The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has launched a Common Supervisory Action (CSA) to examine the operational resilience of crypto asset service providers (CASPs), with custody services at the center of the review. According to Cointelegraph, the initiative follows the expiry of MiCA’s transitional period and is among the first major supervisory exercises under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) framework. ESMA said the CSA will apply to a sample of MiCA-authorized CASPs and will assess the maturity of their digital operational resilience frameworks for custody activities, including key and storage management, transaction controls, incident response, and dependencies on third-party providers. Industry participants said the move signals a shift from authorization toward proving day-to-day robustness. Sebastien Dessimoz, co-founder and managing partner at digital asset infrastructure firm Taurus, said a MiCA license should be viewed as a starting point rather than an endpoint, adding that the expected change is from “asserting security to evidencing it.” He described the development as a natural step as digital assets become more embedded in regulated financial infrastructure and face expectations similar to traditional markets for security, accountability, and resilience. Jody Mettler, chief operating officer of BitGo and president of BitGo Trust, said institutional clients have been asking more detailed questions about asset segregation, access controls, incident response, and business continuity during periods of market stress, and she said regulators are increasingly focused on operational standards beyond licensing. Other executives framed the CSA as a competitive differentiator as oversight tightens. Markus Levin, co-founder of blockchain infrastructure company XYO, said obtaining MiCA authorization and demonstrating operational resilience are “two different tests,” and suggested that CASPs able to show robust controls before the review concludes could be better positioned as institutional adoption grows. Yuriy Brisov, a lawyer at Digital & Analogue Partners, said the review sits at the intersection of MiCA custody obligations and the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), which sets technology risk requirements for financial firms. He said custody technology is concentrated among a limited number of vendors, meaning weaknesses in a single supplier could affect multiple firms, and argued that proving resilience across the supply chain under both MiCA and DORA is a key challenge. Brisov added that the CSA’s findings could influence how regulators benchmark MiCA-authorized custodians and feed into debates on reviewing MiCA and potentially shifting supervision of all CASPs from national regulators to ESMA.

Gyeonggi Province, a first-level administrative region in South Korea, said it will begin a stablecoin proof-of-concept (PoC) project in August 2026 to assess potential use cases in local currency applications, government public subsidies, and everyday payment systems. According to ChainCatcher, the initial testing phase will focus on validating three core technologies: programmable payments, zero-knowledge proof privacy technology, and a proof-of-reserves mechanism designed to match stablecoin issuance with reserve assets in real time. The province said the first phase aims to complete end-to-end technical verification across the stablecoin issuance and circulation process. If the first round progresses smoothly, the project is expected to enter a second-stage expansion test from October to December. That phase will evaluate controls to prevent fund misuse, transaction privacy protections, business-fit screening, and will collect feedback from residents and merchants on actual usage to inform potential broader local deployment.

Publicly listed Empery Digital has sold 1,400 Bitcoin and retained 1,514 Bitcoin following the reduction in its holdings. According to NS3.AI, the company said the proceeds will be used to support an AI data center project with a total cost of $65 million. Empery Digital also plans to use part of the proceeds to repay $10 million in corporate debt.

The International Institute of Finance said the Federal Reserve has become more hawkish and that oil price volatility has re-emerged. According to Jin10, it said these factors may tighten U.S. dollar liquidity and raise the risk threshold for emerging markets.

Investors have raised expectations for Bank of England rate hikes in 2026 after a new round of tensions between the United States and Iran pushed oil prices higher. According to Jin10, Bank of America strategists said in a report that the UK remains highly sensitive to global oil price shocks, prompting investors to reprice interest-rate expectations. Data from London Stock Exchange Group showed the market was pricing in a total of 27 basis points of Bank of England rate hikes this year, up from 20 basis points priced in a week earlier.

India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will meet with bank heads on Monday to review the situation of foreign exchange deposits. According to Jin10, the meeting is intended to examine foreign exchange deposit conditions.

Tesla shares were trading near $394, with weekly and daily chart patterns indicating a possible move toward $759. According to NS3.AI, the $759 target would only be activated if Tesla records a confirmed weekly close above $470. The analysis also said that a weekly close below $350 would invalidate both the weekly and daily patterns.

According to Axios, OpenAI and Anthropic sought U.S. government engagement ahead of widely releasing their latest high-powered AI models, reflecting the Trump administration’s approach that includes export-control threats, potential licensing requirements, and negotiations across multiple agencies. Axios reported that President Trump scrapped reporting requirements from a Biden-era AI executive order that had required companies to share safety-testing results with the government, including whether models could be “jailbroken,” and that Amazon flagged a jailbreaking vulnerability last month that Axios said ultimately led to export controls on Anthropic. The White House said Tuesday it did not approve or disapprove OpenAI’s decision to release GPT 5.6, while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on CNBC the day after the company announced a wide release that the government talks were “very productive.” Axios also reported that a voluntary industry framework required by a June AI executive order is due Aug. 1.

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