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Gate Europe’s Giovanni Cunti says some MiCA-licensed crypto firms may struggle to sustain compliance costs as Europe enters its new regulatory era.

The State Duma legislation creates a regulated framework for crypto market participants and now moves to President Vladimir Putin for his signature before becoming law.

Bitcoin beat out local resistance to pass $66,000 amid predictions of as much as 6% BTC price upside if momentum continued.

A UK parliamentary group launched an inquiry into banking restrictions on crypto firms and consumers, including their impact on investment and competition.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $227 million in inflows as BTC climbed above $65,000, extending their longest winning streak since early May.

The Coinbase-backed Ethereum layer-2 is preparing to expand its financial offerings as it pivots away from its earlier social-first strategy.

The filing expands Grayscale’s growing lineup of crypto-related exchange-traded products outside of Bitcoin and Ether.

The settlements add to former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky’s $10 million FTC settlement in April.

Retail users in Vietnam who trade on offshore crypto exchanges like Binance or OKX face heavy penalties. Network School controversy in Malaysia over Israeli citizen ban.

The move comes as traditional exchanges face growing competition from crypto markets and tokenized equity platforms that offer around-the-clock trading.

The decision keeps the administration’s chief crypto policy negotiator in place during what could be a decisive few weeks for the CLARITY Act.

Coinbase vice chair Ryan VanGrack said that Democratic lawmakers had added provisions on customer protection to a digital asset market structure bill under consideration in the US Senate.

The recognition allows regulated firms in Abu Dhabi Global Market to offer services involving Tether Gold as tokenized commodities gain broader adoption.

Despite muted derivatives sentiment, Bitcoin’s decoupling and Strategy’s cash raise set the stage for a potential rally to $70,000.

The SEC alleges Mining Automatic and its founder raised $22 million from investors by promising guaranteed crypto mining returns while spending only a fraction of the funds on mining operations.

The wallet company said it expected the layoffs to generate between $10 million and $13 million in savings as part of its strategy to build a full-stack card issuance and payments platform.

Bitcoin miners rallied as investors cheered multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure contracts, underscoring the sector’s accelerating shift toward data centers and cloud computing.

The West African country’s executive order established a virtual asset council and addressed the fragmentation of crypto regulation for oversight and enforcement.

The brokerage’s blockchain strategy, including tokenized equities and its Arbitrum-based Robinhood Chain, could reduce its reliance on traditional crypto trading, analysts said.

Bitcoin faced troublesome resistance at $65,000 while traders still saw a potential BTC price breakout into a “bullish market structure.”

The Bitcoin miner raised its year-end AI cloud revenue target to more than $4 billion after signing $2.8 billion in new contracts with AI developers.

Renowned trading analyst Peter Brandt says investing in Bitcoin today, will pay off much better in two to three years than buying AI stocks at current prices.

Strategy boosted its cash reserve to $3.225 billion after selling MSTR shares, while investors weighed the value of its STRC preferred stock.

Hyperliquid plans to require developers to stake 500,000 HYPE, worth about $30.4 million, to deploy permissionless prediction markets under HIP-4.

The new rules establish penalties as much as $1,900 for crypto violations, including unlicensed trading and AML breaches, ahead of Vietnam’s regulated crypto market launch.

XRP pushed higher over 24 hours and tested short-term resistance, but the larger chart still needs a clean break above the $1.24-$1.28 supply zone to confirm a stronger reversal.

Bitcoin ETFs have pulled in roughly $727 million over the past week, the most sustained stretch of buying since the record outflows of June.

The U.K.’s Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) is focused on banks that refused crypto firms accounts or introduced restrictions on crypto transactions.

Asian semiconductor shares rebounded hard, a five-day ETF inflow streak passed $600 million, and oil pulled back on Middle East diplomacy.

The Van Rossem hard fork moved Cardano to version 11 on Saturday. And for the first time, Cardano's community voted in the upgrade, not the company that built it.

This restructuring is part of a strategy to build a full-stack payments platform following the company's acquisitions of Monavate and Baanx.

The deals sparked a rebound in AI compute stocks after investors questioned demand for new data center capacity.

The company added just 7,430 ETH, worth about $14 million, last week as it nears its goal to corner 5% of Ethereum's supply.

For the second consecutive week, the firm kept bitcoin holdings steady, choosing to use the raised capital to boost cash for paying dividends on its preferred stock.

The framework will address critical issues like official ownership records, private key custody, transaction reversibility and system liability.

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Major banking heavyweights join a massive blockchain network test that will allow retail consumers to trade tokenized won freely across commercial lines.

With a Fear and Greed index pointing solidly at "fear," crypto prices drifted lower even as stock index futures rose. PUMP's 20% surge was the only real headline in an otherwise quiet session.

Permissionless prediction markets will become available first on testnet and later on mainnet, Hyperliquid said.

The attacker used a $1.12 million flash loan from Kamino to manipulate pool ratios, enabling them to withdraw assets at favorable rates before bridging funds.

Your look at what's coming in the week starting July 20.

The Japanese logistics firm plans to pay 2,300 partners, including truck drivers, using JPYC in Japan’s first large-scale corporate stablecoin rollout.

Equity markets await second-quarter earnings reports from key tech firms, which begin this week.

Days after Kimi K3 rattled chip stocks, Moonshot is moving toward a Hong Kong listing at a $30 billion-plus valuation while Alibaba's Qwen goes open-weight.

Bitcoin ETFs have attracted $273 million in new inflows in two weeks, but the total is barely enough to cover a single "slow" week of recent selling.

Phase 1 of Project Hangang opened 81,000 wallets with 42% of them using the CBDC. Phase 2 is bigger, and this time it moves real government money.

The bill licenses exchanges, caps retail investors at about $3,800 a year, and creates a legal pathway for Russian companies to pay foreign partners in crypto—bypassing Western sanctions.

For the first time in Cardano's history, no company flipped the switch on a major protocol update.

Two consecutive weeks of inflows ended the worst sustained outflow streak in Bitcoin ETF history. Here's why patience may be required from investors.

"The reduced pace of buys reflects that Bitmine repurchased 5.5 million common shares," Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee said in a statement.

For the second consecutive week, Saylor's company sold MSTR stock instead of BTC to pad its reserves to $3.2 billion.

An attacker used a flash loan to distort the bridge's Solana stablecoin pools before moving the proceeds to Ethereum, security firms said.

Plus, a selloff in Oil has markets looking green into the Monday open. And PUMP is leading all alt movers on the week at a surprising time.

The Strategy chairman argued that the soft fork is a 'bad idea,' warning that it would cause more harm than the problem it aims to solve.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol or Anthropic's Claude Fable 5: Which one is right for you? The answer depends on your needs. Here's our review.

ECB board member Piero Cipollone laid out the three-layer threat banks face from digital payments, and pitched the digital euro as the only structural answer.

Input Output is handing its core infrastructure to outside teams as ADA gets a lift from an imminent protocol upgrade.

Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model sent chip stocks tumbling and gave Wall Street a Friday it would rather forget.

Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter model tops Fable 5 on a creative writing benchmark and leads Arena AI's frontend code leaderboard—at Claude Sonnet pricing.

The Nasdaq-listed digital-asset firm will rebrand the Red Raiders' home as "Galaxy Stadium." The bigger bet is on the cheap power and open land of West Texas.

The gang built fake police websites to fool victims, then spent the stolen crypto on Rolexes and luxury holidays, the Met said.

Wall Street and crypto's convergence snapped into focus, while crypto majors gave back most of the week's gains as broader markets sold off.

Some two-thirds of the coins moving onto exchanges are long-term holders taking losses, as a macro risk-off drags on Bitcoin’s price.

The market maker's stake marks Crypto.com's first institutional funding round, as Wall Street deepens its push into crypto.

Source code leaked reveals how substantial portions of Suno’s training library were assembled.

Eligible customers can now buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana with Morgan Stanley via Zero Hash.

Project Eleven says a new post-quantum cryptographic proof could help Bitcoin users recover wallets after Q-Day by verifying ownership.

Mira Murati's Inkling won't dethrone the best Chinese open-weights models, but it gives Western developers something they haven't yet had.

The Visa Stablecoin Platform will let financial institutions integrate stablecoin payments and treasury operations into Visa's existing network.

The post-CPI rally gave XRP a nudge. The coin barely moved. Now the chart is filling in the picture.

The wallet holding nearly 5,908 BTC since 2017 transferred its entire balance to a new address.

Plus, Stripe makes a $53 billion move that could crown a stablecoin king. And Ostium gets drained of $18M in the latest DeFi exploit.

Zyaire Wilkins allegedly procured malware hidden in video games that infected 8,000 devices and broke into 80 crypto wallets, the FBI says.

Crypto majors are red while Gold nears $5,000 and Silver closes in on $100; BTC -1% at $89,100; ETH -2% at $2,925, SOL -2% at $127; XRP -2% to $1.90. ZRO (+15%), AXS (+10%) and DASH (+8%) led top movers. Ledger is preparing for a $4B IPO, enlisting Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and Barclays for support. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse predicted crypto could hit new highs in 2026, pointing to regulatory momentum and institutional participation as key drivers. President Trump sued JPMorgan for $5 billion, alleging politically motivated “debanking”. BitGo briefly surged in its stock market debut before finishing its first

Roger Bayston, Head of Digital Assets at Franklin Templeton, unpacks how one of the world's largest asset managers embraced tokenization.

Crypto majors are green and rebounding after Trump pivoted on EU tariffs; BTC +2% at $89,900; ETH +2% at $2,995, SOL +2% at $130; XRP +3% to $1.94. CC (+15%), SKY (+11%) and SAND (+10%) led top movers. Crypto markets saw more than $1B in liquidations as Bitcoin rebounded sharply after President Trump signaled a retreat from proposed tariff measures. Vitalik Buterin proposed native DVT staking to strengthen Ethereum security and decentralization, signaling continued protocol-level experimentation. Bitgo announced its IPO at $18 per share, valuing it at ~$2B. The Senate Ag Committee confirmed that its version of the Clarity Act

Crypto majors are very red following a red Tuesday across markets; BTC -3% at $88,200; ETH -6% at $2,905, SOL -2% at $127; XRP -2% to $1.88. MYX (+11%) and ZRO (+10%) led top movers. Bitcoin and Solana both fell below key technical support levels as selling pressure accelerated. Over $1B in longs were liquidated during Bitcoin’s slide below $88k. Delaware Life added Bitcoin exposure to a fixed indexed annuity by linking performance to BlackRock’s spot BTC ETF, one of the first big moves to expand crypto access inside traditional insurance products. Trump Media announced plans to airdrop crypto tokens

Crypto majors are red following Trump’s tariff turmoil; BTC -2% at $91,100; ETH -4% at $3,105, SOL -3% at $129; XRP -2% to $1.93. CC (+12%), MYX (+5%) and SYRUP (+4%) led top movers. The NYSE began preparations for 24/7 tokenized stock and ETF trading. Steak ’n Shake revealed roughly $10M in Bitcoin exposure alongside the creation of a corporate BTC strategic reserve. Vitalik Buterin called for more sophisticated DAO governance models to improve accountability, coordination, and long-term sustainability. Bermuda outlined plans for a fully onchain national economy, working with Coinbase and Circle on payments, identity, and tokenized financial infrastructure.

Crypto majors are red following Trump’s tariff turmoil; BTC -2% at $91,100; ETH -4% at $3,105, SOL -3% at $129; XRP -2% to $1.93. CC (+12%), MYX (+5%) and SYRUP (+4%) led top movers. The NYSE began preparations for 24/7 tokenized stock and ETF trading. Steak ’n Shake revealed roughly $10M in Bitcoin exposure alongside the creation of a corporate BTC strategic reserve. Vitalik Buterin called for more sophisticated DAO governance models to improve accountability, coordination, and long-term sustainability. Bermuda outlined plans for a fully onchain national economy, working with Coinbase and Circle on payments, identity, and tokenized financial infrastructure.

Crypto majors are very green with Bitcoin making a new another 2-month high; BTC +2% at $96,7500; ETH +2% at $3,360, SOL even at $145; XRP -1% to $2.11. DCR (+30%), DASH (+10%), ICP (+10%) and ZEC (+7%) led top movers; XMR hit another new ATH at $800 before retracing to $725. Coinbase pulled support for the Senate’s crypto market structure bill ahead of a key vote, citing major concerns with the latest draft, leading to the Senate delaying the bill. Zcash avoided SEC action after the Zcash Foundation said the agency’s investigation has concluded. Ripple secured a Luxembourg license

BTC: 95k (+3%) | BTC.D: 59.2% (-0.1%). ETH: 3313 (+6%) | BNB: 936 (+3%) | SOL: 145 (+2%). Top Gainers: IP, ICP, PUMP, PEPE, ENA. BTC ETFs: +$754m | ETH ETFs: +$130m. Crypto rallies on largest ETF inflow in 3 months. Senate committee to vote on crypto bill on Jan 27. Stablecoin issues with bill still being fought over. Ethena Labs makes USDe free from gas fees. Bitdeer overtakes MARA on ‘managed hashrate’. Polygon Labs to buy Coinme, Sequence for $250m. BitPanda eyes Frankfurt IPO in 1H26. CZ invests in perp trading platform Genius Terminal. Coingecko eyes sales at $500m

Crypto majors are green; BTC +1.5% at $92,000; ETH +1% at $3,130, SOL +2% at $142; XRP +1% to $2.06. DASH (+60%), IP (+30%) and XMR (+13%) led top movers; XMR hit another new ATH at $680 (now $640). Gold and Silver hit new ATHs again in the wake of the Powell investigation. The US Senate released the draft Crypto Market Clarity Act, including limits on stablecoin rewards. Senator Warren pressed the SEC over inclusion of crypto in 401ks arguing they expose retirees to too much risk. Vitalik Buterin warned crypto needs better decentralized stablecoins, citing governance capture and inflation

Crypto majors are green; BTC +1.5% at $92,000; ETH +1% at $3,130, SOL +2% at $142; XRP +1% to $2.06. DASH (+60%), IP (+30%) and XMR (+13%) led top movers; XMR hit another new ATH at $680 (now $640). Gold and Silver hit new ATHs again in the wake of the Powell investigation. The US Senate released the draft Crypto Market Clarity Act, including limits on stablecoin rewards. Senator Warren pressed the SEC over inclusion of crypto in 401ks arguing they expose retirees to too much risk. Vitalik Buterin warned crypto needs better decentralized stablecoins, citing governance capture and inflation

Crypto majors are mostly flat headed into Monday open; btc even at $90,600; eth +1% at $3,110, sol +2% at $140; xrp -2% to $2.04. Ip (+20%) and xmr (+15%) led top movers; xmr hit a new ath at $590. Fed chair Jerome Powell released a video message claiming that the criminal charges he faces are due to his not cutting interest rates in line with Trump’s wishes. X (twitter) announced plans for “smart cashtags” to show crypto and stock prices live next to tickers. Vaneck projected bitcoin could reach $53m by 2050, outlining long-term adoption, trade settlement and store-of-value

Crypto majors are mostly flat ahead of today’s supreme court opinion on the trump tariffs; btc +1% at $90,300; eth 13% at $3,090, sol +3% at $138; xrp +1% to $2.10. Polygon (+11%), zec (+11%) and syrup (+7%) led top movers. Jpmorgan said the recent bitcoin and ethereum sell-off may be bottoming, pointing to improving positioning and easing downside pressure after early-year weakness. Bank of america analysts upgraded coinbase to buy, citing improved regulatory clarity, growing institutional adoption, and stronger long-term earnings visibility. Morgan stanley is planning to launch a digital wallet later this year that could support tokenized assets,

Crypto majors fell again yesterday as btc lost $90k; btc -2% at $89,900; eth -3% at $3,100, sol -3% at $134; xrp -7% to $2.08. Lit (+3%), wlfi (+3%) and xmr (+3%) led top movers. Zec fell 19% after the developer team resigned following a dispute with the board; the team has promised to form a new company and continue the mission. Jpmorgan announced plans to launch its jpm coin on the canton network. Barclays invested in ubyx, a u.S. Stablecoin settlement startup, backing infrastructure that would let regulated institutions move digital money across issuers and wallets. The senate banking

Crypto majors fall for first time in 2026; BTC at $92k. Morgan Stanley files for BTC, ETH and SOL ETFs. US Senate schedules key vote for crypto market structure bill for next week. Hyperliquid releases progress map, leads to speculation of next airdrop. Nike announced it has sold off RTFKT; Clone X jump 250%. Crypto majors fell yesterday for the first time in 2026; BTC 2% at $92,000; ETH -1% at $3,210, SOL -1% at $138; XRP. 5% to $2.24. The U.S. Senate Banking Committee scheduled a key vote on the crypto market-structure bill next week. Ethereum network usage hit

The global crypto market cap pushed another 2% to $3.22T as majors continue to grind up; BTC +1% at $93,780; ETH +2% at $3,240, SOL +3% at $139; XRP led up 12% to $2.37 RENDER (+18%), SUI (+18%) and LIT (+15%) led top movers. Bank of America formally launched its crypto recommendations for wealth clients with up to 4% portfolio allocation. Morgan Stanley filed for a Solana Trust with the SEC. Goldman Sachs upgraded Coinbase to a ‘Buy’ rating today while simultaneously downgrading eToro. Japan’s finance minister endorsed deeper crypto integration, including lower taxes and exchange-level reforms. Vitalik Buterin claimed

The global crypto market cap pushed another 2% to $3.22T as majors continue to grind up; BTC +1% at $93,780; ETH +2% at $3,240, SOL +3% at $139; XRP led up 12% to $2.37 RENDER (+18%), SUI (+18%) and LIT (+15%) led top movers. Bank of America formally launched its crypto recommendations for wealth clients with up to 4% portfolio allocation. Morgan Stanley filed for a Solana Trust with the SEC. Goldman Sachs upgraded Coinbase to a ‘Buy’ rating today while simultaneously downgrading eToro. Japan’s finance minister endorsed deeper crypto integration, including lower taxes and exchange-level reforms. Vitalik Buterin claimed

The global crypto market cap hit $3.16t (+1.5%) with majors trading higher; btc +2% at $93,000; eth +1% at $3,175, bnb +2.5% at $906, sol +1% at $135. Virtuals (+24%), render (_17%), btt (+11%) and fet (+11%) led top movers. The btc etfs saw $471m in net inflows on the first trading day of 2026, the highest single-day total since nov 11. Sec commissioner caroline crenshaw officially departed the agency on jan 2nd, leaving behind an all-republican commission. Big 4 firm pwc announced it will go deeper into crypto with a focus on stablecoins and payments.

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Wanchain's Cardano-BNB Bridge exploit adds on to the $1 billion funds lost in hacks and scams in 2026 so far.

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XRP whale inflows have dropped to a two-month low as shrinking exchange supply strengthens the bullish outlook.

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Bonk surges, but bearish Funding Rates and negative sentiment cloud the rally.

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Strategy's $3.2 billion cash pile sparks a fresh Bitcoin debate.

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All about the new altcoin ETF filing amidst market recovery, where price action and ETFs are showing bullish strength.

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Will the CLARITY Act passage delay until 2027?

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Midnight suffered a cross-bridge exploit with 515 million NIGHT drained from the Wanchain Cardano-to-BNB bridge.

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Chainlink's shrinking exchange supply and rising whale activity have strengthened expectations for another LINK advance.

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Here's why BANK's price action gained by triple-digits in only 24 hours.

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Bitcoin's long-term holders have put a pin in their selling and the market has calmed, yet rising oil prices remain a risk.

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