Crypto news, week of June 29, 2026

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Reported by Latestly.

• Bitcoin

Machine summary BYUSDT is now available as collateral on Bybit TradFi.

1. On July 1, 2026, Bybit announced that its yield‑bearing token BYUSDT can now be used as margin collateral on the Bybit TradFi platform for CFD trading.
2. BYUSDT is backed 1:1 by users' USDT balances in Flexible Easy Earn and accrues yield automatically throughout the holding period with no active management required.
3. Bybit TradFi offers zero commission and zero overnight fees on over 380 stock CFDs, plus trading in forex, gold, crude oil, and global indices.

Reported by Pr Newswire, Pr Newswire Uk and Finanznachrichten.de.

• USDT
• Bybit
• Flexible Easy Earn
• BYUSDT
• Bybit TradFi

Machine summary Ethereum rose 5.67% to $1,708, leading a crypto upswing after a U.S. jobs report. Yet derivatives traders on Binance trimmed longs, signaling caution.

1. Coinglass data indicate that over a 24-hour period, about $460 million got liquidated in the crypto market, mostly from short positions.
2. Bitcoin’s open interest rose 1.14% to $46.22 billion, but derivatives traders on Binance, both retail and whales, trimmed their net long positions.
3. Crypto-related stocks jumped: Strategy Inc. (MSTR) +7.90%, Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) +1.48%.

Reported by Benzinga.

• Bitcoin
• Ethereum
• XRP
• Dogecoin
• Strategy
• Binance

Machine summary President Donald Trump told CNBC he was unaware of happenings at his family's crypto businesses and said there is "nothing illegal" about earning over $1 billion from crypto while in office, according to financial disclosures.

1. Trump told CNBC: "I could know about it. I didn't. There's nothing illegal. There's nothing wrong with it."
2. According to financial disclosures, the president's family crypto companies netted him more than $1 billion last year.

Reported by independent.co.uk and uk.news.yahoo.com.

• Donald Trump
• CNBC

Machine summary Jay Jacobs, a managing director and U.S. head of equity ETFs at BlackRock, said in mid-June 2026 that bitcoin is 'too big to ignore' and that its utility is fueled by a 'great convergence' between traditional finance and decentralized finance, according to a report. Jacobs also said almost 75% of would-be buyers of the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF had never previously held an ETF.

1. Jay Jacobs, a managing director and U.S. head of equity ETFs at BlackRock, said in mid-June 2026 that bitcoin is 'too big to ignore', according to the report.
2. Jacobs said bitcoin's utility is fueled by a 'great convergence' between traditional finance and decentralized finance, according to the report.
3. As stated in the report, Jacobs said that almost 75% of investors looking to purchase the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF have never held an ETF before.
4. The report states bitcoin's price rebounded above $61,900 on July 3.

Reported by finbold.com.

• Bitcoin
• BlackRock
• iShares Bitcoin Trust

The outlets that reported this event are listed with links to their reports; no summary of ours passed our automated checks for it, which says nothing about the event (how they work).

Reported by Aninews.

• All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)