Tether said Tuesday it will invest $20 million in a strategic growth financing round for Mercado Bitcoin, a move that deepens the stablecoin issuer’s push into Latin America’s fast-growing market for blockchain-based financial services.

Tether, the largest company in the digital asset industry and the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, framed the deal as part of a broader strategy of backing platforms that pair regulatory licensing with market scale. 

Mercado Bitcoin, founded in São Paulo in 2013, has grown from a cryptocurrency exchange into what it describes as a full-stack on-chain financial services platform.

The company now serves 4.5 million users and says it has…

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Sixteen months after President Donald Trump ordered his administration to build a federal bitcoin reserve, the White House says it is still working out how the fund should be structured, and a dispute between two departments has slowed the effort, according to recent reporting from Bloomberg.

Trump signed an executive order in March 2025 to create what he called a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, along with a separate U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile for other cryptocurrencies. 

The order directed the Treasury and Commerce departments to develop budget-neutral methods for acquiring bitcoin, ones that would not draw on taxpayer money. 

The reserve was to be funded in large part with…

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Bitcoin Suisse has received a Financial Services Permission (FSP) from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). The authorization, granted to Group subsidiary BTCS (Middle East) Ltd. (“BTCS ME”), clears the Swiss firm to offer regulated digital asset services across the United Arab Emirates.

The company announced the milestone earlier today.

The permission concludes a multi-stage licensing process with the FSRA, the regulator for ADGM, the international financial center of Abu Dhabi. It authorizes BTCS ME to provide a range of regulated services to institutional and professional clients in the UAE. 

Founded in Zug in 2013,…

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American Bitcoin Corp (Nasdaq: ABTC) has moved its treasury past 8,000 bitcoin, the company said. The total marks a climb from about 5,401 BTC at the end of 2025, a gain of close to 50% across six months.

The company, a majority-owned subsidiary of Hut 8 Corp and backed by the Trump family, said its bitcoin reserve and its bitcoin-per-share have grown close to threefold since its Nasdaq debut. Co-founder Eric Trump has framed the growth as disciplined and large in scale.

American Bitcoin builds its stack through two channels: mining production and treasury purchases. In the first quarter of 2026, the firm mined 817 BTC and added 1,620 BTC to its reserve, a rise of about 30…

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Tether, the company behind USDT, is preparing to issue the stablecoin natively on Bitcoin through the RGB protocol version v0.11.1. Deployed by the UTEXO software lab, USDT is set to return to the chain where it first launched in 2014 via the Omni-Mastercoin Layer. 

UTEXO, the company leading the commercial rollout, has positioned itself as the issuer and distributor of this Bitcoin-native USDT in partnership with Tether.  “Finally, after eight years of development—if not more—we are the company that is launching USDT over Bitcoin with strong support from Tether,” said Viktor Ihnatiuk, UTEXO co-founder, in an exclusive interview with Bitcoin Magazine. 

The RGB…

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President Donald Trump said earlier today that Bitcoin could one day play a role in the new Trump Accounts savings program, telling reporters that “something could happen” when asked whether the accounts might hold the cryptocurrency.

Trump made the comments Monday during an Oval Office ceremony marking the launch of Trump Accounts. In a first-of-its-kind event, he rang the opening bells for both the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq from the Oval Office, a joint bell-ringing that had never been conducted from the White House. 

He was joined by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins, leaders of the NYSE and Nasdaq, and…

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Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, intends to launch a cryptocurrency wallet and a digital depository once the country’s crypto legislation takes effect, a step that would put a state-controlled lender at the center of Russia’s emerging digital asset market.

Kirill Tsarev, First Deputy Chairman of Sberbank’s Management Board, announced the plan to RBC Investments at the Bank of Russia Financial Congress. He said the bank will offer authorized cryptocurrency transactions in the Sber and SberInvestments apps after lawmakers adopt the bill “On Digital Currency and Digital Rights.”

Vladimir Chistyukhin, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank, said the law regulating the…

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Strive, Inc. bought 17.76 bitcoin last week and now holds 19,882 coins, the company said in a Form 8-K filed earlier today. 

The firm purchased the coins between June 29 and July 2 at an average price near $59,850. Chief Executive Matt Cole disclosed the update in a post on X.

The purchase reads as a deliberate nod to the July 4 holiday. The figure of 17.76 points to 1776, the year the United States declared independence. The buys landed days before the nation’s 250th anniversary of that declaration. 

The weekly buy was small. The quarter behind it was not. Strive acquired 6,236 bitcoin during the three months ended June 30, at an average cost of $74,290 per coin. That haul lifted…

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Strategy sold 3,588 bitcoin for $216 million to fund dividends on its preferred securities, the company disclosed in a Form 8-K on July 6, 2026. The sale marks the largest bitcoin disposal in the company’s history and its most direct admission that its dividend obligations now shape its treasury.

Chairman Michael Saylor posted about the transaction on social media. As of July 5, the company held 843,775 bitcoin in its reserves and $2.55 billion in cash. Saylor said the proceeds covered second-quarter dividends on four preferred instruments and the full June payment on a fifth.

The disclosed sale funded quarterly dividends on STRF, STRE, STRK, and STRD. It also covered the…

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