Circle has secured a court-backed arbitration win after records made public in a Boston federal court detailed why the stablecoin issuer suspended Heka Funds’ USDC minting and redemption services over suspected market manipulation involving Tether. Court filings submitted by Circle…

EU AML watchdog has warned that the end of MiCA’s transitional period has increased the risk of compliance pressure on crypto firms as customers move to licensed providers across the bloc. According to Bruna Szego, chair of the Authority for…

Pi Network price has climbed nearly 20% to around $0.086 on July 15 after an oversold rebound, with improving U.S. inflation data and renewed buying interest combined to lift the token from fresh record lows. According to data from crypto.news,…

Solana price has climbed to around $78 on July 15 after a 250 million USDC mint on the network, combined with softer U.S. inflation data, injected fresh buying momentum across crypto markets. The move gathered pace after the USDC Treasury…

Revolut has secured in-principle approval from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority to expand its regulated crypto business in the United Arab Emirates, adding another regulatory milestone to its global digital asset strategy. According to a company announcement on Tuesday, the…

Ethereum price has reclaimed the $1,850 resistance after softer-than-expected U.S. inflation data triggered a sharp short squeeze, putting the $2,000 level back into focus for traders. The second-largest cryptocurrency climbed nearly 5% on July 15 after June’s Consumer Price Index…

Japan has enacted sweeping amendments to its financial laws that classify cryptocurrencies as financial products, opening the door to lower crypto taxes, domestic exchange-traded funds and stricter market oversight. According to Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, the House of Councillors approved…

The United Kingdom has set an early 2027 target to issue its first digital sovereign bond on distributed-ledger infrastructure, becoming the first G7 country to launch government debt in tokenized form. According to Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who announced the plan…

South Korea has unveiled plans for a new law that will bring cryptocurrencies and other digital assets into the country’s state asset management framework, expanding rules that have remained largely unchanged for more than seven decades. South Korea’s Ministry of…

Polymarket has been blocked in the Czech Republic after authorities classified the prediction market platform as an unlicensed gambling service, adding another European jurisdiction to the list of countries restricting its operations. The Czech Ministry of Finance has ordered internet…

CFTC has ordered Kalshi to keep operating in Michigan despite the platform already unwinding sports event trades to comply with a state court order, deepening the dispute over who regulates prediction markets in the U.S. According to a July 14…

Ethereum-backed EthSystems has launched with support from Bitmine, SharpLink and Consensys CEO Joe Lubin, adding another independent organization to Ethereum’s institutional development network after the Foundation cut 54 roles. According to an announcement from EthSystems on Tuesday, the for-profit company…

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 Invest’s latest daily trading disclosure, the investment firm purchased 220,012 shares…

TeraWulf shares have dropped more than 7% after New York ordered a one-year pause on new environmental permits for large-scale data centers. According to an executive order signed by New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday, the state will temporarily…

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 structure…

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 read…

On July 13, one of Japan’s 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 with…

MemeCore price has surged more than 20% to an intraday high of $1.46 on July 14, breaking out of a two-week consolidation range after buyers defended support near $1.20. As per data from crypto.news, MemeCore (M) opened near $1.21 before…

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 Solana’s flagship memecoins, transferred roughly $20 million worth of BONK to a…

Ethereum has remained below $1,800 as traders await U.S. inflation data despite growing expectations of a breakout above $1,850. The second-largest cryptocurrency traded around $1,780 after briefly slipping toward $1,770 following the latest geopolitical flare-up in the Middle East. Oil…

Bitcoin price has stabilized near $62,500 after a weekend plunge below $62,000, while renewed U.S.-Iran hostilities and an oil surge have kept analysts cautious before U.S. inflation data. According to data from crypto.news, Bitcoin (BTC) price traded at about $62,504…

A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s 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. Attorney’s Office…

South Korea has reaffirmed plans to expand its blockchain and digital asset sector in the second half of 2026, pairing new blockchain initiatives with legislation for stablecoins, tokenized government bonds, and spot crypto ETFs. South Korea’s Ministry of Economy and…

U.S. banking groups have urged the Senate to tighten the CLARITY Act’s stablecoin yield rules, warning that unclear language could encourage payment stablecoins to compete with traditional bank deposits. According to a joint letter sent Monday to Senate Majority Leader…

Confirmo has launched a stablecoin subscription payment service that supports automated recurring billing across more than 700 self-custody wallets and exchange accounts. According to a July 14 press release shared with crypto.news, Subscribe allows enterprise businesses such as SaaS providers,…

Cumberland has secured a Major Payment Institution licence from Singapore’s 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,…

JCB has partnered with Circle to test USDC for internal treasury transfers and merchant payments in Japan, extending stablecoin use into cross-border corporate settlement and retail transactions. A July 14 statement from JCB said the Japanese payments company has signed…

Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest has increased its exposure to SpaceX with purchases worth about $52.1 million during the week ended July 10, while cutting positions in semiconductor, streaming and genomics companies as it continued adjusting its portfolios. According to Ark…

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 bloc’s transition period. According to global law firm Reed Smith, the new platform, called…

A Bitcoin wallet dormant since the cryptocurrency traded near $6,500 has transferred 2,931 BTC worth about $188 million, reviving onchain activity after seven years. Blockchain intelligence platform Arkham reported that the long-inactive holder moved the Bitcoin from wallet “356my” to…

Pi Network has plunged nearly 15% on Monday as investors rushed to exit positions ahead of a major token unlock, extending the token’s slide to a fresh all-time low and reinforcing bearish sentiment across the market. According to data from…

Solana price has remained below the $80 psychological barrier after renewed macro pressure and weakening risk appetite pushed buyers into a wait-and-see mode despite an emerging bullish chart pattern. According to data from crypto.news, Solana (SOL) price traded near $76.3…

Webull EU has secured MiCAR approval in the Netherlands, clearing the way to launch regulated crypto custody services for European clients later this year under the bloc’s digital asset rulebook. Webull EU announced on Monday that the approval from the…

Metaplanet has officially launched Metaplanet Securities, turning its completed acquisition of Siiibo Securities into a regulated digital asset investment banking business built around Bitcoin-backed financial products. According to Metaplanet, the new subsidiary succeeds the Tokyo-based brokerage acquired for JPY 2.1…

Ethereum has slipped below the key $1,800 level after renewed U.S.-Iran military escalation pushed oil prices higher and sent investors out of risk assets, although buyers continue to defend support near $1,750. According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum (ETH) price…

Thailand has begun auditing high-value stablecoin transactions after authorities flagged suspicious transfers that may have bypassed normal financial reporting systems. According to local news outlet Thansettakij, the Bank of Thailand (BOT) and the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have…

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 Korea…

SBI is reportedly preparing to launch a lending product offering a 3% annual yield on its JPYSC stablecoin, adding a yield feature weeks after introducing Japan’s first trust bank-backed yen stablecoin. According to a Monday report by Nikkei, the Japanese…

Turkish prosecutors have accused 504 people of operating an alleged money laundering network that moved nearly 40 billion Turkish liras through shell companies, jewellery stores, payment providers and cryptocurrency transactions. According to a 1,548-page indictment prepared by the Istanbul Chief…

China has proposed a series of judicial and procedural reforms to strengthen investigations, evidence handling and asset recovery in virtual currency money laundering cases, as prosecutors seek to close gaps in the country’s criminal enforcement framework. According to an article…

Democratic senators have renewed calls for Senate hearings into President Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency business interests after his latest financial disclosure reported about $1.4 billion in crypto-related income as lawmakers prepare to vote on the CLARITY Act. A notice released on…

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 Cardano’s founding entities, announced a recovery path to return the assets within two…

The x402 standard revives a dormant corner of the web’s 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 the…

DeXe price has surged more than 20% in a single day, climbing to a new all-time high on July 10 as a breakout above key resistance and heavy short liquidations propelled the token to the top of the cryptocurrency market.…

Ethereum price has rebounded to nearly $1,800 after easing geopolitical tensions and an aggressive short squeeze across crypto derivatives restored appetite for risk assets, while traders now watch whether bulls can force a breakout above a key technical ceiling. The…

Italy’s largest bank disclosed an $18 million XRP position, and the interesting part is not the size but the plumbing: the exposure runs through Grayscale’s trust, not through wallets, keys, or even the shiny new ETFs. Bank crypto exposure has…

Bitcoin has climbed about 3% to $64,300 after crude oil dropped below $72, and reports that the United States and Iran would continue peace talks revived risk appetite across crypto markets. The rebound followed two volatile sessions in which fresh…

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 it…

HSBC has completed its first blockchain-based issuance of a digitally native structured product, using tokenized U.S. dollar-denominated notes in a private placement for institutional investors in Hong Kong. According to HSBC, the pilot transaction involved U.S. dollar-denominated structured notes issued…

Goldman Sachs has prohibited employees from trading prediction market contracts tied to the bank, elections, financial markets, macroeconomic data, and geopolitics as companies respond to growing insider trading risks on event-based platforms. CNBC reported that the investment bank introduced the…

North Carolina has become the first U.S. state to explicitly recognize the CFTC’s authority over prediction markets while setting a 6% state tax on their trading fee revenue. Under Senate Bill 257, signed by Governor Josh Stein on July 7…

Robinhood Chain has attracted more than $70 million worth of bridged Ether within its first week, strengthening Ethereum’s role as the settlement layer behind the brokerage’s new tokenized finance network. Data from Token Terminal showed the Arbitrum-based layer-2 network crossed…

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 Sean…

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 about…

Polymarket has filed three registration applications with the National Futures Association as it seeks to introduce margin trading for U.S. users. According to the National Futures Association’s BASIC database, Polymarket affiliate Coming Home GBA LLC submitted the applications through PM…

Hyperliquid Policy Center and Phantom have urged the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to update its rulebook for onchain trading, arguing that existing regulations built for traditional financial markets do not fit decentralized infrastructure. According to a joint comment letter…

UK Labour MPs have proposed making a temporary ban on cryptocurrency donations to political parties permanent after Nigel Farage resigned amid investigations into multimillion-pound gifts linked to crypto industry figures. The Guardian reported on Thursday that members of the ruling…

Every token launched on Pump.fun, every fair-launch memecoin, and a surprising share of DeFi’s core machinery runs on the same idea: a mathematical formula that sets a token’s price from its supply, with a smart contract as the only market…

Spot Bitcoin and crypto ETFs have become the largest force in the market, absorbing and releasing billions of dollars of coins through a mechanism most of their own investors have never seen. This guide opens the machine: authorized participants, the…

Nearly every transaction on Ethereum’s layer-2 networks passes through a single machine, run by a single company, called a sequencer. It orders trades, sets the pace of the chain, earns the fees, and can go dark or say no. This…

PayPal USD (PYUSD) has become natively available on Polygon through the Polygon Open Money Stack, giving businesses direct access to the regulated stablecoin across payment, compliance and fiat conversion services. According to a press release shared with crypto.news, Paxos-issued PYUSD…

Multisignature wallets guard most of the serious money in crypto: DAO treasuries, exchange cold storage, protocol funds, and the savings of the security-conscious. They are also at the center of the industry’s biggest heists, from Bybit’s $1.5 billion to this…

Pi Network price fell beneath the psychological $0.10 mark for the first time on July 9, extending its month-long slide to more than 25% as growing token supply and persistent selling overwhelmed demand. According to data from crypto.news, Pi Network…

XRP has recovered from this week’s sharp sell-off after defending the $1.07 support zone, with traders weighing an emerging bullish chart breakout against persistent geopolitical and regulatory risks that continue to cap upside. According to data from crypto.news, XRP (XRP)…

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 statement…

Ethereum price has remained pinned near $1,750 after renewed Middle East tensions triggered a risk-off mood across financial markets and sellers once again defended the $1,800 resistance zone. According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum (ETH) price traded around $1,756 on…

SWIFT has moved its blockchain-based ledger into initial deployment, with 17 global banks preparing to test tokenized deposit payments for round-the-clock cross-border settlements. Announcing the development on July 9, SWIFT said HSBC, Citi, BNP Paribas, UBS, ANZ, DBS, and Standard…

The article was updated with a correction to state that BitGo has been granted full OCC approval. Sony Bank has secured conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a national trust bank, moving…

Hyundai Card has completed its first stablecoin-based cross-border remittance test, settling a $20,000 payment between Hyundai Motor’s 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) involved…

A crypto user has lost nearly $1 million after approving a malicious Ethereum transaction that gave scammers access to drain almost the entire wallet balance, adding to hundreds of millions of dollars in phishing losses recorded this year. According to…

AscendEX has shut down operations after citing regulatory requirements under the European Union’s MiCA framework and mounting financial difficulties, while warning that some customers may not recover their full crypto balances. According to a notice published by the cryptocurrency exchange…

Sen. Ron Wyden has urged Senate leaders to keep legal protections for non-custodial blockchain developers in the CLARITY Act as negotiations over the crypto market structure bill continue. In a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate…

Ripple’s prime brokerage sits inside the DTCC’s 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 mechanics…

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 the…

Zcash price has pulled back from the $500 resistance zone after a sharp rally driven by renewed optimism around the upcoming Ironwood upgrade, although technical indicators still favor another attempt higher if key support levels continue to hold. According to…

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 President’s $1.4 billion…

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 its…

XRP has slipped below a key short-term support near $1.10, with sellers regaining control as traders lock in profits after Ripple’s latest European regulatory win and macro risk sentiment weakens across global markets. The token traded around $1.08 on Tuesday…

Dunamu, the operator of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, has been selected as the preferred bidder for the Korean National Police Agency’s one-year seized digital asset custody contract. Procurement records published by South Korea’s Public Procurement Service showed that Dunamu…

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 the…

Ethereum has weakened for a second straight session as a bearish rounding-top pattern and renewed selling pressure threaten a move toward $1,650. According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum (ETH) was trading near $1,737 at press time, down nearly 2% over…

India’s central bank has renewed its recommendation for a cryptocurrency policy leaning toward prohibition, while tax authorities have warned that offshore trading continues to make crypto tax enforcement difficult. According to internal government documents reviewed by Reuters, the Reserve Bank…

Kenya has moved to procure a blockchain surveillance platform capable of tracking transactions across more than 20 blockchain networks as the country prepares to supervise licensed crypto businesses under its new virtual assets law. According to tender documents reviewed by…

This article has been updated to include a chart showing Bitmine’s share price performance over the past day. Bitmine has increased its Ethereum treasury with another $70 million purchase, taking its holdings to nearly 5% of the token’s circulating supply.…

South Korean financial super-app Toss has signed a strategic agreement with Optimism and Sunnyside Labs to test blockchain infrastructure for South Korean won-linked stablecoins through a three-month technology verification program. According to a press release shared with crypto.news, the financial…

EU lawmakers have reopened a vote on extending the bloc’s temporary “chat control” framework, setting up a decision that could allow online platforms to continue scanning private messages for child sexual abuse material until 2028. According to Euronews, the European…

Russia’s State Duma committee has approved a revised cryptocurrency regulation bill for its second reading, removing a proposed requirement to declare crypto wallet addresses while adding provisions for crypto-funded investments and new transfer controls. According to a statement shared through…

Michael Coates has joined the Solana Foundation as its Chief Information Security Officer after a career spanning leadership roles at Mozilla, Twitter and enterprise security startup Altitude Networks. According to a post shared by Michael Coates on X, he has…

Gemini has launched commission-free stock trading for customers across most U.S. states, adding thousands of exchange-listed securities to its app as it expands beyond cryptocurrency services. According to Gemini’s announcement on Tuesday, eligible customers can now buy and sell thousands…

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 DAO’s treasury. No code was hacked. The…

Blockchains cannot talk to each other on their own. Bridges are the software that moves value between them, and they have leaked more money to hackers than any other kind of crypto infrastructure, billions across a handful of catastrophic breaches.…

MemeCore has surged more than 150% over the past week after recovering from a sharp selloff that erased more than 80% of its value in late June, with renewed buying driven by security updates and improving market sentiment. According to…

Solana has extended its July rally after record on-chain activity, tokenized stock issuance, and steady ETF inflows revived bullish sentiment. According to data from crypto.news, Solana (SOL) extended its recovery this week, gaining roughly 11% over several sessions to trade…

Staking locks your crypto and earns yield. Liquid staking hands you a tradeable receipt for that locked position, so the same capital can earn twice. It is one of DeFi’s largest markets, and it comes with a specific danger most…

Bitcoin has held above $63,000 after last week’s macro-driven rebound, but traders are now weighing expectations of Federal Reserve rate cuts against rising geopolitical tensions and mounting technical resistance. According to data from crypto.news, Bitcoin (BTC) price traded around $63,100…

You see one price on the screen, you tap confirm, and the trade fills at a worse number. That gap is slippage, and across a year of trading, it quietly eats more of a portfolio than most fees do. Here…

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 investment…

Blockchain trade group the Digital Chamber has filed an amicus brief opposing a New York lawsuit that seeks ownership of 39,069 dormant Bitcoin wallet addresses holding an estimated 3.7 million BTC. In a court filing submitted on Monday, the Digital…

RealFi has launched its public testnet, opening access to the first live version of its yield-bearing stablecoin infrastructure ahead of a planned mainnet release later this year. According to a press release shared with crypto.news, the public testnet gives users,…

Tether has confirmed that USDT will return to Bitcoin as a native asset through the RGB protocol, with the launch expected within weeks after more than eight years of protocol development. According to an exclusive interview published by Bitcoin Magazine,…

Naver Financial has postponed the completion of its all-stock share swap with Dunamu for a second time, extending the closing date to Dec. 31 as regulatory approvals remain pending. According to a regulatory filing disclosed by Dunamu, the planned comprehensive…

Polymarket has been sued in New York after two users alleged the prediction platform wrongly denied payouts on a Strategy Bitcoin market despite the company disclosing a Bitcoin sale in an SEC filing. According to a complaint filed in the…

A trader has lost nearly $2 million in an Ether swap after a decentralized exchange router sent the transaction through a low-liquidity pool, allowing a same-block arbitrage trade to capture almost the entire value. According to blockchain security firm GoPlus…

Paradigm has led an oversubscribed seed funding round for sovereign financial infrastructure firm M1X Global, bringing the company’s total funding to $8.5 million just 14 weeks after its public launch. According to a press release shared with crypto.news, the round…

Russia’s largest lender, Sberbank, has confirmed plans to launch a cryptocurrency wallet and digital asset depository within months after the country’s proposed digital asset law takes effect on Sept. 1. According to local news outlet RBC, Sberbank expects to integrate…

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 giant…

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. Blockchain…

Brad Garlinghouse called Strategy’s 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 crypto’s two…

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 are…

DeXe price extended its rally on Sunday after breaking above a key technical resistance level, with growing investor interest pushing the AI-focused governance token to its highest price in months. According to crypto.news price data, DeXe (DEXE) price climbed more…

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. Ethereum’s rally gathered pace after the…

Bitcoin has rebounded nearly 10% from its July 1 low as weak U.S. jobs data, lower oil prices, and a weekend short squeeze pushed traders back toward risk assets. According to data from crypto.news, Bitcoin (BTC) price traded near $62,990…

South Korea has delayed any enforcement decision against Polymarket after giving the prediction market platform a chance to respond to concerns that its service may violate the country’s gambling laws. According to the Broadcasting, Media and Communications Review Committee, it…

One of the 39,069 dormant Bitcoin addresses targeted in a New York ownership lawsuit has transferred 30 BTC worth about $1.88 million after nearly 15 years of inactivity. A dormant Bitcoin wallet named in a New York lawsuit over abandoned…

South Korea’s largest telecommunications company KT has announced plans to invest 18 trillion won ($13.2 billion) over the next three years, including 6 trillion won for AI infrastructure and 12 trillion won for networks, IT, and cybersecurity, while expanding into…

BitTorrent has unveiled a long-term BTT token buyback and burn program that will use 100% of revenue from its decentralized services for quarterly market purchases starting in the third quarter of 2026. According to BitTorrent’s official announcement, all revenue generated…

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission has committed to separating the Certified Virtual Asset Platform practitioner exam from its mandatory course, reducing assessment fees, and improving study materials following talks with industry representatives. According to local media, the commitments were…

South Korean blockchain consortium has completed a proof of concept showing a blockchain-based digital local currency processing payments and settlements in under one second with a reported 100% transaction success rate. According to South Korean news outlet Newsis, the K-STAR…

South Korea’s Supreme Court has proposed new civil enforcement rules for digital assets that set out how cryptocurrencies can be seized, transferred and converted into cash during debt collection proceedings, with the measures scheduled to take effect on Oct. 1…

Nigel Farage has faced fresh questions over undisclosed gifts after reports claimed he accepted support from a crypto entrepreneur with a US fraud conviction while serving as Reform UK leader. According to The Sunday Times, Farage received staff, security, transport…

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 Bank’s…

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 in…

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.…

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.…

For the first time in the tournament’s near-century of history, a crypto exchange sits inside FIFA’s official partner ecosystem. Six billion viewers, sixteen host cities, one industry trying to prove it has outgrown the arena-naming era. Here is what the…

LAB price has suffered one of the steepest collapses in the crypto market this week, losing more than 60% of its value as concerns over insider holdings, token transparency, and heavy derivatives liquidations sparked a wave of panic selling. According…

Several major South Korean companies have said they were listed as members of the Open USD (OUSD) stablecoin alliance despite not formally agreeing to participate. According to a report by Chosun Biz, several Korean companies named as participants in the…

XRP price has climbed to a three-day high after Ripple’s European expansion and a fresh Supertrend buy signal revived bullish sentiment. According to data from crypto.news, XRP (XRP) price rose as much as 3% to an intraday high of $1.11…

Worldcoin has broken out of a short-term bearish channel after institutional accumulation and an upcoming reduction in token emissions triggered renewed buying interest, lifting WLD more than 16% from its July 2 low. According to data from crypto.news, Worldcoin (WLD)…

RBI has reportedly renewed its call to keep banks and payment systems insulated from cryptocurrencies and privately issued stablecoins as India reviews its digital asset policy. As first reported by The Economic Times, Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Rohit…

Brazil has approved new prudential rules that will require virtual asset service providers to meet capital, risk management, and disclosure standards from 2027. According to a local media report, Brazil’s Central Bank has approved a new set of prudential requirements…

The artificial intelligence sector is currently dealing with a severe training data bottleneck, especially as centralized technology monopolies are locking out early stage developers from high-quality information pipelines. Decentralized data infrastructure platform Perceptron is trying to address this structural bottleneck…

BTSE has officially entered Indonesia’s regulated crypto market through the launch of BTSE Indonesia after completing the rebranding of local exchange NVX. According to an official announcement issued on July 3, the new platform has been established as a joint…

Bridge has secured both a Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) crypto-asset service provider authorization and an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license in Luxembourg, giving it a regulated framework to offer services across all 27 European Union member states. According to Bridge,…

Alibaba has banned employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code in workplace environments from July 10 over alleged security concerns involving embedded backdoors, according to a person familiar with the decision. According to a source familiar with the matter, the restriction…

Humanity Protocol has confirmed it is repositioning toward enterprise artificial intelligence products after a $36 million exploit accelerated an internal strategic overhaul that had already been under discussion for months. During a recent interview, Humanity Protocol founder Terence Kwok said…

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Chris Larsen has reportedly backed a derivatives startup founded by the son of US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand as lawmakers continue negotiating the CLARITY Act, a crypto market structure bill expected to shape the industry’s regulatory framework. According to a Thursday…