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SATA, the preferred stock of corporate Bitcoin buyer Strive (ASST), has hit an all-time low of $79.01.

Solana-based DEX aggregator Jupiter announced it will support trading for the Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM). The ETF invests in global memory semiconductor companies, including Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Micron, and SanDisk.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has risen above $60,000. BTC is trading at $60,048.93 on the Binance USDT market.

DeFi lending protocol Aave announced it will expand into the real-world asset (RWA) lending market, including tokenized stocks, through its upcoming Aave V4. The protocol explained that with its on-chain model, users can deposit tokenized shares of companies like Apple (AAPL) and Tesla (TSLA) as either collateral or lendable assets to directly earn lending revenue. Aave contrasted this with traditional brokerages such as Robinhood and Charles Schwab, which it said take 50-85% of the fees generated from lending out customer stocks, paying only a fraction to the users themselves.

The three major U.S. stock indices opened lower today. - Dow Jones Industrial Average: -0.44% - S&P 500: -0.67% - Nasdaq: -1.1% Major tech stocks showed mixed performance. Micron Technology (MU) plunged 6% and SpaceX (SPCX) fell 1.8%, while Apple (AAPL) edged up 0.1%.

According to HyperInsight, a 25x leveraged Ethereum (ETH) long position held by Jeffrey Huang, a well-known Taiwanese singer also known as Machi Big Brother, has been partially liquidated again amid the recent market downturn. The account's cumulative losses have now reached $33.85 million, with $2.43 million lost in the past month. Approximately $970,000 remains in the ETH long position, which has an average entry price of $1,565.38 and a liquidation price of $1,504.69.

According to CoinNess market monitoring, BTC has fallen below $59,000. BTC is trading at $58,989.84 on the Binance USDT market.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has announced a three-month extension of its transitional relief period for digital asset operators, moving the deadline to obtain a license from June 30 to Sept. 30. This measure applies to businesses applying for an Australian Financial Services (AFS) license and for authorizations related to market and clearing and settlement facilities. ASIC also clarified that the relief extends to digital asset businesses operating as authorized representatives or through intermediary arrangements with licensed entities.

Spain's financial regulator, the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), will not extend the deadline or grant exceptions for obtaining a license under the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, Reuters reported. CNMV Chairman Carlos San Basilio stated that there will be no extensions or exemptions for crypto companies that fail to secure a MiCA license by the end of June. He added that the regulator is in close consultation with unauthorized firms to ensure an orderly wind-down of their operations.

Coinbase Chief Legal Officer (CLO) Paul Grewal announced that former U.S. Acting Deputy Attorney General Elizabeth Prelogar has submitted an amicus brief in support of Kalshi. Grewal called the brief a masterpiece, noting that it explains the historical background of how the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) gained exclusive regulatory authority over prediction markets. He added that the brief argues state laws are not suitable for regulating such markets.

According to on-chain analysis platform Lookonchain, an anonymous whale with the address "0x8dCe" swapped 464 BTC, worth approximately $27.56 million, for 17,750 ETH about two hours ago. Lookonchain noted that the move suggests the whale is rebalancing its portfolio by selling its Bitcoin holdings and moving the funds into Ethereum.

Mu Changchun, head of the Digital Currency Research Institute at the People's Bank of China (PBOC), stated that the rapid development of stablecoins and various cryptocurrencies has pushed the global cross-border payment system into a new phase of development. Speaking at the 2026 Summer Davos Forum, Mu explained that the cumulative transaction value for the mBridge multilateral central bank digital currency (CBDC) project, which went live in June 2024, reached approximately 500 billion yuan by the end of 2025. He added that the ultimate goal for mBridge is to evolve into a new financial market infrastructure (FMI) built by central banks and involving financial institutions, based on multilateral governance and mutual benefit.

Standard Chartered and Grayscale have identified the DeFi lending protocol Aave (AAVE) as a promising project. Standard Chartered projected that the price of AAVE could reach $3,500 by the end of 2030, driven by an influx of tokenized assets into the DeFi space. The bank anticipates the volume of such assets will increase 37-fold by that time. Separately, Grayscale described Aave as an undervalued project, setting a one-year price target of $179, with a bull case scenario of $271. Grayscale noted that the U.S. Clarity for Digital Tokens Act could be a catalyst for a revaluation of the project.

Signs of further declines are emerging in the cryptocurrency derivatives market, according to an analysis by CoinDesk. The outlet noted that BTC futures open interest (OI) has risen for two consecutive trading days, from around 730,000 BTC to 778,000 BTC. This increase is attributed to a rise in short positions betting on further price drops amid the recent downturn. Additionally, the 30-day implied volatility for BTC has climbed to 53%, its highest level this month, while the premium on put options—bets on a price decline—has widened significantly. Notably, a large trade was executed on Deribit for a put option with a $53,000 strike price expiring on July 10.

A Reuters poll indicates the U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to hold its benchmark interest rate at 3.50-3.75% through the end of 2027. This marks a shift from a survey earlier this month, which had projected one rate cut.

BlackRock has deposited 2,700 BTC ($161 million) and 41,996 ETH ($65.16 million) to Coinbase Prime, according to Onchain Lens. The deposit could be part of the operational process for BlackRock's spot crypto ETFs, such as settling redemptions arising from fund inflows and outflows.

South Korean crypto exchange Upbit announced it will temporarily suspend deposits and withdrawals for POL, GMT, and NFTs based on the Polygon network starting at 9:00 a.m. UTC on July 2, due to an upcoming hard fork on the network.

MicroStrategy (MSTR) could raise the monthly dividend rate on its perpetual preferred stock, STRC, from the current 11.5% to a level between 12% and 12.5% on June 30, CoinDesk reported. The outlet noted that STRC has an ex-dividend date on June 30, and investors who hold the stock before that day can receive the first semi-monthly dividend of $0.48 per share on July 15. However, CoinDesk analyzed that for STRC to recover its par value of $100, a rebound in Bitcoin's price is a more important factor than a dividend rate increase.

Daily trading volume for Solana (SOL)-based stock tokens has reached an all-time high of $553 million.

Market expectations for additional European Central Bank (ECB) rate hikes are diminishing as falling oil prices ease concerns about prolonged inflation. The market is now reflecting the possibility that the ECB will not raise rates by another 25 basis points (bp) by the end of the year. Just two weeks ago, the market had anticipated that the policy rate would reach 2.5% by year-end, following an increase in the deposit rate to 2.25%. Analysts attribute the weakened expectations for further rate hikes to the recent drop in oil prices.

Ondo Finance and Virtuals Protocol have announced support for over 40,000 AI agents to automatically trade more than 430 types of tokenized stocks around the clock. According to BeInCrypto, the AI agents will execute trades via Treasuries, allowing them to automatically buy and sell tokenized shares of companies like Apple, Tesla, Nvidia, and SpaceX based on pre-set strategies without human intervention.

Wang Chun, co-founder of F2Pool, the world's fourth-largest Bitcoin mining pool, withdrew 9,937 ETH ($15.5 million) and 147.5 WBTC ($8.7 million) from Binance over the past six hours and deposited the assets into the DeFi lending protocol Spark, EmberCN reported. This month, he has purchased an estimated 65,700 ETH ($111 million) and 966 WBTC ($60.29 million). To date, all of the purchased WBTC and roughly half of the ETH have been deposited into Spark, with the remainder of the ETH allocated to Ethereum staking.

Four early Ethereum (ETH) investor wallets that held the asset for eight years have begun selling their holdings, according to Lookonchain. The wallets acquired a total of 37,602 ETH in 2018 at an approximate price of $830 per token, valued at around $31.16 million at the time. Despite unrealized profits exceeding $150 million during the bull markets of 2021 and 2025, the investors did not sell. After remaining dormant for about eight years, the wallets initiated sales today, selling a total of 33,623 ETH over the past four hours at an average price of $1,560. The total value of the sale was approximately $52.46 million, resulting in a cumulative realized profit of about $27.4 million.

JAN3 CEO Samson Mow has proposed that Strategy and Bitcoin Standard Treasury (BSTR) should immediately conduct a $1.5 billion over-the-counter (OTC) trade for Bitcoin. He explained that if BSTR pays Strategy $1.5 billion, Strategy's cash holdings would increase to $2.9 billion. In turn, BSTR would acquire an additional 25,000 BTC, raising its total from 30,021 BTC to 55,021 BTC and making it the second-largest corporate holder of the asset. Mow asserted that such a deal would be beneficial to both parties.

Upbit announced it will temporarily suspend deposits and withdrawals for Hippo Protocol (HP) starting at 3:00 a.m. UTC on July 6 to support a network upgrade.