Weekly Industry Update: July 3-9

Here's your weekly recap of top industry news and insights:

1. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink claims “#bitcoin is an international asset” during an interview with Fox Business (Cointelegraph)
2. Renowned investor Jim Rogers warns that the U.S “debt problems are going to get worse” and “the U.S. dollar will lose more and more value; eventually we have to pay the price” (Bitcoin.com)
3. SIM Swap attack on Gutter Cat Gang NFT project team results in over $765,000 worth of NFTs lost (Bitcoinist)
4. #tether partners with Kava to launch USDT on Kava network, empowering development of new innovative #defi apps and offering users cost savings when transferring #stablecoins across the Cosmos blockchain ecosystem (Bitcoinist)
5. #alibabacloud launches metaverse launchpad on Avalanche to help companies start their metaverse journeys (CoinDesk)
6. Binance is facing pressure from regulators around the world, from U.S. to Netherlands to Australia (CoinDesk)
7. #solana rises to 2-month high on Saturday, with #avax also climbing almost 10% (Bitcoin.com)
8. #ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin praises Ordinals and the #brc20 token, claiming that we are seeing the “organic return of builder culture” (Cointelegraph)
9. Shiba Inu ecosystem lead developer Shytoshi Kusama says Shibarium launches in August (Benzinga)
10. Royalties earned by #nft projects are at the lowest point in 2 years according to Nansen (Cointelegraph)
11. Most popular cryptocurrency transacted with last week on Swapin - #usdt for individual and #usdc for business customers
12. Most popular country using Swapin’s crypto-to-fiat #paymentsolutions last week is?Germany

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