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Michael Saylor Opposes BIP 110, Says Bitcoin Needs “Guardians of Neutrality” Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor published an article titled “110 Reasons BIP 110 Is a Bad Idea,” opposing the proposal to restrict certain Bitcoin tran

Robinhood CEO: Operate “Trump Accounts” and Why Trading Isn't Necessarily Gambling According to NYT, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said in an interview that the company is working with the U.S. government to operate “Trump Accounts,” investment

Robinhood CEO: Operate “Trump Accounts” and Why Trading Isn't Necessarily Gambling According to NYT, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said in an interview that the company is working with the U.S. government to operate “Trump Accounts,” investment

Cobie: Coinbase Has Long Been Distant From Crypto-Native Users KOL Rune asked Coinbase trading product lead Cobie how the Base App plans to attract onchain users after trust in the Base ecosystem was damaged. Cobie replied that he took ove

Spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs Record $132M and $36.73M in Net Inflows According to SoSoValue data, on July 17 (ET), spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded total net inflows of $132 million, while spot Ethereum ETFs recorded total net inflows of $36.7

Highlight Clip Tom Lee: Ethereum Will Penalize Impatient Investors Tom Lee: Ethereum Will Penalize Impatient Investors On July 7, 2026, Tom Lee stated on the New Era Finance Podcast that the recent lag in the crypto market is primarily du

Consensys Says North Korea-Linked Developer Contributed to MetaMask Code Before Access Was Revoked According to Drop Site News, blockchain firm Consensys accidentally hired a software developer linked to North Korea. The developer, using t

FTX to Distribute About $900 Million to Creditors in Fifth Payout on July 31 FTX will begin its fifth creditor distribution on July 31, paying approximately $900 million to holders of allowed claims in the Convenience and Non-Convenience C

Odds Anthropic IPOs This Year At 77%, Whilst The Odds Of It Hitting $2T This Year Slide To 35% Following Release Of Kimi K3: Polymarket

TRUMP MEDIA TO SELL FASTER ACCESS TO PRESIDENT’S SOCIAL POSTS TRUMP MEDIA PITCHED $100,000 MONTHLY FEE FOR FAST FEED OF PRESIDENT’S POSTS

WuBlockchain Weekly Tether Freezes $131M in USDT Linked to Iran’s IRGC, U.S. and U.K. Move to Align Stablecoin Rules, Morgan Stanley’s E*TRADE Launches Crypto Spot Trading, DTCC Begins a Tokenized RWA Pilot, and Crypto Media Faces Widespre

CoinShares: Record $8B Outflow Streak Ends as Bitcoin Funds Return to Inflows CoinShares said digital asset investment products ended a record eight-week, $8 billion outflow streak with $287 million of inflows last week. Softer-than-expect

Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index Stays Negative for Record 60 Consecutive Days According to Coinglass, the Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index has remained negative for 60 consecutive days since May 19, with the latest reading at -0.1025 %. The p

Plasma One Launches Stablecoin Account with XPL Rewards and Aave Yield Plasma One has launched an account combining a stablecoin card, fee‑free USDT transfers, on‑chain yield and an XPL‑based membership program. Users can earn XPL cashback

Japanese financial group SBI Holdings said it received approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore and, on July 16, acquired a majority stake in Holdbuild, the parent company of Singapore‑based crypto platform Coinhako, through a capi

Argentine Judge Freezes 25 Crypto Accounts, Orders Six Exchanges to Identify Account Holders Argentine federal judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi ordered 25 crypto accounts linked to the LIBRA investigation frozen and directed Binance, Bybit

Binance to List Aerodrome’s AERO With Seed Tag Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, will list Aerodrome Finance (AERO) at 19:00 UTC+8 on July 17, opening AERO/USDT, AERO/USDC and AERO/TRY spot trading pairs. Depo

Suspected a16z-Linked Wallet Sells $6.5 Million in HYPE as Token Slides 9% A wallet suspected to be linked to a16z sold 105,400 HYPE worth about USD 6.48 million at an average price of USD 61.49, according to HyperInsight. Another 190,000

Highlight Clip Tom Lee: S&P 500 Could Top 8,000 by Year-End Tom Lee: S&P 500 Could Top 8,000 by Year-End BitMine Chairman Tom Lee said in a July 14 CNBC interview that the S&P 500 could rise above 8,000 by year-end, as the AI story remain

Bitcoin ETFs Draw $79 Million as Ether Funds Return to Outflows According to SoSoValue data, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded total net inflows of USD 79.15 million on July 16, led by BlackRock’s IBIT with USD 33.44 million. Spot Ethereum E

Token Buybacks Cannot Rescue Weak Valuations, Ansem Says Crypto trader Ansem said token buybacks do not necessarily provide lasting support for valuations, pointing to the sharp gap between Hyperliquid and Pump.fun. The two platforms gener

USDT Trading in Venezuela Now Rivals the Country's Oil Exports Between June 11 and July 13, about 1.389 billion USDT was traded on Binance’s peer-to‑to market in Venezuela, averaging roughly USD 44 million a day. Ecoanalítica, a Venezuelan

Highlight Clip Fed Chair: We're Not Bailing Out Anybody, Including Crypto Fed Chair: We're Not Bailing Out Anybody, Including Crypto Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said at a July 14 hearing of the U.S. House Financial Services Committe

Largest U.S. Retail Market Maker Citadel Securities Invests $400 Million in Crypto com at a $20 Billion Valuation Citadel Securities has invested $400 million in Crypto com at a $20 billion valuation, marking the crypto exchange’s first in

*CRYPTO.COM REPORTS $400M INVESTMENT FROM CITADEL SECURITIES: BBG

TKNZ, the First Multi-Token Actively Managed Spot Crypto ETF, Launches With HYPE Significantly Overweight Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said T. Rowe Price’s actively managed crypto ETF TKNZ launched today as the first multi-token ac

Arkham: Satoshi Leads Bitcoin Holdings With 1.096 Million BTC, Coinbase Ranks Second Arkham data shows that Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto holds approximately 1.096 million BTC worth around $71 billion, making Satoshi the

How Is a Pre-IPO Company's "Share Price" Determined on Hyperliquid? ChangXin Memory Technologies’ CXMT contract on Hyperliquid is a cash-settled Pre-IPO perpetual deployed by Trade.xyz through HIP-3, rather than an actual stock. Trade.xyz

TELEPROMPTER OPERATOR ALLEGEDLY MADE KALSHI BETS ON TRUMP STATEMENTS; CFTC INVESTIGATING: CNBC- INFINITYHEDGE

Polygon Labs Announces Layoffs, Shifts From Blockchain Foundation to Blockchain Payments Company Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron said the company is in the final stage of acquiring Coinme and integrating its team. To achieve profitability in

Bybit Launches Localized Indonesian Platform Bybit Indonesia Following its majority acquisition of Indonesian crypto platform PT Enkripsi Teknologi Handal (formerly NOBI), Bybit has officially launched Bybit Indonesia, which operates under

U.S. initial jobless claims for the week ended July 11 were 208,000 U.S. initial jobless claims for the week ended July 11 were 208,000, marking the lowest level since the week of May 2, 2026.

Morpho Frontend and API Partially Disrupted by AWS Outage, Now Restored Morpho principal engineer Julien said app morpho org and api morpho org experienced a partial outage about three hours ago, likely due to an issue with AWS CloudFront.

Korea’s Leverage Rout Wipes Out $1.45 Billion, With Young Traders Hit Hardest South Korean retail investors lost an estimated KRW 2.15 trillion, or about USD 1.45 billion, from leveraged trading over the past month, with investors in their

South Korea Raises Rates for First Time Since 2023, Pressuring Crypto Risk Appetite The Bank of Korea raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 2.75%, its first increase since January 2023, matching market expectations after

Upbit and Bithumb Delist Multiple Tokens South Korea’s largest exchange Upbit announced the delisting of Tottenham Hotspur Fan Token (SPURS/BTC). The country’s second-largest exchange Bithumb will delist Gracy (GRACY), Tottenham Hotspur Fa

Spot Bitcoin ETFs Recorded Total net Inflows of USD 108 Million According to SoSoValue data, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded total net inflows of USD 108 million on July 15, with BlackRock’s IBIT posting the largest single-day inflow at US

U.S. Senate Unanimously Opposes Clemency for FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a nonbinding resolution stating that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried should not receive a presidential pardon, sentence commutati

Highlight Clip After Stock Tip Losses, South Korean Investor Stabs YouTuber After Stock Tip Losses, South Korean Investor Stabs YouTuber At around 8 a.m. on July 13 in Busan, a man in his 20s allegedly stabbed an investment YouTuber insi

NYDIG: Bitcoin Could Bottom Near $38,000–$39,000 If Past Bear Markets Repeat NYDIG said Bitcoin’s 2025–2026 drawdown is increasingly resembling the four-year cycle corrections seen in 2014, 2018 and 2022. If the current decline follows the

Study Finds Signs of Manipulation in Bitcoin Bets on World’s Largest Prediction Market Researchers from Stanford University and Singapore Management University found signs of settlement manipulation in Polymarket’s popular five-minute Bitc

ZachXBT Says Hardware Wallets Are “Garbage,” With Ledger the Worst ZachXBT, one of the crypto industry’s most prominent onchain investigators, said he does not consider current hardware wallets suitable for signing critical transactions or

Study Finds Signs of Manipulation in Bitcoin Bets on World’s Largest Prediction Market Researchers from Stanford University and Singapore Management University found signs of settlement manipulation in Polymarket’s popular five-minute Bitc

NYDIG: Bitcoin Could Bottom Near $38,000–$39,000 If Past Bear Markets Repeat NYDIG said Bitcoin’s 2025–2026 drawdown is increasingly resembling the four-year cycle corrections seen in 2014, 2018 and 2022. If the current decline follows the

Base Founder Jesse Pollak: Base Will Focus on Trading, Payments and AI Agents After Moving Away From Social Push Base founder Jesse Pollak said he was wrong to focus heavily on social products and content coins, acknowledging that the stra

Bitfinex Alpha: Bitcoin Lacks Sustained Spot Buying Support Bitfinex Alpha said the softer-than-expected US June CPI pushed Bitcoin to its highest close since June 22, but the rally was driven mainly by a repricing of macroeconomic expecta

$1.8 Billion in USDC Left Binance After Its MiCA Setback. But Who Really Gained? Binance recorded $1.8 billion in net USDC outflows in Q2 2026, including $1.4 billion in June alone, while its tracked USDC balance fell 19%. Over the same pe

RWA Perpetual Protocol Ostium Suffers Suspected $18 Million Exploit on Arbitrum Security firm Blockaid said it detected an exploit involving Ostium Vault on Arbitrum. According to Blockaid, the attacker used a registered PriceUpKeep forwar

RWA Perpetual Protocol Ostium Suffers Suspected $18 Million Exploit on Arbitrum Security firm Blockaid said it detected an exploit involving Ostium Vault on Arbitrum. According to Blockaid, the attacker used a registered PriceUpKeep forwar

DTCC Launches Tokenization Pilot for Microsoft, QQQ Shares and U.S. Treasuries According to The Wall Street Journal, DTCC has launched a securities tokenization pilot with nearly 40 financial firms and technology providers, testing the tok

U.S. June PPI Annual Rate at 5.5%, Below Expectations of 6.2% U.S. June PPI rose 5.5% YoY, below expectations of 6.2%; prior figure revised from 6.50% to 6.0%.

BNB Chain Completes 36th Quarterly Burn, Removing 1.61M BNB According to an official announcement, BNB Chain has completed its 36th quarterly BNB token burn, destroying 1,615,827.795 BNB worth approximately $932 million at the time of the

Bitmine Generated $45.7M from ETH Staking Last Quarter, 98% of Revenue According to Bitmine’s latest 10-Q filing, Bitmine Immersion Technologies generated $45.7 million in Ethereum staking and validation revenue for the quarter ended May 3

Spot Bitcoin ETFs Recorded $181 Million in Net Inflows According to SoSoValue data, spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $181 million in net inflows yesterday (July 14, ET). Spot Ethereum ETFs saw $58.3385 million in net inflows, with none of the 10

Hyperliquid Lists CXMT, Potentially A-Share’s Largest IPO and 4th-Largest DRAM Maker Following the listing of the “CSI STAR Market 50 ETF”, Hyperliquid has officially added ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT). As A-share listings such as C

Stripe and Advent Reportedly Offer $53 Billion to Acquire PayPal According to Reuters, Stripe and Advent International have offered to acquire PayPal for $60.50 per share, valuing the payments giant at more than $53 billion. The offer is b

Japanese Financial Giant Downgrades Circle to Underperform, Cuts Price Target From $85 to $50 Japanese investment bank Mizuho downgraded Circle from Neutral to Underperform and cut its price target from $85 to $50. The bank said OpenUSD’s

Binance "Super App" Strategy: Expanding Beyond Trading into Payments and Financial Services Shunyet Jan, Head of Spot Trading and Derivatives at Binance, told CoinDesk that the exchange is seeking to transform into a "super app" integratin

Pumpfun Completes First Team and Investor Token Unlock Worth $86.49 Million PUMP According to , Pumpfun's one-year lock-up for team and investor tokens expired today, marking the start of a three-year vesting period. Earlier today, Pumpfun

Velocity Raises $38 Million Series A Led by Dragonfly and FirstMark Stablecoin settlement platform Velocity has raised $38 million in a Series A round co-led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, with participation from Activant Capital, Capital One

Coinbase Executive Says 95%-100% of Company Code Is Now AI-Assisted, Up From 40% in February Rob Witoff, Head of Platform at Coinbase, stated in Cointelegraph interview that 95% to 100% of Coinbase's code is currently written by or with th

Jeff Yan on Hyperliquid's future vision: the AWS of finance On July 9, 2026, Hyperliquid co‑founder Jeff Yan stated on the VALR podcast that the platform is fundamentally a liquidity infrastructure layer for all of finance, rather than jus

Tether Freezes 4 TRON Addresses Linked to IRGC, Involving $131M USDT According to analyst Specter, Tether has frozen 4 TRON network wallet addresses, involving a total of approximately $131 million USDT. On-chain data indicates that most o

Interactive Brokers, the Fourth-Largest U.S. Brokerage, Adds Nine Crypto Tokens and Two-Way Stablecoin Transfers Interactive Brokers has added trading support for nine tokens through zerohash: AAVE, APT, CC, LDO, MON, NEAR, XPL, PAXG and U

U.S. Government-Labeled Seized-Funds Addresses Move $12.9 Million in Crypto Arkham data show that over the past six hours, a U.S. government-labeled address holding funds seized in the Bitfinex hack transferred approximately 5,939 ETH and

SEC Crypto Task Force Meets Hyperliquid Policy Center and XYZ on Crypto Regulation SEC Crypto Task Force staff met with representatives of the Hyperliquid Policy Center, XYZ Ltd. and Sullivan & Cromwell on July 14 to discuss approaches to

UK and US Seek Stablecoin Regulatory Convergence and Cross-Border Market Access The UK and US governments issued a joint statement supporting closer coordination on stablecoin regulation and their use in cross-border payments, settlement a

U.S. Government-Labeled Seized-Funds Addresses Move $12.9 Million in Crypto Arkham data show that over the past six hours, a U.S. government-labeled address holding funds seized in the Bitfinex hack transferred approximately 5,939 ETH and

UK and US Seek Stablecoin Regulatory Convergence and Cross-Border Market Access The UK and US governments issued a joint statement supporting closer coordination on stablecoin regulation and their use in cross-border payments, settlement a

SEC Crypto Task Force Meets Hyperliquid Policy Center and XYZ on Crypto Regulation SEC Crypto Task Force staff met with representatives of the Hyperliquid Policy Center, XYZ Ltd. and Sullivan & Cromwell on July 14 to discuss approaches to

Review: Major Institutions' Bitcoin Bottom Price Predictions for This Cycle Major institutional assessments of Bitcoin’s cycle bottom cluster mainly in two ranges: $50,000–$60,000 and $40,000–$46,000. However, some figures are base-case bo

JPMorgan Cuts Circle and Coinbase Forecasts Over Hyperliquid Deal JPMorgan downgraded earnings estimates for Circle and Coinbase, stating their new agreement with Hyperliquid weakens USDC economics. Coinbase will now pay 90% of USDC reserv

Coinbase Opens Registration to Users in China On July 14, multiple social media users reported that Coinbase had opened account registration to users in China. Wu Blockchain confirmed the change with Coinbase staff, who said users can now

WARSH: UNDERLYING INFLATION IS DETERMINED BY MONETARY POLICY

WARSH: FED HAS ’NO TOLERANCE’ FOR PERSISTENTLY HIGH INFLATION

US JUNE CONSUMER PRICES RISE 3.5% Y/Y; EST. +3.8%

TOTAL CPI MOM = -0.4, TOTAL CPI YOY = 3.5 CORE CPI MOM = 0.0, CORE CPI YOY = 2.6

Wintermute: Bitcoin Holds Above $62K Amid Geopolitical Shock as Crypto ETFs Return to Net Inflows After Eight Weeks Wintermute said Bitcoin held above $62,000 and rebounded toward $64,000 despite last week’s geopolitical shock, suggesting

BTC and ETH Social Media Activity Falls to Lowest Level Since 2020 Crypto analyst CryptoJack said social media posts about Bitcoin and Ethereum have fallen to their lowest level since 2020, continuing a decline from the 2021–2022 peaks. He

Upbit, South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, will list Derive (DRV) with KRW, BTC and USDT trading pairs, with trading scheduled to begin at 17:00 Korea time on July 14. Derive, formerly known as the onchain options protocol Lyra Finance,

Korea Stock Rout Deepens as Upbit Volume Surges 1,426% South Korea’s KOSPI extended its sharp selloff on July 14, falling 4% intraday to 6,534.34, with SK Hynix down more than 7%. At the same time, Upbit, South Korea’s largest crypto excha

Binance US Plots Comeback With 20% U.S. Market Share Target Binance US CEO Stephen Gregory said the company is restarting growth after a two-year regulatory setback and plans to reclaim about 20% of the U.S. crypto trading market. Binance

Brent Rises 10% as Trump Reinstates Iran Blockade, Proposes 20% Hormuz Cargo Charge According to Bloomberg, U.S. President Donald Trump reinstated a blockade on vessels entering or leaving Iranian ports and proposed a 20% charge on cargo c

U.S.-Linked Wallets Move Nearly $297 Million in Seized Crypto to Coinbase Prime According to Arkham data, a wallet linked to the U.S. government that had been dormant for about four years transferred 140.214 BTC, worth about USD 8.78 milli

U.S.-Linked Wallets Move Nearly $297 Million in Seized Crypto to Coinbase Prime According to Arkham data, a wallet linked to the U.S. government that had been dormant for about four years transferred 140.214 BTC, worth about USD 8.78 milli

Binance Releases 44th Proof of Reserves Report Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by user count and trading volume, released its 44th Proof of Reserves report with a July 1 snapshot. User BTC holdings rose 1.22% from June 1 to ab

Brent Rises 10% as Trump Reinstates Iran Blockade, Proposes 20% Hormuz Cargo Charge According to Bloomberg, U.S. President Donald Trump reinstated a blockade on vessels entering or leaving Iranian ports and proposed a 20% charge on cargo c

Dragonfly’s Haseeb: Annualized DeFi Hack Losses for 2026 Remain Below 2025 Levels Despite AI Threats Annualized losses from DeFi hacks in 2026 remain below 2025 levels and within the historical range, Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qure

June 2026 Exchange Data Report: Spot Volume Fell 5.1%, Derivatives Volume Rose 4.2%, Website Traffic Fell 0.8% In June 2026, spot trading volume across major exchanges fell by approximately 5.1% from May. Bitfinex recorded the largest incr

The Final Countdown for Clarity: Senate Has Four Weeks to Act According to Crypto in America, lawmakers have roughly four weeks to advance the Clarity Act before the August recess, widely seen as its last realistic chance to pass this year

Bolivia Considers Integrating USDT Into National Payment System According to CriptoNoticias, Bolivia’s Economy Minister José Gabriel Espinoza said the government is technically evaluating whether to incorporate USDT into the national payme

Strategy Sells $466.7M in MSTR Shares, Makes No Bitcoin Purchases According to a July 13 SEC filing, Strategy sold 4.82 million MSTR shares for $466.7 million in net proceeds between July 6 and July 12. The company made no Bitcoin purchase

BitMine Buys 27,801 ETH, Holdings Reach 5.77M ETH BitMine said it acquired 27,801 ETH over the past week, lifting total holdings to 5,770,038 ETH, or about 4.8% of Ethereum’s supply, and has staked 4,917,189 ETH. As of July 12, the company

STRATEGY RAISES $466M FROM COMMON ATM, NO CHANGES TO BTC BALANCE: FILING 🔗 velo.xyz

BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Join UK Tokenization Taskforce 54 firms including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and UBS have joined a UK government-backed taskforce to develop live tokenization use cases, i

Chinese Prosecutors Suggest Crypto Mixers and Privacy Coins as Money Laundering Signals A research article published on China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate website proposed treating the use of crypto mixers, privacy coins and abnormal h

QCP: Crypto Markets Await CPI, Fed Testimony and Q2 Earnings for Direction QCP said crypto entered the week with limited conviction as investors await Tuesday’s US CPI release, Fed Chair Warsh’s two-day congressional testimony and the star

Hyperliquid OI Tops $11B as HIP-3 Markets Reach Record $3.69B Hyperliquid’s total open interest reached approximately $11.07 billion on July 13, its highest level of 2026, before easing to about $10.88 billion, according to DeFiLlama. HIP-

Japanese Financial Giant SBI Teams Up With Solana to Expand Onchain Finance SBI Holdings and Solana Foundation partner to build Japan-originated onchain markets, focusing on JPY stablecoins, tokenized RWAs, cross‑border payments, and insti

South Korea’s KOSPI Closes Down 8.95% After Circuit Breaker Triggered, SK Hynix Falls Over 15% On July 13, South Korea’s KOSPI triggered a circuit breaker during intraday trading and closed down 8.95% at 6,806.93. SK Hynix fell 15.37% to K