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According to BBX data, yesterday the global digital infrastructure and cryptocurrency reserve companies welcomed significant developments in capital operations, technology security, and treasury clearing. The core content is as follows:Satsuma shareholders overwhelmingly approved the liquidation of Bitcoin and delisting: Shareholders of Satsuma Technology, the second-largest publicly listed Bitcoin reserve company in the UK, voted with a high approval rate of 90% to approve the sale of all 668 BTC (fair value approximately $43.5 million), return capital to investors, and delist from the London Stock Exchange (LSE). According to the timeline, the company is expected to cancel its listing on September 14, 2026, with fund clearing and CREST transfers to be completed by September 28. The company's Bitcoin treasury strategy lasted less than a year, and its stock price has fallen over 99% from its peak.Ionic Digital received SEC approval for direct listing on July 28: Digital infrastructure company Ionic Digital officially announced that its S-1 registration statement has been formally approved by the U.S. SEC and is expected to begin trading its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on July 28, with the stock ticker "IOND." This listing will adopt a direct listing model, and the company will not publicly offer any new shares. Ionic Digital's core business focuses on providing next-generation data center solutions for AI and high-performance computing (HPC).Galaxy launches a $5 million "Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative": Digital asset giant Galaxy announced the launch of the "Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative," intending to invest up to $5 million in developer funding to promote the evolution of the Bitcoin network towards quantum attack resistance. The initiative consists of three core components: first, funding the development of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) solutions; second, conducting specialized research on quantum computing and network security by Galaxy Research; third, forming an expert advisory committee to advance academic discussions on the underlying roadmap.

According to market news, Bitcoin Treasuries.NET posted on platform X that shareholders of the UK Bitcoin treasury company Satsuma Technology, supported by Mark Moss, have voted to sell all of their remaining 668 BTC, return capital to shareholders, and close the company.

According to The Block, Uniswap governance will conduct two key on-chain votes from July 19 to 26. The first proposal aims to enable protocol fees for the v4 version liquidity pools for the first time, covering seven chains: Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, BNB Chain, Polygon, Optimism, and Robinhood Chain, targeting three types of pools: static fee pools, pools initiated through continuous liquidation auctions, and aggregator hooks pools; proposals for the remaining five chains will be submitted later.The second proposal, submitted by Uniswap founder Hayden Adams, aims to extend the fee mechanism of v2 and v3 to Robinhood Chain. The fees generated from both proposals will enter the UNIfication burn mechanism. Last month, the Uniswap protocol set a record by burning 186,000 UNI in a single day.

According to monitoring by Bitcoin Treasuries.NET, the shareholder vote for the merger between Adam Back's Bitcoin Standard Treasury (BSTR) and Cantor Equity Partners I has been postponed again to July 10. If the merger is completed, BSTR may purchase over 25,500 bitcoins.

The recent voting results of the ENS DAO, which governs the Ethereum Name Service, have sparked controversy within the community, as some members pointed out.In the latest on-chain vote, ENS founder Nick Johnson cast approximately 3.26 million votes against the proposal to extend the security committee's term for two years. This proposal had previously passed a Snapshot community vote, but the on-chain execution proposal did not receive support.As the controversy escalated, some community members expressed concerns about the degree of decentralization in the ENS DAO governance mechanism. However, there are also viewpoints suggesting that this incident reflects more on the distribution structure of governance tokens rather than a failure of the protocol itself.

According to Bloomberg, the merger vote between Cantor Fitzgerald affiliate Cantor Equity Partners I Inc. and Adam Back's digital asset treasury company BSTR Holdings Inc. has been postponed from June 26 to July 2. The statement indicated that the delay is related to the private placement matters previously disclosed by Cantor Equity Partners.The transaction has attracted significant attention due to the decline in cryptocurrency prices, which has led to a substantial shrinkage in the public market valuation of the digital asset treasury company, raising concerns about shareholder dilution. Cantor Equity Partners is a special purpose acquisition company that announced its merger with BSTR last July.

According to The Block, a joint letter initiated by Stand With Crypto, the Blockchain Association, the Crypto Council for Innovation, and The Digital Chamber has been submitted to U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, urging a prompt full Senate vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (referred to as the CLARITY Act). More than 200 crypto companies, industry associations, and community organizations, including Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, a16z, Circle, and Binance.US, participated in signing.The joint letter points out that the CLARITY Act will establish a comprehensive federal regulatory framework for the digital asset market, clarify the division of responsibilities among regulatory agencies, provide feasible registration pathways, and protect software developers' innovation while encouraging more digital asset businesses to return to the U.S. market. The signatories stated that the act would help keep innovation, jobs, investment, and market activities in the U.S., further solidifying the country's leading position in global digital asset innovation.It is understood that the CLARITY Act received bipartisan support from the Senate Banking Committee last month and passed the committee's review. Senator Cynthia Lummis subsequently stated that the next step for the act will be to enter the full Senate review stage.Additionally, 160 former national security and law enforcement officials had previously signed in support of the act, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and White House crypto advisor Patrick Witt have also publicly called for advancing the legislative process. However, the issue of the Trump family's interests in relation to the crypto industry is still seen as one of the main obstacles facing the advancement of the act.

The Heima team has officially submitted an on-chain proposal to burn 16.5 million HEI tokens from the ecological allocation. This proposal has passed the council vote and will enter the community voting phase in two days, during which community members can participate directly in the voting.The Heima team stated that they will focus on transparency and continue to build long-term value for the ecosystem.

According to AdaStat data, the Cardano Developer Experience Initiative has been officially approved through treasury voting. The proposal for treasury withdrawal requests related to developer tools and onboarding received 67.90% of the votes in favor, with approximately 3.72 billion ADA voting in support, while the opposition accounted for about 1.76 billion ADA, resulting in an opposition rate of 32.10%.The proposal is supported by IO Global, and following the approval of the vote, the related ecological development work will officially advance. This governance vote coincides with Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson publicly focusing on advancing ADA and the privacy blockchain platform Midnight.

According to crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett, the Clarity Act has passed the U.S. Senate Banking Committee with a vote of 15 in favor and 9 against, with Democratic Senators Ruben Gallego and Angela Alsobrooks voting in favor. The next step for the bill is to be submitted to the full Senate for a vote.

Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform that the vote on the Clarity Act is a significant opportunity to advance the U.S. financial system.Previously, Galaxy Digital stated that 7 Democratic senators on the Senate Banking Committee may play a key role in the advancement of the CLARITY Act; the bill will enter the committee review stage, and if passed, will be submitted for a full Senate vote.

According to The Block, Rob Nichols, the CEO of the American Bankers Association (ABA), sent a letter to bank executives on Sunday evening urging them to contact senators to further tighten the provisions related to stablecoin rewards before the Senate Banking Committee's markup vote on Thursday.Nichols warned that the current draft fails to effectively prevent crypto companies from offering "interest-like rewards" to users, which could lead to significant outflows of bank deposits, threatening economic growth and financial stability.The current draft, negotiated by Senators Angela Alsobrooks and Thom Tillis, prohibits paying interest or returns to users holding stablecoins but allows rewards linked to real activities or transactions, a provision that has received support from Coinbase. The banking industry groups believe that the related exceptions contain loopholes that could be exploited and jointly sent a letter on May 8 to Committee Chairman Tim Scott and Democrat Elizabeth Warren, requesting technical revisions to the wording of the provisions.

The Arbitrum DAO vote approved the proposal to release the frozen ETH, with a support rate of 90.96%. The proposal includes a request for Arbitrum governance to approve the release of 30,765.67 ETH frozen by the Arbitrum Security Committee on April 21, and to transfer the funds into a 3/4 multi-signature wallet jointly controlled by Aave Labs, KelpDAO, EtherFi, and Certora. This address will be specifically used for recovery work after receiving the ETH frozen by Arbitrum.

According to crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett, multiple industry insiders have revealed that the Senate Banking Committee may notify about the review of the CLARITY Act as early as tomorrow and has distributed the legislative draft text to some industry members, with a vote expected next Thursday.Insiders stated that the language of the draft is still being finalized, and additional revisions are anticipated to reflect the priorities of the Democratic office. One insider, after reviewing the bill and coordinating with industry leaders, indicated that the overall atmosphere is currently positive, but some terms in parentheses have raised concerns, and some key provisions that were previously thought to be resolved may still be subject to change.

Crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett revealed that according to the latest polls in the United States, the issue of supporting cryptocurrency market structure legislation crosses party lines, with 52% of voters in favor of the bill and only 11% opposed. The Cryptocurrency Market Structure Bill (the CLARITY Act) has received majority support from Democrats, Republicans, and independents, highlighting the widespread demand among voters for clearer rules and enhanced consumer protection for digital assets, while preparing for a key vote in the Senate Banking Committee next week.

The WLFI community voted to pass the proposal for the "Token Unlocking Plan for Early Supporters and Founding Team," with a support rate of 99.9%.The proposal includes that approximately 17 billion WLFI held by early supporters will adopt a 2-year cliff unlock + 2-year linear unlock (a total of 4 years); approximately 45.2 billion WLFI held by the founding team, advisors, and partners can choose a 2-year cliff unlock + 3-year linear unlock (a total of 5 years), and may voluntarily burn 10% of it permanently; tokens that do not actively accept the new plan will remain permanently locked but retain governance participation rights.

A survey commissioned by CoinDesk of 1,000 registered voters in the United States shows that only 1% of respondents listed cryptocurrency as the most important issue in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, ranking almost last among all concerns. In contrast, cost of living (36%), jobs and the economy (13%), and Social Security and Medicare (11%) emerged as the most pressing issues for voters.The survey also revealed that American voters generally hold a negative view of cryptocurrency, with only 27% of respondents indicating they have invested in, traded, or used cryptocurrency, while another 27% said they might participate in the future. About 47% of respondents believe the Republican Party is more friendly towards cryptocurrency, while only 14% think the Democratic Party is more supportive of the crypto industry; however, in terms of "which party they trust more to manage cryptocurrency affairs," the Democratic Party slightly leads with 27% over the Republican Party's 25%, while 40% expressed distrust in both parties.Although cryptocurrency is not a core election issue, about 40% of respondents still indicated they are more inclined to vote for candidates who align with their views on cryptocurrency, demonstrating that the issue of digital assets continues to gain influence in American politics.

Arbitrum DAO has initiated a governance vote to release 30,766 ETH that was previously frozen, to support the aftermath plan of Kelp DAO following the attack, DeFi United.This portion of assets was frozen by the Arbitrum Security Council on April 20, valued at approximately $71.1 million, originally funds transferred by the attacker to the Arbitrum network. If the proposal passes, this will become the largest financial support in the DeFi United plan. At the beginning of the vote, 16.9 million ARB have supported the proposal, and there are currently no opposing votes. The voting will continue until May 7.

According to the official governance page, the cryptocurrency project World Liberty Financial (WLFI), supported by the Trump family, has initiated a token unlock proposal vote. This proposal involves approximately 62.28 billion WLFI tokens, including about 17.04 billion tokens locked for early supporters and about 45.24 billion tokens locked for the founding team, advisors, and partners. The early supporter tokens will have a two-year lock-up period followed by two years of linear release.If the tokens from the founding team and others choose to accept the new proposal, 10% (approximately 4.52 billion) will be permanently destroyed, and the remaining 90% will have a two-year lock-up period followed by three years of linear release. Holders who do not accept the new proposal will continue to be locked indefinitely but can still participate in governance. The voting period will last for 7 days, requiring a quorum of 1 billion WLFI tokens.