From 1 July, every exchange operating here must monitor transactions and pass on transfer details. Expect more friction — and a safer market. Registration closes 29 July.
Risk appetite is back: Bitcoin pushed to about A$94,800 (US$66,400) as US spot ETFs notched a second straight week of net inflows — the first back-to-back positive weeks since May. Plus Strategy buys zero BTC, Robinhood opens accounts to AI agents, the LSE goes 24/7, and Grayscale files a Worldcoin ETF.
Bitcoin tagged a one-month high near US$65,700 before an oil spike and a lingering AI-driven chip selloff dragged it back under US$64k — the market is literally stuck between a war and a chatbot. Plus stablecoin payroll lands in Japan, Korea preps live CBDC payments, and a huge week of US crypto rule-making.
US regulators blew the GENIUS Act’s one-year deadline for final stablecoin rules, leaving USDT and USDC issuers in compliance limbo just as the CLARITY Act enters its make-or-break fortnight in the Senate. Plus ETF inflows return, and AUSTRAC’s registration deadline is nine days out.
Senate talks on the Clarity Act have stalled after Democrats rejected the latest Republican framework, with Elizabeth Warren demanding updated Trump crypto disclosures by 23 July — leaving the biggest crypto bill of the year hanging before the August recess. Plus FTX’s US$900M fifth distribution lands 31 July, the Bank of England clears HSBC’s digital gilt platform, and Uniswap moves to switch on protocol fees.
Canberra is scrapping the 50% CGT discount from 1 July 2027, replacing it with inflation-indexed cost bases and a 30% minimum rate on gains — the biggest change to crypto tax in a generation. Plus the Clarity Act field hearing wraps with no vote, Visa goes stablecoin-native, and Crypto.com banks US$400M from Citadel Securities.
Washington sits down tonight (AEST) for the Clarity Act hearing that could shape crypto rules for years — while ether quietly outruns the market, with ETF money flooding back almost entirely through BlackRock. Plus bitcoin‘s brush with US$65k, a US$383M wallet waking from 2017, and South Korea’s surprise moves.
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