Polymarket traders cut Clarity Act passage odds to record low as Senate delay drags on
Polymarket bettors have cut the odds of the CLARITY Act passing this year to a record low as Senate negotiations over ethics provisions remain unresolved.
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Stripe and Swift race to control the next generation of global payments infrastructure
Acquisition strategies underscore a massive land grab to capture cross-border remittance flows and native stablecoin reserve economics ahead of tight regulation.
Cardano hands core development to outside teams in decentralization push
The move marks a major transition for the blockchain as independent engineering groups prepare to maintain the underlying software code through 2027.
Inside Robinhood’s high-stakes bet to onboard 10 million casual users onto decentralized finance
The company says its advantage lies in bringing retail customers onchain, but early activity remains dominated by memecoins, while its original tokenization pitch remains small.
Japan's SBI Group is building Asia's first cross-border digital asset empire
The latest acquisition adds to a string of investments aimed at connecting digital asset markets across Asia.
Bitcoin faces fresh headwinds as China’s Kimi beats Claude, GPT in coding benchmark
Moonshot's Kimi K3 took the top spot in frontend coding away from Claude and OpenAI, and it's free. Semiconductor stocks fell, and crypto fell with them.
AI frenzy losing steam leaves bitcoin less volatile than South Korean stocks
The day ahead in crypto: July 17, 2026
Live markets: Bitcoin slips to $63,000 as the chip rout goes global
A deepening global selloff in chipmakers dragged risk assets lower, pulling bitcoin back from the $65,000 it reached on this week's soft inflation print.
Risk-off wave drags bitcoin below $63,000 as AI selloff spreads from stocks to crypto
Crypto approached the weekend broadly lower as AI stock fatigue and U.S.-Iran tensions weighed on sentiment, though an RSI near 42 hints at oversold conditions heading into the weekend.
Airbnb CEO says X account was hacked, attacker posted AI-slop on tokenization
Brian Chesky regained control of his account and told any new crypto followers he would be a "disappointing follow".
Ether falls twice as hard as bitcoin and HYPE drops 10% as the chip trade unwinds
Japan's Nikkei had its worst day since March. Ether is still the only major holding a gain on the week, barely.
This $28 million ether market bet aims to profit from pure market chaos
A high-conviction ether straddle hit the tape this week, showing increasing interest in volatility as an asset class.
Bitcoin’s anti-spam fight gets a 'DOG Mode' reply
While BIP 110 wants to restrict data through a consensus change and has almost no miner support, a new DOG Mode client wants the opposite and requires no vote at all.
Bitcoin under $64,000 after new U.S. strike on Iran. Trump's China comment adds to uncertainty
Geopolitical tensions and renewed fears of U.S.-China frictions are weighing on risk assets, including bitcoin.
$1.9 trillion asset manager T. Rowe Price bets on active management with first multi-token crypto ETF
T. Rowe Price launched what it says is the industry's first actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETF, offering diversified exposure to digital assets.
Citadel Securities invests $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing exchange at $20 billion
The exchange's first institutional funding round values it at $20 billion and will fund expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives.
Stripe’s $53 billion PayPal bid is a high-stakes play to own the future of digital payments
If Stripe acquires PayPal, the real prize could consumer wallets, stablecoin issuance or the infrastructure powering the the next generation of digital payments.
Visa backs Open USD with new stablecoin platform as Circle faces fresh competition
Visa launched a stablecoin platform that lets banks and fintechs issue, manage and settle digital dollars through its payments network.
Keyrock acquires BlockFills trading assets to expand institutional crypto business
The deal adds institutional trading clients, derivatives expertise and regulatory licenses as Keyrock looks to deepen its presence in crypto capital markets.
The Clarity Act is the most important consumer protection effort in years
Consumers should not have to wait for another crisis to get the protections they deserve, argues Summer Mersinger, CEO of the Blockchain Association.
Crypto for Advisors: Strengthening defenses against AI fraud
Crypto for Advisors: Strengthening defenses against AI fraud
Crypto brokerage firm Alpaca raises $135 million for tokenized stock infrastructure
The company has previously cleared or held in custody roughly 94% of tokenized U.S. equities and now holds over $1.5 billion in underlying stocks.
Ledger wants AI agents to manage crypto without holding your keys
AI agents can read wallet balances and analyze portfolios but requires every sensitive action to be approved on a Ledger hardware device before it can be executed.
Galaxy targets institutional stablecoin yield with new DeFi vaults
The crypto financial services firm launched Galaxy Curator, a Morpho-based platform that gives Fireblocks' 2,400 institutional clients access to onchain yield strategies.
The most popular bitcoin call option has slipped by $10,000
The day ahead in crypto: July 18, 2026
Rebooting the internet: inside the open-source project to let AI programs pay each other
The newly-convened x402 Foundation is a neutral space where competitors and payment methods can work together to create an open standard for AI agentic commerce.
Bitcoin pulls back to $64,000 after hitting monthly high as bears take control
Profit-taking after bitcoin's $65,500 monthly high combined with fresh Iranian strikes on U.S. bases sent crypto lower, with bears leading price action across most tokens.
Tether invests $20 million in Argentine neobank Ualá as it expands Latin America push
Ualá’s CEO clarified Tether is acting solely as a financial investor, citing current regional regulations preventing any immediate USDT integration.
U.S. adds four Iran central bank crypto wallets to sanctions, Tether freezes $131 million of contents
The freeze targets TRON-based addresses that previously held over $165 million, preventing those specific funds from being transferred or redeemed.
Live updates: ZachXBT calls hardware wallets complete garbage; BTC steady after Korea rate hike
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT came down heavily on hardware wallets. BTC traded steady near $65,000 after South Korea's rate hike.
U.S. Senate unanimously opposes clemency for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried
The nonbinding resolution passed without objection after Bankman-Fried asked for clemency, months after Trump pardoned other major crypto figures, including Changpeng Zhao and Ross Ulbricht.
A bitcoin wallet dormant since the 2017 peak just moved $383 million
The coins went to a fresh address rather than an exchange, so nothing has been sold yet.
Ether outruns bitcoin as ETF money returns, almost all of from BlackRock's fund
This is not a broad rally as bitcoin is up 4% over the same stretch, and solana, TRON and hyperliquid are all lower.
Two Groups of bitcoin Investors sell on the rise as U.S. inflation lifts prices to nearly $65,000
Two distinct groups of on-chain holders are selling into BTC’s price bounce.
Coinbase's Jesse Pollak steps back from Base app leadership after admitting his crypto social strategy failed
Pollak said that Jordan Fish, also known on X as 'Cobie,' will lead the Base app team.
DTCC moves tokenized securities into live trading, marking a milestone for Wall Street's blockchain push
DTCC's first live production trades using tokenized securities show how blockchain could reshape the infrastructure behind Wall Street.
Cantor and Securitize collaborate on blockchain-based IPOs
The move creates a pathway for public companies to raise capital onchain and issue tokenized securities.
Ostium suffers $18 million exploit as oracle attack wave continues to hit DeFi
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.
The privacy paradox of protecting kids online
We don’t need to imagine the privacy pitfalls of age verification. They’ve been happening for years, argues Cardano Foundation CEO Frederik Gregaard.
Crypto Long & Short: To ETH or not to ETH — is SOL the better diversifier?
To ETH or not to ETH — is SOL the better diversifier?
High-level White House meeting said to be planned to hash out Clarity Act ethics section
The most contentious piece of the crypto market structure bill is unresolved in the final weeks of Senate runway, and administration officials are expected to meet on it.
South Korea to modify 76-year-old law to classify cryptocurrencies as national assets
From tokenized public spending trials to government bond pilots, the state is aggressively pushing public finance onto distributed ledgers.
Open USD poses biggest threat yet to Circle's USDC, CoinShares says
The consortium-backed stablecoin would share reserve income with partners instead of the issuer, pressuring Circle's margins if it debuts in 2026.
A timeline of the Ethereum Foundation's ongoing shakeup
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 crypto assets fall 39% despite $15 billion of net inflows
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.
The launchpad that fueled Robinhood Chain's memecoin boom just gave away all its revenue
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.
Japan reclassifies crypto as a financial asset, paves way for tax cuts
The overhaul adds insider trading rules, tighter disclosures and tougher penalties while laying the groundwork for future bitcoin ETFs.
Strategy feels 'very secure' until bitcoin reaches $8,000-$10,000, says CEO
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.
Bitcoin rally cools as investors digest inflation data, oil clouds outlook
The day ahead in crypto: July 15, 2026
Crypto steadies as Middle East tensions counter U.S. inflation report boost
BTC rallied to a three-week high of $65,200 and ETH hit its highest since June 3 after a softer-than-expected inflation print eased fears over the U.S.-Iran conflict.
Stripe mounts blockbuster $53 billion bid to buy PayPal
Stripe and Advent’s bid follows an earlier expression of interest, and PayPal have been reluctant to engage with the offer thus far.
Live markets: Bitcoin, ether ETFs draw inflows as majors rise as much as 5%
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.
UK plans first G7 digital sovereign bond by early 2027
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.
Visa, Mastercard and Ripple back x402 as agent payments average 32 cents
Forty companies now govern x402, the protocol Coinbase built and handed away. It settled about $24 million last month across 75 million payments.
Bitcoin nears $65,000 as cooling U.S. inflation guts the Fed rate-hike trade
The June CPI print pulled hike odds from 43% to 13%, with analysts now watching the September FOMC meeting for further cues on positioning.
U.S. CFTC moves to stop Kalshi from canceling trades as ordered by Michigan court
The federal derivatives regulator, which oversees trading at Kalshi, argued it was inappropriate for Michigan to "bully" the firm into reversing trades.
Some U.S. Senate Democrats come out against Clarity Act, calling it a 'corrupt' bill
Certain Democrats are taking an increasingly rigorous stand against the crypto market structure bill, which needs a significant number from their party to pass.
Binance bets on becoming a crypto 'super app' as stablecoins reshape growth
Shunyet Jan, Binance’s head of spot trading and derivatives, said the exchange is focusing more on payments and financial services than on trading alone as it drives the next phase of its expansion.
The Clarity Act isn't a ticket to sanctions evasion, actually
The bill, as currently drafted, has the power to stop sanctions evasion at scale, argues Ari Redbord, global head of policy at TRM Labs.
Mizuho downgrades Circle to underperform, cuts price target to $50 on Open USD threat
The Japanese investment bank said Open USD's yield pass-through model could pressure Circle's margins by shifting more reserve income to distributors.
Wikipedia blackout could hurt how AI engines like ChatGPT understand crypto
Wikipedia observes guidelines on cryto coverage which date back many years, and may now be outdated, according to the report.
U.S., UK move to align rules for tokenized finance across world's largest financial markets
The joint roadmap aims to reduce regulatory friction for tokenized assets while strengthening ties between the world's two largest financial centers.
JPMorgan says Hyperliquid's rise threatens Circle's USDC economics
Hyperliquid's deal with Circle and Coinbase creates a "prisoner's dilemma" that puts pressure on earnings from the dollar-pegged stablecoin.
Ethereum Foundation spinout EthSystems targets banks with blockchain privacy technology
The spinout comes amid one of the biggest organizational shakeups at the Ethereum Foundation in years.
For pension funds, tokenization’s real play is balance-sheet management, Fidelity’s Lai says
Fidelity International’s Giselle Lai argues that the most compelling long-term use case for tokenized funds is balance sheet management for large, global institutions, rather than just 24/7 liquidity.
Hut 8 price target hiked to $165 at Benchmark as AI pivot reshapes valuation
Mark Palmer said Hut 8's Beacon Point project transforms the company into an AI infrastructure platform with a long growth runway.
U.S. June CPI fell 0.4%, likely cooling move toward Fed rate hikes
This morning's report could go a long way toward determining whether the Federal Reserve raises interest rates at its late-July meeting.
ECB picks firms including Deutsche Bank, Revolut for digital euro pilot
The pilot will test a beta version of the digital euro for online, offline, in-store, and e-commerce payments using ECB and central bank staff as users.
Japan’s biggest card network taps Circle to bring stablecoins to 40 million merchants
JCB is teaming up with Circle to see how digital dollars can cut down on currency exchange headaches and expensive remittance fees.
U.S.-Iran escalation weighs on bitcoin, stocks as oil climbs
The day ahead in crypto: July 14, 2026
Bitcoin's BIP-110 sparked a fight over who gets to decide the future of Bitcoin
BIP-110 sought to limit non-financial data on Bitcoin's blockchain but instead reignited debates over censorship and decentralization.
Prediction markets just crushed traditional sportsbooks in a massive $50 billion World Cup breakout
Prediction markets just topped $50 billion in monthly volume, capping off the first month of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Bitcoin’s great rotation: Long-term holders pass supply to a new generation of buyers
Long-term holders are quietly transferring supply to a new generation of buyers, but looming Federal Reserve rate hikes could still trigger the capitulation markets have been waiting for.
Bitcoin steadies at $62,600 as South Koreans flee stocks rout for crypto
Bitcoin consolidated after Monday's selloff as Trump threatened fresh Iran strikes, gold extended its slide and a KOSPI meltdown sent Korean crypto volumes soaring 1,426%.
XRP and ether bulls are getting louder as prices fall, signaling more trouble ahead
Social media chatter turned most bullish on XRP in five weeks even as the token fell, a setup that has historically favored sellers.
Live updates: Bitcoin holds $62,600 as the Iran conflict reignites and CPI looms
Trump reinstated the Hormuz blockade, sending oil higher and rate-hike bets up, reversing the peace trade that helped bitcoin recover in early July. Today's inflation print is the next test.
U.S. government moves $288 million in seized bitcoin, ether to Coinbase Prime
Coins from the Farace and BTC-e seizures moved through fresh wallets before landing on the exchange, despite president Donald Trump's previous no-sell reserve order.
Solo bitcoin miner makes $200,000 using $150 equipment
A solo miner just hit a full bitcoin block with a tiny $150 open-source rig.
Bitcoin slips as traders lift July Fed rate hike bets ahead of Inflation report
Major cryptocurrencies have dropped by 2% or more in 24 hours as traders boosted bets of a July Fed rate hike.
Binance.US CEO says exchange is rebuilding, eyes return to 20% U.S. market share
Binance.US is betting ultra-low fees, new regulated products and deeper liquidity will help it regain customers after two years of regulatory setbacks.
Franklin Crypto CIO says crypto prices are disconnected from fundamentals
Institutional adoption of crypto is accelerating even as digital asset prices fail to reflect the industry's strongest fundamentals in years, Seth Ginns said.
TeraWulf CEO: 'Not All Megawatts Are Created Equally' in AI Race
TeraWulf says its $19 billion AI hosting agreement with Anthropic underscores its transformation from a Bitcoin miner into an AI infrastructure company.
Trump's crypto riches loom over Clarity Act talks to ban conflicts for U.S. officials
Discussion among Democrats have fixed on the president's personal gains when hashing out the crypto market structure bill's ethics provision.
Mizuho says Circle bank approval doesn't solve USDC growth, stablecoin competition risks
Japanese investment bank Mizuho reiterated its neutral rating on Circle, saying OCC approval for a national trust bank doesn't address slowing USDC growth or rising competition.
Bitcoin panic-selling may be ending as sellers' profit margins disappear
Analysts point to bitcoin’s resilience amid fresh U.S.-Iran escalation and renewed spot ETF inflows as the clearest signs yet that the marginal seller has finally stepped away. Some still remain cautious.
Strategy pauses its Bitcoin buying spree to hoard a massive $3 billion cash cushion
Strategy now has more than 20 months of coverage for preferred-stock dividends and debt interest.
Robinhood built a blockchain for tokenized stocks. Memecoins took over
Robinhood Chain has pulled in $135 million of value and 800,000 addresses since July 1. Almost none of it is doing what the chain was built for.
Bolivia weighs adding Tether's USDT to its national payments system
Crypto usage has spiked in the country, with transaction volumes hitting $430 million in the year after the central bank removed restrictions in mid-2024.
UK Treasury report on tokenization cites Ripple as convergence model
A Treasury-backed report targets putting repo, gilts and funds onchain within two years, and warms to permissionless networks that firms like Ripple have been building on.
Tom Lee's BitMine ether holdings rise to 5.77 million tokens, or 4.8% of total supply
The company expanded its ETH treasury while Chairman Tom Lee pointed to Robinhood Chain's rapid growth on Ethereum.
Wall Street transfer agents lobby SEC, warning that third-party tokens pose risks to market integrity
The Securities Transfer Association, an industry group for transfer agents, said company-authorized tokenization should receive preferential treatment under future rules.
Robinhood Chain surges into top five by DEX volume: Bernstein
Robinhood's new blockchain quickly became a top-five network by DEX volume, signaling strong early demand for its tokenized asset platform, the broker said.
Michael Saylor’s Strategy added $467 million in cash, made no changes to bitcoin holdings
The company raised the fresh cash via sales of common stock; its USD Reserve now stands at $3 billion.
SBI Holdings' blockchain initiative pivots to Solana for tokenization, stablecoin issuance
The SBI Solana Global joint venture now includes the Solana Foundation, the Zug, Switzerland-based organization that oversees the layer-1 network.
BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley join UK government's tokenization taskforce
The 54 firm-strong group, which is backed by the City of London Corporation, will spend the next year working on live tokenisation use cases across UK financial markets
Resurgent U.S.-Iran hostilities send bitcoin lower even as ETF flows show demand
The day ahead in crypto: July 13, 2026
Profit-taking, MidEast hostilities drag crypto lower after bullish week
Crypto's weekend gains gave way to a Monday selloff as Middle East tensions resurfaced, South Korea's Kospi lost 9.2% and $253 million in leveraged positions were wiped out.
Paradigm shifts vs bubbles: AI chips and bitcoin show powerful trends can still produce severe corrections
Structural change can create lasting opportunities, but explosive rallies in semiconductors, metals and bitcoin show how quickly strong narratives can become speculative excess.
U.S. inflation, second-quarter earnings reports: Crypto Week Ahead
Your look at what's coming in the week starting July 13.
Live markets: Bitcoin slips below $63,000 in an Asian-session leverage flush
The liquidations were minor, running at about a sixth of what the market saw at its worst over the past 30 days, per CoinGlass.
Bitcoin holds near $63,800 as war-driven selloff hits everything but crypto
Gold, oil, stocks and bonds all moved sharply on the fourth round of U.S. strikes on Iran, but bitcoin is little-changed.
Signs of life?: State of Crypto
Several sources told CoinDesk that a new draft of the Clarity Act may drop this week, but challenges remain.
Stablecoin market cap has shrunk by $10 billion since May, but analyst sees no reason to panic
The market shrank by $7.7 billion in June alone, the largest dollar amount since May 2022's Terra-Luna crash, but stablecoins will likely resume their long-term growth, one analyst said.
Bitcoin is nearing a power law support line Fidelity has tracked since 2015
The group's Dir. of Global Macro Jurien Timmer calls it an accumulation zone but notes the lack of a catalyst to bounce yet.
Bitcoin, ether little changed as U.S. launches fresh Iran strikes
The U.S. hit Iran for the third time this week and Tehran has reportedly closed the Strait of Hormuz again.
Ripple once weighed shutting down and handing XRP to shareholders, CEO says
Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse says he and co-founder Chris Larsen considered winding the company down and handing its XRP to shareholders before deciding to fight the 2020 lawsuit.
Bitcoin’s BIP 110 fork deadline nears with miner support at zero
The BIP 110 proposal would cap arbitrary data on Bitcoin for a year, but Saylor, Adam Back and others say turning a spam dispute into a consensus fight could create a bigger risk than the spam itself.
Lending protocol Bonzo loses 77% of value locked as $9 million oracle exploit rattles Hedera
Bonzo Lend lost approximately $9.05 million after an attacker exploited a verification flaw in a third-party Supra oracle contract on the Hedera network.
Crypto IPO market stalls as capital rotates to AI and macro uncertainty weighs
Funding constraints and investor caution, not regulation, are delaying crypto IPOs, according to Cohen & Company Capital Markets' Christian Lopez.
The UK has finally shown it’s serious about crypto
Several recent regulatory steps indicate the UK might finally stop dragging its feet when it comes to crypto, argues Wirex CEO Chet Shah.
Bitcoin treasury company Empery Digital sold about half of its BTC stack
It's a sign of the times as the troubled company swaps its bitcoin treasury ambitions for AI data centers.
AI found an Ethereum bug that could take validators offline, but humans had to prove it
The Ethereum Foundation pointed coordinated AI agents at the software its validators run and got a remotely triggerable crash out of it. It also got a pile of confident, well-written findings that were not bugs at all.
Bitcoin analysts predict $300,000–$500,000 price in 2029. The math says no
Analysts predict a rally to $300,000 or more by 2029. But key data suggests the era of moonshots may be over.
Meta's Chief Data Officer Says Agentic Commerce is the "Next Tier of Business"
Alex Schultz says stablecoins are assumed inside Meta. The harder problem is getting the rest of the world there.
U.S. government digital dollar set to be banned tonight under housing law's CBDC limit
Despite President Donald Trump's refusal to sign Congress' bipartisan housing bill, it's set to go into effect at midnight, and its temporary CBDC ban along with it.
Hyundai becomes first major South Korean company to introduce internal stablecoin transfers
The project moved live funds between subsidiaries as businesses increasingly test blockchain for faster and lower-cost cross-border payments.
OKX, MetaMask, Matter Labs back dispute resolution court for AI agents
The Genlayer Foundation is leading the 27-firm consortium that makes AI-based payments, escrow and dispute resolution interoperable.
Circle soars after securing U.S. trust bank approval in crypto expansion
The company said the bank will initially serve Circle and its affiliates before potentially expanding services to financial institutions.
Japan's 'invest locally' plan likely to spur demand for assets like bitcoin, gold
The day ahead in crypto: July 10, 2026
Crypto defies equity weakness as altcoin optimism builds into the weekend
BTC hit $64,400 on Friday, retesting the level that rejected it on Monday, with a break higher opening the path toward the June 15 peak of $67,250.
Polymarket seeks approval to bring margin trading to U.S. customers
The application would let users open larger positions with less capital if regulators approve the required rule changes.
Bitcoin's $60,000-$70,000 range becomes third most traded range in history
Bitcoin has spent 307 days in the $60,000-$70,000 range, the third longest consolidation in any $10,000 price band.
Metaplanet explores bringing bitcoin-backed digital credit to Japan
Metaplanet announces a joint study with JPYC and Progmat to develop Bitcoin-backed digital credit products in Japan. The collaboration explores tokenized credit instruments using bitcoin as collateral, stablecoins for settlements, and security tokens for ownership
Bitcoin gets a green light from a reliable momentum gauge. Here are key levels to watch
Bitcoin’s longer-term MACD histogram has turned bullish. We break down what it means and the key levels to watch out for in the near-term.
Live updates: Bitcoin rises to $64,000 as SK Hynix opens for trade after $26.5 billion IPO
Spot bitcoin funds lost about $95 million on Thursday and ether funds roughly $52 million, ending the one bright spot in crypto's institutional flows even as prices rallied.
XRP up 2% as buyers push through $1.10 resistance
A late-session volume surge carried XRP above its recent range, with traders now watching whether $1.10 can hold as support.
Bitcoin's quiet split: Strong in USD, lagging in JPY as Yen rises on intervention fears
A sharp rise in the yen has left bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies underperforming in yen terms compared with their dollar-based trading pairs.
Bitcoin zips higher to nearly $64,000 as chip rally and yen strength drive gains
Bitcoin is up 4.2% over seven days that contained an oil shock, a bond selloff and two rounds of U.S. strikes on Iran.
New Hampshire snuffs out trailblazing state-government bitcoin bond effort
At its last stage for government approval, the state's executive council rejected the bond project 3-2.
Grayscale's CFO exits after 7 years with crypto asset manager
Edward McGee stepped down after seven years, months after distribution chief John Hoffman left for Ondo Finance.
With SEC fight over, Coinbase's top legal exec Grewal moves on, and others reassigned
Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal will depart the exchange, though he'll continue as an adviser, he said Thursday.
Arbitrum jumps 19% benefitting from Robinhood's $568 million onchain trading frenzy
The brokerage's new blockchain is off to a fast start, with memecoin trading boosting activity and revenue flowing back to the Arbitrum ecosystem.
Newest version of crypto Clarity Act may drop as soon as next week, sources say
After a long stretch without breakthroughs in the crypto market structure bill, insiders say a new draft may emerge in a final push for late-July action — though it still lacks bipartisan buy-in.
Billions flowing out of bitcoin ETFs and private credit funds suggest rising market risks
Redemption requests in the $2 trillion private credit market surged to $15.6 billion in the second quarter, dwarfing bitcoin ETF outflows.