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The Spanish National Securities Market Commission has authorized the cryptocurrency platform Venga to operate under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), making it one of the few entities in Spain to receive MiCA approval. The MiCA transitional period took effect on July 1, and digital asset companies that previously operated under national rules must obtain formal approval under the new regime, or they must cease providing regulated services in the EU.This authorization allows Venga to provide services within the market composed of 27 EU member states based on a single regulatory framework. Michael Stroev, co-founder and CEO of Venga, stated that the MiCA review covers aspects such as ownership structure, corporate governance, management suitability, risk framework, and product infrastructure. Previously, over 3,000 crypto companies in the EU held local virtual asset service provider registrations, but currently, about 240 companies have received full MiCA authorization, with fewer than 15 companies approved in Spain.

According to The Block, the publicly listed company Forward Industries (FWDI) purchased over 500,000 SOL in the fiscal quarter ending Tuesday, increasing its Solana inventory to approximately 7.55 million SOL, valued at about $776 million (approximately $576 million in the text, fluctuating with market prices), making it the largest SOL financial holder among the three publicly listed companies with Solana inventories.The company stated that it issued 93,642 shares through an ATM this quarter and repurchased shares when the stock price was below the net asset value per share of SOL, aiming to "maximize each SOL share and enhance long-term shareholder value." As a result, FWDI's stock price rose over 17% during the trading session, and the price of Solana also climbed to a January high of about $77.

According to PR Newswire, American Bitcoin (NASDAQ: ABTC) announced today that as a "Bitcoin accumulation platform" focused on building Bitcoin infrastructure in the United States, the company plans to implement a 1-for-15 reverse stock split for its common stock, which will officially take effect on July 2, 2026, at 5:00 PM.The company expects that the Class A common stock, after the reverse stock split adjustment, will resume trading on the NASDAQ Capital Market on July 6, 2026, with the trading symbol remaining ABTC.At the effective time, every 15 shares of the issued and outstanding Class A common stock will automatically combine into 1 share of Class A common stock; every 15 shares of Class B common stock will also combine into 1 share of Class B common stock, and adjustments will be made according to the fractional shares rules. Currently, the company has no Class C common stock outstanding.

Bitget announced the expansion of the GetAgent Playbook, incorporating US stocks into the AI strategy system, providing users with AI stock selection and automatic order placement features. The GetAgent Playbook will launch in June 2026, allowing users to browse, subscribe to, and deploy preset strategies with one click.In the first week of launch, the product had over 30,000 unique users, with a total investment of over $100,000, and more than 600 users created personalized strategies, with the highest return rate for a single account reaching 145%.This new US stock segment adds multiple strategies, covering both selection and execution. Among them, the stock selection strategies include AI selection, quality business model screening, Beta growth investment, macro event-driven strategies, and analyst rating tracking; in terms of automatic order placement, it introduces QQQ intelligent dollar-cost averaging, supporting the execution of DCA strategies based on fixed amounts and fixed periods, helping users to diversify their entry costs.

According to Jinshi reports, Peter Oppenheimer, Chief Global Equity Strategist at Goldman Sachs, stated that global stock markets are expected to continue the strong upward trend of the second quarter, with the earnings growth of technology companies being a key driving force. He pointed out that as long as earnings performance remains strong and the range of growth expands, the stock market will continue to rise in the second half of the year, although the increase may not be as significant as in the first half. Oppenheimer also mentioned that investors' focus is shifting from data center and cloud computing platform operators to semiconductor and equipment manufacturers that support the artificial intelligence boom.

According to Public Citizen data, Ripple, Coinbase, and other cryptocurrency companies contributed $189 million to the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. Cryptocurrency companies accounted for 37% of the total $517 million in corporate political donations. Previously, during the 2024 U.S. presidential election, political donations from the cryptocurrency industry were approximately $160 million, and the cryptocurrency industry accelerated lobbying after the Trump administration took office, seeking to solidify the results of regulatory loosening.

NextGen Venture (NDV) founder Jason Huang stated that the institution had previously successfully issued an early warning about the pullback risk of Strategy (MSTR), and is currently taking the opposite action by starting to include Circle (CRCL) on the watchlist, looking for opportunities amid pressured market sentiment.

According to CoinPost, bitFlyer Europe, a subsidiary of bitFlyer Holdings in Luxembourg, has obtained the CASP license under the MiCA framework issued by the Luxembourg Financial Supervisory Authority (CSSF), effective June 26. With this license, bitFlyer can provide cross-border services across all 27 member states of the European Union. bitFlyer stated that this is the first time a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange has obtained a CASP license under MiCA.

Binance announced a partnership with Anchorage Digital to further expand its third-party banking product network. By integrating Anchorage Digital's Atlas settlement platform, institutional clients can now trade on Binance while securely holding their assets in Anchorage Digital's independent qualified custody.It is reported that this is the first time the Atlas settlement platform has integrated with a cryptocurrency exchange. This partnership introduces the structure of "custody and trade execution separation" from traditional financial markets, allowing eligible institutions to use crypto assets, interest-bearing USD accounts, and specific tokenized real-world assets as collateral.

The Italian fintech company Hodli has been authorized by the Bank of Italy to become the first licensed crypto asset portfolio management institution in the country under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). It is reported that this authorization allows Hodli to break through the traditional limitations of single custody services and directly provide clients with active crypto asset portfolio management services.

The latest report from payment infrastructure company Cybrid shows that the adoption of stablecoins by enterprises is accelerating towards becoming mainstream. Among the 468 corporate executives and business leaders surveyed, as many as 42% of companies are already using stablecoins for cross-border payments, and 88% of respondents indicated they are very likely to adopt them within the next 12 months, while only 2% of respondents said they would rely entirely on traditional payment networks.Data shows that companies using stablecoins save an average of 35% on cross-border payment costs; for large enterprises processing over $100 million monthly, cost savings can reach up to 47%. The most common use cases for companies using stablecoins are: payroll disbursement, vendor payments, and customer payments. In addition, 71% of respondents emphasized that clear regulatory policies (such as the recently passed stablecoin regulatory bill GENIUS Act in the U.S.) are the most critical factor driving their expansion of stablecoin usage, with its importance even surpassing the level of infrastructure improvement.With the growth in demand, the supporting infrastructure in the industry is also continuously expanding. Data from payment platform Paybis shows that in the first four months of 2026, B2B transactions accounted for nearly 98% of the total stablecoin payments on its platform. This Monday, Bank of New York Mellon (BNY) also announced the expansion of its digital asset custody platform, allowing institutional clients to store and circulate Circle's USDC directly through the bank.

AI Agent Economic Settlement Agreement AEON announced its expansion into the Zambian market, achieving real-time fiat settlement of cryptocurrency assets with the Zambian Kwacha (ZMW) by integrating with local mainstream mobile wallets Airtel Money and MTN Mobile Money.AEON has covered over 50 million merchants globally. This integration not only opens up Web3 retail channels for over 70% of local e-wallet users but also builds the underlying payment infrastructure for global AI agents in the programmatic high-frequency settlement of the African real economy. AEON will also expand its AI agent settlement network to emerging markets in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.

According to official news, OKX has officially launched OKX.AI, which supports AI Agents in task assignment, task acceptance, payment, evaluation, and arbitration, and is a decentralized platform aimed at the Agent economy. OKX founder and CEO Star stated in a post on X: "For the past twenty years, the world has been reconstructed around Apps; for the next ten years, the world will be reconstructed around Agents. Agents will serve people, hire Agents, pay Agents, and collaborate with Agents to complete complex tasks. Meanwhile, humans will focus more on imagination, judgment, goals, and truly unique value."Star emphasized that this is not a more efficient software era, but a new economic era. He stated: "In the future, it will not only belong to the companies with the most employees but also to those who have the best Agents. One person can be a world-class company. Welcome to the Agentic Economy, welcome to OKX.AI."

According to CoinDesk, as the July 1 deadline for the EU MiCA regulatory framework approaches, several cryptocurrency companies in Europe are turning their attention to the UAE.Irina Heaver, a lawyer at the Dubai law firm NeosLegal, stated that the volume of inquiries from European founders has significantly increased over the past year and a half, with over 120 inquiries received weekly, about half of which come from European countries.Heaver pointed out that many founders are dissatisfied with the bureaucracy and regulatory burdens in Europe and are opting for the UAE instead. The UAE's cryptocurrency regulatory framework is designed specifically for digital assets, with processes that are faster and typically completed in a few days, while Europe may take months. Additionally, UAE licenses can cover markets with approximately 4 billion people in Asia, North Africa, and more.Recently, Binance has withdrawn its MiCA application in Greece and notified some EU users that certain services will be suspended. Erald Ghoos, CEO of OKX Europe, previously stated that about 80% of cryptocurrency companies would not be able to pass the MiCA compliance review. Heaver warned that this could lead to "brain drain, tax loss, and job loss" in Europe.

According to Cointelegraph, Bitcoin mining company Ionic Digital has submitted a direct listing application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a Nasdaq listing, with the stock ticker IOND. This listing does not raise new funds but aims to establish a public trading market for existing shareholders, including former Celsius creditors who obtained Ionic shares through the bankruptcy plan.Ionic was established in 2024, acquiring its mining assets through the restructuring of the bankrupt crypto lending platform Celsius. Starting in 2025, Ionic will transition from pure Bitcoin mining to becoming a digital infrastructure company serving AI and high-performance computing workloads.

According to monitoring by BitcoinTreasuries.NET, the Spanish listed company Vanadi Coffee (VANA.MC) has increased its holdings by 10 bitcoins, bringing its total holdings to 223 BTC, ranking 84th in the global corporate bitcoin holdings.

The economic laboratory of the fintech company Ramp has released a new version of the Ramp AI Adoption Index report. Based on spending data analysis from over 70,000 U.S. enterprise customers, the adoption rate of enterprise-level AI for Anthropic increased by 2.5 percentage points to 41%, officially surpassing OpenAI, which slightly decreased to 39.5%, establishing a leading position in the field of commercial applications.The report focuses on analyzing the spending trends of top enterprises that "deeply adopt AI." Data shows that the top 1% of enterprises spend as much as $7,449 per employee per month on AI, with this figure still achieving a 14.1% increase last month; in contrast, the top 10% of enterprises have an average monthly spending of $611 per employee, while the median enterprise spends only $11.38 (approximately equal to the cost of a single basic subscription).Additionally, the research points out that enterprises that deeply apply AI do not experience "vendor lock-in" and generally adopt multiple cutting-edge large models, open-source platforms, and vertical AI solutions simultaneously. Although enterprises are beginning to experiment with more cost-effective models (such as DeepSeek) in the face of cost pressures, overall AI spending remains on an upward trend.

According to CoinPost, Kinexys, a blockchain division of JPMorgan, announced the addition of five currencies to its Blockchain Deposit Account (BDA) network: Australian Dollar (AUD), Hong Kong Dollar (HKD), Japanese Yen (JPY), Renminbi (RMB), and Singapore Dollar (SGD). This expands the total supported currencies to eight, including the existing Euro, British Pound, and US Dollar, making it the platform with the most supported currencies in the global blockchain settlement and on-chain foreign exchange field.The BDA operates on JPMorgan's private blockchain, supporting 24/7 settlement and programmable payment features. Japanese energy giant JERA Global Markets became the first enterprise to adopt the Yen BDA, aimed at optimizing internal fund flow management and liquidity allocation. Currently, Kinexys has processed a cumulative transaction volume exceeding $40 trillion, with a daily transaction volume of over $7 billion.

According to Bits.media, Fidan Tofidi, the head of the Financial Technology and Innovation Department of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan, stated that the regulatory bill for the country's virtual asset market has been drafted and submitted for review, with formal legislation expected within the year. The bill requires all companies engaged in cryptocurrency asset business to obtain a license issued by the central bank, and unauthorized operations within the country are prohibited. Licensed institutions will be subject to ongoing supervision. The regulatory framework will cover compliance requirements such as anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism financing, and customer identity verification (KYC), and will be incorporated into Azerbaijan's financial market development strategy for 2027-2030.