Crypto Wallet Provider Exodus Aims to Solve Web3’s User-Friendly Issue With ‘Passkeys Wallet’ The new wallet is able to bypass need for seed phrases, browser extensions or email verifications to use decentralized apps.

Standard Chartered-Backed Zodia Custody Partners with Crypto Lending Firm Maple Finance

Drop in Bitcoin Mining Difficulty ‘Comparable to FTX Collapse,’ CryptoQuant Says Miners’ profitability has been hit as the daily revenues fell from $78 million pre-halving to $26 million currently, one market analyst noted.

Bullish Drivers Remain In Play Despite Germany’s Bitcoin Sales and Mt. Gox Reimbursements Macro factors and persistent “risk-on” in traditional markets suggest a promising outlook after BTC-specific supply overhangs run dry.

Bitcoin ETF Traders Buy The Dip With Nearly $300M Inflows Such inflows are the highest since early June, data shows, with Blackrock’s BTC ETF taking on almost $190 million.

MetaMask Developer Consensys Releases New Toolkit for ‘Seamless Onboarding’ The Delegation Toolkit will allow for instant user onboarding without needing to interact with a traditional wallet, in addition to eliminating “user friction completely,” meaning no pop-ups or confirmations when switching between a decentralized application and wallet.

Bitcoin, Ether Reverse Losses as Germany Gets Back $200M BTC From Exchanges Earlier Monday, BTC dropped to as low as $55,000 shortly after an address belonging to the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) sent over $900 million to various addresses.

Australian Securities Exchange Gives Green Light to DigitalX’s Bitcoin ETF DigitalX Bitcoin ETF will trade on the ASX as BTXX.

VanEck, 21Shares Solana ETF Plan Confirmed in Cboe Filing The Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) has officially asked the SEC to let asset managers VanEck and 21Shares bring a Solana-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) to the market.

Trump’s Official Republican Platform Pledges to Halt Crypto ‘Crackdown’ Former President Donald Trump’s Republican Party has officially adopted a platform that would seek to support cryptocurrency innovation, according to the document released Monday by the Republican National Committee.

BlackRock’s BUIDL Fund Tops $500M as Tokenized Treasury Market Soars The overall market of tokenized U.S. Treasury products has reached $1.8 billion, up from $780 million in January, rwa.xyz data shows.

Crypto-Friendly Sen. JD Vance’s Odds as Trump VP Pick Double on Polymarket Traders on the crypto-based prediction market now see a 29% chance that the Ohio Republican will be former President Trump’s running mate, up from 14% a week ago.

Play-to-Earn Is Dead. Why Tap-to-Earn Marks a Big Shift Clicker giants like Notcoin, TapSwap, Yescoin and Hamster Kombat have shown how blockchain games can reach millions of users, says Alena Shmalko, Ecosystem Lead at TON Foundation.

Catizen’s Tim Wong: ‘We Are Here to Build a Business Ecosystem’ The Chairman of the Catizen Foundation explains how the team behind the Web3 game attracted 23 million players, and how it hopes to build a lasting franchise.

Prediction Markets and Polls Both Got the French Election Wrong Plus: Polymarket traders remain skeptical about Biden’s insistence he’s staying in the U.S. presidential race; will ETH fall to $2,630?

Bitcoin Drops as German Government Moves Another $500M of Assets Bitcoin’s price briefly declined to $55,000 following the blockchain transactions.

Bitcoin Climbs Over $57K, With Some Saying Mt. Gox Sales Already ‘Priced In’ Markets have priced in Mt. Gox’s ongoing repayments and U.S. policies could now start influencing the market, one trading desk said.

First Mover Americas: BTC Rebounds to $57K The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for July 8, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

What Hamster Kombat Did: How Telegram Built a Web3 Gaming Juggernaut With hundreds of millions of users, Telegram’s TON, aka The Open Network, is building a head of steam in simple, addictive, fun games built on a blockchain.

Digital Asset Trader Auros to Invest Over $50M in Crypto Startups Through Its Newly Established VC Arm To lead the investment efforts, the company appointed Julien Auchecorne as head of Auros Ventures.