Bitcoin briefly dropped below $109,000, with a 24-hour decrease of 0.29%.

On July 4th, according to SolanaFloor data, during the second quarter, the USDC Treasury on the Solana chain added a total of 5.5 billion USDC by means of minting.

July 4th. During the 2025 Hong Kong Digital Finance Awards ceremony today, Christopher Hui, the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of Hong Kong, declared that Hong Kong is actively driving the development of digital assets. A regulatory system has been gradually formulated to strike a balance between risk management, investor protection, and industry expansion, facilitating the sustainable growth of Hong Kong's digital asset ecosystem. Christopher Hui pointed out that the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has created the first batch of digital asset indices in Hong Kong, offering investors a transparent and reliable price benchmark for Bitcoin and Ethereum in the Asian time zone and supporting Hong Kong's development as a leading digital asset hub in Asia. The upcoming licensing regime for stablecoin issuers, which will commence next month, will contribute to the advancement of practical use cases and support Hong Kong's growth as a leading digital asset hub in Asia. (Sina Finan

On July 4th, Roam announced several feature upgrades. These include: · Adjustment of the Reverse Burn Mechanism: The conversion rate between $ROAM tokens and points will be calculated based on the average conversion rate of the last 50 periods instead of the previous single-period conversion rate. This new mechanism will further safeguard the long-term interests of Roam community retail investors and the healthy development of the project. · Support for eSIM Alipay Payment: Roam Global / Premium eSIM now enables Alipay top-ups. Users can purchase data services within the app and complete the payment using Alipay, making the purchase process more convenient and the experience more seamless. · Update of the Lock-up Rule: The Roam App has adjusted the lock-up incentive rules. Participating in $ROAM lock-up will earn users universal eSIM data. For example, locking up 1000 ROAM tokens will grant 5GB of data after one period (28 days); locking up 2000 $ROAM will get 12GB; and locking up 4

On July 4th, as per CoinDesk, Minna Bank in Japan declared a research partnership with Solana, Fireblocks, and TIS to examine how stablecoins and Web3 wallets are transforming Japanese consumer finance. This joint research will center around use cases like payments, on-chain banking infrastructure, and user experiences that are customized for Japan's population with a mobile-first approach. Minna Bank, a subsidiary of Fukuoka Financial Group, mainly caters to a customer base consisting of young people aged 15-39, a demographic that is frequently overlooked by traditional banks.

On July 4th, the Ethereum Foundation announced that it will offer 3 years of operational funding to Argot Collective in order to enable it to continuously support its endeavors in advancing the Solidity language and other crucial open-source infrastructure of Ethereum. It is reported that Argot was established by former members of the Ethereum Foundation and is dedicated to maintaining the tools on which Ethereum depends.

July 4th. Hainan Huatie (603300.SH) declared that since 2022, the company has collaborated with AntChain and implanted an MaaS trusted module in the T-box of its aerial work platform. The equipment operation data is uploaded to the blockchain to achieve data "end-to-end trust." Currently, assets worth nearly 26 billion yuan have been digitized and uploaded to the chain, fulfilling the preconditions for on-chain completion of RWA financing. In addition, at the RWA Industry Conference, the company and the RWA Research Institute, which is one of the conference organizers, signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The two parties will cooperate in the three core aspects of asset on-chain value reassessment, industry standard formulation, and global circulation practices.