Data: Hedge funds are shorting Ethereum on CME for basis arbitrage

Federal bank regulatory agencies today issued a joint statement in their continued efforts to provide clarity on banks' engagement in crypto-asset-related activities. The statement highlights for banks potential risk-management considerations related to holding crypto-assets on their customers' behalf, or crypto-asset safekeeping.The joint statement discusses existing risk-management principles that apply to crypto-asset safekeeping and reminds banks that provide or are considering providing safekeeping of such assets that they must do so in a safe and sound manner and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.The statement does not create any new supervisory expectations. The agencies continue to explore ways to provide additional clarity with respect to banks' engagement in crypto-asset-related activities.

According to BlockBeats, on July 15th, despite previously referring to Bitcoin as an "immature asset class" and considering it unsuitable for long-term investors, Vanguard Group has now become the largest shareholder of MicroStrategy. According to Bloomberg, this institution managing $10 trillion in assets holds 20 million shares of Micro Strategy through its funds, accounting for 8% of the outstanding shares, and is likely to surpass Capital Group as the largest shareholder in the fourth quarter of last year.

The bluechip DeFi token hit its strongest price in five months, gaining 8% over the weekend.

OKEx will open the perpetual contract trading pair PUMPUSDT at 01:30 (UTC+8) on July 15, 2025. Project Introduction: The PUMPUSDT perpetual contract is based on the PUMP/USDT index, settled in USDT, with a face value of 1000, a minimum tick size of 0.000001, leverage ranging from 0.01 to 20x, and trading hours of 7×24.

BTC has declined, with a trading volume of $0 billion in the past 24 hours and a circulating market value of $2.38 trillion, a decrease of 0.00% in market value proportion. Data for reference only