
Thai SEC Drafts Spot Bitcoin and Ether ETF Rules With an 80% Floor
Thailand's regulator put draft rules for locally listed spot Bitcoin and Ether funds out for comment until 20 September. Foreign products stay outside the first phase.
Altcoins, ETH & general crypto

Thailand's regulator put draft rules for locally listed spot Bitcoin and Ether funds out for comment until 20 September. Foreign products stay outside the first phase.

The Zcash ETF opened on NYSE Arca under the ticker ZCSH. Its 2.5% sponsor fee sits far above what competing spot bitcoin funds charge.

The July FOMC minutes showed officials divided, with "many" saying rate hikes may be needed. Bitcoin held near $64,296 all session, then broke $65,000 into the release.

Citi's Custody+ folds digital assets into one platform with settlement, FX and cash management, starting with bitcoin custody for institutions later this year.

Metaplanet is putting 2,100 BTC and $2.5M cash into Nasdaq-listed Super League for a 95.7% stake, renaming it Superplanet as its US bitcoin-treasury platform.

July CPI printed 3.4% year over year, matching every forecast, and bitcoin still slipped below $64,000. Even the Fed-odds trackers could not agree on what the number meant.

Bitcoin's data-limits fork opened its mandatory phase at 2.53% support, mined two blocks in eight hours and fell 98 behind, facing a 350-day wait for a difficulty reset.

The Bitcoin Red Team filed 4,962 findings, 85 of them critical, across 390 open-source repositories in 27.5 hours, on just over $40,000 of OpenSats funding.

The Federal Reserve left its policy rate at 3.50%–3.75% for a fifth straight meeting on July 29, and crypto barely moved: bitcoin held just under $64,000.

Michael Saylor set out 110 points against BIP-110, a one-year soft fork that would restrict data in bitcoin transactions and cut the signalling threshold to 55%.

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.

An attacker who controlled Ostium's price-oracle key traded against fake bitcoin prices and drained the protocol's liquidity vault. The contracts never broke.