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Welcome to daily issue of the Boba Brief Newsletter. This is last 24hrs in crypto, macro, ai & tech world

MAJOR UPDATE

Binance is closing to European users but still hoping to secure a license soon.

CRYPTO Brief

  • Bybit will be limiting certain global services for EEA residents, as part of their regulatory alignment efforts.

  • BNY’s digital asset custody platform added USDC as its first stablecoin, expanding its relationship with Circle.

  • Ethena partners with BlackRock. USDe is coming to Aladdin and BUIDL will be used for its whitelabel product.

  • Bitmine just added another 27,084 ETH to its holdings last week, which now brought their total to 5.7M ETH.

  • Thailand’s Central Bank is moving ahead with a 1:1 baht backed stablecoin plan.

  • Ethereum’s first ZK-rollup, Loopring is shutting down its DEX and AMM immediately. Reason, outpaced by modern zkEVM rivals and lack of adoption.

  • American Express is hiring a VP of Stablecoin and Blockchain Partnership to lead its stbalecoin strategy and tokenized settlement.

  • Hyper Foundation is providing roughly $10M in grants to help builders offset costs from the USDH sunset.

REAL WORLD Brief

  • Strategy announced a digital credit capital framework designed to strengthen digital credit, enhance liquidity and more.

  • Forward Industries FWDI and SharpLink SBET debut in Russell 2000 and Russell 3000 indexes at US market open.

  • Philippines becomes Southeast Asia’s first commercial Starlink Direct to Cell market which connects LTE phones directly to satellites.

  • South Korea’s President is ready to unveil 3 AI and Chip “mega projects” including a semiconductor hub in the southwest. These could top $650B in total.

  • China injected 300B yuan worth $44B with its debut overnight reverse repo by withheld the rate.

  • The US dollar is on a 2.5% gain in June, having its best month in 2026.

  • Google has reportedly capped META’s use of Gemini AI due to compute constraints.

TOP COINS in last 24hrs

The Black Bull, Pudgy penguins, Synapse, Solana, Bitcoin, Hyperliquid, XRP and more.

COINS I am watching

XRP $1.07

BITCOIN $60,000

ETH $1,628

SOLANA $75

HYPE $66

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