A whale deposited 1,141 BTC (worth $121.27M) into Binance, realizing a profit of approximately $3.4M. The BTC was acquired on May 11th and 12th at an average price of $104,113. #BTC

Cointelegraph reported that approximately $588.6M of BTC and $71.3M of ETH were purchased on June 24th

CZ from Binance addressed rumors of being pardoned, stating that the news is fake and likely spread by a Chinese competitor. He advised verifying information with official sources

Arizona has passed HB2324 to hold seized criminal assets in a Bitcoin reserve

GoPlus Security alerted that the Venus Protocol on BNB Chain was potentially attacked, with estimated losses of around $2 million due to the theft of vTokens like vUSDT. The attack may involve MEV operations and permission management vulnerabilities

The Blockchain Group, a European Bitcoin reserve company, completed a directed share issue of approximately €4.07 million through an "ATM program" with TOBAM, issuing 800,690 new shares at an average price of €5.085 per share. The funds will support its "Bitcoin Vault Company" strategy and increase Bitcoin holdings by about 40 BTC, potentially reaching a total of 1,768 BTC

Cathay Securities International has been approved by the Hong Kong Securities Regulatory Commission to upgrade its securities license to a virtual asset trading license, becoming the first Hong Kong-funded securities firm to allow customers to directly buy and sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins on the platform, and provide related product issuance and consulting services

The North Carolina Department of the Treasury partnered with OpenAI for a 12-week pilot project using ChatGPT to identify millions of dollars in potential unclaimed property

美图 founder 蔡文胜 acquired a 34.96% stake in China Financial Leasing at a premium through Longling Capital, triggering a mandatory comprehensive acquisition offer at HK$0.38 per share, a 13.43% premium over the closing price before the suspension, involving approximately HK$85.74 million. 蔡文胜 plans to develop the company into an asset management platform, focusing on Hong Kong technology incubation enterprises, and increase investment in AI, Web3, and digital asset financial products. #AI #Web3

ZKsync has released Airbender, claimed to be the "world's fastest open-source RISC-V zkVM," achieving a basic proof speed of approximately 21.8 MHz on a single H100 GPU, nearly 6 times faster than the next fastest system. It has been integrated into ZKsync chains like Era, Abstract, and Sophon, reducing the cost per transfer to $0.0001