the time of the notice, citing delays in block production on Zetachain.