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Bitcoin ETFs logged their third consecutive weekly inflow on July 24, but sharp late-week outflows and a critical institutional divide on stablecoin regulation signal persistent un
BlackRock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sachs, and SoFi have publicly endorsed the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act ahead of an August 8 Senate recess. The endorsement sig
A U.S. federal judge granted a preliminary injunction blocking Minnesota's prediction market ban, ruling that the state law likely violates the Commodity Exchange Act and that the
Russia's central bank has published draft regulations establishing tiered capital requirements from $570,000 to $2.8 million for digital asset platforms ahead of a full crypto fram
Zcash activated its Ironwood upgrade at block 3,428,143 on Tuesday, retiring the Orchard shielded pool containing 3.66 million ZEC (roughly $1.7 billion) after researchers discover
The New York Times reported that Binance adopted a policy in April 2025 routing most foreign law enforcement data requests through the United Arab Emirates government and Mutual Le
Core Scientific signed a 15-year, 529 MW lease with AMD for AI data center capacity, generating more than $14 billion in base contracted revenue and expansion rights to 2.5 GW. The
BitMart's nine-year run is ending in a phased shutdown even as bitcoin ETFs post a third straight weekly inflow, and regulators from Washington to Bangkok tighten disclosure and ce
What is on the calendar for the week of July 27: scheduled events only, no predictions.
Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission filed a criminal complaint against Bitkub exchange and two former directors for concealing a May 2021 cyberattack in which 1.7 billion
Lido deployed its largest upgrade since 2023, consolidating over 8 million staked ether ($16.5 billion) onto Ethereum's post-Pectra validator design via Curated Module v2. For the
Storj Labs filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy in West Virginia federal court while continuing network operations. The company proposes a mechanism for STORJ token holders to
POSCO International, which generated $22.2 billion in revenue last year, has begun tokenizing actual commercial invoices on Injective in a pilot with LG CNS. The initiative embeds
Circle acquired nearly 1,000 blockchain-anchored patents from IBM, spanning more than 680 patent families and covering blockchain, banking, financial services, insurance, supply-ch
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded their third consecutive week of inflows with $33.79 million for the week ended July 24, 2026, despite $465.26 million in outflows on Thursday and Fr
BitMEX and BitMart both confirmed wind-down timelines this week, with BitMEX's July 23 shutdown announcement filed the same day as a class-action lawsuit alleging it withheld custo
BitMEX, ending an 11-year run, and BitMart, ending nine years, both announced shutdowns this week, while a lawsuit filed the same day as BitMEX's closure alleges systematic collate
Cryptocurrency exchange BitMart announced an orderly wind-down of its trading platform, halting all trading by August 26, 2026 and ceasing operations on January 31, 2027. The platf
North Korean authorities arrested former military hackers on July 12 accused of breaching the Central Bank of the DPRK and Foreign Trade Bank, diverting funds into overseas crypto
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a second advisory warning prediction markets against submitting broad, template-style event contract certifications without ind
MiCA compliance costs and the UK's proposed FCA crypto framework are expected to drive mergers and partnerships between crypto-native firms and established financial institutions.
Sberbank announced plans to launch a crypto trading platform and digital depository by December 1, 2026, ahead of new Russian regulations taking effect September 1. The infrastruct
BitMEX faces a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging it systematically retained customer collateral through forced liquidations and that an internal trading desk accessed private
Farmers in Paraná, Brazil tokenized 10 dairy cows on the B3 national stock exchange and raised nearly $20,000 in credit secured by AI-monitored livestock collars, sidestepping loca
Real-world assets on Robinhood Chain surged to approximately $70 million, a fivefold increase in less than two weeks, with a dozen tokenized stocks each clearing at least $500,000
BitMEX announced closure on September 23, 2026, the same day a class-action lawsuit was filed alleging systematic customer collateral theft and insider trading by an internal desk
The Stacks community approved SIP-045, a major protocol upgrade enabling native Bitcoin staking without custodians, with over 99% of votes cast in favor. The hard fork is targeted
BitMEX will close after 11 years and Poolin has filed for bankruptcy, while validator-key theft drained another exchange and Washington's marquee crypto bill slips its deadline.
BitMEX, the crypto derivatives exchange that pioneered 100x leverage perpetual swaps in 2014, will cease operations on September 23, 2026, ending an 11-year run. The parent company
The European Union expanded sanctions against Russia on July 24, designating the A7 cross-border payments network and 14 unnamed crypto service platforms, and introducing a new too
Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters the Clarity Act crypto market structure bill will likely miss the August 7 deadline for Senate passage before Congress's summer bre
India's Cyber Crime Coordination Centre issued a takedown order against three Bitchat repositories on GitHub, citing the app's use in protest communications to evade internet shutd
Poolin, once Bitcoin's largest mining pool with 18-20% of global hashrate in 2019, filed for Chapter 11 protection in New Jersey on July 22 with approximately $173 million in debt.
Farmers in Paraná, Brazil tokenized 10 dairy cows on the B3 stock exchange to secure nearly $20,000 in credit, marking the first livestock tokenization deal tracked by AI-powered c
The CFTC extended the public comment deadline by 30 days to August 26, 2026, on proposed rules that would allow standard energy futures contracts to trade around the clock and intr
BitMEX, the 11-year-old derivatives exchange that pioneered the 100x leverage perpetual swap, announced permanent closure effective September 23, 2026 at 04:00:00 UTC. New account
David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, publicly endorsed the Clarity Act on Thursday, saying it creates a level playing field and market stability, even while acknowledging the bill
AFX Trade, a perpetuals exchange on Arbitrum, lost $24.15 million USDC after attackers compromised the protocol's bridge validator signing keys. The attack used five hot-validator
The SEC agreed to pay $150,000 and produce remaining records to settle a two-year FOIA lawsuit filed by Coinbase, following disclosure that the agency deleted text messages from fo
Nine institutional firms including BlackRock, Coinbase, Strategy, Anchorage Digital, ARK Invest, Block, Blockstream, Fidelity Digital Assets, and Galaxy formed the Bitcoin Security
Multibillion-dollar AI data center contracts lifted mining stocks while regulatory frameworks advanced across the US, UK, and Russia. The SEC warned DeFi vaults may face securities
Hut 8 and IREN announced multibillion-dollar AI data center contracts, lifting mining stocks as much as 19 percent. Across major jurisdictions, parliamentary and legislative moves
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce stated Wednesday that crypto vaults and onchain lending strategies may fall under federal securities laws depending on their structure and management
The White House agreed on ethics-provision language for the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act and circulated it to Senate Republicans on July 20. The language is designed to bar sen
SecondFi, a Cardano wallet service, is closing operations after attackers exploited a vulnerability in transaction signing software to steal 16.1 million ADA ($2.4 million) from 37
The onchain tokenized equity sector reached $2.3 billion in market capitalization by mid-July 2026, with all-time highs recorded simultaneously across Ondo Finance, Backed Finance,
The Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group, chaired by former minister Ed Vaizey and Labour MP Gurinder Singh Josan, opened a cross-party inquiry on July 21 into U
Federal prosecutors filed five civil forfeiture complaints seeking more than $25 million in cryptocurrency linked to international romance and investment scams, according to CoinDe
Institutional adoption deepened across stablecoins, data centers, and protocol upgrades, while governance conflicts, security breaches, and bankruptcies exposed structural fragilit
Bitcoin gained 2.2 percent to $66,634 even as the Fear and Greed Index held at 25, extreme fear, while stablecoin payroll in Japan, a bitcoin-miner AI rally, and a Bitcoin governan
Russia's State Duma approved comprehensive cryptocurrency legislation creating a legal framework for exchanges and digital asset providers, with rules taking effect September 1, 20
Hut 8 signed a $9.8 billion, 15-year lease to fully commercialize its Texas Beacon Point campus at 1 gigawatt capacity. IREN announced $2.8 billion in new cloud services contracts
The Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group, chaired by Ed Vaizey and Gurinder Singh Josan, has opened a formal inquiry into bank restrictions on cryptocurrency bus
Hut 8 signed a $9.8 billion, 15-year lease for Beacon Point AI data center phase two in Texas. IREN announced $2.8 billion in new cloud services contracts and raised its year-end A
Grayscale filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC on July 20, 2026, to launch a spot Worldcoin (WLD) ETF under file number 333-297570. The filing is an early step in the a
AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings, a major logistics provider for Amazon Japan, plans to deploy the regulated yen stablecoin JPYC to pay approximately 2,300 partners including truck drivers.
The U.K. Parliament's Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group has opened a formal six-week inquiry into systematic banking restrictions on crypto businesses. The pr
Movement Labs, an Ethereum Layer 2 network, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with under 1,000 creditors and $100,000 to $500,000 in assets against liabilities exceeding $1 million.
Allbridge Core paused its cross-chain stablecoin protocol on July 20 after a $1.65 million flash loan attack drained its Solana liquidity pools. The attacker used a $1.12 million f
Brazil's securities regulator (CVM) formed a working group to draft a framework for tokenized securities, with a primary proposal due within 60 days and a broader review spanning 1
Consensys suspended MetaMask product releases after discovering a contractor with North Korea links had month-long access to core wallet code from March 9 to April. The company's i
AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings, a Tokyo-listed Amazon Japan supplier with 230.5 billion yen in annual revenue, will adopt JPYC, Japan's first regulated yen stablecoin, to pay approximately
Cardano upgraded to protocol version 11 on July 18, 2026, via onchain governance voting by token holders and pool operators for the first time, ratified July 13. The upgrade lowers
Hut 8 announced a $9.8 billion, 15-year lease for the second phase of its Beacon Point AI campus in Texas, fully commercializing the site's 1 gigawatt capacity. IREN simultaneously
Michael Saylor, whose firm holds 843,775 BTC worth $54.31 billion, published a 110-point essay opposing BIP-110, a proposed temporary soft fork aimed at restricting arbitrary data
SBI's cross-border digital asset push, a wave of tokenization commitments, and BitMine's steady ETH accumulation point to institutions building infrastructure, even as France block
The GENIUS Act, signed into law one year ago in July 2025, sets a July 2028 deadline for stablecoin compliance on U.S. platforms. Federal regulators have not yet completed rulewrit
France's Autorité Nationale des Jeux ordered ISPs to block access to Polymarket on July 16, 2026, citing illegal gambling operations and the failure of prior financial restrictions
Zcash releases Zakura, a new full node client designed to scale private transactions from roughly 1 transaction per second to 50,000 transactions per second via pruning, faster syn
The U.S. will impose a 25% Section 301 tariff on most Brazilian goods starting July 22, arguing that Brazil's state-run Pix instant-payment system creates unfair advantages for dom
Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy and holder of 843,775 BTC, has published a detailed critique of Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110, arguing that the proposed temporary
A zero-knowledge proof system called Project Eleven, built with Jim Posen's Binius proof framework, can recover quantum-vulnerable bitcoin if owners hold their seed phrases, runnin
The U.S. imposed a 25% Section 301 tariff on Brazilian goods effective July 22, 2026, marking the first time Washington has used the trade authority to target a country's domestic
A survey of 200 North American financial executives shows tokenization has moved from experimental to core business strategy. Nearly half of capital markets firms already have live
Kraken Pro now offers USD-settled bitcoin and ether options via request-for-quote for eligible international clients outside Europe, North America, and Australia. The exchange argu
SBI Group acquired a majority stake in Singapore-based Coinhako and partnered with Ondo Finance and the Solana Foundation to build a regional digital asset corridor with yen-based
The CFTC issued a final order on July 17, 2026, eliminating daily and event-based position-reporting requirements under Part 20 for physical commodity swaps, citing duplication and
Swift is expanding blockchain-based settlement with 40+ financial institutions while Stripe pursues a $53 billion unsolicited bid for PayPal. Both moves reflect a shift from provin
SBI Holdings, a Tokyo-listed financial conglomerate, led a $76 million Series C funding round for EDX Markets, a U.S. institutional crypto trading venue built on a clearinghouse mo
BitMine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR) purchased 42,197 ETH worth approximately $73 million over the past week, bringing its total Ethereum holdings to 5,742,237 ETH, or about
Bitcoin developer Leonidas introduced DOG Mode, an alternative client that relaxes default relay policies for Ordinals and Runes transactions without altering consensus rules, reop
A Broadridge survey of 200 North American financial executives shows 84% now treat tokenization as a strategic priority, with 92% expecting hybrid digital and traditional asset mar
Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform to allow financial institutions to issue, store, transfer and redeem Open USD stablecoins through its payments network. The platform is b
Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform (VSP) enabling banks and fintech companies to issue, store, transfer and redeem Open USD stablecoins through a single Visa-managed system
Visa announced the Visa Stablecoin Platform on Thursday, enabling financial institutions to issue, store, transfer and redeem Open USD stablecoins through Visa's payments network a
Japan's SBI Holdings acquired a majority stake in Singapore-based crypto platform Coinhako and announced partnerships with Ondo Finance and the Solana Foundation to build a cross-b
Input Output will transfer control of Cardano's core protocol components, including the Haskell node, Plutus smart-contract platform, and Hydra scaling technology, to independent e
SummerFi, a seven-year-old Aave interface and DeFi access point, announced it will sunset operations following a recent exploit on its Lazy Summer Protocol that drained $6 million.
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a nonbinding resolution opposing presidential clemency for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, led by Senators Cynthia Lummis and Ruben Gallego. The v
The DTCC settled its first production trades of tokenized securities with major banks the same week the UK and South Korea outlined their own government-debt tokenization timelines
On July 15, 2026, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation processed its first live production trades of tokenized securities, involving more than two dozen major financial in
Citadel Securities deployed $400 million into Crypto.com in the Singapore-based exchange's first institutional funding round since 2016, valuing the firm at $20 billion. Crypto.com
The CFTC invoked emergency authority on July 14 to order KalshiEX, a federally regulated prediction market exchange, to honor executed trades despite a Michigan state court directi
Alpaca raised $135 million in equity funding led by Peak XV Partners to expand its tokenized U.S. stocks infrastructure. The combined $435 million funding package (including $300 m
An attacker exploited Ostium, an Arbitrum-based perpetuals exchange, by submitting falsified oracle price reports with future-dated timestamps through the protocol's PriceUpKeep co
T. Rowe Price, managing $1.9 trillion in total assets, launched TKNZ, the first actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETF, on July 16, 2026. The fund holds Bitcoin, Ether, BNB,
An oracle manipulation attack on the Ostium perpetuals protocol drained approximately $24M USDC from the OLP vault on Arbitrum. The attacker has moved 10,540 ETH to Tornado Cash, a
Bitcoin steadied near $64,962 after Tuesday's overnight slide, while a wave of central-bank and institutional tokenization news, from the ECB's digital euro pilot to DTCC's first l
Bitcoin fell to $62,380 overnight as Fed rate-hike odds jumped to 50%, but the desk's boards show it at $65,431 this morning with a modest recovery. Meanwhile, three major central
The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation processed its first production trades of tokenized securities (stocks, ETFs, and U.S. Treasurys) with more than two dozen major instit
The CFTC invoked emergency authority to block a proposed rule change by KalshiEX and mandate the platform fulfill pending trades after a Michigan state court ordered their cancella
The CFTC exercised emergency authority to stay KalshiEX's rule change and ordered the company to fulfill pending trades, directly overriding a Michigan state court order that direc
The CFTC has stayed an emergency rule change proposed by KalshiEX and ordered the platform to fulfill open trades, directly contradicting a Michigan state court order that directed
The CFTC exercised emergency authority on July 14 to stay an emergency rule change proposed by KalshiEX and ordered the platform to fulfill open trades, directly overriding a Michi
The CFTC exercised emergency authority to override a Michigan state court order requiring KalshiEX to cancel executed trades involving Michigan residents. The regulator asserted fe
An attacker drained approximately $18 million in USDC from Ostium's vault on Arbitrum by exploiting the protocol's PriceUpKeep oracle component. The attacker submitted future-dated
The US Department of the Treasury and HM Treasury released a roadmap titled the Transatlantic Taskforce for Markets of the Future, setting 10 recommendations to coordinate oversigh
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and HM Treasury released a joint 10-point roadmap to coordinate regulatory oversight of tokenized assets, stablecoins, and digital financial mar
The U.K. Treasury will issue its first digital sovereign bond, called DIGIT, by early 2027 on HSBC's Orion platform, making Britain the first G7 nation to place government debt on
South Korea's Ministry of Economy and Finance released an economic policy roadmap on July 15 proposing amendments to the 1950 National Property Act to classify virtual currencies a
The Linux Foundation formally launched the x402 Foundation with 40 members including Visa, Mastercard, Ripple, Google, Amazon Web Services, and Circle, governing a protocol for AI
NEAR's House of Stake governance body passed proposal HSP-027 to eliminate the protocol's 30% developer gas rebate, redirecting all network fees to burn starting August 2026. The v
The European Central Bank selected 36 payment providers from 50 applicants for a 12-month digital euro pilot starting in the second half of 2027. The ECB aims for potential issuanc
A flaw in Prism, a Uniswap v4 fee-sharing token, allowed an attacker to create 2,500 unauthorized positions that siphoned nearly 40% of trading fees. The original PRISM token colla
Stripe and private equity firm Advent International made an unsolicited $53 billion bid to acquire PayPal at $60.50 per share on July 15, representing a 28% premium over PayPal's p
A fast swing in Fed rate-hike odds is now the main force on the crypto tape, with bitcoin near $62,380 ahead of a June CPI print and Warsh testimony. Underneath the macro noise, po
The European Central Bank selected 36 banks and payment firms, from 50 applicants, for a 12-month digital euro pilot starting in the second half of 2027, per CoinDesk. Firms named
Major cryptocurrencies fell 2% or more in 24 hours, with bitcoin dropping to $62,380, as money markets repriced July Fed rate-hike odds to roughly 50% from about 10% days earlier.
JCB, described by CoinDesk as Japan's largest card network, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Circle to explore USDC stablecoin payments. The work begins with a proof o
Crypto's weekend gains reversed into a Monday selloff as Middle East tensions resurfaced. South Korea's Kospi fell 9.2% and $253 million in leveraged crypto positions were liquidat
An article in China's top prosecutors' paper urges new blockchain evidence rules and presumptions of laundering intent tied to mixer and privacy-coin use. It also proposes a state
Bitcoin ETFs drew $197 million in net inflows, ending eight consecutive weeks of outflows. Analysts are not yet ready to call it a recovery in institutional demand.
Several sources told CoinDesk that a new draft of the Clarity Act may drop this week. Challenges to the legislation remain.
Hedera lending protocol Bonzo lost roughly 77% of its value locked after a $9 million oracle exploit. Reporting indicates the attacker exploited a third-party Supra oracle that acc
A deadline tied to Bitcoin's BIP 110 proposal is approaching with miner support reported at zero. Prominent figures including Michael Saylor and Adam Back have rebuffed the proposa
Bitcoin and ether were little changed as the U.S. launched fresh strikes on Iran, reported as the third this week, alongside a reported closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The muted c
The Ethereum Foundation confirmed a remotely triggerable validator crash bug that could take validators offline. An AI tool surfaced the issue, but human researchers were required
An IMF working paper argues that dollar stablecoins could improve foreign-exchange access while also amplifying currency runs. The framing is expected to feed into global regulator
A housing bill containing a ban on a Federal Reserve-issued central bank digital currency has become law without President Trump's signature. The statutory ban is in effect until 2
The Department of Justice is set to drop charges against a man accused in the $722 million BitClub crypto Ponzi case, according to Bloomberg reporting cited by outlets. BitClub is
Empery Digital, a Nasdaq-listed bitcoin treasury company, sold 1,400 bitcoins, described as about half of its holdings. The company is using proceeds to fund an AI pivot and pay de
The Ethereum Foundation disclosed a bug in validator client software that could take validators offline. The flaw was found with AI assistance but required humans to prove it was e
Circle, the second-largest stablecoin issuer, has received final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to open a national trust bank. The move brings its roug
A statutory ban on a Federal Reserve central bank digital currency until 2031 is set to take effect at midnight under a housing law provision. Coverage indicates the measure become
A new draft of the crypto market-structure bill known as the Clarity Act may be released as soon as next week, according to sources cited by CoinDesk. The bill is the largest pendi
Hyperliquid and Phantom have filed a formal petition asking the CFTC to exempt non-custodial wallets and DeFi from broker rules. The request seeks to codify how the agency treats o
Attackers attempted to compromise an Injective NPM package with malware designed to steal wallet keys, according to Cointelegraph. The supply-chain attack targeted Injective develo
New Hampshire's proposal for a $100 million bitcoin-backed municipal bond failed its final vote by a 3-2 margin. It would have been the first state bitcoin-backed municipal bond. T
MARA has acquired a Texas site from HIF in a $600 million deal covering roughly 2 GW of capacity, part of a miner-to-AI pivot. Multiple outlets confirmed the deal, and reporting in
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