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US spot Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak to two weeks with $75.7 million in net inflows, but analysts said demand remains insufficient to fuel a sustained uptrend.

The Bank of Korea’s CBDC pilot will add two regional banks, new payment features and tests of government subsidy payments using tokenized bank deposits

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The upgrade reduces smart contract execution costs while laying the groundwork for Ouroboros Leios, a major scalability upgrade expected later this year.

The attacker allegedly used a flash loan and rapid swaps to manipulate the bridge’s stablecoin exchange rate.

The planned rollout would let thousands of transportation contractors receive digital yen payments more frequently and quickly.

Financial Services Commission Chair Lee Eog-won posted the figures on the second anniversary of the enactment of the Virtual Asset User Protection Act.

The fate of the CLARITY Act hinges on Trump’s ethics, so the odds aren’t looking great. Prediction market volumes hit new highs, and more news.

The man in control of the biggest Bitcoin corporate treasury said he shares the objectives but disagrees about the remedy detailed in the proposed temporary fork.

US regulators failed to finalize implementing regulations by the GENIUS Act’s one-year deadline, issuing 10 proposed rules instead.

Korea’s Virtual Asset User Protection Act lacks explicit sanctions provisions for hacking and similar incidents, clouding the scope of penalties facing the Upbit operator Dunamu.

Cybersecurity company Kaspersky said a newly identified malware framework is targeting cryptocurrency investors through social engineering tactics and trojanized GitHub apps.

Autorité nationale des jeux has ordered France’s internet service providers to geoblock Polymarket, citing illegal gambling and market manipulation concerns.

The FTX Recovery Trust and company have distributed about $10 billion since the exchange filed for bankruptcy in November 2022, leaving users cut off from their funds.

Galaxy Digital will rename Texas Tech’s football stadium under a 15-year agreement, expanding its West Texas presence as the state attracts growing crypto investment.

Through an introduction with a “reputable third-party service provider,“ the company took on a developer who, as part of an investigation, was revealed to be tied to North Korea.

Bolivia moves to recognize USDT amid a dollar shortage, while Bitcoin miners’ AI ambitions face fresh investor scrutiny.

The feature offers European customers a voluntary path away from Tether’s USDT as MiCA rules reshape the region’s stablecoin market.

With the Senate likely voting on a crypto bill within days, Elizabeth Warren asked for information on Donald Trump’s earnings between January and July ahead of a 2027 deadline.

Bitcoin saw a key rejection at local highs before reversing lower, moving with stocks for a second day as US-Iran war downside took its toll.

The Bank of England approved HSBC Orion to go live in its Digital Securities Sandbox, with the first Digital Gilt Instrument transaction expected in the first quarter of 2027.

SBI Holdings received regulatory approval to acquire a majority stake in Singapore-based crypto exchange Coinhako as it expands into stablecoins, onchain finance and tokenized assets.

Kraken, Bitstamp, 1inch and Bitfinex have all set up shop in the British Virgin Islands — but you might find it tricky to book an on-site meeting with one of their executives.

The Rotterdam court said bankruptcy was necessary to ensure an orderly settlement because the company lacked enough assets to fully repay users.

ECB’s Piero Cipollone said stablecoin adoption could erode bank deposits, but the digital euro will keep banks at the center of payments.

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.

War drives oil up, the Kimi selloff drags chips down, and bitcoin sits between them.

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.

Brent jumped almost 4% on escalating U.S.-Iran strikes, while Asian chip stocks stayed under pressure from Friday's Chinese AI shock.

The stablecoin-focused GENIUS Act became a law a year ago.

Michael Saylor argues that a new proposal, BIP-110, to temporarily block "spam" data from the Bitcoin blockchain would undermine the network's neutrality and create a dangerous precedent for censorship.

The rise of autonomous AI agents necessitates the utilization of zero-knowledge proofs, argues Brian Trunzo, chief growth officer at Succinct Labs.

The GENIUS Act has hit its first anniversary without U.S. regulators yet meeting deadlines to write regulations, though rules will be in full effect by July 2028.

The Wyoming-based firm launched USD-settled bitcoin and ether options, saying product design, not demand, has held back adoption.

Project Eleven says it has funded a proof that lets a wallet's own key-derivation path stand in as ownership after quantum computers can forge its signatures. It runs in 243 milliseconds on a laptop.

The new Zakura client is the first live piece of a plan to take Zcash from roughly one private transaction per second to payment-network scale.

The regulator cited concerns over addictive mechanics, a lack of self-exclusion tools, and a high volume of French users bypassing previous financial restrictions.

Steakhouse Financial co-founder Adrian Cachinero says digital-native generations may rely less on banks, while Binance says younger users are already driving crypto adoption in emerging markets.

Leonidas' DOG Mode client challenges Bitcoin's default relay policies, reopening a philosophical debate over censorship, free markets and who really governs the network.

Washington views Brazil’s promotion of non-dollar payment channels, including Pix and the growth of stablecoins, as a potential threat to dollar-based trade, even as dollar-linked stablecoins account for about 90% of Brazil's crypto transactions.

About $542 million weekly sat outside active trading ranges, meaning this capital earned zero fees and provided no market depth.

Large traders are betting on a BTC price rise to $72,000 by the end of the month, latest options market flow suggests.

A Broadridge survey found Wall Street is accelerating tokenization efforts while betting on hybrid markets where digital and traditional assets coexist.

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.

The nonbinding resolution said the disgraced FTX founder should 'under no circumstances' receive clemency.

William Blair slashed earnings estimates by 34% and held its Outperform call. But analysts think Bitcoin's chart may already be answering the bigger question.

OpenAI said its new automated red-teaming model, GPT-Red, uncovered vulnerabilities that were used to make GPT-5.6 more resistant to prompt injection attacks.

PrismML's Bonsai 27B runs full reasoning AI on an iPhone for free. We tested it, and it's as impressive as it sounds.

A proposal to restrict non-financial data on Bitcoin has split prominent developers, miners, and industry leaders ahead of a key activation deadline, reopening one of the network's biggest governance debates since the Blocksize Wars.

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.

TRUMP's Q3 setup faces pressure as weakening catalysts challenge the recovery narrative.

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Zcash completes a decade-long infrastructure upgrade, paving the way for Ironwood and stronger protocol security.

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Bitcoin has bounced off a key level, but it doesn’t confirm a bottom.

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KAITO's strong performance could simply be a trap for the bulls in the market.

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This week, the market put altcoins to the test. Here's a quick look at how some of your favorite tokens performed.

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Can Strategy sustain its Bitcoin flywheel as mNAV compresses and financing pressures continue to grow?

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TRAC surged 32%, hitting a monthly high of $0.39 before retracing to $0.35.

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Fundamentally, BUILDon‘s rally has been building for days, culminating in a massive surge.

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Blockchain utility is redefining the future of tokenized finance.

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Bitcoin’s push for greater utility through BIP-110 faces growing market criticism.

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A trader opened a 20x long position in 12,000 ETH, worth approximately $22.4 million.

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