New Lummis Bill Would Back Effort to Ensure Crypto Assets Can Justify U.S. Mortgages
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis introduced another crypto bill, this one meant to reinforce an effort underway to allow use of digital assets in mortgage underwriting.
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis introduced another crypto bill, this one meant to reinforce an effort underway to allow use of digital assets in mortgage underwriting.
According to BlockBeats, on July 30th, the Federal Reserve will announce its interest rate decision tonight (2:00 am Beijing time on July 31st), and 30 minutes later, Federal Reserve Chairman Powell will hold a press conference after the meeting. According to CME's "Federal Reserve Watch" data, the probability of a 25 basis point interest rate cut in July is 2.1%, and the probability of keeping interest rates unchanged is 97.9%.
According to Foresight News, Avantis, the Base Ecological Derivatives Exchange, reposted a long article from the Avantis Foundation on the X platform, reiterating that the foundation's main tasks are to ensure protocol development and security, community governance and transparency, ecosystem growth and innovation, and suspected coin issuance is imminent. Previously, it was reported that Avantis, a derivatives exchange in the Base ecosystem, has completed a $8 million Series A funding round, led by Founders Fund and Pantera Capital, with participation from Symbolic Capital, SALT Fund, and Flowdesk.
According to BlockBeats news, on July 30th, Glassnode published an analysis article regarding the sale of "80000 BTC Ancient Whales" last weekend, stating that although the seller trading volume was as high as $9.6 billion, the market effectively digested the seller pressure, causing the price to fall to $115000, and then briefly stabilized at $119000, slightly below the historical high. Analysis suggests that even after this large-scale distribution event, market participants still hold a significant amount of unrealized profits. At present, the book income held exceeds $1.4 trillion, and 97% of the circulating supply is still profitable. According to multiple on chain valuation models, the price of Bitcoin is currently fluctuating between $105000 and $125000. If we decisively break through this range, it may initiate a rise of $141000. Given the expected unrealized profits at this price point, seller pressure may further increase in the region.
According to Foresight News, Reuters reported that Indonesia will increase the tax rate on cryptocurrency trading.
BlockBeats News: On July 30th, according to a police report from You County, Hunan Province, China, in the early morning of July 24th, the Criminal Investigation Brigade of You County Public Security Bureau, under the command of the bureau's party committee, successfully destroyed a "USDT" fraud den in its jurisdiction. Three suspects, Tang, Zhang, and Xu, were arrested on the scene, and more than 30 mobile phones, more than 10 computers, and more than 30 overseas mobile phone cards were seized. After investigation, the suspect Mr. Tang, Mr. Zhang and Mr. Xu have used several overseas phone cards to register their social tool accounts such as "Probing International", telegraph, WHATSAPP, Twitter, etc. since April 2025, and through the use of the pictures and photos of Mr. suspect Mr. Zhang, they have created specific people such as single, rich and beautiful women, living alone overseas, and currency circle players, luring overseas men over 26 years old to add them as friends, chatting with each other in accordance with the prepared script, cultivating feelings through love first, and establishing a certain emotional foundation. Then ask the other party to purchase cryptocurrency (USDT) into the Trust wallet, and later attract users to click on the website link by introducing their own better mining mechanism, airdrop rewards and other policies. After the victim clicks on the link, the fraud gang can implant a Trojan virus and transfer the cryptocurrency (USDT) in the Trust wallet of the deceived user at will.