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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a regulatory roadmap outlining how autonomous artificial intelligence could reshape retail financial services.

TeraWulf (NASDAQ:WULF) signed a 20-year lease with Anthropic for a purpose-built artificial intelligence data centre that the company said is expected to generate about US$19 billion in contract revenue.

M1X Global has raised US$5.5 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by Paradigm, with participation from Breed VC, to expand adoption of its tokenised sovereign debt platform.

A prediction market on Polymarket assigns a 23% probability that the US government will formally block public access to a major Chinese artificial intelligence model before 31 December 2026.

Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) miner stress has fallen to its lowest level of 2026, with multiple mining indicators entering an "undervalued" range as analysts estimate about 20% of miners are operating below production costs.

Bonk (CRYPTO:BONK) developer BonkDAO said attackers removed about US$20 million of BONK tokens from its Solana-based treasury through what the project described as a malicious governance proposal.

Ethereum (CRYPTO:ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a three-to-four-year roadmap that would replace most of the blockchain's core infrastructure.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE American:BMNR) added about US$74 million of Ethereum (CRYPTO:ETH) to its treasury.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has signed a new agreement with the Stellar Development Foundation to expand blockchain-based payments after pilot programmes in seven countries showed lower costs and improved payment reliability.

A dormant Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) wallet transferred 30 BTC worth about US$1.88 million for the first time since August 2011, drawing attention because the address is named in a New York lawsuit over inactive cryptocurrency holdings.

Keel Infrastructure (NASDAQ:KEEL) shares rose 10% in early trading after the company appointed former Digital Realty executive Ganesh Aiyer as president to lead its commercial growth and power pipeline expansion.

A liquidity provider on Hyperliquid (CRYPTO:HYPE) lost about US$12,300 after approving a fraudulent wallet transaction that allowed an attacker to seize a tokenised HyperSwap liquidity position within 84 seconds.

Ripple has received a Crypto Asset Service Provider licence from Luxembourg's financial regulator, allowing the company to offer Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA)-compliant crypto services across the European Union.

Former Tether executive Richard Heathcote is reportedly seeking to sell part of his 1.26% stake in Tether (CRYPTO:USDT), offering a rare glimpse into ownership of the privately held stablecoin issuer.

The United States government has launched the Trump Accounts programme, under which every American baby born after 31 December 2024 is eligible to receive a one-time US$1,000 federal contribution invested in low-cost S&P 500 index funds.

US-listed company Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) has identified the restoration of its preferred stock STRC to its US$100 par value as a top priority, viewing it as the critical step required to restart its Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) acquisition and financing model.

ABcripto, the Brazilian Cryptoeconomy Association, asked the Central Bank of Brazil to suspend a proposal that would impose a 24-hour delay on stablecoin transfers exceeding US$10,000.

Lighter's LIT (CRYPTO:LIT) token climbed more than 20% to US$2.60, its highest level since January, after the perpetual futures exchange announced a tokenomics update that introduces token burns and revises its staking reward model.

Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) spot exchange-traded funds attracted US$221.7 million in net inflows on 2 July, ending a 10-session outflow streak as on-chain data indicated large investors had been accumulating Bitcoin since 30 June.

Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, rejected allegations that he improperly accepted undisclosed gifts from George Cottrell, a crypto-linked businessman convicted of wire fraud in the United States.

Adjusted stablecoin transaction volume reached a record US$1.79 trillion in June, up 63% from US$1.10 trillion in May and 125% higher than a year earlier, according to Visa's Allium-powered analytics dashboard.

Coinspect warned that the "Ill Bloom" vulnerability could expose thousands of cryptocurrency wallets across Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC), Ethereum (CRYPTO:ETH), Polygon (CRYPTO:POL), Rootstock, Tron (CRYPTO:TRX) and Solana (CRYPTO:SOL) because of weak recovery phrase generation in certain software wallets.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) warned that some event contracts offered by prediction market platforms, including Polymarket and Kalshi, could qualify as financial instruments under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II).

Vanadi Coffee is facing a shareholder dispute after Vallecid, which owns nearly 10% of the company, sought to replace the board and review fees paid to directors on financing used to acquire Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC).