OCC clears Sony Bank to issue dollar-backed stablecoin in US
Conditional approval for Sony Bank's Connectia Trust subsidiary puts a first-tier consumer brand on the regulated US dollar stablecoin issuance rail.
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Conditional approval for Sony Bank's Connectia Trust subsidiary puts a first-tier consumer brand on the regulated US dollar stablecoin issuance rail.
The pitch is geopolitical, not financial: framing US crypto leadership as a sovereignty race against China and other rivals hands the White House a cover story for sustained pro-industry policy.
A three-day inflow streak ended for spot Bitcoin ETFs while spot Ether ETFs kept their run alive, with sentiment gauges pinned in extreme fear even as majors posted modest gains.
The split is the story: BTC ETF flows just snapped a three-day $509M run while ether funds booked a fifth straight positive session, with ETH outperforming on the tape.
The carry-trade unwind risk that haunted global markets last August is back on the table: faster BOJ tightening could lift the yen and force a reset across stocks, bonds, and crypto funded by cheap…
The $20,000 pilot with Tether and Avalanche is small in dollar terms, but it is one of the first live corporate uses of stablecoin rails inside a major Korean financial brand, with Visa and Circle…
The wallet placed one position and vanished with the payout, reviving questions about whether prediction-market whales are actually retail or just well-capitalised insiders running anonymous books.
The divergence is the story: BTC vehicles shed capital on July 8 while ETH ETFs extended a five-day inflow streak to $70.48M, a split posture that says more about positioning than about crypto…
The presidential framing shifts the post-strike narrative from escalation to negotiation, and risk markets are reading it as permission to breathe.
The token is stuck in a tight range with buyers defending $1.00 to $1.05, while chartists point to a falling wedge structure that, if confirmed, opens targets as high as $3.65.
With oil up and gold sliding for a fourth day, bitcoin is increasingly trading like a rates asset rather than a risk one, and holding $60K through the next escalation would confirm the rotation.
The exchange blamed a failed strategic transaction and MiCA pressure for the July 1 shutter, but the more dangerous signal is the empty hot wallets ZachXBT flagged weeks earlier.
Abraxas Capital pulled $16M of tokenized gold off exchanges in a single day, and dormant wallet 0xD20E broke a 3-year silence to add another $3.9M, a coordinated bid into XAUT.
The bill's path hinges on Democrats' ethics amendments tied to the Trump family's crypto ventures, with the Senate facing roughly 20 working days before recess.
190.8M $USDC (≈190.8M) moved from Unknown Whale 1 to #Aave.
882.8M $ENA (≈65.9M) moved from unknown wallet to unknown wallet.
914.3M $ENA (≈68.2M) moved from unknown wallet to unknown wallet.
190.7M $USDC (≈190.8M) moved from #Aave to Unknown Whale 1.
The addition shrinks the fund's effective concentration in BTC and ETH and marks one of the first times a hyperliquid-native token lands in a US-listed index product.
3.6K $BTC (≈221.9M) moved from unknown wallet to unknown wallet.