Senate Democrats have intensified scrutiny of Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche during his confirmation hearing, accusing him of weakening crypto enforcement while President Donald Trumpβs digital asset businesses have expanded. According to proceedings from the Senate Judiciary Committee hearingβ¦
Base creator Jesse Pollak has acknowledged that the networkβs multi-year bet on onchain social products did not deliver the expected growth and has redirected Base toward trading, payments, and AI-powered financial infrastructure. Base returns to infrastructure after social experiment fallsβ¦
Aave has expanded its V4 lending protocol beyond Ethereum for the first time by deploying it on Avalanche to support tokenized real-world asset lending and institutional credit markets. According to an announcement from Aave, the deployment brings the protocolβs latestβ¦
XRP Ledger has entered the final two-week activation countdown for its fixCleanup3_2_0 amendment after validator support exceeded the networkβs required 80% approval threshold. According to XRP Ledger governance data, the bundled maintenance amendment currently has 85.71% validator support, with 30β¦
Bitcoin has climbed above $65,000 after softer-than-expected U.S. producer inflation reduced expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike later this month. According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Juneβs Producer Price Index (PPI) added fresh momentum toβ¦
Binance has unveiled an $800,000 XRP airdrop campaign for eligible Ripple USD holders, introducing weekly rewards designed to encourage activity around Rippleβs dollar-backed stablecoin. According to a July 15 announcement from Binance, users holding RLUSD in Binance Earn, Margin, orβ¦
Circle has secured a court-backed arbitration win after records made public in a Boston federal court detailed why the stablecoin issuer suspended Heka Fundsβ USDC minting and redemption services over suspected market manipulation involving Tether. Court filings submitted by Circleβ¦
Hijacked SpaceX and Starlink X accounts pushed the SCATMAN memecoin for a $135K payday. Why credibility, not code, is crypto's cheapest attack surface.
Ark Invest has expanded its exposure to Circle and Block while cutting its Robinhood position, adding nearly $15.4 million worth of shares across the three companies. According to Ark Investβs latest daily trading disclosure, the investment firm purchased 220,012 sharesβ¦
JPMorgan has lowered its earnings forecasts for Circle and Coinbase after a new USDC revenue-sharing agreement with Hyperliquid changed how income from the stablecoinβs reserves will be divided. According to a JPMorgan research note, the revised agreement could reduce theβ¦
Avalanche has reached $2.1 billion in distributed tokenized real-world asset value after a 60.47% monthly increase, supported by a newly announced $11 billion institutional tokenization deal with Bridgetower. According to data from RWA.xyz, Avalancheβs distributed tokenized asset value climbed toβ¦
Chainlink price has jumped more than 5% after Mantle completed the migration of its $2.5 billion Super Portal to Chainlinkβs cross-chain infrastructure, extending a crypto market rally driven by softer U.S. inflation data. According to data from crypto.news, Chainlink (LINK)β¦
Dogecoin price has climbed more than 2% after softer US inflation boosted risk appetite, even as Binance traders have offloaded $1.2 billion in memecoins since October. According to CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost, traders have reduced memecoin exposure because they consider theseβ¦
Coinbase Global stock has climbed more than 2% after the crypto exchange reportedly simplified its account registration process for users in mainland China. According to a report shared by Wu Blockchain, Coinbase now allows users in mainland China to completeβ¦
Bitcoin has climbed back toward the $65,000 level after softer-than-expected U.S. inflation data sharply reduced market expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike at the July policy meeting. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the consumer price indexβ¦
Circle Internet Group shares have dropped more than 2% in pre-market trading after US banking groups urged the Senate to tighten stablecoin provisions in the CLARITY Act, adding fresh pressure to the stock. According to a joint letter from severalβ¦
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 structureβ¦
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 readβ¦
On July 13, one of Japanβs 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 withβ¦
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 Solanaβs flagship memecoins, transferred roughly $20 million worth of BONK to aβ¦
A former Los Angeles County Sheriffβs Department deputy has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison after admitting he lied to federal investigators about threats made by a cryptocurrency businessman during a 2021 extortion incident. The U.S. Attorneyβs Officeβ¦
Cumberland has secured a Major Payment Institution licence from Singaporeβs central bank, allowing its local unit to offer regulated digital payment token and cross-border money transfer services. According to an announcement by cryptocurrency trading and liquidity provider Cumberland on X,β¦
Reed Smith has launched an automated MiCA compliance platform as crypto firms across the European Union have entered full regulatory supervision following the end of the blocβs transition period. According to global law firm Reed Smith, the new platform, calledβ¦
Jito has proposed a governance overhaul that would direct 100% of the DAOβs JTX revenue share toward open-market JTO buybacks and permanent token burns through at least Q4 2027. According to a governance proposal published by Jito on July 13,β¦
Coinbase Ventures has completed 30 startup investments during the first half of 2026, maintaining the industryβs most active venture pace despite a sharp slowdown in overall crypto fundraising. According to CryptoRank, the venture arm of Coinbase led all crypto-focused investorsβ¦
Aave has expanded its use of Chainlinkβs Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), making it the default infrastructure for cross-chain activity across its ecosystem. According to an announcement from Aave, the protocol has selected Chainlink CCIP to power cross-chain functions across theβ¦
President Donald Trump has urged the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act in honor of the late Senator Lindsey Graham as lawmakers face a narrowing window before the August recess. Trump links crypto bill to Grahamβs legacy In a Truthβ¦
Bitcoin is drifting toward Fidelityβs 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. Hereβs how that decision still explains XRPβs token thesis today.
Circle is looking to expand its South Korea outreach by organising an invitation-only industry event in Seoul later this month as it pursues new partnerships with banks, crypto exchanges and payments firms. According to industry officials cited by The Koreaβ¦
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 hadβ¦
On July 6, Luxembourgβs financial regulator, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier, upgraded Rippleβs preliminary Crypto-Asset Service Provider authorization into a full license under the European Unionβs Markets in Crypto-Assets framework. The approval means Ripple can passport regulated cryptoβ¦
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 intoβ¦
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% forβ¦
Robinhood Chain has processed 7.6 million daily transactions just 11 days after its mainnet launch, narrowing the gap with Coinbaseβs Base and accelerating competition among Ethereum Layer 2 networks. According to on-chain data shared by MSBIntel and verified by Tokenβ¦
Binanceβs monthly futures trading volume has climbed to about $1.63 trillion in June, reaching its highest level of 2026 despite cautious crypto market sentiment and the seasonal slowdown that usually weighs on trading activity. According to CryptoQuant analyst JA Maartun,β¦
Vitalik Buterin has called on Elon Musk to reshape X into a platform where ordinary users can help coordinate global AI governance instead of leaving key decisions to governments and large institutions. According to a July 11 thread published byβ¦
The U.S. Department of Justice has reportedly moved to dismiss its criminal case against the founder of BitClub Network despite allegations that the crypto mining scheme defrauded investors of $722 million. According to a report by Bloomberg Law, citing twoβ¦
Bitcoin closed the worst half-year in its recent history near $60,000, down from $93,000 in January and fresh off a 21-month low, and almost none of the damage came from crypto itself. The Federal Reserve and record ETF outflows didβ¦
Zcash price has rallied past $500 after open interest jumped to $1.02 billion and traders accumulated positions ahead of the July 28 Ironwood upgrade. According to data from crypto.news, Zcash (ZEC) price has risen more than 7% over the pastβ¦
Lawmakers have intensified calls for an investigation into President Donald Trumpβs cryptocurrency holdings as the Senate prepares to advance the CLARITY Act. According to a joint statement from Democratic senators, ranking members from five Senate committees have asked Congress toβ¦
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 Cardanoβs founding entities, announced a recovery path to return the assets within twoβ¦
The x402 standard revives a dormant corner of the webβs 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 theβ¦
Italyβs largest bank disclosed an $18 million XRP position, and the interesting part is not the size but the plumbing: the exposure runs through Grayscaleβs trust, not through wallets, keys, or even the shiny new ETFs. Bank crypto exposure hasβ¦
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 itβ¦
Zcash has scheduled its Ironwood network upgrade for July 28, setting the activation date for the protocol change designed to close the Orchard shielded pool and help verify whether the previously disclosed vulnerability was ever exploited. Zcash core developer Seanβ¦
A malicious update to an Injective developer package has exposed private keys and seed phrases after being downloaded more than 300 times, Socket has found. According to security firm Socket, version 1.20.21 of the @injectivelabs/sdk-ts npm package, which has aboutβ¦
Paul Grewal has announced that he will step down as Coinbaseβs chief legal officer on July 31, handing over leadership of the exchangeβs legal team just days before the US Senate is expected to resume work on the CLARITY Act.β¦
The Senate has entered what could be its final practical window to advance the CLARITY Act this year, with a merged draft expected as early as next week before lawmakers run out of time ahead of the August recess. Accordingβ¦
OpenAI has launched GPT-5.6 across ChatGPT, Codex, and its API, introducing GPT-5.6 Sol with a four-agent reasoning system and two lower-cost models as the rollout begins worldwide. According to OpenAI, the GPT-5.6 family introduces a new three-tier lineup consisting ofβ¦
CME Group has faced a regulatory setback after the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission delayed the immediate launch of its planned 24/7 crude oil futures trading. According to a press release issued by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, theβ¦
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, landingβ¦
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.
INTERPOL-led operation has resulted in 5,811 arrests, blocked more than 31,000 bank accounts, and intercepted $293 million in illicit assets across 97 countries and territories during a global crackdown on fraud and crypto-linked money laundering. According to an INTERPOL statementβ¦
Hyundai Card has completed its first stablecoin-based cross-border remittance test, settling a $20,000 payment between Hyundai Motorβs U.S. and Mexican entities in about seven minutes using USDT on Avalanche. According to a Hyundai Card press release, the proof-of-concept (PoC) involvedβ¦
The Federal Reserve has warned that strong artificial intelligence-related demand could keep inflation elevated, while market pricing for a U.S. interest rate hike this year has climbed above 59%. According to the minutes of the Federal Reserveβs June Federal Openβ¦
Circle stock has remained under pressure ahead of the July 18 deadline for U.S. regulators to publish implementation rules for the GENIUS Act, while technical indicators continue to point to downside risks for CRCL shares. According to the GENIUS Actβ¦
Google has updated its Chrome Web Store rules to prohibit prediction market extensions that facilitate real-money transactions, with enforcement set to begin on Aug. 1, 2026. According to Googleβs latest update to its Developer Program policies, browser extensions that βfacilitateβ¦
Rippleβs prime brokerage sits inside the DTCCβs 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 mechanicsβ¦
American CryptoFed has urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to recognize its Locke governance token registration ahead of an Aug. 17 deadline that the organization says should take effect automatically under federal securities law. According to a memorandum publishedβ¦
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 theβ¦
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 Presidentβs $1.4 billionβ¦
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 itsβ¦
Base has activated its B20 token standard on the mainnet, allowing developers to issue native stablecoins, tokenized real-world assets, and other fungible tokens without deploying custom ERC-20 smart contracts. According to Base documentation, the B20 standard went live on theβ¦
Bitcoin Suisse has secured full regulatory approval in Abu Dhabi, allowing the Swiss crypto firm to expand its regulated digital asset business across the United Arab Emirates. ADGM approval opens regulated crypto services across the UAE According to a Julyβ¦
The XRP Ledger has moved closer to activating its xrpld v3.2.0 upgrade after more than 55% of trusted validators adopted the latest software version. According to XRP Ledger Explorer data, 84 trusted validators, or 55.63% of the validator set, areβ¦
Grayscale Research has argued that Strategyβs recent $216 million Bitcoin sale has improved the companyβs financial position while helping create conditions for a more stable Bitcoin price. According to a July 6 report from Grayscale Research, the market reaction toβ¦
Tether has invested $20 million in Mercado Bitcoin to support the Brazilian companyβs expansion across tokenized assets, blockchain payments, lending, and on-chain capital markets. According to a July 7 announcement from Tether on Tuesday, the investment forms part of aβ¦
On July 6, 2026, someone spent about four million dollars buying BONK, used it to control almost a hundred percent of a seven-wallet vote, and legally walked off with twenty million from the DAOβs treasury. No code was hacked. Theβ¦
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.
Coinbase has secured UK regulatory approval to expand beyond crypto, clearing the way to offer derivatives and equities through its platform under a single account. According to a July 7 announcement, the company has received UK authorisation to provide investmentβ¦
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.
BonkDAO has disclosed that attackers have drained roughly $20 million worth of BONK tokens from its treasury after exploiting a malicious governance proposal. According to a statement published by BonkDAO on X, the unauthorized proposal allowed an unknown entity toβ¦
Belgiumβs financial markets regulator has added six crypto platforms to its warning list after finding they are operating in the country without the authorization required under the European Unionβs Markets in Crypto-Assets MiCA framework. According to Belgiumβs Financial Services andβ¦
Binance has added spot trading for Strategyβs STRC perpetual preferred stock after the Bitcoin treasury firm sold 3,588 BTC for $216 million and increased its USD reserves to $2.55 billion. According to an official announcement published on July 6, Binanceβ¦
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has unveiled a multi-year roadmap that places native privacy, quantum resistance, and protocol simplification at the center of Ethereumβs next major upgrade, describing it as the networkβs largest transformation since The Merge. According to a roadmapβ¦
Circle shares have climbed despite a bearish analyst note from Jefferies, as fresh data has shown USDC processed more than twice the adjusted stablecoin trading volume of Tetherβs USDT in June. According to Grayscale Head of Research Zach Pandl, stablecoinsβ¦
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 giantβ¦
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. Blockchainβ¦
Brad Garlinghouse called Strategyβs 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 cryptoβs twoβ¦
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 areβ¦
Ethereum has climbed about 12% since July 1 as weaker-than-expected U.S. employment data and renewed institutional inflows pushed buyers back into the market, although the asset now faces heavy resistance near the $1,800 level. Ethereumβs rally gathered pace after theβ¦
The Coinbase Premium Index tracks US institutional Bitcoin demand via the Coinbase-Binance price gap. How it works, its 2026 record, and how to read it.
European regulators have warned that rapid advances in agentic artificial intelligence have outpaced existing rulemaking, with central banks and financial authorities calling for new safeguards to reduce risks to financial markets. According to remarks made during the European Central Bankβsβ¦
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 networkβ¦
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, perpetualβ¦
On June 30, more than 140 companies, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Google, and Circleβs most important ally, Coinbase, unveiled a stablecoin designed to give away the exact revenue stream Circle lives on. CRCL cratered 17% in a day andβ¦
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 elseβs. The land grab has a clear logic,β¦
French police have arrested two suspected fraudsters accused of stealing about $1.8 million in cryptoassets from a wealthy couple during a fake villa sale after a year-long investigation. According to French newspaper Var-Matin, French police from the GassinβSaint-Tropez gendarmerie arrestedβ¦
Shielded Labs has raised the possibility of delaying Zcashβs Ironwood network upgrade, citing readiness concerns among exchanges, mining pools and wallet providers ahead of the planned late July activation. According to a July 3 X post on the Zcash communityβ¦
Standard Chartered has secured a MiCA passport as the European Securities and Markets Authority has added 57 newly authorized crypto firms to its register following the end of the EUβs transition period. According to the European Securities and Markets Authorityβ¦
The CLARITY Act has regained momentum after Senator Bill Hagerty outlined a revised Senate timeline that points to floor action after lawmakers return from the July recess. According to reports citing Senator Bill Hagerty, the U.S. Senate is expected toβ¦
Coinbase stock has climbed nearly 19% in the past five trading sessions even as Bank of America says investors are pulling money out of U.S. equities at the fastest pace since March. According to a Bloomberg report, Bank of Americaβ¦
Bitwise has strengthened its proposed spot NEAR ETF with a staking feature in a new SEC filing, helping drive NEAR nearly 12% higher as the token broke above a multi-week downtrend. According to a revised S-1 registration statement submitted toβ¦
Samsung has distanced itself from the founding consortium behind the proposed OUSD stablecoin after being named among more than 140 partners announced for the project. According to a report by Chosun, several South Korean companies listed as founding members ofβ¦
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 inβ¦
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.β¦
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.β¦
For the first time in the tournamentβs near-century of history, a crypto exchange sits inside FIFAβs official partner ecosystem. Six billion viewers, sixteen host cities, one industry trying to prove it has outgrown the arena-naming era. Here is what theβ¦
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 theβ¦
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