Strategy Pauses Bitcoin Buys After $2B Raise, Pakistan Launches Crypto Licensing, Governance Exploits Hit DeFi

Markets digest Bitcoin consolidation near seventy-nine thousand dollars following last week's twenty-three percent surge. Strategy raises two billion dollars through share sales but pauses Bitcoin purchases, redirecting capital into a new one point six billion dollar cash pool. Pakistan launches its first crypto licensing regime with a September fifth deadline for existing operators. Term Finance loses eight point five million dollars in a governance attack highlighting DeFi vulnerabilities, while Fasset secures a one billion dollar valuation backed by Japan's SBI Group. Fed research reveals crypto investors are driven primarily by return expectations rather than fundamentals. Plus: Standard Chartered distributes Hong Kong's first regulated stablecoin, Nvidia earnings loom Wednesday, and Solana validators vote on supply-burning proposals.