Podcast Show Notes Summary

Strategy raised another $466.7 million in cash without buying additional Bitcoin, while SBI Holdings and the Solana Foundation announced a major partnership to build Japan's next generation of on-chain financial infrastructure. Matt also covers the UK's expanding tokenization initiative, Thailand's crackdown on high-volume stablecoin transactions, and Japan's new JPYSC stablecoin lending product offering a 3% annual yield.

The episode also examines why the Clarity Act remains stalled in Congress, the growing debate over Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 and whether Bitcoin should be reserved primarily for payments or remain open to uses like Ordinals and inscriptions, and new data showing crypto trading volumes climbed to nearly $5 trillion in June after five consecutive months of decline.

Happy Hodling, Everyone.

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