Cryptocurrency & Blockchain - MicroStrategy increases preferred stock offering to $2800 million from $2000 million to buy more Bitcoin [1] - VeChain partners with Franklin Templeton (a $1500 billion asset manager) to integrate BENJI platform for tokenized enterprise payments [2] - BitMine surpasses $2000 million in $ETH holdings, aims to stake 5% of total Ethereum supply [3] - Christie's International Real Estate launches a crypto real estate division, allowing property purchases with cryptocurrency [2] - Ghana's central bank to propose crypto regulation by September [3] - BlackRock suggests de-dollarization is driving central banks to diversify and consider Bitcoin as a reserve strategy [3] Artificial Intelligence - OpenAI plans to launch its next-generation AI model, GPT-5, in early August [3] - xAI partners with Kalshi to integrate Grok AI into prediction markets [4] Politics & Economy - Trump denies plans to cut subsidies to Elon Musk's companies, wants them to thrive [2] - Trump meets with Fed Chair Jerome Powell [4]