Strategy (MSTR) surges 7.90% to close at $100.77 on July 2, 2026, outperforming traditional software benchmarks as corporate Bitcoin treasury demand re-accelerates.

India’s Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said petrol and diesel prices could be reduced if Brent crude stays at current low levels for the next two to three months. Brent has fallen to around $70.37 a barrel, a four-year low, amid easing geopolitical tensions and the resumption of key shipping flows. Puri said state-run oil marketing companies are still working through higher-cost crude inventories bought earlier, delaying any retail price cuts.

India’s finance ministry has cleared four China-linked power equipment makers with factories in the country—including TBEA Energy and Nanjing Electric India—to bid for government tenders tied to critical power projects. The move breaks with earlier restrictions on Chinese bidders and has raised concerns that orders could shift away from domestic suppliers such as BHEL, Siemens Energy, Hitachi Energy and GE Vernova. In that session, BHEL fell 4%, Siemens Energy dropped 6.23%, Hitachi Energy slid 10% and GE Vernova sank 12%.

On June 30, 2026, data tracked by Nansen showed ENA whale wallets added roughly 20 million ENA in a single day. Their holdings jumped 3,166% to 20.63 million ENA, while ENA’s price fell about 4.4% over the same period. The buying followed a cluster of institutional signals in June, including Coinbase Ventures’ open-market ENA purchase tied to USDC integration work, a disclosed ENA position and regulated ETP plans from Janus Henderson’s ANTIK venture, and Ethena’s $250 million allocation to Securitize’s AAA-rated tokenized CLO fund. The pattern suggests institutions were using the pullback to build ENA exposure rather than purely trade momentum.

KASTxyz has launched a crypto payment card that supports everyday spending, including payments made with BNB, and is expanding across Asia, Saudi Arabia and Dubai. The company says points earned through card usage could later be mapped into real equity in KAST. The announcement did not provide quantitative details such as token support beyond BNB, fundraising size, an equity conversion ratio, or a timeline, and it did not mention regulatory approvals or exchange listings.

Bitcoin gained 2.5% in a single day, while Ethereum rose 9.51%, lifting the total crypto market capitalization back to $2.14T. A new stablecoin, OUSD, has officially launched with backing from more than 140 traditional finance and crypto institutions. The update did not cite any regulatory shift or technical breakthrough, but it was framed as a sign of recent market stabilization and returning confidence. As the two largest assets by market value, BTC and ETH helped set the tone for the strength of the rebound.

Lido DAO voted on June 22, 2026 to revoke the canonical status of wstETH bridge endpoints on nine networks: zkSync Era, Mode, Scroll, Mantle, Swell, Zircuit, Soneium, Polygon PoS, and Lisk. The move was presented as a risk-management step and a consolidation of resources amid rapid multichain expansion. The decision followed the April 2026 KelpDAO incident.

An estimated $141 billion in illicit stablecoin flows—based on aggregated methodologies used by firms such as Chainalysis and TRM Labs—is intensifying regulatory momentum toward wallet-level KYC. The focus is shifting to fiat on- and off-ramps, stablecoin issuers and virtual asset service providers, while Tether and Circle have already made freezing sanctioned or crime-linked addresses routine and are expected to expand real-time screening and blacklist coordination. Tron has drawn added scrutiny because of high-frequency USDT transfers, even as the push does not directly ban self-custody but raises the compliance and operational burden of moving between stablecoins and fiat.