
Mirae Asset Takes 97.15% of Korbit
Mirae Asset Consulting holds 97.15% of Korbit, the first time an affiliate of a traditional Korean financial group has controlled a domestic crypto exchange.
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Mirae Asset Consulting holds 97.15% of Korbit, the first time an affiliate of a traditional Korean financial group has controlled a domestic crypto exchange.

DEXE fell about 85% on 22 July after team-linked wallets sent $6.2M of tokens to Binance. Three outlets gave three different closing prints: $4.83, $4.92 and $5.27.

Bitcoin cleared $66,000 for the first time in a month, though two CoinDesk accounts of the day give different highs. Bitfinex put the next test at $68,000.

Spot bitcoin ETFs drew $273 million over two weeks, barely more than the mildest week of the $8 billion outflow run before it. CoinDesk called it statistical noise.

Bitcoin drifted higher on thin weekend volume, and the day's forced liquidations fell almost entirely on shorts — a read on positioning, not direction.

Cardano was the lone top-20 name with a real gain on a thin Saturday session, sentiment stayed in extreme fear, and the day's two market digests disagreed on the bitcoin and ether marks.

US spot bitcoin ETFs drew a net $132.3 million on 17 July, a fourth straight positive session, with BlackRock's IBIT supplying more than the entire category total.

Citadel Securities is investing $400 million in Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation, the exchange's first institutional funding round in about a decade.

June CPI came in below forecast on every line, with core flat on the month. Bitcoin ran from about $62,600 to above $64,500 as July hike odds fell to 12%.

A routine config update collided with the name of Coinbase's ingress gateway on July 14, degrading withdrawals, card payments and swaps for about 50 minutes.

Strategy has not bought bitcoin since June 22 and has raised its dollar reserve to about $3 billion, roughly 20 months of preferred dividends and debt interest.

Stablecoin supply stood at $312.23 billion in mid-July, roughly $10 billion under its May peak, with USDT and USDC both smaller than they were this spring.