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US President Donald Trump is set to meet with several senators on Thursday as negotiators race to get the CLARITY Act across the line before the Senate’s August recess.

Base creator Jesse Pollak is stepping back from leadership of the Base App after admitting he was “definitively wrong” to bet on social experiences driving crypto adoption.

Researchers found that Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin prediction markets create incentives to manipulate spot prices around contract settlement, proposing longer settlement windows as a potential fix.

Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority approved the London-headquartered fintech company for broker-dealer, management and investment, and exchange services in the UAE.

President Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general faced criticism from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on his approach to crypto enforcement and the pardon of former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao.

Ostium halted trading and advised revoking contract approvals after blockchain security firms reported an apparent oracle-related exploit of its OLP liquidity vault, with estimated losses ranging from $18 million to $22 million.

The deployment marks Aave V4’s first expansion beyond Ethereum and introduces lending infrastructure designed to support future markets for tokenized real-world assets.

Securitize and Cantor Fitzgerald are developing infrastructure for tokenized IPOs and secondary equity offerings within the existing US securities framework.

Bitcoin moved up to its highest levels since June 22 as US PPI inflation numbers provided the week’s second surprise macro data drop.

Surging volumes on Robinhood Chain could be very good for Ethereum, but only if the “ETH is money” crowd turn out to be right.

AMLA is expanding its crypto oversight as firms complete the transition to the EU’s MiCA licensing regime.

Japan’s revised Financial Instruments and Exchange Act introduces crypto insider trading rules, tougher penalties and new oversight requirements for crypto businesses.

South Korea’s Economy Ministry plans to include digital assets and intellectual property under the country’s new state-asset management framework.

BTC price upside predictions include $68,000 within two weeks and up to $80,000 next month, contrasting with warnings of a 2022 bear-market rerun for the rest of 2026.

The Czech Finance Ministry added Polymarket to its blacklist of unauthorized online gambling websites, requiring internet providers to block access within 15 days.

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest added $13.9 million worth of Circle shares on Tuesday, extending its July buying spree to 725,517 shares amid a steep stock decline.

Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal for $53 billion, at a 28% premium compared to the company’s Tuesday closing price.

“We are disappointed by this decision and believe it is unfair to Kalshi,” the company’s legal counsel said on X.

“US Treasury is committed to disrupting and degrading Iran’s illicit financial activities, including its abuse of digital assets,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday.

Ethereum staking generated 98% of Bitmine’s revenue last quarter as the company’s pivot from Bitcoin mining gained momentum following its March validator launch.

Coinbase’s Rob Witoff said the company is leaning more on AI to help with execution, but still needs high-agency humans for judgment and strategy.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune reportedly said the chamber will consider a vote on the crypto market structure bill before Aug. 10, though it’s unclear whether it has enough Democratic support to pass.

Backed by Dragonfly, FirstMark and Coinbase Ventures, the startup is expanding software that helps businesses integrate stablecoins into treasury and payment workflows.

The two governments issued recommendations on the treatment of digital assets as the US prepares to implement a 2025 law on payment stablecoins.

The change in tax policy, expected to affect about 700,000 people in the UK, is tied to the disposal of crypto in lending and liquidity pools.

Pollak said that Jordan Fish, also known on X as 'Cobie,' will lead the Base app team.

DTCC's first live production trades using tokenized securities show how blockchain could reshape the infrastructure behind Wall Street.

The move creates a pathway for public companies to raise capital onchain and issue tokenized securities.

A hacker used Ostium's own price-reporting infrastructure against the protocol, submitting falsified future-dated oracle data to manufacture fake trading profits and trigger an $18 million payout.

We don’t need to imagine the privacy pitfalls of age verification. They’ve been happening for years, argues Cardano Foundation CEO Frederik Gregaard.

In this week's, Morgan Stanley’s Denny Galindo writes that as the crypto market expands, solana has historically been a better portfolio diversifier than ether, despite being more volatile.

The most contentious piece of the crypto market structure bill is unresolved in the final weeks of Senate runway, and the president is expected to discuss it.

The government also reaffirmed plans to pilot tokenized government bonds next year and explore tokenizing state-owned real estate.

The consortium-backed stablecoin would share reserve income with partners instead of the issuer, pressuring Circle's margins if it debuts in 2026.

In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we’re unpacking the timeline of all the changes at the Ethereum Foundation this year.

BlackRock's digital asset funds attracted $15 billion in net inflows over the past year, but falling crypto prices drove the value of those holdings sharply lower.

Noxa, the launchpad behind CASHCAT's rise, racked up nearly $12 million in fees before going dark, giving away its revenue, and leaving Robinhood Chain's memecoin economy in freefall.

Lawmakers said crypto has outgrown its role as a payment method and requires rules designed for investment products.

Le highlighted increasing the U.S.-dollar reserve as an important lever in preferred stock STRC’s recovery back to around $90 having fallen below $75 last month.

Your day-ahead look for July 15, 2026

Bitcoin held steady at a three-week high as rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran reined in gains from Tuesday's softer-than-expected inflation numbers.

The bid, made together with Advent, follows an earlier expression of interest. PayPal has been reluctant to engage with the offer thus far.

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs took in about $181 million on Tuesday, a day after shedding roughly $425 million, per SoSoValue data. Ether ETFs added about $58 million.

The security will launch on HSBC’s Orion platform within the BoE and FCA’s Digital Securities Sandbox to test reduced settlement times and costs.

Forty companies now govern x402, the protocol Coinbase built and handed away. It settled about $24 million across 75 million payments last month.

Pollak said he is handing the Base App back to Coinbase to focus on building Base into "the blockchain for global finance" after conceding the network's push into on-chain social missed the mark.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation is working with nearly 40 financial firms in a pilot to test tokenized stocks and U.S. treasuries.

Hackers manipulated Ostium's price feed by compromising an oracle signer key, allowing them to drain roughly $18 million from the Arbitrum-based perpetuals exchange.

OFAC sanctioned addresses tied to Iran's central bank and armed forces, with Tether locking four Tron wallets as Washington's financial campaign against Tehran accelerates.

BTC cleared a key resistance level Tuesday, giving bulls hope. Prediction market traders aren't convinced.

The Bitcoin treasury giant will issue fresh preferred stock and resume buying once its Stretch shares climb back to par, CEO Phong Le said.

Circle has a rough day. Pump.fun pumps on first major unlock. And Robinhood Chain sees its first big rotation.

A government-backed review says magistrates and judges aren't ready for a coming surge in crypto money laundering and AI-enabled fraud cases.

The startup's backers, including Bitmine and Joe Lubin, are betting institutions need a privacy layer before running money on a public chain.

The joint recommendations back cross-border stablecoins and tokenized markets, setting a shared direction while avoiding binding rules.

Demis Hassabis says artificial general intelligence is only a few years away and proposes a new U.S. standards body to test frontier AI models before release.

Consumer prices cooled more than expected in June, yet geopolitical tensions continue to cast a shadow over crypto prices

Moving crypto into a lending protocol or liquidity pool won’t count as a taxable disposal, deferring the charge until a real cash-out.

Strategy’s Bitcoin-buying machine stayed in neutral, while BTC and crypto majors chop and oil spikes ahead of a key CPI print this morning.

The seized coins landed at the government's custodian, which stops short of a sale but has revived questions about Trump's no-sell pledge.

Forget the XML blocks and persistence scripts. OpenAI’s new prompting guide says define the destination, set the stopping conditions, and get out of the way.

About 200 protesters marched through San Francisco on Saturday, calling on leading AI companies to halt development of more powerful models over concerns about AI safety, jobs, and the environment.

New Hampshire's newly-signed crypto law introduces protections for users, miners, and stakers within its boundaries.

According to new Anthropic research, Claude consistently expresses different values across models and languages.

Democrats are mounting a final case against the Clarity Act centered on its lack of language restricting Trump's sprawling crypto fortune.

South American nation Bolivia is considering the use of the largest dollar-backed stablecoin, USDT, per a local report.

The younger generation's judgment of AI has been “immediate and harsh,” according to the Oscar-winning director.

Robinhood Chain traders are reaching for Tendies over Apple.

Romantic AI companion apps have brought in nearly half a billion dollars as users pay for virtual partners, flirting, and digital intimacy.

According to BitMine Chairman Tom Lee, Ethereum is benefiting from the early success of the Robinhood Chain layer-2 network.

Strategy went another week without buying Bitcoin, focusing instead on lifting its cash reserves to $3 billion via common stock proceeds.

Data analytics flagged stablecoin transfers meant to evade scrutiny, the central bank says, handing the findings to the securities regulator.

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs closed their first positive week since May, but a big week ahead will likely determine crypto's near-term fate.

An article in the top prosecutors' paper urges new blockchain evidence rules, presumptions of intent, and a state platform to sell seized coins.

One product photo, three AI tools, and about 20 minutes: Here's the full workflow for generating a sales video without a camera, a model, or a studio.

Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum layer-2 network built with Arbitrum technology for tokenized assets, crypto apps, and on-chain financial products.

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