Jon Cuthbert

VEON (NASDAQ:VEON) and Mastercard (NYSE:MA) announced a partnership aimed at expanding access to digital financial services in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved expanded use of CASGEVY (exagamglogene autotemcel) for the treatment of people ages 2 years and older with either sickle cell disease with recurrent vaso-occlusive crises or transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia.

Arcus, formerly known as dYdX Labs, partnered with Robinhood to launch its decentralised exchange on the new Robinhood Chain, adding perpetual trading and fee-free trading for 95 tokenised stocks.

Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) fell 20.5% in June to close at US$58,526, its weakest monthly performance since June 2022.

Alma Metals (ASX:ALM) acquired a 16-person exploration camp to expand operations at the Briggs Copper Project.

World launched a prediction market protocol on Solana (CRYPTO:SOL) within Phantom Wallet, allowing users to trade event contracts settled automatically through Chainlink (CRYPTO:LINK) oracles using the CASH stablecoin.

Jupiter (CRYPTO:JUP) traded near US$0.233 after gaining almost 30% over the past week, as higher protocol revenue and improving technical indicators supported renewed buying interest.

Four whale wallets accumulated 512,595 Chainlink (CRYPTO:LINK) tokens worth about US$3.78 million over the past four days, coinciding with a recovery that lifted the cryptocurrency close to US$7.40.

Black Horse Mining (ASX:BHL) has commenced drilling operations inside the Waste Transfer Facility at its Mount Egerton Gold Project.

Robinhood launched its Robinhood Chain public mainnet and said it plans to introduce cryptocurrency trading in the UK, expanding its digital asset services.