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● The week in review

Weekly Recap — 30 Jun–6 Jul 2026

The week opened under quiet pressure — Bitcoin testing multi-year lows, ETFs bleeding steadily, and quarter-end mechanics distorting the picture. By midweek the structural questions had sharpened: stablecoin competition arrived in force, tokenised equity moved from theory to live market, and the legislative calendar began running out of road. The mood did not resolve into clarity, but the architecture of the next cycle — who controls stablecoin rails, which jurisdictions set the rules, and whether Washington can pass anything before recess — became considerably more legible.

  1. Open USD launches with over 100 backers, Circle takes the hit.A Visa-Stripe-BlackRock-backed stablecoin rival directly threatened USDC's distribution moat.1 Jul
  2. Securitize lists on NYSE and simultaneously tokenises its own shares on-chain.Securitize listed on NYSE while simultaneously tokenising its own shares on-chain, operationalising tokenised equity.3 Jul
  3. Supreme Court rules Trump can dismiss SEC and CFTC commissioners at will.Supreme Court gave the executive branch direct removal power over the SEC and CFTC, reshaping regulatory independence.30 Jun
  4. MiCA's transitional window closes; ESMA puts Binance's EU model in the crosshairs.MiCA enforcement began in earnest, with ESMA targeting Binance's EU routing model specifically.1 Jul
  5. Strategy quietly kills its 'never sell' Bitcoin stance.Strategy's abandonment of its 'never sell' Bitcoin commitment removed a foundational pillar of institutional BTC conviction.5 Jul
  6. Trump's $1.4 billion in crypto income is now accelerating demands for ethics language in the stablecoin bill.Trump's $1.4 billion crypto income disclosure injected conflict-of-interest language into active stablecoin legislation.2 Jul
  7. Congress heads into recess with crypto legislation still unresolved.Congress entered recess with market structure and stablecoin bills unresolved, narrowing the 2026 passage window.6 Jul
  8. Tokenised Google stock inflated 7,700% in a DeFi lending exploit.A tokenised-stock price manipulation drained an RWA lending pool, exposing oracle risk in a category attracting institutional capital.2 Jul