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Securitize, a leading tokenization platform, has revealed the completion of its business combination with Cantor Equity Partners II, which is a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), raising $400 million and becoming a publicly traded company. The combined company is now known as Securitize Corp., and it will start trading on the NYSE under the ticker SECZ from July 2, 2026. The merger of a SPAC with Securitize will place the company at a pre-money equity valuation of $1.25 billion. On July 1, Securitize, a leading platform for tokenization, announced the completion of its business combination with Cantor Equity Partners II,…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A new stablecoin project backed by a broad group of payments and finance names has pulled the XRP Ledger back into the conversation. Open USD, or OUSD, is governed by Open Standard and has been described as a consortium-backed stablecoin involving more than 140 companies, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and Ripple. TL;DR Open Standard has announced Open USD, a new consortium-governed stablecoin. The backer list reportedly includes Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, and Ripple. Former Ripple engineer Matt Hamilton compared parts of the design…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TRON recorded its highest-ever network transaction throughput and active user levels in June 2026, reinforcing its position as one of crypto’s busiest stablecoin settlement networks. The chain’s activity follows a strong Q1 period in which TRON reportedly settled $1.96 trillion in stablecoin transfers. TL;DR TRON reportedly hit record transaction throughput and active user levels in June. The network settled $1.96 trillion in stablecoin volume during Q1 2026. Most of the activity is tied to stablecoin transfers, especially USDT. The data should be framed as settlement strength,…

SPOILER ALERT: Jeff Booth does not know what the world will look like in 2036. I know, I know… You probably wanted to hear from Jeff — author of The Price of Tomorrow and someone with incredible foresight and vision — that all eight billion of us would be living in the type of abundance he often talks about on podcasts. You likely wanted to read that Jeff foresees Bitcoin replacing fiat by 2036 and that we’ll all be able to just kick back and relax as we enjoy living in a deflationary system by then. I, too, was slightly…

Bitcoin price climbed above $60,000 on Wednesday, a level the asset had ceded during the last couple weeks of turbulence, after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh told a central bank forum that the threat of persistent inflation had moderated. The cryptocurrency traded near $60,171 this afternoon, a gain of about 2.7% on the day, with a 24-hour high of $60,474 and a low of $57,718. Trading volume for the session reached $26.68 billion. Warsh, in remarks at the European Central Bank forum in Sintra, Portugal, said inflation expectations in surveys and bond prices had eased. He paired the observation with…

Joerg Hiller Jul 01, 2026 20:15 On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Russia is preparing a massive strike on Ukraine, raising fears of escalation. Zelensky warns of major Russia strike as Polymarket holds RFK Jr at 49% Zelensky Warns of Massive Russian Strike as Polymarket’s 2028 GOP Nominee Odds Stay Flat at RFK Jr. 49% Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia is preparing a massive strike on Ukraine, a headline that coincided with flat pricing on Polymarket’s “Republican Presidential Nominee 2028” market. The contract’s leader held steady even as traders continued…

Chicago, United States, July 1st, 2026, ChainwireLiquid Mercury announced today that its MERC crypto-asset white paper was submitted to the Central Bank of Ireland and officially added to ESMA’s MiCA white paper register.MiCA, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, is the EU framework for crypto-asset offers, admission to trading, disclosures, and market integrity. It requires a published white paper before a non-exempt crypto-asset can be offered or admitted to trading in the EU.With the white paper in the ESMA register, MERC meets the disclosure requirements that support its admission to trading on regulated venues across the EU and EEA.“We built MERC…

A new installment of Chain of Thought, the Brownstone Research newsletter written by Ben Lilly, argues that the battle over open-source artificial intelligence is following the same path Bitcoin walked a decade ago, and that investors who recognize the pattern stand to profit. The note opens with testimony that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei gave to Congress in July 2023. Amodei acknowledged that open source is “a good thing” in most scientific fields and that the risks of open models released so far were “relatively limited,” but he warned that the scaling of open-source models was heading “down a very dangerous…

Bitcoin has remained under pressure after U.S. spot ETFs recorded $222.64 million in outflows, while Changpeng Zhao has reiterated his belief that the cryptocurrency can reach $1 million over the next decade. Summary Changpeng Zhao says Bitcoin could reach $1 million as global ownership remains below 1%. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $222.64 million in net outflows, led by BlackRock’s IBIT. Bitcoin trades below key resistance, with $57.8K support and $63.7K–$65.3K as upside targets. According to an interview Zhao gave to Block, the Binance founder argued that Bitcoin ownership remains extremely limited worldwide, with fewer than 1% of people currently…

A pair of executive orders signed by President Trump on June 22 has pushed the quantum computing question from the research lab into the boardrooms of crypto exchanges, custodians and stablecoin issuers.  In a June 24 sector comment, Moody’s Ratings warned that the credit implications for digital assets are significant, and that the industry now faces pressure to prove it can defend the cryptography at its foundation. The orders make quantum computing and its security a strategic national priority. One directs the development of a quantum computer “powerful enough to initiate the era of quantum-enabled scientific discovery,” with system specifications…