Hijacked SpaceX and Starlink X accounts pushed the SCATMAN memecoin for a $135K payday. Why credibility, not code, is crypto's cheapest attack surface.
The United States Senate returned from its holiday recess on July 13 with one piece of paper waiting on its desk that matters more to crypto markets than any price chart. The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, the market structureโฆ
The most instructive XRP trade of 2026 was an exit. When it emerged this month that Goldman Sachs, once the largest XRP holder among Wall Street institutions, had sold down its position, the reaction split along familiar lines: bears readโฆ
On July 13, one of Japanโs largest financial conglomerates rewired its blockchain strategy in a single press release. SBI Holdings announced that the Solana Foundation will take an equity stake in SBI R3 Japan, the joint venture it shares withโฆ
Nobody hacked anything. No smart contract failed, no private key leaked, no phishing link fired. On July 6, the treasury of BonkDAO, the community organization behind one of Solanaโs flagship memecoins, transferred roughly $20 million worth of BONK to aโฆ
Bitcoin is drifting toward Fidelityโs power law support near $58k, a zone tied to past cycle lows, but Jurrien Timmer says a catalyst is still missing.
Ripple nearly shut down after the SEC lawsuit and considered giving away its XRP holdings. Hereโs how that decision still explains XRPโs token thesis today.
On July 8, Paul Grewal notified Coinbase that he was resigning as chief legal officer and corporate secretary, effective July 31. The company disclosed the departure in an 8-K filing the next day, and by Thursday evening the announcement hadโฆ
On July 6, Luxembourgโs financial regulator, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier, upgraded Rippleโs preliminary Crypto-Asset Service Provider authorization into a full license under the European Unionโs Markets in Crypto-Assets framework. The approval means Ripple can passport regulated cryptoโฆ
Sometime in the week of July 13, according to people briefed on the negotiations, Senate staff will release a unified draft of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, merging months of parallel work by the Banking and Agriculture Committees intoโฆ
In the last week of June, XRP printed its weakest price since late 2024, briefly touching $1.01 before stabilizing in the $1.05 to $1.13 range where it has traded through early July. The token is down more than 25% forโฆ
An exploit drained roughly 16 million ADA, about $2.4 million, from 374 Cardano wallets in late June. What happened next is the interesting part: EMURGO, one of Cardanoโs founding entities, announced a recovery path to return the assets within twoโฆ
The x402 standard revives a dormant corner of the webโs original design, the 402 Payment Required status code, to let AI agents pay for services autonomously, per call, with no accounts and no cards. Ripple has moved to put theโฆ
Italyโs largest bank disclosed an $18 million XRP position, and the interesting part is not the size but the plumbing: the exposure runs through Grayscaleโs trust, not through wallets, keys, or even the shiny new ETFs. Bank crypto exposure hasโฆ
Robinhood built a blockchain for tokenized stocks and institutional-grade real-world assets. In its first week, the chain did $570 million of volume against $21.68 million of liquidity, a 26-to-1 ratio that exists nowhere else in DeFi, and most of itโฆ
Meta description: Crypto minus Bitcoin and Ethereum fell 23% in H1 2026 to $666B. The three structural causes, the survivors, and the honest bull and bear cases.
The platform whose homepage promises no presales and no team allocations is about to release roughly $130 million of presale and team tokens into a market that trades half that much in a day. The July 12 PUMP unlock, landingโฆ
Whale wallets absorbed $16.7B of Bitcoin at the lows while spot ETFs posted record outflows. Both sides of the great hands transfer, and the tape to watch.
Rippleโs prime brokerage sits inside the DTCCโs clearing directory, holds a seat in the 50-firm tokenization working group, and clears more than three trillion dollars a year. The XRP community reads that as quadrillions coming to the ledger. The mechanicsโฆ
Exchange reserves have fallen to a seven-year low of about 1.6 billion XRP, half what they were at the October 2025 peak. ETFs have absorbed nearly a billion tokens. Ripple still holds roughly 36 billion in escrow. This is theโฆ
The most consequential crypto bill in American history missed its July 4 signing target and sits on the Senate calendar with no floor vote scheduled. The reason is not procedure. It is three specific, unresolved fights: the Presidentโs $1.4 billionโฆ
Two projects have verified roughly 18 million humans each, by completely different methods, for the same prize: becoming the identity layer of an internet overrun by AI. Worldcoin scans irises with orbs and has Vercel, Zoom, and Tinder integrating itsโฆ
Vitalik's Lean Ethereum roadmap would replace nearly every part of the protocol in 3-4 years: STARKs, quantum-safe crypto, new storage, and beyond the EVM.
Visa data shows USDC carrying 70% of adjusted stablecoin volume, double USDT. How Circle won settlement, Tether kept savings, and what breaks the truce.
Sheriffs and police chiefs oppose the CLARITY Act. NOBLE just endorsed it. Inside Section 604, the vote math, and the cop-vs-cop fight deciding crypto law.
While XRP holders everywhere else argue about ETF flows and price charts, one country quietly turned the token into working infrastructure. Regulated prepaid money on the XRP Ledger, a Deloitte-attested stablecoin, tokenized bonds paying XRP bonuses, and a financial giantโฆ
A7A5 was engineered to be unstoppable: a ruble token with no freeze function, backed by a sanctioned bank, majority-owned by a convicted fugitive, and launched beyond the reach of Western regulators. Its issuer claims tens of billions in volume. Blockchainโฆ
Brad Garlinghouse called Strategyโs sliding preferred shares a damning indictment of financial engineering. Traders answered with an uncomfortable observation: Ripple also funds itself from the asset it champions, one billion escrowed XRP at a time. The feud between cryptoโs twoโฆ
The biggest fight in American finance right now is over a single clause: whether digital dollars can pay their holders interest. Banks say yield-bearing stablecoins would drain trillions in deposits and break the lending machine. Crypto says the banks areโฆ
June delivered the worst month in the history of United States spot Bitcoin ETFs, with more than $4 billion pulled and 2026 flows turning negative for the first time. Over the same 2 weeks, the largest wallets on the networkโฆ
On July 7, 3 weeks after the largest IPO in history, SPCX enters the Nasdaq-100 with billions in passive index buying behind it. The more interesting market is the one Wall Street does not run: tokenized shares on Solana, perpetualโฆ
On June 30, more than 140 companies, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Google, and Circleโs most important ally, Coinbase, unveiled a stablecoin designed to give away the exact revenue stream Circle lives on. CRCL cratered 17% in a day andโฆ
On July 1, Robinhood launched its own blockchain, joining Coinbase, Stripe, Circle, and Tether in the fastest-moving infrastructure race in crypto: giant consumer companies building their own rails instead of renting someone elseโs. The land grab has a clear logic,โฆ
While the market argues about XRP price levels, the ledger underneath it is assembling something more ambitious: a full stack of compliance-native DeFi rails aimed at banks, funds, and treasury desks. Here is what is already live, what is inโฆ
Solana now beats Ethereum on trading volume, active users, and fee revenue. Ethereum still holds the money. Halfway through 2026, the question is no longer who is faster. It is whether the two chains are even running the same race.โฆ
The biggest sporting event on Earth has become the biggest liquidity event in prediction market history. Billions in tournament volume, a $45 billion June across the sector, one very expensive longshot trap, and a CFTC probe arriving right on schedule.โฆ
For the first time in the tournamentโs near-century of history, a crypto exchange sits inside FIFAโs official partner ecosystem. Six billion viewers, sixteen host cities, one industry trying to prove it has outgrown the arena-naming era. Here is what theโฆ
In 2011, $2.7 billion of inflows sent Bitcoin up more than 55,000%. This cycle, $697 billion produced 689%. A leading analyst says the math has changed so much that the next parabolic run needs a trillion dollars. Here is theโฆ
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