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Open interest in ethereum options on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) hit a record high of $254 million for the month, according to The Block. Meanwhile, open interest in bitcoin options on CME is also near an all-time high at $1.59 billion. Ethereum options volumes fell in June, while bitcoin options volumes rose for the third month in a row, but remained below their March peak.

In the past 7 days, Circle issued a total of USD 1.3 billion USDC, redeemed USD 1.4 billion USDC, and the circulation decreased by USD 100 million. As of June 29, the total circulation of USDC was US$27.4 billion, and the reserve was US$27.5 billion, of which US$2.7 billion was cash and US$24.8 billion was held by Circle Reserve Fund.

Aave announced that it has successfully launched GHO on the Ethereum mainnet. On July 14, the formal governance proposal vote initiated by the Aave community to launch the decentralized stablecoin GHO on the main network has been passed and will be implemented on the chain within one day. Once deployed, Aave V3 users on Ethereum will be able to use collateral to mint GHO.

Crypto exchange Coinbase has suspended retail staking services in California, New Jersey, South Carolina and Wisconsin. Cryptocurrencies staked prior to the order will not be affected. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit against Coinbase last month for classifying its staking service, as well as several of the tokens it lists, as securities. On the same day, securities agencies in 10 states began filing lawsuits against Coinbase. Coinbase said in a blog post on Friday afternoon: "Strongly rejects any allegation that our staking services are considered securities. However, we will fully comply with the state's preliminary order if necessary, even if we have not yet had the opportunity to defend ourselves."

The Indonesian Futures and Commodity Trading Regulatory Agency (Bappebti) will launch an Indonesian cryptocurrency exchange in July 2023. Didid Noordiatmoko, head of Bappebti, said that once the exchange is launched, all cryptocurrency transactions will only be made through the exchange.

A U.S. district judge has set bail at $40 million for former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky after he was arrested Thursday on fraud charges. Following his arrest, Alex Mashinsky pleaded not guilty to seven counts related to misleading investors and manipulating the price of the CEL token, according to court documents. Under the agreement, Alex Mashinsky will be restricted from traveling and unable to open new bank or cryptocurrency accounts. His wife will sign the bond, with another co-signer yet to be identified, as well as financial claims on his New York City home and bank accounts. Alex Mashinsky vehemently denies the allegations against him and looks forward to vigorously defending himself in court against these baseless allegations, his lawyer said.

Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart tweeted that asset management giant Fidelity Investments submitted a second revision to its Bitcoin spot ETF application, but has yet to find any discrepancy between the two (before and after the revision). Substantial differences, the only ones I could find were formatting changes.