As institutional adoption accelerates and innovation reshapes the crypto landscape, Coinbase announced partnerships with Perplexity AI for real-time market insights and with Copper to offer secure off-exchange settlement for institutions. Meanwhile, Caldera is set to launch its native ERA token with a community airdrop, and Australia’s central bank is exploring wholesale tokenized asset markets, signaling growing mainstream engagement with digital assets.
Coinbase has announced a partnership with AI search engine Perplexity AI to provide traders and investors with direct access to real-time, trustworthy crypto market data and AI-driven insights. The collaboration, revealed on July 10 by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, will see Coinbase’s market data powering Perplexity’s AI “answer engine” in a phased rollout, beginning with COIN50 index prices. The integration aims to help Coinbase customers make more informed trading decisions by leveraging AI-powered search and analytics.
Caldera, a rollup-as-a-service infrastructure provider backed by Founders Fund, is launching its native token called ERA with a total supply of 1 billion, and will distribute part of the supply through a community airdrop.
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will work with various industry participants to explore the development of wholesale tokenized asset markets.
Video-sharing platform Rumble (RUM) has reached an agreement with crypto payments provider MoonPay to support its planned cryptocurrency wallet, which is set to launch in the third quarter, according to a company statement to CoinDesk.
Coinbase has teamed up with Copper to provide off-exchange settlement through the ClearLoop platform, addressing increased institutional demand for secure cryptocurrency trading solutions.
A new registration filing has been submitted for an exchange-traded fund designed to track the daily performance of TRON, joining a growing number of crypto-related funds currently awaiting approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Implied volatility in the cryptocurrency market has reached near historic lows, according to FalconX Global Co-Head of Markets Joshua Lim, leading to increased complacency among bitcoin and altcoin investors. Major developments such as Circle's recent IPO and a wave of new corporate treasury purchases are also shaping the broader digital assets narrative.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has launched an investigation into Robinhood Crypto, alleging that the platform may have misled customers by promoting itself as the least expensive way to purchase cryptocurrencies. The probe focuses on whether Robinhood's payment-for-order-flow model hides the true costs of crypto trading behind marketing claims. Robinhood's general counsel responded that the platform's disclosures are "best-in-class" and that customers can trade crypto at the lowest cost on average.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has conducted a peer review of Malta's implementation of the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regime, focusing on the Malta Financial Services Authority’s (MFSA) fast-tracked authorization of a specific, unnamed crypto asset service provider (CASP). ESMA found that the MFSA only “partially met expectations” in the MiCA authorization process.
The US Treasury Department and IRS have officially repealed a controversial crypto broker tax rule that would have required non-custodial and DeFi platforms to report customer transactions. The move follows a Congressional vote to revoke the rule under the Congressional Review Act, with Senator Ted Cruz leading the effort. The repeal ends a years-long regulatory standoff and is seen as a significant victory for the crypto industry and DeFi advocates, addressing privacy concerns and preventing similar future proposals.
US lawmakers are set to hold a hearing to discuss tax policy related to cryptocurrencies, with the agenda focusing on establishing a tax framework for digital assets. The hearing notice did not specify any particular witnesses or previously proposed policies, and comes as Congress considers three bills related to crypto regulation.
A Shanghai regulator held a meeting this week with local government officials to discuss strategic responses to stablecoins and digital currencies, signaling a significant shift in approach for China, where cryptocurrency trading is currently banned.
Piero Cipollone, a member of the European Central Bank's executive board, emphasized the importance of the digital euro for maintaining sovereign payment systems in Europe. He stated that the digital euro would keep banks involved in the financial process, in contrast to stablecoins, which aim to bypass traditional banks.
Stablecoin startup Agora, founded by Nick van Eck, has secured $50 million in a Series A funding round led by Paradigm, with participation from Dragonfly Capital. The funds will be used to expand Agora's white-label stablecoin platform, helping businesses introduce and manage their own branded stablecoins and boost adoption of its AUSD-based services.
NFT sales volumes totaled $2.82 billion in the first half of 2025, according to CryptoSlam data, even as DappRadar reported a continued decrease in overall trading volumes.
Japanese real estate investment firm Gates Inc. announced plans to tokenize $75 million worth of income-generating properties in central Tokyo using the Oasys blockchain. The partnership with Oasys represents one of Japan's largest real estate tokenization projects, with the first phase aiming to expand liquidity to $34 billion and facilitate easier access for foreign investors to the Japanese real estate market.
Snoop Dogg's latest NFT collection, launched in collaboration with Telegram's TON blockchain, sold out within half an hour, generating over $12 million in sales. Nearly one million unique digital collectibles were purchased, highlighting renewed interest in celebrity-led NFTs and showcasing the capabilities of TON's digital collectible infrastructure.
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) have represented crypto’s ambitions for radical decentralization and community-led innovation, challenging traditional corporate models. However, despite their revolutionary origins, DAOs are now encountering trends that echo more conventional organizational structures.
Sandy Carter highlighted how Web3 and blockchain technology are transforming digital identity and asset management. She emphasized that as these technologies evolve, a key challenge is enabling mainstream users to access their benefits without facing technical hurdles.
Greece's Hellenic Anti-Money Laundering Authority has issued its first-ever freeze of crypto assets, targeting funds connected to the $1.5 billion hack of the Bybit exchange in February 2025, which has been attributed to the Lazarus Group.
Researchers from the Venn Network have uncovered and neutralized a backdoor affecting thousands of decentralized finance (DeFi) smart contracts, potentially preventing losses of up to $10 million. The team suspects the attack was connected to the North Korean Lazarus Group, citing the operation's complexity and its broad deployment across multiple contracts.
Ben Armstrong, known as “BitBoy,” was arrested in Cherokee County, Georgia, on June 27 on six counts of harassing phone calls.
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