NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 17: Bruce Campbell visits SiriusXM Studios on October 17, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Santiago Felipe/Getty Images) Getty Images Evil Dead franchise star and producer Bruce Campbell is discussing how cancer has affected his life after announcing his diagnosis earlier this year. Campbell, who along with director Sam Raimi and producer Rob Tapert released the horror film classic The Evil Dead in 1981, went on to become a horror icon with the original film trilogy — which also includes 1987’s Evil Dead II and 1992’s Army of Darkness — with his portrayal of the antihero Ash Williams. ForbesBruce Campbell On Reclaiming His Indie Movie Chops With ‘Ernie & Emma’By Tim Lammers In addition to reprising the beloved character in the STARZ series Ash vs. Evil Dead from 2015-2018, Campbell, along with Raimi and Tapert, produced a reboot of the franchise with 2013’s Evil Dead, 2023’s Evil Dead Rise and this summer’s Evil Dead Burn. Now, as Campbell readies himself for an Alamo Draft House tour of his new film, Ernie & Emma — in which he stars, directs and produces (along with his wife, Ida Gearon) — he’s opening up more about how cancer has changed his life since he announced his diagnosis of a “treatable” but not “curable” form of the disease on March 2. In an interview with Michael Rosenbaum on Tuesday posted on the actor’s Inside of You podcast, Campbell said being diagnosed gave him a clear vision on setting important priorities, and he’s hopeful about what the future brings. ForbesSam Raimi And Rob Tapert Talk ‘Evil Dead Burn’ And How Fresh Voices Are Behind Success Of The New FilmsBy Tim Lammers “I was asked the other day, ‘Hey, you know, how are you doing?’ and I was like,…

Pro-crypto Senator Cynthia Lummis on Wednesday slammed Democrats for holding back the Clarity Act.  Speaking on the Senate floor, Senator Lummis, of Wyoming, spoke of the bipartisan work that had gone into the bill — but questioned why it was stalling.  Lawmakers are hoping the Clarity Act gets passed before Congress departs for August recess. While the bill has been drafted bipartisanly, some Democrats are unhappy with the current version.  JUST IN: ]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/tether-launches-usa-on-celo-under-genius-act-framework https://media.ikmoon.com/tether-launches-usa-on-celo-under-genius-act-framework Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:04:48 +0600 crypto Tether, Launches, USA₮, Celo, Under, GENIUS, Act, Framework The post Tether Launches USA₮ on Celo Under GENIUS Act Framework appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Tether has expanded its regulated stablecoin strategy by launching USA₮ on the Celo blockchain, giving users immediate access to a dollar-backed digital asset designed for everyday payments. The rollout makes Celo the second blockchain after Ethereum to support native USA₮ while introducing built-in gas fee payments using the stablecoin itself.  Consequently, users no longer need to acquire a separate network token before sending transactions. The launch also strengthens Celo’s growing position as a leading network for stablecoin activity and cross-border financial services. Celo Expands Stablecoin Infrastructure USA₮ operates under Anchorage Digital Bank, N.A. and follows the requirements of the GENIUS Act. Additionally, Cantor Fitzgerald safeguards the reserves supporting the stablecoin.  Celo already processes 28% of all USD₮ transfers across blockchains and recorded 67% user growth during the second quarter of 2026. Moreover, over half of all network transaction fees already use stablecoins instead of the native token. Broader Ecosystem Gains Utility MiniPay plans to integrate USA₮ soon, adding another payment option for its more than 18 million users. Besides, Valora already supports the asset, while integrations with Morpho, Feather-curated vaults, Squid, and Uniswap will follow. Celo also holds more than 90% of unique holders for XAUt0, highlighting growing demand for Tether-backed digital assets across its expanding ecosystem. Related: HashKey Plans to Acquire APEX Exchange to Strengthen Global Crypto Infrastructure Disclaimer: The information presented in this article is for informational and educational purposes only. The article does not constitute financial advice or advice of any kind. Coin Edition is not responsible for any losses incurred as a result of the utilization of content, products, or services mentioned. Readers are advised to exercise caution before taking any action related to the company. Source: https://coinedition.com/crypto-live-news/tether-expands-genius-compliant-usa%E2%82%AE-stablecoin-to-celo-with-native-gas-support/

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Oil stayed muted near $83 per barrel following the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) decision to hold interest rates constant on Wednesday afternoon. The price consolidation comes after recovering sharply from an intraday low near $78.90. Retaliatory attacks involving the United States (US), Saudi Arabia, and Iran intensify concerns about potential disruptions to regional oil supplies. Crude prices are failing to retain their gains after the Federal Reserve (Fed) left interest rates unchanged at 3.50%–3.75%. Crude Oil prices rose sharply during the early American session on Wednesday. Saudi Arabia launched attacks against Iran-aligned groups in Iraq alongside the United States in retaliation for drone strikes by Iran-aligned militias on Saudi Oil facilities. Iran later claimed responsibility for an attack on a US military base in Jordan. US President Donald Trump reiterated that Washington would respond forcefully to Iranian attacks against US targets in Jordan, according to Fox News. His comments added to concerns that the conflict could broaden further and potentially disrupt energy production or transportation across the region. Short-term technical analysis: On the 4-hour chart, WTI trades at $83.48. The near-term bias stays mildly bullish as price holds above both the 20-period Simple Moving Average (SMA) at around $82.32 and the 100-period SMA near $80.15, suggesting a constructive underlying trend after the recent pullback. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) hovers close to 52, indicating neutral momentum and hinting that bulls retain control but lack a strong impulsive push for now. On the topside, immediate resistance emerges at the horizontal barrier around $84.24, where a break would expose higher levels beyond the current range. On the downside, initial support is seen at the 20-period SMA near $82.32, reinforced by horizontal backing around $82.29, while deeper cushions sit at $81.51 and $80.99, ahead of the broader trend floor defined…

TLDR Ethereum miner transfers to Binance have fallen near their lowest level in the past year. Lower miner deposits suggest reduced selling pressure on the Ethereum market. Ethereum price traded near $1,929 and remained below the key $2,000 resistance level. ETH has formed higher lows since recovering from its June low near $1,550. The MACD and RSI show mild bullish momentum without overbought conditions. According to CryptoQuant data, Ethereum miner transfers to Binance have fallen close to their lowest level in the past year. The decline followed a brief rise in June, after which transfer volumes returned near baseline levels by late July. The drop suggests that miners are sending less ETH to exchanges for possible sale. Lower exchange inflows can reduce immediate supply pressure, although the market still needs stronger demand to support a clear price move. Miner Transfers to Binance Remain Low Binance remains a key market reference because it handles large spot and futures trading volumes. Low miner deposits on the exchange show that miners are not adding much selling pressure at current levels. Source: CryptoQuant  Miners often create steady market supply when they move coins to exchanges. With fewer transfers now taking place, buyers face less new ETH entering the market. This setup can support price stability during periods of weak demand. Ethereum Price Holds Below $2,000 Ethereum price traded near $1,929 on the daily chart after rising about 0.17%. ETH has recovered from its June low near $1,550 and has formed a steady pattern of higher lows. However, the asset still trades below the $2,000 level. That area remains the main resistance zone. A confirmed move above it could open the way toward $2,050 and $2,100. The MACD line stands near 40.99, while the signal line sits at 39.77. The histogram remains positive at 1.22,…

Ethereum News Ethereum (ETH) is being recast by its builders as a settlement and collateral base for decentralized perpetual futures, derivatives with no expiry, rather than the chain where every trade executes. The shift became visible after GMX launched on Arbitrum in 2021, when high mainnet fees pushed latency-sensitive exchanges toward rollups. Builders argue perpetual contracts need thousands of order updates, liquidations and funding payments with near-perfect reliability, often described as a 99.99% uptime requirement. Arbitrum and Base now host much of this activity, while the base layer supplies assets, stablecoins and finality. The network-effect logic is that traders gather where liquidity already exists, spot automated market maker pools provide pricing and hedging, and perpetual venues become customers of that liquidity. Supporters also push back on the idea of a zero-sum race: purpose-built trading chains, including appchain designs, may win on speed, but they still need deep collateral and settlement. The harder problem is fragmentation. Users often bridge assets across multiple layer-2 networks, which weakens the seamless experience offered by single-chain competitors. Institutional traders also want cross-margining and credit tools before committing large flow. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has acknowledged that parts of the original layer-2 roadmap are outdated, as base-layer scalability improved and some rollups decentralized more slowly than expected. Ethereum’s price action has stalled ahead of the Federal Reserve’s latest rate decision, with traders treating the macro event as the next major catalyst. The asset opened Wednesday at $1,919.80, touched a session high of $1,926.10 and later slipped to $1,890.60, a 1.53% daily decline. The pullback followed a recovery from the worst levels of the year and did not erase the broader attempt to stabilize. ETF flow data show spot Ethereum funds took in $14.53 million on the day, extending a three-week stretch of net positive flows that…

As Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” holds atop Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart, the country cut ties as the fourth-longest-running No. 1 ever. NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – JUNE 04: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Ella Langley performs during the 2026 CMA Fest at Nissan Stadium on June 04, 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic) FilmMagic Yet again, Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” holds at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The biggest hit in America collects a milestone fifteenth frame in charge, becoming one of fewer than 10 tracks to dominate the country’s most competitive songs ranking for that long. “Choosin’ Texas” continues to perform well across all three metrics that feed into the Billboard Hot 100: streams, sales and radio airplay. This week, though, it leads only one of those component tallies. The country smash remains No. 1 on the Streaming Songs chart, standing out as the most-played track of any style on platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music throughout the United States. As it holds in that slot once more, Langley moves higher on the all-time ranking of the longest-running leaders and matches a historic smash from nearly a decade ago. Ella Langley Ties “Despacito” With 16 Weeks at No. 1 “Choosin’ Texas” leads the Streaming Songs chart for a sixteenth week. That total ties Langley’s hit as the fourth-longest-running No. 1 in the history of the ranking. The country tune matches “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber. That global blockbuster controlled the list of the most-streamed songs in the U.S. for 16 periods in 2017. Mariah Carey Still Holds the All-Time Record Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” remains the longest-running No. 1 in the history of the Streaming Songs chart. The holiday favorite has accumulated 26 weeks – half a year…

Binance US is gearing up for a major move beyond crypto trading offerings, seeking approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to enter the ever-evolving prediction markets. The move reflects the exchange’s broader effort to diversify its offerings and strengthen its position in the US market. Meanwhile, the move comes as the fastest-growing prediction markets sector attracts more traders and investors. In other words, it appears that Binance US is evaluating how to capitalize on the rising demand while rebuilding its competitive edge through regulated financial products. Binance US Plans CFTC Application for Prediction Markets Binance US plans to apply for a Designated Contract Market (DCM) license with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The application is expected to be filed next month, Eleanor Terrett reported. The development was revealed by Terrett after speaking with Binance US CEO Steve Gregory during the Rare Evo blockchain conference. According to Terrett’s update on X, Gregory said the crypto exchange wants to introduce prediction markets as part of its long-term expansion strategy. Meanwhile, the company aims to move beyond traditional spot crypto trading. It also plans to strengthen its platform through lower trading fees and new products, including perpetual contracts and event-based markets. A DCM license would allow Binance US to offer regulated prediction market contracts to US customers. These products let users trade on the outcome of future events instead of buying traditional financial assets. Notably, prediction markets have gained strong momentum in recent years. Traders increasingly use them to express opinions on elections, economic releases, sporting events, and other real-world developments. Many also view these contracts as useful tools for managing portfolio risk. However, although Binance US has outlined its plans, the regulatory process remains uncertain. The exchange has not yet submitted its application. CFTC approval could take several months,…

CertiK announced entry into Japan and the launch of CertiK’s Surveillance for institutional crypto risks. Japan’s strict rules act as a positive pressure test, while institutions demand full lifecycle security. CertiK Surveillance brings macro risk profiling as four pillars shape next-gen institutional security. Web3 security firm CertiK has officially expanded into Japan during the WebX conference in Tokyo, unveiling CertiK Surveillance, an AI-driven, real-time risk-profiling platform designed for institutional crypto markets. Co-unveiled with OKCoin Japan (OKJ), this launch signals a strategic shift from one-time audits to active, real-time monitoring of crypto assets. CertiK Officially Enters Japan, Unveils Surveillance Platform On July 29, 2026, during a fireside chat hosted by Yuki Kamimoto (CEO of NADA News) with CertiK Co-founder and CEO Ronghui Gu and Shusaku Fujino, Chief Compliance Officer of OKJ, CertiK announced its official entry into the Japanese market. In addition to the market entry announcement, Gu unveiled CertiK Surveillance, a new platform for institutional crypto risk management. It moves away from classic per-transaction monitoring to a more holistic macro risk profiling, offering licensed entities like exchanges a wider perspective of risks across on-chain activities. How Japan’s Strict Regulations Are Shaping Institutional Web3 Security Japan’s 2026 regulatory overhaul is reshaping the crypto landscape by reclassifying 105 major crypto assets, such as Bitcoin and Ether, as financial instruments under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. The reforms, enacted in July 2026, bolster investor safeguards, widen the scope of SESC oversight, and carry penalties of up to 10 years’ jail time and fines of up to ¥10 million. Strict custody rules, which mandate that more than 95% of customer assets are stored in cold storage and compliance with on/off chain risks, drive constant monitoring and formal compliance. Japan’s framework is a constructive “pressure test” for the industry, said CertiK Co-founder. Moreover, mature…

The Fed kept interest rates on hold today, defying a 30% chance in the Fed Funds Futures market that rates would rise. The Committee voted 9-3 to keep rates on hold, with governors Kashkari, Hammack and Logan all voting to hike rates due to concerns about inflation. The immediate market reaction has been a sharp drop in the USD on a broad basis. The dollar index is below 101.00, and is down 0.5% on the day, even though chairman Warsh sounded tough on inflation and maintains the Fed’s commitment to the 2% inflation target. So, why is the forex market ignoring Warsh’s hawkish messaging? Firstly, he did not vote for a rate hike. While he has noted that inflation is above target, and this is unacceptable, the Fed’s statement was left unchanged. This suggests that the Fed does not see a material change in the outlook between June and July. If the new chair along with the majority of the FOMC did not think that the economic outlook warranted a rate hike then it will take a serious deterioration in the inflation outlook before the committee raises rates, in our view. For now, it looks like the FOMC is on hold for the foreseeable future, which is driving the reaction in asset prices Tonight’s decision has also weighed on Treasury yields, the 2-year yield retreated from the highs of the day above 4.34%, before falling to 4.24%. This has eroded support for the dollar and has triggered a mini recovery in the Nasdaq, which fell into correction territory earlier this week.  While the Fed was careful not to give the market any forward guidance, there were some useful nuggets included in the statement and in chairman Warsh’s press conference. These include: ·       The Federal Reserve is watching the market reaction to…

Peter Zhang Jul 29, 2026 09:57 LDO is pinned at the $0.37 pivot with momentum flatlined and retail crowded short while whales quietly accumulate. Either the $0.36 floor holds and bulls have a clean path to $0.41, or this cracks … LDO’s Technical Reality Check The MACD histogram sitting at dead zero is the most important data point on this chart right now — not because it’s bearish, but because it signals a genuine inflection. When momentum goes completely flat like this, the market is at a crossroads where the next meaningful move gets amplified. Today’s 4.18% selloff pushed LDO below its 7-day moving average while still clinging above the 20-day and 200-day, which means the short-term structure is cracking but the medium-term trend hasn’t rolled over yet. That’s a brittle position. What partially offsets the momentum exhaustion is the Stochastic setup. With %K pressing toward 34 and %D already at 27, the oscillator is slipping into oversold territory — not alarm-bell extreme, but enough to suggest this particular wave of selling is burning out rather than building. Blockchain.news has been tracking LDO’s evolving market structure as the liquid staking sector navigates a low-conviction macro environment, and what the oscillators collectively describe here is a token searching for a reason to move, not one in freefall. The Bollinger Band picture keeps things grounded. Sitting at 0.60 %B, LDO is in the upper half of its volatility range but nowhere near stretched. The upper band at $0.42 is the magnetic ceiling bulls need to close toward, while the lower band at $0.30 — which happens to converge exactly with the 50-day moving average — is the catastrophic level bears would love to tag. The immediate battlefield is a razor-thin $0.36 to $0.39 corridor,…

Topline The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled to its worst day of the year Wednesday, falling over 2% after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged as central bank officials have appeared conflicted on how to handle mounting inflation concerns. People walk by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on July 23, 2026 in New York City. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Key Facts The Dow closed down 2.2%, falling 1,153 points to its lowest point in over four weeks. Despite the drop, the Dow is up 5.1% in the last six months of trading and has completely recovered from its slump in March that was informed by the war in Iran and rising oil prices. The Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday held interest rates between 3.5% and 3.75% in a 9-3 vote, conflicting with a unanimous vote last month to maintain interest rates, with the three dissenting votes supporting a 0.25% rate hike. The committee’s statement provided a rosy picture of the economy, saying economic activity was “expanding at a solid pace” despite the Iran war. Tangent The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also slid Wednesday, falling 1.5% and 1.7%, respectively. Both indexes are up at least 5% since January. Big Number 7.3%. That is how much the Dow has risen since the start of the year. Despite lows near the 45,100 mark in March, the index has jumped to and generally remained about 51,000 points since mid-June. Key Background President Donald Trump nominated Warsh early this year after repeatedly attacking the Fed’s former chairman, Jerome Powell, for the Fed’s track record of maintaining or raising interest rates amid an effort to curb pandemic-induced inflation. The Federal Reserve cut interest rates multiple times last year, bringing them down to between the 3.5%–3.75% range by the end of the year.…

Imagine buying a slice of Apple stock at 3 a.m. on a Sunday, settling in seconds, from a crypto wallet, with no broker involved. That is the promise of tokenized stocks, and it stopped being theoretical this year: on-chain transfer volume for tokenized equities reached $9.22 billion in a single month. This guide explains what tokenized stocks actually are, how they work, who is building them, what you really own when you buy one, and the risks that most coverage skips. What are tokenized stocks? A tokenized stock is a blockchain-based token that represents ownership or economic exposure to a real company’s shares. Instead of your Apple or Tesla position living only in a broker’s database, a token representing it lives on a blockchain, where it can be transferred, traded, or used in other applications around the clock. The key word is “represents.” In most current models, an authorized issuer buys and holds the actual shares with a regulated custodian, then issues tokens backed one-to-one against them. The token tracks the share’s value and, depending on the product, may pass through dividends. You are typically holding a claim on a share rather than the registered share itself, which is the single most important distinction to understand before buying one. Why anyone bothers: the actual advantages Traditional stock markets run on infrastructure built decades ago, with fixed hours and multi-day settlement. Tokenization targets exactly those limits. Trading never closes. Blockchains do not have opening bells. Tokenized equities can trade on weekends and overnight, which matters enormously for investors outside US time zones who currently trade American stocks at inconvenient hours or not at all. Settlement is near-instant. Traditional equity settlement takes a business day or more. On-chain settlement happens in seconds, freeing capital and removing counterparty risk in the gap. Fractional…

Bitcoin entered today (July 29) with three demand channels losing momentum near $64,000. Four consecutive US spot Bitcoin ETF sessions saw a combined $526.5 million in net outflows, while Glassnode reported weaker perpetual futures buying and stagnant broader on-chain capital inflows. Bitcoin traded near $64,200, leaving $64,000 as an immediate market test rather than a guaranteed floor. Farside Investors data shows ETF outflows of $225.1 million on July 23, $240.1 million on July 24, $11.6 million on July 27, and $49.7 million on July 28. As of about 08:50 UTC on Wednesday, July 28 was the latest session listed. Those outflows show weakness in a major regulated demand channel, not the whole institutional market. They also do not establish what caused Bitcoin’s price move. As CryptoSlate noted after the first reversal, finalized flows can reflect positioning established at different points during a trading session. Related Reading BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for 90% of a $225 million Bitcoin ETF reversal after a seven-day buying streak The reversal erased 22.5% of the preceding $999.3 million inflow streak, while Bitcoin ended the session below $65,000. Jul 24, 2026 · Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright Glassnode’s Week 31 market pulse described Bitcoin’s retreat from roughly $66,700 toward $64,000 and a recovery to about $65,100. Beneath that range, perpetual-futures buy-side aggression had declined and long-side funding payments had cooled sharply, even as aggregate open interest increased slightly. That combination points to more cautious leverage, not the disappearance of derivatives exposure. On-chain measures offered little evidence of fresh capital replacing that demand. Glassnode found that active addresses were steady, but economic settlement and transaction pressure remained restrained and broader capital inflows were stagnant. The firm also said regulated investment products had shifted into net outflows as weekly trading volume declined. The derivatives signal is not one-way. A separate CryptoSlate…

The Fed left interest rates unchanged at 3.50%-3.75%, but the decision carried a distinctly hawkish edge as three officials voted for an immediate 25-basis-point increase. Chair Kevin Warsh reinforced that message, insisting there was no tolerance for a softer inflation target and warning that the Fed would not hesitate to act. Recap The FOMC kept rates steady as expected, judging that economic activity continued to expand at a solid pace and that the labour market remained stable. Productivity growth and capital investment were described as strong, while inflation remained elevated, partly because of supply shocks in sectors including energy. The 9-3 vote exposed a clear appetite for tighter policy within the Committee: Beth Hammack (Cleveland), Neel Kashkari (Minneapolis) and Lorie Logan (Dallas) all dissented in favour of raising rates by 25 basis points. Warsh nevertheless sought to play down the divisions, describing the discussion as active and robust and arguing that the dissents did not capture its full substance. He said there was broad agreement on the difficult questions and expressed confidence that the current Committee was the right team to tackle high inflation. His message on price stability was uncompromising. After five years of elevated inflation, Warsh acknowledged that the public may have come to believe the Fed was comfortable with inflation above 2%, but rejected that notion outright: there is only one target, and the Fed intends to deliver it. At the same time, he avoided tying policy to a predetermined path. Warsh said the Committee was steering clear of forecasting and would instead focus on inflation trends, the extent to which supply shocks were spreading and the information coming from financial markets. Recent inflation data had offered some encouragement, but not enough to declare victory ahead of the next decision in seven to eight weeks. Overall assessment…

The Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged at 3.50%-3.75%, but three policymakers voted for a 25-basis-point increase. The central bank said inflation remains above target while economic activity, productivity and investment continue to show strength. Bitcoin fell toward $63,300, while Ethereum dropped below $1,900 as traders reassessed the prospect of higher-for-longer interest rates. Despite continued institutional inflows into spot Bitcoin ETFs, risk appetite weakened following the Fed’s hawkish message. Fed Holds Rates but Signals Inflation Fight Is Not Over The Federal Open Market Committee voted 9-3 to leave the federal funds target range at 3.50%-3.75%, a decision that matched market expectations but carried a firmer policy message than many investors anticipated. Three officials – Beth Hammack, Neel Kashkari and Lorie Logan – dissented in favor of a 25-basis-point increase, highlighting continued concern that inflation remains above the Fed’s 2% objective. In its policy statement, the central bank described the U.S. economy as expanding at a solid pace, supported by resilient employment, strong productivity growth and continued business investment. Officials also pointed to energy-related supply shocks as a factor keeping inflation elevated and reiterated their commitment to restoring price stability. Rather than signaling that the tightening cycle has ended, the statement suggested policymakers remain prepared to act if inflation proves more persistent than expected. Bitcoin Tests Long-Term Support Bitcoin traded around $63,270, extending losses after the Fed announcement as investors reduced exposure to risk assets. Bitcoin tests its 200-period moving average on the 4-hour chart as bearish momentum keeps price below all major short-term trend indicators. On the four-hour chart, BTC has fallen below its 20-, 50- and 100-period moving averages, leaving the 200-period moving average near $63,200 as the most significant technical support. A sustained move below that level could expose the recent swing low around $62,800, while any recovery…

Silver price clings to gains on Wednesday late in the North American session, as the Federal Reserve held rates unchanged, which, instead of strengthening the Dollar, weakened it, while US Treasury yields spiked. The XAG/USD trades at $57.17, barely unchanged. XAG/USD steadies near $57.00 as Fed dissent, surging long-end yields and Dollar weakness drive choppy trading The Fed’s monetary policy statement was barely changed. The central bank noted that the economy is growing steadily despite uncertainty stemming from the US-Iran war. The central bank revealed that productivity growth and capital investment are robust, further strengthening the jobs market. Worth mentioning that the decision was split, with three dissenters led by the Cleveland Fed’s Beth Hammack, Minneapolis Fed’s Neel Kashkari, and Dallas Fed’s Lorie Logan, who favoured a 25-basis-point rate hike.  The press conference didn’t provide any remarks worth mentioning. Although the Fed Chair, Warsh, revealed that he’s committed to tackling inflation, he dodges the question of how the Fed will achieve its 2% goal. Meanwhile, the US 30-year Treasury yield spiked by more than 10 basis points to its highest level in almost 20 years, though it failed to boost the Greenback, which is tumbling over 0.40%, according to the US Dollar Index (DXY). The DXY, which tracks the performance of the US Dollar against six currencies, is down at 100.93, after hitting a six-day low, despite the rise of US yields. Ahead, the US economic docket will feature the final reading of Q2 2026 US GDP, the release of the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, and the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment. XAG/USD Price Forecast: Technical Outlook Silver daily chart In the daily chart, XAG/USD trades at $57.15, keeping a bearish near-term tone as spot holds well below the latest simple moving average cluster around $64.33 and under a series…

Key Highlights CBIZ shares climbed 17.67% following Grant Thornton’s announcement of a $5 billion acquisition proposal. The all-cash transaction offers $55 per share, representing a 54% premium over CBIZ’s 30-day volume-weighted average. The combined entity would rank as the fifth-largest professional services firm in the United States. Grant Thornton intends to deploy AI-powered technology across CBIZ’s operations. A go-shop provision allows CBIZ to entertain competing bids until August 27, 2026. Shares of CBIZ (CBZ) surged 17.67% to reach $54.95 following Grant Thornton Advisors’ disclosure of a $5 billion all-cash takeover proposal. The transaction prices each CBIZ share at $55, delivering a substantial premium above current market levels. Once finalized, the combination would establish the fifth-largest professional services organization in the United States. CBIZ, Inc., CBZ Grant Thornton Proposes $55-Per-Share Purchase Price Grant Thornton Advisors has reached a definitive agreement to purchase CBIZ through a deal worth $5 billion. The terms provide CBIZ stockholders with $55 in cash for each outstanding common share. This purchase price delivers approximately a 54% premium compared to CBIZ’s volume-weighted average trading price over the preceding 30 days. New Mountain Capital will contribute additional equity capital to facilitate the transaction, building on its support of Grant Thornton’s expansion strategy initiated in May 2024. The private equity investor previously backed an initiative that accelerated Grant Thornton’s domestic footprint. These new funds will finance both the acquisition and future strategic initiatives for the merged organization. CBIZ’s board of directors has unanimously endorsed the merger agreement and urged shareholders to vote in favor of the deal. Both parties anticipate completing the transaction in the fourth quarter of 2026. Finalization depends on shareholder ratification, regulatory approvals, and customary closing requirements. Merged Organization Pursues Enhanced Market Position This combination would establish a United States-based enterprise generating over $5 billion in domestic…

Here is what you need to know for Thursday, July 30: The US Dollar (USD) falls sharply during the American session on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve (Fed) left interest rates unchanged. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) maintained the federal funds target range at 3.50%–3.75% in a divided 9–3 vote. Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, and Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan preferred a 25-basis-point increase. The Fed said that economic activity continues to expand at a solid pace, while inflation remains elevated partly because of energy-related supply shocks. The US Dollar Index (DXY) fell around 0.5% and trades near 100.90. Despite the hawkish dissenting votes, the decision to remain on hold raised doubts about whether enough policymakers will support a rate increase at the September meeting. The immediate reaction also pushed US Treasury yields lower and encouraged broad selling of the Greenback. US Dollar Price Today The table below shows the percentage change of US Dollar (USD) against listed major currencies today. US Dollar was the strongest against the Australian Dollar. USD EUR GBP JPY CAD AUD NZD CHF USD -0.67% -0.48% -0.21% -0.44% 0.32% -0.11% -0.69% EUR 0.67% 0.20% 0.45% 0.24% 1.03% 0.57% -0.01% GBP 0.48% -0.20% 0.28% 0.05% 0.83% 0.37% -0.20% JPY 0.21% -0.45% -0.28% -0.22% 0.57% 0.10% -0.47% CAD 0.44% -0.24% -0.05% 0.22% 0.78% 0.33% -0.25% AUD -0.32% -1.03% -0.83% -0.57% -0.78% -0.47% -1.01% NZD 0.11% -0.57% -0.37% -0.10% -0.33% 0.47% -0.55% CHF 0.69% 0.00% 0.20% 0.47% 0.25% 1.01% 0.55% The heat map shows percentage changes of major currencies against each other. The base currency is picked from the left column, while the quote currency is picked from the top row. For example, if you pick the US Dollar from the left column and move along the horizontal line to the…

Sui [SUI] traded near $0.68 on July 29 as sellers pushed the token back towards a key support zone ahead of its scheduled August token unlock. However, the upcoming release appears smaller than some reports have suggested. Official tokenomics indicate the circulating supply will increase by around 22.2 million SUI during August—worth roughly $15.1 million at current prices—rather than a fresh $15 million unlock every day. August’s supply increase may be smaller than expected According to Sui’s official token release schedule, circulating supply is projected to rise from approximately 4.052 billion SUI in July to 4.075 billion by the end of August. That represents an increase of roughly 22.2 million SUI, equivalent to about 0.55% of the existing circulating supply. Token Unlocks also identifies a 13.72 million SUI cliff unlock on August 1. Rather than representing additional supply, that event forms part of the broader monthly increase outlined in Sui’s official schedule. The distinction matters because some market commentary has overstated the size of the August release. While additional supply can weigh on prices, the relatively modest increase suggests broader market sentiment and investor demand may have a greater influence on SUI’s short-term direction. Bears remain in control below key resistance From a technical perspective, sellers continue to hold the upper hand. SUI traded around $0.6793 on the 12-hour chart after falling from approximately $0.77, leaving the token below both its 50-period EMA [$0.7289] and 100-period EMA [$0.7569]. Source: TradingView The latest decline was accompanied by stronger trading volume than the subsequent recovery attempts, suggesting buyers have yet to regain conviction. Meanwhile, the Relative Strength Index [RSI] fell to 33.49, placing SUI close to oversold territory. Although that may indicate selling momentum is becoming stretched, it does not, by itself, confirm that a bottom has formed. Can SUI defend $0.67?…

Please see the following comment from Chris Beauchamp, Chief Market Analyst at online trading and investing platform IG. Microsoft moves higher while Meta slumps after earnings We are seeing a dramatically divergent reaction to tonight’s big earnings. Microsoft appears to be back on track, which is just what the embattled stock price needs. A solid beat on earnings and revenue was underpinned by a 27% jump in Cloud computing revenue, and the commercial backlog remains impressive. The shares have made gains in recent days, and these numbers would appear to reinforce the positive momentum. It is a different tale for Meta, thanks to the earnings miss and the new increase to spending forecasts. Like Alphabet, this may prove to be Meta’s most impressive bet on long-term growth, but the eye-watering spending levels are still making investors nervous. The post-FOMC carnage meant that investors were not in the mood for this kind of news, even if the stock managed to bounce off the immediate lows. Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/meta-microsoft-earnings-reaction-202607292056

Alvin Lang Jul 29, 2026 10:02 AAVE is coiling just under the $103.50 SMA-200 with smart money sitting 61.7% long — but with MACD momentum dead flat and the upper Bollinger Band tightening overhead, the next 72 hours will determ… AAVE’s Technical Reality Check The setup here is deceptively clean: AAVE has staged a disciplined recovery off its medium-term lows, stacking neatly above its 7-, 20-, and 50-day moving averages in a textbook bullish MA cascade. That’s the easy part. The hard part is what sits directly overhead at $103.50 — the 200-day SMA — which is functioning as an unmovable ceiling that the entire bull thesis depends on clearing. What makes this moment particularly sharp is what the momentum indicators are doing, or rather, not doing. The MACD lines are kissing each other with a histogram reading of flat zero — the signal that bullish momentum has stopped accelerating exactly at the point where it needs to surge. Buyers are clearly hesitating right where they should be: pushing up against major overhead resistance. Meanwhile, with price sitting at roughly 75% of the Bollinger Band range and the upper band capping at $102.51, there’s barely $3-4 of headroom before AAVE bumps its head on two technical ceilings simultaneously. The RSI hovering just below 58 completes the picture — enough juice remaining for a push, not nearly enough to blow through resistance on raw momentum alone. The stochastic is the one outlier flashing caution. At 75.91 on %K versus 60.73 on %D, the cross remains bullishly oriented but is entering territory where a reversal signal can print within days. With a daily ATR of $4.55, a single decisive session could resolve this entire setup in one sweep. Volume & Price Alignment The derivatives…

SPY News The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) regained intraday footing on July 29 after the Federal Reserve left its policy rate unchanged, giving equity traders a narrow reason to step back into risk. The fund traded positive at $742.00, a 0.17% gain, after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh told reporters that markets should focus on incoming data rather than his personal intentions. The Federal Open Market Committee voted 9 to 3 to keep the federal funds target range at 3.50% to 3.75%, and the statement omitted forward guidance, a noticeable departure from the communication style that defined the Jerome Powell era. Three dissenting officials supported a quarter-point increase, underscoring that the committee’s internal debate is no longer centered on whether policy should remain restrictive, but on how forcefully it should be applied. Warsh rejected the label of a pause and stressed that inflation remains above the central bank’s objective. He also dismissed the idea that policymakers would tolerate a flexible interpretation of the 2% goal, arguing that five years of elevated prices created an impression of quiet acceptance. Our desk reads the message as an attempt to make financial conditions do more of the tightening work without committing to a specific path. The June core Consumer Price Index reading was treated as less important than the broader disinflation trend, and Warsh said price stability cannot be restored in nine weeks. The tone was firmer than his first press conference, which had pressured risk assets and fed concern about a broader bear market. By removing explicit guidance, the Fed effectively handed investors a data-dependent framework, where each inflation and labor report could reprice equities quickly. For SPY, that means the fund’s move should not be read as a clean policy pivot, but as a reaction to a chair who…

The Ethereum Foundation has appointed the pseudonymous security researcher known as pcaversaccio to its board of directors, bringing the total to four members. The move, first detailed in a CoinDesk report, arrives alongside broader leadership restructuring at the nonprofit that stewards the world’s second-largest blockchain. pcaversaccio—referred to simply as “pc” in development circles—has built a reputation as a sharp-eyed auditor and educator within the Ethereum security community. His appointment is unusual in that he operates under a pseudonym, a practice more common among developers than board members of a foundation responsible for coordinating protocol upgrades, grants, and ecosystem direction. The Ethereum Foundation did not immediately disclose whether the seat comes with a term limit or specific oversight duties. A Security-First Appointment Bringing a security researcher directly onto the board signals that the Foundation sees protocol integrity and smart contract safety as a governance-level priority, not just a technical concern. pcaversaccio has contributed to vulnerability disclosures, open-source security tools, and educational resources used by teams across DeFi and infrastructure. His presence could help bridge gaps between core developers, application builders, and the Foundation’s operational strategy, particularly as Ethereum faces competition from networks that market themselves as more secure or auditable. This is not the first time the Ethereum Foundation has drawn talent from the security side, but it is notable that a pseudonymous individual will now sit on the board. The decision will likely fuel discussion about transparency and accountability within the Foundation, especially among critics who already question its opaque governance model. Ethereum Foundation’s Evolving Leadership The board expansion occurs during a period of visible leadership change at the Foundation. While the exact parameters of the restructuring remain unclear, recent months have seen staff departures and a renewed push from community members for more formalized decision-making processes. The Foundation has…

TLDR FNWB Board Chair wins 2026 governance award, highlighting leadership strength. First Fed Board Chair receives top governance honour as FNWB shares advance. Cindy Hill Finnie earns 2026 Director award, reinforcing FNWB governance focus. FNWB highlights board excellence after Chair receives prestigious leadership honour. First Fed Chair secures governance recognition amid FNWB strategic expansion. First Northwest Bancorp traded at $12.20, up 3.48%, after announcing a major board leadership achievement. The company confirmed Board Chair Cindy Hill Finnie received the 2026 Director of the Year award from the Puget Sound Business Journal. The recognition highlights her governance leadership and continued oversight during the bank’s strategic transformation. First Northwest Bancorp, FNWB Cindy Hill Finnie Receives Governance Recognition The award recognises outstanding corporate and nonprofit board leadership across Washington. Finnie became one of 12 directors honoured during the publication’s tenth annual Directors of the Year programme. The recognition reflects her contributions to governance, strategy and community stewardship. Finnie joined the First Northwest Bancorp board in 2012. She became board chair in 2022, making history as the organisation’s first female chair. Since then, she has helped guide leadership succession and strategic expansion across the Puget Sound region. She also strengthened governance practices while supporting long-term organisational planning. In addition, she leads an independent board responsible for executive succession and risk oversight. She also serves on several board committees covering governance, compensation, executive matters and auditing. Leadership Supports Long-Term Strategy During her tenure, Finnie helped oversee several important leadership transitions. She guided the national executive search that resulted in Curt Queyrouze becoming President and Chief Executive Officer in 2025. The board maintained continuity while adapting to changing conditions across the community banking industry. Queyrouze said Finnie consistently provided thoughtful leadership and long-term strategic guidance. He added that her governance approach strengthened the organisation during a…

Key Takeaways UDX reached a reported $1.2M in July 27 volume 10 days after its first trades. The total equals about 5% of Underdog’s estimated average 2026 prediction flow. Underdog self-certified parlay contracts for UDX on July 28. Existing customers give UDX a head start Underdog’s newly launched UDX prediction exchange recorded a reported $1.2 million in notional trading volume on Monday, July 27, according to figures published on the exchange’s market-data feed and first reported by InGame. The milestone came 10 days after UDX processed its first test trades July 17 and nine days after Underdog publicly announced the launch of its wholly owned exchange. Notional volume counts both sides of every trade, so the figure is not equivalent to customer handle, the amount traders actually stake. The opening performance advances the launch described from the middle of July when, UDX had self-certified its first seven baseball and basketball contract templates with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, but the filings established only a planned launch date and did not confirm that public trading had begun. The $1.2 million day is meaningful for a venue that had been operating for less than two weeks, although it represents only a small portion of Underdog’s wider prediction-market business. CEO Jeremy Levine presented $4.4 billion in companywide prediction-market volume for 2026 during a July 17 CNBC interview, equivalent to an average of roughly $22.2 million per calendar day through that date. On that basis, UDX’s July 27 volume was approximately 5.4% of Underdog’s average daily activity. That calculation is an estimate rather than a direct measure of July 27 routing, and its two main distortions run in opposite directions. Underdog’s actual late-July flow is probably higher than the annual average, since Levine described the World Cup as a major driver, which would push…

Rongchai Wang Jul 29, 2026 16:08 HKMA’s CMU connects with Switzerland’s SIX and debuts equity post-trade services, marking a leap in Hong Kong’s financial infrastructure. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has announced the launch of a direct linkage between the Central Moneymarkets Unit (CMU) and Switzerland’s SIX. The move, effective July 29, 2026, also marks the debut of equity post-trade services by CMU OmniClear. These developments are expected to further bolster Hong Kong’s role as a global financial nexus, enhancing cross-border securities access and operational efficiency. CMU OmniClear, established in 2024 to spearhead CMU’s internationalization and operational growth, now provides direct access to securities from Swiss and Spanish markets through this new linkage. This deepens CMU’s global footprint and reinforces Hong Kong’s dual function as a “super connector” for Chinese and international markets and a “super value-adder” for financial services, according to HKMA Chief Executive Eddie Yue. “The successful launch of this direct linkage and new services represents a significant advance in CMU’s evolution into a multi-asset post-trade securities infrastructure,” Yue stated. He emphasized that CMU will continue to innovate and expand its offerings to meet global market demands while strengthening Hong Kong’s fixed income and currency markets. CMU, operating as Hong Kong’s central securities depository (CSD) since 1990, plays a vital role in supporting government bond issuance, offshore RMB bond markets, and Bond Connect. By the end of June 2026, CMU managed assets under custody exceeding HK$5.5 trillion, underscoring its importance in the region’s financial ecosystem. The addition of equity post-trade services is particularly noteworthy. Traditionally focused on fixed-income instruments such as Exchange Fund Bills and Notes, CMU’s expansion into equities marks a strategic diversification aimed at meeting the growing needs of institutional investors. These services are expected to allow…

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh holds a press conference following a two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), as the Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady, at the Federal Reserve, in Washington, D.C., U.S. July 29, 2026. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters The Federal Reserve on Wednesday followed through on expectations for no interest rate change, and Chairman Kevin Warsh offered little direction in his news conference. The meeting was notable for a surge in dissenting votes, while Warsh looked to provide some clarity on the board’s thought process. Here are the five biggest takeaways from this week’s Fed actions: The “family fight” returns: Three voters on the Federal Open Market Committee voted against the hold, favoring instead a quarter percentage point hike. “I asked for a good family fight, and I got one. That’s the purpose. That’s the design feature,” Warsh said. “There was a lot more interaction between and among my colleagues. It was a real family fight.” All the “no” votes came from regional presidents: Lorie Logan of Dallas, Neil Kashkari of Minneapolis and Beth Hammack of Cleveland, none terribly surprising given previous statements they made. Another short and sweet statement: Other than detailing the “no” votes the statement was unchanged and still dramatically shorter than the Fed norm. “As before, the policy statement conveys just the facts. It’s steering clear of forecasting, a choice we consider especially prudent at these uncertain times,” Warsh said. “Uncertainty, however, does not mean a lack of clarity.” Dedication to slaying inflation, but …: Warsh again stated the Fed’s resolve to keep inflation under control, but braced markets and the public that it won’t be an easy fight nor will it end soon. “We’ve got no magic wand,” he said. “This isn’t something that we’re going to be able…

Introduction If you’ve searched for “mt gox” recently, it’s probably because the name showed up in a headline again — more than a decade after the exchange collapsed, a dormant wallet linked to it still makes news whenever it moves Bitcoin. To understand why that keeps happening, it helps to know what Mt. Gox actually was, how it fell apart in 2014, and why a bankruptcy case from over a decade ago is still, in a very real sense, unfinished business for the Bitcoin market. What Was Mt. Gox? Mt. Gox was a Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange that, at its peak, handled more than 70% of all Bitcoin transactions worldwide, according to Investopedia’s sourced history of the exchange. The name is an acronym for “Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange” — the site was originally created by Jed McCaleb as a place for players to trade cards from the collectible card game before it was repurposed into a Bitcoin exchange. Mark Karpeles took over as the largest shareholder and CEO in 2011, and under his management Mt. Gox grew into the dominant Bitcoin exchange of the early 2010s. What Caused the 2014 Collapse? The mt gox hack that led to the exchange’s downfall unfolded gradually rather than as a single event. In February 2014, Mt. Gox suspended withdrawals after discovering what it described as suspicious activity in its digital wallets. The company ultimately disclosed that it had lost approximately 850,000 Bitcoins — worth hundreds of millions of dollars at the time — through a combination of hacking incidents and technical failures. Roughly 200,000 of those Bitcoins were later recovered, but the bulk of the loss destabilized the exchange and, briefly, the broader Bitcoin market. Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy in Tokyo District Court shortly afterward. Mark Karpeles was later found guilty in…

Traders works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell on March 5, 2026 in New York City. Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty Images The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 1,000 points on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve decided to keep interest rates steady while U.S. oil neared $85 per barrel. In the last five years, the blue-chip index has closed down more than 1,000 points nine times. Typically, the index tends to fall in the week after the large decline, but then performs well in the one-month and three- month periods that follow. The Dow is flat on a median basis a day after falling 1,000 points in one session. One week after, its performance worsens with a loss of 1.14%. One month after the fact, however, the Dow sees a median gain of nearly 2%. Three months after, that gain balloons to 9.1%. Three of the nine 1,000 point drops happened amid the fallout after President Donald Trump’s “liberation day” in April 2025, when he announced sweeping reciprocal tariffs on countries across the globe. The Dow and the broader market rebounded after their initial two-day dramatic fall once Trump announced a 90-day pause on the tariff plan, though the blue-chip average fell again on April 10 as high tariffs on China remained.  U.S. equities began to recover later in April after Trump and China signaled trade tensions were easing.  Four other drops happened in 2022. Inflation was surging that year, and the Federal Reserve hiked its overnight rate multiple times to contain it. Investors worried that higher rates could lead to an economic slowdown and potentially a recession, pushing the Dow and the other major averages to fall into bear market territory.  Markets bottomed in October 2022 and the…

TLDR Forbes honours Sun Rose Residences for premium residential service excellence. FSV-managed luxury community earns prestigious VERIFIED designation. Sun Rose Residences gains Forbes recognition for hospitality-led living. FirstService Residential adds Forbes luxury designation to West Hollywood site. VERIFIED recognition highlights FSV’s focus on resident service standards. FirstService Corporation (FSV) shares traded at $144.76, up $1.74, after its subsidiary announced a major hospitality recognition. Sun Rose Residences earned the VERIFIED Luxury Residences designation from Forbes Travel Guide. The recognition highlights service quality rather than financial performance and strengthens the property’s luxury residential profile. FirstService Corporation, FSV Sun Rose Residences Earns Forbes Luxury Recognition Forbes Travel Guide created the VERIFIED Luxury Residences designation through its consulting division, Atelier CX. The programme recognises residential communities delivering consistent and personalised hospitality-inspired service. Sun Rose Residences joined the inaugural group of communities meeting those standards. The verification process examined service culture, operational practices and the overall resident experience. Independent evaluators measured the community against established hospitality benchmarks. As a result, the designation confirms the property’s commitment to maintaining consistent service quality. Sun Rose Residences also participated as a charter member of the VERIFIED Luxury Residences programme. FirstService Residential worked directly with Atelier CX to establish signature service standards. Those standards aim to improve daily living while maintaining consistency across resident experiences. FirstService Residential Strengthens Hospitality Standards FirstService Residential manages communities throughout the United States and Canada. The company combines property management with hospitality-focused services for residential developments. The latest recognition supports its strategy of delivering premium resident experiences. The Sun Rose Residences occupies a prominent location along Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. Residents benefit from convenient access to the Sunset Strip, Beverly Hills and leading retail destinations. The community combines modern design with walkable surroundings and nearby cultural attractions. Amy Mathieson, President of FirstService Residential…

The Federal Reserve (Fed) held its target range at 3.50% to 3.75% at 18:00 GMT on a 9-3 vote, with three voting members preferring an immediate quarter-point increase. Equities got the outcome they wanted twice over, a hold on the day and a materially flatter path afterwards, and the index has already sold a third of the bounce. It trades near 52,100 against a session high in the 52,800 area. The discount rate was not the problem The slide that mattered happened before the decision, with the index running from the 52,800 area down to the 51,800 area by 16:15 GMT, better than 1,000 points and none of it Fed business. The bounce that followed recovered a little over 450 points of that and is fading in real time. Two hours of policy relief have not repaired one session of selling. A discount-rate shock is the one scheduled event that hits every index constituent identically, which is exactly why a dovish repricing of this size should have been worth more to a tape that had just lost a thousand points. It was not. What has been setting this range is the chip complex, the earnings calendar and the single-name damage of the past fortnight, none of which the front end can fix. A flatter path that nobody validated The repricing itself is substantial and worth stating plainly. At least one increase by September 16 now prices near 64% against roughly 80% on the captures taken before the meeting: October near 75%, and December near 85%. The probability of at least two increases by December 9 has dropped to roughly 42% from 57%, and the most likely December outcome is now one step rather than two. That easing came out of the briefing rather than the statement, which read hawkish on…

Ted Hisokawa Jul 29, 2026 09:49 WIF sits at $0.15 with every moving average overhead acting as resistance and spot volume near non-existent — but whale accounts are positioned 61.5% long, flagging a real squeeze risk. The $0.14 s… WIF’s Technical Reality Check WIF at $0.15 is a chart in controlled decay. Every significant moving average — the 7-day and 20-day both pinned at $0.15, the 50-day at $0.16, the 200-day at $0.20 — sits at or above current price. There is no technical overhead cushion here; every SMA is now acting as resistance. That stack formation doesn’t describe a coin building a base — it describes a coin that has been slowly hemorrhaging without finding anyone willing to step in front of it. Momentum tells the same story. The RSI at 41 is parked in neutral-to-weak territory, well below the midline and generating no meaningful buy-side pressure. The MACD and signal line are essentially welded together near -0.004, with the histogram printing zero: that’s not bearish acceleration, but it’s not recovery either — it’s exhaustion. The only genuine technical argument for an upside trade here is the Stochastic oscillator, which at 28 %K and 22 %D has pushed into oversold terrain. That’s where reflexive bounces originate. But in an established downtrend, oversold conditions can persist for weeks before resolving, and the Stochastic alone is not a timing tool. The Bollinger Band picture adds urgency. WIF is pressed at a 0.17 position — deep against the lower band at $0.14 — while the upper band sits just at $0.16. That compression does not persist indefinitely. For traders monitoring setups through Blockchain.news, the read here is straightforward: this is a coiled spring, and the direction of release depends entirely on whether $0.14 holds.…

FSB also announced plans to put Durov on the international most wanted list. Telegram allegedly let Ukrainian intelligence use the app to recruit Russian citizens. The app has become a key communications hub in the Russia-Ukraine war, used by both sides. Russia’s FSB (Federal Security Service) has formally accused Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov, of enabling terrorism and announced plans to put him on the international most wanted list. The agency also issued an international warrant for his arrest. According to the Russian authorities, Telegram allegedly let Ukrainian intelligence use the app to recruit Russian citizens, especially young people, for cybercrimes and attacks inside Russia. The FSB claims Ukrainian operatives used Telegram bots and chat services to lure recruits, including through a dating chatbot known as “Daivinchik” (Leo).  Russian investigators say 46 people aged between 12 and 22 have been arrested over the past year in connection with these alleged operations. Soon after the news broke, Telegram’s X account posted a picture of Durov showing a middle finger. In the past, Durov has always said Telegram works with proper legal requests but draws the line at anything that invades user privacy or brings in government censorship. Also, GRAM, the native cryptocurrency of TON (Layer-1 blockchain originally developed by Telegram), dropped roughly 3%. Interestingly, Telegram has become a key communications hub in the Russia-Ukraine war. It’s used simultaneously by Ukrainian government agencies, Russian military bloggers, Russian ministries, journalists, civilians, aid organizations, independent media, and intelligence researchers. Reuters called Telegram a “virtual battlefield,” where both sides share everything from military updates and drone videos to fundraising and emergency alerts every day. Can a Messaging App Remain Neutral During a War? Telegram was built on the premise of operating as a neutral communications medium, not as an arbiter of political discourse. Wartime conditions, however,…

Green Bay Packers running back MarShawn Lloyd (32) has played just one game in his first two seasons. Getty Images Cautiously optimistic. After two nightmarish seasons wrecked by injury, Green Bay Packers running back Marshawn Lloyd is crossing his fingers that the worst is behind him. And Lloyd hopes the soft tissue injuries that limited him to one game and 10 total snaps his first two seasons are a thing of the past. “I feel really good,” Lloyd said after the Packers’ first training camp practice Wednesday. “I definitely do.” Lloyd, a third round draft pick in 2024, played just one game his rookie season. Lloyd missed the season opener with a hamstring injury, then after playing in Week 2, Lloyd spent seven weeks on the injured reserve list with an ankle injury. When Lloyd finally appeared ready to return, he suffered an emergency appendectomy and missed the rest of the season. Last season, Lloyd never got started, spending the entire season on the injured reserve list with a hamstring injury. Lloyd spent much of his offseason with Dr. John Meyer of the Meyer Institute of Sport in El Segundo, Calif. Meyer and his staff determined Lloyd was overcompensating while training his lower body. “He’s the real deal,” Lloyd said of Meyer. “I had to do so (many) tests, and he’s seen how I moved and where I was overcompensating, and he kind of got those places better where I need it. So focus on a lot of single leg stuff and get my quads right and getting my hamstrings right.” Lloyd said when training camp began last season he was “uncertain” about his health. Today, he feels entirely different. “I mean, as far as like the strength of everything, yeah, my strength is a lot different,” Lloyd said. “A…

The post FOMC News: Fed Holds Rates at 3.50%-3.75% as Three Officials Back Hike appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News The Federal Reserve kept rates unchanged at 3.50%-3.75% on July 29, but three officials called for a hike. Three officials wanted a 25-basis-point hike, marking the first time since 2016 that three policymakers have opposed a Fed decision in the same direction. The split raised the September hike odds to 62%, keeping pressure on Bitcoin … Source: https://coinpedia.org/news/fomc-news-fed-holds-rates-at-3-50-3-75-as-three-officials-back-hike/

WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve on Wednesday voted to hold its key interest rate steady but not without opposition from three officials who have expressed concern over inflation and wanted to hike. Despite increasing support among some officials for a rate increase, the Federal Open Market Committee voted 9-3 to leave the federal funds rate in a range between 3.5% and 3.75%. All of the “no” votes came from regional presidents – Beth Hammack of Cleveland, Neel Kashkari of Minneapolis and Lorie Logan of Dallas – who had been the most explicit about the need for higher rates to address inflation that has been above the Fed’s 2% target for more than five years. The post-meeting statement noted that the three dissenters “preferred to raise the target range for the federal funds rate by ¼ percentage point at this meeting.” An early challenge for Warsh This is the first time since September 2016 that three policymakers dissented with a unified view of which direction rates should head. “We’re reading this as a Committee with vocal hawks,” said Ian Lyngen, head of U.S. rates at BMO Capital Markets. The no votes presented an early challenge for Chairman Kevin Warsh, whose refusal to provide clear road signs on where monetary policy is headed led to an unusually high level of uncertainty heading into the meeting. Markets largely had expected the central bank policymakers to approve another hold on rates, though there had been some inclination – about a 1-in-3 chance, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch tool – that a surprise rate hike was in the cards. Prediction markets had a higher level of certainty that the Fed would hold. Warsh has argued that the Fed should spend less time trying to tell markets what it will do and instead emphasizing the…

It is the question every Bitcoin holder is asking after a brutal 2026: is the bottom in? Coinbase’s CEO says the low was near $60,000. Bitwise’s CIO agrees. Standard Chartered still sees $100,000 by year-end. And yet Bitcoin dipped below $58,000 weeks after those calls, and ETFs are still down billions for the year. This guide lays out the actual evidence on both sides, the signals that would confirm a bottom, and why the honest answer is more useful than a confident one. Where Bitcoin stands Bitcoin trades near $64,000 in late July 2026, roughly 50% below its October 2025 all-time high near $126,000 (live BTC price on CoinGecko). The year’s low so far is around $57,700, printed in late June. July has been a genuine recovery month, with double-digit gains from that low, but Bitcoin has failed to clear $68,000 all month. So the raw setup is: a deep drawdown, a low that has held for a month, and a recovery that keeps stalling at the same ceiling. That is exactly the kind of chart that produces honest disagreement. The case that the bottom is in The people closest to flows think so. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said in June that Bitcoin had hit its low point near $60,000. Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan expressed a similar view in early July. Both run businesses that see order flow and institutional appetite directly, which makes their read worth weighing, even though both are also structurally bullish by profession. Buyers showed up at the low. The late-June drop to $57,700 was bought, not extended. A month later that low still stands. Every subsequent dip has found support in the low $60,000s. Flows have started turning. Spot Bitcoin ETFs ran a three-week inflow streak in July worth roughly $560 million (flow data on…

The shared currency surged after the Federal Reserve (Fed) kept rates steady by a 9 to 3 vote. Three dissenters supported a 25-basis-point rate hike. The EUR/USD trades in a volatile fashion above 1.1420, up 0.3%.  EUR/USD trades choppily above 1.1400 after the Fed held rates The Fed observed that economic activity continues to grow solidly despite high uncertainty caused by the Middle East conflict. The statement highlighted that “Productivity growth and capital investment are strong. Job gains remain steady with the workforce, and the unemployment rate has seen little change.”  Additionally, the policy statement emphasised the Fed’s commitment to maintaining price stability.  Dissenting voices included the Cleveland Fed’s Beth Hammack, the Minneapolis Fed’s Neel Kashkari, and the Dallas Fed’s Lorie Logan, who supported a 25-basis-point rate increase. Next, investors are waiting for the Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s press conference. EUR/USD Hourly chart EUR/USD hourly chart Euro FAQs The Euro is the currency for the 20 European Union countries that belong to the Eurozone. It is the second most heavily traded currency in the world behind the US Dollar. In 2022, it accounted for 31% of all foreign exchange transactions, with an average daily turnover of over $2.2 trillion a day. EUR/USD is the most heavily traded currency pair in the world, accounting for an estimated 30% off all transactions, followed by EUR/JPY (4%), EUR/GBP (3%) and EUR/AUD (2%). The European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany, is the reserve bank for the Eurozone. The ECB sets interest rates and manages monetary policy. The ECB’s primary mandate is to maintain price stability, which means either controlling inflation or stimulating growth. Its primary tool is the raising or lowering of interest rates. Relatively high interest rates – or the expectation of higher rates – will usually benefit the Euro and vice…

Ripple has reported an unparalleled surge in institutional interest for its cryptocurrency XRP, along with its forthcoming stablecoin, RLUSD. Ripple’s president, Monica Long, revealed that this heightened demand is unlike anything previously seen, catching the eye of the business and crypto sectors alike. Continue Reading:Ripple Faces Surging Interest from Institutions: Is a Market Shift on the Horizon? Source: https://en.bitcoinhaber.net/ripple-faces-surging-interest-from-institutions-is-a-market-shift-on-the-horizon

President Donald Trump threatened a forceful response after Iran fired missiles at U.S. forces in Jordan, ending a brief pause in fighting and sending oil prices sharply higher. Summary Trump vowed to hit Iran “very hard” after missiles targeted American forces in Jordan. Brent crude jumped nearly 8% as traders priced in renewed risks to Middle East supplies. The Dow fell 2.14%, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq also closed sharply lower. Bitcoin briefly recovered to $64,435 after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged. Trump vows retaliation after Iran missile attack Iran’s Revolutionary Guards fired several ballistic missiles at a U.S. air base and military center in Jordan. U.S. officials said American forces intercepted the missiles, with no immediate reports of casualties. Trump promised retaliation during comments at the White House. “So it’s our turn,” Trump said. “We’re going to hit them very hard.” Trump left open the possibility of a future agreement with Tehran but gave no details about the timing or scale of a U.S. response. He also said he had been briefed about a drone strike on a U.S.-owned gas storage tanker at Egypt’s Damietta port. American and Saudi forces separately carried out joint strikes against Iran-backed groups in Iraq. The attacks killed at least 20 members of the Popular Mobilization Forces, according to the group. Saudi Arabia’s direct involvement marks a further expansion of the conflict. Riyadh had previously tried to limit its military role while defending oil facilities and shipping routes from attacks linked to Tehran-backed groups. Oil jumps as shipping risks return Oil prices surged as traders reassessed the chances of prolonged disruption across the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Brent crude futures settled $6.65, or 7.91%, higher at $90.74 per barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude gained 6.56% to $84.46.…

Scientists and screenwriters alike estimate that they keep somewhere between one and five percent of what AI offers them. getty The machine is a tireless crane. In a single session, it hands us more material than any dissertation, annual report, or Hollywood script could ever use. I’m reminded of this every time I talk to scientists and screenwriters, who tell me — independently, almost word for word — that they keep somewhere between one and five percent of what the machine offers them. That number may sound alarming. It isn’t. Both groups insist the machine’s real value was never the volume of material it generates. It’s the time it saves them gathering that material in the first place. I tested this idea out loud recently, during a lecture on AI and judgment in Chicago. I built it around a story I’d heard directly from Dr. Jonathan Stokes, a biochemist at McMaster University whose lab uses AI to hunt for new antibiotics. Searching a near-infinite chemical universe, Stokes’s team asked a model to generate candidate molecules. It returned 24,335. Of those, 2,868 were predicted to be viable antibiotics. From that pool, the team selected 58 to test in the lab. Screening the same chemical space by hand — to arrive at that many active molecules — would have taken them about a year. One year of laboratory time, handed back to a team of scientists in the time it takes to run a query. That is the crane at work, and it deserves to be named plainly, without irony or hedging: This is what artificial intelligence is extraordinarily good at, and no honest argument about its limits should pretend otherwise. The scale only grows from there. Stokes describes a second project now under review: “We took an AI model, gave it…

Series of institutional disclosures ETF inflows remain positive Gerber, an Ohio-based registered investment adviser managing $592 million in assets, has disclosed a fresh XRP position, according to a recent SEC filing.  The firm holds 12,958 shares of the Franklin XRP exchange-traded fund ETF. Series of institutional disclosures Gerber’s filing follows several other notable 13F disclosures from investment advisers across the United States. $592 Million Asset Manager Reveals New XRP ETF Position Whales Want Ethereum (ETH) Above $2,000 Now: Binance Withdrawals Spike On July 17, Gallacher Capital Management LLC reported a new position in the Canary XRP ETF (XRPC). It disclosed ownership of 86,744 shares valued at approximately $961,126. One day earlier, Vista Finance LLC revealed one of the largest institutional XRP ETF positions disclosed so far. Its SEC filing showed ownership of 129,958 shares of the Franklin XRP ETF ($11.45 million at the time of the filing).  You Might Also Like Meanwhile, CPR Investments, a Michigan-based registered investment adviser, disclosed on July 15 that it had established a position in the ProShares Ultra XRP ETF, reporting ownership of 36,619 shares valued at approximately $363,627. Of course, these holdings remain relatively modest compared with positions commonly seen in Bitcoin ETFs, but it shows that XRP is steadily becoming more popular with investment advisors.  ETF inflows remain positive The institutional disclosures have coincided with continued inflows into U.S. spot XRP ETFs. The latest daily figures show 532,500 XRP of net inflows on July 27, following 5.09 million XRP on July 21, 2.27 million XRP on July 20, and 6.10 million XRP on July 16. As of the latest update, the combined XRP ETF market has approximately $683.66 million in assets, with the Bitwise XRP ETF leading the sector at roughly $243 million. It is followed by the Canary XRP ETF with nearly $223…

Meta Platforms delivered another blockbuster quarter for revenue, but investors were reminded that the race to dominate artificial intelligence comes at a steep cost. The social media giant reported second-quarter revenue of $60.8 billion, beating Wall Street expectations, while earnings per share missed forecasts as massive AI infrastructure investments, legal charges, and restructuring costs weighed on profitability. Meta’s AI Strategy Drives Revenue Growth Meta reported 28% year-over-year revenue growth to $60.8 billion, exceeding analyst estimates of roughly $60.2 billion. Advertising remained the company’s primary growth engine, supported by AI-powered recommendation algorithms that improved engagement and ad targeting. The company said ad impressions increased 14% from a year earlier, while the average price per advertisement rose 12%, helping push Family daily active people (DAP) to 3.60 billion, up 3% year over year. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said AI is already accelerating Meta’s core business while creating new enterprise opportunities, highlighting the company’s long-term strategy of embedding AI across its platforms. Profit Margins Feel the Weight of AI Investments Despite stronger sales, profitability moved in the opposite direction. Diluted earnings per share declined to $6.18, down from $7.14 a year ago, while operating margin narrowed sharply to 31% from 43%. Meta’s total costs and expenses surged 55% to $42.03 billion, reflecting $2.4 billion in legal-related charges, $1.18 billion in severance expenses, and continued spending on AI research and data center expansion. The company generated $31.86 billion in operating cash flow during the quarter but reported just $784 million in free cash flow after spending more than $31 billion on capital expenditures, illustrating the enormous cost of scaling AI infrastructure. Meta Doubles Down on AI Spending Looking ahead, Meta raised the lower end of its 2026 capital expenditure guidance to $130 billion-$145 billion, up from its previous outlook of $125 billion-$145 billion. The company…

Jeffrey Gundlach, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of DoubleLine Group, during the Bloomberg Global Credit Forum in Los Angeles, California, US, on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach said the Treasury market is signaling that the Federal Reserve will need to do more than talk tough if policymakers are serious about reaching their 2% inflation target. “If you really want to get to 2%, I think you have to raise interest rates,” Gundlach said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell” Wednesday after the Fed’s latest policy decision. “I think getting 2% is going to take a long time. We might not get there over the course of the next couple of years.” The Fed left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a range of 3.5% to 3.75%, a decision that was widely expected. The move was not approved unanimously, however, with three policy members dissenting in favor of raising rates by a quarter percentage point. Gundlach said the divergent moves across the Treasury curve following the announcement showed investors’ skepticism that the Fed will ultimately follow through. “The two-year Treasury rallied today because it thinks the Fed is taking its time,” he said. “And the long bond yield went up significantly after the press conference, because the bond market vigilantes are saying, ‘If you really want us to believe your rhetoric, you’ve got to start acting.'” The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield rose more than 7 basis points to 4.681%, while the 30-year bond yield surged to 5.213% for its highest level since 2007. Meanwhile, the policy-sensitive two-year Treasury yield fell 3 basis points to 4.244%. The long end is generally tied to expectations for inflation and deficits, while the short end is closely related to interest-rate expectations in the shorter run.…

Robinhood (HOOD) topped Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations, but shares fell about 4% in after-hours trading, adding to their 3.1% decline during Wednesday’s session. The online brokerage reported adjusted earnings per share of $0.62, well ahead of analysts’ $0.43 estimate, while revenue climbed 32% from a year earlier to a record $1.31 billion, narrowly topping the $1.29 billion consensus forecast. The results reflected strength across Robinhood’s expanding product lineup, even as crypto trading cooled. Crypto revenue fell 38% year over year to $100 million from $160 million, while transaction revenue was lifted by surging options, equities and prediction markets activity. “Whether it’s the Robinhood Chain, Robinhood Ventures, or Trump Accounts, our product velocity is focused on one goal: making everyone an owner,” Vlad Tenev, Chairman and CEO of Robinhood, said in a statement. The second quarter marked one of Robinhood’s biggest product pushes in recent years. The company launched Robinhood Chain, a blockchain network that supports tokenized U.S. stocks for eligible European customers as part of its push to bring traditional financial assets onchain. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/07/29/robinhood-slides-4-despite-earnings-beat-as-crypto-revenue-cools

Robinhood outperformed Wall Street expectations after reporting $100 million in second-quarter crypto transaction revenue, beating the $86.6 million consensus estimate despite a sharp 38% year-over-year decline. The earnings highlight a changing business model where strong growth in prediction markets, equities, and subscriptions is helping offset weaker cryptocurrency trading. Robinhood Beats Crypto Revenue Estimates as Diversification Pays Off Robinhood surprised investors after reporting $100 million in cryptocurrency transaction revenue for the second quarter of 2026, comfortably exceeding analyst expectations of $86.6 million. While the result marked a 38% decline from a year earlier, it demonstrated that crypto trading held up better than analysts anticipated during a quarter characterized by softer digital asset prices and lower retail trading activity. The crypto business remained only one part of a much stronger earnings report. Robinhood posted record quarterly revenue of $1.31 billion, up 32% year-over-year, alongside net income of $573 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.62, significantly above market expectations. The results suggest Robinhood is becoming less dependent on crypto market cycles as newer business segments continue gaining traction. Prediction Markets and Trading Drive Record Quarter Robinhood generated $776 million in transaction-based revenue, up 44% year-over-year, led by strength across several products outside cryptocurrency. Options trading generated $342 million, while equities contributed $129 million, representing a 95% annual increase. Perhaps the biggest standout was prediction markets, where event contracts produced $156 million, increasing more than tenfold from the same period last year. Meanwhile, net interest revenue climbed to $389 million, while subscription and other revenue reached $143 million, supported by Robinhood Gold memberships and the company’s newly launched Trump Accounts. The diversified performance helped offset continued weakness in digital asset trading, reinforcing management’s strategy of expanding beyond its original brokerage business. Crypto Trading Softens but Expansion Continues Robinhood reported $40 billion in…

The United States (US) Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act), awaiting a full Senate floor vote, promises to unlock Wall Street’s potential to tokenize financial assets, including equities, US Treasuries, private credit, real estate and commodities at a scale that could supercharge the real-world asset (RWA) market from the current $17 billion level to $5.5 trillion by 2030, according to a report by Citi Institute. Ripple (XRP) holds modest gains, trading around $1.08 at the time of writing on Wednesday. The remittance token mirrors the general neutral-to-bullish outlook in the crypto market, as focus shifts to the Federal Reserve (Fed) rate decision. There are two main drivers for crypto this week, keeping Bitcoin trapped within its $58,000-$65,000 summer consolidation range. Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/cryptocurrencies-price-prediction-xrp-wall-street-bitcoin-american-wrap-29-july-202607291815

ARK Invest’s Lorenzo Valente says revenue is becoming increasingly concentrated among a handful of crypto protocols, setting the stage for more mergers, acquisitions and exchange closures. An ARK Invest analyst says the cryptocurrency industry is entering what he describes as its biggest consolidation phase yet, with revenue increasingly concentrated among a handful of dominant protocols. In a Wednesday post on X, Lorenzo Valente, a research associate at ARK Invest, said investors have become increasingly selective, making it harder for crypto projects and exchanges without strong product-market fit to attract capital. As weaker projects struggle or shut down, revenue is becoming concentrated among a small number of dominant protocols, he said. As evidence, Valente said perpetual futures exchange Hyperliquid and memecoin launchpad Pump.fun account for roughly 67% of total crypto application revenue. Including synthetic dollar protocol Ethena raises the top three’s combined share to nearly 80%, highlighting what he described as record-high revenue concentration across the sector. Read more Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-entering-biggest-consolidation-phase-in-history-says-ark-analyst?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

In brief Rep. Thomas Massie plans legislation that would withhold federal funding from agencies deploying Flock cameras. Local governments from California to Indiana have suspended, canceled, or reconsidered Flock deployments following public opposition. Flock CEO Garrett Langley recently apologized for referring to anti-surveillance activists as “terrorists.” Public opposition to Flock Safety’s automated license plate reader cameras is spreading from city council meetings to Capitol Hill as lawmakers prepare legislation targeting federal funding for agencies that deploy the technology while communities across the country reconsider its use. The protests come amid mounting evidence that Flock’s technology has been used in ways critics say extend well beyond its stated purpose of investigating crimes and locating missing people.  A recent report by The Institute for Justice identified over two dozen cases nationwide in which officers resigned or were arrested for allegedly using automated license plate reader systems to stalk current or former romantic partners. In February, Milwaukee prosecutors charged an officer accused of using the system to track a romantic partner and her former partner. In July, an internal affairs detective who investigated that case was arrested after authorities alleged he also used Flock to track people for personal reasons. Privacy advocates also cite broader uses of the technology. The Electronic Frontier Foundation says agencies searched license plate databases during protests, including the No Kings protests in 2025. That same year, the group reported that Texas deputies queried Flock data during an abortion investigation that authorities initially described as a missing-person case. Opposition has also moved beyond public meetings. During June and July, activists across the country spray-painted, taped over, disabled and destroyed Flock cameras in protest of automated surveillance. The Guardian identified at least 33 incidents across 23 states. Online communities have shared camera maps, tips for avoiding the devices and…

The Aussie Dollar trimmed some of its earlier losses after the Federal Reserve kept rates steady, by a 9 to 3 vote, with three dissenters who supported a 25-basis-point rate hike. The AUD/USD trades at around 0.6950, down 0.32%.  AUD/USD remains on the backfoot, despite Fed’s decision The Fed noted that economic activity continues to grow steadily despite the high uncertainty stemming from the Middle East conflict. It highlighted that “Productivity growth and capital investment are robust. Job gains remain consistent with the workforce, and the unemployment rate has changed little.”  The policy statement reaffirmed the Fed’s dedication to maintaining price stability. Dissenting opinions came from Cleveland Fed Beth Hammack, Minneapolis Fed Neel Kashkari, and Dallas Fed Lorie Logan, who favored a 25-basis-point rate hike.  Investors now await Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s press conference. AUD/USD Hourly chart AUD/USD hourly chart Australian Dollar FAQs One of the most significant factors for the Australian Dollar (AUD) is the level of interest rates set by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). Because Australia is a resource-rich country another key driver is the price of its biggest export, Iron Ore. The health of the Chinese economy, its largest trading partner, is a factor, as well as inflation in Australia, its growth rate and Trade Balance. Market sentiment – whether investors are taking on more risky assets (risk-on) or seeking safe-havens (risk-off) – is also a factor, with risk-on positive for AUD. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) influences the Australian Dollar (AUD) by setting the level of interest rates that Australian banks can lend to each other. This influences the level of interest rates in the economy as a whole. The main goal of the RBA is to maintain a stable inflation rate of 2-3% by adjusting interest rates up or down. Relatively high…

Key Takeaways Caterpillar stock declined 6.68% to $784.65 amid broader market pressures. Company unveiled up to $10 million workforce development program for Illinois. Initiative focuses on manufacturing skills, technician training, and career pathways. Program serves as pilot for potential nationwide workforce training expansion. Partnership includes community colleges and regional economic development organizations. Shares of Caterpillar (CAT) tumbled 6.68% to close at $784.65 following a significant intraday selloff. The decline occurred despite the industrial equipment manufacturer revealing a substantial $10 million commitment to workforce development throughout Illinois. While the initiative addresses critical manufacturing and technical training needs, investors focused on broader market concerns rather than the workforce announcement. Caterpillar Inc., CAT Major Illinois Workforce Development Program Unveiled The heavy equipment manufacturer announced its Illinois initiative as part of a larger five-year, $100 million Building the Future Workforce commitment. This newest allocation will fund training infrastructure, educational access, and contemporary industrial competencies. The Illinois program represents the fourth regional commitment within this comprehensive workforce strategy. Caterpillar maintains a significant Illinois presence with over 17,000 employees across multiple manufacturing locations. The company operates major production facilities and administrative offices throughout Peoria and surrounding regions. This extensive footprint provides direct access to educational institutions, workforce partners, and potential trainees. The initiative will serve communities including East Peoria, Mapleton, Morton, Pontiac, and Decatur, among others. These locations were selected based on their proximity to critical manufacturing operations and established educational infrastructure. Illinois will serve as a laboratory for workforce development approaches that could subsequently expand to additional states. Investment Aims to Bridge Manufacturing Skills Gap The funding mechanism will create connections between industrial employers, educational institutions, training facilities, and individuals pursuing manufacturing careers. Caterpillar intends to expand access to cost-effective training programs aligned with contemporary manufacturing demands. The program will additionally support skill advancement for…

CZ said Bitcoin should freeze Satoshi’s coins if they don’t move in a specified period. His idea is to stop a future quantum attacker from stealing Satoshi’s Bitcoin. It’s estimated that Satoshi owns around 1.1 million BTC from the early days of Bitcoin. During a recent discussion about Bitcoin’s long-term security, former CEO of Binance, Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao said that Bitcoin should freeze Satoshi’s coins if they don’t move in a specified timeline, such as 12 months. He believes that if Bitcoin ever moves to quantum-proof security, the network should give people with older, more vulnerable wallets a grace period to move their coins to safer addresses.  After that window closes, the Bitcoin community could think about freezing any coins that are still sitting in quantum-vulnerable wallets, including Satoshi’s untouched holdings. The idea is to stop a future quantum attacker from stealing them. CZ specifically stated, “If we don’t do anything with it, then we’re basically giving it to somebody who’s going to hack it.” He did, however, point out that this should be something that only the Bitcoin community could decide, and only through a consensus vote. It’s estimated that Satoshi Nakamoto owns around 1.1 million BTC from the early days of Bitcoin. A lot of those coins are in older wallet formats where the public key is openly visible on the blockchain. If someone built a quantum computer strong enough to crack the key, they may theoretically figure out the private keys and move the coins. Other Major Bitcoin Figures Share Their Opinions Jameson Lopp, developer and one of the people behind BIP-361, a draft proposal for Bitcoin that lays out a step-by-step plan to phase out old, quantum-vulnerable addresses and eventually freeze whatever funds are left there, sees things somewhat differently. He thinks the real issue is…

USD/JPY trades near the 163.60 area on Wednesday, recovering from its immediate post-announcement decline as investors assess a generally hawkish Federal Reserve (Fed) monetary policy decision. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) left the fed funds rate unchanged within the 3.50%–3.75% range, as widely expected. However, the decision was approved by a 9–3 vote, with Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, and Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan preferring a 25-basis-point rate increase. The unusually large group of hawkish dissenters indicates that concerns about persistent inflation are gaining support within the central bank. The statement described economic activity as expanding at a solid pace, highlighted strong productivity growth and capital investment, and said the Unemployment Rate had changed little. The Fed also reiterated that inflation remains elevated relative to its 2% objective and pledged to deliver price stability. The hawkish tone provides some support to the US Dollar by reinforcing expectations that interest rates could remain elevated or potentially rise at an upcoming meeting. Markets had already been considering a September increase, and the three dissenting votes may strengthen expectations that the debate is shifting toward additional tightening. The Fed also acknowledged that uncertainty remains elevated partly because of the conflict in the Middle East. Policymakers noted that supply shocks, including higher energy costs, are contributing to inflationary pressure. Short-term technical analysis: On the 4-hour chart, USD/JPY trades at 163.59. The pair sits in a neutral, slightly range-bound stance, holding above the 100-period Simple Moving Average (SMA) near 162.75 while trading just under the 20-period SMA around 163.73, which caps the immediate upside. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) hovers close to the 50 line at 49, hinting at balanced momentum after the recent pullback from overbought territory. On the topside, initial resistance is seen at 163.63, followed…

Key Takeaways Türkiye blocked 47,493 betting sites and detained 5,629 suspects in 2026. One Istanbul probe tied $4B in transfers to crypto wallets and match-fixing. Prosecutors froze 6,314 bank accounts as the World Cup final kicked off. Crypto wallets become a repeated enforcement target Türkiye has blocked access to 47,493 illegal betting websites since Jan. 1 as authorities expand a nationwide campaign against online operators and their payment networks. Anadolu Agency, citing Interior Ministry sources, said police and gendarmerie units conducted 680 operations, detained 5,629 suspects, secured the pretrial detention of 3,231 and placed a further 1,515 under judicial control. Cybercrime units are conducting round-the-clock patrols of illegal betting sites, social media advertisements and digital connections to payment systems. Investigators are also tracing bank accounts, electronic-money services and cryptoasset accounts suspected of helping operators collect wagers or transfer criminal proceeds. The national figures extend a concentrated series of May raids. Four operations announced over eight days took legal action against more than 670 suspects, with one Adana investigation identifying cryptocurrency platforms among the alleged channels used to launder betting proceeds. A June 5 statement from the Istanbul Anatolian Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office identified seven shared crypto wallets outside Türkiye that allegedly received regular transfers from an illegal betting organization. Prosecutors put the network’s total transaction activity at $4 billion (TL192.37 billion) and said all bank and crypto accounts associated with the suspects were blocked. Investigators alleged the network, coordinated by a suspect identified as İ.Ö.Ö., drew income from illegal betting and from matches whose results had been arranged in advance, plus wagers placed through Türkiye’s legal betting system. Proceeds allegedly moved through currency-exchange bureaus and Grand Bazaar jewelers before reaching crypto wallets whose users could not be identified. The case was run by the prosecutor’s terrorism-financing and money-laundering bureau alongside…

Microsoft delivered another blockbuster quarter, beating Wall Street expectations on revenue, earnings, and operating income as Azure cloud services and artificial intelligence continued to drive growth. The stronger-than-expected results reinforced investor confidence that massive AI infrastructure investments are translating into accelerating revenue, a closely watched trend across technology and crypto markets alike. Microsoft Crushes Q4 as Azure Growth Fuels AI Boom The software giant reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $90.0 billion, surpassing analysts’ expectations of $87.7 billion. Adjusted earnings per share came in at $4.74, well above the consensus estimate of $4.25, while operating income reached $40.6 billion, also topping forecasts. Azure Emerges as the Standout Performer The biggest surprise came from Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud business. Revenue from the segment climbed 32% year over year to $39.3 billion, while Azure and other cloud services revenue surged 43%, comfortably ahead of prior company guidance that had pointed to growth closer to the high-30% range. Microsoft Cloud generated $59.3 billion in quarterly revenue, up 27% from a year earlier. Meanwhile, commercial remaining performance obligations—a key measure of future contracted revenue—jumped 84% to $678 billion, highlighting sustained enterprise demand. CEO Satya Nadella credited Microsoft’s AI strategy for the performance. “We are advancing the frontier on the cost-to-outcome curve, ensuring every customer can turn tokens into business results,” Nadella said. He also revealed that Azure generated more than $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time during fiscal 2026, while Microsoft 365 Copilot surpassed 30 million paid seats, demonstrating growing enterprise adoption of generative AI. AI Spending Continues to Accelerate Microsoft’s earnings also showed that its aggressive AI investments remain substantial. Operating cash flow reached $55.4 billion during the quarter, while capital expenditures continued climbing as the company expanded data center capacity to support AI workloads. Property and equipment spending reached nearly $35.8…

Topline The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has opened an investigation into the Argentine Football Association for violating the agency’s rules against political demonstrations after its World Cup team unfurled a controversial banner claiming the Falkland Islands—a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic—”are Argentinian.” Players of Argentina hold the controversial Malvinas banner after the Semi Final match at Atlanta Stadium. Getty Images Key Facts After Argentina secured a 2-1 win over England in the semifinals of the World Cup, the team’s players celebrated on the pitch and held up a banner that read “Las Malvinas son Argentinas,” which translates to “Malvinas are Argentinian.” Las Malvinas is the Spanish name for the South Atlantic archipelago known as the Falkland Islands, which is administered by the British but claimed by Argentina as a part of its sovereign territory. Several Argentinian players, including Giovani Lo Celso, Lisandro Martínez and Nicolas Otamendi, were seen holding up the banner before laying it down face up on the Mercedes-Benz Stadium pitch. The demonstration led to calls from British politicians, including then-Prime Minister Keir Starmer, for FIFA to investigate what rules may have been broken when Argentinian players unfurled the banner and the body on Wednesday said it would investigate “the display of inappropriate messages by the team and spectators.” At the same time, FIFA announced it was investigating three Argentinian players (Leandro Paredes, Nahuel Molina and Thiago Almada) and assistant coach Roberto Ayala for actions related to a skirmish between Argentinian and Spanish playes after the game (Spain midfielder Gavi is also being investigated). What To Watch For If they’re found guilty. The Argentina Football Association technically faces fines, reprimands, orders to implement corrective measures and restrictions related to future matches if wrongdoing is determined, though similar past cases have usually resulted in fines rather than sporting…

Bitcoin [BTC] traded near $64,000 after the US Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged at 3.50%-3.75% on July 29, a decision that largely matched market expectations. However, policymakers struck a more hawkish tone than the headline suggested. Three Federal Open Market Committee [FOMC] members voted for an immediate rate increase.  At the same time, Chair Kevin Warsh declined to rule out another hike in September, keeping pressure on risk assets, including cryptocurrencies. Three Fed officials break ranks The FOMC voted 9-3 to keep interest rates unchanged. Beth Hammack, Neel Kashkari and Lorie Logan dissented in favour of raising the federal funds rate to 3.75%-4.00%, marking a notable shift from June, when all 12 voting members supported leaving policy unchanged. The accompanying statement described economic activity as continuing to expand at a solid pace, with labour market conditions remaining stable. At the same time, officials said inflation remains above the Fed’s 2% target, citing persistent price pressures partly reinforced by energy-related supply disruptions. The Fed’s implementation note left its operational interest rates and balance-sheet policy unchanged. Warsh keeps September firmly on the table During his press conference, Warsh rejected suggestions that July represented a routine pause, describing the meeting as an active assessment of the Fed’s policy options rather than the start of an easing cycle. He also downplayed the significance of June’s softer inflation reading, saying it influenced policymakers “not much” as they continue to focus on broader inflation trends. While Warsh stopped short of signalling a September increase, he acknowledged that higher interest rates could still become necessary if inflation fails to moderate. He also noted that financial conditions had already tightened between meetings, pointing to higher nominal and inflation-adjusted Treasury yields despite no change in the policy rate. Those market developments, he said, would be monitored alongside incoming…

NZD/USD trades higher near the 0.5790 area on Wednesday, reversing its earlier decline as the US Dollar (USD) weakens sharply following the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) monetary policy announcement. The pair initially moved lower as renewed Middle East tensions boosted demand for safe-haven assets. The escalation also pushed Oil prices higher, reviving concerns that rising energy costs could keep global inflation elevated and force central banks to maintain restrictive monetary policy for longer. However, the New Zealand Dollar (NZD) recovered after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) left the fed funds rate unchanged within the 3.50%–3.75% range. The decision was approved by a divided 9–3 vote, with Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari and Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan preferring a 25-basis-point increase. The Fed’s statement was generally hawkish, noting that economic activity continues to expand at a solid pace, the Unemployment Rate has changed little, and inflation remains elevated relative to the central bank’s 2% target. Policymakers also acknowledged that supply shocks, particularly in the energy sector, are contributing to price pressure. Despite the hawkish language and three dissenting votes, the US Dollar fell sharply following the announcement. Markets are no longer fully pricing in a September rate increase, as the decision to remain on hold raised doubts about whether a majority of officials will support tightening at the next meeting. Short-term technical analysis: On the 4-hour chart, NZD/USD trades at 0.5795, holding a modestly bullish bias as it consolidates above both the 20-period Simple Moving Average (SMA) around 0.5784 and the 100-period SMA near 0.5791. This clustering of moving averages just under spot suggests a nascent base, while the Relative Strength Index (RSI) hovering slightly above 50 hints at recovering, but not overstretched, upside momentum. On the topside, initial resistance emerges at 0.5804, with a…

Bernie Taupin Jill Augusto It’s almost impossible to hear the name Bernie Taupin and not think Elton John. Throughout their nearly six-decade partnership, the legendary duo has collaborated on more than 400 songs and 30-plus studio albums. Taupin famously writes the lyrics independently of John, who then takes the prose and puts it to music. The alchemy that ensues has bubbled into iconic treasures like Bennie and the Jets, Rocket Man, Tiny Dancer, Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me, I’m Still Standing and Crocodile Rock. But there’s another side to Taupin’s artistry. In this scenario, he is both scribe and showman, a fact that’s unbeknownst to many fans. Those same fans also may be unaware he has released three solo albums—one in the early 70s and two in the 80s—and two albums with his own roots-rock band, Farm Dogs, which he formed in the mid-90s and took on the road in support of their two albums. While buzz builds on the next John project and Taupin’s potential contributions, the latter is more interested in discussing something more timely—his first solo project in nearly 40 years and, remarkably, the first album he has entirely self-written. Due out October 23 on Vertigo Records and MCA Nashville, The Sea Has No Mercy is a soaring collection that finds a contemplative Taupin distilling his lived experiences into 10 songs that each peel back the curtain and bring a unique perspective—sometimes hushed, sometimes joyful, sometimes elegiac. Featured guests include Brandi Carlile, Lee Ann Womack, and his daughter, Georgey, It’s a project Taupin says has been, quite literally, a lifetime in the making. “I’m 76, I’ve got a lifetime under my belt. You’re not as intuitive when you’re younger. That’s not an insult; it’s just a fact of life. I’ve needed my past to…

U.S.-Iran tensions have escalated again after American officials said Iran launched missiles at U.S. forces in the Middle East, ending a brief pause in direct fighting. President Donald Trump promised retaliation after the U.S. military said it intercepted a “surprise attack” on American forces. In televised comments, Trump said, “We are going to beat the f**king sh*t out of them,” as markets reacted to renewed war risks. U.S. and Saudi Forces Strike Iran-Backed Militias U.S. Central Command said American and Saudi forces carried out joint strikes against Iran-allied Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq. The group said at least 20 people were killed in the attacks. The strikes mark a new phase in the conflict because Saudi Arabia has largely avoided deeper direct involvement. The latest action places Riyadh closer to the military confrontation between Washington and Tehran-backed forces. A pro-Iranian militia coalition in Iraq later gave Baghdad an ultimatum to respond to the strikes. The group warned that it would act if the Iraqi government failed to take action. Iran also fired missiles at U.S. military sites in Jordan, widening the conflict beyond earlier fronts. Jordan’s military said it intercepted and brought down five missiles launched from Iran early Wednesday. The latest fighting follows the collapse of a ceasefire between the United States and Iran. Iran-linked groups across the region have since reopened old fronts and added pressure in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia. Oil Prices Rise as Shipping Routes Face Pressure Oil prices climbed after fighting resumed across the region, with Brent crude jumping 7.1% to $87.87 a barrel as traders assessed threats to energy shipments and regional supply routes. Shipping companies are also searching for alternative routes as maritime risks grow. Transits through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait have fallen sharply since a Houthi blockade against Saudi ports…

AUD/JPY trades around 113.60 on Wednesday at the time of writing, down 0.61% on the day, after weaker-than-expected Australian inflation data triggered broad selling pressure on the Australian Dollar (AUD). Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 3.8% YoY in June, down from 4% in May and below the market consensus of 4%. On a monthly basis, the CPI declined by 0.1%, marking a second consecutive monthly decrease. Meanwhile, the Trimmed Mean CPI, the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) preferred measure of underlying inflation, printed at 3.6% YoY, in line with the previous reading. The figures reinforced expectations that the RBA could keep interest rates unchanged at its upcoming meetings, with investors scaling back expectations for any additional rate hikes this year. This reassessment of the monetary policy outlook is weighing heavily on the Australian Dollar. At the same time, the Japanese Yen (JPY) is attracting renewed demand amid growing speculation that Japanese authorities could intervene in the foreign exchange market to support the domestic currency. These expectations are adding further downward pressure on AUD/JPY. However, the still wide interest rate differential between Japan and Australia continues to limit the Japanese Yen’s upside potential. Investors also remain cautious ahead of the Bank of Japan (BoJ) monetary policy decision scheduled for Friday, which could provide fresh clues about the timing of further policy normalization. Australian Dollar Price Today The table below shows the percentage change of Australian Dollar (AUD) against listed major currencies today. Australian Dollar was the strongest against the New Zealand Dollar. USD EUR GBP JPY CAD AUD NZD CHF USD -0.04% -0.06% -0.02% -0.10% 0.57% 0.25% 0.08% EUR 0.04% -0.02% 0.02% -0.07% 0.64% 0.27% 0.12% GBP 0.06% 0.02% 0.07% -0.03% 0.66% 0.31% 0.14% JPY 0.02% -0.02% -0.07% -0.08% 0.61%…

Ethereum’s [ETH] largest wallets redistributed 226,435 ETH, worth nearly $430 million, during the previous 24 hours. The move marked one of the biggest whale activity spikes recorded in recent weeks. Instead of triggering immediate panic, the market absorbed the transfers while the price remained above major support.  Large redistributions often reflect portfolio rebalancing rather than outright  capitulation, although they frequently raise concerns about future supply. Market participants closely watched whether those tokens reached exchanges or simply changed ownership between large holders.  Even with heightened whale activity, Ethereum avoided an aggressive breakdown. As a result, investors shifted their attention toward the broader market structure instead of reacting solely to the transaction size.  The focus now moves to whether buyers can preserve confidence and absorb any additional supply that could emerge during the coming sessions. Why did top ETH traders ignore whale selling? Binance’s Top Trader Long/Short Ratio continued favoring buyers despite the massive whale redistribution. At press time, long accounts represented 61.74% of positions, while shorts accounted for 38.26%, producing a 1.61 long-to-short ratio. Those figures showed experienced traders maintained bullish exposure instead of reducing risk after the whale transfers surfaced. Their positioning suggested expectations for higher prices remained intact despite elevated uncertainty.  Retail sentiment often weakens during large on-chain movements, yet professional traders frequently focus on broader market structure before adjusting leverage. Consequently, the futures market displayed resilience rather than fear.  The divergence between whale redistribution and derivatives positioning indicated that large traders still viewed the recent activity as manageable.  Source: CoinGlass ETH funding reflects steady bullish leverage Ethereum’s perpetual futures market maintained a positive bias throughout the observed period. At press time, Funding Rates climbed to approximately 0.007808, representing a 306.96% daily increase.  Positive funding indicated that long traders willingly paid premiums to keep bullish positions open. Such behavior generally reflected confidence instead of defensive positioning.  Rising funding…

EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY – JULY 19: U.S. President Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino hold the FIFA World Cup Winner’s Trophy before handing over to captain Rodri #16 of Spain at the award ceremony following the FIFA World Cup 2026 Final match between Spain and Argentina at New York New Jersey Stadium on July 19, 2026 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images) Getty Images FIFA President Gianni Infantino has never lacked ambition. During his decade as head of soccer’s world governing body, he has expanded the World Cup, created an enlarged Club World Cup, increased prize money and transformed FIFA into one of the wealthiest organizations in global sports. Now he is pursuing what could become the most consequential decision in FIFA’s history: Inviting private equity investors to own a stake in the commercial future of the World Cup. The plan, made public on Tuesday, goes beyond financial restructuring. It represents a fundamental debate over who should control the game’s most valuable tournament and whether FIFA is evolving from a nonprofit organizations into something resembling a multinational entertainment brand. The backlash has been swift. UEFA declared that “the World Cup is not FIFA’s to sell.” As a result, they have threatened to boycott the next World Cup in 2030. Other confederations have also publicly complained, including the AFC and CONCACAF. The speed and intensity of this resistance shows that many of world soccer’s power brokers view the plan as an existential challenge rather than merely another commercial initiative. At the heart of the proposal is a new subsidiary valued at $20 billion that would manage FIFA’s commercial rights. Private investors would own 20% of the venture, led initially by Thrive Capital (the investment firm founded by Joshua Kushner, the brother of President Donald Trump’s…

The dispute centers on whether developers should face criminal liability for crimes committed through software they build. Law enforcement groups backed by key Democrats have suggested some changes to the CLARITY Act that would make it easier to prosecute some crypto software developers. However, White House officials still feel like the suggestions made fall short of what they want. Trump’s Crypto Adviser Rejects Proposal Trump’s crypto adviser, Patrick Witt, dismissed the proposal, saying claims that they were the result of “productive negotiations” with the White House and Treasury were far from the truth. He added that the administration had made its position clear to Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto for weeks and that the latest revision was “not even close” to meeting its expectations. A report from Politico shows that two major groups representing U.S. prosecutors have submitted fresh changes to the White House, aiming to break months of deadlock over the CLARITY Act. “Newest language is the culmination of productive negotiations with law enforcement, the White House, and Treasury, and we feel good about the chance to resolve this issue once and for all,” said Masto in a statement. The proposal focuses on the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA), with the new language removing provisions that could protect developers from criminal prosecution in some cases. At the heart of the dispute is whether law enforcement should hold crypto developers responsible for crimes committed on the platforms they build. The Trump administration says that the authorities should protect builders who do not hold customer funds to encourage innovation. On the other side, critics and law enforcement groups disagree, warning that the current language could make it easier for financial crimes to go unchecked. New York Attorney General Letitia James also shares the sentiment, having recently said that the CLARITY Act…

Freehand has raised $75 million to expand AI agents that handle invoices, supplier negotiations, payments, and other supply-chain tasks for large companies. Summary Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners co-led the $75 million funding round. Freehand says its agents are deployed at Meta, Unilever, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson. Customers recovered 5% to 10% of spending in some categories, according to company data. The startup will expand beyond invoice management into broader supply-chain operations. Freehand secures $75 million from US investors Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners co-led the round, with Nexus Venture Partners and PSP Growth also participating. Former US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker runs PSP Growth. Freehand did not disclose the funding round’s valuation or specify whether it issued equity, debt, or another security. Battery Ventures general partner Dharmesh Thakker will join the startup’s board as part of the transaction. The funding follows Freehand’s emergence from stealth in February. The company says its software is already used by Meta, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Dunkin’, and Cardinal Health, although it has not disclosed the size or duration of those commercial agreements. Unilever confirmed it had adopted the technology for supply-chain work. “Freehand marks one of the first full-scale agentic deployments at Unilever,” Matt Algar, the company’s global vice-president of supply chain, said. Algar described the deployment as a shift “from software that assists to software that runs our supply chain.” How Freehand’s AI agents manage company spending Freehand focuses on the procure-to-pay process, beginning with invoices. Its AI agents can review contracts, negotiate supplier rates, identify overbilling, process payments, and reconcile transactions inside a customer’s enterprise resource planning system. These jobs have traditionally required a mix of legacy software and outsourced back-office teams. Freehand is betting that companies will increasingly use autonomous software to complete the work instead…

A forecast that broke while it was being written The Bank of Canada published the deliberations behind its July 15 hold this morning, roughly half an hour before the Federal Reserve (Fed) announces whether it does the same thing. USD/CAD has answered by doing nothing at all, holding a range of barely 30 pips just beneath 1.4100 and sitting a fraction lower on the day. The document is a careful account of a meeting the currency market moved past two weeks ago. Governing Council opened its policy meeting on July 7 and decided on July 15. Somewhere in between, by the record’s own admission, hostilities in the Middle East re-escalated and pushed global Crude Oil prices back up. Members logged the development, wrote down a path in which inflation eases to roughly 2.5% in the second half of the year on the assumption Crude Oil declines, and held at 2.25% anyway. The pledge attached to that path is the load-bearing part. Policymakers agreed to look through the direct effects of higher energy prices while promising a response if those effects broadened into other goods and services. That is a commitment in both directions, made conditional on a market that has since put Brent through a 16% three-session slide, the steepest such run since 2020, and a bounce of more than 4% on Wednesday. Both of the major risks have already fired The deliberations name two risks above the rest: upside inflation from the war, and downside growth from US trade policy. The second is described as an ever-present possibility of new American tariffs. Five days after the decision, the White House signed an order putting 50% duties on a range of Canadian goods, from wine and dairy through cement and furniture. Ottawa has answered by intensifying negotiations rather than retaliating…

The Premier League is the most heavily traded football league on earth, and the depth of markets on a single fixture reflects it. A platform “built for” Premier League betting is one that carries that depth, not just a match-result price but the dozens of markets that sit beneath it. This is a walkthrough of the Premier League market types a serious bettor uses, what each one is, and which crypto sportsbooks carry them with real depth. The fixture list is the same everywhere; the market depth is not. Depth Is What Separates a Football Book A casual bettor sees the match-result price and stops. A book built for the Premier League is judged on everything below that line, because that is where most of the betting actually happens. Depth means the number of distinct markets offered on one match, and on a big Premier League fixture the sharpest books price hundreds. The difference between a shallow book and a deep one is not the headline price, which is similar everywhere, but whether the market you want exists at all. The Core Markets Every Book Carries A handful of markets form the base layer, and any credible football book offers them. Match Result (1X2) is the home-draw-away market, the foundation price.  Double Chance lets you back two of those three outcomes at shorter odds, trading return for a wider margin of safety.  Both Teams to Score (BTTS) is a yes-or-no on both sides finding the net, popular because it ignores the result entirely.  Over/Under Goals prices the total goals against a line, usually 2.5, and is one of the most traded football markets anywhere.  These four cover most casual betting, and every platform worth using carries them.…

In brief MoonPay launched PayBox, a payment vault that lives inside Claude and ChatGPT and lets AI agents execute transactions. Wallet keys are protected by MPC and TEE cryptography, meaning no single party—not MoonPay and not the AI itself—can access a user’s funds or sign transactions alone. The product runs on technology from Sodot, the Israeli key management firm MoonPay acquired for roughly $100 million in April. MoonPay launched PayBox today—a payment vault that plugs into Claude and ChatGPT and lets AI agents, software programs that complete tasks autonomously on your behalf, to actually spend money for you. The mechanics are fairly straightforward. The vault acts as a secure digital safe that stores both crypto wallets and payment cards. You tell the chatbot what you want. The AI then lines up the transaction. You approve it with a passkey (a secure digital key stored on your phone or device, like Face ID for payments). The money then moves.  “The card hid the cash. The phone hid the card. This is the era where money disappears into conversation,” MoonPay CEO Ivan Soto-Wright said in a statement. “Billions of AI agents are coming online, and every one of them will need to hold, move, and spend money safely.” (Disclosure: MoonPay Ventures is an investor in Dastan, Decrypt’s parent company.) Until now, Claude and ChatGPT could research investments, compare flight prices, and plan purchases—but couldn’t complete them. You still had to open a browser, log into a payment service, and do the actual transaction yourself. PayBox aims to close that gap. First integrations live at launch: restaurant reservations, flight bookings, and shopping across major online retailers. Users can also swap tokens, bridge funds between blockchains, and route money into DeFi protocols like Aave. PayBox supports Solana and seven Ethereum-compatible chains (Ethereum itself,…

Los Angeles, CA – March 25: Los Angeles Dodgers chairman Mark Walter during a press conference announcing a new partnership between the Los Angeles Dodgers and UNIQLO at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (Photo by Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images) MediaNews Group via Getty Images The Los Angeles Dodgers have enjoyed unprecedented stability under Mark Walter’s ownership, building one of Major League Baseball’s premier organizations while consistently acquiring the best star talent and contending for three World Series championships in a row. But the club’s ownership group has recently found itself part of a broader public conversation extending well beyond baseball. And for at least one prominent fan and Los Angeles native, the ties between the team and Walter’s business practices have become too much to support. ForbesPhillies Expect To Cut Struggling Slugger At Trade Deadline, ‘Hasn’t Been As Good’By Peter Chawaga Grammy Award Winning Comedian, Actor George Lopez Walks Away From Los Angeles Dodgers Over Mark Walter’s Business Three-time Grammy Award winner George Lopez recently revealed that he decided to abandon a lifelong fandom of the Dodgers over Walter’s business history. “Mark Walter owns detention centers and runs them for profit,” Lopez said during an episode of “The Big Podcast” hosted by Shaquille O’Neal. “So, as soon as I found that out, I disassociated myself from the Dodgers and (Los Angeles) Lakers, unfortunately. I lost two teams in one week.” Walter, who also chairs the Lakers, is the CEO of asset manager Guggenheim Partners. He came under scrutiny last year for the firms’ ownership stake in GEO Group, a private prison company that operates detention facilities for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Walter’s ties to immigrant detention resulted in protests from members of the Los Angeles community, including many Dodgers…

Darius Baruo Jul 29, 2026 09:35 ALGO sits at $0.0798 beneath a wall of bearish moving averages while its spot market is practically comatose — but smart money in the futures arena is quietly stacking longs. A short-cover squeeze … ALGO’s Technical Reality Check The structure here isn’t ambiguous — it’s ugly. ALGO is trading below every meaningful moving average on the board: the 7, 20, 50, and 200-day are all stacked above price in a textbook bearish waterfall formation. That kind of alignment doesn’t unwind in a week. What the MACD tells you is that this isn’t a crash in progress — the histogram is sitting at dead zero, momentum neither accelerating to the downside nor flipping bullish. This is controlled, low-drama erosion, and that’s almost harder to trade than a spike down. What prevents this from being a clean, obvious short is what the oscillators are screaming beneath the surface. The Stochastic sits with %K at 18.87 and %D at 15.09 — deeply compressed, the kind of reading associated with reactive bounces even in sustained downtrends. RSI has drifted to 37, knocking on the door of oversold without quite breaking through. Meanwhile, Bollinger Band position shows price hugging or marginally breaching the lower band, with ATR so compressed it’s practically non-existent. This coil has to resolve directionally and soon. Blockchain.news has been tracking ALGO through its protracted multi-month decline, and the $0.078–$0.081 zone has now hardened into both a technical floor and the immediate line in the sand for near-term positioning. Volume & Price Alignment Spot volume on Binance over the last 24 hours came in at $1.66 million. That is not a liquid market — that’s a rounding error for a once-top-30 asset. When participation collapses this far on…

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh told markets on Wednesday to stop trading his intentions and start trading the data. Participants are learning to play the ball, not the referee, he said. The remark landed hours after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) held rates steady in a 9 to 3 vote. Warsh refused to call the outcome a pause. Why Warsh Told Markets to Play the Ball Warsh built his press conference around one message. Inflation sits above target, and the committee intends to bring it down. The FOMC statement kept the federal funds range at 3.50% to 3.75%. It carried no forward guidance, a clear break from the Jerome Powell era. Warsh also rejected the idea of a flexible goal. Five years of elevated prices, he argued, left an impression that the Fed quietly tolerated inflation above 2%. He played down the June core Consumer Price Index (CPI) print as well. The trend matters more than any single month, he said, and inflation cannot be cured in nine weeks. “We will deliver price stability,” Warsh assured. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch leaders and journalists provide expert insights That pledge arrived with a condition. Where necessary and appropriate, Warsh said, the committee will not hesitate to act. His tone marked a shift from his first FOMC presser in June, which pushed risk assets lower. How Bonds, SPY, and Bitcoin Responded Warsh flagged that nominal and real yields now sit materially higher across the Treasury curve. The Fed is trying to stay out of that repricing, he added, and let the market signal come through unfiltered. The 10-year Treasury yield eased to 4.620% after touching roughly 4.650% earlier in the session. Traders had spent the week weighing Fed rate hike odds before three dissenting Fed officials backed a quarter point…

The Mexican Peso loses ground against the US Dollar on Wednesday as risk appetite turns sour amid the escalation of the Gulf War, while traders await the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) monetary policy decision. The USD/MXN trades at 17.51, up 0.47%. USD/MXN rises as Middle East tensions boost Crude, revive Fed hike risks Sentiment deteriorated after Iran launched attacks on US assets in Jordan. The White House responded as US President Donald Trump said that talks with Iran will continue but added that “we’ll be hitting Iran hard.” The backdrop pushed Oil prices higher, with West Texas Intermediate, the US Crude benchmark, rising nearly 7% at $84.62. A scarce economic docket keeps traders laser-focused on the Fed’s monetary policy decision. The Fed is expected to keep rates unchanged due to softer June inflation data and a resilient labour market. However, Crude prices are almost 20% above June’s closing price, making it tougher to achieve back-to-back positive inflation readings. Analysts at Wells Fargo speculate that the Fed Chair Kevin Warsh could influence the board to delay rate hikes, as they assess incoming data. In the press conference, he could lay the ground for a possible interest rate increase for the September meeting. Money markets had priced in a 59% for a hold. However, the chances of a 25-basis-point rate hike are increasing to 41%, according to Prime Terminal data.  Following the Fed’s decision, the US calendar will be active, featuring the release of the final second-quarter GDP data and the Fed’s favored inflation indicator, the Core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index. Across the south of the border, Mexico’s docket was absent and light, though negotiations regarding the USMCA failed to provide certainty to the administration led by the Mexican President, Claudia Sheinbaum. Trump commented that he doesn’t care about the agreement,…

The post Tether USAT Launches on Celo Going Beyond Ethereum for First Time appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Tether is taking its GENIUS Act-compliant USAT stablecoin beyond Ethereum for the first time, and it has picked a network already seeing heavy stablecoin use. The launch on Celo could give USAT access to millions of users, easier fee payments and a faster route into everyday digital-dollar transactions. Why Tether Chose Celo for USAT Tether’s … Source: https://coinpedia.org/news/tether-usat-launches-on-celo-going-beyond-ethereum-for-first-time/

Polymarket and Kalshi secured multibillion-dollar backing as prediction markets expanded. Robinhood’s $5.77 billion figure reflects corporate financing, not chain-only funding. Funding totals mix equity, credit facilities, and commitments, limiting direct comparisons. A funding table from researcher 0xviet shows billions concentrating around platforms linking digital assets with mainstream finance. The ranking places Robinhood first at $5.77 billion, followed by Polymarket at $2.87 billion and Kalshi at $2.76 billion. Across 22 entries, the graphic lists about $17.27 billion for exchanges, wallets, payments, prediction markets, AI, and blockchain infrastructure. However, those totals combine equity rounds, corporate backing, structured facilities, and conditional commitments, complicating direct comparisons. Source: X Prediction Markets Secure the Largest Strategic Capital Deals Prediction markets account for two of the chart’s three largest totals, highlighting the substantial capital directed toward event-based platforms. In October 2025, for instance, Intercontinental Exchange agreed to invest up to $2 billion in Polymarket at an estimated pre-investment valuation of $8 billion. Kalshi followed a similar trajectory through several major rounds. The company secured $300 million at a $5 billion valuation in October 2025 before completing a $1 billion Series E in December. That round valued Kalshi at $11 billion. Five months later, the company announced a $1 billion Series F that doubled its valuation to $22 billion. Coatue led the latest financing, while Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Morgan Stanley also participated. Kalshi separately reported an 800% rise in institutional volume over six months. The 2026 FIFA World Cup later demonstrated the scale of activity across both platforms. Kalshi recorded approximately $27 billion in tournament-related volume and attracted around three million users. Combined World Cup contracts on Kalshi and Polymarket generated more than $29 billion in volume. Corporate Funding Distorts Comparisons Across Crypto Projects Meanwhile, Robinhood’s leading figure requires a different interpretation considering that Robinhood Chain…

Pizza Hut is embracing elements of its earlier identity, including its iconic red-roof aesthetic many consumers love and remember, reviving a familiar experience. getty The food & beverage industry has spent decades chasing the next big thing. Consumers are increasingly drawn to the last thing they trusted, forcing companies to rethink a core assumption: Innovation doesn’t always mean leaving the past behind. For years, nostalgia was a seasonal play. Brands brought back an old flavor, relaunched a retired package, generated a few headlines, and moved on. Today’s environment is different. Inflation, economic uncertainty, and an overwhelming number of choices have made familiarity a business asset, not merely a nice-to-have. Consumers aren’t rejecting new ideas. They’re rejecting unfamiliar ones that lack meaning. Recent consumer sentiment research from McKinsey continues to show shoppers balancing caution with value-seeking behaviors, creating advantages for brands that already have consumer trust. The companies gaining traction understand that trust travels faster than novelty. Instead of asking consumers to abandon what they know, they’re building on what shoppers already value. The shortest path to a purchase is often through a memory. Familiarity Wins The rise of “grandmacore,” highlighted by Food Institute, demonstrates a broader desire for comfort and emotional reassurance. In a crowded marketplace, familiar products often require less explanation and persuasion. Food and beverage companies view heritage as a liability. Older brands can appear dated or overly reliant on legacy consumers. In reality, heritage may be one of the industry’s most difficult competitive advantages to replicate. Competitors can copy ingredients, packaging, or pricing, but they can’t easily recreate decades of emotional connection. The strongest brands understand the difference between preserving the past and activating it. They don’t rely on nostalgia alone; they use familiarity as a springboard for future relevance. Why Nostalgia Strategy Pays Few companies illustrate…

Three things are hitting crypto at once today, and they are pulling in different directions. The Federal Reserve announces its decision this afternoon with a real chance of a rate hike, the SEC chairman just publicly backed the crypto bill the Senate keeps delaying, and a chip breakthrough in China knocked Asian markets sideways overnight. Here is the full picture, what each one means, and the levels that matter into the close. Bitcoin is trading near $64,200 on July 29, 2026, having reclaimed the $63,000 level after a rough Tuesday, while Ethereum holds near $1,920 (live prices on CoinGecko). Bitcoin dominance sits around 59%, and the market is in a holding pattern ahead of the afternoon’s main event. Trading has been thin, positioning cautious, and the whole market is waiting. Here is everything moving crypto today. 1. The Fed decides this afternoon The FOMC announces its rate decision at 2:00 p.m. ET today, followed by Chair Kevin Warsh’s press conference at 30 minutes later. This is his second meeting since scrapping forward guidance in June. The important detail: a hold is expected but not guaranteed. Market pricing puts roughly 70% odds on rates staying at 3.50% to 3.75%, leaving close to 30% odds of a quarter-point hike. That is an unusually high hike probability for a meeting the market calls a hold, and it explains the caution. For context, hike odds touched 36% earlier this week. What each outcome likely means: a hold with cautious inflation language could push Bitcoin back toward the $66,000 to $68,000 zone. A hawkish surprise, either an actual hike or language pointing to one in September, would likely send it toward $61,000 or lower. The next FOMC meeting is not until September, so today’s tone sets the macro backdrop for the rest of the summer.…

Gold surged following the Federal Reserve’s decision to keep the benchmark interest rate unchanged at 3.50%-3.75%. Policymakers noted that inflation remains elevated and that economic activity is expanding at a solid pace despite elevated uncertainty, spurring doubts about a rate hike in September. XAU/USD peaked above $4,100, now battling to retain the level. Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/united-states-fed-interest-rate-decision-meets-expectations-375-202607291800

XRP‘s landscape has experienced significant turbulence, reflected by its gradual price descent from $1.30 toward the critical $1 mark. Recently touching annual lows, the digital asset’s divergence from anticipated paths has stirred unease among many market participants. Continue Reading:XRP Faces Uncertain Future with Potential Downward Trends Source: https://en.bitcoinhaber.net/xrp-faces-uncertain-future-with-potential-downward-trends

Topline The Federal Trade Commission, California and Utah have sued telehealth platform Hims & Hers Health for allegedly charging patients for prescription subscriptions without their consent and secretly sharing their sensitive health information with tech companies including Meta and Snap. A smartphone displays the logo of Hims & Hers Health, Inc. Getty Images Key Facts The federal complaint, filed in the Northern District of California Wednesday, alleges the company violated the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act by charging consumers for prescription subscriptions without their knowledge, making those subscriptions difficult to cancel and misleading users about the privacy of their health data. The complaint alleges Hims & Hers advertised “free” consultations and displayed “Pay $0 today” on its intake forms, then charged patients and enrolled them in recurring subscriptions as soon as a provider wrote a prescription—without giving them the chance to review or decline the treatment. Customer complaints cited in the lawsuit include one person who said they were charged $897 before ever speaking to a healthcare professional and another who said they were charged $147 for a three-month supply of Lexapro after saying they were “open to” medication on an intake form. Once a patient was charged for a prescription, the company made cancellation deliberately difficult, the lawsuit claims, burying the option behind an “Add/remove items from order” button that never used the word “cancel.” Regulators allege Hims & Hers advertised monthly or quarterly refill schedules but actually processed refill charges 10 days earlier than consumers would reasonably expect, and customers had to cancel two days before that early processing date, making it easy to miss the deadline. The company is also accused of sharing patients’ sensitive health information—including conditions like erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation and hair loss—with advertising platforms despite promising users the service…

Bitcoin was trading higher on Wednesday — but only slightly — after the Federal Reserve decided to keep interest rates still.  The leading cryptocurrency was recently priced at close to $64,402 per coin, after moving up by nearly 1% in the hour following the announcement.  As expected, the U.S. central bank left the federal funds rate in the 3.50%-3.75% range. Three of the 12 members of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee “preferred” a quarter-percentage-point hike at this meeting.  Speaking to the press following the announcement, the Fed’s new Chair, Kevin Warsh, revealed little about where the central bank would go next.  “The Fed’s on the case,” he said. “I’ve been heartened by the reception I’ve received. We’re committed as ever to deliver.”  He added that the July rate decision was “a rigorous review of the economic situation.” “I wouldn’t characterize what we did as anything like a pause,” he said. “I would characterize what we did as a rigorous review of the economic situation. I would characterize what we did as a review of the big, hard questions.” Warsh, who took over in May, has said he has “no tolerance” for inflation that has been running above the central bank’s target for more than five years. Bitcoin has typically performed well in a low-interest rate environment, and crypto investors have been hoping the Federal Reserve would cut rates to boost digital assets.  President Donald Trump since taking office has pushed for lower interest rates, and clashed with ex-Fed chair Jerome Powell over the matter.  For now, Warsh doesn’t seem like he’ll be going in that direction as sticky inflation continues to bother Americans.  The Federal Reserve started aggressively raising rates in 2022 in a bid to control 40-year-high inflation spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Bitcoin was hit by the…

The Federal Reserve held its target range at 3.50% to 3.75% at 18:00 GMT on a 9-3 vote, with three voting members preferring an immediate quarter-point increase, and USD/CAD fell out of a session-long range to print its low just beneath 1.4050. The Canadian half of the day, a Summary of Deliberations at 17:30 GMT, produced nothing at all. Only half of the gap moves The standing case for this rate is that it trades the expected policy gap rather than the posted one, and the calendar rarely offers a cleaner demonstration than this. Both central banks were in play inside a single hour. The Canadian document landed at 17:30 GMT into a rate sitting near the 1.4100 handle and left it exactly there, unmoved. Thirty minutes later the American decision took roughly 60 pips out of it. A December Bank of Canada increase has been the priced base case since the mid-July captures, so the Canadian leg of the expected gap has not shifted in a fortnight. Every basis point of movement in the spread has come from the side of the border that just cut its own hike odds. The Federal Reserve flattened its own path At least one increase by 16 September now prices near 64% against roughly 80% on the captures taken before the meeting, with October near 75% and December near 85%. The probability of at least two increases by 9 December has fallen to roughly 42% from 57%, and the most likely December outcome is one step rather than two. That is a meaningful narrowing of the expected gap from the American side. It happened on a day the committee produced its first three dissents of this chairmanship and a statement that scored well above its own running average on the hawkish measure. The…

Binance will launch USDT-settled options on gold and silver through its Abu Dhabi-regulated exchange, expanding its lineup of traditional financial products alongside cryptocurrencies. The contracts will be listed through Nest Exchange Limited, Binance’s Abu Dhabi Global Market-regulated Recognized Investment Exchange (ADGM). The options allow traders to gain exposure to movements in gold and silver prices without taking delivery of the underlying metals.  Retail users will only be able to buy options, while eligible institutional users and liquidity providers can also write contracts. According to Binance, restricting retail users to buying options limits downside risk to the premium paid, while eligible institutional participants can write options to collect premiums. The launch builds on Binance’s gold and silver perpetual futures, introduced in January, as the exchange expands regulated access to traditional assets through crypto-native trading products. Related: Goldman Sachs cuts year-end gold target by $500, doubting rate cuts Crypto firms expand commodity offerings Binance’s new options add to a growing range of commodity-linked crypto products. While the exchange is offering derivatives tied to gold and silver prices, companies such as Tether and Paxos have focused on tokenizing physical bullion. Tether’s XAUt, which represents one troy ounce of gold stored in Swiss vaults, recently received Shariah certification from Amanah Advisors, a move aimed at expanding adoption among Islamic financial institutions. Earlier this month, ADGM also recognized XAUt as an accepted spot commodity, allowing regulated firms to offer services tied to the tokenized gold asset. According to RWA.xyz, the tokenized commodities sector has grown to about $4.56 billion in distributed value, with Tether Gold and Paxos Gold accounting for more than 90% of the market. Tokenized commodities. Source: RWA.xyz Magazine: The 100x obsession: Fundamentals grow in importance as crypto matures Cointelegraph is committed to independent, transparent journalism. This news article is produced in accordance…

Raphael Zagury, the newly appointed CEO of Bitcoin-focused public company Twenty One Capital, says the premium-funded model behind Bitcoin treasury firms cannot provide easy returns forever. His answer is to build cash-generating businesses around the company’s BTC balance sheet. In a July 22 fireside chat furnished to the SEC, Zagury described issuing shares above the net asset value of a company’s Bitcoin holdings and using the proceeds to buy more BTC as a temporary market dislocation. As more companies copy the strategy, he said, their market-value premiums should converge toward 1x. “There’s no free money forever,” Zagury said. The premium could return, he added, but it should not remain the only source of shareholder returns. Related Reading Bitcoin collapse sends BTC treasuries $10B underwater as one major firm braces for a $27B disaster For a moment, Michael Saylor was $11 billion underwater on his Strategy Bitcoin investment, and the pain is not over yet. Feb 6, 2026 · Gino Matos Twenty One had already outlined an operating-company model in May. Its refreshed priorities now include buying or building operating businesses, expanding capital-markets capabilities, developing Bitcoin-backed financial products and creating a Bitcoin-native lending platform. Prospective acquisitions must be accretive when measured against Bitcoin. The shift coincides with a leadership reset. Zagury became CEO effective July 20 after Jack Mallers resigned as chief executive and director. The company said Mallers’ exit was unrelated to any disagreement and that he would focus on Strike. Twenty One is no longer pursuing a combination with Strike. Zagury used mining to illustrate the proposed return engine. He compared its potential cash generation with the role insurance played in Berkshire Hathaway’s capital-allocation model, supplying funds that could be reinvested across a portfolio. He also said Twenty One had not yet built such a model and that execution…

Topline The Federal Reserve on Wednesday voted to keep interest rates unchanged, even as central bank officials appear divided over how to approach policy amid persistent inflation concerns. The central bank appeared divided over future interest rate moves in its previous meeting. Getty Images Key Facts The Federal Open Market Committee voted 9-3 to hold interest rates between 3.5% and 3.75%, with Dallas Fed president Lorie Logan, Minneapolis Fed president Neel Kashkari and Cleveland Fed president Beth Hammack each dissenting. That marks a reversal from last month’s unanimous vote to keep interest rates within their current range. The FOMC’s statement—nearly identical to its June release, which was about one-third the length of announcements under former Fed Chair Jerome Powell—appeared upbeat about the economy, noting activity was “expanding at a solid pace” despite conflict in the Middle East, and that “job gains have kept pace with the workforce.” what has kevin warsh said about interest rates? Warsh, who has been noncommittal on the near-term path of interest rates, said central bank officials have “no tolerance for persistently elevated inflation.” He said the Fed has a “resolute commitment to restoring price stability” and said getting inflation under control is its foremost objective. Other Fed officials have leaned toward raising rates: Logan earlier this month said she believed interest rates should be “modestly” higher, while Hammack, Kashkari and Fed Governor Christopher Waller have each signaled support for tighter monetary policy ahead of Wednesday’s vote. There appeared to be division over how the central bank’s policy rate shifted through the year, as “many” participants in the FOMC’s June meeting said interest rates would be “within or slightly below” their current range by the end of the year, even as “many other” participants assessed that interest rates would be higher. will the federal reserve cut…

Key Highlights PayBox integrates payment functionality directly into ChatGPT and Claude conversations. Every transaction requires passkey authentication or follows user-configured autonomous parameters. The platform facilitates cryptocurrency swaps, DeFi operations, travel reservations, and e-commerce transactions. Multi-party computation and secure enclaves ensure no single entity controls wallet credentials. Initial deployment covers Solana and leading EVM-compatible chains with expansion roadmap underway. MoonPay has unveiled PayBox, a secure payment infrastructure that bridges AI conversational platforms ChatGPT and Claude with financial services. This new system enables users to execute transactions, cryptocurrency operations, and service bookings directly from chat interfaces while maintaining comprehensive security oversight through passkey authentication and customizable transaction parameters. Seamless Integration Between AI Assistants and Financial Services PayBox functions as a custom plugin within ChatGPT and Claude environments. After installing the connector, users establish their account credentials, configure passkey authentication, and link their preferred wallet or payment card. MoonPay mandates identity verification procedures when users deposit funds via connected card accounts. The platform accommodates various financial activities including cryptocurrency acquisitions, digital asset exchanges, token transfers, and decentralized finance protocols. Beyond crypto operations, it processes travel arrangements, dining reservations, and transactions with integrated e-commerce merchants. Users initiate all actions through natural language commands within their AI assistant interface. Once receiving instructions, the AI assistant evaluates available options and constructs the appropriate payment or blockchain operation. By default, users must verify each action through passkey authentication. For greater convenience, autonomous operation modes permit transactions within predefined thresholds established by the account owner. Advanced Security Through Distributed Key Management PayBox safeguards sensitive payment information by preventing AI assistants from accessing complete card details or wallet private keys. MoonPay employs multi-party computation alongside trusted execution environments to distribute wallet key management. This architecture ensures no individual component possesses sufficient authority to independently execute transfers or access funds.…

Bitcoin price has climbed toward $64,400 after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged at the end of its July policy meeting. The central bank held its benchmark rate at 3.50% to 3.75%, extending its pause for a fifth straight meeting. Fed Keeps Rates Unchanged After Split Vote The Federal Open Market Committee voted 9-3 to keep rates steady after its July 28–29 meeting. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan, and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack dissented. The three officials preferred a 25-basis-point rate increase, showing that inflation concerns remain active inside the central bank. The split decision also marked a more hawkish outcome than a unanimous hold. The Fed said economic activity continued to expand at a “solid pace,” while job gains had “kept pace with the workforce.” The policy statement also said inflation remains above the central bank’s 2% target. Officials repeated that the “committee will deliver price stability,” keeping attention on future rate decisions. The statement suggested policymakers are not ready to ease policy while inflation risks remain present. Inflation and Oil Prices Keep Pressure on Fed The Fed’s decision came as renewed Middle East tensions pushed oil prices higher again. Higher energy prices can raise inflation pressure if transport, fuel, and production costs feed into broader prices. The latest inflation data gave policymakers some relief before the meeting. June core consumer prices slowed to 2.6% from 2.9% in May, while headline inflation fell to 3.5% from 4.2%. A near 10% drop in gasoline prices helped pull headline inflation lower during June. However, the recent rebound in oil prices has renewed questions about whether that decline can continue. Several Fed officials had signaled before the meeting that they supported holding rates steady. Fed Governors Lisa Cook, Chris Waller, and Philip Jefferson had favored…

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – SEPTEMBER 04: Anthropic Co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei speaks at the “How AI Will Transform Business in the Next 18 Months” panel during INBOUND 2025 Powered by HubSpot at Moscone Center on September 04, 2025 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Chance Yeh/Getty Images for HubSpot) Getty Images for HubSpot In business, everyone’s spying on everyone else. Cars instruct. Manufacturers road test future models with camouflage, padding, and thick tape. Of course, it’s all for naught once the car is released. Once on the market, it’s subsequently being taken apart by the competition. Technology is no different. If anything, globalized efforts to figure out what the competition is doing are even more evident. And for obvious reasons. See the valuations placed on top technology corporations like Nvidia. Sure enough, longtime Nvidia employee Dwight Diercks told The Thinking Machine (a history of Nvidia) author Stephen Witt that “Everyone takes a look at their competitors’ hardware and how it works.” Of course they do. And it’s happening right now. Export controls or none, the competition is privy to what’s being produced stateside. While U.S. technology companies can control whom they sell their products to, and in ways that theoretically please invariably backward-looking politicians embracing export controls, there’s no controlling the final destination of any market good. If you’re producing in the “closed” economy that is the world economy, you’re trading with everyone, including with the competition. This is worth remembering as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claims that China “cannot” overtake the U.S. in the artificial intelligence (AI) space without American chips. The view is already being disproven. For evidence, see the CSI Information Technology Index which tracks technology companies in mainland China. The Index is up 53% over the past year largely thanks to big leaps in domestic…

Your friend swears his new AI bot “prints” on alt pairs while he sleeps. The next morning he’s staring at a red PnL and a pile of taker fees. If you’ve been around crypto long enough, you’ve seen this movie. Smart code. Dumb market. AI trading agents are having a moment again. Demos look slick. Chat prompts spin up strategies in minutes. But when you push them into real markets with slippage, fees, and spiky liquidity, the story changes fast. So let’s strip it down. What these agents do well, where they break, and how to use them without torching your stack. AI is seeping into the trading stack. Not just for signals, but for research, code scaffolding, execution hints, and compliance monitoring. Still, full end-to-end autonomy remains the exception, not the rule. In its July 2026 Financial Stability Report, the Bank of England flagged a simple reality: firms are mostly pointing AI at lower risk work today – research, coding support, surveillance – rather than letting it fully run portfolios (Bank of England — Financial Stability Report). Most live stacks are “AI-assisted” rather than “AI-directed.” The human remains the portfolio manager. The agent is a tool, not a boss. That balance exists for a reason. Crypto’s microstructure is hostile to naive automation. Latency games, fee drag, fragmented liquidity, and sudden regime shifts punish models that look great on static charts. Meanwhile, audits keep finding edge cases that push agents off the rails. What an AI trading agent actually does today Forget the hype. A practical crypto agent is a pipeline: pull data, generate a view, place or adjust orders, and watch risk. Most “AI” in the wild is a glue layer that speeds up these steps and keeps them in sync. Data and signals Agents ingest market…

Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies barely moved after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged, suggesting traders had largely prepared for the decision. Summary Bitcoin traded near $64,100, gaining only 0.3% over the previous 24 hours. Gold and silver ETF proxies rose 1.25% and 2.52%, respectively. Crypto-linked stocks diverged as Strategy gained 2%, while major Bitcoin miners fell about 6%. The CLARITY Act’s 28% passage odds make U.S. crypto policy the next industry-specific catalyst. Fed keeps interest rates unchanged Federal Reserve officials maintained the federal funds rate at between 3.5% and 3.75% following Chair Kevin Warsh’s second Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Policymakers voted 9–3 for the decision, with the presidents of the Cleveland, Dallas and Minneapolis regional Federal Reserve banks preferring a quarter-point increase. Markets had assigned roughly a one-in-three chance to a hike before the announcement. The Fed described economic activity as “expanding at a solid pace,” citing stable unemployment and job growth that has broadly kept up with changes in the workforce. However, it also acknowledged that inflation remained above its 2% target. Warsh has avoided giving detailed guidance on future policy and has instead focused on current economic data. He has also created five task forces to examine the Fed’s communications, balance sheet, inflation framework, productivity, and labor-market analysis. The widely expected hold removed the immediate risk of a surprise hike. However, the three dissents and persistent inflation mean uncertainty has shifted toward the September meeting rather than disappeared. Bitcoin and top cryptocurrencies barely move Bitcoin traded at about $64,129 after the announcement, up only 0.3% over 24 hours, according to CoinGecko. Ethereum changed hands near $1,911 after gaining 0.6%. Other large cryptocurrencies also recorded limited moves. BNB rose 0.4%, XRP gained 1.3%, Solana advanced 0.9%, and TRON added 0.6%. Hyperliquid and Dogecoin were up 1.4%…

Scotiabank strategists Shaun Osborne and Eric Theoret highlight that GBP/USD is flat around 1.33, supported by stronger United Kingdom (UK) lending data and stabilizing Bank of England (BoE) expectations. They stress that UK fiscal narratives remain important for sentiment toward government debt. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is expected to deliver a hawkish hold at 3.75%, while technically the British Pound (GBP) trades in a June range between 1.3150 and 1.3550, with near‑term moves seen between 1.3250 and 1.3350. Hawkish BoE hold risk within tight range “The pound is also quiet and also entering Wednesday’s NA session flat vs. the USD as it also consolidates within a remarkably tight range—around 1.33. The fundamental release calendar has included the latest lending and money supply data, offering a notable beat on both mortgage approvals and a sizeable jump in lending.” “Domestic political developments have been limited however UK media continue to focus PM Burnham’s fiscally-motivated plans for welfare reform.” “The narrative is important, as the UK remains vulnerable to sentiment toward its government debt market. As with EUR (and ECB), BoE rate expectations are showing signs of stabilization and offering some modest support to the GBP via yield spreads.” “Policy risk is elevated over the next 24 hours as we look to the 2pm ET FOMC and Thursday’s BoE—where the MPC is expected to deliver a hawkish hold at 3.75%.” “Bearish/neutral—the RSI is showing signs of stabilization in the lower 40s, implying modest bearish momentum below the neutral threshold at 50. The local range from June is bound between support near 1.3150 and resistance closer to 1.3550. We remain neutral absent a break of the range, and see near-term movement bound between 1.3250 and 1.3350. “ (This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an…

Lawrence Jengar Jul 29, 2026 09:26 INJ is plastered against its lower Bollinger Band at $4.60 with 61% of retail traders net short and stochastic buried in oversold — a violent snap to $5.00+ is plausible within days, but a single d… Market Context: Why INJ Is at a Crossroads Right Now INJ has been grinding lower in a slow bleed that tells a clear story: sellers have controlled the tape, and buyers have been conspicuously absent. Every meaningful moving average — the 7-day, the 20-day, the 50-day — is stacked above current price, forming a descending ceiling that has capped every bounce attempt. The one piece of structural goodwill left is the 200-day SMA at $4.14, which sits roughly 10% below spot and represents the last meaningful long-term anchor before this trade becomes a genuine rout. The macro backdrop for DeFi-native L1s like INJ is caught between two competing forces right now: a broader market that has been selectively rewarding high-throughput chains with real trading volume, and a risk-off rotation away from mid-cap altcoins that lack a near-term narrative catalyst. INJ sits squarely in that uncomfortable middle ground. Spot volume on Binance at just over $4 million in 24 hours is thin — almost anemic — which means any directional move will be amplified. As Blockchain.news has covered, DeFi infrastructure projects in this cycle live and die by orderbook liquidity and on-chain activity momentum, and right now INJ’s tape is whispering, not shouting. Indicator Alignment: The Technicals Tell a Story of Exhausted Sellers Here’s where it gets interesting. Yes, momentum is unambiguously bearish on a trend basis — price is below every short-term average and the MACD is in negative territory. But the rate of deterioration has stalled. The histogram has…

Topline Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., threatened to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after the infectious disease expert declined to answer questions during an hours-long hearing before a Senate committee Wednesday morning, choosing to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights. Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before a Senate committee Wednesday morning. (Photo by Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Key Facts Paul, chair of the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, said at the conclusion of Fauci’s testimony the committee will vote next week on whether to hold him in contempt of Congress for declining to answer questions. After making a brief opening statement in which he accused Paul of an “unhinged obsession with me,” Fauci did not answer any questions during the hearing, citing his Fifth Amendment right. Paul warned Fauci during the hearing it is “against the law to obstruct an investigation of Congress” and suggested he could face “repercussions” for refusing to testify. Paul argued Fauci’s pardon by former President Joe Biden precludes him from invoking the Fifth Amendment, but acknowledged whether he has that right is a “legal question that the courts may have to decide.” Fauci’s refusal to answer questions sparked outrage among Republicans, including Florida’s attorney general James Uthmeier, who said in a post on X his office would investigate Fauci, whose “lack of candor to Congress is unbelievable.” Read Fauci’s Entire Opening Statement “Mr. Chairman, ranking member Peters, members of the committee. I served at the [National Institutes of Health] for over 54 years, 38 of those as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Over that period, I proved that I believe in, and respect, the value of legitimate congressional oversight. In fact, I testified before, and/or briefed, Senate and House committees well…

The post Will Q3 Finally Change NEAR Price Trend? appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News The NEAR price hasn’t enjoyed the same momentum as its ecosystem. After peaking at $3.05 in early June, the token slipped below $2.00 by late July, reflecting broader crypto market weakness rather than a lack of protocol development. As August approaches, the market remains cautious, with downside pressure still dominating sentiment. That’s the frustrating part … Source: https://coinpedia.org/price-analysis/will-q3-finally-change-near-price-trend/

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 600 points Wednesday morning as selling accelerated across Wall Street. The S&P 500 fell about 0.4%, while the Nasdaq Composite also moved lower. A market screenshot taken at 10:18 a.m. ET showed the Nasdaq at 24,667.02, roughly 0.8% below Tuesday’s close. The move was much sharper than the opening suggested. The Dow began the session only 73 points lower at 52,674.21, while the S&P 500 opened down 0.14% at 7,418.16. The widening losses showed that investors became more defensive after the bell as geopolitical headlines, weakness in major stocks and concerns about interest rates hit the market at the same time. The supplied 30-minute E-mini Dow futures chart captured that acceleration. Futures fell from around 52,800 to 52,138 through a series of large red candles, with little evidence of sustained buying during the decline. The contract is not the cash Dow Jones index, but it clearly reflects the same increase in selling pressure. E-mini Dow Jones Futures Selloff  Source: @KobeissiLetter Procter & Gamble and Sherwin-Williams were among the Dow’s largest drags. At one stage, declines in the two stocks accounted for about 94 points of the index’s loss, while Goldman Sachs, Caterpillar and Boeing also traded lower. The weakness reversed part of Tuesday’s 537-point Dow rally. S&P 500 returns to important technical support The daily S&P 500 chart shows the index consolidating inside a tightening triangle after failing to extend its June rally. Price has returned to the rising lower boundary near 7,400, making that area the first level buyers need to defend. A recovery above 7,500 would ease immediate pressure, while a daily close below 7,400 would weaken the pattern and expose the lower part of the recent trading range. S&P 500 Tests 7,400 Support Source: @CDamestoy The Nasdaq’s decline added…

I’ve let AI agents handle plenty of things that mattered to me, my inbox, my calendar, code running in production but handing an agent access to my Core Wallet? That’s a different kind of trust, and it’s exactly what Core built its two newest updates around: Core MCP: Lets your AI agent execute wallet actions inside spending limits you set yourself. Redesigned Staking Flow: Gets you earning yield on AVAX in under a minute without validator research paralysis. If you’ve been curious about letting AI near your money, or if you’ve been putting off staking because it felt like homework, these updates address that exact hesitation head-on. The Problem With Agents and Wallets Until Now Here’s the bind I kept running into whenever I tried connecting an agent to a wallet: I was handed one of two bad options, and neither one gave me real authority. Option A (No Safety Net): The agent signs transactions freely with no ceiling on what it can move. You’re simply trusting its judgment with your actual money. Option B (Hidden Rules): Safety guardrails exist, but they’re buried deep in developer code you never see, can’t edit, and definitely didn’t write. If either of those made you uneasy, you weren’t overreacting, you were noticing something real. Neither setup gave you control; it just decided who else got it instead of you. Core built MCP because that gap needed closing, not smoothing over. How the Guardrails Actually Work Here is what changes when you hand execution over to Core MCP: Direct Limits: You set your own spend limits directly inside the Core app, not in a complex config file or a obscure developer dashboard. Execution-Layer Enforcement: Your agent operates strictly inside whatever boundary you’ve drawn. Core enforces that boundary at the exact moment a transaction would…

A persistent puzzle of the current cycle has been Bitcoin’s inability to sustain a rally even as central bank balance sheets expand. The usual playbook says loose monetary policy pushes excess cash into scarce assets. Yet the move hasn’t materialized in crypto markets, and a June 2026 interview with Arthur Hayes—archived and recirculating this week—places the blame squarely on artificial intelligence. According to the discussion shared by WuBlockchain, AI capex is now the main competitor for the same marginal dollar that once found its way into digital assets. Hayes told Bonnie Blockchain that investors are chasing AI tech equities and the supply chains behind them, leaving Bitcoin and the broader crypto complex starved of speculative inflows. The capital that would normally rotate into crypto during a money‑printing cycle is instead flowing toward semiconductor manufacturers, cloud infrastructure, and AI startups. Newly wealthy individuals from the AI boom are plowing their gains into hard assets like real estate or diversifying into Nasdaq‑listed stocks, not into Bitcoin. In a market where narrative and liquidity direction matter, the AI trade has simply become the higher‑conviction bet. The Liquidity Trap of a 24/7 Market The most uncomfortable part of Hayes’s view is what happens if AI equities crack. Because crypto markets never close and offer instant settlement, they become the go‑to source of emergency cash during a stock sell‑off. Traders facing margin calls would be forced to dump liquid digital assets first—not because the fundamentals have changed, but because the infrastructure allows it. Hayes expects Bitcoin and other tokens to tumble in tandem with a deflating AI bubble before any eventual sorting‑out. That forced‑selling dynamic is not theoretical. It mirrors past episodes where cross‑asset liquidation cascades swept through crypto in moments of broader market stress, often compressing prices far beyond what on‑chain data would suggest…

Anthropic’s Claude found new flaws in HAWK and a reduced version of AES. Anthropic says the findings do not affect today’s production systems. Samson Mow warns against rushing Bitcoin into post-quantum signatures. Anthropic says its latest AI model has uncovered new weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms that had survived years of expert review. The findings do not put today’s internet users at risk, but they show that advanced AI is becoming capable of discovering flaws that human researchers previously missed. The announcement also drew a response from JAN3 CEO Samson Mow, who said the research supports his long-standing view that Bitcoin should move cautiously when adopting post-quantum cryptography. Claude Finds New Weaknesses in HAWK and AES Anthropic said its Claude Mythos Preview model discovered improved attacks against two widely studied cryptographic systems. The first involved HAWK, a post-quantum digital signature scheme currently being evaluated as part of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standardization process. HAWK was designed to remain secure against future quantum computers and had already passed two years of expert review. Working largely on its own, Claude found a previously unknown mathematical symmetry in HAWK after about 60 hours of research. The discovery reduced the estimated work needed to recover the smallest HAWK key from 2^64 operations to 2^38, roughly 67 million times less computation than previously believed. Anthropic said the practical fix would be to double HAWK’s key size. However, that change would remove many of the efficiency advantages that made HAWK an attractive post-quantum candidate. The second result involved AES, the Advanced Encryption Standard that has protected internet traffic since 2001. Anthropic added that Claude did not break the full AES algorithm. Instead, it found a new attack against a weakened seven-round version of AES-128, while the production version uses ten rounds. Claude…

Silver (XAG/USD) trades around $56.90 on Wednesday at the time of writing, down 0.43% on the day. Price action remains cautious as investors avoid taking large directional positions ahead of the Federal Reserve (Fed) monetary policy announcement. The Fed is widely expected to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged within the 3.5%-3.75% range for a fifth consecutive meeting. Nevertheless, futures markets continue to price in roughly a one-in-three chance of a 25 basis-point rate hike, highlighting persistent uncertainty over the US inflation outlook. The main focus will be on Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s press conference for clues about the future path of monetary policy. Any indication that policymakers remain concerned about inflation or are prepared to tighten policy further would likely support the US Dollar (USD), limiting the appeal of non-yielding assets such as Silver. Meanwhile, geopolitical tensions remain elevated after United States (US) President Donald Trump said Washington would carry out further strikes against Iran following attacks targeting US positions in Jordan, according to Reuters. The escalation has supported Oil prices and reinforced concerns that higher energy costs could keep inflation elevated, strengthening the case for the Fed to maintain restrictive monetary policy for longer. Although geopolitical uncertainty would normally boost demand for safe-haven assets, markets are currently focusing on its inflationary implications. Higher inflation expectations could encourage future monetary tightening, limiting Silver’s upside. Silver FAQs Silver is a precious metal highly traded among investors. It has been historically used as a store of value and a medium of exchange. Although less popular than Gold, traders may turn to Silver to diversify their investment portfolio, for its intrinsic value or as a potential hedge during high-inflation periods. Investors can buy physical Silver, in coins or in bars, or trade it through vehicles such as Exchange Traded Funds, which track…

Ethereum has long served as the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi), but as the crypto landscape evolves, new opportunities are emerging outside its foundational layer. The sector of perpetual futures trading, also called “perps,” is finding fresher pastures on alternative networks, highlighting a shift in their developmental focus. Continue Reading:Ethereum Adapts as New Crypto Pathways Expand Across Layer-2 Networks Source: https://en.bitcoinhaber.net/ethereum-adapts-as-new-crypto-pathways-expand-across-layer-2-networks

In brief The Federal Reserve held its benchmark rate at 3.5%–3.75% on Wednesday. Bitcoin and Ethereum both dipped slightly shortly after the 2 p.m. ET announcement. No updated rate projections were released—the Fed’s next dot plot, which maps where policymakers expect rates to go, is scheduled for September. The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady at 3.5%–3.75% on Wednesday, meeting near-universal market expectations and leaving crypto markets to digest a muted response—even as equities sold off on a combination of hawkish dissent and a geopolitical shock. The price of Bitcoin dipped around 1% to $63,890 following the Fed’s announcement while Ethereum similarly fell by about 1% , now trading for just above $1,900.  It’s the fifth consecutive hold since the committee cut rates by 25 basis points in December 2025—the last move Jerome Powell made before Kevin Warsh, Trump’s pick for Fed chair, took over. Since then, rates haven’t moved. Neither has Warsh’s communication style: he’s pledged to share less “forward guidance” than his predecessors, meaning markets get fewer signals about what’s coming next. Wednesday’s decision came without a Summary of Economic Projections—the quarterly dot plot that shows where each Fed member expects rates to land. That means no fresh forecast to trade on. The next one comes in September. What the committee did note: the economy is “expanding at a solid pace,” but inflation remains above its 2% target, due in part to the situation in the Middle East causing energy prices to rise. That last part matters for crypto. Nearly half of FOMC members signaled at the June meeting they’d support a rate hike before year-end. Oil has been trading above $100 a barrel in recent weeks, keeping price pressure alive. A September hike is no longer off the table—and markets know it. The Federal Reserve adjusts…

Streaming of sporting events like World Cup soccer helped carry Peacock to $189 million in adjusted earnings. (Photo by David Ramos) Getty Images Six years after its launch, Peacock posted its first quarterly profit, powered by NBA playoff games, FIFA World Cup coverage and reality television. The question now for parent company Comcast is whether the streaming service can remain profitable amid an ever-changing sports broadcasting landscape. Peacock Reaches Profitability During the second quarter of 2026, Peacock generated $189 million in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization on $1.9 billion in revenue. It added two million paid subscribers, increasing its total to 48 million. Comcast executives in a July 23 earnings call described the result as a milestone but warned against reading too much into a single quarter because the service’s earnings will continue to rise and fall based on sports schedules and content spending. “As to Peacock profitability itself, we do expect it to continue to improve on an annual basis, but profitability is going to vary quarter by quarter,” Comcast Co-CEO Mike Cavanagh said during the call. Cavanagh said the results reflected Peacock’s ability to attract subscribers around major events and retain them with its broader programming. Sports Drives Subscriber Growth NBCUniversal launched Peacock in July 2020 as a free, advertising-supported extension of its television and film portfolio. The service eliminated its free tier in 2023 and expanded its sports offerings, carrying the NFL’s first streaming-exclusive playoff game and serving as NBCUniversal’s streaming home for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Its sports offerings also include the NFL, MLB, NBA, WNBA and Premier League. Subscriptions, Advertising Fuel Growth Jason Armstrong, Comcast’s chief financial officer, attributed Peacock’s recent success to its dual-revenue model, which combines subscriptions and advertising across sports, NBC and Bravo programming, films, news and major events.…

Trader DonAlt, who gained cult status in the crypto community after accurately predicting XRP’s phenomenal rally from $0.50 to $3.50, has published his latest price outlook for the leading cryptocurrency.  His new market view comes at a critical moment as Bitcoin has moved close to the psychological level of $64,300, while investors remain frozen in anticipation of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision. According to the analyst, Bitcoin has reached an equator separating a prolonged decline from a new large-scale rally. On his weekly price outlook, he clearly marked the key threshold with a red resistance line. Whales Want Ethereum (ETH) Above $2,000 Now: Binance Withdrawals Spike Next XRP Move May Break $1 Threshold, Ethereum (ETH) Already Eyes $2,000, Near Protocol (NEAR) Is Out of Trend: Crypto Market Review New Bitcoin price outlook by DonAlt, Source: DonAlt via X “Above the red line, we actually look quite good,” DonAlt commented on the current market structure. The trader explained that he is not going to make blind predictions and is waiting for solid confirmation and “might have to add if we actually close above it.”  He is referring specifically to the weekly candle close, which is a key indicator of buyer strength for major market participants. Two outcomes for Bitcoin and the hidden Ethereum advantage Based on this chart analysis and the current news backdrop, two key scenarios are now relevant for the market: Bullish case: A confident weekly close above the red resistance zone of $66,600–$68,000 would break the downtrend and open a direct path for Bitcoin toward new all-time highs. Bearish case: If buyers fail to hold the current levels, the price risks correcting first toward the psychological mark of $60,000 and, if panic intensifies, falling as far as the major support zone around $42,000–$45,500. You Might Also Like Interestingly, the…

ARK Invest says Hyperliquid Pump.fun, and Ethena now generate nearly 80% of app revenue. Crypto consolidation is accelerating with closures, mergers, acquisitions, and Chapter 11 filings. Revenue remains concentrated as smaller protocols expand market share alongside leaders. Lorenzo Valente, a researcher at ARK Invest, said the crypto market is undergoing what he described as the largest consolidation phase in its history, surpassing the restructuring seen during previous bear markets. In a statement shared on X, Valente said capital has become more cautious, leading to the shutdown of teams and exchanges that lack product-market fit. He also pointed to record-high revenue concentration across applications, middleware, and Layer 1 networks, stating that Hyperliquid and Pump.fun account for 67% of total application revenue, while adding Ethena brings the top three platforms’ combined share to nearly 80%. Valente said he expects the trend to accelerate in the coming months through more mergers and acquisitions, Chapter 11 filings, business closures, and acqui-hires. Protocol Revenue Shifts Toward Leading Platforms Valente’s comments came as protocol market share data showed revenue becoming more concentrated among a small number of applications. Pump.fun remained the largest contributor between February 2025 and early July 2026, although its share declined around August 2025 before recovering in 2026. Hyperliquid expanded its position throughout the period and finished as the second-largest contributor. At the same time, smaller protocols, including Ethena, Aave, Lido, Jupiter, Ore, PancakeSwap, Trojan, and Sosovalue, gradually increased their combined market share, broadening participation across the market even as leading platforms retained the largest revenue shares. Source: X Earlier figures from ARK Invest’s first-quarter 2026 DeFi report also pointed to growing revenue concentration, although they covered a different period. The report stated that total application revenue declined about 23% quarter over quarter to approximately $485 million. During that period, Hyperliquid generated about…

BNY’s Geoff Yu notes that USD exposure is elevated across global portfolios, with strong buying in both equities and bonds generating sizeable rebalancing signals. The bank recommends increasing FX hedges instead of selling U.S. assets, as hedge ratios remain low and Dollar allocations high. July’s equity declines may ease pressure but do not remove the need for hedging. High U.S. allocations drive hedge demand “The USD was by far the best-bought currency, with a marginal flow score more than twice that of JPY, the next strongest. This supports our view that cross-border dollar exposure is at a record high: equity and fixed-income ownership remain elevated, while hedge ratios are low. U.S. equities also posted a modestly positive marginal return score, so strong dollar buying and equity gains have produced a large, combined rebalancing signal.” “Dollar-selling signals from equity rebalancing are a welcome correction to stretched asset allocations. Equities accounted for 59.5% of total portfolio holdings at the end of last week, close to the early-July peak before the recent sell-off in memory-chip stocks. Relative to fixed income, equity exposure is now at a record high.” “The USD fixed-income rebalancing signal is therefore weaker than the equity signal, but elevated U.S. bond holdings still create a clear need for more hedging.” “Falling U.S. equities into month end will reduce total dollar exposure and ease some immediate rebalancing pressure. Even so, existing positions remain lightly hedged, while concerns over equity outflows should encourage further dollar hedging.” “The message is unchanged: global exposure to U.S. assets remains historically high and portfolios still need to reduce risk. Increasing FX hedges is the most efficient route without cutting U.S. allocations outright.” (This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor. Know more.) Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/us-dollar-hedging-pressure-builds-on-usd-bny-202607291628

For years, Ethereum has been synonymous with decentralized finance. It pioneered onchain financial tools like lending protocols and tokenized assets, which today underpin much of the crypto economy. But one of crypto’s fastest-growing sectors, perpetual futures, or “perps”, has largely flourished elsewhere. Ask traders where onchain perpetuals live today, and the answer is more likely to be Hyperliquid or Solana than Ethereum. That is because perpetuals demand something Ethereum’s base layer was never designed to optimize for: extremely fast, low-cost, high-frequency trading. “Perps require frequent transactions, fast execution, and deep liquidity,” said AJ Warner, chief strategy officer at Offchain Labs, the main developer firm behind the layer-2 Arbitrum. “That makes them a natural use case for the Arbitrum platform.” The distinction has become increasingly important as decentralized perpetual exchanges mature from crypto-native products into markets attracting institutional attention. Why Ethereum L1 fell behind Perpetuals are one of the most demanding applications in crypto. Their exchanges require thousands of rapid-fire updates, liquidations, funding payments, and order executions, all without interruption. “Perps onchain are really hard,” said Brian Smith of the Jito Foundation. “It’s not just the average performance that matters, it’s the 99.99% success rate. If your perps platform goes down, that’s existential risk.” Ethereum’s security-first architecture made it an ideal settlement layer, but historically, its block times and gas costs made it an expensive place to run latency-sensitive trading applications. When decentralized perps exchange GMX launched on Arbitrum in 2021,, it helped establish a template that many others would follow. “Ethereum mainnet fees were prohibitively expensive, which naturally attracted perps builders to Arbitrum,” Warner said. Offchain Labs then leaned into that momentum, actively prioritizing perpetuals as a strategic category. “By prioritizing the vertical, we were able to attract a concentration of builders and capital to the ecosystem.” Today, much of…

Crypto News Bitcoin (BTC) proponents who argue that digital assets need verifiable data provenance received an unusual legal reference point after Anthropic’s book-scanning program was largely validated by a U.S. federal court. The case centered on Claude training materials prepared under an internal initiative known as Project Panama, where the company purchased millions of used physical books, removed covers and bindings, scanned every page, and then destroyed the originals. The court order, issued in June 2025 in Bartz v. Anthropic, found that the company had acquired its print copies lawfully and that converting a purchased book into a searchable digital file did not create an extra copy when the physical version was eliminated. Judge William Alsup applied the first-sale doctrine, a long-standing copyright principle allowing owners of lawful copies to resell, lend, or discard them. That reasoning made destruction the pivotal fact: retaining the paper volume would have left two copies, while pulping it left only one replacement format. Anthropic’s 2024 hiring of Tom Turvey, a former Google book-deals executive, showed how industrial-scale sourcing became central to model quality. The ruling does not resolve every copyright question around AI training, but it gives AI developers a defensible path for digitizing legally purchased human-authored texts, even as the broader debate over altcoin and blockchain-based data ownership continues to develop. The same court record showed that Anthropic’s earlier reliance on pirated libraries carried a far heavier price than lawful purchases. Co-founder Ben Mann downloaded the Books3 collection in early 2021, a set of 196,640 pirated titles, before adding about five million works from Library Genesis that June and roughly two million more from the Pirate Library Mirror in 2022. On July 20, a judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement tied to those infringing copies, equivalent to nearly $3,000 per book, and ordered…

A person in a Spider-Man suit during filming on Hutcheson Street in Glasgow for the latest film in the Spider-Man franchise, Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The sequel will see Tom Holland reprise his main role and is set to be directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. Picture date: Wednesday August 13, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images) PA Images via Getty Images Just over a month after Supergirl’s disappointing debut, Spider-Man: Brand New Day is projected to swing into theaters at a potential $465 million opening, which would be Sony’s second biggest movie opening, according to Deadline. The trailer is the first to surpass one billion views, which it accomplished within four days of its release. Every major superhero studio has taken a hit over the past three years. Marvel’s The Marvels and Thunderbolts* underperformed, DC struggled to launch new hero franchises with The Flash and Blue Beetle and Sony’s Madame Web and Kraven the Hunter failed to build enthusiasm for its Spider-Man universe lacking Spider-Man himself. Many have attributed these films’ failures to superhero fatigue. With Marvel, Warner Bros. and Sony all putting out multiple new superhero movies and television shows a year, the market becomes oversaturated. As all three studios are building their own broader cinematic universe, each new release demands more from audiences in staying caught up on content. And yet, Spider-Man still stands immune, despite Brand New Day being the ninth live-action movie centered around the web-slinging hero since 2002, and the fourth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s franchise reboot. Most of the failing superhero movies share one important trait in common: they are centered around characters that aren’t well known to the non-comic book reading public. Many have cited this as a reason that Supergirl performed poorly. New York, N.Y.: Spiderman heads down…

TLDR Capricor Therapeutics stock stays flat at $6.57 after Lancet publishes HOPE-3 data. The Lancet’s peer review confirms Deramiocel’s Phase 3 trial design and results. UC Davis expert calls HOPE-3 results a landmark for Duchenne patients everywhere. Capricor CEO says Lancet publication strengthens the company’s FDA approval case. FDA’s Deramiocel decision looms August 22 as Capricor awaits Advisory Committee review. CAPR shares closed at $6.57 on July 28, unchanged from the prior session. The 0.00% move reflected a quiet trading day despite major clinical news breaking. The Lancet published pivotal Phase 3 HOPE-3 trial results for Capricor Therapeutics’ cell therapy Deramiocel. Capricor Therapeutics, Inc., CAPR Lancet Publication Validates Deramiocel Trial Results Capricor Therapeutics develops cell and exosome-based therapies for rare diseases affecting patients worldwide. The company’s Deramiocel targets Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a severe genetic muscle-wasting condition. The Lancet’s peer review confirmed the trial’s design, statistical methods, and overall findings. The published results relied on Capricor Therapeutics’ prespecified Statistical Analysis Plan version 3.0. Independent experts scrutinized every aspect before granting publication approval. This validation strengthens the scientific foundation behind Deramiocel’s regulatory submission. The manuscript describes Deramiocel as a heart-derived cellular therapy for advanced Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Researchers conducted the HOPE-3 trial as randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled. This rigorous design adds credibility to Capricor Therapeutics’ clinical claims. Expert Commentary Highlights Clinical Significance Craig McDonald, a physical medicine professor at UC Davis Health, led the HOPE-2 and HOPE-3 trials. He called the results a landmark moment for the Duchenne community. McDonald noted a 54 percent slowing of upper limb disease progression, with statistical significance. This effect stands out because functional decline in Duchenne patients typically remains relentless and irreversible. HOPE-3 marks the first Phase 3 trial to show functional benefit in largely non-ambulatory patients. Concurrent cardiac improvements support a consistent treatment effect across…

White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt criticized banking leaders seeking tighter stablecoin reward restrictions as Senate delays pushed the CLARITY Act’s passage odds to a record low. Summary 134 banking executives and leaders urged senators to expand restrictions on stablecoin rewards and incentives. Witt accused banks of opposing legislation that already prohibits stablecoin issuers from paying interest. Polymarket traders cut the bill’s 2026 passage odds to a record-low 27%. Senate scheduling decisions have narrowed the window for action before the Aug. 8 recess. Patrick Witt challenges banks over CLARITY Act Witt pushed back after 134 banking executives and industry leaders sent Senate lawmakers a letter seeking changes to Section 10404 of the CLARITY Act. Banks: We must ban the payment of interest on stablecoins to protect community bank lending! Clarity Act: Bans payment of interest on stablecoins. Banks: The Clarity Act must be stopped, or it will destroy community bank lending!!! Make it make sense… ]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/dow-jones-pulls-back-hours-before-the-feds-answer https://media.ikmoon.com/dow-jones-pulls-back-hours-before-the-feds-answer Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:01:27 +0600 crypto Dow, Jones, pulls, back, hours, before, the, Fed’s, answer The post Dow Jones pulls back hours before the Fed’s answer appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average trades just above 51,800 on Wednesday afternoon, down roughly 900 points and 1.7% from Tuesday’s close. The session high just above 52,800 printed before 09:00 GMT, and the tape has sold in one near-continuous line ever since. The 52,000 handle reclaimed on Monday’s peace bid is gone. The war stops being somebody else’s trade Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched multiple ballistic missiles at US forces in the Middle East late Tuesday, and Central Command says every one was intercepted. Reporting puts the target at an American base in Jordan. Trump told a television interviewer on Wednesday morning that Washington will hit Iran hard in reply, retiring the four-day pause that risk assets spent the start of the week banking. West Texas Intermediate advanced almost 7% on the session to trade near $90.00, back where it sat before the stand-down. For four months a chokepoint war has produced dispersion inside the equity market rather than direction, because supply news lands unevenly across constituents and cancels out at the index line. A barrel near $90.00 three hours before a rate decision does not land unevenly at all. A barrel count that arrives three hours early The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported commercial Crude Oil stocks down 7.167 million barrels on the week at 14:30 GMT, against a consensus draw of 2.5 million and a 2.011 million build the week before. A miss of that size is not a refinery-maintenance story. It is the physical market confirming that a shut chokepoint eventually turns up in a tank farm, three and a half hours before the statement. The timing matters more than the number, because a committee that lifted its 2026 inflation projection to 3.6% from 2.7% in June, on the argument that the energy shock is still…

Key Takeaways The Federal Reserve held rates at 3.50% to 3.75% in a 9-3 vote on July 29, 2026. Hammack, Kashkari and Logan dissented, each preferring a 25 basis point rate hike. The New York Fed Desk will keep reinvesting proceeds to maintain 3.65% reserve rates. The Federal Open Market Committee voted 9 to 3 to keep the target range unchanged, citing solid economic growth alongside inflation that remains above the central bank’s 2% goal. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh presided over a meeting that ended with a rare split: the dissenters wanted higher rates, not lower ones. Three Officials Wanted a Hike Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari and Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan voted against the majority. Each preferred raising the target range by a quarter point at this meeting, according to the Fed’s statement. Hawkish dissents like this are uncommon. Most FOMC disagreements in recent years have come from officials pushing for cuts, not increases. Three policymakers breaking ranks to demand higher rates signals real concern inside the building about inflation trends. Inflation and the Middle East The Fed’s statement pointed to elevated inflation driven in part by supply shocks, including in the energy sector. It linked some of that pressure to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, which the Committee said has added uncertainty to an otherwise expanding economy. Job growth has kept pace with the workforce. Unemployment has changed little. Productivity growth and capital investment remain strong, according to the Fed. The economy is not struggling. Inflation is the sticking point. What the Fed Is Doing With Rates The Board of Governors voted unanimously to hold the interest rate paid on reserve balances at 3.65%, effective July 30. The Board also approved keeping the primary credit rate at 3.75%. The FOMC…

South Korea reviews tighter rules after leveraged Samsung and SK Hynix ETFs posted steep losses. Regulators may limit leveraged ETFs to professionals and reduce the current 2x leverage. Retail investors demand ETF reforms as lawmakers debate stricter controls over high-risk funds. South Korean financial authorities are reviewing tighter restrictions on single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tied to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix after market declines erased billions in retail investor wealth. The debate grew after Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol publicly apologized for the heavy losses, while lawmakers, regulators, and investor groups examined whether the high-risk products should remain widely available. Regulators Consider Tighter Investment Rules Authorities are considering measures that would further limit access to the products rather than immediately removing them from the market. Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol apologized after retail investors invested about 14 trillion won ($9.7 billion) in single-stock leveraged ETFs, only to incur heavy losses. The KODEX SK Hynix 2x ETF has fallen by more than 80% from its June peak, while the comparable Samsung Electronics product has declined by about 75%. During the same period, the KOSPI dropped almost 35% amid a broader selloff in semiconductor stocks. Beginning on July 31, individual investors making new or additional purchases of single-stock leveraged ETFs will be required to hold a minimum cash deposit of 30 million won. Financial Services Commission Chairman Lee Won-geon said the industry expects the number of trading accounts to decline from roughly 100,000 to about 10,000, while trading volume could decrease by around 60%. Lee also said regulators are reviewing additional measures, including increasing the minimum deposit requirement further, reducing the current 2x leverage ratio, restricting new purchases to professional investors, and introducing investment limits based on investor categories. Public Pressure and Political Debate Intensify Public criticism grew after approximately 30 condolence wreaths…

LOUISVILLE, KY – MAY 2: Golden Tempo with Jose Ortiz, left, wins the Kentucky Derby, presented by Woodford Reserve, at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., on May 2, 2026. (Skip Dickstein/Albany Times Union via Getty Images) Albany Times Union via Getty Images To understand the import of Saratoga’s August 1 kickoff Jim Dandy Stakes this Saturday, we should begin by noting the most significant absence from the field, that of Kentucky Derby and Belmont victor Golden Tempo, pictured top left as he won the May 2 Derby with his regular rider Jose Ortiz up. Late in June, and training in his record-breaking trainer Cherie DeVaux’s native Saratoga while being aimed for the Jim Dandy and eventually the Travers Stakes, Golden Tempo came down with a case of pneumonia. It was caught early enough to have been kept mild by DeVaux and her team so that the champion missed just ten days of training. But it scratched him from contention in this weekend’s Jim Dandy. Specifically, what will be missed this Saturday is greater than just the horse, Golden Tempo. Midsummer is that lovely, and fabulously uncertain, time of year in American racing when campaigns for the Breeders’ Cup races are being tweaked and re-tweaked at tracks across the country. What we might call the “eastern” path of Breeders’ building blocks is made of the Haskell at Monmouth, the Jim Dandy and the Travers at Saratoga. Without further ado, here is the five-horse field for the 2026 Jim Dandy. (Post Position, Trainer, Jockey, Morning Line Odds) 1. Chip Honcho, Steve Asmussen, Jose Ortiz, 2. Asked and Answered, Antonio Arriaga, Jaime Rodriguez 3. Renegade, Todd Pletcher, Irad Ortiz Jr. 4. Silent Tactic, Mark Casse, Luis Saez 5. Commandment, Brad Cox, Flavien Prat (Source: New York Racing Association, 7/29/2026) It’s not to be…

Patrick Witt criticized U.S. banks after 134 banking executives and leaders urged the Senate to revise the CLARITY Act’s stablecoin provisions. The dispute centers on Section 10404, which restricts interest or yield on payment stablecoins. Banks Seek Wider Stablecoin Reward Ban The banking group asked Senate leaders to tighten language covering stablecoin rewards, bonuses, and incentives. The letter said firms could structure benefits in ways that create the same economic effect as interest. The signatories included leaders tied to Bank of America, U.S. Bank, Zions Bank, First Hawaiian Bank, Bank of Hawaii, Hancock Whitney Bank, FNBO, Eastern Bank, Lake City Bank, and Univest Financial Corporation. The group said payment stablecoins should remain tools for transactions, not long-term holding products. They argued that rewards based on balance size or holding duration could pull funds away from bank deposits. Bank leaders warned that deposit outflows could weaken local credit funding by hundreds of billions of dollars. They said households, small businesses, farmers, and local employers depend on deposits as a major lending source. Patrick Witt Pushes Back on Bank Position Patrick Witt, a White House crypto adviser, responded by pointing to what he described as a contradiction in the banking sector’s position. He wrote, “Banks: We must ban the payment of interest on stablecoins to protect community bank lending!” Witt added, “Clarity Act: Bans payment of interest on stablecoins.” He then wrote, “Banks: The Clarity Act must be stopped, or it will destroy community bank lending!!!” The comments came as some banking groups supported a stablecoin interest ban while still opposing parts of the wider crypto market structure bill. Their latest request seeks stronger language to stop indirect yield arrangements. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon has expressed support for the CLARITY Act, even as banks continue debating stablecoin rules. His stance contrasts…

This is a press release / sponsored content. BlockchainReporter did not write, edit, or verify this content. New York City, United States, July 29th, 2026, Chainwire Self-custodial crypto platform rewards ambassadors and community members while expanding long-term earning opportunities Every crypto platform talks about community. Far fewer put meaningful value behind the word. Today, Tria, the leading self-custodial neofinance platform, announced it is distributing more than $600,000 to the ambassadors and community members who helped build its ecosystem, reinforcing the company’s belief that the value created by a platform should flow back to the people who create it. The distribution includes a $250,000 performance bonus pool for Tria’s Season One ambassadors and more than $350,000 in card-spend commissions earned through ongoing ecosystem activity. “Everything we’ve built at Tria starts with the people who helped build it,” said Vijit Katta, co-founder of Tria. “From our earliest ambassadors to the community members driving real activity across the platform, this distribution reflects a simple principle: when Tria grows, the people who helped make that growth possible should grow with it.” Rewarding the People Who Built Tria The largest portion of the announcement recognizes the ambassadors who helped establish Tria during its earliest stages. The $250,000 ambassador bonus pool rewards Season One ambassadors based on measurable performance, including the users, cardholders, and memberships they brought into the ecosystem. Bonus amounts were determined by each ambassador’s Season One commission earnings, with the highest-performing contributors receiving the largest rewards. Many of those ambassadors have continued supporting the platform throughout Season Two. Separately, Tria is distributing more than $350,000 in card-spend commissions generated between January 31 and June 30. These commissions reward ambassadors and eligible participants for the ongoing activity generated by the users they introduced to the platform, creating long-term participation in the value their referrals…

Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. Expanding crypto tax reporting rules are pushing investors to maintain accurate transaction records across exchanges, wallets, staking, and DeFi. Summary Crypto tax reporting now extends beyond exchange exports as DeFi, staking, and wallet transfers complicate recordkeeping. Expanding IRS crypto reporting rules make accurate wallet-level transaction records more important for tax compliance. DeFi, staking, and self-custody are reshaping crypto tax reporting as investors face stricter IRS recordkeeping requirements. For a long time, many crypto investors treated tax preparation as a year-end export. Download a CSV from an exchange, send it to tax software, and deal with the result before the filing deadline. That approach can still work for someone who bought a few assets on one platform and never moved them. It becomes unreliable once the portfolio includes self-custody, staking, decentralized finance, NFTs, or transfers among several exchanges. At that point, the hard part is not filling in a tax form. It is rebuilding an accurate transaction history. The distinction matters more now because broker reporting is expanding. US brokers began reporting gross proceeds from digital asset dispositions on Form 1099-DA for the 2025 tax year. Basis reporting for covered assets starts with 2026 transactions. The IRS will receive more information directly from brokers, but those reports may still show only part of an investor’s financial history. One wallet can create several tax questions A centralized exchange records activity inside its own system. It can usually identify a purchase made on the platform and a later sale from the same account. It cannot automatically know what happened before an asset arrived from a hardware wallet, another exchange, or a decentralized application. Consider an investor who buys ETH on one exchange,…

More than three decades after it became a commercial juggernaut, Mariah Carey’s Daydream debuts on the U.K.’s Official Album Downloads chart inside the top 20. Mariah Carey during a music video shoot for “Fantasy” at Playland, August 1995 in Rye, New York. (Photo by Kevin Mazur Archive/WireImage) WireImage By the time Mariah Carey released her fifth album Daydream, she had already become one of the biggest musical stars in the world. The project was built upon the singer’s signature blend of pop and R&B, which helped turn her into one of the greatest hitmakers of all time and remains central to her output to this day. Daydream celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2025, though Carey and Columbia Records waited until only a few weeks ago to release an expanded edition commemorating the milestone. The album becomes a bestseller again thanks to a new digital version and several physical offerings, including a baby-pink vinyl pressing. Renewed interest helps send the set to one chart in the United Kingdom that it had never reached before. Mariah Carey’s Classic Debuts on the Downloads Chart Daydream debuts at lucky No. 13 on this week’s Official Album Downloads chart, nearly becoming a top 10 bestseller in the U.K. The ranking focuses only on full-length projects and EPs purchased digitally on websites like iTunes and Amazon, among others. The launch gives Carey her eighteenth career appearance on the Official Album Downloads chart. It marks her first new entry since Here for It All, which peaked at No. 3 less than a year ago, in October 2025. Carey first reached the downloads roster with Merry Christmas. The holiday collection arrived on the tally in December 2006, years after it initially became available. Its popularity is, at all times, powered by “All I Want for Christmas Is You,”…

Investment management giant Vanguard has increased its exposure to Bitcoin treasury company Strive Asset Management, adding more than 269,000 shares through one of its flagship index funds as institutional exposure to Bitcoin-linked equities continues to expand. According to an update shared by BitcoinTreasuries.NET, Vanguard’s Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund (VTSAX) increased its position in Strive Asset Management ($ASST) by 269,200 shares to approximately $3.2 million. The purchase brings the fund’s total holdings to 1.98 million shares, worth roughly $23.7 million. Joe Burnett, Director of Market Research at The Bitcoin Way, argued that the trend shows the growing integration of Bitcoin into traditional capital markets. Whales Want Ethereum (ETH) Above $2,000 Now: Binance Withdrawals Spike Next XRP Move May Break $1 Threshold, Ethereum (ETH) Already Eyes $2,000, Near Protocol (NEAR) Is Out of Trend: Crypto Market Review “A massive portion of global capital is passive, simply chasing returns and copying how the market allocates capital,” Burnett wrote on X. “The world is beginning to own Bitcoin and not even know it.” You Might Also Like Vanguard’s about-face In early 2024, under then-CEO Tim Buckley, the firm refused to allow clients to buy spot Bitcoin ETFs on its brokerage platform. It then appointed Salim Ramji, a former BlackRock executive who had helped oversee the launch of BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF (IBIT), as its new CEO. His arrival was widely seen as signaling a more open approach to digital assets. In late 2025, Vanguard executed its first major policy reversal by lifting its ban on cryptocurrency ETFs. However, the firm stressed that it had no plans to launch its own crypto investment products. In 2026, Vanguard continued to increase holdings in Bitcoin treasury companies, including larger stakes in firms such as Strive Asset Management. The asset manager first disclosed a notable stake…

Key Insights Crypto ETFs split as Bitcoin funds lost capital while Ether gained. BlackRock led Bitcoin withdrawals and Ethereum inflows on July 27. Falling exchange reserves softened the bearish signal from fund outflows. U.S. crypto ETFs diverged on July 27 as Bitcoin funds lost $11.64 million. Ethereum products gained $9.23 million, showing different daily demand across the two largest digital assets. The split mattered because Bitcoin traded under pressure before a Federal Reserve rate decision. Meanwhile, lower exchange balances suggested holders still removed coins despite softer institutional demand. The Securities and Exchange Commission approved spot Bitcoin products in January 2024. It approved exchange rule changes for spot Ether products in May. These funds provide price exposure through regulated accounts on national securities exchanges. Their creation and redemption systems convert investor demand into fund-share flows. Crypto ETFs Show Opposing Daily Fund Flows SoSoValue data showed U.S. spot Bitcoin funds recorded $11.64 million in net withdrawals. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, known as IBIT, led the losses with $8.82 million. Source: X The same dataset showed U.S. spot Ethereum products attracted $9.23 million. BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust, known as ETHA, gained $11.75 million and offset withdrawals elsewhere. Those figures showed daily capital rotation rather than a broad exit from digital-asset funds. Bitcoin products lost money while Ethereum products retained positive aggregate demand. Source: SoSoValue Wu Blockchain published the SoSoValue figures after the U.S. trading session. Crypto Banter separately repeated the same fund totals and BlackRock allocations. Bitcoin ETF Outflows Meet Weaker Spot Prices CoinMarketCap priced Bitcoin near $63,500 on July 28, down about 2.7% over 24 hours. Its market capitalisation stood near $1.27 trillion, while trading volume approached $27.6 billion. Source: CoinMarketCap Yahoo Finance historical data placed Bitcoin near $64,300 on July 26. The subsequent decline left the asset below last week’s brief…

“I think we’re going to see a lot of mainstream impact from something tokenized that people can buy that they used to have a hard time getting access to,” Galindo said. “I think that’ll probably be the first way crypto hits the people that aren’t just in it all the time and thinking about it all the time. It’s going to be some kind of tokenized product.” Galindo also said wealth management clients are becoming more comfortable with digital assets as investment options continue to expand beyond bitcoin. “A lot of people just stopped at bitcoin and said, ‘I’ve got that covered. I don’t want to get it more complicated,'” he said. As more exchange-traded funds and tokenized products become available, he expects investors to spend more time deciding how digital assets fit within broader portfolios. Ali Wallace, Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s global head of capital markets and ETF strategy, said product development is already evolving in response to investor demand. She pointed to growing interest in multi-currency digital asset ETFs as the next stage of innovation. “There really is an interest for multi-currency, multi-product” ETFs, Wallace said, describing them as the next evolution of digital asset investment products. Graseck expects the transition to take years rather than months. Still, she believes the direction is clear. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/07/29/morgan-stanley-execs-admit-the-traditional-9-to-5-banking-day-is-officially-dying

Iranian hacker collective CyberAv3ngers is the main suspect in a series of cyber attacks that hit 30 different water companies across the state of Minnesota this week. That’s according to security research firm Tenable, which claims the attacks are consistent with CyberAv3ngers’ past exploits.  Meanwhile, Minnesota’s state IT agency claimed the disruption was the result of a “coordinated cyberattack.” Tenable not only believes the attack to be the work of CyberAv3ngers, but also says the timing of the attack is “significant” given a July 22 report from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).  In it, the CISA warned that Iranian actors were actively targeting internet-connected devices, such as programmable logic controllers, across US water, energy, and government sectors. Read more: Nobitex hackers threaten to ‘destroy’ pro-Iran institutions Tenable also warned that the US war with Iran means “Iranian cyber operations have escalated in parallel with kinetic hostilities, with confirmed targeting of U.S. critical infrastructure.” It’s worth noting that US authorities are yet to attribute the attack.  Cybersecurity firm Sophos reports that CyberAv3ngers has claimed responsibility for a 2020 Israeli cyber attack that targeted 150 railway system servers and 28 railway stations. Three years later, the group appeared to try to sell the data stolen from the railway hack for four BTC, worth $108,000 at the time of the data listing.   In 2025, internal CyberAv3nger documents were leaked that included domain registrations, BTC transactions, and European virtual private server hosting.  Tenable says these details overlapped with another group called Moses Staff, and revealed CyberAv3ngers’ structure as a “single coordinated effort directed by the state” instead of multiple Iranian individuals.  Got a tip? Send us an email securely via Protos Leaks. For more informed news and investigations, follow us on X, Bluesky, and Google News, or subscribe to our YouTube channel. Source: https://protos.com/iranian-hackers-suspected-of-attacking-30-minnesota-water-companies/

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Oil jumps nearly 7% on Wednesday as the war in the Middle East keeps geopolitical risks firmly priced into the market. At the time of writing, WTI trades around $84 per barrel, snapping a three-day losing streak. The sharp rebound comes after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched missiles at a US military base in Jordan, ending a brief pause in the fighting. Adding to the bullish momentum, data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed that Crude Oil inventories fell by 7.167 million barrels last week, much more than the expected 2.5 million-barrel decline. This followed a 2.011 million-barrel build in the previous week. US President Donald Trump later threatened retaliatory strikes against Iran. Washington also announced new sanctions targeting eight tankers and ten entities connected to Iranian Oil shipments. Meanwhile, Iran rejected Oman’s proposal to jointly manage shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, while the IRGC claimed that it struck and halted three Oil tankers in the waterway after they ignored warnings. The latest developments dampened hopes that shipping through the Strait of Hormuz would normalise anytime soon. Supply risks are also spreading to the Red Sea. Reuters reported that Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis are considering charging commercial ships using the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. With two major energy routes facing disruption and fresh military action raising fears of a broader conflict, Oil prices are expected to remain volatile, with further upside likely. WTI Oil FAQs WTI Oil is a type of Crude Oil sold on international markets. The WTI stands for West Texas Intermediate, one of three major types including Brent and Dubai Crude. WTI is also referred to as “light” and “sweet” because of its relatively low gravity and sulfur content respectively. It is considered a high quality Oil that is easily…

Key Highlights QCOM shares declined 4.21% to settle at $162.88 following Modular deal completion. The acquisition brings software infrastructure supporting diverse processor architectures. Modular’s key offerings—Mojo, MAX, and Modular Cloud—will retain original branding. Modular co-founder Chris Lattner assumes leadership of Qualcomm’s AI software division. Transaction broadens Qualcomm’s footprint in device computing, cloud, and edge infrastructure. Shares of Qualcomm (QCOM) dropped 4.21%, finishing at $162.88, as the chipmaker announced the finalization of its Modular purchase. This strategic transaction enhances Qualcomm’s software infrastructure spanning consumer devices, cloud computing, edge networks, and industrial applications. The move reinforces the company’s approach of merging high-performance silicon with versatile software ecosystems. QUALCOMM Incorporated, QCOM Modular Acquisition Reaches Completion Qualcomm announced it has finalized the purchase of Modular, a company specializing in sophisticated software frameworks. This development represents another milestone in Qualcomm’s diversification beyond smartphone chipsets and wireless technologies. Financial details of the transaction and projected revenue impact remain undisclosed by the company. Modular creates software infrastructure enabling developers to deploy demanding computational tasks across varied hardware platforms. The technology accommodates traditional processors, graphics units, neural processing units, and specialized silicon designs. Through this acquisition, Qualcomm obtains capabilities that bridge software applications with broader hardware ecosystems. The deal transfers Modular’s development workforce and software toolsets to Qualcomm Technologies. The company intends to merge these assets with its current computing and wireless product lines. This integration may enhance Qualcomm’s ability to deliver comprehensive hardware-software solutions to customers. Original Product Lines Continue Under Established Names Qualcomm confirmed that Mojo, MAX, and Modular Cloud will maintain their existing brand identities. The company pledged to expand funding and engineering resources for each platform. Modular’s commitment to hardware-agnostic software development will remain unchanged. Preserving the product structure ensures developers retain access to established tools post-acquisition. Qualcomm can now present these solutions to…

Topline The Trump administration refuses to modify the IRS’ controversial settlement with President Donald Trump and formally rescind its “anti-weaponization” fund, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told reporters Wednesday, even though the Justice Department holding firm on the settlement could derail Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appears at his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 15 in Washington, DC. Getty Images Key Facts The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on whether Blanche’s nomination as attorney general should move forward to a full Senate vote, and with Democrats unilaterally opposing Blanche, every single Republican senator needs to vote for him for his nomination to move forward. Cornyn and Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., have suggested they could oppose Blanche unless the DOJ makes “written modifications” to the IRS settlement, which included a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization fund” for people who feel the judicial system was “weaponized” against them and an agreement that appears to give Trump, his eldest sons and other parties widespread legal immunity. Cornyn wants the DOJ to formally rescind the anti-weaponization fund in writing—after Blanche has already claimed in Congressional testimony that the fund is “dead”—and restrict the immunity agreement’s scope, Politico reports, but told reporters Wednesday about the DOJ, “They know what they need to do but they simply refuse to do it.” The Texas senator cancelled a planned meeting with Blanche Wednesday morning and said Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, had set a 4 p.m. EDT deadline to determine whether the vote on Blanche will take place Thursday, or if it will get postponed because he doesn’t have the necessary votes. Tillis has also suggested he still could oppose Blanche over the lack of changes to the IRS deal, telling…

Key Takeaways Moonpay launched an AI payment vault on July 29, 2026, connecting to the artificial intelligence (AI) models Claude and ChatGPT. Sodot’s infrastructure secures $50 billion in assets across the vault’s Moonpay backend. Moonpay plans to add DeFi swaps and perpetual futures trading for AI agents next. The Moonpay new product, called PayBox, connects to Claude or ChatGPT through a custom connector. A user types a request in plain language, such as moving $100 into PYUSD or swapping tokens for SOL. The AI prepares the transaction. A human approves it with a passkey. The money moves only after that approval. Built Around a Passkey, Not a Handoff Before this launch, an AI assistant could answer questions and automate work, but moving money meant handing the task to a terminal, a developer tool, or a third-party custodian. Moonpay’s vault removes that handoff. On Wednesday, in a note sent to Bitcoin.com News, the company explained that no single party, including Moonpay or the AI agent itself, can access a user’s full private key or sign a transaction alone. Wallet keys are split using multiparty computation and held inside secure hardware enclaves. Payment cards are stored so an agent can charge them without ever seeing the card number, using Visa’s agentic commerce protocol. Two Ways to Set Permissions Users choose one of two models for their AI agent: Always Ask, where every transaction needs a passkey approval. Autonomous, where the AI can act on its own within limits the user sets in advance. Changing those permissions always requires a fresh passkey approval from the human user. Every authorization is scoped to a single action and cannot be reused, and access can be revoked at any time. Closing Three Fraud Vectors Moonpay says agentic payment fraud typically comes from a stolen credential, a…

The market values Hyperscale Data’s common equity below its disclosed Bitcoin holdings. Whether that gap belongs to common shareholders is a much harder question. The company said Tuesday that its wholly owned Sentinum and Ault Capital Group subsidiaries held 1,106.0467 Bitcoin as of July 27. It valued the combined position at about $71.7 million using a Bitcoin closing price of $64,784. A MarketWatch quote backed by FactSet placed Hyperscale Data’s market capitalization near $56.4 million after the July 28 close. The adjacent-day figures leave the disclosed gross Bitcoin value roughly $15 million above the equity value, even before assigning anything to the company’s data centers or other businesses. Related Reading Bitcoin treasury investors are turning on companies diluting them to keep buying For two years, buying more Bitcoin was enough to lift a treasury stock. Strategy’s BTC Yield is now sliding, Metaplanet sits below the value of its coins, and Europe’s new entrants are asking investors to fund them on terms nobody has priced yet. Jun 29, 2026 · Andjela Radmilac That comparison differs from net asset value. A May 18 quarterly filing covering March 31, well before the current Bitcoin total, reported $196.0 million of current liabilities and $216.7 million of total liabilities. It also disclosed a $90.1 million preferred-stock liquidation preference within stockholders’ equity, a senior claim separate from the GAAP liabilities figure. Those consolidated obligations sit against the company’s other assets as well as its Bitcoin, so the figures form a claims map rather than a calculation that subtracts every liability from the treasury. The March 31 filing also reported $16.7 million of restricted crypto assets that included Bitcoin pledged as collateral for convertible notes issued to JGB entities. The filing leaves the restricted portion of the July 27 treasury unknown, preventing investors from treating the full…

The Pound Sterling holds firm on Wednesday as the US-Iran conflict escalates, with US President Donald Trump warning of further attacks on Iran in retaliation for Tehran’s strikes on US forces in Jordan. The GBP/USD trades below 1.3300, barely unchanged. GBP/USD steadies on Gulf War escalation and on uncertainty on central bank decisions On a Fox interview earlier, Trump said that he will allow talks with Iran to continue but said that “we’ll be hitting Iran hard.” Consequently, Crude prices jumped to fresh daily highs on a week that began with a pullback in Oil prices. West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the US Crude benchmark, rises by more than 7.8% to $85 per barrel. A scarce economic schedule in the US and the UK keeps traders focused on monetary policy decisions by the Federal Reserve (Fed) and the Bank of England (BoE). On the Fed side, US inflation cooled in June, while the jobs market remains resilient. The swaps market expects the Fed to hold rates unchanged, with odds near 59%. However, the chances of a 25-basis-point rate hike are increasing to 41%, according to Prime Terminal data.  Source: Prime Terminal There is growing speculation that the Fed Chair, Kevin Warsh, could persuade the board to delay a rate hike as the Committee assesses whether tightening monetary policy is needed to tackle stubbornly sticky inflation. The escalation of the Iran war triggered a jump in Oil prices, which could influence some members within the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to pull the trigger, following hard lessons during the COVID pandemic. After the Fed’s decision, the US schedule will be busy with the release of final second-quarter GDP figures and the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, the Core Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index. In the UK, traders are bracing for the BoE…

The crypto stocks have been on the investors’ radar lately, with most of the top players in the space extending their losses today. For context, Coinbase (COIN) and Robinhood (HOOD) stocks have continued to stay in the red while Strategy (MSTR) stays near the flatline. Meanwhile, investors are also eagerly waiting for the US Federal Reserve’s decision on the interest rate plans later today. So, here we explore the potential impact of the Fed rate decision on the broader financial markets as well as the crypto stocks. Crypto Market Awaits US Fed’s Interest Rate Decision The Federal Reserve’s policy announcement has become the biggest near-term catalyst for risk-bet assets like cryptocurrencies. In addition, crypto stocks, which often mirror Bitcoin’s price action and investor appetite for growth assets, could witness heightened volatility after the decision. Meanwhile, according to analysts at JPMorgan, the central bank is most likely to keep interest rates unchanged. However, the investment bank expects a hawkish hold to be the base-case outcome. Such a scenario could leave the S&P 500 little changed or push it modestly lower. In contrast, a more accommodative tone could lift equities, while an unexpected 25-basis-point rate hike may trigger a sharper selloff, especially across technology and crypto stocks. Goldman Sachs also highlighted the unusual uncertainty surrounding this meeting. Interest-rate futures indicate roughly a one-in-three probability of a surprise rate increase. If that happens, it would represent one of the biggest policy surprises at a non-rate-cut meeting since the Fed began issuing formal policy statements. Notably, if the Fed rate hike happens, it could further strengthen the dollar while dampening sentiment around the crypto market and stocks. COIN, HOOD, and MSTR Crypto Stocks in Focus The Coinbase (COIN) stock recorded a slump of nearly 2% to $164.69, while Robinhood (HOOD) stock price fell more…

It’s clear, even to Microsoft, that something is broken at Xbox, and there are a million ideas as to how to fix it. If it’s possible to fix at all. Old Xbox leadership has been cleared out, with a new team brought in to correct course. Though it’s pivoting an aircraft carrier with holes in the hull after a decade of questionable decisions, and the upcoming release of Fable is a summation of some of the most problematic ones. And it is almost entirely divorced from the quality of the actual game. Fable combines two issues facing Xbox in one: 1) The somewhat recent position of allowing almost any game, including a storied IP like Fable with a new game 16 years in the making, to go to a competitor system like PS5. In this case, the very same day it comes to Xbox. 2) And how is it coming to Xbox? “Day One on Game Pass,” of course, the perceived main benefit of the subscription service where no one has to buy the game, so long as they’re paying the monthly/yearly fee. This is true for essentially every Xbox first party release, and has been for years. The latter point has been a good deal for consumers, at least most of the time, depending on how many games you were planning to buy on Xbox that year, but the long-term hope of explosive Game Pass growth has not panned out for Xbox. After a huge surge in the COVID years, growth has stalled, and actually, reversed, after the terrible decision to increase prices by 50%. That was walked back by new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma almost immediately, though not all the way, and with the caveat that Call of Duty games would no longer be day one on Game…

Cloud mining allows users to participate in mining cryptocurrencies by renting computing power from third-party providers. This gives people a chance to earn a passive income from a small investment rather than going through the process of buying and maintaining physical hardware. This low barrier of entry also removes the need for any technical expertise, expensive equipment, and electricity costs. Here are the top 6 cloud mining platforms of July 2026: 1. Bitdeer A cloud mining platform backed by a publicly listed Bitcoin mining company, Bitdeer was launched in 2018. The platform operates mining data centers in Europe, Asia, and North America. Bitdeer aims to make crypto mining easily accessible for individuals without the need to buy or maintain specialized mining equipment. The platform lets customers rent hash rate from industrial-scale mining facilities. They also have miner hosting services, which let users own mining hardware while Bitdeer takes care of the installation, maintenance, and electricity. 2. NiceHash NiceHash was established in 2014 and connects sellers with mining hardware, with buyers getting computational power for crypto mining. They have a fixed mining contract along with a hashrate marketplace. This lets users rent computational power directly from miners around the world. They also support a range of proof-of-work algorithms that let users mine Bitcoin through the pools of their choice. Users have better control over the cost, duration, and mining strategy on NiceHash. 3. BitFuFu One of the most popular cloud mining platforms in the space, BitFuFu gives users a chance to mine Bitcoin without having to buy or manage expensive mining hardware. Users can purchase cloud mining contracts with varying durations and hash rates. The platform has a strong focus on transparency and gives detailed information about the mining facilities, equipment, and operational costs to users. Apart from cloud mining, the…

Gold price eases for the third straight day and retests very important $4000 support on Wednesday, as initial enthusiasm about diplomatic action replacing hostilities in the Middle East, faded after fresh attacks of US / Saudi armies on Iraq. The dollar firmed, keeping the yellow metal in defensive, as markets await results from Fed’s policy meeting and comments from Chairman Warsh, to get more information about the central bank’s next steps, as the Fed is widely expected to keep rates on hold in July meeting. The latest developments in the Middle East warn of fresh pressure on prices (if the situation escalates further) that may keep gold at the back foot, especially if policymakers show more hawkish stance today. Focus will be also on release of US June PCE price index (Fed’s preferred inflation gauge), due on Thursday, which would add more details to inflation picture. Overall, the metal is expected to remain under increased pressure, especially if Fed hints more policy tightening (markets already bet for rate hike in September), with eventual break below $4000  to trigger fresh acceleration lower. Res: 4077; 4116; 4166; 4180 Sup: 3960; 3942; 3900; 3842 Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/analysis/xau-usd-outlook-gold-remains-at-the-back-foot-ahead-of-fed-inflation-data-202607291531

Open a crypto casino’s lobby, and the logos suggest the platform built everything in it. It did not. Almost every slot, roulette wheel, and blackjack table is made by an outside studio, licensed to the casino, and run on the studio’s own servers. The casino is a storefront, not a workshop. Understanding who actually supplies the games explains a great deal about fairness, house edge, and why the same title appears on dozens of sites. This walks the supply chain from the studio that builds a game to the player who spins it. A Casino Is Mostly a Storefront The instinct that a casino makes its own games is the first thing to unlearn. A handful of platforms build in-house titles, but the overwhelming majority of any lobby is licensed content. What the operator provides is the shopfront: the account, the cashier, the bonuses, and the shelf space. What it mostly does not provide is the games themselves, which arrive from specialist studios under commercial licence. This split is why two unrelated casinos can offer an identical slot, and why game quality is largely a question of which studios a casino has signed and not anything the casino built. Studios Build the Games The names behind the games are consistent across the industry, and recognising them tells a player more than the casino’s own branding does. Slots come from studios such as Pragmatic Play, NetEnt, Play’n GO, Hacksaw Gaming and BGaming, each with its own style and volatility profile. Live-dealer content, the streamed roulette and blackjack tables, comes from a narrower set, chiefly Evolution, Playtech and Ezugi, because running live studios is capital-intensive and few can do it. When a casino advertises a strong live section, it is really advertising a relationship with one of those providers. Each studio sets…

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at Fortell’s efforts to make a better hearing aid, Abby Care’s business getting payment for caregivers, J&J’s $5.5 billion talc settlement, Scribe Therapeutics’ IPO, and more. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. Fortell Research cofounder and CEO Matthew de Jonge Aaron Kotowski for Forbes More than a decade ago, Matthew de Jonge, 38, first had the idea to build a better hearing aid after watching his grandparents retreat into social isolation as their hearing loss made it hard for them to follow conversations. But the technology wasn’t quite there. “In 2015, it felt like science fiction,” de Jonge recalls, describing the challenge to build a device that can differentiate sounds and home in on what’s important, especially in environments with lots of ambient noise, like a cocktail party or crowded restaurant. After a stint at hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, he worked as a product manager at Butterfly Network, which was developing a pocket-sized ultrasound machine. It was only after the pandemic pushed meetings to Zoom, which uses AI to mute background noises, that he realized a much better hearing aid was finally possible. “Zoom is the easiest version of the problem, and the hearing aid is the gnarliest,” he says. He launched Fortell in early 2021 with former Butterfly colleagues Andrew Casper, 40, and Igor Lovchinsky, 41, as technical cofounders. (Operational cofounder Cole Morris, 38, joined from Oscar Health.) It took a bit longer than expected, but the hearing aids, launched in December, are so popular that they’ve been near-impossible to get. Customers like KKR’s billionaire chair Henry Kravis and comedian Steve Martin have forked over $6,800 for the devices, currently available only at Fortell’s Manhattan audiology clinic or by appointment in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Palm Beach, Florida. The company…

Jessie A Ellis Jul 29, 2026 09:22 Every moving average from the 7-day to the 50-day has collapsed onto a single price — $0.21 — and the Bollinger Bands are squeezing to a $0.02 range. With whales sitting 61% long and taker buy flow… CRV’s Technical Reality Check The chart is telling you everything and nothing simultaneously — until you understand what the flatness actually means. Every trend-following tool in the toolkit, from the 7-day to the 50-day moving average, has converged at a single coordinate: $0.21. When all short-term averages merge like this, the market isn’t stalling — it’s compressing. And compressed markets always resolve violently in one direction. The Bollinger Bands confirm the squeeze, barely $0.02 wide from $0.20 to $0.22, with CRV parked almost dead center at a %B reading of 0.47. This is textbook coil behavior. Read the momentum picture carefully, because the surface-level calm is deceptive. The RSI just above 50 doesn’t signal indifference — it signals buyers that exist but lack the urgency to press into resistance, accumulating rather than rushing. The MACD histogram has kissed zero, meaning the tug-of-war between bulls and bears is perfectly balanced at this exact moment in time. The tell is in the Stochastic, where %K at 43.88 has crossed above %D at 35.11 — a subtle but real bullish lean that historically precedes directional resolution in compressed setups exactly like this one. The structural reality no bull should ignore: the SMA 200 sits at $0.24, a full 14% above current price, and CRV has been trading below it. That’s not a death sentence — it’s a wall that defines the difference between a relief bounce and a genuine trend reversal. Everything below $0.24 is reclaimed territory; everything above it is…

An action-packed evening lies ahead for global markets, says Chris Beauchamp, Chief Market Analyst at online trading and investing platform IG. Markets on edge ahead of Fed decision The atmosphere is febrile in markets this afternoon ahead of a decision from the Fed, big tech earnings and the likelihood of fresh US strikes on Iran. The tension can be felt across the globe, exemplified by gold slipping through $4000 and a brutal reversal for the Dow, previously a safe haven in US indices amidst the rout in global chip stocks. The reasons to hunker down and sit out August in cash are manifold. Oil surges as new US strikes loom A return to the US-Iran conflict seems baked in regardless of anything else that happens tonight. As a result oil prices have staged a huge reversal from yesterday’s lows, piling on the pressure ahead of the Fed decision. The stakes for markets could not be higher right now. Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/analysis/gold-slumps-below-4000-and-oil-rallies-202607291532

The loudest conversation in crypto right now isn’t about spot Bitcoin ETFs or the next memecoin launch. It’s about derivatives—and specifically, perpetual futures. In a column published Wednesday, Jito Foundation president Brian Smith laid out an argument that perps are not just another DeFi primitive but the most direct conduit for traditional finance to move on-chain. The original report framed the push in stark terms: a battleground that Solana cannot afford to lose. The logic is straightforward. Perpetual futures resemble the total-return swaps and rolling futures contracts that institutional desks have traded for decades. Unlike fixed-expiry futures, they don’t require constant roll management. For a hedge fund or proprietary trading firm accustomed to centralized venues, perps are the easiest crypto-native product to understand and the hardest to ignore. Why Perps Are a Familiar Handshake for Wall Street Spot crypto markets remain volatile, fragmented, and custody-intensive in ways that deter many traditional participants. Perps, by contrast, allow directional exposure without touching the underlying asset. Market makers already use off-exchange settlement models that mirror on-chain perp mechanics. Jito’s thesis is that if the plumbing is right—low latency, deep liquidity, predictable fees—the capital will follow. That’s where Solana enters. The network’s sub-second finality and negligible transactions costs have turned it into the fastest-growing venue for perpetual trading. Jito’s own MEV infrastructure, which reduces harmful frontrunning while boosting validator revenue, addresses a pain point that has historically scared off professional traders on other chains. Solana’s Infrastructure Edge Over the past year, Solana-based perp protocols have quietly absorbed a rising share of global derivatives volume. The network’s top validators now include firms that specialize in low-latency execution for high-frequency strategies. Jito’s liquid staking and block-building software give those traders a more predictable execution environment than they’d find on most other blockchains, including Ethereum’s fragmented layer-2…

The bank tied the stablecoin’s first live settlements to real-time commercial payments running through its Big Business Banking platform on Solana. SoFi Technologies, the digital bank with 15.8 million members, said commercial clients have begun settling transactions in real time through its SoFiUSD stablecoin, according to the company’s second-quarter results published Wednesday. The milestone moves SoFiUSD from launch announcement to production payments rail seven months after SoFi became the first nationally chartered U.S. bank to issue a stablecoin on a public blockchain. Big Business Banking, the enterprise product SoFi introduced this year, began processing transactions on the SoFi Exchange Network during the quarter, “enabling commercial clients to move money in real time, 24/7 through SoFiUSD,” the company said in the release. Crypto Transaction Revenue The quarter also gave the first clean read on the economics of SoFi’s crypto relaunch. Crypto transaction revenue came in at $134.3 million for the quarter, but after $133.1 million in costs, net crypto revenue was $1.2 million. SoFi returned to crypto investing with the launch of SoFi Crypto in the fourth quarter of 2025. SoFi launched SoFiUSD in December, pitching it as settlement infrastructure for other banks, fintechs and enterprise platforms rather than a consumer token. In March, the company said the stablecoin was set to be enabled as a settlement option across Mastercard’s global payments network, and it opened SoFiUSD to its full membership in June. Wednesday’s disclosure is the first confirmation that enterprise clients are actually settling on the rail. Record Quarter, Cold Reception The stablecoin update came inside a record quarter. Adjusted net revenue reached $1.2 billion, up 40% year over year, and net income climbed 61% to $156.6 million, with loan originations hitting a best-ever $14.8 billion. SoFi raised its full-year guidance. Investors sold the news anyway: SOFI fell about 10%…

ING’s Warren Patterson and Ewa Manthey report European natural gas prices have bounced higher as Middle East tensions disrupt Qatari LNG exports. They flag QatarEnergy’s extended force majeure, reduced EU LNG imports and below-average storage levels. With heatwaves complicating injections, they expect tighter-than-usual storage at the start of winter and elevated gas prices with potential spikes through the heating season. European gas storage lags seasonal norms “European natural gas prices have also bounced higher this morning, following the renewed tensions in the Middle East. The European gas market is looking increasingly vulnerable as we head into the winter.” “QatarEnergy has reportedly extended its force majeure for buyers in Asia and Europe to as far as the end of September. There have also been reports of QatarEnergy looking to subcharter an LNG carrier until the end of October, given the ongoing disruptions to Qatari LNG exports.” “EU LNG imports are on track to fall a little more than 25% YoY in July, which is making the job of refilling storage more difficult. EU gas storage is 56% full at the moment, below the 10-year seasonal average of 72%. Heatwaves across Europe will only add to the difficulty in filling up storage ahead of the winter.” “Tighter-than-usual storage at the start of the heating season suggests that gas prices will remain elevated through the winter, with the risk of spikes higher.” (This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor. Know more.) Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/natural-gas-europe-faces-tighter-winter-balance-ing-202607291401

U.K. asset manager Aviva Investors has announced the launch of its first tokenized fund in partnership with crypto firm Ripple. This follows the partnership that both firms struck earlier this year to advance tokenization on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) Aviva Investors Tokenizes USD Fund On XRP Ledger In a press release, the asset manager announced the successful launch of a tokenized share class of its USD Liquidity Fund on the XRP Ledger. “This marks the first tokenisation of an Aviva Investors fund, and follows the announcement of the partnership between the firm and Ripple early in the year,” the release read. As CoinGape reported, Ripple partnered with Aviva Investors earlier this year to advance tokenization on the XRP Ledger. This is notably Ripple’s first partnership with a European investment firm to tokenize real-world assets (RWA) at scale. Aviva Investors revealed that crypto custodian Komainu and digital platform company Licuido both supported the launch of the tokenized share class. Meanwhile, the asset manager also received approval from the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) for the launch of this tokenized fund. Coincidentally, the launch of this tokenized fund comes as the Ripple-backed XRP Ledger fix amendment goes live. The network’s developers have continued to push upgrades in a bid to boost the network’s institutional adoption. How The Fund Works Aviva Investors noted that the fund targets low-risk returns and daily liquidity by offering investors exposure to high-grade US dollar-denominated short-term debt instruments. The asset manager further mentioned that the new share class will be available to eligible investors with digital wallets. Meanwhile, BNY Mellon, the fund’s custodian, will be responsible for holding the assets for these tokenized shares. “The structure has been designed to operate within existing regulatory frameworks, providing a scalable foundation for future innovation in fund distribution and market infrastructure,” the asset manager added. The…

In brief OpenAI’s July 28 update confirmed its rogue agent accessed four external services beyond Hugging Face during the breach—bringing the total count of affected platforms to five. Modal Labs CTO Akshat Bubna confirmed his company was one of the four, after Reuters identified it; three services still remain unnamed, meaning their customers have received no public notification. Congress responded with the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act, which would give DHS authority to compel AI model shutdowns and fine non-compliant companies up to $2 million per day. One week after OpenAI confirmed its AI models hacked Hugging Face to cheat on a security benchmark, the company quietly updated its incident post with something it hadn’t said before: Hugging Face wasn’t the only platform its rogue agent touched. “In our ongoing review of the Hugging Face intrusion and broader activity from our models, we have been finding a small number of cases where the models identified and used publicly exposed credentials at the account-level on other publicly-available services,” OpenAI wrote in a July 28 update. “This includes four accounts on four services as part of the Hugging Face incident (and a few accounts accessed as part of other evaluations).”  That’s five platforms total. OpenAI is publicly naming none of the four beyond Hugging Face. “We’ll continue to notify service owners directly, and have not seen evidence of broader impact to these providers or other accounts on their services,” OpenAI wrote. How a benchmark test became a five-platform breach For context: OpenAI was testing GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed, more capable model on ExploitGym—a cybersecurity benchmark, which is a standardized test that measures AI performance, giving agents 898 real-world software vulnerabilities with one instruction each: turn it into a working cyberattack, scored pass or fail. Safety filters were disabled to measure…

Drew Starkey as Cary Masterson and Anya Taylor-Joy as Luciana ‘Lucky’ Armstrong in Lucky Apple TV Major spoilers ahead for Lucky episode 4 Lucky’s fourth episode, “Too Close To See It,” reunites Lucky (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Cary (Drew Starkey) only for tragedy to strike and put the con woman at even greater risk. What starts as a tense exchange between betrayed spouses devolves into a chase as the FBI, as well as Priscilla (Annette Bening) and Dutch (Clifton Collins Jr.), try to catch the duo. But when Cary makes a choice that endangers them both, the couple are forever changed by the outcome. Since the beginning, it’s been obvious Lucky and Cary don’t have the same training. She is clear-headed and quick on her feet, using circumstances and a knack for being underestimated to her advantage. He fairs better in conversation, letting intimacy and love tip the hand in his favor. The situation at hand calls for more than charm, and it’s Cary’s inability to think ahead that ultimately seals his fate. As for Lucky, by the end of the episode, her problems have gotten a whole lot worse thanks to Cary’s decision-making. While he pays the price, she’s left to fend for herself again with the possibility of even direr consequences awaiting her. Drew Starkey as Cary Masterson in Lucky Apple TV Why Cary Took The $10 Million In ‘Lucky’ “Too Close To See It” picks up right where episode 3 left off. Lucky and Cary are in a stand-off over the money they stole as Lucky demands he give her the 12 word seed phrase to his bitcoin account. In trying to explain himself, Cary goes to touch her and ends up with a bloody nose for his trouble. He gives Lucky a bag of ice for her…

The Federal Reserve is set to announce its interest rate decision on Wednesday, July 29. According to the FedWatch tool, there is a 64.2% probability that rates stay flat and a 35.8% probability of a 25 bps rate hike. This makes for some of the most divided market expectations regarding a rate decision in recent history, observed The Kobeissi Letter. In a post on X, the global capital markets commentary wrote that “Fed Chair Warsh has effectively eliminated forward guidance”, which added to the market uncertainty. Most of the market appeared prepared for a decision of no hike in rates. What will the impact of the decision be on the Bitcoin [BTC] price? Crypto traders adopt defensive positioning ahead of policy decision Bitcoin is down 3.10% over the past week but has rallied 2.10% over the past 24 hours. On Tuesday, July 28, the Bitcoin price dived to a local low of $62.7k. Source: CryptoQuant The 7-day taker position sank to -3.43, the lowest in a year. This meant that market sell orders had seized considerable dominance in the latest trading period. Moreover, this sell pressure came ahead of the FOMC decision. Therefore, the intense bearish taker activity signaled defensive positioning ahead of the decision, and might not dictate the next move’s direction. Source: CryptoQuant Crypto analyst Amr Taha also observed that the derivatives market underwent a broad leverage reduction on July 28. Gate.io saw a $391 million reduction, almost half the decline. Bybit and Binance recorded Open Interest declines of $178 million and $149 million, respectively. Traders were reducing exposure across exchanges, the analyst concluded. Bitcoin price recovery still faces structural headwinds Source: CryptoQuant Since September 2025, the stablecoin inflows to Binance from whales have shrunk from $63 billion to $25 billion, demonstrated analyst Darkfost. The inflows briefly recovered…

OSL Digital Securities has opened XRP trading to retail investors in Hong Kong, creating a regulated fiat on-ramp as US lawmakers continue debating federal crypto market rules. Summary OSL became Hong Kong’s first SFC-licensed platform to offer direct retail spot access to XRP. Retail users can access XRP/USD through Flash Trade and XRP/USD and XRP/HKD through OTC trading. XRP joins Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana among assets available to OSL’s retail clients. The launch follows XRP’s December 2025 listing for professional investors on the same platform. OSL opens XRP trading to Hong Kong retail investors OSL Digital Securities launched retail XRP trading on July 29, according to an announcement from the company. The platform operates as a subsidiary of OSL Group, which is publicly listed in Hong Kong under stock code 863. Breaking News]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/when-good-fundamentals-arent-enough https://media.ikmoon.com/when-good-fundamentals-arent-enough Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:03:50 +0600 crypto When, good, fundamentals, aren’t, enough The post When good fundamentals aren’t enough appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Markets are behaving strangely beneath the surface. Companies can deliver strong earnings, healthy growth and seemingly positive fundamentals, only for their shares to move sharply in the opposite direction. The issue is not that fundamentals have stopped mattering. The market is trading the gap between fundamentals and expectations. SK Hynix is a useful example. The memory-chip maker recently delivered exceptionally strong earnings, helped by continued demand for high-bandwidth memory used in AI infrastructure. Yet the shares have fallen sharply. That tells us something important about the current market. Investors are no longer simply asking whether earnings are growing. They are asking whether earnings are growing fast enough to justify the expectations and valuation already embedded in the share price. When positioning becomes crowded and expectations become extremely high, even very good results can disappoint. At the same time, a broader unwind in momentum and AI-related trades can amplify the selling as investors reduce exposure across an entire theme. In other words: Strong fundamentals + expectations even stronger = potentially negative price reaction. This is why traders should be careful about treating a good earnings report as automatically bullish. SK Hynix: Watching the lower channel Technically, SK Hynix remains inside a clear descending channel, with the sequence of lower highs and lower lows showing that sellers remain in control. The stock is now approaching the lower boundary of that channel around the $125–130 region, which creates an interesting area to watch. A reaction from this lower boundary could produce a short-term bounce back towards the channel midpoint, particularly after the severity of the recent decline. However, any bullish idea here remains very premature. There is currently little evidence that the broader downtrend has reversed. A bounce from channel support would initially be treated as exactly that — a bounce within a falling trend — rather…

Saylor said that protocol changes on the Bitcoin network must be rare, conservative, and driven by necessity, not ambition. Michael Saylor believes Bitcoin has already succeeded but now faces its greatest challenge. He said the biggest threat is not an outside attacker but factions that seek to rewrite the network’s rules for their own interests. The executive chairman and co-founder of Strategy warned that such changes could weaken economic rights and undermine the cryptocurrency’s long-term future. Saylor Draws a Line on Upgrades In a recent post on X, Saylor described Bitcoin’s consensus rules as its “constitution,” and said that they define property rights, scarcity, settlement, and the balance of power across the network. As such, changing those rules for the benefit of any particular group would amount to an attack on every BTC participant, both now and in future generations. He said the cryptocurrency has the potential to grow 100-fold and become the foundation of global capital, but argued that even a single “corrupt” rule adopted today could limit future markets, technologies, and economic freedom. According to Saylor, governments and political systems often justify taking away rights by claiming a crisis exists, and said Bitcoin could face a similar outcome if factions gain control of consensus. At the center of his criticism is BIP-110, a proposal Saylor argues would censor valid fee-paying transactions. BIP-110 is a temporary soft fork that “limits data field sizes to reduce blockchain bloat and refocus development on monetary use cases.” The proposal has emerged as one of the most contentious proposals this year. He had previously said that the proposed cure is more dangerous than the condition. Saylor didn’t stop at BIP-110. He also took aim at covenant-related proposals and larger-block proposals, and they may differ in design but share the same “constitutional offense”…

Uzbekistan’s Besqala Mining Valley grants crypto miners tax exemptions until 2035.  Governments earn stable revenue through mining fees while attracting foreign capital. Crypto mining incentives in El Salvador, UAE, Belarus, and Georgia come with notable tax trade-offs.  A growing number of governments now view crypto mining as an industry worth attracting rather than taxing away. The competitive logic behind this is that structured fee models on mining revenues generate consistent income, above-market electricity tariffs recover infrastructure costs, and the broader economic activity, construction, employment, and foreign investment flows into regions that often have limited industrial development otherwise. The most recent government to enter this competition is Uzbekistan. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a resolution establishing the Besqala Mining Valley across Karakalpakstan. Miners inside the zone pay zero corporate income tax, zero property tax, zero land tax, and zero VAT until January 1, 2035. A Look at Other Jurisdictions Several jurisdictions are routinely described as fully tax-free for crypto mining. The reality is more nuanced: El Salvador: 0% capital gains tax on Bitcoin, but commercial mining entities still interact with standard income tax frameworks depending on corporate structure. UAE: 0% personal income tax on individual crypto activity, but commercial mining businesses face a 9% federal corporate tax on profits exceeding AED 375,000. Mining services are expressly excluded from VAT exemptions. Georgia: Individuals pay 0% income tax on crypto sales with competitive hydroelectric power. However, corporate entities face a 15% corporate income tax on distributed profits, and winter power shortages cause seasonal cost spikes. A Look at the Non-Exemption Jurisdictions Several countries offer no exemptions for crypto mining income, taxing rewards the moment they are received. Here’s how the major markets compare: Japan: Mining rewards are classified as miscellaneous income, taxed at progressive rates reaching 55%. No corporate or individual exemptions apply. Germany:…

Last week Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) forecasted that development of hyperscale data centers in the U.S. will accelerate dramatically in the next decade. According to BNEF’s projections, data centers’ electricity demand will increase to 194 gigawatts by 2035, an 83% jump from BNEF’s forecast just eight months ago. To put this in perspective, 194 gigawatts is 20 percent of U.S. electricity consumption, equivalent to the output of roughly 194 traditional nuclear reactors. Substantial environmental and financial harms have already been caused by state and local officials’ fast-tracking of data center approvals in the roughly three years since the hyperscale development boom began. Policy guardrails must now be put in place, prior to any additional approvals, to prevent irreversible damage to the global climate as well as local air and water quality, freshwater supplies, and household finances. MEMPHIS, TN – APRIL 25: Demonstrators rally in opposition to a plan by Elon Musks’s xAI to install gas turbines at a new data center complex in Memphis, TN. (Photo by Brandon Dill for The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Washington Post via Getty Images The Power to Drive Enactment of Data Center Guardrails Fortunately, a new environmental movement has emerged just in time to make the case for these guardrails. As Abre’ Conner of the NAACP, one of the key leaders working with the frontline communities that are shaping the public narrative and creating the momentum, has stated, this latest iteration represents one of “largest expansions of people recognizing their power” in recent U.S. history. Several features of this people-powered movement provide reason for optimism that state and local leaders will respond to its call for attention to data centers’ threats to the environment and affordability. Spurring A Dramatic Local and State Policy Shift First, the new movement has already demonstrated…

SK hynix put up monster numbers. Record quarter, eye-watering profits, the whole thing. And yet the stock still tanked. If you’re staring at a red screen wondering how that math works, you’re not alone. On the day the company posted its Q2 print, shares slid hard despite the headline strength. Expectations, market structure, and good old-fashioned positioning all played a part. Let’s break down why the market sold first and asked questions later, and what to do the next time a “great” earnings report turns into a selloff. We’ll keep this practical: what mattered, what didn’t, where sentiment got ahead of itself, and how to map out the next few weeks. Aspect What to Know What happened SK hynix shares dropped roughly 12.8% intraday on July 29, 2026 after the earnings release (Associated Press). Headline results Company posted record Q2 revenue ₩79.3187T, operating profit ₩60.5426T, net profit ₩93.9226T (Business Recorder/Reuters). Against expectations Both revenue (~₩79.3T vs ~₩84T est.) and operating profit (~₩60.5T vs ~₩64T est.) came in below LSEG SmartEstimate consensus, a key reason for the drop (Business Recorder/Reuters). Broader market South Korea’s KOSPI slumped sharply around the print, with Reuters citing falls as deep as ~12.6% across the rout, amplifying moves in chip names (Business Recorder/Reuters). Capital-raising overhang Earlier in July, SK hynix completed a large U.S. ADR offering of roughly ₩40T (~US$26.5B), reshaping ownership and liquidity ahead of earnings (Yonhap/Korea Herald). Narrative vs. numbers AI memory demand is real, but the Street had leaned hard into the story. Missing consensus — even with records — invited “sell the news.” What to watch next HBM…

The MSSE and MSOL trusts each charge a 0.14% expense ratio and will stake a portion of holdings, passing rewards to investors. Morgan Stanley Investment Management launched the Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust and Morgan Stanley Solana Trust on NYSE Arca, spot exchange-traded products that will stake portions of their holdings, the firm said in a press release published Tuesday. The launch deepens the first crypto ETP franchise from a major U.S. bank-affiliated asset manager, and the staking feature puts Morgan Stanley ahead of most incumbents on yield: both funds intend to stake a portion of their ether or SOL, and MSIM said it will not keep any of the rewards for itself. The trusts, trading under MSSE and MSOL, each charge a 0.14% expense ratio and track the CoinDesk Ether and Solana Benchmark 4PM NY Settlement Rates. They follow the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust, which launched earlier this year as the first cryptocurrency ETP from a U.S. bank-affiliated asset manager and held more than $381 million in assets through July 16, according to the release. “The addition of MSSE and MSOL reflects the natural evolution of our product suite, which seeks to provide simplified access to digital assets through the ETP wrapper,” Ally Wallace, global head of ETFs for Morgan Stanley Investment Management, said in the release. Ether rose 0.7% and SOL 0.4% in the past 24 hours, both trailing Bitcoin’s 1.3% gain, according to CoinGecko. Staking From Day One Passing through staking rewards at launch separates the products from the first wave of U.S. spot crypto funds, which added staking only after regulatory treatment loosened. The 0.14% fee undercuts most established spot ether products and sits near the floor of the category. “As client interest in digital assets continues to grow, we’re focused on providing a range of digital…

As Bitcoin (BTC) price remained trapped in a consolidation over the past two months, it has seen its Open Interest (OI) – the total unsettled futures in the derivatives market – surge to a local high. Bitcoin’s OI 30D change, which shows the net buildup of new positions over the past 30 days, has climbed to about 750,000 BTC, valued at around $47.92 billion at press time, according to data from CryptoQuant, analyzed by Finbold on July 29. BTC OI 30D Change. Source: CryptoQuant The BTC OI 30D change has gradually climbed over the past two months, signaling a renewed wave of leveraged speculative trading. Binance cryptocurrency exchange recorded the highest growth in Bitcoin OI 30-day of approximately 336,550 coins, valued at over $21.53 billion at the time of reporting. Gate.io registered roughly 319,880 BTC in fresh capital to its derivatives segment. Meanwhile, Bybit crypto exchange has seen an increase of 137,860 Bitcoin, worth more than $8.8 billion at the time of publication. As such, Bitcoin price is prone to higher volatility due to the impact of more potential liquidations, as per Arab Chain.   “With Bitcoin trading near $63,000, a continuation of this trend could increase the likelihood of heightened volatility and large-scale liquidations, particularly if Bitcoin experiences a sharp price move in either direction,” Arab Chain noted. Bitcoin price outlook amid elevated OI As Bitcoin’s OI surged to a two-month high, BTC’s OI-Weighted Funding Rate – a fee set by crypto exchanges to maintain balance between perpetual contract price and the value of the underlying asset – has remained predominantly positive, based on metrics from CoinGlass. Historically, a positive Funding Rate has been associated with bullish sentiment and vice versa. BTC OI-weighted Funding Rate. Source: CoinGlass With Bitcoin price having been trapped in a consolidation between $66,300 and $58,550…

Peter Zhang Jul 29, 2026 09:08 TON sits at $1.60 with momentum flatlined and spot volume drying up — a daily close below $1.57 triggers a flush toward $1.52, while the only credible bull case demands a high-volume reclaim above … TON’s Technical Reality Check The setup here is ugly but not yet catastrophic. TON is trading below its SMA 20 ($1.64), SMA 50 ($1.78), and both short-term EMAs — but critically, it’s still holding above the SMA 200 at $1.55. That long-term floor is the single structural element keeping the bull case on life support. Momentum has essentially flatlined. The MACD has converged with its signal line to near-identical values, and the histogram has compressed to zero — that isn’t neutrality, that’s exhaustion. With RSI parked at 44.5, buyers aren’t stepping up with any real conviction. The market is in that uncomfortable no-man’s land where neither side wants to commit capital. Stochastics add one nuance worth watching: %K is creeping upward from deeper oversold territory, which hints at a reflexive bounce condition slowly building — but it hasn’t convincingly crossed its signal line, and the gap between a coiling stochastic and a dead MACD is precisely the tension this entire range pivots on. Bollinger Bands frame the picture cleanly. At a %B of 0.33, price is drifting toward the lower band at $1.52 while the upper band sits at $1.75 — a nearly 14% ceiling that won’t get touched without a meaningful catalyst. As Blockchain.news has covered in its broader TON ecosystem tracking, this coin has been in a prolonged decompression phase since its 2024 peaks, and the current moving average stack reflects exactly that: a market still digesting layers of overhead supply with no obvious buyer stepping in to absorb…

In brief AI companies are anonymously buying physical books in bulk and destroying them after scanning them for AI training. Booksellers say demand for obscure and out-of-print titles has surged, raising fears that rare books are disappearing. A federal judge ruled that destructive scanning of legally purchased books can qualify as fair use, even as separate copyright litigation continues. Like a scene out of the classic dystopian novel “Fahrenheit 451,” some AI companies aren’t just reading books—they’re destroying them. As developers race to build more powerful AI models, and lawsuits over copyright mount, a cottage industry has sprung up to supply them with millions of physical books that are stripped apart, scanned into training datasets, and discarded.  First reported by 404 Media, AI companies are using intermediaries to acquire books at industrial scale anonymously. Companies specializing in bulk sourcing advertise their ability to locate hundreds of thousands of titles while promising confidentiality for AI clients, reflecting the sensitivity surrounding the practice. Critics say the buying spree is driven by AI companies racing to preserve human-authored knowledge before it is diluted by AI-generated text, often called “AI slop.” Books published before the rise of generative AI in 2023 are especially valuable because they provide high-quality training data written entirely by humans. The surge in demand is already reshaping the used-book market. One unnamed bookseller told 404 Media that weekly sales climbed from roughly 20 books to several hundred after AI buyers entered the market. While the increase has been profitable, he said he worries uncommon and out-of-print books are being permanently lost after they are scanned and destroyed. “It benefits me financially as well as by clearing out old inventory that is otherwise unlikely to sell,” the bookseller told 404 Media. “I’ve been well suited for these sales with inventory…

Bitcoin remains range-bound as investors await key policy catalysts There are two main drivers for crypto this week, keeping Bitcoin trapped within its $58,000-$65,000 summer consolidation range. The cautious tone is being set by the Fed’s policy decision scheduled later on Wednesday, a key catalyst for risk assets. While rates are widely expected to remain unchanged, investors will be closely watching for any signals pointing to tighter monetary policy through future rate hikes, which could weigh further on digital asset prices. Bitcoin already came under pressure this week, slipping towards the $63,000 level as rising oil prices and renewed inflation concerns following the latest escalation in the Middle East fuelled expectations of a more hawkish Fed. The subsequent fragile pause did little to calm nerves, triggering a pullback across cryptocurrencies before some of those losses were pared. Trump made more crypto income than Coinbase – Bill odds dim Beyond the Fed, investors are also watching the increasingly uncertain path of the US Clarity Act, which would establish a regulatory framework for digital assets, with the Senate increasingly unlikely to vote on the bill before the August recess. While the legislation has been a major source of optimism for the industry, its progress has slowed amid a debate over ethics provisions linked to President Donald Trump’s and his family’s extensive crypto interests, reducing confidence that the bill will advance on the timetable many had hoped for. Notably, the ‘crypto president’ has become an unexpected hurdle to the very industry he has championed. Trump reportedly generated at least $1.4 billion in crypto-related income last year, surpassing the earnings of any publicly listed US digital-asset company, including Coinbase, the largest US crypto exchange, which reported $1.2 billion. ETF inflow streak ends, conviction stays weak Further adding to the cautious mood, demand for US-listed…

The post HYPE Price Slides as Whale Selling Grows, But Grayscale Sees Long-Term Value appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News The HYPE price has been under pressure since peaking at $76.80 in June, extending its decline and aiming toward the 200-day EMA at $50.23. With the token already testing investor confidence, another break below the $54.37 support could accelerate the short-term correction.  Yet, beneath the selling pressure, the fundamental narrative isn’t quite as one-sided as … Source: https://coinpedia.org/price-analysis/hype-price-slides-as-whale-selling-grows-but-grayscale-sees-long-term-value/

Morgan Stanley’s new Ethereum and Solana exchange-traded products generated roughly $38 million in combined trading volume on their first day, giving the Wall Street firm an immediate presence in two crypto fund markets dominated by earlier entrants. The Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust (MSSE) recorded 933,715 shares traded Tuesday and attracted $5.15 million of net inflows. The Morgan Stanley Solana Trust (MSOL) traded 951,216 shares, producing roughly $19 million of turnover but no net creations. Each product began trading on NYSE Arca at around $20 per share. Data from SoSoValue shows that the MSSE’s inflows represented more than a third of the roughly $14.5 million that entered US ETH funds during the session. BlackRock’s staking-enabled ETHB drew $5.9 million, and its larger ETHA product added $3.5 million. Morgan Stanley Ethereum Fund Debut Performance (Source: SoSoValue) Meanwhile, the Solana market moved in the opposite direction, with the existing fund group losing $18.1 million as investors pulled the entire amount from Bitwise’s BSOL. The contrasting debuts provide an early test of how much market share Morgan Stanley can capture after entering both categories late. MSSE converted a sizable portion of its first-day trading into new assets, while MSOL drew comparable secondary-market activity during a session when investors were reducing exposure to the broader Solana fund complex. Morgan Stanley Investment Management launched the two products July 28 as an extension of a crypto lineup that began with the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust in April. MSBT had accumulated more than $400 million in assets as of press time despite entering a Bitcoin fund market already led by BlackRock and Fidelity. The new products also push Morgan Stanley beyond simple spot exposure. Both can stake their underlying assets, placing the firm directly into a growing competition over how much yield fund issuers return to investors. Morgan…

More than a decade after its release — and following a post-Coachella viral surge — Justin Bieber’s “Beauty and a Beat” is a bestseller again in the U.K. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 13: Justin Bieber attends The 2021 Met Gala Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 13, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue ) Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue More than a year after releasing his surprise album Swag, Justin Bieber is still in promotional mode. The Canadian pop superstar recently performed during the first-ever World Cup halftime show, where he sang “Everything Hallelujah,” which is featured on the quick Swag follow-up Swag II. Several tracks from the original Swag, including “Daisies” and “Yukon,” remain hits around the world, and both continue to perform well in the United Kingdom. Amazingly, despite Bieber’s high-profile performance of “Everything Hallelujah” and his push behind the Swag II single “Speed Demon,” it is a tune from more than a decade ago that becomes a bestseller again and climbs on every ranking on which it appears. Justin Bieber Returns to Two U.K. Sales Charts “Beauty and a Beat,” Bieber’s collaboration with Nicki Minaj, returns to two sales rankings in the U.K. this week. The smash reappears at Nos. 75 and 81 on the Official Singles Downloads and Official Singles Sales charts, respectively. The two tallies measure slightly different forms of consumption. The Official Singles Sales chart combines digital downloads with physical purchases – those on CD, cassette and vinyl – while the Official Singles Downloads ranking focuses only on tracks bought via online stores. The History of “Beauty and a Beat” on the Charts Between the rosters where it returns this week, “Beauty and a Beat”…

Introduction If you’re asking whether NFTs are dead, the honest answer is: much smaller than they were, but not zero. Monthly NFT sales have fallen from over $1 billion at the 2021–22 peak to roughly $300 million as of early 2026 — a real and lasting contraction, not a rumor. At the same time, a genuine (if much smaller) market of collectors is still buying, selling, and holding digital art and collectibles. Whether NFTs are “dead,” “still a thing,” or somewhere in between mostly comes down to which part of that story you’re looking at. So, Are NFTs Dead? Not entirely, but the market has clearly cooled off hard. According to Animoca Brands co-founder Yat Siu, speaking to CoinDesk in January 2026, NFT sales have dropped from over $1 billion a month at the 2021/22 peak to around $300 million a month today. That’s a roughly 70% decline — a serious contraction by any measure, but still hundreds of millions of dollars in monthly activity, not zero. Siu argues NFTs specifically aren’t dead because a community of wealthy, long-term collectors continues to drive real demand — people who buy digital art the way a traditional collector buys a Picasso or a vintage car, not to flip for a quick profit. Siu described his own NFT portfolio as down roughly 80% in value, but said these were never purchases he intended to resell, framing them instead as long-term collectible assets. What Happened to NFTs? The short version: a speculative bubble popped, and most of what was built on top of it didn’t have lasting demand behind it. A 2024 report by NFTevening — covered by ArtNews and based on data from NFTScan covering more than 5,000 NFT collections and 5 million transactions — found that roughly 95% of studied NFT collections…

Every guide on the subject tells you the same thing: locked liquidity means the team cannot rug you, so the token is safer. That was true when the only exit was draining the pool. On modern launchpads the lock has become the scam’s revenue engine, and the checkmark you are looking for is the thing paying the attacker. Summary Locked liquidity means the tokens representing a trading pool’s assets are held in a time-locked contract the creator cannot withdraw from, which blocks the classic rug pull where a team drains the pool and disappears. Nearly every explainer treats that as a safety signal, and in the narrow sense it is: the specific attack it prevents is real and was once the dominant way memecoin buyers lost money. Modern launchpads pair locked liquidity with claimable creator fees, so the pool that cannot be drained still pays its creator a share of every trade, indefinitely. That combination converts a one-time theft into a permanent income stream, and it means an attacker has no reason to rug, because not rugging is more profitable than rugging. Locked liquidity also says nothing about supply concentration, contract permissions, the identity of the team, or whether anyone will still be trading the token next week. There is a checkbox that appears on token screeners, launchpad interfaces, and every safety checklist written for memecoin traders: liquidity locked. Finding it is presented as one of the essential steps before buying an anonymous token, and the reasoning behind that advice is sound as far as it goes. A liquidity lock genuinely does prevent the single most destructive attack in decentralized finance, the rug pull, in which a token’s creator removes the assets backing the trading pool and leaves holders with something they cannot sell. The guides are unanimous. One says…

EUR/CHF EUR/CHF hit new highest level in nearly seven months, following the latest acceleration higher on Tue/Wed, extension of larger uptrend. The Swiss Franc remains under pressure due to low interest rates, with the latest rumors that the SNB may hold zero rates until end of 2027, adding to negative outlook for the currency. Bulls broke above 50% retracement of 0.9661/0.8978 downtrend, holding in green for the fourth consecutive week and on track for the second monthly gain, with reversal pattern developing on monthly chart (bullish failure swing), signaling that recovery from new multi-year low (0.8977) is gaining traction. Daily studies remain in full bullish setup but overbought stochastic and momentum indicators turned to sideways mode, suggesting that bulls may take a breather for consolidation before resuming towards 0.9400 zone (Fibo 61.8% / top of weekly Ichimoku cloud). Former tops at 0.9270/80 zone (June/July) reinforced by ascending 10DMA should ideally contain dips and guard supports at 0.9244/38 (20DMA / broken Fibo 38.2%). Res: 0.9342; 0.9400; 0.9445; 0.9500.Sup: 0.9303; 0.9266; 0.9244; 0.9211. Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/analysis/eur-chf-outlook-continues-to-trend-higher-as-swiss-franc-remains-pressured-by-low-interest-rates-202607291417

Sixteen years have passed since a defining statement by Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin‘s enigmatic creator, was made on the Bitcointalk forum, shaping the cryptocurrency realm. The comment, a cornerstone for the digital asset community, emerged from an early conversation about Bitcoin’s scalability. Continue Reading:The Lasting Words of Bitcoin’s Elusive Creator Source: https://en.bitcoinhaber.net/the-lasting-words-of-bitcoins-elusive-creator

The July count sits far below the 1,177 unique investors CryptoRank recorded at the March 2022 peak, pointing to a smaller, more selective pool of backers. Only 150 unique venture capital firms have participated in crypto funding rounds in July, the lowest monthly count since November 2020, according to CryptoRank data through July 28. The figure captures how far the investor base has compressed since the last bull market: at the May 2022 peak, 1,177 investors wrote checks into crypto rounds in a single month, meaning participation has fallen 87%. The smaller funds, family offices and angel syndicates that crowded into rounds during 2021 and 2022 have largely exited, leaving a concentrated circle of established firms leading deals. The quarterly picture points the same direction. Some 651 firms participated in crypto rounds in the second quarter, down about 75% from 2,564 in the second quarter of 2022, per CryptoRank. Fewer Checks, Bigger Moats The shrinking headcount does not necessarily mean less capital. Large firms keep backing infrastructure and real-world asset plays, and Dragonfly closed a $650 million fourth fund in February. But Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly, told Fortune at the time that blockchain VCs face a “mass extinction,” and he has argued that dedicated crypto venture capital could lose its reason to exist by 2030 as dominant platforms capture users and liquidity, leaving few important companies left to fund. One month of partial data leaves room for seasonal noise — summer is typically slow for venture — but the distance from the 2022 peak makes a blip unlikely. The open question is whether a token market recovery or U.S. legislative clarity would revive the long tail of smaller funds, or whether crypto venture has permanently consolidated into an insider market where the same names price every round. Source:…

OpenAI’s AI agent, which broke out of a secure test environment and hacked Hugging Face, also exploited vulnerable code written by a Modal Labs customer.  Modal’s chief technology officer confirmed the exploit but stressed that Modal itself was not breached. How the OpenAI Agent Reached Modal Labs’ Customer In a recent blog post, OpenAI revealed that its AI models were behind the AI-driven security incident at Hugging Face. The firm called it an “unprecedented cyber incident.” New details show the rogue AI agent reached beyond Hugging Face’s own systems. Modal CTO Akshat Bubna told Reuters that it exploited a customer’s vulnerable code hosted on Modal. Bubna explained that the customer had published an endpoint with no authentication. Anyone on the internet could use their sandboxes to execute code. “Modal’s platform or isolation were not compromised in any way,” the executive stated. Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens Hugging Face described the rooted sandbox in its own technical timeline published on July 27. The post said the sandbox sat on a third-party provider’s infrastructure, but did not name the provider. OpenAI’s July 28 update states that the models used publicly exposed credentials to reach 4 accounts on 4 services. “One of these four accounts was used as an outbound relay and staging path, and another account was used for data storage. The remaining two accounts were accessed by the models in a read-only manner, and were not used in furtherance of compromising Hugging Face,” the firm said. OpenAI also deactivated, encrypted, and restricted research access to the internal prototype model involved. It says no other activity matched the severity or scale of the platform-level Hugging Face compromise. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch leaders and journalists provide expert insights The post The OpenAI Agent…

15:30 Bitcoin lags while the Dow jumps 537 points as earnings and cheaper oil offset chip selloff The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied on Tuesday as strong corporate earnings, falling oil prices and a shift away from semiconductor stocks pushed money into other corners of the market. The Dow gained 537.24 points, or 1.03%, to close at 52,747.32, its third consecutive winning session. The S&P 500 rose 0.21% to 7,428.78, while the Nasdaq Composite fell 0.22% to 24,876.91, as tech stocks continued to fall. The VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) fell more than 3%, marking its fourth consecutive loss day. Micron Technology (MU) and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) each dropped more than 8%. Lower oil prices helped support the broader market after Iran discussed the Strait of Hormuz with Saudi Arabia and Oman. West Texas Intermediate crude fell about 4% to settle at $79.26 per barrel, while international benchmark Brent crude dropped 4.8% to $84.09. Investors are now awaiting the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate decision, which is largely expected to hold its benchmark lending rate steady, despite continued inflation making the outlook for the remainder of the year more dubious. A hold is not completely priced into the market. The CME FedWatch Tool shows a nearly 30% chance of a 25-basis-point rate increase, up from roughly 15% one week ago. Bitcoin, meanwhile, is showing some of its clearest signs yet that it may be forming a long-term bottom after months of weakness. The cryptocurrency has traded around the $60,000 level for almost two months after falling below $70,000 at the beginning of June. It remains about 50% below its October record of roughly $126,000. Bitcoin’s advance toward $83,000 in May was viewed as an opportunity to reduce exposure before another period of long-term weakness. Since then, the price has held above…

Robinhood in the spotlight  Robinhood transitions from zero to millions in activity? Following the recent launch of RobinhoodChain earlier this month, the protocol has continued to post explosive growth in its key metrics across the DeFi and RWAs ecosystem. With Robinhood gaining massive traction following its big move this month, it has recorded an explosive surge in transfer activity over the last 30 days. Robinhood in the spotlight  While the grand debut of the blockchain has brought the Robinhood ecosystem into the spotlight, the protocol has continued to gain traction amid rapid adoption from users across the world. Whales Want Ethereum (ETH) Above $2,000 Now: Binance Withdrawals Spike Next XRP Move May Break $1 Threshold, Ethereum (ETH) Already Eyes $2,000, Near Protocol (NEAR) Is Out of Trend: Crypto Market Review Amid this unprecedented growth, the latest onchain data from the RWAs Foundation shows that RWA transfer volume on Robinhood’s network has surged by 2,424,301% over the last 30 days. Following this never-before-seen seven-figure surge in such an important metric, Robinhood’s RWA transfer volume is now sitting at $885.50 million as of Wednesday, July 29. It is important to note that the explosive surge arrived shortly after RobinhoodChain officially went live. This suggests that the network is driving adoption for Robinhood as users and developers begin to rapidly use the platform. Robinhood transitions from zero to millions in activity? With such an exceptional increase in the platform’s RWA transfer volume, market participants have been drawn to the network as it continues to outperform major networks, including Ethereum and Solana, in key metrics. Notably, the dramatic increase within the month demonstrates Robinhood’s transition from virtually no activity before launch to massive transaction volumes following its debut.  While the milestone has sparked discussion across the crypto community, market participants believe that the growth…

BNY has expanded its blockchain strategy by bringing the ownership records behind investment funds onchain through a new digital transfer agency platform for institutional clients. Summary BNY has launched a blockchain based transfer agency platform to keep fund ownership records onchain. The service will first support tokenized funds from Baillie Gifford, BlackRock and BNY Dreyfus. BNY’s transfer agency business manages about $8.6 trillion in assets across 7.6 million investor accounts. The launch follows BNY’s recent expansion into USDC services and MiCA regulated crypto custody in Europe. The Financial Times reported that the New York-based custodian bank will launch a blockchain-enabled version of its transfer agency business, allowing fund ownership records and investor transactions to be maintained on a shared digital ledger while continuing to operate its existing transfer agency services. BNY has moved fund ownership records onto blockchain Rather than tokenizing only investment products, BNY is applying blockchain technology to the record-keeping infrastructure that supports fund operations. According to the Financial Times, the platform will keep official ownership records onchain, creating a shared source of information for participants involved in fund administration. Carolyn Weinberg, BNY’s chief product and innovation officer, told the publication that the project modernizes the books and records supporting fund transactions by moving them onto blockchain infrastructure. Transfer agents maintain official records of fund investors, process subscriptions and redemptions, update shareholder registers and support communications between funds and investors. Those records are usually spread across systems operated by fund managers, custodians and administrators, making regular reconciliation necessary. By placing the records on a shared ledger, BNY intends to reduce the need for separate databases while giving authorized participants access to the same source of ownership information. According to the report, BNY’s transfer agency business supports approximately $8.6 trillion in assets across 7.6 million investor accounts. The bank…

According to Reuters, United States (US) President Donald Trump said in a phone interview with Fox News on Wednesday that the US would carry out further strikes against Iran in response to attacks targeting US positions in Jordan. He also said he would “let them keep talking,” suggesting that ongoing discussions would not prevent military action. The interview was not broadcast, but a Fox News reporter summarized Trump’s remarks. The comments mark a further escalation in rhetoric between Washington and Tehran as geopolitical tensions remain elevated across the Middle East. Market reaction Investors continue to monitor developments closely, as any further military escalation between the United States and Iran could fuel risk aversion across financial markets and boost demand for safe-haven assets. The US Dollar (USD) reacted with modest gains following Trump’s comments, with the US Dollar Index (DXY) rising 0.04% on the day to trade around 101.45 at the time of writing. Meanwhile, Oil prices move sharply higher, with West Texas Intermediate (WTI) US Oil surging 6.4% to $83.40 per barrel as investors price in the risk of further disruptions to Middle East energy supplies. US Dollar Price Today The table below shows the percentage change of US Dollar (USD) against listed major currencies today. US Dollar was the strongest against the Australian Dollar. USD EUR GBP JPY CAD AUD NZD CHF USD 0.08% 0.05% -0.03% -0.06% 0.45% 0.18% 0.05% EUR -0.08% -0.03% -0.11% -0.17% 0.39% 0.09% -0.03% GBP -0.05% 0.03% -0.07% -0.10% 0.40% 0.14% 0.01% JPY 0.03% 0.11% 0.07% -0.01% 0.52% 0.19% 0.09% CAD 0.06% 0.17% 0.10% 0.01% 0.53% 0.22% 0.12% AUD -0.45% -0.39% -0.40% -0.52% -0.53% -0.29% -0.40% NZD -0.18% -0.09% -0.14% -0.19% -0.22% 0.29% -0.11% CHF -0.05% 0.03% -0.01% -0.09% -0.12% 0.40% 0.11% The heat map shows percentage changes of major currencies against each other. The…

This same story repeated in June but from a different angle: the month’s largest loss, more than $30 million at Humanity Protocol, came from a private key compromised on a team member’s machine, with the contract untouched, per the project’s own account. This is the shape of 2026’s worst losses, with crypto losing roughly $972 million so far this year. The number of incidents keeps climbing, and the money increasingly leaves through something other than a contract bug: a stolen signing key, a misconfigured verifier, a treasury anyone can vote their way into. If you look at the sheer number of incidents, you would think the industry is losing ground. But if you look into how much has actually been stolen in total, a narrower, more uncomfortable pattern shows up. We can be precise about it. Across the 425 hacks we studied from 2021 to 2025, a small share of operational failures carries most of the value lost. In the 2024 to 2025 window, 54.6% of all value lost, across 191 hacks, can be traced to centralized exchange compromises: the keys, custody and signing that sit above the contract. However, none of this means the code layer is solved. Criticals are everywhere in live code. 93.9% of programs that run five years or more surface a confirmed critical, and roughly one in five confirmed reports is rated critical. The code is never finished either. Every upgrade ships fresh attack surface. What has changed is that continuous, incentivized review now keeps pace with attackers on that code, which is exactly why the same model has to reach further. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/coindesk-indices/2026/07/29/crypto-long-and-short-what-this-year-s-usd972-million-crypto-hacks-actually-tell-us-about-security

XRP’s monthly RSI is more oversold than during the March 2020 COVID crash, down 72% from its all-time high per analyst Ash Crypto OSL Hong Kong opened XRP retail trading, making it the first exchange in Hong Kong to do so with settlement via the XRP Ledger Spot XRP netflow hit -$9.98M on July 29, meaning more XRP left exchanges than entered, a supply-reducing signal despite the price weakness XRP trades at $1.0873 on July 29, up 1.83%, attempting a bounce inside a descending wedge that has compressed price since the May peak as its monthly RSI sits at the most oversold reading in the token’s history. XRP Is Still Inside The Descending Wedge With The Supertrend Bearish XRP 1D Price Action (Source: TradingView) The daily chart shows XRP compressing inside a descending wedge with both trendlines visibly converging. The lower trendline has held through multiple tests near $1.05. Today’s bounce is pressing against the upper trendline near $1.10 to $1.12. The Supertrend at $1.1621 sits bearish above price and is the first indicator that needs to flip for any trend change to be confirmed on the daily timeframe. All four EMAs slope downward above current price. The 20-day at $1.0983 is the immediate ceiling, sitting almost exactly at current price. The Ichimoku cloud remains bearish above, adding another layer to the overhead resistance stack. The $1.00 round number and the June low define the floor if the wedge breaks lower. What Are The Key Support And Resistance Levels For XRP Today? Resistance $1.0983 — 20-day EMA, immediate ceiling at current price $1.1315 — 50-day EMA $1.1621 — Supertrend, needs to flip bullish for trend confirmation $1.2163 — 100-day EMA, extended upside target Support $1.0665 — Today’s session low and wedge lower trendline $1.0500 — Recent support zone from prior…

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 22: A general view of the exterior of Rose Bowl Stadium before the game between the UCLA Bruins and the Washington Huskies on November 22, 2025 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images) Getty Images CEO Jens Weiden explains how financial discipline, historic preservation and the Los Angeles Olympic Games are reshaping one of America’s most iconic sports venues for its next century. (This is part 2 of a 2-part story based on a Forbes exclusive interview with Jens Weiden July 9, 2026. All quotes are taken directly from a transcript of the interview.) Nearly every city dreams of hosting the Olympic Games. Those hopes are tempered by cautionary tales that have often happened after the Olympic flame is put out. From abandoned venues in Athens to a 30-year debt burden on the city of Montreal, the Olympics have too often left behind financial wreckage and monuments with uncertain futures. The construction costs may generate headlines, but the long-term economics frequently can become an albatross. ATHENS, GREECE – JULY 31: General view of the former Olympic Village in Athens, Greece on July 31, 2014. Ten years ago the XXVIII Olympiad was held in Athens from the 13th – 29th August with the motto “Welcome Home”. The cost of hosting the games was estimated to be approx 9 billion euros with the majority of sporting venues built specifically for the games. Due to Greece’s economic frailties post Olympic Games there has been no further investment and the majority of the newly constructed stadiums now lie abandoned. (Photo by Milos Bicanski/Getty Images) Getty Images The Rose Bowl has chosen a different path. For Rose Bowl Operating Company CEO Jens Weiden, that distinction reflects years of careful planning rather than Olympic good fortune. “One of the things when…

BNY, one of the world’s largest custodian banks, is taking a major step toward blockchain-based financial infrastructure by moving fund ownership records onchain. The New York-based institution will launch a blockchain-based version of its transfer agency business, which manages fund ownership records and investor transactions, the Financial Times reported Wednesday. “We think of BNY as modernizing a function that sits behind every single fund transaction by bringing the books and records on-chain,” Carolyn Weinberg, BNY’s chief product and innovation officer, reportedly said. The move follows BNY’s broader digital asset expansion, including its European regulatory progress under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework, as the bank positions itself for the next phase of institutional blockchain adoption. What are transfer agency records? Transfer agents are financial service providers that maintain official records of who owns shares in investment funds. They handle tasks such as processing investor transactions, issuing and redeeming fund shares, updating ownership records and supporting communication between funds and investors. These records form part of the behind-the-scenes infrastructure that allows investment funds to operate. Traditionally, ownership information is stored across multiple systems used by fund managers, custodians and other market participants, requiring frequent reconciliation. Related: USDC issuer Circle to acquire nearly 1,000 IBM blockchain patents According to the report, BNY’s transfer agent services cover roughly $8.6 trillion in assets across 7.6 million accounts. The company, which oversees more than $59 trillion in assets under custody and administration, will reportedly maintain its traditional transfer agency operations alongside the new digital platform. Baillie Gifford among early users for tokenized funds By moving transfer agency records onchain, BNY aims to create a shared source of information for market participants, reducing reliance on separate databases and manual reconciliation processes. Early users of BNY’s digital transfer agency reportedly include Edinburgh, Scotland-based asset manager Baillie…

RL1 inherits SWIAT’s production network, which processed more than €700 million in transactions over three years before ownership moved to the Luxembourg cooperative. Ten European financial institutions, including ABN AMRO, DekaBank, DZ BANK and Natixis CIB, launched Regulated Layer One, a jointly owned blockchain network for regulated financial markets, the group said in a press release published Tuesday. The launch consolidates one of Europe’s longest-running bank blockchain efforts into shared, member-owned infrastructure at a moment when tokenization pilots across the region are colliding with a fragmented patchwork of private networks. RL1 is structured as a European Cooperative Society, or SCE, domiciled in Luxembourg, and every member holds equal decision-making rights over the network’s governance and development. The network runs on infrastructure built by SWIAT, the Frankfurt-based fintech owned by DekaBank, LBBW, SC Ventures and Comyno, which transferred ownership of the network to the cooperative. The system has operated in production for three years and settled more than 50 transactions worth over 700 million euros, or about $815 million, according to the release. Henning Vollbehr, who ran SWIAT as managing director, moves over to lead the new cooperative. “RL1 will serve as the connecting infrastructure for Europe’s digital financial market, enabling participating institutions to move from isolated tokenization initiatives to an integrated, liquid, and scalable capital market ecosystem,” Vollbehr said in the release. One Member, One Vote The founding cohort spans Germany, the Netherlands, France and Spain: ABN AMRO, Cecabank, Chartered Investment, Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale, DekaBank, DZ BANK, LBBW, Natixis CIB, SC Ventures and Seturion. NatWest, listed on RL1’s site as “joining soon,” participated in the initiative’s first phase, and German state-owned lenders KfW and L-Bank back the project as supporters. The cooperative said talks are underway with several other European banks. The permissioned network targets the workflows regulated institutions…

In this technical block, we’re going to take a quick look at the Elliott Wave charts of NIFTY Index published in members area of the website. Recently, NIFTY completed a 3-wave corrective pullback following a 5-wave impulsive rally, creating a classic Elliott Wave bullish sequence. The index unfolded a clear 3-wave move lower from the peak and reached the Equal Legs zone, a key area where buyers were expected to step in. In the following analysis, we will examine the Elliott Wave structure in detail and discuss the potential market outlook from this support zone. NIFTY Elliott Wave one-hour chart 07.23.2026 NIFTY is currently forming an intraday 3-wave pullback from the recent highs.  Correction looks incomplete at the moment. The price structure is looking for another wave down. As our members know, the buying zone is derived by measuring the Equal Legs area using the Fibonacci extension tool. The ideal support zone comes in at 23641.9-23192.3. From this area, we expect buyers to step in and regain control, potentially driving price higher toward new highs. Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/nifty-elliott-wave-calling-for-a-rally-after-corrective-pullback-202607291316

Key Points Hungarian authorities eliminate controversial validation requirement following market disruption. CoinCash obtains Hungary’s inaugural direct MiCA license from the central bank. Repeal eliminates additional transaction verification while maintaining MiCA obligations. Previous regulations forced crypto businesses to halt operations and scale back presence. CoinCash announces phased relaunch including custody, exchange and advisory offerings. Hungarian legislators have eliminated the country’s crypto transaction validation system after determining the mandate contradicted European Union regulations. This reversal eliminates mandatory third-party verification for specific conversions and enables renewed operations under the MiCA regulatory structure. CoinCash is preparing a staged market reentry following direct authorization from Hungary’s National Bank. Legislative Body Eliminates Crypto Validation Mandate Lawmakers passed new legislation eliminating the validation requirement previously imposed on crypto asset service operators and particular transactions. The new law also removes associated criminal penalties addressing crypto misuse and unlicensed exchange operations. Companies remain obligated to fulfill licensing, consumer protection, and regulatory compliance standards established by MiCA. The validation framework took effect July 1, 2025, after amendments were enacted through Hungary’s digital asset legislation. Authorized validators reviewed asset sources, wallet ownership details, customer identification, and transaction histories before providing compliance certificates. Accordingly, affected conversions lacked legal standing without proper certification. Government representatives stated the supplementary procedure surpassed European mandates and undermined regular market operations. Hungary implemented this system concurrently with MiCA while reducing the available transition window for service operators. The European Union permitted extended national transition frameworks running through July 1, 2026. Previous Regulatory Structure Hampered Crypto Operations The former regulations generated confusion for consumers, platforms, and local service operators. Multiple enterprises paused operations, curtailed domestic offerings, or evaluated relocating activities to alternative European jurisdictions. Subsequently, trading volumes declined as firms navigated overlapping verification and licensing requirements. Prior criminal statutes also established incarceration terms for unlicensed crypto trading and…

Crypto News Bitcoin (BTC) is heading into the July 29 Federal Reserve decision with a macro warning from traditional safe-haven markets, as gold trades near $4,020 after losing 28% from its January all-time-high of $5,598. The metal’s slide matters for crypto because it shows how elevated real rates and a stronger policy stance can reduce demand for non-yielding assets, a dynamic that also weighs on digital-asset valuations. Weekly momentum gauges still favor sellers, yet volatility compression around a tight range suggests a decisive expansion may be near, with the policy statement the likely catalyst. Futures pricing data imply a 64.2% chance that the Federal Open Market Committee keeps its target band at 350 to 375 basis points, while a 35.8% probability remains assigned to a move up to 375 to 400 basis points. That split keeps traders defensive even though all 104 economists in a surveyed consensus expect no change, after June headline inflation cooled to 3.5% and core inflation eased to 2.6%. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has not signaled relief, arguing that softer data do not mean the policy fight is finished. The geopolitical backdrop adds another input for risk assets: a pause in US-Iran strikes lowered oil by about 6%, easing immediate inflation pressure, but any breakdown could revive haven flows and renewed rate-hike concerns. That technical pressure reinforces the macro risk facing Bitcoin. For Bitcoin, the same macro channels influence liquidity, dollar strength, and appetite for long-duration risk. With COINOTAG aggregate data showing Bitcoin near $64K and the crypto Fear and Greed Index at 29, the Fed’s language may matter more than any single crypto-native catalyst this week. The second signal for Bitcoin comes from gold fund positioning and technical structure, where selling pressure is slowing but the broader trend remains bearish. US-listed gold exchange-traded funds recorded…

DETROIT, MICHIGAN – JUNE 29: Aldrich Potgieter of South Africa poses with the trophy after winning the Rocket Classic 2025 at Detroit Golf Club on June 29, 2025 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) Getty Images With the FedEx Cup Playoffs on the horizon on the PGA Tour, several golfers are looking for ways to add both FedEx Cup points and Official World Golf Rankings to bolster their resume for the remainder of this year, and beyond. Tournaments like the upcoming Rocket Classic are a great way for players to do just that, while the majority of the big-name players on tour are taking time off before the grueling stretch in the playoffs before the tour championship at East Lake in August. When you look at a tournament such as the Rocket Classic, it usually lacks the firepower of other tournaments which players have the option of playing; however, this year the Rocket Classic got a boost when players like Cameron Young and Xander Schauffele entered the field. It isn’t the feel of a major event, but it does add some intrigue to the tournament. Let’s take a look at the details of the upcoming Rocket Classic: Dates: Jul 30–Aug 2, 2026 Location: Detroit, Michigan Course: Detroit Golf Club Course Details: Par 70, 7,328 yards Field: Rocket Classic Field Total Purse: $10 million It’s still important to take a look at the past winners of this event: Rocket Classic Past Winners 2025: Aldreich Potgeiter 2024: Cam Davis 2023: Rickie Fowler 2022: Tony Finau 2021: Cam Davis Let’s take a look at pre-tournament winner odds: 2026 Rocket Classic Odds Cameron Young (+1025) Xander Schauffele (+1650) Si Woo Kim (+1800) Chris Gotterup (+1800) Wyndham Clark (+1850) When it comes to picks for this event, I’d start with my favorite and…

Key Takeaways: Hungary has lifted a requirement for the third-party validation of crypto conversions. The government largely claimed that the rule was incompatible with EU law and was hampering cryptocurrencies in the local market. CoinCash has become the first crypto company in Hungary to receive a MiCA license. Hungary has made another significant step in an effort to bring their digital asset regulations into line with the European Union. Parliament has approved the repeal of the mandatory crypto validation system in the country, and local exchange CoinCash has gained the first Markets in Crypto Assets regulation (MiCA) license from the National Bank of Hungary. Hungary Removes Extra Layer of Crypto Transaction Checks A bill to abolish the requirement for cryptocurrency validity in Hungary was passed in the Hungarian Parliament by 143 votes to 46, along with a single abstention. The measure removes the requirement for the licensed third-party validators to validate some crypto-to-fiat conversion and crypto-to-crypto conversion before that can take place. The validation framework took effect on July 1, 2025. Before the change, a compliance declaration from an authorized validator was required for the conversion of digital assets. Validators undertake the task of customer identity and wallet ownership checks as well as source of funds. It’s also added criminal penalties for unauthorized crypto exchange services and attempts made outside the authorized process. The reason for its withdrawal was that it would not have been compatible with EU legislation, the government said. The authorities admitted that the harsher system caused trouble to the use of cryptos and crypto service providers in Hungary. Read More: BitPay Secures EU-Wide MiCA License, Unlocking Regulated Crypto Payments Across 27 Nations CoinCash Receives Hungary’s First MiCA Authorization The upgrade of the regulations follows Hungary granting its first authorization based on the EU’s MiCA framework to…

XRP price has collapsed roughly 67% from its all-time high, the deepest wound among major cryptocurrencies (the top 5 excluding stablecoins). Additionally, its market setup is turning more dangerous by the week. This is not ordinary market weakness. A rare pileup of leveraged longs and a quiet retreat by the largest whales are combining to make XRP the most fragile major coin in the market. XRP Price Has Fallen Harder Than Any Major Coin A cross-asset drawdown tracker, which measures how far each coin sits below its record high, puts XRP dead last. The token is down about 67% from its peak, against roughly 48% for Bitcoin, 60% for Ethereum, and 56% for BNB. Multi-Asset Drawdown Tracker: Charlie Quant Lab The damage worsens over three months. XRP’s 90-day return sits near negative 21%, the worst of the four majors, and the token is 355 days from its peak with no recovery in sight. Multi-Asset Drawdown Table: Charlie Quant Lab That is the signature of a high-beta-alt regime. When risk appetite drops, XRP does not hold the line like a safe-haven asset. It amplifies the fall, dropping more than the market. As of now, it is trailing its peer average by over 12 percentage points. Want more token insights like this? Sign up for Editor Harsh Notariya’s Daily Crypto Newsletter here. Repeated bounces have failed, with XRP’s recovery attempts rejected at resistance. The deeper question is what makes XRP fall faster than every coin besides it. Crowded Longs Have Trapped XRP With No Buyers Left The first driver is a one-sided derivatives book. A divergence read that compares the net-long bias of top traders (smart money) against the retail crowd shows both groups leaning long on XRP at once. Top traders sit at a net-long bias of +29 and the retail crowd at…

UOB’s SGD NEER model shows the index at 1.68% above the midpoint of the policy band, after ending the previous session 171 basis points above it. The model is expected to remain between 1.40% and 1.90% above the midpoint today, implying a USD/SGD trading range of 1.2898–1.2963. With the S$NEER near the upper end of the policy band and MAS maintaining a mildly restrictive stance, the likelihood of FX intervention to curb excessive SGD strength may increase. SGD NEER guides intraday band “Meanwhile, the S$NEER index in our model fell by more than 10 bps, ending the session 171 bps above the midpoint of the policy band.” “This morning, our SGD NEER model is at 1.68% from the mid-point and it is likely to remain between 1.40% and 1.90% above the mid-point for today’s session.” “This implies a USD/SGD range of between 1.2898 and 1.2963.” “With the S$NEER trading closer to the upper end of the policy band and the MAS policy stance likely remaining mildly restrictive following the cumulative tightening moves in Apr 2026 and Jul 2026 (current estimated slope: 1.25% p.a.), the likelihood of FX intervention to curb excessive S$NEER strength could rise, thereby helping to keep domestic liquidity conditions relatively ample.” (This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor. Know more.) Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/singapore-dollar-range-guidance-around-neer-band-uob-202607291319

Key Takeaways Satoshi’s July 29, 2010 Bitcointalk reply followed a great deal of detailed, patient technical explanations. Private emails to Martti Malmi show Satoshi mentoring and delegating, not dictating. Satoshi backed claims about scaling and supply with numbers, not assertions or hype. A Curt Line After Months of Patient Explanation On July 29, 2010, Satoshi Nakamoto posted a reply on Bitcointalk titled “Re: Scalability and transaction rate.” A user named bytemaster had argued that a 10-minute confirmation window was too slow, comparing it unfavorably to swiping a credit card. Satoshi pointed him to an earlier thread about vending machine payments, explaining that a payment processor with enough network connections could verify a transaction well enough, and with a lower fraud rate than credit cards, in “something like 10 seconds or less.” Then came the line that has outlived almost everything else Satoshi wrote: “If you don’t believe me or don’t get it, I don’t have time to try to convince you, sorry.” Anyone who has spent time reading through Satoshi’s emails and forum posts eventually notices how rarely frustration ever surfaced. This exchange stands out precisely because it breaks that pattern. On its own, the quote can sound like a founder dismissing a skeptic. Viewed alongside years of measured, methodical correspondence, however, it becomes clear that this was an outlier rather than the rule, making Satoshi’s usual patience and willingness to explain technical concepts all the more striking. The Pattern Before the Outburst By July 2010, Satoshi had already answered the same scalability criticism countless times, refining the explanation with each discussion rather than dismissing it. The response reflected a consistent design philosophy that appeared throughout the correspondence: Bitcoin was never intended to require every participant to operate a full node. Satoshi compared that expectation to requiring every Usenet user…

Core Scientific, a longtime Bitcoin miner now converting sites for AI computing, reported a negative 56% self-mining gross margin in the second quarter as its colocation business generated sharply higher profit. The company’s Q2 results show self-mining generated $21.5 million of revenue against $33.7 million of cost of revenue. That left a $12.2 million segment gross loss for the three months ended June 30. High-density colocation, which provides powered data-center capacity for AI customers, moved in the opposite direction. The segment produced $136.7 million of revenue and $80.0 million of gross profit at a 59% margin. That gross profit exceeded Core Scientific’s $70.0 million consolidated total because mining and other segment losses pulled the companywide figure lower. The mining result is not a disclosed spot-Bitcoin breakeven or a cash-production-cost estimate. Cost of revenue included $17.9 million of power fees, $9.9 million of depreciation and other operating expenses, so the margin cannot be reduced to the price at which the machines cover electricity alone. Core Scientific says it is repurposing its remaining mining facilities for high-density colocation “as circumstances allow.” The Q2 loss strengthens the economic case for that strategy, but the company did not identify the quarter as its trigger or say that conversion had become compulsory. Related Reading AI stock concentration flashes dot-com warning as Bitcoin miners’ pivot faces test AI exposure has become a balance-sheet test for miners that sold investors on HPC growth before Bitcoin gets any relief. Apr 29, 2026 · Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright According to the Investing.com transcript of Core Scientific’s earnings call, CFO Jim Nygaard said the company was operating mining primarily to offset contractual power costs during the wind-down. He said Core Scientific ended June with nearly 30% fewer miners online than at the end of the first quarter and was self-mining at…

For decades the concept of third spaces, coined by sociologist Ray Oldenburg, has been defined as not home, not work, but somewhere in between. The term has described the coffee shops, barbershops and corner bars where community happened by accident. Then those spaces quietly disappeared, largely connected to post-COVID social isloation. Remote work erased the office watercooler. Nightlife got expensive. Social media promised connection and delivered scrolling instead. A 2024 Harvard survey found that 67% of adults feel social and emotional loneliness because they are not part of meaningful groups, and that number is doing a lot of explanatory work right now. Because the third space is back, and it is being rebuilt on purpose. Longing for connection and community have taken over. There’s even a rapidly-growing movement on social media to stop “doomscrolling” and start connecting. Influencers who promote community over content as more beloved than ever. Suddenly, what used to be an afterthought has become the hottest trend of 2026: community building. Run clubs got there first. Wellness brands like Othership followed with a cold plunge culture that TikTok turned into a genuine social ritual. And now music and pop culture are catching up fast, with artists and community platforms treating in-person gathering as core strategy rather than a press stunt. Membership clubs are on the rise, reportedly projected to grow into a 59 billion dollar industry by 2033. As we move on from an isolated world, and move towards an increasingly connected one, here’s who’s leading the charge. “We’re anti-doomscrolling, anti-LinkedIn networking, and anti-social media. We believe technology should be the starting point for meaningful human connection and enable connection in a fun and light way even for the most high value professionals of our time” Ifrah Khan, Founder of Musly Club Paso Run Club in Queens,…

BNY is adding blockchain technology to its transfer agency business as the bank expands digital asset services beyond custody and stablecoin support. BNY Moves Fund Records to Blockchain BNY is launching a digital transfer agency platform to process fund transactions and maintain shareholder records on-chain. The system will create a shared ownership ledger for tokenized funds while the bank keeps its traditional transfer agency in place. The bank safeguards more than $59 trillion in client assets and services about $8.6 trillion through its transfer agency business. The new platform aims to reduce repeated checks between intermediaries that support fund administration. BNY Chief Product and Innovation Officer Carolyn Weinberg said the bank is modernizing a function behind fund transactions by bringing the “books and records onchain.” The platform will give asset managers a digital record of ownership for tokenized products. The bank expects traditional systems to remain active for years. BNY Global Head of Asset Servicing Emily Portney said “trillions and trillions of dollars” in funds will continue using existing rails. Tokenized Fund Rollout Starts With Major Clients Baillie Gifford will become the first client to use the platform for a fully native U.K.-regulated tokenized fund. BNY’s Dreyfus division and BlackRock are also expected to use the same infrastructure for planned tokenized products. The platform places BNY inside the growing market for tokenized funds. These products can hold traditional assets, while investor ownership is recorded through blockchain-based tokens. BNY is also preparing tokenized U.S. Treasuries and pilot transactions on its private blockchain before the end of 2026. A client letter said the bank already executed after-hours Treasury transactions with stablecoin issuers earlier this year. The bank expects blockchain records to support faster settlement and round-the-clock market operations. Shared records can also reduce manual reconciliation between banks, fund managers, custodians, and other…

Disclosure: This content is provided by a third party. Neither crypto.news nor the author of this article endorses any product mentioned on this page. Users should conduct their own research before taking any action related to the company. The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (H.R. 3633) a major U.S. digital asset legislative proposal that divides regulatory power between the SEC and CFTC, while sparking intense debates over privacy, developer liability, and anti-money laundering (AML) enforcement has been effectively shelved in the U.S. Senate ahead of the August recess, until September delayed by a crowded legislative agenda, alongside opposition from a bloc of Democratic senators over ethics terms. Summary The Senate delayed action on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act until September after disagreements over ethics rules and a packed legislative calendar. The updated bill would split crypto oversight between the SEC and CFTC while adding new ethics restrictions for federal officials and stablecoin enforcement powers. Banking groups warned the proposal leaves anti money laundering gaps for DeFi platforms and transaction mixers, while several major financial firms backed the legislation. Seven Senate Democrats said the revised ethics and stablecoin provisions do not go far enough, leaving the bill short of the votes needed before the August recess. Senate Republicans released an updated 616-page text of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (H.R. 3633), which merges Senate Banking and Agriculture Committees’ texts into a single framework. [A bill text and a section-by-section summary are also available].  The bill assigns spot market authority over “digital commodities” to the CFTC and investment contract assets to the SEC.  And seeks to protect software/blockchain developers and decentralized networks that do not hold customer assets from illicit liability.  The new draft includes a White House-backed ethics title barring covered federal officials and their spouses from issuing or sponsoring digital assets during public service,…

Google (GOOGL) continues to trade within a corrective Elliott Wave structure after completing wave (C) of (W) near 312. The stock has since turned higher and appears to be developing a corrective recovery. The current structure suggests that GOOGL may continue higher in wave (A), with wave 5 still expected to complete the first leg of the bounce. After that, we expect a pullback in wave (B), which should unfold in at least three swings. Once wave (B) completes, GOOGL could turn higher again in wave (C) and complete the larger ((X)) correction. The projected path suggests that the wave (C) recovery could reach the 345–353 price range which represents the 38.2%-61.8% fib. retracement of wave ((W)) before the stock turns lower again. This would complete the corrective structure and potentially set the stage for another decline. The broader trend remains bearish while GOOGL trades below the 379.47 invalidation level. Therefore, we do not recommend chasing the upside, as the current recovery appears corrective rather than the start of a sustained bullish trend. In the near term, traders should monitor the development of wave (A) and the subsequent wave (B) pullback. As long as the price remains below 379.47, the bearish Elliott Wave scenario remains valid, with the potential for another move lower after the larger correction completes. GOOGL 30-minute Elliott Wave counts Video analysis Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/googl-corrective-bounce-could-lead-to-another-leg-lower-video-202607291322

LayerZero [ZRO] is down more than 11% in the past 24 hours as trading activity waned. ZRO was slumping while major cryptos like Bitcoin [BTC], Ethereum [ETH], and Ripple [XRP] gained almost 2%. The more bearish signals were pointing to why LayerZero was declining despite a daily increase in mindshare. Mindshare rose by 28% with 3.46K engagements and mentions due to a partnership with Near Protocol [NEAR]. What were these bearish signals? ZRO price prediction: Are traders bracing for more losses? The main signal was the bearish market structure. Since equaling last October’s peak of $2.593 on the 11th of February, ZRO has been making lower levels. ZRO broke below the sideways range between $1.244 and $2.593 last month. It confirmed the breakdown with a double retest of the $1.244 level, turning it from support to resistance. LayerZero now appears to be trading toward the low created on October 10th’s crypto market crash. Since February, buy orders have dominated aggregate liquidations, resulting in long squeezes. Additionally, the CVD shows selling pressure is gaining pace once again. In fact, more than 142K ZRO tokens were being sold at the time of press. Source: ZRO/USDT on TradingView Therefore, it raises the question of whether the drop will continue down to the October 10 low of $0.310. Structurally, it looks like the more likely scenario, especially if the $0.740 zone breaks. On the other hand, ZRO price is forming a consolidation with a triple touch of the zone. And the fourth one is coming. But why is ZRO more likely to break? What’s heightening the price decline? Long liquidations were spiking with almost no short liquidations. This amplified the price drop, with $512K long positions wiped out compared to $5.77K worth of shorts. These figures showed bulls lost to bears by a magnitude…

Bitget ranked second in ETH liquidity depth and fourth in BTC liquidity depth in H1 2026. CoinGlass data shows Bitget held 21.4% of analyzed ETH liquidity depth. The exchange expanded institutional growth and TradFi product offerings during H1 2026. Bitget became one of the top crypto derivatives exchanges in the first half of 2026, ranking second for Ethereum (ETH) liquidity depth and fourth for Bitcoin (BTC) liquidity depth. This was revealed in the latest CoinGlass 2026 Semi-Annual Cryptocurrency Derivatives Market Report. The report comes as crypto derivatives trading has slowed, making strong liquidity and smooth trade execution important for institutional and retail traders. Bitget Secures Second Place in ETH Liquidity CoinGlass reported that Bitget recorded $81.37 million in ETH order-book depth within ±1% of the mid-price. This represented 21.4% of the liquidity among the exchanges analyzed. The figure placed Bitget second only to Binance in Ethereum liquidity depth. For Bitcoin, Bitget recorded $71.70 million in order-book depth within ±1%. This accounted for a 13.4% market share and ranked the exchange fourth among the platforms included in the report. Liquidity depth measures the amount of buy and sell orders available near the market price. It is an indicator of an exchange’s ability to process large trades with limited price impact. Lower Activity in Crypto Derivatives Market The CoinGlass report found that the crypto derivatives market became more selective during the first half of 2026. Total crypto derivatives trading volume declined 15.7% year over year, while average daily open interest fell by 10%. The difference suggests that market participation cooled faster than outstanding risk exposure, increasing the importance of liquidity depth and execution quality.  The trend increased demand for exchanges that can provide deeper liquidity and more efficient execution. Commenting on the results, Bitget CEO Gracy Chen said liquidity has become a…

Lawrence Jengar Jul 29, 2026 08:47 SUI is trading at $0.69, pinned against its lower Bollinger Band and below every meaningful moving average, while top traders sit 69% long in a market with declining open interest and more takers s… SUI’s Technical Reality Check SUI at $0.69 is not just in a dip — it’s in a structural downtrend, and the chart isn’t shy about it. Price is trading below the 7-day SMA at $0.71, below the 20 and 50-day averages both converging at $0.73, and a brutal 28% south of the 200-day SMA sitting at $0.96. That 200-day gap doesn’t whisper weakness — it screams it. This is not a healthy pullback within an uptrend. This is a token searching for a floor it hasn’t confirmed yet. The Bollinger Band structure is where the immediate trade sits. With price’s %B reading at just 0.06 — essentially breathing on the lower band at $0.68 — the market is statistically stretched to the downside. History says mean reversion is coming, but history also says stretched bands can stay stretched longer than traders expect before snapping. The upper band at $0.78 and middle band at $0.73 are the levels bulls need to retake for the narrative to shift. What complicates the pure bear case is the Stochastic. With %K at 13.84 and %D at 11.07, the oscillator is deep in oversold territory — a zone that has historically produced at least short-term bounces on SUI. The RSI at 39 confirms the beaten-up state without yet hitting the extreme readings that force technical buyers in. MACD is effectively flatlined with a histogram reading near zero: momentum is exhausted, but exhaustion to the downside is not the same as reversal. Sellers have done their work; the…

Artificial intelligence was supposed to unleash a wave of newly weaponizable software bugs on the internet. The numbers, at least so far, tell a quieter story. Despite the alarm surrounding AI vulnerability exploitation, a new analysis by VulnCheck finds that AI-discovered security flaws are being exploited at roughly the same modest rate as flaws found through traditional methods — challenging some of the more dramatic predictions that have circulated since large language models entered the security research field. Key takeaways Anthropic’s Claude Mythos identified 23,019 potential vulnerability candidates, but only 126 have been published as CVEs and just one has been confirmed exploited in the wild. VulnCheck analyzed 1,061 AI-assisted vulnerabilities from Project Glasswing and the Berkeley Vulnerability Research Initiative and found only 14 (1.3%) confirmed exploited — matching the general exploitation rate. AI-assisted discovery increases the volume of found vulnerabilities but has not raised the proportion that attackers actually exploit. VulnCheck recorded 495 known exploited vulnerabilities in the first half of 2026, with CMS platforms and network edge devices as the main targets. AI products themselves are emerging as an attack surface, as adversaries hunt for weaknesses in the growing AI software stack. Anthropic’s Project Glasswing: Big Numbers, Thin Exploitation Record When Anthropic unveiled Project Glasswing in April, the announcement carried a serious warning: AI-assisted vulnerability discovery could let attackers hijack systems, disrupt operations, and steal data at a scale previously impossible. The numbers Anthropic put forward seemed to justify the concern. Volume of vulnerabilities identified Claude Mythos, Anthropic’s AI-based security research tool, may have flagged as many as 23,019 vulnerability candidates. That is a striking figure by any measure — a volume of potential security flaws that no traditional research team could feasibly produce in comparable time. It set off a genuine debate about whether AI was about…

Sports betting has become more popular than ever, but success depends on much more than luck. Many beginners place wagers based on emotions, favorite teams, or random predictions. That approach rarely produces consistent results. A better strategy is to understand how betting works, learn how to analyze matches, and develop discipline over time. A آموزش شرط بندی ورزشی حرفه‌ای helps new and experienced bettors build these essential skills. When you Sign Up on the Educational Betting Site, you gain access to learning resources that explain betting concepts, bankroll management, and practical strategies in an easy-to-understand way. The goal is not simply to place more bets but to place smarter ones. Education helps reduce common mistakes and allows bettors to make decisions based on research instead of guesswork. Why Learning Comes Before Betting Many people believe sports betting is only about predicting winners. In reality, successful betting requires careful planning and knowledge. Understanding odds, probability, statistics, and value betting creates a stronger foundation for long-term improvement. Learning first also builds confidence. Instead of relying on tips from friends or social media, you begin making independent decisions backed by research and logical thinking. An educational approach allows bettors to recognize risks, understand different betting markets, and improve decision-making with every wager. Understanding the Basics of Sports Betting Every bettor should understand the fundamental concepts before placing money on any event. These basics include reading odds, identifying betting markets, and managing expectations. Odds represent the probability of an event and determine potential returns. They may appear in decimal, fractional, or American formats depending on the platform. Popular betting markets include match winners, point spreads, totals, player performance bets, and accumulators. Each market requires a different level of analysis and strategy. Learning these concepts early reduces confusion and helps bettors choose markets that match…

The post Top 20 Women Shaping Crypto and Blockchain in 2026 appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Crypto’s most influential women are no longer limited to investors, executives or policy advocates. Many of the industry’s most important companies, protocols, funds and infrastructure businesses were built or co-founded by women who entered the sector when blockchain was still a niche technology. This list focuses specifically on founders and co-founders. The ranking considers the … Source: https://coinpedia.org/top-10/top-20-women-shaping-crypto-and-blockchain-in-2026/

India shifted its focus from crypto regulations, aiming to oversee the digital economy.  The parliament has scheduled a meeting with representatives from social media platforms.  The move comes following the 36-day student protests at Jantar Mantar. The Indian government is tightening its control on the digital economy, expanding its focus beyond the crypto space. In the latest development, a parliamentary panel has summoned executives from top social media platforms, including Meta, X, Snapchat, and Google, on August 3, 2026, to discuss regulatory concerns. This indicates that the country is making significant efforts to bring clearer rules to the growing digital ecosystem. It is worth noting that the event comes hot on the heels of India’s escalating discussions on crypto regulation. While the country is now switching its focus to social media platforms, it doesn’t mean that crypto has taken a back seat. Instead, it indicates that the government is taking a broader initiative to establish a regulatory framework for the country’s expanding digital space. India Shifts Focus Beyond Crypto Regulation According to the latest report from The Economic Times, the Indian parliament is taking a closer look at how social media and other online platforms are regulated across the country. As part of its regulatory efforts, the country has reportedly scheduled a meeting with top tech giants like Meta, Google, X, and Snapchat on August 3.   During this session, representatives from these companies will present their views on regulation to a panel of senior officials from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Ministry of Home Affairs. While the main agenda of the meeting is digital space regulation, the government will focus especially on the platforms’ privacy protection and security measures. While the session is exclusively on social media platforms and their oversight, it is closely connected…

Altura has announced that the account holding the cash that is meant for the last round of payouts from its stablecoin vault has been temporarily restricted by the bank.  The DeFi yield protocol wrote, “The situation is entirely outside of our control, and there is no further action we can take until we receive an update from the bank,” which is a confirmation that the restriction is delaying a wind-down of its treasury that started in June. What did Altura say happened? Before the freeze, Altura had already lined up the final step, which was an over-the-counter (OTC) deal to swap the returned cash into USDT, which would then go out to users. In a post to its followers, the team said the funds are in an Altura Bank account and were headed to an OTC partner when the account “has been temporarily restricted.” Over £16.4 million is currently locked in the account while the bank completes an internal review based on screenshots that the protocol shared on X. Altura said it has contacted the bank, stating that the bank has asked them to wait till they complete their review of the account. Months of unwinding before the freeze The restriction of the protocol’s bank accounts comes at the very end of a process that has crawled through the summer. Altura decided to close its vault in June and has been redeeming user capital as its underlying positions settle. The team reported on July 15 that it has recovered $14.97 million with $6.95 million still outstanding. About a week later, it stated that $1 million in vault strategies remained to unwind, with completion expected soon after. By July 23, CEO Ranveer Arora told users the protocol had received the full return of funds from its real-world asset partners and that…

This is a press release / sponsored content. BlockchainReporter did not write, edit, or verify this content. With layer-1 blockchains demonstrating their capacity to process high-frequency real-world data feeds, Sol SyncUp is bringing together all the physical operators behind this expansion. At an upcoming infrastructure summit in Singapore, all global players working to develop the hardware behind the network supporting the global decentralized ecosystem will come under one roof. From data center builders, distributed network engineers, and alternative energy providers, to formalize the operational standards necessary to anchor decentralized physical networks into the global supply chain, this event is expected to promote growth and development. Blockchain Marketing Ninja acts as the exclusive strategic media and distribution partner to drive international positioning and narrative amplification for the summit. The focus of this year’s summit reflects an underlying shift in how decentralized infrastructure projects scale. Instead of relying on slow, costly, patchworked networks, modern builders are leveraging high-speed, parallelized blockchain execution layers to coordinate global node networks in real time. The summit acts as a bridge, ensuring that the teams manufacturing the hardware and running the power grids are aligned with the software engineers building these tokenized coordination systems. The agenda features an intense line-up of roundtables covering tokenomic model design for hardware scaling, hardware-level security validations, and cross-border regulatory compliance for decentralized wireless and storage networks. The ultimate goal is to build long-term, institutional confidence in DePIN as a legitimate asset class for traditional infrastructure investors. This infrastructure summit in Singapore focuses on the industrial standardisation of decentralized hardware arrays. By creating a standard framework for device validation and network participation, the summit eliminates technical fragmentation, which has usually choked large-scale enterprise adoption. The event establishes the necessary parameters for hardware interoperability, data authentication, and localized resource distribution, transforming decentralized physical…

BitMEX built the blueprint that every crypto derivatives exchange copied — and then watched competitors use it to bury them. The story of BitMEX’s crypto derivatives innovation is one of the most instructive in the industry’s short history: a platform that genuinely reshaped how digital assets are traded, only to lose its footing to regulatory pressure, product inertia, and rivals who learned faster than it could adapt. Key takeaways BitMEX pioneered the crypto perpetual swap, a contract structure with no expiration date that became the single most replicated product in the derivatives industry. At its peak in 2018–2019, BitMEX commanded over 50% of the crypto derivatives market, with daily volumes reaching as high as $8 billion. A server outage during the March 12, 2020 market crash interrupted a liquidation cascade and temporarily stabilized Bitcoin near $3,800. US regulatory action in October 2020, combined with slow product evolution, accelerated the migration of users and liquidity to competitors like Bybit. BitMEX announced that it will cease all operations on September 23, 2026, ending an 11-year chapter in crypto history. How BitMEX Built the Derivatives Blueprint Kuan, a financial engineering practitioner who entered the crypto industry in November 2017 during the height of ICO mania, watched BitMEX’s rise from the inside. With a doctoral background in options, swaps, and hedging strategies, he recognized early what made the platform unusual — not its leverage limits or its branding, but the underlying product architecture it had quietly introduced to the market. Before perpetual contracts existed, trading crypto with leverage meant either borrowing Bitcoin to short it, dealing with expensive slippage on thin spot markets, or navigating fixed-expiry futures that fragmented liquidity across different contract dates. For miners and large participants who needed continuous hedging, rolling positions across expiring contracts generated real costs that compounded over…

Morgan Stanley has reiterated its ‘Overweight’ rating on SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) and maintained a $300 stock price target ahead of the company’s first earnings report as a public company. The new SpaceX stock price target implies about 165% upside from the recent share price of $113. SPCX one-week stock price chart. Source: Finbold SpaceX is scheduled to report earnings on August 4, with investors closely watching for updates on its AI infrastructure, Starlink business, and long-term growth outlook. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas believes the upcoming earnings report could provide greater visibility into SpaceX’s long-term growth strategy, particularly its expanding AI compute business. Specifically, the analyst sees the biggest upside catalyst in the company’s plans to deploy more than 2 gigawatts of additional AI computing capacity next year. According to Jonas, each incremental gigawatt could create a significant new revenue opportunity if demand for AI infrastructure continues to accelerate. Meanwhile, the firm is also looking for progress on large cloud infrastructure agreements, often referred to as neocloud deals, as well as stronger adoption of xAI’s Grok model through Cursor. Faster growth in Cursor’s annual recurring revenue would further strengthen the company’s AI investment case. While maintaining its bullish SpaceX stock forecast, Morgan Stanley highlighted several risks that could weigh on investor sentiment. In particular, the firm warned that capital expenditures significantly above its estimated $50 billion for 2026 could pressure profitability.  Additional fundraising before the end of the year may also dilute shareholders, while slower-than-expected Starlink subscriber growth remains another key risk. Wall Street bullish on SPCX stock price  Notably, Morgan Stanley’s $300 target is above the broader Wall Street consensus but below the most bullish forecasts. According to data compiled from 30 Wall Street analysts at TipRanks, SpaceX carries a ‘Moderate Buy’ consensus rating based on 23 ‘Buy’, six…

BNY Mellon, a prominent player in the financial services industry, is embarking on a significant technological journey by integrating blockchain technology into its core operations. The bank, with its substantial role in the global finance sector, aims to transition its fund ownership records to an onchain system, signifying a strategic move towards digital modernization. Continue Reading:BNY Mellon’s Bold Blockchain Leap: Reshaping Fund Operations Source: https://en.bitcoinhaber.net/bny-mellons-bold-blockchain-leap-reshaping-fund-operations

Ten dairy cows in Paraná became loan collateral registered on B3, Brazil’s main stock exchange, in a deal widely celebrated as a breakthrough for tokenized cows. One detail got lost in the coverage. There is no crypto token. The R$100,000 (about $20,000) operation relies on a traditional Brazilian credit instrument and an encrypted digital identity built from sensor data. Nothing in it trades on a blockchain. Tokenized Cows: A Decades-Old Credit Note, Not a Blockchain Asset The producer at Fazenda Engenho Velho in Imbituva, Paraná, signed a Cédula de Produto Rural Financeira (CPR-F), a rural credit note that Brazilian agribusiness has used for decades. BMP Sociedade de Crédito Direto originated the loan, Exame reported. Target FIDC, a receivables investment fund, then acquired the credit rights and registered the operation on B3’s conventional infrastructure. Ten Holstein cows valued at R$120,000 stand behind the credit as movable collateral. Each animal carries an encrypted digital identity that agritech firm Cowmed built from collar data on health, location, and behavior. Cowmed executive Thiago Martins told CNN Brasil the digitization makes each cow eligible for formal registration at B3 as a movable asset. However, none of this involves a public blockchain, a tradable token, or a wallet. The Collar Does the Work a Blockchain Cannot The collars deliver what livestock lenders have always lacked, collateral that proves it is alive. Continuous monitoring replaces farm inspections and blocks farmers from pledging the same animal twice. A producer can also swap a dead cow for a live one. The scale ambitions are real. Cowmed monitors around 100,000 dairy cows across more than 1,000 farms, a herd worth over R$2 billion. The partners project up to R$400 million (about $77.6 million) in herd-backed credit if 20% of that network adopts the model. Meanwhile, history suggests the chain was…

ING’s Warren Patterson and Ewa Manthey highlight that speculative net long positions in LME Copper increased notably in the latest COTR data, supported by tight supply and low inventories. They note broader sentiment has improved, while positioning changes in Aluminium and Zinc were more modest, with only small increases in net long exposure among money managers. LME positioning reflects tighter fundamentals “The latest COTR report shows that the speculative net long position in LME copper increased by 12,668 lots to 60,771 lots in the week ending 24 July.” “The move was driven by increased participation from both long and short positions.” “Positioning changes in other base metals were more modest, with money managers increasing their net long in LME aluminium by just 96 lots to 59,264 lots, while the net long in zinc increased by 4,107 lots to 39,736 lots.” “Tight supply conditions and low inventories lifted broader market sentiment.” (This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor. Know more.) Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/copper-speculative-longs-rise-on-tight-supply-ing-202607291233

Crypto investment firm Digital Currency Group is the latest big name to throw its weight behind the Clarity Act.  In a statement posted Wednesday, the conglomerate said that the current draft of the long-awaited bill “offers exactly the kind of certainty our industry needs to grow and thrive responsibly.” A number of lawmakers are hoping the Clarity Act — which would set in stone crypto regulation in the U.S. — gets passed before Congress departs for August recess. While the bill has been drafted bipartisanly, some Democrats are unhappy with the current version.  “The bill is the product of serious negotiation and reflects genuine compromise from industry, advocates, and members on both sides of the aisle,” the statement read.  “The competitive stakes could not be higher. The United States has long been the global center of technological innovation, but we are ceding ground at an alarming pace,” it continued, adding that “talent, capital, and innovative companies” are looking to countries like Singapore and the United Arab Emirates to set up shop.  Crypto giant DCG has over 200 companies in its portfolio, most notably Grayscale, the manager of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust. Lawmakers have been working on the Clarity Act since last year. Republicans passed the bill in 2025 but it has been in a deadlock this year, partially because banking chiefs raised concerns over stablecoin yield.  A new draft circulating last week bans officials and their families from issuing or promoting crypto — something opposition lawmakers previously had issue with. GOP lawmakers are pushing Democrats to pass the bill. Bipartisan support for the bill exists though some lawmakers — such as senator Elizabeth Warren — have criticized the draft, claiming it would allow President Donald Trump to make money from crypto, as well as benefit criminals.  A group of Democrats…

U.S. Debt Refinancing Burdens Grow as Treasury Yields Reach Multi-Decade Peaks – The Daily Hodl No Result View All Result Source: https://dailyhodl.com/2026/07/29/u-s-debt-refinancing-burdens-grow-as-treasury-yields-reach-multi-decade-peaks/

Key highlights: Morgan Stanley’s spot ETH and SOL ETFs are now live on NYSE Arca Both funds charge a market-leading 0.14% expense ratio Investors will also receive staking rewards on the fund Morgan Stanley launched two new spot ETFs that give investors exposure to Ethereum and Solana. The new funds would also include staking. This allows investors to earn rewards while holding the assets. The move comes as demand for regulated crypto investment products continues to grow. These kinds of funds give TradFi investors a way to have exposure to crypto without having to buy or hold the coins. Morgan Stanley launches ETH and SOL ETFs In a press release on July 28, the investment bank shared that the Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust (MSSE) and the Morgan Stanley Solana Trust (MSOL) had started trading on NYSE Arca. The funds are designed to track the spot prices of their respective coins. MSSE follows the CoinDesk Ether Benchmark 4 PM NY Settlement Rate. MSOL tracks the CoinDesk Solana Benchmark 4 PM NY Settlement Rate. A major attraction of these funds are its cheap fees. Each ETF charges an expense ratio of just 0.14%. It also makes them the cheapest spot Ethereum and Solana ETFs in the U.S. Before these launches, Grayscale’s Mini Ethereum Trust had the lowest fee in all of the ETH ETFs at 0.15%. Franklin Templeton’s SOEZ charged 0.19% for its Solana ETF, also the cheapest for SOL funds. Bloomberg Senior ETF Analyst Eric Balchunas shared in the excitement, saying the pricing makes the funds “the cheapest in each category.” Morgan Stanley Ether and Solana ETFs are launching today.. both charge 0.14% instantly making them the cheapest in each category. Their bitcoin ETF is up to $400m in 4mo despite launching in middle of winter. Good sign. pic.twitter.com/HNm8EKVOoc — Eric…

Shiba Inu’s exchange reserves can decrease Relief, not a SHIB bull run Another significant milestone is about to be reached by Shiba Inu, but for the wrong reason this time. The dollar value of SHIB held on centralized exchanges is quickly approaching $400 million, and if market conditions don’t improve, that threshold may soon be crossed.  Shiba Inu’s exchange reserves can decrease Although declining exchange reserves are frequently seen as a bullish indication, the current decline suggests otherwise. The main difference is that the devaluation of SHIB itself appears to be more responsible for the decline than large token withdrawals. Based on the most recent on-chain metrics, the Exchange Reserve USD is currently valued at approximately $414.8 million. Even slight price declines could cause the total market value of exchange-held tokens to fall below $400 million because SHIB is still trading far below its annual highs. In other words, rather than because exchanges are holding noticeably fewer coins, the reserve measured in dollars is declining because each SHIB token is worth less.  Whales Want Ethereum (ETH) Above $2,000 Now: Binance Withdrawals Spike Next XRP Move May Break $1 Threshold, Ethereum (ETH) Already Eyes $2,000, Near Protocol (NEAR) Is Out of Trend: Crypto Market Review SHIB/USDT Chart by TradingView Buyers were unable to maintain the price above key resistance after it surged on unusually high trading volume, causing it to fall back below that level. SHIB is presently trading at $0.0000048, close to the 20-day and 50-day EMAs, with the 100-day EMA at $0.0000050 continuing to be the immediate barrier.  Relief, not a SHIB bull run The most recent rally appears to be more of a relief bounce than the start of a long-term trend reversal until that level is convincingly reclaimed. The main long-term resistance remains the 200-day EMA, which…

Strive, the Bitcoin treasury company, reached 20,000 BTC last week, but the amount it held per effective common share moved in the opposite direction. The per-share measure matters because a growing Bitcoin balance does not automatically improve the ratio for shareholders when the common-share count is also rising. Strive bought 79 BTC from July 20 through July 24 at an average price of about $65,723 per coin, including fees and expenses, according to a July 27 SEC filing. The purchase lifted its holdings from 19,921 BTC to 20,000 BTC. During the same week, Strive’s Effective Common Shares Outstanding rose by 430,000, from 83,669,973 to 84,099,973. The company defines the measure as its Class A and Class B common shares combined. Class A increased by 437,477 shares, while Class B declined by 7,477. Related Reading One Bitcoin treasury’s paper loss just made Strategy’s stress everyone’s problem Strategy remains the center of STRC pressure, but Strive’s disclosed holding turns preferred-stock discounts into a broader credit test for Bitcoin treasuries. Jul 8, 2026 · Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright Share growth outpaced the Bitcoin purchase Based on those figures, Strive’s BTC held per effective common share fell from about 23,809 satoshis on July 17 to 23,781 satoshis on July 24. A satoshi is the smallest unit of Bitcoin. The change amounts to a decline of approximately 0.12%. Related Reading Bitcoin treasury investors are turning on companies diluting them to keep buying For two years, buying more Bitcoin was enough to lift a treasury stock. Strategy’s BTC Yield is now sliding, Metaplanet sits below the value of its coins, and Europe’s new entrants are asking investors to fund them on terms nobody has priced yet. Jun 29, 2026 · Andjela Radmilac Strive also reports Assumed Fully Diluted Shares Outstanding. Using the totals published for that denominator,…

Months after its release, Katy Perry’s greatest hits compilation The Ones That Got the Plays rises to a new peak on the U.K.’s Official Albums chart. INGLEWOOD, CA – AUGUST 27: Katy Perry flies onstage during the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on August 27, 2017 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by John Shearer/Getty Images for MTV) Getty Images for MTV A little more than two months ago, Katy Perry released her first greatest hits compilation, The Ones That Got the Plays. The title is an obvious nod to “The One That Got Away,” her single from Teenage Dream. That tune suddenly went viral earlier in 2026, reaching a younger audience through TikTok and becoming one of Perry’s biggest hits on several charts and in a number of nations. To build on that renewed interest, the superstar released The Ones That Got the Plays, which has turned into a surprisingly successful collection in the United Kingdom. This frame, the set reaches a new chart peak months after it first arrived. Katy Perry Returns to the Albums Chart’s Top 10 The Ones That Got the Plays rises from No. 13 to No. 9 on this week’s edition of the Official Albums chart. The tally lists the most-consumed albums and EPs in the U.K. via both sales and streaming activity. No. 9 marks a new high point for the compilation, though this is not the project’s first appearance inside the top 10. The Ones That Got the Plays spent two weeks at No. 10 earlier in July after finally climbing into the region. All of Katy Perry’s Top 10 Albums in the U.K. When it broke into the loftiest space on the roster, The Ones That Got the Plays gave Perry her sixth top 10 on the Official Albums chart.…

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has appointed longtime ecosystem contributor pcaversaccio (known as “pc”) to its board, expanding the group’s leadership as it continues to refine the governance of the organization behind the world’s second-largest blockchain. pc, a security researcher and co-founder of the emergency response initiative SEAL 911, joins the board for an initial one-year voluntary term. He has also served on the EF’s Silviculture Society, an advisory group that provides informal guidance on preserving the foundation’s core principles, including censorship resistance, open source development, privacy and security. The appointment brings the Ethereum Foundation’s board to four members: President Aya Miyaguchi, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Swiss legal counsel Patrick Storchenegger and pcaversaccio. The board is responsible for setting the EF’s strategic vision and ensuring management’s decisions remain aligned with the organization’s values, accordinfg to the Foundation. It also serves as a “security council” tasked with safeguarding the foundation’s mission and ensuring compliance with the laws of Switzerland, where it is currently based. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/07/29/ethereum-foundation-names-pcaversaccio-to-board-amid-leadership-changes

Binance has disappeared from Google Play in parts of the European Union as questions have emerged over whether the app’s availability is being affected by MiCA-related compliance requirements. Summary Binance has disappeared from Google Play in some European Union countries as questions grow over MiCA related compliance. The exchange said Google Play policy updates have affected crypto app availability in certain markets and it is working on a solution. Users in Spain and Latvia reported the app missing, while it remains available on Google Play in Poland. The development comes after Binance scaled back services in parts of the EU following the end of MiCA’s transition period. According to a local, users in Spain and Latvia can no longer find the Binance Android app on Google Play, while checks in Poland showed the app remained available, indicating the issue is limited to certain European Union markets rather than the entire region. Responding to the reports, a Binance spokesperson said the exchange is aware that Google Play has updated its policies, affecting crypto app updates in “certain markets.” The company said it is working with Google to resolve the issue but did not identify which countries are affected or explain which policy changes resulted in the restrictions. The development comes as Binance continues to adjust its European operations after the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework entered full effect on July 1, requiring crypto-asset service providers to obtain authorization in at least one member state before offering regulated services across the bloc. Binance cites Google policy changes as app disappears A user in Spain confirmed to Cointelegraph on Monday that Binance no longer appeared in Google Play search results. The app, however, remained available through Oppo’s App Market, suggesting the restriction does not extend to every Android app marketplace. Another…

Solflare makes me think of all the entire afternoons I’ve lost bridging crypto between chains, connecting a wallet, picking a route, approving a transaction, then just sitting there hoping the funds actually show up on the other side. So when Solflare announced a new Bridge feature that collapses that whole process into copying an address and hitting send, I wanted to understand exactly what changed under the hood before believing the hype. What Bridge Actually Replaces Solflare didn’t mince words about the problem it’s solving. Moving funds between blockchains has never been easy, and the team laid out the usual gauntlet plainly: find a bridge, connect your wallets, approve transactions, then pray it goes through. I think that “pray it goes through” line lands because it’s genuinely how bridging has felt for years. Even experienced users routinely hesitate before confirming a bridge transaction, because failed or stuck bridge transfers have burned enough people that caution feels earned rather than paranoid. Bridge is Solflare’s answer to that anxiety, and it’s built in partnership with Aurora and NEAR Intents, the infrastructure powering the routing underneath the new feature. How Bridge Actually Works Here’s where the design genuinely earns the “ridiculously simple” framing Solflare used. Instead of navigating complex swap interfaces, the whole cross-chain process is broken down into four straightforward steps: Select Your Source Chain: Choose the blockchain you are sending funds from (e.g., Ethereum, Bitcoin, Base, or several others). Select Your Solana Token: Pick the asset you want to receive in your Solflare wallet on Solana (such as SOL, USDC, or other supported assets). Get Your Permanent Deposit Address: Instead of routing you through a swap interface or asking you to connect an external source wallet, Solflare generates a permanent deposit address specific to that chain and token pair. Copy &…

“Investments change fast; human nature and human aspirations stay constant.” That’s how Meir Statman, behavioral finance pioneer and professor of finance at Santa Clara University, explains one of investing’s oldest puzzles. And it may be why every crypto cycle so far has been about chasing the next hot narrative rather than fundamentals, whether its DeFi, meme coins or decentralized compute. In an industry that has spent years maturing into an ecosystem of institutional investors, revenue-generating protocols and real-world use cases, investor attention still gravitates toward the next shiny thing that can offer the promise of outsized returns. “Crypto is still a young asset class, and price discovery in young markets tends to be driven by attention before it’s driven by analysis,” Samar Sen, head of international markets at Talos, tells Magazine. “A new narrative gives investors a simple story to underwrite quickly, while assessing the fundamentals of an established protocol takes real work, from understanding usage and revenue to token design and competitive position.” This behavior isn’t unique to digital assets; it’s just particularly pronounced in an industry that prizes memes over sustainable business models. A Pokémon card, a digital asset and a tech stock A recent MarketWise study compared hypothetical $10,000 investments across cryptocurrencies, stocks, exchange-traded funds and collectibles between January 2021 and April 2026. The study found that a sealed Pokémon card box outperformed Bitcoin, while a pair of limited-edition sneakers nearly matched Dogecoin’s returns. At the same time, some of Wall Street’s most popular artificial intelligence funds lagged the broader stock market despite AI dominating the investment headlines. A $10K investment has very different outcomes. Source: MarketWise What does a Pokémon card, a digital asset and a tech stock have in common? According to Statman, they’re driven by the same thing: investors aren’t simply looking for the…

RWA tokens have surpassed other crypto narratives in July, recording notable profits. This growth is driven by the growing demand for tokenized real-world assets. Chainlink, Hedera, and Avalanche are driving the growth of RWA tokens. The real-world asset sector continues to perform well into 2026, with RWA tokens emerging as the dominant crypto narrative of July. As revealed by CryptoRank’s recent report, the sector showed a median gain of 10% this July, reflecting the increasing preference for cryptocurrencies such as Chainlink, Hedera, and Avalanche. It is also worth noting that tokenized real-world assets follow this upward momentum. The on-chain value of RWA assets hit the peak of $32.2 billion on July 22. It marks a month-to-month growth of 12.3%. RWA Growth Shows Strong Demand for Tokenized Assets CryptoRank shared an X post on July 28, 2026, highlighting the remarkable performance of RWA tokens in the month of July. As per the study, the RWA tokens turned out to be the best-performing crypto sector in this month, achieving better results than popular sectors such as DeFi, Layer-1 networks, and meme coins. Source: CryptoRank Notably, this performance reveals that the RWA tokenization space continues to grow despite mixed market sentiment. As investors are more interested in engaging with on-chain assets, institutions are embracing blockchain to tokenize traditional assets like real estate, government bonds, commodities, and private credit. This helps investors to access conservative assets easily without the issues of traditional transaction methods.  Although the sector is facing regulatory challenges, the latest development shows that the RWA space is gaining wider acceptance among both retail and institutional investors. The sector has become a major part of the crypto ecosystem. Major Cryptocurrencies Driving the Growth While discussing the massive growth of the RWA sector, it is important to mention the names of the major…

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has reached a $5 trillion market cap, rising 21.5% over the past month and overtaking Nvidia(NASDAQ: NVDA) as the most valuable company, trading at $341.38 at the time of writing, July 29. Accordingly, a $1,000 investment in the iPhone maker a month ago would now be worth approximately $1,212, a gain of over $200 in just four weeks as the shares went from $281.74 to $341.38 at press time. Apple stock price on July 29. Source: Google Finance The rally is more noteworthy as Apple is not as closely tied to artificial intelligence (AI) as much as some of its tech competitors, such as Nvidia and Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU), which have been going through some volatility in the same period, despite their close involvement with the market’s primary growth driver. For comparison, Micron has crashed 30% in the past month as investor concerns about the sustainability of the AI-driven memory boom become more pronounced, while Nvidia shares have dropped 1.3%, being unable to regain the momentum it enjoyed in the second quarter. Apple stock rallies ahead of earnings as the iPhone maker becomes the most valuable company Thanks to the ongoing rally, Apple has become the strongest-performing member of the Magnificent Seven technology stocks in 2026. Tomorrow’s earnings call, expected to be Tim Cook’s final one as CEO, is expected to provide additional growth catalysts, as the company has beaten both earnings and revenue estimates in each of the past eight quarters. In the previous quarter, Apple posted record revenue of $111.2 billion and earnings per share of $2.01, representing year-over-year increases of around 17%** and **22%, respectively. Services revenue climbed to a record $31 billion, helping lift gross margins as recurring revenue continued to grow. This quarter, Wall Street expects Apple to report earnings of…

Key Takeaways Vertiv stock experienced a sharp 10% decline in pre-market hours following robust quarterly earnings. Q2 revenue expanded 24% year-over-year, reaching $3.27 billion driven by data center infrastructure needs. The company’s adjusted operating profit surged 51% with margin expansion of 410 basis points. Second-quarter adjusted free cash flow jumped an impressive 234% to $925 million. Management increased full-year 2026 projections across revenue, profit, margin, and cash flow metrics. Shares of Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE: VRT) tumbled 10.01% during pre-market hours to $242.50, extending losses from the prior session’s 6.27% decline that closed at $269.56. The selloff occurred despite the company delivering impressive quarterly performance metrics and elevating its full-year 2026 outlook across multiple financial categories. Vertiv Holdings Co, VRT Vertiv Delivers Impressive Q2 Revenue Performance Vertiv posted net sales of $3.27 billion for the second quarter, representing a 24% increase compared to the year-ago period. The company achieved 18% organic sales growth, supplemented by a 5% contribution from acquisitions and 1% from favorable currency fluctuations. Some revenue experienced timing delays due to supply chain bottlenecks and the phased nature of large-scale projects. The company’s operating profit climbed 44% to $638 million, benefiting from operational improvements and better pricing strategies. On an adjusted basis, operating profit increased 51% to $738 million, with adjusted operating margin hitting 22.6%. This represented a substantial 410 basis point expansion compared to the second quarter of 2025. Management attributed the strong performance to accelerating demand for advanced power and cooling solutions in data centers. Modern high-performance computing environments require increasingly sophisticated electrical distribution and thermal management systems deployed across expansive facilities. In response, Vertiv has broadened its manufacturing capabilities and technology development initiatives to serve these expanding requirements. Vertiv Demonstrates Robust Cash Generation and Balance Sheet Position During the second quarter, Vertiv produced $1.1 billion…

The British Pound (GBP) has given away previous gains against the US Dollar (USD) on Wednesday and remains practically flat in the daily chart, trading below 1.3300 and on track to complete a nearly 1.20% decline over the last two weeks. Growing concerns about UK PM Burnham’s welfare reforms and an adverse monetary policy divergence between the Federal Reserve (Fed) and the Bank of England (BoE) are hammering the Pound ahead of key monetary policy decisions. In a few hours, the Fed will likely stand pat on rates, although markets foresee a one-in-three chance of a quarter-point hike. A surprise rate hike would probably send the US Dollar rallying across the board, but the most likely outcome, a pause keeping the door open for a hike in September, will still highlight a more hawkish stance than the BoE and underpin the pair’s bearish bias. Sterling faces downside risk as BoE expected to stay on hold On Thursday, the BoE is widely expected to leave interest rates unchanged, and the focus will be on the number of hawkish dissenters among the committee. In June’s meeting, two officials were calling for a rate hike, and the Pound would need some more hawkish voices to question market expectations of a prolonged rate pause. Analysts at ING flag Thursday’s Bank of England meeting as “the main event,” arguing that “if inflation is still expected to remain contained, we believe the BoE will leave rates unchanged for the rest of the year,” implying a steady policy stance despite lingering market expectations. With “markets pricing 38 [bps] of tightening by year-end,” the bank warns that “dovish repricing remains, in our view, the clearest near-term risk for sterling.” Beyond that, Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s pledges to reduce the cost of living for UK citizens have resurfaced concerns…

Table of contents 1. What led Animoca Brands to introduce MINDS, and how can personal AI agents drive the next phase of internet evolution? 2. What factors contributed to the swift adoption of MINDS, ranking it among the leading five personal agent productivity entities? 3. What is the difference between MINDS and conventional AI assistants such as ChatGPT when it comes to real-world utility and autonomy? 4. You have developed over 300 AI agents through MINDS for your family and yourself. What crucial lessons have you obtained from the respective experience? 5. How will the exclusive VISA collaboration assist MINDS in revolutionizing AI-driven online payments and digital commerce? 6. What is the significance of persistent identity, autonomous execution, and memory in increasing AI agents’ utility for daily consumers? 7. What are the top business opportunities for the deployment of AI agents via MINDS to strengthen consumer engagement and productivity? 8. Based on the long-held leading position of Animoca Brands in the case of digital property rights, what is the contribution of digital ownership and AI agents to the advancing Agentic Web? 9. As MINDS integrates with Gmail, Google Calendar, Telegram, GitHub, and Slack, why is interoperability primary for AI agents? 10. How are AI agents redefining industries like gaming, enterprise, education, and finance? 11. What are the priorities of developers and entrepreneurs to develop scalable AI agent apps through MINDS? 12. Looking ahead, what is Animoca Brands’ long-term strategy for MINDS in transforming everyday commerce with AI agents? Show more As AI agents evolve beyond chatbots into autonomous digital assistants, Animoca Brands is betting that the next phase of the internet will be driven by persistent, intelligent agents. In this interview, co-founder and executive chairman Yat Siu discusses the launch of MINDS, the rise of the Agentic Web, AI-powered commerce,…

Solana (SOL) price is hovering around the $73 mark. The market is balanced and in a consolidation phase. As of today, Solana (SOL) is trading at $73.96, up by 1%, with its trading volume at $1.85 billion, down 7%. That volume drop during a critical support test is noteworthy. Also, the market has seen $7.76 million in SOL liquidations over the past 24 hours, adding pressure to an already fragile structure. The chart has not printed a green monthly candle since September 2025. Nine straight months of negative returns. The asset needs to stay above $73.50 for the next three days to break that streak. At the moment, it’s trading only $0.46 above that key level.  More than 50 million SOL were accumulated around $73.75, making it the single most critical support zone on the chart.  Solana’s Key Support and Resistance Levels  Holding the $73.75 zone and the falling wedge setup gives bulls the power. Following a breakout above wedge resistance opens the path above $80. Upon reclaiming, the next major target becomes $88.91.  Losing the $73.75 range with a sustained close below it and fresh selling pressure kicks in fast. In that case, $60 becomes the next target, with support between there and $50 below that. A falling wedge with buyers defending the lower trendline shows accumulation behaviour.  Analysing SOL’s Technical Structure  SOL’s Moving Average Convergence Divergence line is just below the signal line, and the recent bounce has stalled out, and short-term selling pressure is taking control again. As both lines are below zero, the overarching market environment remains bearish. This setup indicates an early re-acceleration down. The MACD line is only a few points below the signal line, showing a fresh bearish crossover has either taken place or short-term downward momentum is slightly outpacing the average. This…

As engineering talent becomes harder to find, Agentic AI can help manufacturers boost productivity while keeping human expertise essential Deposit Photos Imagine an aviation supplier received the good news it had been waiting years for: the awarding of a massive contract for a next-generation jet. This project is the shot in the arm it needs to get out of the red and into the black. The problem is the manufacturer does not employ enough engineers to take it on. Either it must offshore the work or stretch the delivery timeline. The Problematic Personnel Bottleneck Though this story is fictional, the conundrum it depicts is very real. There just aren’t enough skilled American engineers to meet demand. The aerospace sector is feeling this paucity. “‘Our Corporate Members tell us there are not enough people studying engineering to fill the jobs of the future,’ says Vickie Singer, senior director of Revenue Development and Corporate Membership for AIAA, the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession,” reports Aerospace America. According to the same source, the pool of competent engineers has shrunk post-COVID. The talent drain is only expected to intensify as older workers and managers age out of their present roles. Jeff Immelt has had a closeup view of this decline. As the former chairman and CEO of General Electric, succeeding Jack Welch, he can recall an era in which engineering firms could recruit and retain the very best talent it takes to keep domestic industry humming. Not anymore, he told me in an interview. A venture partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Immelt recently joined the board of directors of P-1 AI, Inc., an Agentic AI engineering startup for industrial teams that just announced the initial closing of its $50 million Series A financing round. I spoke to Immelt…

The much-anticipated fixCleanup3_2_0 upgrade has gone live, marking a security milestone for the XRP Ledger. The fixCleanup3_2_0 amendment, which brings important fixes to the XRP Ledger’s Single Asset Vaults, the Lending Protocol, the permissioned DEX, multi-purpose tokens, and permissioned domains, was activated today, July 28, with 85.71% validator support (30 of 35) on mainnet. Hussein Zangana, the director of community at the XRP Ledger Foundation who goes by ‘Vet’ on X, shared this milestone in a recent post, saying that the XRP Ledger just got better in a “flip-of-the-switch” moment with XRPL 3.2.0 now the new minimum version for mainnet. Whales Want Ethereum (ETH) Above $2,000 Now: Binance Withdrawals Spike Next XRP Move May Break $1 Threshold, Ethereum (ETH) Already Eyes $2,000, Near Protocol (NEAR) Is Out of Trend: Crypto Market Review fix amendment for the XRP Ledger just went live, now XRPL 3.2.0 is the new min version for main net. the XRP Ledger just got better in a flip of the switch moment. pic.twitter.com/Vugr2Xq4PT — Vet (@Vet_X0) July 29, 2026 You Might Also Like The fixCleanup3_2_0 upgrade hardens what already shipped, adding precision and rounding fixes for single asset vaults and the lending protocol; patches for the permissioned DEX and permissioned domains; validation for non-canonical MPT amounts; and new invariant checks for cleaner ledger state. XRP’s ‘flip of the switch’ moment? The fixCleanup3_2_0 upgrade is the result of Ripple’s security efforts for the XRP Ledger. Ripple said in March that it would form a dedicated AI-assisted red team to continuously hunt for vulnerabilities in the XRP Ledger. You Might Also Like The XRPL 3.1.3 release, which included the fixCleanup3_1_3, was the first dedicated security release to come out of this effort. Then came XRPL version 3.2.0, a cleanup and maintenance release launched in June. This included more fixes…

Uniswap price rebounded 8% from its July 29 intraday low as Hayden Adams addressed concerns over v4 protocol fees, helping UNI reclaim the $4 psychological level. Summary UNI recovered from $3.74 to $4.06, producing an intraday rebound of more than 8%. Daily RSI reached 66.83, showing strong momentum without entering overbought territory. The 4-hour chart places immediate resistance between $4.10 and $4.30. A rising wedge and weak 19.77 ADX leave UNI exposed to a short-term pullback. Uniswap price returns above $4 According to data from crypto.news, Uniswap (UNI) price traded at $4.02 at the time of writing after briefly reaching $4.06, according to the Binance daily chart. The intraday rebound from $3.74 amounted to about 8.5%, while the token was up roughly 3% from its daily opening price. UNI has now recovered more than 70% from its June low near $2.35. The rally has formed a sequence of higher highs and higher lows, allowing the token to return to a price area last tested in May. Uniswap price daily chart — July 29 | Source: crypto.news Momentum remains favorable on the daily timeframe. UNI is trading above its Supertrend support at $3.23, while the relative strength index has risen to 66.83. The RSI remains below the standard overbought threshold of 70, although the reading shows that buying conditions are becoming stretched. The daily candle also approached the May swing high near $4.15. A close above that level would strengthen the case that UNI has moved beyond a temporary relief rally and entered a broader recovery phase. Hayden Adams addresses Uniswap v4 fee concerns The immediate move followed comments from Uniswap founder Hayden Adams about the protocol’s v4 fee structure. Adams said the protocol fee would be added to the liquidity provider fee instead of being deducted from it. Under his…

Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Humana on Wednesday reported second-quarter results that topped estimates, as the health insurer’s spending on medical services came in line with expectations.  The company also maintained its 2026 adjusted profit outlook of at least $9 per share.  The earnings beat was driven by strength across Humana’s insurance business and CenterWell healthcare services unit, Humana CFO Celeste Mellet said in an interview. She said medical and pharmacy cost trends tracked in line with Humana’s expectations across new and existing members. The company saw “slight favorability” in medical costs in the inpatient space, particularly among members receiving care from value-based providers, she added.  Still, in a Wednesday note, Cantor Fitzgerald analysts called the unchanged profit outlook a “disappointment” after recent earnings beats and guidance raises seen by other insurers overseeing privately run Medicare Advantage plans. Investors have been ratcheting up their expectations for the industry as some companies hike their outlooks and get a better handle on rising medical costs in those plans – an issue that has been dogging the broader sector for more than two years.  Shares of Humana fell more than 4% in premarket trading despite the solid quarter. The company is one of the largest Medicare Advantage providers serving people aged 65 and older as well as people with ​disabilities. Here’s what the company reported for the second quarter compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG: Earnings per share: $7.61 adjusted vs. $7.22 expected Revenue: $40.87 billion vs. $40.61 billion expected The company posted second-quarter net income of $694 million, or $5.73 per share, compared with $545 million, or $4.51 per share, in the same period a year ago. Excluding items like amortization and impairment charges, Humana earned $7.61 per share.…

About 176,000 ZEC, worth roughly $81 million, had migrated into Zcash’s new Ironwood shielded pool by Wednesday, a day after the upgrade activated and sealed the pool where a counterfeiting flaw had gone undetected for four years. That is roughly 5% of the 3.66 million ZEC held in Orchard at activation. Orchard’s balance has since fallen to about 3.51 million, with around 46,000 ZEC crossing over in the past 24 hours, according to the Ironwood migration tracker. Zcash holds funds in separate compartments called pools, each one a generation of the network’s privacy technology. The transparent pool works like bitcoin, with every balance and transaction visible on the chain, and holds about 12.5 million ZEC. The shielded pools hide amounts and participants. Sapling, introduced in 2018, holds about 582,000 ZEC, and Orchard, which arrived in 2022 and was the newest until this week, held about 3.5 million. Each time the network upgrades its privacy cryptography, it opens a new pool rather than rebuilding the old one, leaving holders to move their coins across themselves. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/07/29/about-usd80-million-zec-crosses-into-zcash-s-new-ironwood-pool-in-the-first-day

Senate delayed the CLARITY Act to prioritize Russian sanctions, leaving days before August 8 recess and triggering a 6.27% ADA drop Cheeky Crypto says whale accumulation through June’s crash is the signal that precedes 800% recoveries in large-cap altcoins Cardano on-chain stablecoin supply hit $55M, triple last year’s level, as USDCX integration reached a new all-time high Cardano trades at $0.1643 on July 29, bouncing off the fair value gap after Iran denied ceasefire talks and the Senate shelved the CLARITY Act for another week, with one analyst calling current prices a generational entry and another pointing straight at the legislative clock running out. ADA Is Bouncing From The FVG But The Triangle Has Already Failed ADA 1D Price Action (Source: TradingView) The daily chart shows ADA bouncing from the fair value gap between approximately $0.1450 and $0.1515 after yesterday’s 6.27% drop swept through the triangle structure that had been compressing since mid-July. The FVG that provided today’s bounce sits just above the June low near $0.1386. The 20-day EMA at $0.1654 is the immediate ceiling above current price, followed by the 50-day at $0.1737. Below price, the 0.705 SMC level at $0.1563 and the 0.786 at $0.1513 define the next support levels if the FVG bounce fails to hold. What Are The Key Support And Resistance Levels For ADA Today? Resistance $0.1654 — 20-day EMA, immediate ceiling $0.1737 — 50-day EMA $0.1762 — 0.382 SMC Fibonacci level $0.1986 — 100-day EMA and CHoCH level from July recovery Support $0.1617 — 0.618 SMC Fibonacci, current bounce zone $0.1563 — 0.705 level, next support below $0.1513 — 0.786 level and FVG upper boundary $0.1450 — FVG lower boundary and last floor before June lows Cheeky Crypto: Selling ADA Here Could Cost You 800% Analyst Cheeky Crypto argued in a youtube video…

Prediction market traders are betting that Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) will extend its rally over the coming month, pushing the stock toward the $250 mark. In line with this outlook, Polymarket data assigned the AI chipmaker a 50% probability of closing August above $240, implying upside of roughly 22% from its press-time price of $197. However, traders are becoming more cautious about gains beyond that level. To this end, Polymarket assigned a 26% probability that Nvidia will finish above $248, while the odds of a close above $256 drop sharply to just 4%. At the same time, the market prices a 52% chance of the stock ending below $200 and a 54% probability of closing below $184, highlighting expectations for increased volatility ahead of the company’s next earnings report. NVDA stock price prediction. Source: Polymarket Nvidia stock fundamentals  Despite the mixed short-term positioning, Wall Street remains overwhelmingly bullish on Nvidia’s long-term growth prospects.  Analysts expect the technology company to generate between $388 billion and $394 billion in revenue during fiscal 2027, representing annual growth of more than 80%. Earnings per share are also forecast to climb to between $9 and $9.09, nearly doubling from the previous fiscal year. Looking further ahead, consensus estimates call for fiscal 2028 revenue of between $542 billion and $561 billion, alongside earnings per share of $12.56 to $12.87. Those projections reflect expectations that AI infrastructure spending will remain elevated, even as growth gradually normalizes from recent record levels. Meanwhile, Nvidia continues to benefit from its dominant position in the AI semiconductor market.  The company’s data center segment generates more than 90% of total revenue, while demand for Blackwell processors remains strong enough to keep production effectively sold out into 2027. In addition, investors are closely watching the rollout of Nvidia’s next-generation Vera Rubin platform, which is…

ZUG, Switzerland — July 29, 2026 — Many crypto OTC desks require full prefunding. A payment provider that wants to convert 1 million euros places 1 million euros with the desk before the trade executes. The rule is simple and it protects the desk, but the cost of it sits entirely on the client’s balance sheet. For a fund making an occasional trade, 100% prefunding is an inconvenience. For a payment provider converting merchant volume every day, it is a permanent claim on working capital, and it grows with the business. An alternative already exists. Margin-based settlement executes the same trade against a fraction of its value and leaves the rest on the client’s books. What Prefunding Locks Prefunding means the full value of every trade leaves the provider’s accounts before execution. That money is not lost, but until the trade settles, it does nothing: it cannot fund payouts, cover operating costs, or back the next conversion. The scale of this is easy to underestimate, because it is not one trade’s worth of capital. A payment provider converting daily always has trades in flight, so some share of its cash is always parked at the desk. The busier the provider, the larger that parked share becomes, and it never returns to zero. That makes prefunding most expensive for the clients doing the most business. Growth increases the number of active trades, which increases the capital permanently committed, which then constrains the growth that caused it. Payment providers often meet this ceiling before they meet any limit on demand. How Does Margin-Based Crypto Settlement Work A margin model changes the arithmetic. The client posts a percentage of the trade value as collateral, the desk executes at full notional, and the collateral is released when the trade settles. The full amount never…

Binance is stepping into territory no major crypto exchange has claimed before, launching commodity options on gold and silver through its Abu Dhabi Global Market-regulated entity, Nest Exchange Limited. The move, announced July 29, 2026, is more than a product expansion — it’s a direct bridge between crypto-native infrastructure and the world’s most actively traded physical commodities. Key takeaways Binance launched European-style, USDT-settled commodity options on gold and silver through Nest Exchange Limited, its ADGM-regulated Recognized Investment Exchange. Retail users can only buy (long) options, capping their maximum loss at the premium paid and eliminating liquidation risk. Eligible institutional users and liquidity providers can write options to collect upfront premiums and build advanced portfolio strategies. Trading runs Sunday 6:00 PM ET to Friday 5:00 PM ET, with a daily one-hour break, mirroring traditional commodity market windows. Users access both commodity perpetuals and options through the same USDT balance and existing Binance account. Binance launches gold and silver commodity options under ADGM regulation The launch positions Binance as the first crypto platform to offer options directly tied to physical gold and silver — not synthetic proxies, but European-style contracts settled in USDT. The underlying demand was already visible. Strong trading volumes in Binance’s existing gold and silver perpetual futures signaled that users wanted more structured ways to engage with these assets, and options are the natural next step. The regulatory scaffolding matters here. The product operates entirely within the framework of Abu Dhabi Global Market, one of the UAE’s most established financial free zones. Nest Exchange Limited, Binance’s ADGM-regulated Recognized Investment Exchange, carries the compliance weight: KYC and KYB checks, market surveillance, and sanctions screening are all built into the offering. European-style, USDT-settled — what that actually means European-style options can only be exercised at expiry, not before. That design limits…

TD Securities strategists note that Australia’s Q2 Consumer Price Index (CPI) and June headline inflation came in below expectations, easing pressure on the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). They highlight that trimmed mean inflation undershot the May Statement of Monetary Policy forecast and that activity, especially housing, is slowing. It expects the RBA to remain in pause-and-observe mode at the August meeting while awaiting further CPI guidance. Lower inflation supports extended RBA pause “Australia Q2/June CPI was lower than expected, which should reassure RBA officials that inflation pressures are kept in check. Turning to Q2 trimmed mean measure (i.e., core), which the RBA focuses on, it printed at 3.6% y/y and lower than the RBA’s May Statement of Monetary Policy forecast at 3.8% y/y.” “This translates to a quarterly print of 0.81%, similar to Q1 at 0.84%. June headline CPI also printed below consensus at 3.8% y/y (consensus: 4.0%, prior: 4.0%). Housing was the largest contributor to the headline CPI in June, followed by food and recreational services.” “Activity is slowing in response to earlier hikes, especially in the housing market, and we will also get clarity on the Bank’s CPI outlook from RBA’s Chief Economist Hunter’s fireside chat tomorrow.” “Overall, today’s Q2 trimmed mean CPI print should allow RBA to be in pause and observe mode, and we expect them to stay on hold at the Aug meeting.” (This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor. Know more.) Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/australian-dollar-softer-cpi-keeps-rba-on-hold-td-securities-202607291212

The XRP Ledger has also implemented the fixCleanup3_2_0 amendment, which is another significant update in the network. The amendment received 85.71% validator consensus with 30 out of 35 trusted validators voting in favor of the amendment, with 5 validators opposing the proposal. XRP Ledger Fix Amendment Is Live Now XRPScan data indicates that the amendment has now been activated, with XRPL version 3.2.0 as the minimum version needed to be compatible with the mainnet. The update has an immediate impact on operators using software versions prior to that. XRPScan said, “The fixCleanup3_2_0 amendment is now active. With this, all nodes running version 3.1.0 and below are amendment blocked until they upgrade to 3.2.0. Please take action to ensure service continuity.” The latest release is also very well received in the network data. There are currently 103 validators running version 3.2.0, that is 68.67% of all validators, and 543 nodes running version 3.2.0, 64.26% of all nodes. In comparison, version 3.1.3 is still used by 37 validators (24.67%) and 268 nodes (31.72%) meaning a lot of operators have already upgraded, and some are still upgrading. The milestone was also noted by an XRPL dUNL validator, who posted: “fix amendment for the XRP Ledger just went live, now XRPL 3.2.0 is the new min version for main net.” The validator added, “the XRP Ledger just got better in a flip of the switch moment.” The alert comes after a previous warning issued by XRPL contributor Vet who wrote, “all nodes running XRPL versions below 3.2.0 will experience service interruptions.”  Those nodes that have not been upgraded will not be able to continue to be compatible with the network following the amendment. What Has Changed With The Update? It includes several bug fixes and enhancements to the infrastructure and developers. It also brings…

Meta Platforms and BlackRock will jointly build a 1-gigawatt artificial intelligence data center in El Paso, Texas. BlackRock-managed funds will own 80% of the venture, and Meta will lease the campus once construction wraps in 2028. The companies announced the deal Tuesday, shifting Meta’s infrastructure costs off its own balance sheet and onto private investors. Meta will contribute land and assets already under construction, while BlackRock funds the buildout in cash and debt. Financing Splits Risk Between Meta and BlackRock Under the agreement, BlackRock-managed funds and Meta will fund the roughly $14 billion project according to their 80/20 ownership split. Meta will hand over land and construction-in-progress assets worth about $2.3 billion. It will then collect a separate $1 billion payout to balance the ownership math. BlackRock will add its own $4.9 billion in cash. A further $12.5 billion in debt financing, raised separately, will cover the rest of BlackRock’s side of the deal. Meta signed an initial four-year lease with options extending it toward 20 years. It also agreed to cover a shortfall up to $13 billion if campus value falls below a threshold. That guarantee shrinks over time. “Building the infrastructure for superintelligence is key to making sure the benefits of this technology are distributed to everyone,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and chief executive. BlackRock chairman and chief executive officer Larry Fink framed the venture as a long-term infrastructure bet for both companies. “We’re excited to partner with Mark and the Meta leadership team on the El Paso data center campus, which will create thousands of skilled jobs and help drive economic growth in the local community,” Fink said. Deal Lands as Wall Street Questions AI Capital Spending Meta unveiled the venture two days before reporting Q2 earnings under pressure over ballooning artificial intelligence spending. However, moving…

A recent case may mean that taxpayers filing Kwong-related protective claims won’t see penalty relief after all. getty A recent U.S. Tax Court order is causing a stir, with some practitioners suggesting it could significantly limit taxpayers’ ability to recover penalties and interest assessed during the COVID-19 pandemic. But the fallout may not be quite that simple. In Bowen v. Commissioner, the court did not decide whether federal tax deadlines were automatically postponed during the COVID-19 disaster period. Instead, it assumed that they might have been—and ruled that the extension would not wipe out the accuracy-related penalties at issue. Background The taxpayers, Suzanne and Kenton Bowen, filed a petition in Tax Court in 2024 after the IRS assessed additional tax for 2016 along with a 20% accuracy-related penalty, alleging that the return reflected negligence or disregard of the tax rules. A notice of deficiency sets out the IRS’s determination that the taxpayer owes additional tax and often includes any proposed penalties. After the notice is mailed, the taxpayer generally has 90 days (150 days if addressed outside the United States) to file a petition with the U.S. Tax Court. Filing a timely petition allows the taxpayer to have the dispute heard by the Tax Court before paying the proposed deficiency—which is what happened here. Suzanne Bowen was later dismissed from the case for lack of jurisdiction. The IRS had moved to dismiss her on the grounds that it had not issued a notice of deficiency—or made another determination concerning her 2016 tax year—that would allow her to invoke the Tax Court’s jurisdiction. That left Kenton Bowen as the petitioner in the original case (the case is part of a group of four related cases involving Bowen). Three of the notices of deficiency included accuracy-related penalties. In the fourth case, the…

Can ETH collapse to $900 before entering a new bull run? Large investors have seemingly decided to offload a substantial amount of ETH, raising concerns among some analysts that the asset could be gearing up for fresh bearish momentum. At the same time, the optimists are just as vocal, forecasting a powerful move north in the near future. The Whales’ Latest Move Ali Martinez revealed that this group of market participants has sold or redistributed 226,435 ETH over the last 24 hours, marking one of the largest spikes in whale activity recently. At current rates, the stash is worth roughly $430 million, and these investors now control 26.64 million coins, about 22% of the asset’s circulating supply. Such sell-offs from whales are usually viewed as concerning factors that could spread panic across the community and prompt smaller players to cash out, too. In line with the warning, Martinez said he is paying close attention to the $1,773 level, claiming that a breakdown below could “put the current bullish outlook on hold.” Another analyst who outlined a rather pessimistic prediction is X user Crypto Lens. They think that ETH is stuck at the $1,860-$1,955 range for a reason, suggesting that the real bull trap is just getting started. In their view, the price may jump as high as $2,000, but shortly after, it might collapse to its final bottom test in the $1,400-$900 zone. “There’s a chance we’ll wick a candle to update the 2022 minimum and sweep liquidity. I see a lot of hate toward Ethereum – this is done to disillusion the crowd. After that, whales will pump positivity around ETH when the price hits a new ATH,” the analyst concluded. The Bullish Targets Martinez has been quite indecisive about ETH lately, and earlier this week he was…

“In a rapidly maturing digital asset market, relying on fragmented risk data is a critical vulnerability. Building a resilient ecosystem demands institutional-grade intelligence.” MEXC, the world’s fastest-growing digital asset exchange and a pioneer of true zero-fee trading, has today announced a collaboration with LSEG Risk Intelligence.This partnership enables the integration of World-Check, equipping the platform with the same risk intelligence database used by financial institutions globally, setting a new benchmark for proactive security in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Deploying an Institutional Grade Risk Architecture  As institutional and retail adoption of digital assets accelerates, uncompromising security measures have become a critical operational imperative. By adopting LSEG World-Check, MEXC is fusing the rigorous compliance frameworks of traditional finance with the agility of the digital economy. This strategic upgrade sets a new benchmark for the industry, ensuring the platform’s overarching security infrastructure meets regulatory standards. Precision Screening and Preemptive Ecosystem Defence  World-Check is globally recognised as the authoritative and trusted source for risk intelligence. To execute its high-level security strategy, MEXC is embedding this premier data directly into its internal workflows. This integration facilitates real-time screening and cross-referencing against global regulatory and sanctions watchlists. Crucially, the system identifies Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and continuously tracks adverse media to swiftly intercept illicit actors. This dual capability fundamentally reinforces the exchange’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Terrorism Financing (CTF) protocols. Securing the Future of Digital Asset Trading Shifting away from reactive regulatory measures, MEXC is engineering a preventative approach to platform security. The  integration helps the exchange filter out high-risk actors during initial onboarding and continues monitoring existing accounts, keeping the trading environment clean. Vugar Usi, Chief Executive Officer of MEXC, said: “At MEXC, protecting our users and partners is non-negotiable. By integrating LSEG’s World-Check risk intelligence platform into our digital asset infrastructure, we are setting a…

GBP/JPY extends its subdued price action on Wednesday, forming a series of small-bodied candlesticks after briefly climbing above 219 earlier this month, its highest level since December 2007. At the time of writing, the cross trades around 217.50. The loss of upside momentum reflects weakening sentiment toward the British Pound (GBP) rather than any meaningful recovery in the Japanese Yen (JPY). Initial optimism following the appointment of the United Kingdom’s new prime minister has faded, with fiscal concerns returning as a near-term headwind for Sterling. However, the downside for GBP/JPY appears limited, as the Yen remains broadly weak due to Japan’s wide interest-rate gap with other major economies. The latest energy shock also weighs on the currency, given the country’s heavy reliance on imported Oil. Meanwhile, traders are also avoiding aggressive directional positions, with the Bank of England (BoE) and Bank of Japan (BoJ) monetary policy announcements among the key risk events on tap later this week. Both central banks are widely expected to leave interest rates unchanged, shifting attention to their policy statements and officials’ remarks for clues about the future path of interest rates and how policymakers intend to respond to energy-driven inflation risks. Technical Analysis On the daily chart, GBP/JPY holds a constructive near-term bias as it sits marginally above the 21-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) at 217.48 and well above the 50-, 100- and 200-day SMAs. Momentum is mixed, with the Relative Strength Index (RSI) around 54 after easing from overbought territory, while the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator has slipped just below zero, suggesting that upside momentum is fading rather than collapsing. On the upside, initial resistance is seen at 218.50, followed by the yearly high of 219.61. On the downside, initial support emerges at the 21-day SMA near 217.48, with the 50-day SMA…

The Bitcoin price has come back to tag the neckline of a bearish head and shoulders pattern. Is this going to be a confirmation of the breakdown, or can the bulls negate the pattern and push the $BTC price back to the $66K horizontal resistance? $BTC price returns to confirm head and shoulders pattern Source: TradingView The short-term time frame illustrates how the $BTC price has returned to the neckline of the head and shoulders pattern. As it stands, this is quite ominous. A rejection and a confirmation of the pattern looks to be the most probable outcome. If this is the case, the full measured move down would be to around $60K, which would be well below the bull market trendline and would potentially see the price carry on down to the bottom of the channel at least. On the more optimistic side of things, previous head and shoulders patterns have failed to play out. Also, the short-term Stochastic RSI indicators are moving up, signalling upside price momentum. Will it be enough? No major price correction yet is bullish for Bitcoin Source: TradingView The daily time frame shows the horizontal support level at $60K should the $BTC price go down there. This corresponds to the bottom of the crash out of the bear flag, so would be a good place to reevaluate things. While the shorter term momentum indicators rise from the bottom of their range, the daily Stochastic RSI indicators are reaching their bottom. This is quite bullish, given that the down leg for these indicators did not result in hardly any corrective price movement at all. Instead, the price action has gone sideways.  The wedge pattern in the RSI sees change once again as the indicator line manages to avoid falling through the bottom. If the bottom…

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Ludwig Göransson reaches No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Soundtrack Albums chart for the first time — after missing out on the top spot by one space earlier this year — with The Odyssey. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JULY 14: Ludwig Göransson attends “The Odyssey” New York Premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on July 14, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) Getty Images Ludwig Göransson, the Emmy-, Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer and producer, is the man behind The Odyssey’s score. The music marks his latest of several collaborations with director Christopher Nolan. Nearly everything attached to the blockbuster film is turning into a major commercial success, and that includes its soundtrack. The almost entirely instrumental project – it does feature “When I’m Home” by James Blake and Travis Scott – becomes a hit in the United Kingdom this week. The project debuts in lofty positions — especially for a film score — across multiple rankings. The collection also gives Göransson his first No. 1 on one list where he’s come close to leading the charge in the past. Ludwig Göransson Scores His First No. 1 The Odyssey debuts at No. 1 on the Official Soundtrack Albums chart. The collection immediately gives Göransson his first champion on the specific ranking. The composer has now placed 10 projects on the Official Soundtrack Albums chart. Four of those releases have broken into the top 10, and The Odyssey becomes the first to climb all the way to the summit. Ludwig Göransson Almost Reached No. 1 Earlier This Year The soundtrack’s immediate arrival at No. 1 extends a particularly successful year for Göransson in the U.K. He has already added two new wins on the ranking so far in 2026, and both have become major hits. Only a…

Ted Hisokawa Jul 29, 2026 08:43 OP is pinned at $0.0964, pressing against its lower Bollinger Band with momentum flat and every major moving average stacked overhead like a ceiling — a short-term relief rally toward $0.10–$0.11 i… OP’s Technical Reality Check Right now, OP is sitting at $0.0964 — and the chart is about as ugly as it gets for bulls without being outright catastrophic. Every meaningful moving average, from the 20-day SMA at $0.10 to the 200-day SMA at $0.14, is trading above price. That $0.14 level isn’t just overhead resistance — it’s a distant memory from a market that has systematically destroyed OP holders over the past year. What makes this moment interesting rather than just depressing is the compression. Price is pinned to the lower Bollinger Band with a %B reading of 0.04 — essentially sitting on the floor of the structure. The RSI at 35.61 hasn’t crossed into oversold territory yet, which means selling pressure still has room to breathe before exhaustion sets in. More telling is the MACD setup: the histogram has flatlined at zero, which sounds neutral but reads as a warning sign when price is this structurally weak. Momentum isn’t building — it’s stalling at the worst possible level. The Stochastic oscillator is a different story entirely. At 10.73 on %K and 8.59 on %D, we’re deep in oversold territory. Historically, when Stochastic gets this compressed with RSI approaching the low 30s, you get at least a mechanical bounce. The question isn’t whether a bounce is coming — it almost certainly is — but whether it’s a dead-cat rally or genuine accumulation stepping in. As tracked on Blockchain.news, Layer-2 tokens broadly have faced structural narrative headwinds throughout 2026, and OP’s chart is a direct,…

The play-to-earn gaming sector is undergoing a quiet but significant transformation — one that goes well beyond swapping out tokens for better graphics. The evolution of play-to-earn gaming is essentially a story about survival: which models actually keep players coming back, and which ones collapse the moment crypto prices dip. Key takeaways Play-to-earn games are shifting from crypto reward-first designs to gameplay-first models that prioritize long-term player retention. Rollercoin, a browser-based mining simulator, illustrates the new approach: mini-games, consistent rewards, and accessible entry for new players. Traditional gaming mechanics — battle passes, daily missions, achievements — are now standard features in blockchain games. Progression in modern P2E games comes from regular play, not speculation or heavy upfront investment. Regulatory scrutiny of in-game economies with real monetary value is rising, pushing developers toward KYC requirements and regional compliance measures. Play-to-Earn Gaming Evolves Beyond Crypto Rewards The original P2E pitch was simple and, for a while, compelling: play a game, earn crypto or NFTs, convert to real money. During the 2021–2022 boom, that was enough. Games attracted users through the promise of financial return, and communities grew fast. But that growth had a fragile foundation — it depended on a continuous stream of new players injecting money into the system, and when broader crypto interest cooled, so did the player base. What followed was a reckoning. Games that had built everything around token incentives found themselves with hollow economies and shrinking communities. Earning potential alone couldn’t manufacture loyalty. Players left as soon as the numbers stopped making sense. Shift from Reward-Focused to Gameplay-First Models The response from serious developers has been a fundamental rethink. Rather than engineering game mechanics around costly NFTs or speculative quick gains, many studios have redirected energy toward building games that are actually enjoyable to play. The incentives…

With August 3 shaping up to be a pivotal day for cryptocurrencies with the probable vote on the CLARITY Act, digital assets have started reacting to the expected tailwinds, with Bitcoin (BTC) gaining 7.25% in the last 30 days. Still, with history warning that the expected legal framework might not pass and that the markets might not react as expected even if it does, Finbold elected to examine expert attitudes on the likely BTC price in August. Is Bitcoin price headed above $600,000 after CLARITY Act passes? To begin with, Lyndon Wood, a popular capital allocator focused on long-cycle economics and structural risk, published an X post on July 22 explaining that the Act itself is far less important than the structural demand it will enable. Specifically, he predicted that a successful vote would lead to a lessened regulatory risk ‘discount,’ greater adoption in the banking sector, more corporate buying, and larger exchange-traded fund (ETF) inflows, all interacting with Bitcoin’s fixed supply and leading to long-term strength.  Wood also explained he anticipates a short-term ‘buy the rumour, sell the news’ behaviour and set his six-month BTC price target within the range between $80,000 and $130,000. In the medium term, the expert added, the CLARITY Act would enable participation from previously excluded actors, thus leading a Bitcoin rally to $350,000 on the lower end of the spectrum, and above $600,000 at the higher end after the 24-month mark. Clarity Act Pass and what matters for Bitcoin’s price The biggest driver is not the Act itself. It’s the new structural demand it enables: More ETF inflows.More corporate treasury buying.More banks offering Bitcoin services.Less regulatory risk discount. All of that… — Lyndon Wood ✌️]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/uniswap-price-surges-6-after-wintermutes-1m-move-whats-next-for-uni https://media.ikmoon.com/uniswap-price-surges-6-after-wintermutes-1m-move-whats-next-for-uni Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:00:45 +0600 crypto Uniswap, Price, Surges, After, Wintermute’s, 1M, Move:, What’s, Next, For, UNI The post Uniswap Price Surges 6% After Wintermute’s $1M Move: What’s Next For UNI? appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

The post Uniswap Price Surges 6% After Wintermute’s $1M Move: What’s Next For UNI? appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Uniswap price extended its gains on Wednesday, rising nearly 6% as improving sentiment across the DeFi sector coincided with fresh on-chain activity involving crypto market maker Wintermute. The rally has pushed UNI back into a key resistance zone after months of range-bound trading, with traders now assessing whether the token has enough momentum to confirm … Source: https://coinpedia.org/price-analysis/uniswap-price-surges-6-after-wintermutes-1m-move-whats-next-for-uni/

TRON (TRX) founder Justin Sun shared fresh account data on July 29, revealing a 42.87% jump in daily signups. The 230,862 total marked TRON’s best daily signup count in a month, according to on-chain tracker Lookonchain. He said the surge shows more users are choosing the network every day. Account Growth Accelerates The spike stands out against a month of steadier signups. Daily new-account totals on TRON had hovered between 150,000 and 200,000 through most of July. That range broke earlier this week, when the total jumped past 230,000, based on Tronscan data. TRON’s broader user base has also kept expanding this year. The network had recorded more than 395 million total accounts and processed over 14 billion transactions as of July, according to TRON DAO. That scale keeps TRON among the busiest blockchains by transaction count. Analysts tie the account surge to rising stablecoin demand on TRON. USDT, the dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by Tether, has pushed past $90 billion in circulating supply on the network this year. That expansion may be pulling fresh wallets onto the chain, since new users often arrive to send or hold the stablecoin. Corporate demand adds another layer. Tron Inc., a Nasdaq-listed treasury firm, has kept expanding its TRX holdings this year, lifting its stash above 707 million tokens. Unlike traditional corporate treasuries, its trades stay visible in a public wallet. The continued buying may be drawing new wallets toward the network as well. Broader Momentum Builds Behind TRON Sun addressed the growth directly in his post. More users are choosing TRON every day. https://t.co/KVrwh4bF7B — H.E. Justin Sun ]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/emirates-lets-uae-residents-pay-for-flights-through-cryptocom https://media.ikmoon.com/emirates-lets-uae-residents-pay-for-flights-through-cryptocom Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:05:01 +0600 crypto Emirates, Lets, UAE, Residents, Pay, for, Flights, Through, Crypto.com The post Emirates Lets UAE Residents Pay for Flights Through Crypto.com appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Emirates, the Dubai-based flagship carrier, has launched Crypto.com Pay on its website and app, enabling eligible United Arab Emirates residents make flight bookings with cryptocurrencies, the airline said Tuesday. Mobile users are sent to the Crypto.com app to authorize payment from their wallet, while desktop customers scan a QR code at checkout, the companies said in an announcement. Emirates settles in UAE dirhams rather than holding crypto, with Crypto.com handling the conversion. The move “reflects the rapidly evolving preferences of a younger, digitally fluent generation who manage their money and plan their journeys primarily from their phones,” said Adnan Kazim, Emirates’ deputy president and chief commercial officer. Neither company indicated whether they would expand the Emirates service beyond eligible UAE residents. The launch implements a partnership announced in July 2025. Cointelegraph reported in May that Crypto.com had received a UAE central bank Stored Value Facilities (SVF) license, which the company said at the time could support integrations with Emirates and Dubai Duty Free. An SVF license allows non-bank companies to hold customers’ money or crypto in a digital wallet and process payments under central bank oversight. It lets customers fund payments with cryptocurrencies while merchants receive dirhams or approved dirham-backed stablecoins. According to CoinGecko, Crypto.com handled around $686 million in trading volume in the 24 hours up to the time of writing.  Emirates is not the region’s first airline to add a crypto checkout option. Air Arabia began accepting the dirham-backed AE Coin stablecoin for flight bookings in May 2025. Related: Bhutan launches tourism crypto payments with Binance Pay and DK Bank Cointelegraph is committed to independent, transparent journalism. This news article is produced in accordance with Cointelegraph’s Editorial Policy and aims to provide accurate and timely information. Readers are encouraged to verify information independently. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/emirates-starts-letting-uae-residents-pay-for-flights-through-cryptocom?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), ranked first for large-order execution in a CryptoRank study evaluating liquidity, market structure and execution quality across leading tokenized equity products. The research found that Bitget’s Reality rTokens delivered the lowest simulated slippage across every comparable asset tested, recording up to 58% lower slippage on $50,000 orders than competing tokenized equity products, highlighting the growing importance of execution quality as tokenized equities continue to mature. The report arrives as the tokenized equity market approaches $2 billion in onchain value with more than 471,000 onchain holders, reflecting growing investor demand for blockchain-based access to traditional financial assets. As tokenized stocks become more widely available across crypto exchanges, CryptoRank examined how differences in product structure, liquidity models and execution infrastructure influence the trading experience beyond simple price exposure. The study compared tokenized stock offerings across major exchanges and found that products tracking the same underlying equities can differ significantly in investor rights, liquidity mechanisms, redemption models and execution quality. The report evaluated NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta and Tesla, the only four assets that maintained valid two-sided order books across all venues tested. In this comparable set, Bitget’s Reality rTokens consistently produced the strongest execution results for larger trades. The report found that Bitget delivered the lowest simulated slippage across all four comparable assets for both $10,000 and $50,000 orders, while Reality rTokens recorded the highest balanced displayed liquidity within 50 basis points. CryptoRank attributed these results to Bitget’s liquidity architecture, which combines exchange liquidity with NYSE and NASDAQ-linked underlying market liquidity, enabling deeper liquidity and more efficient execution for larger trades. CryptoRank also examined the legal and operational structures behind tokenized equity products, noting that similar stock tickers can represent different forms of investor claims depending on how each product is issued and settled. “Tokenization is…

The US Dollar (USD) stands at a critical juncture as financial markets prepare for the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) upcoming interest rate announcement. Following a volatile month marked by sharp swings in crude Oil prices and mixed economic indicators, US Dollar bulls have accumulated substantial long positions in anticipation of a hawkish stance by Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh. However, softer recent macroeconomic data—including cooling consumer confidence and weaker labor additions—has sparked a sharp debate among institutional strategists over whether the greenback’s premium is sustainable or if overextended long positions are vulnerable to a dovish repricing. US Dollar Index (DXY) daily chart. Source: FXStreet. Institutional Analysis: MUFG vs. DBS Bank To examine how leading strategists view positioning ahead of the central bank’s decision, we outline the primary contrasts between MUFG and DBS Bank: Baseline Policy Expectation: MUFG expects a “hawkish hold,” with benchmark rates remaining unchanged while official commentary emphasizes elevated inflation risks. DBS Bank notes that US Dollar bulls have built heavy positions on expectations of a surprise rate hike, creating asymmetric downside if the Fed delivers a quieter pause. Economic Assessment: MUFG acknowledges softer US economic releases—such as July consumer confidence falling to 90.8 and ADP weekly employment additions cooling to 15,000—but contends high inflation risks will keep policy restrictive. DBS Bank highlights that slowing growth models and pulling-back Treasury yields suggest markets may have overpriced hawkishness by relying too heavily on volatile energy price swings. Market Positioning & FX Impact: MUFG maintains that a high-for-longer policy narrative will keep US yields and the US Dollar supported, pressuring broader Asian currencies (particularly SGD, KRW, and MYR). DBS Bank warns that stretched long USD positions face liquidation risks if the Fed refrains from signaling explicit tightening for September. Elevated inflation risks to maintain yield support and US Dollar…

TLDR XRP is trading at $1.06, down nearly 8% over the past week. The U.S. Senate shelved the Clarity Act on Monday to focus on other legislation. The Senate’s August recess begins around August 7, leaving little time for a vote this year. XRP shows a confirmed death cross, an RSI of 40.9, and a weak ADX of 11.2. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh is expected to hold rates steady on July 29, though hike odds hit 38% last weekend. XRP is trading at $1.06 today. That price is down nearly 8% over the past week. The drop follows two events that traders were watching closely. The Federal Reserve has a rate decision coming, and the Senate just set aside a bill important to XRP’s future. On Monday, the Senate shelved the Clarity Act. Lawmakers chose to prioritize a Russia sanctions bill and federal nominations instead. The Senate’s August recess starts around August 7. That leaves a narrow window for the bill to move forward this year. If lawmakers miss that window, the next real chance for a vote might not come until 2027. The Clarity Act matters to XRP because it would make XRP’s legal status as a commodity official. That kind of clarity is what banks and ETF issuers say they need before building new products around it. Standard Chartered has floated a price target of $8 for XRP. That number only applies if the Senate passes the bill and exchange-traded funds bring in $4 billion to $8 billion in new money. The Federal Reserve’s meeting lands on July 29. New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh is expected to hold rates between 3.50% and 3.75%. Some traders aren’t ruling out a hike. CME FedWatch data showed hike odds near 38% over the weekend, the highest reading of this cycle. What…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. GM! Today’s top news: Crypto majors are green ahead of FOMC; BTC +1.6% at $64.4k BlackRock joins Fidelity and Goldman in support of the Clarity Act Anthropic says Mythos broke post-quantum cryptography Zcash activated its Ironwood upgrade, 3.8% migrated out of Orchard so far New Robinhood meme PIPEDOG soars to $40M+ on massive volume ]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/south-korea-weighs-etf-crackdown-after-kospi-plunges-by-32-from-june-peak https://media.ikmoon.com/south-korea-weighs-etf-crackdown-after-kospi-plunges-by-32-from-june-peak Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:03:58 +0600 crypto South, Korea, Weighs, ETF, Crackdown, After, Kospi, Plunges, 32, From, June, Peak The post South Korea Weighs ETF Crackdown After Kospi Plunges by 32% From June Peak appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Key highlights: South Korea has called an emergency meeting after the Kospi tumbled nearly 32% from its June high Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol apologized for the rollout of leveraged single-stock ETFs, acknowledging regulators underestimated the risks Authorities are considering stricter investment limits and additional trading restrictions if new rules fail to curb speculative activity South Korea considers tougher ETF rules after market rout South Korean regulators are preparing additional measures to cool speculative trading after the country’s stock market suffered one of its sharpest corrections in years. The government convened an emergency meeting on July 29, after the Kospi index slid roughly 32% from its June peak, driven largely by a steep sell-off in semiconductor stocks that had fueled the market’s rally earlier this year. Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol admitted regulators failed to fully assess the risks associated with the launch of leveraged single-stock exchange-traded funds (ETFs) while issuing a public apology as lawmakers questioned the government’s oversight. SOUTH KOREA ]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/clarity-act-vote-delayed-as-us-fed-rate-hike-speculation-intensifies-over-inflation https://media.ikmoon.com/clarity-act-vote-delayed-as-us-fed-rate-hike-speculation-intensifies-over-inflation Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:03:44 +0600 crypto Clarity, Act, Vote, Delayed, Fed, Rate, Hike, Speculation, Intensifies, Over, Inflation The post Clarity Act Vote Delayed as US Fed Rate Hike Speculation Intensifies Over Inflation appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has shifted floor attention toward confirmations of President Donald Trump’s nominees and legislation related to Russia sanctions. That leaves limited time for the Clarity Act to advance before the Senate’s scheduled August 8 recess. Recent reports indicate that lawmakers are still working through disagreements over ethics provisions, enforcement authority, stablecoin-related rules, and the treatment of banks under the proposed framework. The delay comes just days after Senate Banking Digital Assets Subcommittee Chair Cynthia Lummis released an updated version of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, H.R. 3633. Lummis said the revised text represented a combined effort from the Banking and Agriculture committees and described the coming weeks as potentially the “last real chance” to complete the legislation for years. Clarity Act pushed aside as Senate focuses on nominations and Russia bill The latest Senate schedule puts the Clarity Act behind other legislative priorities, making a vote before the August break increasingly difficult. The bill has already undergone months of negotiations and remains a central part of efforts to establish a clearer US crypto regulatory framework. Senate Majority Leader John Thune highlighted GOP progress in confirming nearly all available Trump administration nominees while advancing Republican priorities. Source: @LeaderJohnThune via X The legislation seeks to define regulatory responsibilities across the digital asset market and provide clearer distinctions between assets that fall under securities or commodities rules. Senate Republicans have described the measure as a way to replace fragmented oversight with clearer rules for digital assets. The timing of the delay is significant. The Senate has only a limited number of legislative days remaining before the recess, while lawmakers continue to negotiate provisions that have drawn opposition from Democrats and state-level regulators. New York Attorney General Letitia James has become one of the bill’s most prominent critics. In…

Bitcoin miners are redirecting billions of dollars and scarce power capacity toward artificial intelligence as BTC’s downturn pushes mining profitability close to historic lows. Data from CryptoSlate shows Bitcoin trading around $64,000, nearly 50% below its October peak, while elevated network competition and weak transaction fees continue to squeeze miner revenue. Those pressures have made AI infrastructure increasingly attractive because data-center customers can pay substantially more for reliable electricity and long-term capacity, giving miners another way to monetize power assets that are becoming less profitable when devoted solely to Bitcoin. Some of the industry’s largest operators are already converting facilities, signing multi-year computing contracts and, in some cases, pulling back from investment in new Bitcoin mining equipment. However, André Dragosch, head of research at Bitwise Europe, told CryptoSlate that miners may be making that shift at the wrong point in the cycle. He argues that expectations for AI compute demand, including demand generated by autonomous agents, could take longer to materialize than current investment implies. At the same time, he believes Bitcoin is approaching the end of its downturn. Related Reading Bitcoin miners using AI as a bear market escape plan just got a new rival in Elon Musk SpaceX-Anthropic deal validates miners’ bet on electricity scarcity while exposing them to competition from deeper-pocketed technology platforms. May 8, 2026 · Oluwapelumi Adejumo That combination creates a potential timing problem: miners could spend the next year committing capital and power capacity to AI just as a recovery in Bitcoin prices restores the economics of mining. Dragosch therefore believes some miners making the pivot today could regret the decision within the next 12 months. Mining economics make the AI pivot difficult to resist The economics facing Bitcoin miners make Dragosch’s contrarian call difficult to act on today. Bitcoin’s April 2024 halving cut…

Kathryn Newton as Sara, Tommi Rose as Adrienne, Lana Condor as Max, and Nico Hiraga as James in The Devil’s Mouth Jirathit Saengavut The Devil’s Mouth is not rewriting the book on shark survival movies, but the Prime Video original is nonetheless a solid addition to the genre. The film follows a group of post-college grads on a summer trip in Thailand before they head out to their new lives. But their adventure in the eponymous (and fictional) caves that are meant to be the highlight of their trip goes disastrously and fatally wrong when they come up against a hungry and aggressive bull shark in the tunnels. The draw for this movie is its cast. Like the slashers of yore, it relies on the star power of actors who are familiar to the 18-34 set who will make up its core audience. There’s Kathryn Newton (Big Little Lies; The Society) as Sara, Lana Condor (To All the Boys) as Max, Gavin Casalegno (The Summer I Turned Pretty) as Greg, and Nico Hiraga (Love in Taipei; Sweethearts) as James. Tommi Rose, best known for her role on Sweet Magnolias, rounds out the friend group as Adrienne. But what will keep viewers tuned in is the interpersonal drama that spills into these characters’ interactions even in the midst of terror and trying to escape the caves. Not to mention the suspense that hovers over who will die, how, when, and why as bickering turns into yelling matches and the truth of the dynamic between Sara and Max bubbles to the surface. Gavin Casalegno as Greg, Tommi Rose as Adrienne, Lana Condor as Max, Kathryn Newton as Sara, and Nico Hiraga as James in The Devil’s Mouth Jirathit Saengavut ‘The Devil’s Mouth’ Is A Mid-Tier Thriller For The Streaming Age With theatrical…

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Ethereum price rose nearly 2% on July 29 as US spot ETF inflows and short liquidations helped ETH defend its rising support structure before the Federal Reserve’s rate decision. Summary Ethereum recovered above $1,900 after rebounding from an intraday low near $1,856. US spot Ethereum ETFs attracted $14.53 million, including $5.15 million for Morgan Stanley’s MSSE. The 4-hour chart places ETH inside an ascending channel, with resistance approaching $1,970. Liquidation clusters near $1,940 and $1,960 could shape the next move before the Fed decision. Ethereum price returns above $1,900 According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum (ETH) price was trading near $1,913 at the time of writing, up about 2% over the past 24 hours. The token had traded between approximately $1,856 and $1,926 during the session. The recovery followed a successful defense of the $1,850–$1,880 region. ETH first reclaimed the daily Bollinger Band midpoint at $1,874 before moving back above the psychological $1,900 level. Ethereum’s daily chart shows price consolidating between the Bollinger Band midpoint and upper boundary. The upper band sits at $1,973, making the $1,970–$2,000 region the next technical barrier. The lower band remains near $1,775. Ethereum price daily chart — July 29 | Source: crypto.news Buying pressure has also improved. The Chaikin Money Flow reading stands at 0.08, above the neutral line and indicating that capital inflows currently outweigh distribution. However, the indicator remains below its July high, suggesting demand has not yet reached breakout strength. Morgan Stanley ETF adds to institutional demand The rally coincided with the first trading session for the Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust, which listed on NYSE Arca under the ticker MSSE. MSSE attracted $5.15 million in net inflows and generated $19.03 million in first-day trading volume. BlackRock’s ETHB recorded the largest daily inflow at $5.91 million, while combined spot Ethereum ETF inflows…

Commerzbank’s Michael Pfister analyses how the Swiss National Bank’s recent shift toward tolerating a weaker Swiss Franc affects inflation and EUR/CHF. Using a structural exchange rate pass-through model based on invoicing currencies, he finds Euro-denominated trade dominates short-term effects and that the 2026 policy stance has modestly lifted inflation, while the SNB is expected to keep rates unchanged and EUR/CHF should benefit over the medium term. Euro invoicing drives Swiss inflation dynamics “As we demonstrate below, despite the US dollar’s dominance in world trade, the euro dominates short-term exchange rate pass-through due to the invoicing structure of Swiss imports. After one month, the modelled euro channel is around 3.8 times stronger than the US dollar channel, a difference that remains significant even under extensive robustness analyses. This enables us to quantify the impact of the SNB’s different policy approaches on inflation.” “We estimate the inflationary effect of the franc’s depreciation at 0.18 percentage points after 12 months. This is also relevant given that, in May, we demonstrated just how vulnerable Swiss industry is relative to its competitors in the event of an energy price shock. If the inflationary exchange rate effect is smaller than usually assumed in this case, the situation for industry will be somewhat less severe.” “Compared with 2022, however, the difference is greater. The strength of the Swiss franc at that time reduced inflation by roughly 0.22 percentage points after 12 months. Had the SNB acted this year as it did four years ago, the overall price increase thus would have been 0.4 percentage points lower.” “As our model suggests that imported inflationary pressure is moderate, the interest rate differential between the euro area and Switzerland is likely to persist for some time. EUR/CHF should benefit from this in the medium term. For investors who share this…

Bitcoin mining difficulty has undergone several notable downward adjustments in recent months. Such declines usually indicate that hashrate has left the network. For miners that remain online, this can improve theoretical output per unit of computing power. At an industry level, however, it also suggests that older machines, high-cost sites, and financially constrained operators are being forced offline. Foundry USA, AntPool, F2Pool, and ViaBTC have remained among the leading Bitcoin mining pools in recent years, but the competitive landscape is far from static. Hashrate scale and connection quality still matter, yet miners are increasingly evaluating whether a pool can provide predictable earnings, settle rewards promptly, and help users manage mining income efficiently. From Earning Rewards to Managing Mining Income The first shift is a growing focus on revenue predictability. Miners are placing greater emphasis on revenue predictability. PPS+ and FPPS reduce exposure to short-term fluctuations in pool luck, making them attractive to operators that need steady cash flow. PPLNS ties earnings more closely to actual pool performance and therefore carries greater variance. At the other end of the spectrum, SOLO mining continues to attract home miners and technical enthusiasts. In July, a miner using a low-cost, open-source device with roughly 1 TH/s of hashrate earned more than 3 BTC after independently finding a block. Such outcomes remain exceptionally rare, but they illustrate the continued appeal of lottery-style mining. Settlement speed is also becoming a more visible product feature. Mining operations face continuous electricity, hosting, cooling, and maintenance costs, making the timing of reward availability increasingly relevant. More frequent settlement gives miners earlier access to funds and greater flexibility in managing expenses or market volatility. At the same time, mining pools are evolving beyond hashrate aggregation and reward distribution. Miners increasingly need tools for handling multi-asset balances, merged-mining rewards, automatic withdrawals,…

BEAT trades above key EMAs as bulls target the critical $4.68 resistance breakout. Open interest steadies near $81.87M, signalling healthier leveraged market conditions. Positive spot inflows hint at renewed accumulation despite cooling short-term momentum. Audiera (BEAT) is showing renewed strength after recovering from a steep correction that followed its June peak above $11.40. The token has gained momentum recently, rising 36.79% in the past 24 hours and 40.28% over the last seven days. BEAT currently trades near $3.65, with a market capitalization of approximately $1.13 billion.  The latest recovery reflects improving market sentiment as buyers return after weeks of consolidation. Additionally, technical indicators suggest that BEAT has regained a stronger position, although traders remain cautious about short-term volatility and key resistance barriers ahead. BEAT Technical Outlook Shows Improving Bullish Structure The BEAT/USDT daily chart highlights a gradual recovery phase after the previous decline. The token now trades above its major exponential moving averages, signaling improved medium-term strength.  The 20-day EMA at $2.91 has moved above the 50-day EMA at $2.65. Moreover, both averages remain above the 100-day EMA at $2.19 and the 200-day EMA at $1.69. Audiera Price Dynamics (Source: Trading View) This moving average alignment indicates that buyers have regained control. However, BEAT still needs stronger buying pressure to confirm a full trend reversal. The first major resistance sits at $4.68, which aligns with the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level. A breakout above this zone could open the path toward $5.97 and $7.26. Furthermore, the $7.26 level represents a significant test for bulls because it could confirm a stronger recovery. If momentum continues, BEAT may eventually challenge the $9.10 to $11.44 resistance zone. This area contains previous highs and could attract increased selling activity. Support Levels and Market Momentum BEAT’s short-term outlook depends heavily on whether buyers defend important support…

Key highlights: Bitcoin miner reserves have fallen back to the same levels seen before BTC’s initial breakout attempt above $65,000 on July 16 New Bitcoin issuance has declined sharply, with only 396 BTC entering circulation, tightening available supply Bitcoin’s Stochastic RSI has entered oversold territory as the cryptocurrency makes a third attempt to break through the critical $65,000 resistance Bitcoin miner reserves fall as supply tightens According to the latest miner reserve metrics, the amount of Bitcoin held by miners has dropped back to levels last seen on July 16, when BTC launched its first breakout attempt above the $65K resistance zone. Miner reserves are closely watched because they provide insight into potential selling pressure. Declining reserves indicate that miners are selling their Bitcoin to cover operational costs. Technical indicators favor another breakout attempt On the daily chart, Bitcoin is now making its third attempt to clear the key supply zone at $65K. At the time of writing the token was trading at $64.5K, just $0.5K shy off the supply zone. The previous two rallies were rejected near the same resistance area, leaving sellers firmly in control.  However, repeated tests of a resistance level often weaken sell-side liquidity as resting orders are gradually absorbed. At the same time, Bitcoin’s Stochastic RSI has moved into oversold territory, suggesting bearish momentum may be fading. Oversold readings frequently precede short-term recoveries when supported by improving on-chain fundamentals. If buyers capitalize on the tightening supply, the latest setup could provide the momentum needed to finally push Bitcoin above the multi-week resistance level. While the $65,000 zone remains a formidable barrier, diminishing supply could tip the balance if demand continues to build. A decisive breakout above this level would likely expose higher liquidity clusters and strengthen the case for a broader bullish continuation. As it…

Wedson found that realized capital is increasingly concentrated among long-term holders while short-term speculative participation remains relatively low. Bitcoin dipped below $63,000 yesterday ahead of the FOMC meeting today but has recovered well over a grand since then. Prominent analyst Joao Wedson identified on-chain data that suggests BTC is nearing a historically significant accumulation zone. Long-Term Holders Take Control In his latest tweet, Wedson explained that he divided the Long-Term Holder Realized Cap by the Short-Term Holder Realized Cap to track where the market’s realized capital is concentrated. According to the Alphractal founder, Bitcoin formed major price bottoms on two previous occasions when this ratio moved above 4. The metric currently stands at 3.9, which means the market is approaching that historically important threshold. The reading indicates that a much larger share of realized capital is now held by Long-Term Holders than by Short-Term Holders, which demonstrates a shift toward investors with stronger conviction while short-term speculative participation remains relatively limited. Wedson added that this type of market structure has previously emerged during “advanced” accumulation phases, when weaker hands exit, and ownership moves to long-term investors. Alphractal stated, “It does not confirm that the exact bottom is already in. However, it shows that Bitcoin is approaching a zone that previously appeared during major cycle-bottom formations.” A similar view was echoed by Santiment, which found that wallets holding between 10 and 10,000 BTC increased their stash by 19,696 during the eight-day period it tracked. Meanwhile, wallets with less than 0.01 BTC displayed weaker dip-buying activity. On the institutional front, Bitcoin ETFs recorded around $172 million in inflows in July. These factors, combined, make the overall setup “constructive” as supply continued shifting toward stronger hands, Santiment noted. MVRV Differs From Past Cycles All eyes are on Bitcoin’s current position in the…

Crypto News Ethereum (ETH) recorded the largest chain-level loss total in the first half of 2026, with $332 million stolen from protocols on its network, according to blockchain-security research published July 28. The figure sat inside a broader crypto-wide toll that exceeded $1 billion across the six-month period, making the half one of the most active on record for verified attacks and pushing incident counts toward an all-time high. The total was still lower than the same period a year earlier, when a single $1.5 billion Bybit outflow had inflated the industry’s damage tally. North Korea-linked actors accounted for the biggest share of the latest losses, roughly $600 million, including a $285 million drain from Drift and a $292 million attack on KelpDAO. The researchers traced both campaigns to social-engineering operations that began on LinkedIn and ended with the compromise of multi-signature wallet signers. That method matters because a multi-signature setup is designed to require several independent approvals, so the failure point shifted from smart-contract code to the people and keys entrusted with control. For custodians and protocol teams, the findings turn attention toward signer identity, approval thresholds and real-time transaction monitoring, areas that often sit outside traditional code audits. Immunefi’s June ecosystem update counted 207 incidents and about $972 million in losses, while Quill Audits, focusing on DeFi, recorded 87 attacks and $935.3 million. The convergence among trackers suggests the record is not an artifact of one firm’s methodology, but a genuine rise in attempted and successful intrusions. It also shows that while headline dollar amounts have eased from prior peaks, the attack surface continues to widen across wallets, bridges and deployment pipelines, creating a broader altcoin security problem. Ethereum’s $332 million loss total reflected a different risk profile from Solana’s $326 million, even though both networks were the…

Ippei Mizuhara leaves the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and Courthouse in Santa Ana, California, on February 6, 2025. The former interpreter to Shohei Ohtani, who admitted stealing almost $17 million from the Japanese baseball star to pay off illegal gambling debts, was sentenced to 57 months in prison on February 6. Mizuhara was also ordered to pay restitution of more than $18.1 million in his sentencing in federal court. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images More than two years after news broke that a Los Angeles Dodgers interpreter had lost a significant amount of superstar slugger Shohei Ohtani’s money by sports betting with an illegal bookmaker, new details about the enigmatic Ippei Mizuhara have come to light. In a six-part podcast released this week, ESPN’s Thisa Thompson narrates her long conversation with Mizuhara before he recanted his admissions in a stunning reversal. While the legal case centered on millions of dollars stolen from Ohtani’s accounts, Mizuhara’s initial confession details his perspective and some notable, later debunked, claims. ForbesMets Launch Trade Deadline Shakeup With Wave Of Minor League ReleasesBy Peter Chawaga Los Angeles Dodgers’ Former Interpreter Ippei Mizuhara Idolized Team Among the details that have emerged from ESPN’s reporting was that Mizuhara favored the Dodgers as a fan while growing up. “Mizuhara’s childhood friends remembered what the future interpreter was like in high school,” ESPN reported. “One recalled that Mizuhara loved the Dodgers because of Hideo Nomo but switched his allegiance to the Seattle Mariners when Ichiro Suzuki came to MLB.” That baseball fandom makes the irony of his eventual role with the Dodgers even more striking. And it recalls Mizuhara’s journey to become a high-profile interpreter for the greatest ever Japanese baseball player. As numerous reports confirmed…

Zach Anderson Jul 29, 2026 08:32 APT is bleeding out at $0.57 with every major moving average stacked overhead and volume at a near-comatose $2.9M, yet smart money derivatives positioning tells a starkly different story — a short-… The Immediate Setup APT is in a slow, suffocating bleed. The token opened the week near $0.59 and has since ground lower to $0.57 on what can only be described as anaemic volume — barely $2.9 million in Binance spot over 24 hours. That’s not selling pressure; that’s market indifference, which in many ways is worse. Price has slipped below the lower Bollinger Band, with that band’s floor at $0.58 now flipped into overhead resistance. When price trades outside the bands and volume is this thin, it rarely signals explosive directional follow-through. It signals exhaustion. Yet the momentum picture has a twist. The stochastic oscillator is pinned deeply in oversold territory — %K at 10.81 with the signal line sitting even lower at 8.65 — and the MACD histogram has flatlined to essentially zero. Sellers have been in control for weeks, but they are visibly running out of gas. This isn’t aggressive distribution; it’s tired selling in a market that has stopped attracting fresh capital. The macro structure, however, is unforgiving. Every single moving average — the 7-day at $0.60, the 20-day at $0.61, the 50-day at $0.62, and the 200-day sitting ominously at $0.94 — is stacked above current price like a concrete ceiling. A token trading nearly 40% below its 200-day moving average with declining open interest is not quietly accumulating. It has been structurally broken for months. Blockchain.news has covered how layer-1 ecosystems outside the top tier have faced sustained capital outflows as liquidity consolidates around dominant chains, and APT’s chart…

SoFi Technologies Inc. reported stronger-than-expected second-quarter results on Wednesday, but SoFi stock came under pressure as investors weighed the company’s unchanged profitability guidance and continued weakness in its technology platform business. SoFi shares closed Tuesday at $16.74, down 0.83% during the regular trading session. The decline accelerated even more before Wednesday’s opening bell, with the stock falling another 5.86% to approximately $15.76 in pre-market trading. SoFi Technologies stock price (Source: Google Finance) The negative price action came despite SoFi reporting adjusted net revenue of $1.2 billion for the second quarter, which was an increase of 40% from the same period last year. SoFi Raises Full-Year Revenue Guidance SoFi increased its full-year adjusted net revenue forecast to between $4.75 billion and $4.85 billion. The updated range exceeded analysts’ expectations of approximately $4.7 billion. Press release However, the company maintained its adjusted EBITDA guidance at around $1.6 billion and its adjusted earnings-per-share forecast at approximately $0.60. The decision to leave those profitability targets unchanged may have disappointed investors looking for a broader guidance increase after the strong quarterly performance. Adjusted earnings reached $0.12 per share, which was slightly ahead of the $0.11 analyst consensus and 50% higher than the comparable period last year. GAAP net income rose to $156.6 million, compared with $97.3 million in the prior-year quarter. Net interest income increased by 52% to $788.2 million. Record Member Growth Supports SoFi’s Results SoFi added approximately 1.1 million members during the quarter, bringing its total membership to 15.8 million. That represented year-over-year growth of 35%. Loan originations climbed 69% to $14.8 billion. Personal loan originations reached a record $10.7 billion, while student loan originations rose to a record $2.7 billion. Home loan volume totalled approximately $1.4 billion. The lending segment generated adjusted net revenue of $711.7 million, up 59% from the previous…

Cryptocurrency prices are broadly stable on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Reserve (Fed) interest rate decision. Bitcoin (BTC) holds above $64,000 but is struggling to sustain its rebound while Ethereum (ETH) sits above the short-term $1,900 support. Meanwhile, Ripple (XRP) is approaching the pivotal $1.10 resistance, a level that could shape the token’s upward trajectory if it is breached. Focus shifts to Fed as crypto market stabilizes Crypto market participants are stuck in risk-averse mode ahead of the Fed interest rate decision. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is widely expected to leave interest rates unchanged in the 3.50%-3.75% range. However, the CME FedWatch tool shows that investors are pricing in a 30% chance of a 25-basis-point (bps) hike. FedWatch tool | CME Group Focus is expected on Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s post-meeting press conference, where investors will look for insights into the central bank’s policy direction, including future monetary review cycles. Crypto market sentiment remains largely unresponsive and in the Fear territory, as reflected in the Fear & Greed Index. The index, which broadly tracks investor behavior, holds steady at 29. This prevailing market condition continues to weigh on risk assets. Crypto Fear & Greed Index | Source: Alternative Bitcoin spot Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) extended the bearish streak for a fourth consecutive day, with outflows approaching $50 million on Tuesday. According to SoSoValue data, institutional withdrawals amount to $61 million through Tuesday this week, undermining risk exposure. Bitcoin ETF flows | Source: SoSoValue Ethereum spot ETFs continued to outpace Bitcoin, with inflows reaching roughly $15 million on Tuesday, up from $9 million on Monday. Cumulative inflows stand at $11.21 billion, while net assets average $10.5 billion. Ethereum ETF flows | Source: SoSoValue As for XRP spot ETFs, flows rolled back with activity staying neutral on Tuesday following very mild…

The post SK hynix Stock Crashes 10% Despite 557% Q2 AI Profit appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News South Korean chip giant SK Hynix’s stock price crashed nearly 10% on July 29 despite the chipmaker reporting its strongest quarterly operating profit ever. The company’s profit jumped more than 557% year over year, but missed high market expectations.  SK hynix Profit Hits Record, But Misses Estimates According to SK hynix’s second quarter earnings report, … Source: https://coinpedia.org/news/sk-hynix-stock-crashes-10-despite-557-q2-ai-profit/

Ionic Digital made a striking entrance on Wall Street, with shares surging 26% on its Nasdaq debut to close at $62.90 — up from an opening price of $50 — valuing the company at $2.8 billion. For the people who held claims against the collapsed Celsius Network, that move mattered in a very direct way: it handed them a liquid market for the first time. Key takeaways Ionic Digital (IOND) surged 26% on its Nasdaq debut, closing at $62.90 and reaching a $2.8 billion valuation. The listing was the largest direct listing on Nasdaq since 2021, with no new shares issued and no capital raised through the listing itself. Ionic was formed in January 2024 from Celsius Network’s bankruptcy to acquire its mining assets. The company has pivoted away from bitcoin mining toward AI infrastructure leasing, anchored by a $1.95 billion contract with Nscale over 126 months. Ionic holds 2,815.6 bitcoin worth $192.1 million as of March 31 and projects up to $195 million in revenue for the year. Ionic Digital’s Landmark Nasdaq Debut The close at $62.90 was 19% above Nasdaq’s reference price of $53 per share, according to FactSet data cited by The Wall Street Journal. At that reference price, Renaissance Capital had pegged Ionic’s valuation at $2.4 billion — the final market price pushed it well past that mark. What made the listing unusual wasn’t just the price move. This was the largest direct listing on Nasdaq since 2021, a distinction that says something about how rarely companies choose this path and how much attention Ionic attracted in doing so. A direct listing means no new shares were created and no underwriters backstopped the price. Up to 10.8 million existing shares were made available for current holders to sell, with J.P. Morgan, Jefferies, and BTIG serving as…

Customers enter a Taco Bell restaurant in La Cañada Flintridge, California, on July 14, 2026. Mario Tama | Getty Images Yum Brands is expected to report its second-quarter earnings before the bell on Thursday, but executives will likely face more questions about how the cyclosporiasis outbreak tied to Taco Bell is hitting its business during the current reporting period. Since the Food and Drug Administration first linked the parasitic outbreak to lettuce served by Taco Bell, daily traffic to the chain’s locations has plunged by double digits, according to Placer.ai data. Shares of Yum have fallen 5% over the same period, dragging the company’s market value down to about $42 billion. The outbreak has sickened at least 1,947 people, with 98 hospitalizations and no deaths reported as of Friday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Federal health agencies have named iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms as the likely culprit. For Yum, Taco Bell’s plummeting traffic is a bigger deal than just a brand struggling. The restaurant giant counts Taco Bell as one of its “twin growth engines,” counting on it to power its earnings and revenue along with KFC’s international business. The Mexican-inspired chain has long been the gem of Yum’s portfolio, with a passionate fan base and strong same-store sales growth every quarter, even as diners have become more value conscious. Besides Taco Bell and KFC, Yum owns Habit Burger & Grill. While KFC’s international business is booming, its domestic sales have slipped so much that the company no longer breaks out the fried chicken chain’s U.S. sales. Habit Burger & Grill, a more recent acquisition, is much smaller with fewer than 400 locations, and is rarely spoken about on the company’s earnings calls. Yum also recently divested Pizza Hut, a key piece of its…

Zach Anderson Jul 29, 2026 08:18 TRX is printing $0.33 with Bollinger Bands so compressed they’re borderline non-existent and a MACD histogram that has gone completely dark — a volatility explosion is loading. The 60/40 probabilis… The Immediate Setup TRX is parked at $0.33, and the chart looks almost insultingly quiet — but that’s the deception. Every moving average the desk runs, from the 7-day SMA to the 200-day, has converged into a single $0.32–$0.33 band. The Bollinger Bands have squeezed to the point where the upper and lower boundaries are practically kissing, and the ATR has rounded down to near zero. That’s not stability. That’s a pressure cooker. When a market this tightly wound finally gets a directional shove, it doesn’t drift — it snaps. The MACD histogram is dead flat. Not trending down, not recovering — flatlined. Momentum isn’t just hesitating; it has checked out entirely. Meanwhile, the RSI at 47.56 sits in the lower half of neutral, and that’s the subtle tell that gets overlooked: you don’t see RSI below 50 in a genuinely healthy accumulation phase. Buyers are present, but they’re not committed. Blockchain.news has been tracking TRX through the broader 2026 market cycle, and the price action right now reflects a coin that has been quietly losing relative strength since Q1. The Stochastic setup adds one more piece — %K at 37.29 is curling upward from below 30, which in isolation reads as a minor bullish signal. The problem is that in a compressed volatility environment like this, Stochastic crossovers have all the predictive power of a coin flip. Don’t trade off that alone. Key Levels Exposed The entire technical battlefield is contained in a two-cent corridor, and that simplicity is actually what makes this trade dangerous.…

Senate schedule pressures make a Clarity Act vote unlikely before the August recess. Russia sanctions and nominations push crypto legislation lower on the agenda. Democrats seek stronger ethics, consumer protection, and enforcement provisions. The U.S. Senate is unlikely to vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before lawmakers leave for the August recess, with limited floor time and competing legislative priorities slowing progress. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said it will be hard to get through the debate, amendments, and procedure before the August 7 break. JUST IN: ]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/fomc-day https://media.ikmoon.com/fomc-day Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:04:42 +0600 crypto FOMC, day The post FOMC day appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

USD: Sep ’26 is Down at 101.235.   Energies: Sep ’26 Crude is Up at 82.70. Financials: The Sep ’26 30 Year T-Bond is Lower by 6 ticks and trading at 110.19. Indices: The Jun ’26 S&P 500 emini ES contract is 68 ticks Higher and trading at 7482.25. Gold: The Aug’26 Gold contract is trading Down at 4032.70. Initial conclusion This is not a correlated market. The USD is Down and Crude is Up which is normal, and the 30-Year T-Bond is trading Lower.  The Financials should always correlate with the US dollar such that if the dollar is Higher, then the bonds should follow and vice-versa. The S&P is Higher and Crude is trading Higher which is not correlated. Gold is trading Lower which is not correlated with the US dollar trading Down.  I tend to believe that Gold has an inverse relationship with the US Dollar as when the US Dollar is down, Gold tends to rise in value and vice-versa. Think of it as a seesaw, when one goes Up the other goes Down. Asia and Europe both traded Mixed.   Possible challenges to traders                                                                                           Crude Oil Inventories is out at 10:30 AM EST. Major. Fed Funds Rate is out at 2 PM EST. Major. FOMC Statement is out at 2 PM EST. Major. FOMC Press Conference Starts at 2:30 PM EST. Major. We’ve elected to switch gears a bit and show correlation between the 2-year Treasury notes (ZT) and the S&P futures contract.  The YM contract is the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the purpose is to show reverse correlation between the…

The post Bitcoin Price Prediction Today: All Eyes on FOMC as BTC Holds Key Support appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Bitcoin price today remained resilient above the $64,000 support zone as investors adopted a cautious stance ahead of the Federal Reserve’s July policy meeting. While BTC has traded within a narrow range over the past two weeks, that consolidation could soon end as markets prepare for one of the most influential macro events of the … Source: https://coinpedia.org/price-analysis/bitcoin-price-prediction-today-all-eyes-on-fomc-as-btc-holds-key-support/

Crypto News Crypto exchanges anchored by Bitcoin (BTC) trading are moving beyond digital assets into tokenized stocks, commodities and precious metals, turning those products into a new growth line. A study released Wednesday by crypto data provider CoinGecko found that tokenized traditional assets across six major centralized venues — Binance, OKX, Bybit, Bitget, Gate and MEXC — carried $6.6 billion of market value in June 2026, up from $1.4 billion in January 2025. The nearly fivefold increase over 18 months began with tokenized gold and silver, then shifted toward US equities. By the middle of 2026, perpetual contracts tied to US stocks surpassed precious-metal products in volume and open interest, helped by demand for semiconductor exposure and expectations for new initial public offerings. The report covered assets spanning US equities, commodities, forex, global indexes and precious metals, showing that exchanges are trying to capture more of the same user attention that once flowed only through Bitcoin and altcoin pairs. Perpetual futures, which have no expiry date, accounted for most activity because traders favor leverage and venues can list them without holding the underlying token. The same data set shows that much of the expansion is synthetic exposure rather than direct ownership. Tokenized equities listed on these venues generally do not carry voting rights or dividends, and the report found that spot markets remain small compared with perpetual futures. That structure matters because a trader buying a tokenized US stock contract is mainly taking price exposure through a derivative, not holding the underlying share. The study also pointed to competition beyond exchanges, including traditional brokerages such as Robinhood and wallet providers such as MyEtherWallet that are exploring tokenized stocks as part of broader onchain finance services. Institutional projections cited in the report were larger: Standard Chartered estimated real-world asset tokenization could…

Key highlights: ADA is stuck between $0.164 and $0.175, making this the key resistance zone traders are watching Whales accumulated 30M+ ADA in late July 2026, supporting the bullish case despite cautious sentiment Regulatory progress could help Cardano, but its DeFi ecosystem remains much smaller than Solana’s Cardano is back in a zone that has traders watching every move. The ADA price is around $0.166, and the area between $0.164 and $0.175 has become the key battleground.    Analyst More Crypto Online says the latest drop looks like a completed five-wave move, which could be the first leg of a larger bearish setup.  What makes this setup interesting is that the chart looks weak, but the blockchain data looks much stronger. ADA is running into resistance almost immediately We analyzed the ADA chart shared by More and realized that one of the things that immediately caught our attention was the congestion in the resistance area. The 38.2% Fibonacci level is at $0.1646, the 50% level is at $0.1676, the 61.8% level is at $0.1707, while the 78.6% level is at $0.1752. $ADAThe last decline looks like a 5-wave move, which could represent wave 1 of (3) to the downside. Micro resistance is located between $0.164 and $0.175. The situation remains unchanged.#Cardano pic.twitter.com/eF927memUH — More Crypto Online (@Morecryptoonl) July 29, 2026 ADA is currently trading within the congestion zone. The buyers must overcome several resistance zones in a very narrow range to be able to improve the short-term view. A move above $0.1707 will probably see $0.1752 coming into focus. Support is much easier to define. The key level is around $0.1502. If that breaks, the next obvious levels are $0.14 and then $0.13. That is why this area is being treated as a genuine decision point. Taking a step back,…

South Korea’s largest crypto exchange Upbit will open trading for META2 across its KRW, BTC, and USDT markets, according to a July 29 announcement first reported by WuBlockchain. The listing marks the first time the MetaDAO governance token appears on a major centralized orderbook, and Korean retail traders are already bracing for the typical volatility that accompanies new fiat-market pairings on Upbit. MetaDAO is a decentralized governance protocol built on Solana that relies on futarchy—a mechanism where decision-making runs through prediction markets rather than simple token-weighted voting. In the model first theorized by economist Robin Hanson, participants bet on the expected outcomes of proposals; if the market judges a proposal will increase the token’s value, it passes. Only a handful of live implementations exist, making MetaDAO one of the more visible experiments with this radical form of on-chain governance. Why the Upbit Listing Matters Upbit dominates South Korean crypto volume and its KRW pairings are known for injecting rapid liquidity into tokens that previously traded only on-chain. When an altcoin gets listed in the Korean won market, a familiar sequence often unfolds: deep local demand meets limited initial supply, sparking a price spike that can fade as speculation cools. META2 now joins that dynamic after circulating mainly on Solana-based decentralized exchanges. The exchange will offer trading in BTC and USDT markets, but the KRW pair is the one that commands attention. South Korea’s retail base has a track record of piling into new listings, a pattern that has historically created short-term dislocations. The broader appetite for experimental tokens on centralized venues suggests that even niche governance assets can attract outsized flows when they reach mainstream Korean traders. Futarchy and Solana’s Governance Laboratory Solana has carved out a reputation as a testing ground for unusual DeFi and governance primitives, ranking highly…

US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds extended their outflow streak to four consecutive trading sessions after investors withdrew another $49.7 million from the products. Total Bitcoin ETF net outflows reached approximately $526 million over the four-session period, according to Farside Investors data. The largest withdrawals occurred on July 24 and July 23, when the funds recorded outflows of roughly $240 million and $225 million, respectively. BTC ETF flows (Source: Farside Investors) Despite the renewed selling, spot Bitcoin ETFs continued to hold cumulative net inflows of approximately $51.3 billion. Bitcoin Price Recovers After Falling Below $63,000 Bitcoin experienced a lot of volatility over the past 24 hours. The Bitcoin price initially traded close to $63,500 before falling below $63,000 and reaching an intraday low of approximately $62,850. BTC subsequently recovered by climbing back above $64,000 and could now be approaching $64,700. The rebound suggests buyers stepped in after Bitcoin reached its lowest level since July 17. BTC’s price action over the past 24 hours (Source: CoinCodex) At press time, Bitcoin was trading at approximately $64,624 and was up 2.7% over the past seven days, according to CoinCodex data. However, BTC has struggled to establish sustained momentum above the important $65,000 level. The recent Bitcoin ETF outflows followed a seven-session inflow streak that attracted nearly $1 billion.  CryptoQuant community analyst Darkfost said Bitcoin will require stronger demand and improving market conditions to return to a sustained bullish trend. Spot trading volumes on major exchanges have fallen a lot from their late-2024 levels. Binance reportedly recorded approximately $35 billion in Bitcoin spot volume during July, compared with $246 billion in November 2024. Source: https://coinpaper.com/33617/bitcoin-etf-outflow-streak-continues-as-btc-regains-64k

July 11, 2026. Ukrainian hip-hop band TNMK performs at Soyuzivka Ukrainian Heritage Center in Kerhonkson, New York. Katya Soldak Ukrainian hip-hop band TNMK came to New York this month with music, witty lyrics, and a reminder for Americans: Don’t forget Ukraine. The United States, they said, should remember the security assurances it made when Ukraine gave up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal in 1994 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The message came during concerts in New York City and at Soyuzivka Ukrainian Heritage Center in the Catskill Mountains. Many New Yorkers know the region’s historic Borscht Belt, a network of Jewish resorts that flourished during the 20th century. Far fewer know about what some Ukrainian Americans call “Little Ukraine” — a handful of resorts, children’s camps and cultural centers founded by immigrants who fled World War II, Soviet occupation and postwar displacement in Europe. The forests, waterfalls and rolling mountains reminded them of Ukraine’s Carpathian Mountains. They built places where they could preserve their language, traditions and identity while creating new lives in America. Today, every summer, Ukrainian festivals, concerts and youth camps draw visitors from across the United States to the Catskills. Contemporary musicians perform alongside folk ensembles. Children learn traditional dance, songs and crafts while also meeting artists helping shape modern Ukrainian culture. The best-known of those places is Soyuzivka Ukrainian Heritage Center in Kerhonkson, founded nearly 75 years ago by the Ukrainian National Association. It is not the only one. Nearby are Oselya CYM in Ellenville, Saint John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church and Parish Center in Jewett, NY, and dozens of private homes displaying blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flags along winding mountain roads. For decades, these places helped preserve a culture separated from its homeland by the Iron Curtain. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in…

In the first six months of 2026, cryptocurrency projects faced a staggering blow as they lost around $1.1 billion due to 212 confirmed exploitation incidents, according to an insightful report by security firm Blockaid. This unprecedented half-year incident count marked a more than threefold increase in breaches compared to all of 2025. Continue Reading:Turbulent Half-Year: Cryptocurrency Losses Reach $1.1 Billion Source: https://en.bitcoinhaber.net/turbulent-half-year-cryptocurrency-losses-reach-1-1-billion

A stablecoin that once processed over $100 billion in transactions in a single year now trades at exactly zero. The A7A5 stablecoin collapse demonstrates what happens when geopolitical sanctions hit a crypto asset at its foundation — not gradually, but all at once. Key takeaways The A7A5 stablecoin, linked to a sanctioned Russian state bank, has lost 96% of its value and currently trades at $0 with no recorded trading volume. Its smart contracts remain technically operational, but conversion is fully blocked following sanctions imposed by the U.S., U.K., and E.U. The A7 network, on which A7A5 operates, has processed nearly $120 billion to date and was specifically built for Russian sanctions evasion, according to Chainalysis. Mainstream exchanges are now actively screening deposits originating from A7A5’s network. The EU’s 21st sanctions package directly targets the A7 cross-border payments network and 14 unnamed crypto-related platforms across multiple jurisdictions. Collapse of the A7A5 Stablecoin Amid Sanctions The numbers tell a brutal story. A token that once moved capital at scale — reportedly handling more than $100 billion in its first year of operation — has been effectively wiped out. The A7A5 stablecoin collapse has erased 96% of the token’s value, and market data shows it trading at $0 with zero volume recorded in the past 24 hours. Linkage to a Sanctioned Russian State Bank A7A5 is a ruble-backed stablecoin tied to a sanctioned Russian state bank, and that connection turned out to be its fatal vulnerability. The token operated within the broader A7 cross-border payments network, which Chainalysis identified as having processed nearly $120 billion to date — a network it described as purposely built for Russia’s sanctions evasion. The European Union’s 21st sanctions package targeted the A7 network, including its newer connections to Africa. EU High Representative Kaja Kallas described the…

Boxes of Tide Pods laundry detergent are displayed at a Costco Wholesale store on May 15, 2026 in San Diego, California. Kevin Carter | Getty Images Procter & Gamble on Wednesday reported mixed quarterly results, as underwhelming demand for its products resulted in weaker-than-expected sales. Shares of the company fell more than 3% in premarket trading. Here’s what Procter & Gamble reported compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG: Earnings per share: $1.43 adjusted vs. $1.41 expected Revenue: $21.2 billion vs. $21.38 billion expected P&G reported fiscal fourth-quarter net income attributable to the company of $3.04 billion, or $1.26 per share, down from $3.62 billion, or $1.48 per share, a year earlier. Excluding restructuring costs, transaction gains and other items, the company earned $1.43 per share. Net sales rose 2% to $21.2 billion. The company’s organic revenue, which excludes acquisitions, divestitures and currency fluctuations, was unchanged for the quarter, thanks to flat volume across P&G’s portfolio. During P&G’s full fiscal year 2026, the company has reported volume growth in just one quarter. Like many consumer companies, it has seen demand for its products weaken as shoppers have grown more value conscious, substituting cheaper private label versions instead or stretching their shampoos and laundry detergents further. For the fiscal fourth quarter, P&G’s beauty division was the top performer, posting 3% volume growth. The segment includes Pantene shampoo and Olay and SK-II skincare products. Fabric and home care was the only other reporting segment to see volume growth. The division, which includes Tide detergent and Swiffer, reported that its volume rose 1% in the quarter. P&G’s baby, feminine and family care division as well as its grooming business both reported that volume fell 1%. Health care was the worst performer for P&G this quarter. The division,…

The Cardano community is marking 6 years since the historic Shelley upgrade that brought staking to the network. Shelley is the successor to the Byron era, in which the Cardano mainnet was launched in September 2017 along with the ADA cryptocurrency. The Shelley era comprised the critical initial steps in Cardano’s journey to optimize decentralization. The Cardano community X account shared this milestone in a recent post, highlighting key statistics that define the network and the features introduced by the Shelley upgrade. Whales Want Ethereum (ETH) Above $2,000 Now: Binance Withdrawals Spike Next XRP Move May Break $1 Threshold, Ethereum (ETH) Already Eyes $2,000, Near Protocol (NEAR) Is Out of Trend: Crypto Market Review “Byron hard forked into Shelley. Stake pools, decentralised block production and staking rewards became a thing. The chain hasn’t stopped since,” the Cardano community X account wrote. 6 years ago today:439 epochs9.25M blocks190M slots Byron hard forked into Shelley. Stake pools, decentralised block production and staking rewards became a thing. The chain hasn’t stopped since. https://t.co/VYnjq2c4pC — Cardano Community (@Cardano) July 29, 2026 Cardano started as a federated network with just a few nodes. Early 2020 saw the Byron reboot pave the way for decentralization, with a new node implementation built from scratch within a modular design to support future upgrades. You Might Also Like The Shelley upgrade in July 2020 then introduced stake pools and delegation. The Shelley development theme introduced a decentralized ledger, which created a new economic system. In Q1 2021, the stake pool operator (SPO) community began producing 100% of new blocks. Currently, there are 2,882 pools with 21.56 billion ADA in live stake, according to data from Cexplorer. Cardano eyes biggest scaling upgrade Fast forward six years, and Cardano is eyeing its biggest scaling upgrade: Ouroboros Leios, which has launched on…

Kalshi leads current volume with $2.47 billion traded over seven days.  Polymarket follows at $499.46 million, while InsightX records $120.06 million.  Sports drives the surge, while politics and crypto retain major platform shares.  Prediction markets are recording heavy trading while the broader cryptocurrency market stays under pressure. Bitcoin currently trades near $63,482, almost 50% below its October 2021 record above $126,000. Meanwhile, Kalshi, Polymarket International, and Polymarket US processed $44.8 billion during June, up 75% from May’s $25.66 billion.  The latest DefiLlama data places seven-day prediction-market volume at $3.268 billion. Kalshi accounts for $2.473 billion, or about three-quarters of the total, while Polymarket contributes $499.46 million. The category also holds $407.77 million in total value locked, with $7.78 million in weekly fees and $3.86 million in revenue. Kalshi Leads Current Trading Volume Kalshi ranks first across both the latest 24-hour and seven-day data. Its daily prediction volume stands at $338.63 million, far above Polymarket’s $56.25 million. Over seven days, Kalshi records $2.473 billion, compared with $499.46 million for Polymarket.                                                               That lead expanded during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. June data compiled by The Block placed Kalshi’s monthly volume at $31.5 billion, an 87.4% increase from $16.81 billion in May. Kalshi represented roughly 70% of the $44.8 billion recorded by the two Polymarket platforms and Kalshi.  Kalshi separately reported $27 billion in World Cup-related trading and attracted around 3 million users during the tournament. Its platform covers sports, political outcomes, cryptocurrency prices, economic releases, weather, culture, and company-related events.  Polymarket and Rothera Expand the Field Meanwhile, Polymarket holds second place in DefiLlama’s current ranking. It records $499.46 million in seven-day prediction volume and $56.25 million over 24 hours. Its total value locked stands near $348.94 million, while weekly fees reach $6.93 million and revenue totals $3.31 million.                                                         Polymarket International…

Oracle’s (NYSE: ORCL) commitments to the artificial intelligence (AI) firm OpenAI have been weighing on the company so heavily that even the June double earnings beat or $7 billion deal with the Pentagon could not have turned the equity into a profitable investment. Specifically, ORCL shares recently hit a new 52-week low at $114.50 and, despite the subsequent recovery to $119.96 at the latest closing bell, remain 52.01% in the red in the 12-month chart. Oracle stock price one-year chart. Source: Google Thus, investors who had hoped that the AI buildout – in which Oracle is a pivotal player thanks to its Stargate partnership with OpenAI – would begin yielding profits by mid-2026 likely found themselves deep underwater. Indeed, ORCL was changing hands at $249.98 on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, and closed on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, at $119.96. Given the price change, a $1,000 investment in Oracle stock made a year ago would have fallen by $520.10 and led to a position worth $479.90. Why Oracle stock crashed 50% in a year So far, two concerns have been dominating investor attitudes toward the technology giant.  On the one hand, OpenAI is due to pay a vast amount of money to Oracle on account of the 5-year $300 billion deal – so vast that, between the AI firm’s other commitments and leaked financials, it is doubtful if it will have sufficient funds. On the other hand, as risky – though also potentially rewarding – the initial agreement is, Larry Ellison’s firm has put itself under increasing duress to fund the project, with the latest example coming in the form of a $40 billion raise in the form of debt and equity offers revealed in the June earnings. Together, as some of the more cynical observers, including the waxing AI critic…

TLDR DOGE trades at $0.07030, down 1.07% over the past 24 hours. Analyst JAVON MARKS points to a Fibonacci extension pattern that could target $2.82. Whale tracker dogegod reports 900 million DOGE, worth $63 million, moved in one day. The reason behind the whale transfer remains unknown. DOGE’s next move depends on buying pressure and broader altcoin market strength. Dogecoin is drawing fresh attention from traders this week. Analysts are pointing to old chart patterns while on-chain trackers spot large coin movements. At the time of writing, DOGE trades at $0.07030. The coin has a 24-hour trading volume of $575.8 million and a market cap of $12.02 billion. DOGE is down 1.07% over the past day. Even with the drop, some traders think the chart structure and whale buying could signal a turnaround. Dogecoin Price on CoinGecko Analyst Points to Fibonacci Breakout Target Crypto analyst JAVON MARKS shared a chart on X comparing DOGE’s current setup to past altcoin cycles. He noted that DOGE has a history of breaking above the 1.618 Fibonacci extension level during bull runs. Based on that pattern, Marks suggests DOGE could be gearing up for another breakout. He pointed to a possible target price of $2.82. That target would mean a rise of roughly 3,800% from current price levels. This remains a long-term scenario tied to broader market conditions. Marks noted that stronger sentiment, better liquidity, and a rising altcoin trend would all need to line up. Without those pieces in place, the target stays theoretical. Whales Move 900 Million DOGE in One Day Separately, on-chain tracker dogegod posted data on X showing a large wave of DOGE activity. Whales moved 900 million DOGE in a single day. The transfer was worth close to $63 million at current prices. It caught the attention of traders…

XRP News Japan’s financial market has spent a decade turning XRP (XRP) from a speculative altcoin into working payments infrastructure, with the process tracing back to 2016 and the formation of the SBI Ripple Asia consortium. The country’s Financial Services Agency moved early to define digital assets under clear rules, removing the legal uncertainty that slowed larger institutions in other jurisdictions. While many markets debated whether digital assets were securities, commodities or payment instruments, Tokyo gave major businesses a workable perimeter. That sequence allowed banks and payment firms to test integration without waiting for a court ruling to define the asset class. The resulting adoption curve moved from consortium formation to product design, then to consumer-facing settlement use cases. By 2017, XRP had entered the domestic market, and the subsequent path was less about exchange speculation and more about bank-level use cases. The clearest examples are now operational rather than experimental. SBI Shinsei Bank customers can receive interest on standard deposits directly in XRP, a structure that ties token exposure to familiar banking products. SBI Holdings distributed 10 billion yen, about $64 million, in retail bonds and used XRP tokens as an investor incentive, a promotional mechanism that resembles a targeted airdrop more than a conventional coupon. Travel operator Tobu Top Tours is also using XRP Ledger technology for domestic prepaid settlements, aiming to reduce payment costs through low transaction fees. The wider point is that Japan’s advantage came from treating the asset as settlement rails, not as a purely speculative instrument. That approach has since extended to the RLUSD stablecoin on locally licensed platforms, giving the market a regulated bridge between fiat-linked tokens and the existing XRP payments stack. The more immediate test for XRP is Evernorth, a digital asset treasury company built to hold the token and now…

According to a Reuters report, Yemen’s Houthis are considering imposing fees on commercial ships sailing through the Southern Red Sea. The report also shows that Houthis might exempt China’s shipping fleet from any fee system. This came after Houthis declared a maritime embargo on Saudi Arabia and closed the Bab el-Mandeb gateway, a passage to almost 7% of the global energy supply, located in the Southern Red Sea. Market reaction A significant increase in oil prices is seen following the news release. At press time, the WTI Oil price trades near its intraday high at around $82.20. WTI Oil FAQs WTI Oil is a type of Crude Oil sold on international markets. The WTI stands for West Texas Intermediate, one of three major types including Brent and Dubai Crude. WTI is also referred to as “light” and “sweet” because of its relatively low gravity and sulfur content respectively. It is considered a high quality Oil that is easily refined. It is sourced in the United States and distributed via the Cushing hub, which is considered “The Pipeline Crossroads of the World”. It is a benchmark for the Oil market and WTI price is frequently quoted in the media. Like all assets, supply and demand are the key drivers of WTI Oil price. As such, global growth can be a driver of increased demand and vice versa for weak global growth. Political instability, wars, and sanctions can disrupt supply and impact prices. The decisions of OPEC, a group of major Oil-producing countries, is another key driver of price. The value of the US Dollar influences the price of WTI Crude Oil, since Oil is predominantly traded in US Dollars, thus a weaker US Dollar can make Oil more affordable and vice versa. The weekly Oil inventory reports published by the American…

Lawrence Jengar Jul 29, 2026 08:24 Stellar is pinned at $0.17 against the lower Bollinger Band, stochastics deep in oversold territory, while smart money quietly tilts long against a retail crowd that’s 54% net short — the next 48-7… Market Context: Why XLM is Moving Now XLM is barely moving — and that is precisely the story. A 0.52% gain across 24 hours on just under $7 million in Binance spot volume is not price action; it’s paralysis. Stellar is locked at $0.17, which is simultaneously the lower Bollinger Band, the pivot point, and the last line of identifiable support on the chart. Buyers and sellers have reached a standoff at the worst possible place — the edge of a cliff. The broader 2026 narrative for XLM has not been catastrophic, though. As covered on Blockchain.news, Stellar’s payment infrastructure continues to attract institutional attention, with Crypto.com’s research arm flagging as recently as July 26 that institutional adoption is actively accelerating. That structural backdrop lends the $0.17 floor a certain gravity — it’s not arbitrary. But macro credibility does not pay your margin call, and short-term, this chart looks rough. Every major moving average — SMA 7, SMA 20, SMA 50, SMA 200 — is stacked overhead at $0.18. That single dollar-cent gap between current price and resistance is the entire battlefield. Indicator Alignment: Oversold Extremes vs. Overhead Wall The technical picture reads as a knife-edge binary, not a clear directional setup. Momentum has not recovered — the MACD histogram has flatlined at zero after a sustained negative run, which signals exhaustion rather than reversal. The RSI at 39 is bleeding toward oversold without committing to it, keeping a clean bounce thesis just out of reach. What genuinely demands attention is the Stochastic…

TON-linked GRAM has fallen nearly 3% after Russia’s Federal Security Service charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activity and placed him on an international wanted list. Russia Accuses Durov Over Telegram Activity The FSB said the case relates to Telegram’s alleged failure to remove content used by Ukrainian special services, terrorist groups, and extremist organisations. Russian authorities claimed the platform was used to prepare sabotage, cyber fraud, and attacks inside Russia. The security agency also alleged that a Telegram chatbot called Daivinchik/Leo was used to recruit young Russians. The chatbot is widely used as a dating tool in Russia, where Tinder is no longer available. The FSB said 46 Russians aged 12 to 22 had been arrested over the past year after alleged recruitment through the chatbot. Authorities claimed the group was directed toward attacks on law enforcement officers and infrastructure. Telegram’s official X account responded by posting an image of Durov making an obscene gesture. Durov and Telegram had not issued a detailed response to the new charges at the time of reporting. Telegram Faces Wider Legal Pressure The charges stem from a long-running dispute among Russian authorities, Durov, and Telegram. Moscow has restricted access to Telegram as part of wider efforts to control foreign technology platforms and internet activity. Many Russian users now access Telegram through VPN services. However, Russian state agencies, including the Kremlin and defense ministry, continue posting daily updates through the messaging app. Telegram has also become an active channel in the Russia-Ukraine war. Officials, soldiers, and political commentators on both sides use the platform to publish updates, claims, and battlefield content. Durov was arrested in France in August 2024 over allegations tied to Telegram’s content moderation and cooperation with law enforcement. French authorities later released him under judicial supervision and restricted him…

Key highlights: Russia has placed Telegram’s Pavel Durov on the international wanted list. The country alleges that Telegram has facilitated terrorist and extremist activities France is also investigating Durov over the platform’s use in drug trafficking and other illegal activities Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is facing increased legal challenges in Russia, with the country now placing him on its international wanted list. The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia has reportedly accused Durov of facilitating terrorist activities through his messaging platform. This represents the latest development within the prolonged legal battle between the Russian authorities and the Telegram CEO. While this legal battle began in 2017, when Durov refused to hand over his encryption keys and comply with the government’s policies, the dispute continues to this day with fresh developments. Russia accuses Pavel Durov of facilitating terrorism According to a Reuters report, the Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia announced its decision to include Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in the country’s international wanted list. On Wednesday, the authority charged him with allowing Ukrainian-related terrorist activities to flourish on his social media platform. The agency stated that Telegram failed to remove content connected to terrorist and extremist groups. The government added that the platform allowed material to remain online that was used to organize sabotage, terrorist attacks, mass killings, and cyber fraud operations within Russia. Pavel Durov allegedly failed to take necessary actions to prevent his platform from being used for these illegal activities. As per the official statement, Durov failed to remove material “used by Ukrainian special services and by ​terrorist and extremist organisations to prepare and coordinate acts of sabotage and terrorism, mass ​killings, and cyber-fraud operations within the Russian Federation.” Unveiling Russia’s legal dispute with Telegram Notably, Russia’s issues with Telegram and its CEO Pavel Durov began in…

The post Bitcoin Price Live: Whale Liquidity on Binance Falls Ahead of FOMC Decision appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Bitcoin price USD remains under pressure as whale liquidity on Binance has fallen to its lowest level since late 2024, reflecting weaker institutional participation ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decision. Monthly stablecoin inflows from transactions above $1 million dropped from $63 billion to $25 billion since late 2025. While large investors stepped … Source: https://coinpedia.org/crypto-live-news/bitcoin-price-live-whale-liquidity-on-binance-falls-ahead-of-fomc-decision/

Palantir stock enters a technically fragile setup ahead of its August 3 earnings. Trading at $123.53 on July 28, PLTR closed below all three key daily exponential moving averages. The broader trend is firmly bearish. The question now: can the stock defend critical support long enough for earnings to matter? PLTR — daily chart with candlesticks, EMA20/EMA50 and volume. Key takeaways PLTR closed at $123.53 on July 28, well below its EMA20 ($128.38), EMA50 ($131.26), and EMA200 ($144.26). Daily RSI at 44.5 sits in bearish territory without reaching oversold, leaving no exhaustion floor in place. The MACD bearish cross is confirmed, with the line at -0.82 running below the signal at -0.44. A daily ATR of 7.04 makes $7 swings the baseline; an earnings catalyst could amplify this significantly. A $200 price target and the $1 trillion thesis remain live narratives despite the technical weakness. Palantir Stock Technical Picture: Daily Bias Remains Bearish Palantir stock is in a confirmed bearish regime on the daily chart. Price trades below every major exponential moving average, and momentum indicators point uniformly lower. No divergence exists to challenge the dominant trend. Moving Average Stack Confirms Distribution PLTR closed at $123.53, sitting beneath its EMA20 at $128.38, its EMA50 at $131.26, and its EMA200 at $144.26. This stacked compression — where price trades below every dynamic level — is a classic distribution signal. Momentum is not merely fading. It points lower across the board. Momentum Indicators Deteriorate The daily RSI at 44.5 sits in bearish territory without yet reaching oversold levels. No technical floor has been built by extreme selling. Meanwhile, the MACD line at -0.82 runs below its signal at -0.44, with a negative histogram of -0.38. The bearish cross is firmly in place, and momentum continues to weaken. Bollinger Bands and Pivot Zones…

TORONTO, CANADA – JULY 21: Brandon Valenzuela #59 of the Toronto Blue Jays looks on ahead of playing against the Tampa Bay Rays in their MLB game at the Rogers Centre on July 21, 2026 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images) Getty Images The Toronto Blue Jays continue to reshape their catching depth as they balance immediate major league needs with the long-term development of younger talent throughout the organization. With Alejandro Kirk returning from a prolonged injury to reestablish his place behind the plate, the team has seen young backup Brandon Valenzuela continue to carve out a larger role in the majors. And that means the organizational opportunities down the line have become increasingly limited for other catchers in the system. ForbesMets Launch Trade Deadline Shakeup With Wave Of Minor League ReleasesBy Peter Chawaga Toronto Blue Jays Cut Ties With Young Backstop After Short Stint That reality came to a head for one young backstop in the system last week when the Blue Jays moved on from four-year Minnesota Twins prospect Patrick Winkel. The franchise released him from the Double-A affiliate New Hampshire Fisher Cats shortly after signing him, according to the official transaction log. The timing of Winkel’s release comes as Valenzuela has become the team’s clear backup behind Kirk in a breakout season. “Since debuting his new mechanics on April 30, he’s hit .265/.355/.470 and cut his strikeout rate nearly in half, to just 23%,” FanGraphs’ Brendan Gawlowski wrote of Valenzuela’s breakout. “These are signs that Valenzuela has, at the very least, achieved the future hit tool grade from his offseason report; there might even be another gear in him.” Those offensive improvements have dramatically changed the outlook for one of Toronto’s more intriguing young catchers. Long viewed as a defense-first prospect, Valenzuela has begun…

Bitcoin is testing a crucial support zone after losing momentum above $65,000. The charts point to a possible rebound if buyers defend $62,000, but a rejection near $65,000 could send BTC toward $60,000. Bitcoin’s $62,000-$65,000 Support Faces a Critical Test Ted’s daily Bitcoin chart shows BTC trading near $63,459 after failing to hold above $65,000. The analyst links the latest weakness to uncertainty surrounding the Clarity Act and identifies the $62,000-$65,000 range as the key support zone. BTC Support Test. Source: Ted (@TedPillows) Bitcoin now needs to defend the lower part of this range to prevent a deeper correction. A sustained rebound above $65,000 would improve the short-term structure and could bring resistance near $67,100 into focus, followed by the larger supply zone around $70,672. However, a confirmed daily close below $62,000 would weaken the recovery case. The chart then points to support near $59,094, while a sharper decline could expose the $56,586-$55,123 area. The practical signal is clear: Holding $62,000-$65,000 could support another recovery attempt, while losing the zone would increase the risk of Bitcoin surrendering more of its recent gains. Bitcoin Faces a Possible FOMC Rejection Toward $60,000 Kaz’s chart shows Bitcoin rebounding toward a resistance zone between roughly $64,500 and $65,000 ahead of the Federal Reserve decision. The analyst expects BTC to form a lower high in that area before falling toward $60,000 to $62,000. BTC FOMC Setup.  Source: Kaz (@XBTkaz) The chart marks the $64,500-$65,000 range as an order-block resistance zone, where earlier selling pressure emerged. A rejection from this area would support Kaz’s bearish scenario and shift attention toward liquidity near $62,722. Bitcoin must hold above that lower level to avoid a deeper decline. A confirmed breakdown could expose the next liquidity zone near $61,305 and bring the broader $60,000-$62,000 target into focus. However, the…

Geneva, Switzerland, July 29, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), today announced the listing of TRX spot trading and perpetual contracts on Backpack Exchange. The listing expands market support and access to the native utility token of the TRON network, one of the industry’s most actively used blockchain ecosystems. The listing enables Backpack users in eligible jurisdictions to trade TRX through both spot and perpetual markets on its innovative, compliant trading platform. Backpack’s regulated exchange has processed more than $400 billion in cumulative trading volume, serving both sophisticated traders and users entering Web3 for the first time. “With over 14 billion transactions processed and 3.5 million daily users, TRON demonstrates a blockchain engineered for high-volume, real-world activity,” said Sam Elfarra, Community Spokesperson for TRON DAO. “Bringing TRON to Backpack embeds that proven infrastructure into a regulated exchange, giving users worldwide a secure gateway to trade and manage digital assets.” Backpack’s platform supports users across more than 150 countries, combining spot, perpetuals, and a broader suite of trading products within a single compliant venue. The listing positions TRX alongside Backpack’s existing markets, offering traders in established and emerging regions alike a straightforward path to gaining exposure to TRON’s native token without needing to navigate multiple platforms or custody solutions. This collaboration reinforces TRON’s role as a foundational infrastructure for digital asset ownership, trading, and settlement, as the network continues to broaden the number of venues through which users and institutions can access TRX. It marks another step forward in TRON’s continued expansion and growing footprint within the global digital economy. About TRON DAO TRON DAO is a community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockchain technology and dApps. Founded in September…

The post Morgan Stanley Launches Cheapest ETH and SOL ETFs With Staking Rewards appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Morgan Stanley has officially entered the spot crypto ETF market with the launch of the Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust (MSSE) and the Morgan Stanley Solana Trust (MSOL) on NYSE Arca. The two funds stand out not only for their 0.14% annual expense ratio, the lowest among U.S. Ethereum and Solana ETFs. They also offer staking … Source: https://coinpedia.org/news/morgan-stanley-launches-cheapest-eth-and-sol-etfs-with-staking-rewards/

Tesla Stock is in a precarious position, trading at $307.44 on July 28. TSLA hugs the lower daily Bollinger Band. The trend is firmly bearish across every major timeframe. Momentum is deeply negative. The central question is whether the $300 level can hold. TSLA — daily chart with candlesticks, EMA20/EMA50 and volume. Key takeaways Tesla Stock trades at $307.44, pinned just above its daily lower Bollinger Band at $306.47. Daily RSI sits at 27.03 — deeply oversold — while the MACD histogram continues to widen negatively. All major EMAs (20, 50, 200) remain far above price, confirming a stacked bearish alignment. The hourly MACD histogram has turned positive, hinting at short-term momentum deceleration. A break below $300 would open the door to further downside, with S1 support at $301.70. Tesla Stock Daily Chart Defines the Bear Case The daily chart for Tesla Stock paints an unambiguously bearish picture. Price is trapped far below all major moving averages. At $307.44, it trades well below the EMA20 at $365.79, the EMA50 at $385.67, and the EMA200 at $396.11. This stacked bearish alignment reflects months of sustained selling, not a temporary pullback. The MACD reinforces the case. The line reads -22.16 against a signal of -12.51, producing a histogram of -9.65. That histogram is deeply negative and widening. Downside momentum is not stabilizing — it is accelerating. Meanwhile, the daily RSI has dropped to 27.03. Tesla Stock is now firmly in oversold territory. Oversold conditions do not automatically trigger recoveries. But they do flag exhaustion risk. At this reading, any fresh wave of selling becomes increasingly difficult to sustain without at least a technical bounce. Bollinger Bands add important context. The lower band sits at $306.47, effectively right at current price. The midline is $379.98 and the upper band $453.48. That spread reflects…

TD Securities strategists expect the Bank of Canada’s (BoC) Summary of Deliberations to shed light on the July decision, focusing on how policymakers view inflation amid recent energy price moves and Consumer Price Index (CPI) forecast revisions. They look for confirmation that inflation expectations remain anchored, limited pass-through to core inflation, and any fresh comments on trade uncertainty after prior guidance on trade-related rate cuts was removed. Focus on inflation expectations and trade “The Bank of Canada’s Summary of Deliberations will provide some added context for the July policy decision when published Wednesday afternoon, where we will be focused on the discussion around the evolution of the Bank’s inflation outlook amid the recent pullback in energy prices and upward revisions to the Bank’s CPI forecasts.” “We look for the minutes to note that inflation expectations remain anchored and that higher energy prices have not yet spilled into core inflation measures.” “We will also be looking for any comments around trade uncertainty after the Bank removed the language around new trade restrictions leading to potential rate cuts from its guidance in July.” (This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor. Know more.) Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/canadian-dollar-boc-minutes-watched-for-inflation-tone-td-securities-202607290955

Introduction Phantom is a self-custodial crypto wallet available as a browser extension and mobile app. Phantom states it is used by more than 20 million people to store, trade, and manage crypto assets across several blockchain networks from a single interface. What began in 2021 as a wallet built specifically for the Solana ecosystem has since grown into a multi-chain product supporting assets on Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, and a handful of other networks. This guide explains what Phantom is, which chains and features it actually supports today, how its self-custody model works, and what to check before you rely on it. What Is Phantom Wallet? Phantom is built by Phantom Technologies, Inc. as a self-custodial wallet, meaning the person holding the wallet — not Phantom the company — controls the private keys and, by extension, the funds. Phantom’s own positioning describes the product as a “money app” that combines crypto trading, everyday payments, and self-custody in one interface, rather than a narrow single-purpose wallet. In practice, that means Phantom handles three broad jobs: it stores and displays a user’s crypto and NFTs across supported chains, it provides in-app tools for trading and moving funds, and it manages the cryptographic keys that prove ownership of those assets — without Phantom itself ever holding a copy of those keys. Which Blockchains Does Phantom Support? Phantom is often described loosely as “a Solana wallet,” a hangover from its original 2021 launch. That description is outdated: Phantom expanded to support Ethereum and Polygon in May 2023, and later added Base in November 2024. As of this writing, Phantom’s own support documentation lists the following networks as actively supported: Solana Ethereum Bitcoin (Native SegWit and Taproot address types) Base Polygon Robinhood Chain Sui Monad HyperEVM Phantom’s documentation also explicitly lists networks it does not support,…

In brief Three Bitcoin holders have sued Apple in California federal court, saying a counterfeit Sparrow Wallet app took a combined $1.8 million. One plaintiff reported the app to Apple; another downloaded it nine days later and lost $840,000, the complaint says. Sparrow Wallet developer Craig Raw has publicly flagged copycat iOS apps since January 2024. Three Bitcoin holders have sued Apple over a counterfeit Sparrow Wallet app they say drained a combined $1.8 million. The complaint, filed on July 24 in the Northern District of California, brings eight counts including fraud, negligent misrepresentation and strict products liability. Each plaintiff entered a seed phrase into the app, according to the filing. James Ramirez lost 7.4 BTC, put at $875,000; Christopher Ellis $840,000; and Jalen Delgado 1.05 BTC, put at $120,000. Sparrow Wallet runs only on Windows, macOS and Linux and has never shipped an iOS version, so any App Store listing under that name is an impersonation. Ramirez reported the app and his loss to Apple on July 25, 2025, the day it happened. Ellis downloaded a Sparrow app from the store nine days later. No one from Apple has contacted Ramirez about that report, the complaint says, and fraudulent Sparrow apps were still listed when it was filed. The filing also alleges, on information and belief, that Apple ranked the fake app and included it in curated cryptocurrency collections, “effectively recommending a fraudulent application to consumers alongside legitimate ones.” The developer’s warning Craig Raw, who built Sparrow Wallet and holds the U.S. trademarks on the name, has flagged copycat malware on Apple’s App Store since January 2024, when he tweeted that a scam version was still live weeks after being reported. There is still a scam ‘Sparrow Wallet’ app on the @Apple App Store, despite myself and others having…

Fairplay has become a go-to platform for sports fans who want to experience every moment of live matches. Sports are full of unpredictable moments—a single ball in cricket can completely shift momentum, and one goal in football can change the entire atmosphere of the stadium. These live moments are what keep fans glued to the action from start to finish. Today, fans no longer settle for checking final scores after the match ends. They want to experience every twist, turning point, and exciting moment as it happens. Fairplay caters to this need by making live sports more interactive, engaging, and thrilling throughout the match. Sports Are More Than Just the Final Score Think about the last memorable game you watched. What do you remember most? Probably not just the final score—you likely recall: The crucial wicket that changed the cricket match A boundary that shifted momentum A stunning goal in football that surprised everyone A comeback nobody anticipated A dramatic finish that kept you on edge Fairplay ensures that fans stay focused on the journey of the match rather than just the outcome, making every moment feel more meaningful and immersive. Every Ball Can Change a Cricket Match Cricket’s appeal lies in its constantly changing momentum. A team may look in control one minute and under pressure the next. Fans experience moments such as: Batters hitting consecutive boundaries Bowlers taking unexpected wickets Partnerships that change the flow of the innings Last-over finishes that create tension These events make every ball important, and Fairplay keeps you engaged with every delivery, ensuring that the excitement of cricket is felt from start to finish. Every Goal Brings New Possibilities Football delivers a different kind of excitement where a single goal can instantly change the dynamic of the match. You may spend much of…

Avalanche (AVAX) is holding its ground at $6.55, maintaining a market capitalization of $2.83 billion. It finds itself in a crucial support area that has traditionally attracted buyers during previous market downturns, offering a potential lifeline in its current trading cycle. Continue Reading:Avalanche (AVAX) Hovers on Critical Support, Activity Spikes Amidst Market Caution Source: https://en.bitcoinhaber.net/avalanche-avax-hovers-on-critical-support-activity-spikes-amidst-market-caution

Cardano (ADA) is currently trading within the $0.16 zone. The price is experiencing a temporary rebound from heavy selling. Cardano (ADA) is currently trading within the $0.1629 range, up by over 4.87%. Its daily trading volume has climbed 21% to $371.43 million. Significantly, two levels broke in quick succession. The three-day base at $0.1641 went first. Then $0.1571 cracked on the biggest candle of the week, flushing price all the way down to $0.1534.  Since then, the asset has moved back to the $0.1570 zone and is now pressing toward $0.16. Also, the recovery from the overnight is noticeable, but the structure needs confirmation. As of now, the resistance from local lows acts like the first obstacle.  Break that trendline and the next test is the descending resistance near $0.17. Micro resistance is concentrated between $0.164 and $0.175, a level that will determine whether the ADA recovery has legs.  On the support side, the immediate test of Cardano would be at around $0.1570. Upon reclaiming it, the overnight move looks like a shakeout. With a failure from this area, $0.1531 likely gets tested again. Cardano’s Technical Setup: Will It Move Up or Down Next? It is printing a falling wedge with buyers defending the lower trendline aggressively as selling pressure weakens. A confirmed breakout above wedge resistance with volume would shift momentum back to stronger bulls and open the door to a steady recovery.  A 3-day bullish divergence is also developing, a signal that has marked local bottoms for Cardano. Combined with the falling wedge setup, the weight of evidence leans cautiously bullish while wedge support holds. Moreover, the volume moving up during a recovery bounce is encouraging.  In addition, the four-hour technical chart analysis reports that Cardano’s Moving Average Convergence Divergence line is above the signal line. The short-term…

UOB Global Economics & Markets Research notes that the Federal Reserve is widely expected to keep the Federal Funds Target Rate at 3.50%-3.75% at the July FOMC meeting. The bank’s base case is for an extended pause through 2026, with easing only resuming in 2Q and 4Q 2027 as transitory inflation pressures subside. However, it highlights rising risks of further rate hikes given oil and geopolitical developments. Fed seen on prolonged policy pause “In line with Bloomberg consensus expectations, the Fed is widely expected to keep the Federal Funds Target Rate (FFTR) unchanged at 3.50%-3.75% at its July meeting.” “With the FOMC remaining divided and ongoing policy reviews being conducted by five task forces, our base case continues to be an extended pause through 2026, before the Fed resumes its easing cycle in 2Q and 4Q 2027 as transitory inflation pressures subside.” “That said, the risk of further rate hikes has increased, with upcoming inflation data and geopolitical developments likely to play a key role in shaping policy expectations.” “OIS swaps continue to price in roughly a one-third probability of a 25bp rate hike at the July 29 FOMC meeting.” “Meanwhile, rates on contracts expiring next year declined by approximately 5bps, reflecting reduced expectations for more than two rate hikes over that period.” (This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor. Know more.) Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/federal-reserve-extended-pause-guidance-uob-202607291001

Even though the market is trading below the crucial $2,000 threshold, Ethereum whales are still demonstrating confidence. Recent on-chain data indicates that wallet 0x2d59 took 40,000 ETH, roughly $76.6 million, out of Binance in two different transactions. It was one of the biggest exchange outflows of the day, with a 30,000 ETH withdrawal and another 10,000 ETH shortly after. Large withdrawals from centralized exchanges are typically seen as a positive indication.  Important momentum change Coins leaving exchanges usually signify that investors plan to hold their assets in private wallets or deploy them elsewhere in decentralized finance rather than sell them on the open market right away, in contrast to deposits, which frequently precede selling activity. In particular, the timing is intriguing. With a current price of about $1,930, Ethereum is once again up against the 100-day exponential moving average.  ETH/USDT Chart by TradingView ETH has spent the last few weeks testing this resistance and creating higher lows after bouncing back from the severe correction in June. The market continues to absorb selling pressure without giving back much of the recent recovery, despite buyers’ inability to produce a clear breakout. Technically, Ethereum’s structure has significantly improved. The asset is trading above the 50-day EMA at $1,760 and the 20-day EMA at $1,850, indicating that both short- and medium-term momentum are still positive.  Whales Want Ethereum (ETH) Above $2,000 Now: Binance Withdrawals Spike Next XRP Move May Break $1 Threshold, Ethereum (ETH) Already Eyes $2,000, Near Protocol (NEAR) Is Out of Trend: Crypto Market Review The next obstacle is still the 100-day EMA, which has rejected multiple recovery attempts in July. The psychological $2,000 mark would probably come into focus after a successful close above $1,930. After that, the 200-day EMA at $2,175 is the next significant barrier and the last one…

44 state attorneys general have urged the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to withdraw and rewrite its proposed prediction market rule, arguing that it exceeds the agency’s authority and intrudes into an area traditionally regulated by states. Summary Attorneys general from 44 states have urged the CFTC to withdraw and rewrite its proposed prediction market rule. The coalition argued that regulating sports betting has traditionally been a state responsibility, not a federal one. The filing adds pressure as courts continue issuing conflicting rulings on sports prediction markets across the United States. According to a letter submitted Monday by attorneys general from 44 states, led by Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson, the CFTC’s proposed framework for sports-related prediction markets extends beyond the authority granted under the Commodity Exchange Act and should be replaced with a new rule consistent with federal law and the U.S. Constitution. The filing was submitted as the public comment period on the agency’s proposed amendments to Rule 40.11 came to a close, adding another challenge to the CFTC’s effort to establish a federal framework for event contracts tied to gaming and other sensitive activities. The proposal has already attracted comments from sports leagues, exchanges, legal experts and crypto industry participants. “The CFTC in the Proposed Rule goes well beyond its statutory authority,” the attorneys general wrote, adding that the agency should reconsider the proposal and draft a replacement aligned with the Commodity Exchange Act and constitutional limits. States say sports betting belongs under state oversight In their submission, the attorneys general argued that the proposal would substantially expand federal oversight into gambling, a field they said has historically remained under state control. The letter stated that states have long regulated gambling, including sports betting, while the federal government has not. It also argued that the proposed rule…

Gold (XAU/USD) remains in a corrective phase as markets await the Federal Reserve’s policy decision. Expectations that the Fed will keep monetary policy restrictive continue to limit upside momentum. At the same time, renewed geopolitical tensions in the Middle East have increased inflation concerns and added uncertainty to the market. The Federal Reserve’s policy statement and Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s comments are expected to provide fresh direction for gold prices. Gold under pressure as markets eye Fed decision and Middle East risks Gold remains under pressure as markets await the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy announcement. The precious metal is holding near the $4,000 area as market participants remain cautious ahead of the decision. A weaker US Dollar has helped limit additional downside after two consecutive days of declines. Softer-than-expected US Goods Trade Balance data weighed on the US Dollar, offering temporary support to gold prices. Renewed tensions in the Middle East have also influenced market sentiment. The latest military developments increased concerns about broader regional instability and pushed Oil prices higher. The rise in energy prices has renewed inflation concerns and increased expectations that the Federal Reserve will keep monetary policy restrictive. Rising inflation expectations generally support Treasury yields and reduce the appeal of non-yielding assets like gold. Attention now turns to the Federal Reserve’s policy decision and Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s comments. According to the CME FedWatch Tool, markets currently assign about a 30% probability of a 25-basis-point rate increase at this meeting, while expectations for a September rate hike remain elevated near 80%. If the Fed delivers a more hawkish message or signals that inflation remains a concern, the US Dollar and Treasury yields could strengthen further and weigh on gold prices. Gold technical analysis: Descending channel keeps correction in focus The gold chart below shows price continuing…

Options are derivative contracts used by traders to hedge price volatility risks. A call option offers asymmetric upside exposure in the underlying asset for a small upfront payment, much like a lottery ticket. A put option represents an insurance against price drops. Exchanges typically follow a playbook when offering derivatives as a product. They start with futures to build a deep, liquid order book and tight spreads, and only once that core market is humming do they layer on options as a second wave of more complex, higher‑margin products. A Binance representative shared volume figures for gold and silver perpetual futures that underscore their popularity. Gold perpetuals, according to the representative, have hit a peak daily volume of $7.77 billion, while silver perpetuals reached $7.27 billion. These peaks represented roughly 3–8% of COMEX gold volume and 9–20% of COMEX silver volume at that time. “The volume growth suggests that when access to traditional market exposure becomes simpler and more integrated, user participation can ramp up quickly,” the representative said. “Liquidity can become relevant quickly.” The new options are European-style and settled in USDT. The contracts reference a weighted average of prices drawn from multiple independent third-party data vendors that report the traditional gold and silver markets. This approach produces a robust, market-representative benchmark that does not rely on any single venue or token, according to Binance. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/07/29/binance-offers-gold-and-silver-options-after-commodity-futures-pull-in-billions-in-daily-volume

Nexo can operate across the European Economic Area (EEA) after recent partnerships. Both partners are licensed under MiCAR regulation, giving Nexo access to the EEA. Nexo users can access the project’s main dashboard and full service under MiCAR. Centralized digital asset wealth platform Nexo has confirmed its operation across the European Economic Area (EEA) through partnerships with two German firms licensed under MiCAR. According to Nexo, it has partnered with Tangany to enhance its custody services and with DLT Finance for brokerage and trading. For context, Nexo, as an entity, does not hold a MiCAR license, meaning it cannot operate in regions where the regulation is compulsory. Therefore, partnering with the two German firms, both of which are licensed under MiCAR regulation, allows Nexo to offer services across all EEA member states under a single regulatory framework. Why is Nexo’s Partnership With MiCAR-Compliant Firms Important? According to Nexo, rather than risking service disruptions or halts due to shifting regulatory landscapes, it utilizes the infrastructure partnership model to remain fully compliant and “MiCA-ready.” Under this arrangement, Nexo users can access the project’s main dashboard and full service, unlike other platforms that withdraw certain features from European citizens. Via Tangany, a Munich-based digital asset custodian regulated by Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), Nexo can offer institutional-grade asset protection. Despite the potential headwinds confronting Nexo as a centralized company, Tangany’s licensed custodian status provides cover, structurally partitioning users’ crypto keys and ensuring their protection by a regulated third party. In the meantime, Nexo’s partnership with DLT Finance ensures that when users trade or swap crypto on Nexo in Europe, DLT Finance acts as a legal trading counterparty. Such trades run on top of an established, licensed German financial market infrastructure, protecting users from the legal gray areas often associated with offshore crypto…

Amazon is currently showing an impulsive retracement from the upper diagonal trend line, with a clear five-wave decline from the highs. This move can ideally represent wave A of a higher-degree ABC correction within wave 4, which could eventually bring the price back toward the open/unfilled gap area around the 213 level. AMZN Daily Chart After the recent projected corrective recovery in wave B, Amazon may now be entering another decline within wave C toward the 213–200 support zone to complete the larger corrective structure. Investors should also keep an eye on the upcoming earnings report scheduled for Thursday, July 30, which could have a significant impact on the short-term price action. Earnings volatility may either accelerate the ongoing corrective move or provide a catalyst for a stronger recovery. As discussed previously, an ending diagonal is considered a significant reversal pattern, especially when it appears during the later stages of a larger bullish trend. Once completed, it is often followed by a sharp and aggressive reversal. Highlights Wave C appears to be in progress within a deeper higher-degree ABC correction during wave 4 consolidation. Key support is seen around the 213 gap area, with additional support near the 200 level. Earnings on July 30 could become a short-term catalyst for the next major move. A break below 200 would increase the risk that a larger cycle top is already in place. Ending diagonals are often followed by strong reversals after completion. For a detailed view and more analysis like this ,you can watch below our latest recording of a live webinar streamed on July 28: Get Full Access To Our Premium Elliott Wave Analysis For 14 Days. Click here. Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/amazon-approaching-deeper-wave-four-correction-ahead-of-earnings-video-202607291007

TLDR South Korea’s Financial Services Commission plans a consolidated Digital Asset Basic Act with the ruling Democratic Party. Ten pending digital asset and stablecoin bills could be merged into one government-backed proposal this year. The 22% crypto tax is still scheduled to start on January 1, 2027, despite opposition efforts to repeal it. A 2.5 million won annual exemption would apply before crypto income becomes taxable. Stablecoin issuer ownership rules and exchange shareholding limits remain unresolved. South Korea is moving ahead with plans for a new crypto law. The Financial Services Commission told the National Assembly it wants to build a single Digital Asset Basic Act. This would happen together with the ruling Democratic Party. The announcement came ahead of a policy briefing on July 29. Ten separate digital asset and stablecoin bills are already sitting in the National Assembly. The FSC wants to combine them into one proposal that lawmakers can negotiate from. What the New Bill Would Cover The planned law would set rules for stablecoins, exchanges, and disclosure requirements. It would also cover internal controls and system resilience for digital asset businesses. The bill would define what counts as a digital asset business. It would also set standards for how exchanges can operate and what they must disclose to users. FSC Chairman Lee Eog-weon has said digital asset legislation should be finished during 2026. He wants stronger anti-money-laundering rules included for stablecoins. South Korea already has a law called the Virtual Asset User Protection Act. That law mostly covers custody and unfair trading practices. The new bill would go further. It would regulate issuers, service providers, and the broader market structure. South Korea is preparing for the next phase of crypto. The Financial Services Commission is working on a government-backed digital asset framework covering areas like stablecoins…

Crude oil prices climbed sharply Wednesday as renewed U.S.-Iran tensions revived fears of supply disruptions across the Middle East. Brent crude futures rose $2.70, or 3.2%, to $86.79 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate futures gained $2.65, or 3.3%, to $81.91 as of 6:45 a.m. GMT. The rally reversed part of Tuesday’s steep decline, when hopes for diplomatic progress pushed both benchmarks to two-week lows. However, sentiment shifted after the United States and Saudi Arabia struck Iran-backed groups in Iraq and the U.S. military said it intercepted Iranian missiles aimed at American forces. Iran also rejected an Oman-backed proposal involving oversight of the Strait of Hormuz. Shipping data reinforced the supply concerns. Only eight commodity vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz on July 28, while just one had crossed early Wednesday. Traffic through Bab el-Mandeb improved to its highest level in a week, but Houthi threats against Saudi shipping kept the Red Sea route vulnerable. Brent Rebounds From a Major Demand Zone The supplied four-hour Brent chart captured the contract near $83.01 before the latest price surge. Enri.hl identified demand around $80.69 to $82, noting that the lower boundary aligned closely with the one-month average and the market’s recent low. Brent Demand Zone  Source: Enri.hl (@0xWhaleHL), TradingView The rebound has strengthened the short-term setup. On the chart, Brent must hold above the daily 200-period average near $83.17 to preserve momentum. The next resistance levels appear near $85.70 and $88.76, followed by a stronger barrier around $91.44. Because the latest verified market price had moved above $85.70, traders may now watch whether Brent can turn that area into support. A decline below $83.17 would weaken the rebound, while a break beneath the $80.69 demand zone would restore the broader bearish trend. WTI Consolidates After an Upside Breakout The supplied U.S.…

The US Dollar has retreated as traders square positions ahead of the FOMC meeting results announcement. The futures market puts the odds of a Fed rate hike at 1 in 3 following the 28–29 July meeting. There is a high risk of a surprise from the Fed, so speculators are unwinding some of their record net long positions in the greenback, the highest since 2015. Data points to rates being held steady: June employment figures cooled after strong spring growth, and inflation has slowed. Furthermore, several FOMC officials have stated that monetary policy is in the right place, and Kevin Warsh gave no indication of tightening in his testimony before Congress. Conversely, advocates of monetary tightening argue that the start of a tightening cycle signals the Fed’s readiness to deploy all its resources to ensure inflation returns to the 2% target, as Kevin Warsh has repeatedly stated. Without a 25-basis-point rise in July, the Fed may need to hike by 50 basis points in September. At the same time, the new Fed Chair could demonstrate his independence and the central bank’s independence from White House directives. The Fed’s decision is of paramount importance for gold. The precious metal is under pressure and is unlikely to stray far from the $4,000-per-ounce mark, as the futures market anticipates two rounds of Fed rate hikes in 2026. In this regard, even if rates remain at their current level, hawkish rhetoric could have dire consequences for gold. On the other hand, the US dollar risks weakening significantly if the Fed does not adjust its monetary policy and there are no more than two dissenting votes. This is the view of TD Securities, which forecasts that the presidents of the Cleveland and Dallas Feds, Beth Hammack and Lori Logan, will vote in favour of a…

The global sell-off in AI stocks that wiped billions off technology stocks and caused major equity markets to tumble on Tuesday, July 28. However, Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest added over $40 million worth of Tesla, SpaceX and NVIDIA shares. Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest Snaps Up Tesla, SpaceX, NVIDIA Stocks In total, Cathie Wood-led firm purchased 40,281 Tesla shares in four ARK ETFs. The top buyer for the Tesla stock acquisition was ARKK with the purchase of 26,920 shares. Meanwhile, ARKQ bought 5,785 shares, ARKW acquired 5,119 shares and ARKX raked in 2,457 shares. The total cost of the purchases was about $12.38 million, based on the TSLA stock closing price of $307.44. Elon Musk’s SpaceX (SPX) also made an extra significant addition into Cathie Wood’s ARK ETFs. ARKK increased exposure to SpaceX stock with a buy of 70,773 shares and ARKQ snapped up 15213 shares. Whilst, ARKW added 9426 shares and ARKX bought 9696 shares. Under the assumption of the closing price on SPCX, the total price of ARK’s acquisition of 105,108 shares was around $12.24 million. Furthermore, NVIDIA was also a top stock addition in all five of the Cathie Wood-led ARK funds. ARKK bought 42,072 shares, ARKQ bought 13,639 shares, ARKW raked in 11,984 shares. In addition, ARKF acquired 5,471 shares and ARKX purchased 5,799 shares. The total transaction of buying 78,965 shares at the NVIDIA stock closing price of $197.01 was valued at around $15.56 million, per ARK Invest’s disclosure. ARK also increased its exposure to Solana via the 3iQ Solana Staking ETF (SOLQ.U). ARKW bought 2,997 shares and ARKF bought 2,255 shares. The total value of the 5,252 shares purchased, including the ETF closing price of $6.22, was approximately $32,667. Global AI Stocks Selloff In Focus Cathie Wood’s buying was especially welcomed amid renewed selling pressure…

Walmart stock closed at $113.10 on July 28, 2026, hovering above the daily EMA20 but below longer-term moving averages. WMT faces a tense equilibrium — hourly momentum builds while daily resistance overhead remains unresolved. WMT — daily chart with candlesticks, EMA20/EMA50 and volume. Key takeaways Walmart stock closed at $113.10, just above its daily EMA20 at $112.71 but well below the EMA50 and EMA200 near $116.30. The daily MACD histogram turned positive at +0.24, signaling bearish momentum deceleration rather than a confirmed buy signal. Hourly momentum is constructive, with the 1H MACD positive and RSI at 58.45, but the 1H EMA200 at $113.48 acts as immediate overhead resistance. The $111.95–$115.14 range defines the near-term battlefield; directional clarity requires a decisive break outside this band. Amazon displacing Walmart atop the Fortune Global 500 and political scrutiny over $37.6 billion in buybacks continue to weigh on sentiment. Walmart Stock Navigates a Tense No-Man’s Land Walmart stock is trading in a structurally ambiguous zone. WMT closed at $113.10 on the daily chart, just above its EMA20 at $112.71. However, it sits meaningfully below both the EMA50 at $116.27 and the EMA200 at $116.49. The daily regime is flagged as neutral — and that label fits. The stock is neither in free fall nor staging a convincing recovery. It hovers in a contested range where bulls must prove themselves and bears still hold the structural advantage. Meanwhile, the broader context adds complexity. Amazon has just unseated Walmart from the top spot on the Fortune Global 500, ending a 12-year run for the Walton-led retailer. That headline alone will not move prices directly, but it reinforces a narrative shift. At the same time, political pressure has surfaced. Senator Bernie Sanders publicly criticized Walmart’s $37.6 billion in stock buybacks while workers rely on government assistance. These…

The Euro (EUR) is nursing moderate losses against the British Pound (GBP) on Wednesday, as bulls failed to find acceptance above the 0.8575 resistance area on Tuesday. The pair, however, remains within the upper range of the 0.8500s with the near-term bullish bias intact, and the focus shifting towards the Bank of England’s (BoE) monetary policy meeting, due on Thursday. Rabobank’s FX strategists warn that the Pound could come under pressure as markets reassess the UK policy outlook. They argue that “the potential for disappointment over a lack of rate rises from the Bank this year, coupled with the likelihood of political friction over budget cuts,” may turn market sentiment less supportive for sterling. Technical Analysis: Bulls target 0.8575 and the 0.8600 area EUR/GBP trades at 0.8566, hovering in the upper half of a bullish channel. Momentum indicators are in positive territory, with the Relative Strength Index (14) around 64, after pulling back from overbought levels, and the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) histogram at slightly positive levels, hinting that upside pressure is still intact. Immediate resistance is in the area between the mentioned 0.8575 area (July 2, 3, and 29 highs) and the channel cap, now around 0.8580. Above these levels, the next target is the late-June lows, around 0.8605. On the downside, first support emerges at the 0.8550 area where Tuesday’s lows meet the channel base. Below here, the July 23 low, near 0.8530, and July 17 and 20 highs in the 0.8510-0.8515 area are expected to challenge bears. (The technical analysis of this story was written with the help of an AI tool. Know more.) (This story was corrected at 11:20 GMT to correct the first bullet point, writing EUR/GBP and not EUR/USD as previously reported.) Pound Sterling Price This week The table below shows the percentage…

Here are new details about Pi Network’s Launchpad after the SLICE token distribution. The Core Team behind the popular project revealed more details about how its platform can support future ecosystem tokens. They explained that, unlike other token launches in which projects typically keep the funds raised, their model sends the committed Pi coins directly into a liquidity pool paired with the newly issued ecosystem asset. The idea is to give each new coin an active liquidity foundation from the beginning while tying tokens to real application functions such as access, payments, rewards, governance, and user engagement. Pi’s Approach The new update published by the team hours ago comes just a few days after they confirmed they had completed the token distribution of the Testnet coin called SLICE. With its launch, they created a pool containing the newly-created coin as well as Test-Pi. Users, known as Pioneers within the broader Pi Network ecosystem, can trade through Pi’s decentralized order book. However, swaps can also be completed automatically through an automated market maker. The mechanism adjusts the token price depending on the amount of SLICE and Test-Pi remaining in the pool. Upon exchanging Test-Pi for SLICE, the former enters the pool while the latter leaves it. As SLICE becomes scarcer relative to Test-Pi, its displayed price increases and vice versa when users sell SLICE back to the pool. The system uses a constant-product formula designed to keep the relationship between the two reserves balanced during each swap. Over 240,000 Joined the Test The participation period for the new token ran from June 11 until June 28 (Pi2Day). More than 240,000 Pioneers committed almost 16 million Test-Pi to acquire a supply of 10 million SLICE test tokens. The difference with the first Pi Launchpad trial is that SLICE is now connected…

South Korea convened an emergency market meeting on the evening of July 29. This came as the KOSPI shed 864.5 trillion won in value across two trading sessions. On Wednesday, the index closed at 5,663.24, down 5.98%, and triggered a market-wide circuit breaker for a second straight day.  South Korea’s Financial Authorities Meet Amid KOSPI’s Slide Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol is hosting the session, which started at 6 pm local time, Bloomberg reported. Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song joined him. FSC Chairman Lee Eog-weon and Financial Supervisory Service Governor Lee Chan-jin also took part, according to media reports. Lawmakers had questioned senior officials repeatedly in parliament on July 29. They traced part of the selloff to the single-stock leveraged products launched in May. Lawmakers argued the ETFs had magnified those price swings. They said speculative trading had concentrated in a small group of blue-chip stocks, which left Korean equities far more volatile than global peers. Koo apologized at one hearing and conceded the products warranted closer study before launch. He still described them as one cause among several. “We’ve already put in place a package of measures, but if it’s needed we’ll introduce additional steps to help normalise the market,” he said. Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens SK Hynix Missed Estimates Despite a Record Quarter The meeting followed a turbulent stretch for Korean equities. The KOSPI has dropped 32.54%, or 2,731.41 points, over the past month. KOSPI Monthly Performance. Source: Google Finance Over the two sessions alone, the index lost 1,092.51 points. Market value fell 600.33 trillion won on July 28 and 264.20 trillion won on July 29. Korea Exchange halted trading in both markets on each day. It is the first time circuit breakers have hit both on consecutive sessions. The…

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Peter Zhang Jul 29, 2026 08:09 ATOM is printing textbook exhaustion signals at $1.28, with RSI at 21.82 and price pinned against the lower Bollinger Band — a tactical squeeze toward $1.31–$1.33 is the highest-probability near-te… The Immediate Setup At $1.28, ATOM is forcing traders into a binary decision: fade the extreme oversold readings or respect a trend that has obliterated every meaningful moving average on the chart. The oscillators are in territory associated with maximum pessimism — RSI barely clinging to the low 20s, stochastics essentially catatonic near zero — but in a structurally broken market, these readings can persist far longer than anyone expects before any reversal materializes. Right now, price is sitting exactly on the lower Bollinger Band, which historically functions as either a launching pad or a ledge above an air pocket. The intraday range of $1.28–$1.31 on spot volume under $2 million tells the real story: this market has no conviction in either direction. Sellers aren’t panicking; buyers aren’t charging. The daily ATR of $0.05 confirms volatility has compressed significantly, which typically precedes a directional expansion — the question is which way that break goes. This is a pattern familiar to anyone tracking distressed crypto assets at Blockchain.news: a slow, grinding bleed that compresses into a coiled-spring position before the next decisive move. Key Levels Exposed The moving average structure stacked above ATOM’s head is unambiguous and punishing. The 7-day SMA sits at $1.36, the 12-day EMA at $1.39, the 20-day SMA and 26-day EMA converging in the $1.47–$1.48 zone, then the 50-day at $1.62, and the nuclear ceiling of the 200-day SMA up at $1.88. Every single moving average is above the current price, arranged in a perfectly bearish cascade. This isn’t mild overhead resistance —…

Hungary has removed its controversial cryptocurrency validator requirement after lawmakers voted to repeal the rule, clearing the way for crypto firms including CoinCash to restore services under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework. Summary Hungary has repealed its mandatory crypto validator requirement after Parliament voted to remove the rule. The government said the previous framework drove crypto firms out of the market and disrupted trading activity. CoinCash has received Hungary’s first MiCA license and plans to gradually resume crypto services. The latest changes move Hungary’s crypto rules closer to the European Union’s MiCA framework. According to Hungarian tax and legal publication Ado.hu, the Hungarian Parliament approved legislation on Tuesday repealing the mandatory third-party validation process that had applied to certain cryptocurrency transactions.  Finance Minister Kármán András said the government decided to eliminate the requirement after the previous framework disrupted the domestic crypto market and led several companies to withdraw or suspend their services. Writing on Facebook, András said many cryptocurrency businesses had ended operations in Hungary because of the earlier regulations and that the market was beginning to recover following the policy change. The repeal removes an additional transaction approval layer that existed alongside MiCA while leaving the country’s licensing and compliance obligations for crypto asset service providers unchanged. Hungary has removed an extra crypto approval step The validator requirement originated under Hungary’s 2024 crypto assets law, which introduced a separate compliance process for selected cryptocurrency transactions. After the rules took effect on July 1, 2025, crypto-to-fiat and crypto-to-crypto conversions covered by the framework required approval from a licensed local validator before they could proceed. Validators had to examine the origin of digital assets, confirm wallet ownership, verify customer identities, and issue a compliance declaration before transactions could receive legal recognition. The framework operated alongside the European Union’s…

AUD/USD Aussie Dollar fell nearly 0.5% on Wednesday morning, following softer-than-expected Australian CPI data (Q2 3.9% from Q1 / forecast 4.1% and monthly indicator Jun 3.8% vs May / forecast 4.0%) that almost sidelined expectations for rate hikes this year. However, better-than-expected inflation numbers across the Western economies came as a result of recent US/Iran ceasefire, with renewed hostilities likely to revive inflationary pressures and change the current rate outlook. The pair’s price fell to the lowest levels in nearly two weeks on Wednesday, marking over 50% retracement of 0.6865/0.7026 recovery leg, adding to developing negative signals. Weakening technical picture on daily chart (south-heading RSI at 42 and 14- momentum hitting the centreline) support fresh bears, with daily close below 50% retracement (0.6945) to confirm signal and keep focus at the downside, though bears are expected to remain in play while the price stays below former range floor (0.6965) reinforced by 20DMA. Firm break of 0.6945 to expose targets at 0.6926 (Fibo 61.8%) and 0.6900 zone (Fibo 76.4% / 200DMA). All eyes are on tonight’s FOMC policy announcement, with the US central bank widely expected to keep rates unchanged, but Fed’s stance on near term policy action will be closely monitored. Res: 0.6965; 0.6981; 0.7000; 0.7011.Sup: 0.6926; 0.6911; 0.6900; 0.6881. Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/analysis/aud-usd-outlook-australian-dollar-slides-on-softer-than-expected-inflation-202607291028

The remarks from European Central Bank (ECB) policymaker and Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus, Christodoulos Patsalides, released during the European trading session on Wednesday signal a warning of further acceleration in inflationary pressures if oil prices remain higher. Patsalides expresses ambiguity regarding the monetary policy outlook. “We don’t know how September data will be,” Patsalides said. Market reaction No immediate impact was seen in the Euro (EUR) following remarks from ECB’s Patsalides. At press time, EUR/USD trades marginally higher at around 1.1395. ECB FAQs The European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany, is the reserve bank for the Eurozone. The ECB sets interest rates and manages monetary policy for the region. The ECB primary mandate is to maintain price stability, which means keeping inflation at around 2%. Its primary tool for achieving this is by raising or lowering interest rates. Relatively high interest rates will usually result in a stronger Euro and vice versa. The ECB Governing Council makes monetary policy decisions at meetings held eight times a year. Decisions are made by heads of the Eurozone national banks and six permanent members, including the President of the ECB, Christine Lagarde. In extreme situations, the European Central Bank can enact a policy tool called Quantitative Easing. QE is the process by which the ECB prints Euros and uses them to buy assets – usually government or corporate bonds – from banks and other financial institutions. QE usually results in a weaker Euro. QE is a last resort when simply lowering interest rates is unlikely to achieve the objective of price stability. The ECB used it during the Great Financial Crisis in 2009-11, in 2015 when inflation remained stubbornly low, as well as during the covid pandemic. Quantitative tightening (QT) is the reverse of QE. It is undertaken after…

Centralized crypto exchanges (CEXs) keep showing notable imbalances when it comes to asset distribution. Specifically, Binance, OKX, and Bitfinex are the top cryptocurrency exchanges in terms of cumulative assets across tracked wallets. As per the data from DefiLlama, the other notable platforms include Bybit, Robinhood, Bitget, MEXC, and Gemini. Particularly, the huge asset concentration within the platform of Binance underscores its commanding position in the crypto sector. Binance Dominates Centralized Crypto Exchanges with $138B in Total Assets Binance is top among the crypto exchanges in terms of cumulative assets tracked on its on-chain wallets. The crypto exchange now accounts for a staggering $138B in cumulative assets. Thus, it accounts for almost 64% of the overall tracked assets across centralized exchanges. Simultaneously, this figure places Binance at a 6.4x higher position in comparison with the combined figure of the other top centralized exchanges, $77.4B. Subsequently, OKX is the 2nd top centralized crypto exchange based on total assets. In this respect, it reportedly accounts for a cumulative $21.6B. This figure is notably lower in comparison with Binance. Following that comes another noteworthy player in the world of centralized exchanges, Bitfinex. Hence, coming just after OKX, the crypto exchange’s total assets equal $16.8B. Robinhood, Bitget, MEXC, and Gemini Bottom List with $11.7B, $5.0B, $4.7B, and $4.3B Bybit is another prominent crypto exchange. Accounting for the 4th top spot, its cumulative assets stand at $13.3B. Moving on, Robinhood is the next name on the list of the leading centralized crypto exchanges in terms of total assets. So, the value of its total assets sits at up to $11.7B. As a result, it occupies the 5th rank, preceding Bitget. According to DefiLlama, Bitget is the 6th top centralized cryptocurrency exchange. Keeping this in view, its total assets reportedly equal $5.0B. Therefore, it claims a significantly…

Bitcoin has climbed back above $65,000 after dipping under $60,000 earlier in July. With the trend still contested, WEEX gives traders the tools to trade the swings long or short. Bitcoin has staged a notable recovery in the second half of July, climbing back above $65,000 after a sharp pullback earlier in the month. The rebound has reopened a familiar debate. Bulls see a base forming above long term support, while more cautious traders want to see the move hold before calling an end to the downtrend. Global digital asset exchange WEEX says this kind of two way market is exactly where flexible, reliable access matters most. As of July 27, 2026, Bitcoin was trading around $65,400, up about 1.4% over the prior 24 hours. The move marks a firm recovery from earlier in July, when the largest cryptocurrency slipped below the $60,000 mark under heavy selling. Even after the bounce, Bitcoin remains close to 50% below the record high of $126,080 set in October 2025, a reminder of how much ground the market gave up during the first half of the year. (See when will Bitcoin reclaim $100,000) The correction had shown up clearly in fund flows. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded about $4.06 billion in net outflows in June, the largest monthly redemption since the products launched in 2024, with hedge funds and brokerages leading the exit. Yet the structural bid never disappeared. Cumulative net inflows into the ETF complex still stand near $55 billion since launch, and firms including JPMorgan and Wells Fargo, along with several sovereign funds, were reported buyers at lower levels, treating the dip as an entry rather than a warning. Price structure now frames the next move. The June open near $65,800 sits just overhead as the first hurdle bulls need to reclaim…

Commerzbank’s Volkmar Baur notes that weaker-than-expected Australian inflation has sharply reduced market-implied odds of an August RBA rate hike and pushed the AUD lower. While services and non-tradable inflation remain elevated, he expects rates to stay unchanged in August and sees no further hikes this year, implying continued pressure on the Australian Dollar as Oil price volatility complicates the outlook. Lower CPI reduces RBA hike odds “With two weeks to go before the Reserve Bank of Australia’s next monetary policy meeting, signs of a pause are mounting. In June, prices surprisingly fell by 0.1% month-over-month, while, according to Bloomberg, the consensus had expected a 0.2% increase. As a result, the year-over-year rate fell to 3.8%, reaching its lowest level in four months.” “In light of this development, the market significantly adjusted its expectations for the next meeting this morning. While an interest rate hike on August 11 was still expected yesterday with a probability of over 20% (on Monday, it was as high as 30%), such a decision is now seen as having only a 4% probability. As a result, the AUD also weakened this morning.” “The inflation report does indeed reveal some weaknesses in the details. For instance, inflation in the services sector continues to rise too quickly, and prices for non-tradable goods are also showing an unwelcome surge.” “Overall, however, we also believe that interest rates in Australia will remain unchanged in August. As the year progresses, the development of oil prices will certainly also play a key role.” “Last week alone made it clear once again just how opaque the situation is and how volatile oil prices are. Overall, however, we do not expect any further interest rate hikes for the rest of the year. The AUD is therefore likely to remain under pressure from this direction.”…

Bitcoin developer and JAN3 CEO Samson Mow has urged the Bitcoin community not to rush into adopting post-quantum (PQ) cryptography. He has warned that an overly hasty transition could expose the network to more immediate risks than the quantum threat it is actually meant to address. His comments come after Anthropic published research showing that its AI model, Mythos Preview, discovered new attacks against weakened cryptographic algorithms. No need to rush  Mow has argued that Bitcoin’s conservative development philosophy should remain unchanged despite concerns over quantum computing. Next XRP Move May Break $1 Threshold, Ethereum (ETH) Already Eyes $2,000, Near Protocol (NEAR) Is Out of Trend: Crypto Market Review XRP Ends $0 Streak Amid Clarity Act Turbulence; Shiba Inu (SHIB) Torches Billions of Tokens, Burn Rate Up 9,241%; Musk’s X Money Launches Without Dogecoin or Bitcoin — Morning Crypto Report “A few months ago I cautioned against hastily moving Bitcoin to PQ signatures, lest we introduce a vulnerability to classical attacks,” Mow wrote on X. “Now we have to worry about AI finding them too.” He warned that replacing Bitcoin’s current ECDSA and Schnorr signature schemes with post-quantum alternatives too early could inadvertently weaken the network against conventional computers. “Hastily changing from ECDSA/Schnorr to PQ signatures may make Bitcoin vulnerable to classical computing attacks today,” Mow explained. “Simply put: make Bitcoin safe against quantum computers just to get pwned by normal computers.” You Might Also Like According to Mow, Bitcoin should only migrate once quantum computers actually post a practical threat. “The time to change to PQ signatures is when there’s a clear threat (QCs exist), not before. Slow, steady, conservative development for Bitcoin.” Mow also praised ongoing research by Blockstream cryptographers, adding that hash-based schemes have “a smaller mathematical attack surface than lattice-based alternatives like HAWK.” A new cryptography…

A White House teleprompter operator accused of using advance access to President Donald Trump’s speeches to profit from Kalshi prediction market bets has left the federal government while a regulatory investigation into the trades continues. Summary The White House says Gabriel Perez no longer works for the federal government as the Kalshi betting investigation continues. Perez allegedly earned more than $100,000 by trading on Trump’s speeches using advance access to prepared remarks. Kalshi flagged the trades, froze most of the reported profits and referred the case to the CFTC. According to the Associated Press, citing a White House official who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss personnel matters publicly, Gabriel Perez “no longer works in the federal government.” The official declined to say whether Perez resigned or was dismissed. Earlier this month, the White House confirmed Perez had been placed on administrative leave after ABC News reported that he allegedly earned more than $100,000 by trading contracts tied to words Trump would use in major speeches, including his State of the Union address. White House confirms Gabriel Perez’s departure Speaking to reporters earlier in July, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt described the allegations as “deeply unfortunate and, frankly, a disgrace,” adding that President Trump had been informed about the matter. ABC News reported that Perez had worked on Trump’s speeches since the 2016 presidential campaign, giving him access to prepared remarks before they were delivered publicly. Sources familiar with the investigation told the outlet that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission linked several trades to speeches for which Perez had advance access. Over roughly three months, Perez allegedly traded contracts tied to more than a dozen presidential appearances, including a December prime-time address, Trump’s January speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, a…

Dow Jones futures gain 0.11% to trade around 53,000 during European trading hours on Wednesday. Meanwhile, S&P 500 futures rise 0.16% to trade near 7,480, though Nasdaq 100 futures decline 0.17%, trading near 27,870, respectively. US index futures remain mixed as traders adopt a cautious stance amid renewed hostilities in the Middle East and the upcoming Federal Reserve (Fed) policy decision. After several days of relative calm, geopolitical tensions reignited, fueling fresh concerns over potential disruptions to global energy supplies. The escalation began when the US military reported intercepting what it described as a surprise Iranian attack targeting American troops stationed across the Middle East. Iran-backed militias in Iraq launched drone strikes against oil facilities in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Region for a second consecutive day, though the full extent of the damage remains unclear. It is believed to be a direct countermeasure against recent US strikes on Iranian naval assets, which triggered immediate retaliation. CENTCOM subsequently executed precision airstrikes in Iraq aimed at neutralizing Iran-backed groups planning further operations against US forces and Saudi energy infrastructure. Meanwhile, monetary policy uncertainty continues to weigh on market sentiment ahead of the Federal Reserve’s announcement. While the central bank is widely expected to leave interest rates unchanged, traders are currently pricing in an unusually high 31.5% chance of an immediate rate hike. Looking further ahead, markets are factoring in a nearly 79.0% probability of a rate increase in September, reinforcing expectations that global borrowing costs will remain elevated for longer. During Tuesday’s US regular session, major US indices saw mixed results, with the Dow Jones and S&P 500 rising 1.03% and 0.21%, respectively, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slipped 0.22%. Ford Motor surged roughly in extended trading after exceeding financial estimates and raising its full-year 2026 outlook. Conversely, semiconductor manufacturer SK Hynix fell…

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorist activity and placed him on an international wanted list, the agency said Wednesday. The FSB accused Telegram of failing to remove channels, chats and bots allegedly used by Ukrainian intelligence and extremist groups to coordinate sabotage, attacks and cyber fraud inside Russia, according to Interfax. Durov charges carry a sentence that could lead to life imprisonment. The FSB did not say whether Russia had requested an Interpol Red Notice, which would not, in itself, constitute an international arrest warrant. The case escalates an investigation opened in February after Russia began restricting Telegram’s operations. The platform has been fined more than 100 million rubles ($1.25 million) this year, primarily for failing to remove content prohibited under Russian law, Interfax reported. Telegram is one of crypto’s largest distribution platforms, hosting project communities, trading groups, bots and blockchain-based Mini Apps. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/07/29/russia-charges-telegram-founder-pavel-durov-with-aiding-terrorism

Crypto News Bitcoin (BTC) is being added as a conversion rail for Binance’s newest tokenized equities, giving traders a route between the largest crypto asset and 10 fresh bStocks markets beginning today. The exchange will first open spot trading for the new pairs at 12:00 UTC, all quoted against Tether (USDT), and within one hour plans to enable conversions into Bitcoin and other supported assets through Binance Convert with zero conversion fees. The batch spans Apple, Amazon, Goldman Sachs and PayPal, alongside Applied Materials, Dell, Bloom Energy, Fluence Energy and two semiconductor ETFs. Withdrawals for the newly listed assets are scheduled to open at 13:00 UTC on July 29. The tokens are issued by BTech Holdings Limited, a Binance affiliate, and are designed as certificates that track the underlying U.S. shares rather than direct equity ownership. In its official announcement, Binance says a regulated custodian holds one matching U.S. share for every bStock in circulation, allowing holders to receive economic benefits such as dividend reinvestment without taking direct share title. The product line launched in June with Circle Internet Group, NVIDIA and Tesla, then expanded through July with Coinbase, Alphabet, Robinhood, IBM and Nokia. Maker fees are waived across every bStocks market through August 31, 2026, ending at 23:59 UTC. Spot trading and Spot Algo Trading Bots, a form of AI trading bot, will be available from the same start time, giving automated strategies direct access to the new pairs. Eligible holders can already tokenize existing stock positions on a one-to-one basis without conversion fees, while the notice flags liquidity, issuer, custody, broker, operational, technology, regulatory and tax risks, including possible total capital loss for users. The expansion also underscores how quickly tokenized equities have gathered assets on Binance’s platform. The company’s data show bStocks surpassed $100 million in assets…

The British Pound (GBP) is marginally higher at around 1.3300 against the US Dollar (USD) during the European trading session on Wednesday. The GBP/USD pair edges up as the US Dollar ticks lower ahead of the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) monetary policy announcement at 18:00 GMT. In the European session, the US Dollar Index (DXY), which gauges the Greenback’s value against six major currencies, trades marginally lower to near 101.30. Investors will pay close attention to the Fed’s interest rate decision as traders are not aggressively confident that the central bank will leave interest rates unchanged again. The CME FedWatch tool shows that the odds of the Fed leaving interest rates unchanged in the range of 3.50%-3.75% are 69.5%. In the last four policy meetings, the Fed didn’t execute any monetary policy adjustment and left policy rates steady. Financial markets will also focus on the monetary policy statement and Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s press conference to get fresh cues regarding inflation and the economic outlook in the wake of ongoing military aggression in the Middle East. On Thursday, investors will focus on the Bank of England’s (BoE) monetary policy announcement. The BoE is expected to keep interest rates steady at 3.75%, with a 7-2 majority. Analysts at Rabobank also said in a note that, “for now, the market is expecting steady policy from the MPC,” even as “hawkish dissenters will keep the market debating the risk of policy tightening from the BoE.” They argue that this debate is unlikely to translate into action in the near term, given “the backdrop of soft activity indicators and uncertainty about the autumn budget,” and conclude that RaboResearch “expects steady policy through to the end of the year.” GBP/USD technical analysis GBP/USD trades marginally higher at around 1.3300, but is retaining a near-term bearish bias…

Hungary is rolling back strict crypto rules as CoinCash prepares to resume services after receiving authorization under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. The Hungarian parliament voted to repeal the country’s crypto validator requirement, removing mandatory third-party approval for certain crypto transactions, the Hungarian tax and legal publication Ado.hu reported on Tuesday. Finance Minister Kármán András said the government removed the validation requirement after the previous rules disrupted Hungary’s crypto market, prompting some service providers to halt operations in the country. “Due to the negative and market-shaking regulations so far, many players have terminated their services related to cryptocurrencies in Hungary, but the market is now showing signs of recovery,” he wrote in a Tuesday Facebook post. The development marks a significant shift in Hungary’s crypto sector, removing an additional approval step while leaving broader licensing and compliance requirements in place. How Hungary’s crypto checks worked Hungary introduced the requirement through its 2024 crypto assets law, creating a separate validation process for certain crypto conversions. The rules, which took effect on July 1, 2025, required a licensed validator to verify details including the origin of crypto assets, wallet ownership and customer information before issuing a compliance declaration. Related: Hungary to reverse crypto trading crackdown after EU scrutiny The system added another transaction-level approval step alongside MiCA. Hungary also applied a shortened MiCA transition period for crypto asset service providers (CASPs), requiring compliance by July 1, 2025, compared with the EU’s maximum transition deadline of July 1, 2026. The stricter regulatory environment prompted some crypto platforms to suspend services in Hungary, including Budapest-based crypto platform CoinCash, which voluntarily paused operations in December 2025 while pursuing MiCA authorization. CoinCash receives Hungary’s first MiCA license The National Bank of Hungary (MNB) granted CoinCash operator Tiwala Solutions authorization under the EU’s MiCA…

Europe’s crypto industry is facing a defining compliance moment. On July 29, 2026, the European Securities and Markets Authority published a new Q&A document designed to sharpen the edges of MiCA crypto regulations — and the questions it answers reveal just how much uncertainty has been building inside the sector. Key takeaways ESMA released a new Q&A on MiCA regulations on July 29, 2026, to clarify compliance requirements for crypto firms operating in the EU. The guidance addresses ESG ratings, MiFIR considerations, and MiCA-specific obligations relevant to crypto-asset service providers. Over 270 crypto-asset service providers are now registered under MiCA in the EU, making regulatory clarity more operationally urgent than ever. ESMA serves as the primary regulator responsible for implementing MiCA and protecting market integrity across the bloc. Crypto platforms are expected to adapt their internal protocols and compliance frameworks to align with the updated guidance. ESMA Releases Clarifying Q&A on MiCA Regulations The new Q&A is not a minor administrative update. It reflects a market that has been asking for clearer answers as the MiCA crypto regulations framework moves from paper to practice. With the Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation now actively shaping how firms operate across EU member states, the gap between regulatory intent and operational reality has pushed companies to demand more specific guidance. ESMA responded to exactly that pressure. The Q&A document is intended to help crypto-asset service providers understand what compliance actually looks like in practice — not just in principle. Purpose and scope of the Q&A The core objective is clarification. MiCA establishes a comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto assets within the EU, but broad frameworks inevitably leave room for interpretation. ESMA, as the primary regulatory body responsible for implementing MiCA, used this Q&A to close some of those interpretive gaps and give firms a…

Russia’s monetary authority has proposed additional regulations for cryptocurrency exchanges as well as requirements for digital-asset depositories operating in the country. The specific rules, which also cover the registration of such platforms, will complement the recently adopted “digital currency” law, which is set to enter into force in September. Bank of Russia drafts regulations for new crypto market The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has published draft rules necessary for the upcoming launch of the nation’s regulated cryptocurrency market. The substatutory provisions concern key participants in the business such as providers of crypto exchange and storage services as well as coin issuers. In a press release posted on its website, the regulator stated it has now “created conditions for organized trading in digital currencies and digital rights.” Linking to the respective directive, which is yet to be finalized, the authority noted it will allow each crypto exchange to set out its own trading procedures. These platforms will also be permitted to independently calculate the market value and weighted average prices for the alternative financial instruments they are trading. In a separate document, the CBR listed requirements for digital depositories, a new type of organization that will keep records of cryptocurrency holdings and transactions. The latter should have minimum equity of between 50 million and 250 million rubles (roughly $600,000 to $3 million), depending on the nature of their activities. A key factor in determining the required capital will be whether they work with open distributed ledgers or provide post-trade settlement services, the bank explained, elaborating: “The assets making up the equity should be liquid, and the financial assets included therein should be of high credit quality.” Russian regulators have also proposed a set of rules for opening and maintaining digital currency and other accounts that will be used by players…

TLDR ETH trades near $1,877, down almost 4% in the past 24 hours $1,745 remains the key support level traders are watching A $36 million sell wall sits between $1,975 and $2,000 Analyst Trader Symba sees a possible move to $2,425-$2,470 if support holds A whale added $14.6 million in ETH, bringing its total holdings to $37 million Ethereum is trading near $1,877 after falling almost 4% over the past 24 hours. Daily trading volume rose above $12.1 billion during the sell-off. The drop pulled ETH down from levels near $1,950. Price is now testing whether it can hold above the $1,745 support zone. Traders see $1,745 as the line between a normal pullback and a deeper decline. As long as ETH stays above it, the recovery from recent lows is still seen as intact. Trader Symba, a technical analyst on X, says Ethereum already dipped below $1,745 before reclaiming it. He calls this a deviation, a move that can trap sellers before price turns higher. I see $ETH targeting $2,425-$2,470 after that deviation confirmation. Nothing bearish about $ETH above $1,745 level. pic.twitter.com/pJ9rGuujMC — Trader Symba (@Nebulabsxyz) July 27, 2026 Symba’s chart points to a target range between $2,425 and $2,470 if ETH holds the reclaimed level. He notes the bullish case only works while price stays above $1,745. The $2,000 Sell Wall Getting past $2,000 will not be easy. Analyst Ted reported that around $36 million in sell orders are stacked between $1,975 and $2,000. Ethereum Price on CoinGecko This wall of orders helps explain why ETH has struggled each time it pushes toward $2,000. A daily close above that level could open the door to $2,150. Ted Pillows, another market watcher on X, pointed to liquidity sitting on both sides of the current price. He said the next…

Grayscale Research says Hyperliquid (HYPE) may be undervalued against fintech equities.  The asset manager argues that the token can be valued based on cash flows, like a stock, and, on that basis, it looks cheap. Grayscale Builds Its Case on a $1 Billion Hyperliquid Earnings Assumption In a note published Tuesday, Head of Research Zach Pandl valued HYPE using an “earnings per token” method. The approach adapts the earnings-per-share metric used for stocks, since Hyperliquid issues no shares. Grayscale assumes Hyperliquid will earn roughly $1 billion in 2027, up about 20% from 2025. The firm expects recovering crypto trading volumes and stablecoin reserve income under Hyperliquid’s Aligned Quote Asset framework to drive the growth. Pandl estimates the circulating supply will reach 270 million to 310 million tokens by the end of 2027. That produces projected earnings of $3.25 to $3.75 per token. At $54, the resulting forward multiple sits at roughly 15x to 18x. “Despite the gains in Hyperliquid’s HYPE token this year, it still looks cheap compared to fintech equities,” the note read. Pandl flagged weaker network revenue growth and faster token supply growth as the main risks to the forecast. Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens HYPE Token Price Slides 29% From June Peak The valuation call arrives during a difficult stretch for the token. HYPE has dropped over 13% in the past month, diverging from large-cap assets that held gains. At press time, the token traded near $54, roughly 29% from its all-time high set in mid-June. Hyperliquid (HYPE) Price Performance. Source: BeInCrypto Markets Institutional unstaking and fund outflows have pressured the token through July. Multicoin Capital and Paradigm unstaked around $291 million in HYPE last week. Multicoin Capital sent a portion of its $120M $HYPE previously unstaked to Coinbase. The…

Silver prices (XAG/USD) rose on Wednesday, according to FXStreet data. Silver trades at $57.92 per troy ounce, up 1.36% from the $57.14 it cost on Tuesday. Silver prices have decreased by 18.52% since the beginning of the year. Unit measure Silver Price Today in USD Troy Ounce 57.92 1 Gram 1.86 The Gold/Silver ratio, which shows the number of ounces of Silver needed to equal the value of one ounce of Gold, stood at 69.73 on Wednesday, down from 70.50 on Tuesday. Silver FAQs Silver is a precious metal highly traded among investors. It has been historically used as a store of value and a medium of exchange. Although less popular than Gold, traders may turn to Silver to diversify their investment portfolio, for its intrinsic value or as a potential hedge during high-inflation periods. Investors can buy physical Silver, in coins or in bars, or trade it through vehicles such as Exchange Traded Funds, which track its price on international markets. Silver prices can move due to a wide range of factors. Geopolitical instability or fears of a deep recession can make Silver price escalate due to its safe-haven status, although to a lesser extent than Gold’s. As a yieldless asset, Silver tends to rise with lower interest rates. Its moves also depend on how the US Dollar (USD) behaves as the asset is priced in dollars (XAG/USD). A strong Dollar tends to keep the price of Silver at bay, whereas a weaker Dollar is likely to propel prices up. Other factors such as investment demand, mining supply – Silver is much more abundant than Gold – and recycling rates can also affect prices. Silver is widely used in industry, particularly in sectors such as electronics or solar energy, as it has one of the highest electric conductivity of…

Ethereum price has reclaimed $1,900 as bullish divergence supports the recovery, with traders now watching the crucial $1,950–$2,000 resistance zone. Ethereum price has recovered above $1,900 after buyers absorbed another move towards the lower end of its recent trading range, but the price remains close to a major resistance area that has repeatedly limited upside momentum. Ethereum price is now trading near $1,907, up approximately 1.32% over the past 24 hours, according to Brave New Coin data. Bullish Divergence Supports Ethereum’s Latest Recovery Ethereum’s lower-timeframe structure began improving after price held above its recent lows while the Relative Strength Index formed a higher low. This bullish divergence suggests that downside momentum was weakening even as Ethereum price continued testing support. Chiefra highlighted the divergence while identifying $1,894 as the main confirmation level for buyers. Ethereum has since moved back above that area, placing bulls in a better position to challenge the upper part of the current range. The next test sits around $1,920-$1,955, where Ethereum price has faced repeated selling pressure. Holding above $1,894 would keep the short-term recovery intact, while another loss of this level could return price towards $1,860.   Ethereum chart shows price holding above recent lows while RSI forms a bullish divergence. Source: Chiefra via X Smart Money Expands ETH Buys Large-holder activity is also attracting attention after Arthur Hayes reportedly purchased another $6.39 million worth of Ethereum. The latest purchase brought his total accumulation since July 15 to approximately 7,213 ETH at an average price of $1,923. Based on the market price shown at the time of the update, the position was carrying an unrealized loss of roughly $301,000. A sustained move above $1,923 would place the position back around break-even and could improve sentiment around the latest accumulation. Ethereum Price Approaches the Top of…

In brief Russia’s FSB says Pavel Durov has been charged under Article 205.1 of the criminal code and placed on an international wanted list. It alleges Telegram failed to remove channels, chats and bots used to coordinate sabotage and attacks inside Russia. When the case was opened in February, Durov accused Russian authorities of trying to “fabricate new pretexts” to restrict access to Telegram. Russia’s Federal Security Service said it has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with aiding terrorist activity and placed him on an international wanted list. The FSB’s public relations center said Wednesday that Durov was charged under Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Russian criminal code, according to local news agency Interfax. The FSB alleged that Telegram does not remove channels, chats and bots “actively used by Ukrainian special services, terrorist and extremist organizations” to prepare and coordinate sabotage, mass killings and cyber fraud in Russia. It said the consequences included deaths, among them women and children, and billions in material damage. Minutes after the announcement, the FSB said 46 Russians had been detained after allegedly being recruited by Ukraine through a Telegram dating bot. Soon after news of the charges broke, Telegram’s account on X posted a photograph of Durov raising his middle finger, which The Moscow Times reported as a response to the warrant. Durov has not addressed Wednesday’s charge directly. When the case was opened in February he tweeted that the authorities “fabricate new pretexts” to restrict Russians’ access to Telegram, calling it “a sad spectacle of a state afraid of its own people.” What the listing means  A Russian wanted-list entry is a domestic designation and does not compel other states to act. Durov has not lived in Russia since 2014 and is based in Dubai. AFP has reported that he…

Key highlights: KuCoin celebrated its ninth anniversary at Tomorrowland Belgium as part of its global “Beyond the Signal” campaign focused on digital finance infrastructure and trust. The Celestia Stage completed its visual transformation into KuCoin’s signature green, reflecting both the company’s growth and the crypto industry’s evolution. KuCoin’s multi-year partnership with Tomorrowland runs through 2028 and includes exclusive community experiences and digital asset education initiatives. KuCoin marked its ninth anniversary during the second weekend of Tomorrowland Belgium 2026, bringing together partners, creators, and members of its global community while highlighting both the company’s growth and the broader evolution of the digital asset industry. The celebration coincided with the completion of the Celestia Stage’s butterfly-inspired transformation. After debuting during the festival’s opening weekend with transparent butterfly wings accented by subtle shades of KuCoin green, the stage fully evolved into a vibrant emerald-colored structure during Weekend 2. According to KuCoin, the design symbolizes growth, trust, and innovation while reflecting the company’s journey since its launch in 2017. The anniversary formed part of KuCoin’s global “Beyond the Signal” campaign, which focuses on the technology, infrastructure, and trust supporting the future of digital finance rather than short-term market movements. As part of the initiative, the exchange hosted its “On Cloud 9 Skybox Experience,” where partners and community members gathered to celebrate the company’s nine-year milestone and discuss the industry’s progress. Throughout the weekend, the Celestia Stage remained one of Tomorrowland’s central attractions, featuring performances from Mark Knight, Mr. Belt & Wezol, Belters Only, Bingo Players with Iceman, Dada Life, Sander van Doorn, and Dannic b2b Dyro. The refreshed lineup drew festivalgoers from around the world while combining electronic music performances with the stage’s evolving visual presentation. KuCoin said its collaboration with Tomorrowland is designed to demonstrate how digital assets can connect with mainstream culture…

Clarity Act passing odds dropped to new lows on Wednesday after US Senate put the crypto bill on hold, prioritizing voting on a Russia sanctions bill and federal nominations. However, Senators are finalizing a bipartisan ethics counteroffer and sending it to White House for approval. Clarity Act Passing Odds Fall to New Lows The Polymarket prediction market shows that “Clarity Act signed into law in 2026” has plunged to 27% on July 29. Notably, this marks the lowest-ever level for Clarity Act passage. Participants sharply downgraded the Clarity Act passing odds amid reports that Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy cut Clarity Act passing odds to 30% amid further delays. As CoinGape reported earlier, the US Senate Majority Leader John Thune prioritized Trump’s nominations and the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026. This caused Clarity Act odds to sharply slump due to further narrowing of the legislative window ahead of the August recess. Clarity Act Passing Odds. Source: Polymarket Senators Gallego-Tillis Lead New Bipartisan Ethics Counteroffer Democrat Ruben Gallego and Republican Thom Tillis are finalizing language on a new bipartisan ethics counteroffer in the Clarity Act. They aim to send it to the White House in the “next couple days.” Senator Tillis signaled that attorneys general enforcing ethics provisions and not just DOJ are among key proposals to be included in the counteroffer. However, negotiations and bank lobbying on stablecoin yield concerns may delay votes. Despite Senate Majority Leader Thune moving ahead to file cloture for procedural votes, the narrow window isn’t enough to pass the Clarity Act before the August 8 recess. Industry participants claim it is crucial for the Senate to at least begin the cloture process before the August recess. Pressure for Passing Clarity Act Despite lobbying by big banks and groups against the crypto bill, many Wall…

Coinbase appointed Rob Witoff as chief technology officer on July 28, bringing an early company engineer into the role as the U.S. crypto exchange expands AI-assisted product development.  Summary Coinbase appointed longtime engineer Rob Witoff as chief technology officer, confirming the leadership change Tuesday. Witoff first joined Coinbase in 2014, returning as platform head in December 2024 after entrepreneurship. Coinbase cut approximately 14% of employees in May while rebuilding teams around AI-assisted workflows companywide. Coinbase’s official leadership page now lists Witoff as CTO. Chief Executive Brian Armstrong announced the appointment on X and credited Witoff with helping turn Coinbase into “one of the most AI-enabled companies in the world.” That description is Armstrong’s assessment rather than an independently measured ranking. Rob Witoff returns to a role shaped by Coinbase’s early years Witoff first joined Coinbase in 2014 and worked there until 2017. Coinbase said he led security and infrastructure, became chief architect and helped build some of the exchange’s earliest systems. He later founded institutional crypto custody company Unit 410, which Coinbase acquired. Rob has played a huge role in the growth and success of Coinbase, including being the driving force behind us being one of the most AI enabled companies in the world. We’re lucky to have him stepping into the CTO role. https://t.co/9CosceroBw — Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) July 28, 2026 Witoff said his interest in Bitcoin began in 2009. He recalled that Coinbase initially supported one cryptocurrency, used a single codebase and ran with a small engineering team. The account provides historical context from the incoming executive, although Coinbase has not independently detailed every technical claim in the July 27 post. The company brought him back in December 2024 as head of platform and a member of the executive team. Witoff said his latest “tour of duty” began…

MUFG’s Lee Hardman reports that the Swiss Franc (CHF) continues to weaken versus the Euro, with EUR/CHF reaching new highs as widening yield differentials favour the Euro. Markets now price further European Central Bank (ECB) hikes, while Bloomberg reports suggest the Swiss National Bank (SNB) may keep rates at 0.00% until 2027. The SNB appears comfortable with the inflation outlook and stands ready to sell Swiss Francs only against excessive appreciation. ECB-SNB divergence pressures Swiss franc “The Swiss franc has continued to weaken against the EUR at the start of this week resulting in EUR/CHF hitting a fresh high overnight at 0.9332.” “The euro-zone rate market has moved to price in a higher probability of the ECB delivering two further hikes this year.” “Plans for at least one more hike in September appears to be in place with Bloomberg having reported that ECB officials are prepared to raise rates again in September unless the inflation outlook improves markedly.” “In contrast, Bloomberg has reported this week that the SNB is set to keep rates on hold at 0.00% until the end of 2027 according to people familiar with the thinking inside the central bank.” “At the same time, the SNB continues to reiterate that it has an increased willingness to intervene to sell the Swiss franc to counter rapid and excessive appreciation which is currently not needed.” (This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor. Know more.) Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/swiss-franc-policy-gap-favours-further-losses-against-euro-mufg-202607290934

A wallet sent another 4.105 million ONDO, valued at $1.66 million, to Coinbase, lifting total deposits beyond 8.1 million ONDO in less than 24 hours.  The latest transfer followed an earlier movement of 4.014 million ONDO worth $1.62 million, keeping exchange inflows under close watch.  Rather than representing an isolated transaction, the consecutive deposits expanded the amount of ONDO immediately available on a major trading venue. Such activity often attracts attention because it introduces additional liquid supply into the market.  Selling pressure gained ground on spot markets Order flow reflected increasing pressure from sellers instead of buyers. The 90-day Spot Taker Cumulative Volume Delta (CVD) remained seller dominant, indicating aggressive market sells outweighed market buys across recent trading activity.  Unlike the Futures market, Spot participants reduced their willingness to chase higher prices despite ONDO remaining close to resistance.  The imbalance left buyers reacting to supply rather than driving prices higher themselves.  Fresh Coinbase deposits added another layer to that equation because larger exchange balances naturally increased the pool of immediately tradable tokens.  Spot demand therefore faced a tougher assignment, requiring stronger buying interest before the market could comfortably absorb the additional supply without inviting heavier selling. Source: CryptoQuant Derivatives traders ignored the cautious spot picture While Spot activity leaned defensive, Binance’s largest traders continued positioning for further upside.  Long accounts climbed to 67.98%, leaving 32.02% on the short side and pushing the Long/Short Ratio to 2.12. Those figures revealed conviction among leveraged participants remained firmly intact despite the noticeable rise in exchange-bound transfers.  Instead of reducing exposure, experienced Futures traders continued favoring bullish positions throughout the latest session.  Such divergence rarely settled immediately because Spot traders and derivatives participants often responded to different expectations.  Source: CoinGlass ONDO enters resistance with buyers losing urgency ONDO returned to the $0.4236 supply zone after recovering from the…

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins posted on X on Tuesday, July 28, stating that he is “committed to supporting Congress in advancing the CLARITY Act, including providing technical assistance” – positioning the SEC’s regulatory apparatus directly behind a 616-page crypto market structure bill that must clear the Senate within days of a looming August recess. This is not simply an endorsement. It is the sitting SEC chair signaling that his agency will actively shape legislative language on a bill that redraws the jurisdictional boundary between the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) – a line that has remained contested since crypto markets became systemically relevant. CLARITY Act: A Senate Bottleneck Years in the Making The CLARITY Act passed the House last year with a 294–134 bipartisan vote, per pre-research context, establishing cross-party viability but leaving the Senate as the decisive hurdle. The Senate Banking Committee released an updated, merged bill text on July 22, 2026, a document running to 616 pages that attempts to codify which digital assets fall under SEC jurisdiction as securities and which migrate to CFTC oversight as digital commodities. JUST IN: A bipartisan CLARITY Act ethics counteroffer could be sent to the White House within days. Democrat Ruben Gallego and Republican Thom Tillis are now finalizing an ethics compromise that could resolve a key Democratic concern, per POLITICO. A deal could unlock the 60… pic.twitter.com/VKHj1emE5T — Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) July 29, 2026 On July 28, the Senate set the bill aside to process 74 pending federal nominations and advance the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026, according to pre-research context, compressing the available window to days before Congress departs for recess. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has expressed doubt about whether passage before recess is achievable, though he has signaled…

Key highlights: Crude prices spike again after U.S.-Saudi strikes in Iraq This was due to concerns about supply disruptions after the attacks on Saudi infrastructure Iran rejected a proposal for shared control of the Strait of Hormuz Bitcoin also fell slightly as investors wait for the Fed interest rate decision New tensions in the Middle East pushed global energy markets higher on Wednesday. This came after the U.S. and Saudi Arabia carried out military strikes on Iran-backed targets in Iraq. This conflict lifted oil prices as traders worry that this could further disrupt supplies in key energy-producing areas. Stocks and crypto also reacted negatively as investors wait on the Fed’s decision later today. Oil prices climb as Middle East tensions rise Crude futures moved up during early trading on Wednesday. October Brent crude futures traded at $84.95 per barrel, up 3.50%. September West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude pumped 3.86% to $82.32 per barrel. The rally comes after an announcement from the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). They confirmed that American and Saudi forces carried out strikes against Iran-backed militant targets in eastern Iraq on July 28. https://t.co/4gooax78lx — U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) July 29, 2026 The operation targeted logistics and weapons sites used by Iran-aligned groups that had launched 30 drone attacks over the previous 72 hours. The military said those attacks were on U.S. troops and Saudi energy infrastructure but were unsuccessful. The joint operation is the first time CENTCOM has announced a coordinated military action with Saudi Arabia. Analysts at ING said the market had seen major selling over the previous three days. This makes the price sensitive to new geopolitical risks. They also noted that the attacks on Saudi facilities have caused concerns that supply disruptions could last longer. One report also said that Saudi Arabia’s 400,000-barrel-per-day Jazan…

BEAT has rocketed by over 30% in the past 24 hours after yesterday’s crash. Bitcoin’s price dipped below $62,800 yesterday in a de-risking move from investors ahead of the FOMC meeting, but it has rebounded swiftly to over $64,000 now. Most larger-cap alts have turned green as well, with XRP aiming at $1.10 once again. UNI is up by over 5%, while ADA has gained more than 4%. BTC Jumps Ahead of FOMC BTC was rejected at $67,000 last week, and the subsequent leg down pushed it south to under $63,600 on Friday. The bulls finally stepped up after this rather substantial decline given the current dull market phase, and bitcoin remained at around $64,000 during most of the weekend. It even climbed slightly on Sunday following some de-escalation news on the US/Iran front. More profound increases came on Monday morning when the asset priced in the lack of new attacks between the US and Iran and jumped to $65,600 on a couple of occasions. However, it failed there quickly and tumbled hard on Tuesday. Just a day before the most unpredictable FOMC meeting in years, the cryptocurrency dumped below $62,800, losing $3,000 in less than a day. Nevertheless, it has bounced off rather nicely over the past several hours, currently trading well above $64,000. Its market capitalization has risen to $1.290 trillion on CG, while its dominance over the alts has jumped to 57%. BTCUSD July 29. Source: TradingView BEAT Rockets, PI Rebounds Most larger-cap alts have posted some gains over the past 24 hours, led by XRP and ADA. The former is up by 3% to $1.09, while the latter has jumped by 4.4% and now sits at $0.165. ETH has reclaimed the $1,900 level, while XMR is up to $350. UNI has added over 5% of…

Why the Senate’s CLARITY Act Vote Could Be a Defining Moment for XRP  The XRP Army may finally have something to cheer about after Senate Majority Leader John Thune confirmed that the CLARITY Act will receive a Senate floor vote before Congress adjourns for its August recess.  Although lawmakers remain focused on Russia sanctions, Thune’s commitment to advancing digital asset legislation is one of the clearest signs yet that comprehensive U.S. crypto regulation is gaining real momentum. For Ripple and the broader XRP ecosystem, the announcement could mark a pivotal moment. While a federal court ruled that XRP is not inherently a security when traded on public exchanges, the crypto industry has continued to navigate an uncertain regulatory landscape.  The CLARITY Act aims to change that by establishing clear rules for digital assets, defining agency oversight, and providing long-awaited legal certainty for businesses, developers, and investors. This clarity could unlock a wave of institutional participation. Many banks, payment providers, fintech firms, exchanges, and asset managers have remained on the sidelines while waiting for Washington to establish a consistent regulatory framework.  If enacted, the CLARITY Act could accelerate the adoption of blockchain-based payment solutions, expand exchange listings, and encourage greater institutional investment across the digital asset sector. The CLARITY Act Could Open the Floodgates for Ripple, XRP, and Institutional Capital  Ripple is particularly well positioned to benefit. Despite years of regulatory headwinds in the U.S., the company has continued expanding internationally through new licenses and strategic partnerships across Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.  More notably, a clear regulatory framework at home would allow Ripple to compete more aggressively in the world’s largest financial market while driving broader adoption of XRP for cross-border payments and real-time settlement. The legislation could also boost confidence across the XRP Ledger ecosystem. Reduced…

BNB (BNB) rose 1% on July 29, following Bitcoin’s (BTC) lead ahead of today’s Federal Reserve interest rate decision. However, a machine learning algorithm suggests that’s as far as the cryptocurrency is going to go this month. More precisely, Finbold’s AI Agent has generated an average BNB price target of $573.65 on Saturday, August 1, 2026, which implies only a modest 0.42% upside from the press-time price of $571.24. BNB price prediction for August 1, 2026. Source: Finbold The number was generated by three leading artificial intelligence (AI) models, with two expecting modest gains and one predicting a slight pullback. Namely, Claude Sonnet 5 issued a target price of $577.5, implying a 1.1% upside from the reference price. Grok 4.5 was slightly more optimistic, with a BNB price of $578.45, representing a 1.26% gain. In contrast, DeepSeek Chat projected BNB would trade at $565 on August 1, suggesting a 1.09% decline. Overall, the AI forecast implies a relatively balanced market outlook rather than strong conviction in either direction. The difference between the most bullish and most bearish prediction is just over $13, or roughly 2.3% of BNB’s value, suggesting that the AI models expect limited volatility in the near term. AI predicts BNB price on August 1, 2026. Source: Finbold BNB price outlook As mentioned, BNB’s recent advance closely tracked Bitcoin and the overall crypto market, which suggests the move was driven by broader macro sentiment. With no major ecosystem developments, trader attention is primarily on the upcoming Federal Reserve policy outlook, which is expected to set the tone for risk assets in the near term. Indeed, as BNB has historically traded in line with broader crypto market sentiment during major macroeconomic events, today’s price action simply reflects an existing trend. Accordingly, a hawkish message from the Federal Reserve could…

Luisa Crawford Jul 29, 2026 08:01 UNI is pressing against the upper Bollinger Band at $3.82 while MACD momentum flatlines completely; a decisive close above $4.07 targets $4.50+, but a rejection here sends the protocol’s token stra… UNI’s Technical Reality Check The macro structure is unambiguously bullish on paper — UNI is trading above every major moving average simultaneously, with the 50-day at $3.25 and the 200-day at $3.55 both well below current price. That kind of clean stack hasn’t been in place for much of the past year, and it tells you the base-building phase was real. But here’s what actually matters right now: the MACD histogram has rounded to precisely zero. The engine isn’t stalling yet, but the fuel is running thin. With RSI in the high-50s, buyers are present but far from aggressive — this is hesitation territory, not breakout territory. The real pressure point is the Bollinger Band setup. At 81% of the band range, UNI is knocking directly on the upper band ceiling of $3.90, with immediate resistance at $3.94 sitting just above that. The ATR of $0.20 tells you this isn’t a high-volatility regime right now — a genuine breakout above $3.94 doesn’t happen on noise alone, it needs real conviction behind it. Blockchain.news analysts flagged nearly identical band compression dynamics back in January 2026 when UNI was trading near $5.40, with Peter Zhang targeting a bounce toward the $6.29 upper band level. That breakout never materialized and UNI spent the months that followed carving out an entirely new, lower operating range. Upper band resistance deserves respect — it has a recent track record of acting as a ceiling rather than a launch pad. Volume & Price Alignment Here’s where the bull thesis develops a serious…

Bitcoin ETF outflows are stretching into a fourth consecutive day — and the timing couldn’t be more pointed. On July 28, 2026, spot Bitcoin ETFs bled $49.75 million in net outflows, while Morgan Stanley simultaneously debuted brand-new exchange-traded products for Ethereum and Solana on NYSE Arca. The contrast tells a story that goes beyond single-day flows. Key takeaways Bitcoin ETFs recorded $49.75 million in net outflows on July 28, 2026 — the fourth consecutive day of outflows, according to Coinfomania. Morgan Stanley launched the Ethereum Trust (MSSE) and Solana Trust (MSOL) on NYSE Arca, with both funds carrying a 0.14% expense ratio — the lowest on the market. Both new Morgan Stanley funds plan to pass staking rewards directly to investors. Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin Trust (MSBT), which launched earlier in 2026, had already accumulated more than $381 million in assets under management through July 16. Bitcoin maintains its market dominance despite the ETF outflow streak, even as institutional capital shows signs of rotating toward altcoin products. Bitcoin ETFs see four straight days of outflows Spot Bitcoin ETFs have now shed capital for four days running — a streak that institutional observers are watching closely as a potential signal of shifting portfolio strategy rather than simple profit-taking. The $49.75 million single-day outflow figure is not catastrophic on its own, but the consistency of the trend is what makes it notable. What matters here is the broader implication. ETF flows serve as one of the clearest real-time proxies for institutional sentiment, since large asset managers must disclose their moves through regulated wrappers. Four consecutive days of net selling from Bitcoin ETF holders suggests a measured, deliberate repositioning — not a panic. Bitcoin itself continues to hold its dominant position in the market, meaning price hasn’t collapsed, but the flow data hints that…

EU mid-market update: Historic volatility in Asia, triggered by AI funding concerns and SK Hynix results; Tensions simmer in Mid-East with focus on FOMC rate decision, reasonable off-chance for a 25bps hike. Notes/observations – European equities opened firmer but faded into the red as morning progressed. Mood is best described as selectively constructive: strong EU bank and industrial earnings, fresh buybacks and guidance upgrades are supporting the region, even as sentiment overnight was rattled by a renewed Asian tech rout and Iran’s surprise missile attack on US forces in Jordan. The rotation theme remains intact – US semis initially tracked the Kospi crash lower before recovering to near flat, further evidence of money moving out of AI winners into “anything but AI.” Volatility stays elevated amid scrutiny of Chinese competitive threats, circular AI financing, widening hyperscaler credit spreads and leverage. Focus after the US close shifts to Microsoft, Meta and Qualcomm. – FOMC decides tonight with markets pricing roughly a one-in-three chance of a hike – unusual and largely unchanged over the past day. FX desks note the dollar could fall if the decision dampens rate-rise bets. Fed is only the first of three major central banks this week: the BoE follows Thursday (Times shadow MPC recommending no change) and the BoJ Friday. Rates markets are also contending with the Middle East: gilt and eurozone yields rose as the flare-up lifted oil prices. – History shows the Fed has never hiked with under 60% priced in since 1994 – making any July move unprecedented. Such a surprise would pull forward 2026 hikes and likely give incoming Chair Warsh immediate inflation-fighting credibility and independence. No modern Fed Chair has dissented on an FOMC policy vote (the sole historical exception being Marriner Eccles in the late 1930s), so a Chair-led minority vote…

Quantum computing has been Crypto’s slow moving problem for years now. Everyone is in agreement that the threat itself is not in dispute. If a large enough quantum computer gets built, the math protecting wallets stops working. What is in dispute is how to move hundreds of millions of wallets to new addresses before that happens. A new paper published by blockchain security firm AmericanFortress argues that the moving step was never needed and users would not need to rotate keys or change wallet addresses.  Address Migration Was Always the Bottleneck  A quantum computer running Shor’s algorithm can derive a private key directly out of the matching public key. This basically puts every crypto wallet out there today at risk of being exposed. The fix here would be to swap assets into a post-quantum signature scheme. Doing this, however, would mean changing the public key format, which essentially means address migration across every participating network.  The fact is, some coins cannot migrate. Satoshi’s 1.1 million BTC for instance hasn’t budged since 2010. Whoever holds the keys to the millions more sitting in dormant wallets isn’t reading migration notices either.  Prove You Know the Seed, Don’t Sign With It Here is what the paper describes, in plain terms. When you set up a wallet you write down a seed phrase. Every address in that wallet gets generated from those words. The seed is the root and the addresses are branches off it.  The proposal, named ZKPoSP for Zero-Knowledge Proof of Seed Provenance, drops the signing step and has the wallet prove it knows the seed instead. It does that with zero knowledge proof, a way of showing a statement is true without revealing what makes it true. The wallet demonstrates it knows the seed behind the address without ever exposing the…

The post Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Is Added to the International Wanted List by the Russian FSB appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, was placed on an international wanted list by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on July 29, 2026. This came after authorities accused him of failing to remove channels and bots allegedly linked to Ukrainian intelligence and extremist groups.Meanwhile, the FSB warned that the Telegram founder could face … Source: https://coinpedia.org/news/telegram-founder-pavel-durov-is-added-to-the-international-wanted-list-by-the-russian-fsb/

The US Dollar (USD) trades marginally lower in the European trade on Wednesday, reflecting caution ahead of the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) monetary policy announcement at 18:00 GMT. As of writing, the US Dollar Index (DXY), which gauges the Greenback’s value against six major currencies, trades marginally lower to near 101.30. US Dollar Price Today The table below shows the percentage change of US Dollar (USD) against listed major currencies today. US Dollar was the weakest against the Japanese Yen. USD EUR GBP JPY CAD AUD NZD CHF USD -0.11% -0.10% -0.11% -0.10% 0.34% -0.00% -0.09% EUR 0.11% 0.02% -0.02% 0.00% 0.48% 0.10% 0.02% GBP 0.10% -0.02% 0.00% 0.00% 0.45% 0.10% 0.02% JPY 0.11% 0.02% 0.00% 0.02% 0.48% 0.09% 0.03% CAD 0.10% -0.00% -0.00% -0.02% 0.45% 0.08% 0.02% AUD -0.34% -0.48% -0.45% -0.48% -0.45% -0.35% -0.44% NZD 0.00% -0.10% -0.10% -0.09% -0.08% 0.35% -0.06% CHF 0.09% -0.02% -0.02% -0.03% -0.02% 0.44% 0.06% The heat map shows percentage changes of major currencies against each other. The base currency is picked from the left column, while the quote currency is picked from the top row. For example, if you pick the US Dollar from the left column and move along the horizontal line to the Japanese Yen, the percentage change displayed in the box will represent USD (base)/JPY (quote). The CME FedWatch tool shows that the odds of the Fed leaving interest rates unchanged in the range of 3.50%-3.75% are 69.5%, calling this a straight fifth meeting when policymakers will avoid any monetary policy adjustment. Investors will closely listen to the monetary policy statement and remarks from Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh at its press conference to get fresh cues regarding inflation and the interest rate outlook. Warsh is unlikely to deliver any comments about the interest rate outlook, as he explicitly said in…

Arbitrum (ARB) is capturing attention in the cryptocurrency market due to its token price currently holding steady within a significant triangular pattern, alongside notable growth in its tokenized funds sector. As institutional engagement grows and real-world assets gain traction, the network’s long-term potential remains robust. Continue Reading:Arbitrum’s Tokenized Funds Reach New Heights as Crypto Prospects Waver Source: https://en.bitcoinhaber.net/arbitrums-tokenized-funds-reach-new-heights-as-crypto-prospects-waver

Silver (XAG/USD) shows a moderate bullish tone on Wednesday, following a two-day reversal, with price action returning to levels above the $58.00 line at the early European trading session. Precious metals are drawing support from a slightly softer US Dollar (USD) as investors position for the outcome of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting later in the day. The Federal Reserve (Fed) is expected to stand pat on rates, although futures markets are pricing a one-in-three chance of a quarter-point rate hike. The central bank, however, is likely to show concern about above-target inflation, which will be seen as a hint towards monetary tightening, and provide some support to the USD. Investors are taking in stride the deterioration of the situation in the Middle East so far. Reports of Iranian attacks on Gulf countries and US-Saudi attacks on Iranian-backed Shiite groups in Iraq, allegedly killing 20 people, have failed to dent Silver’s recovery, as markets cling to hopes of a new round of negotiations, but a resumption of hostilities is highly likely to boost the safe-haven US Dollar and send precious metals to fresh lows.  Technical Analysis: Price action is forming a triangle pattern XAG/USD trades at $58.03, halfway through the last two weeks’ range, with a sequence of lower highs and higher lows forming a small triangle pattern. Momentum is mixed, as the Relative Strength Index (14) is hovering around 50, suggesting a stabilising bias, while below-zero Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) highlights an unconvincing upside traction. The top of the triangle, now around $59.28, and the $60.60 area, which capped bulls on July 9, 10 and 22, are likely to test bullish attempts. If these levels are broken, the measured target of the triangle pattern is a support-turned-resistance area, ahead of $63.00. On the downside, immediate support…

Gabriel Perez, who was accused of profiting from Kalshi bets tied to President Donald Trump’s speeches, is no longer employed by the federal government. A White House teleprompter operator accused of using inside knowledge to profit from prediction market bets on President Donald Trump’s speeches no longer works for the federal government, according to the Associated Press. A White House official said on Tuesday that Gabriel Perez, who had been placed on unpaid leave earlier this month, is no longer employed by the federal government but declined to say whether he resigned or was fired. Perez was accused of using nonpublic information to make more than $100,000 betting on Kalshi prediction markets tied to Trump’s speeches, according to an earlier ABC News report. Read more Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/trump-teleprompter-kalshi-bets-government-ap?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound

America has turned humanoid robots into the newest battleground in its tech conflict with China. The Trump administration has blocked new Chinese humanoid machines, four-legged models, and connected inverters from the U.S. market. According to Reuters, officials allegedly say the rules aim to keep equipment that could be hacked, watched, or shut down abroad away from sensitive systems. The order also supports Washington’s effort to rebuild strategic manufacturing. Chinese companies already lead much of the young humanoid market. Inverters link solar panels, batteries, electric grids, and data centers, placing them inside the same AI supply chain as chips, cloud services, and industrial software. FCC warns Chinese robots threaten US security The Federal Communications Commission announced the restrictions Tuesday afternoon. It said Chinese connected machines could create weak points in U.S. supply chains and infrastructure, letting foreign operators gather data, interrupt work, or control equipment remotely. “These devices could create supply chain vulnerabilities that could disrupt U.S. economic and national security and could create a cybersecurity risk that threatens American critical infrastructure,” the FCC said. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr added, “The FCC will continue to do our part to secure America’s critical supply chains.” Unitree may take the biggest hit. Counterpoint Research estimates that the private Chinese company holds just under 20% of the global humanoid robots market. It is one of three Chinese manufacturers leading the sector. The Pentagon recently listed Unitree among businesses it says have Chinese military backing. The label brings no automatic penalty but often comes before stricter U.S. action. Unitree also partnered with Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) to use Blackwell chips inside its machines. Nvidia said information produced by the robots would stay in the United States. It added that Unitree’s main American customers are universities and research institutions. Security supporters say cameras, microphones, sensors, location tools,…

Robinhood Chain has become a key Solana challenger on memecoin speculation and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization metas.  According to on-chain data, the new Ethereum L2 surpassed PumpSwap (Solana’s core memecoin engine). Robinhood Launchpad’s weekly volume hit $1.23B, eclipsing PumpSwap’s $1.22B for the first time. Worth noting that Robinhood Chain has only been live for about a month. However, a few memecoin projects, such as Cash Cat, exploded after its debut. This kicked off a memecoin FOMO in the L2.  Source: Dune But its clout goes beyond the memecoin mania. Its initial RWA vision seems to be playing out as well. Robinhood sees strong RWA traction Similarly, Robinhood Chain is now leading in tokenized stock asset holders, outpacing Solana [SOL]. According to Token Terminal data, the L2 had about 330K tokenized stock asset holders. Solana followed closely at 281K users. BNB Chain closed out the top 3 list with 214K holders.  Source: Token Terminal However, dominating the number of tokenized stockholders does not translate to overall value held.  Token Terminal data showed that Robinhood Chain dominance only translated to 1% of the +$2B held in the tokenized stock market.  Source: Token Terminal In other words, Robinhood Chain’s RWA adoption has been commendable. But its overall value of holdings was still lagging. It remains to be seen whether this will scale the value of its tokenized stock holdings due to its massive distribution channel.  That said, as of writing, the memecoin craze seems to have cooled off a bit. The L2’s DEX volume dropped by nearly half from its monthly peak of $900M to about $500M. Whether the above on-chain traction will eventually boost the fintech’s stock, HOOD, remains to be seen. The chain has made a cumulative $3M since its debut. The figure may increase if the on-chain traction and its RWA…

The UK Financial Conduct Authority has identified cross-border payments as the strongest practical application for stablecoins after gathering feedback from banks, payment companies and crypto firms during its Stablecoin Sprint. Summary FCA participants identified cross border payments as the strongest current use case for stablecoins, particularly in markets with limited access to U.S. dollars. The regulator said UK consumers have little incentive to switch payment methods, though merchants could benefit from lower costs and faster settlement. Findings from the Stablecoin Sprint have informed the FCA’s stablecoin issuer rules and will shape future policy for stablecoin payments. The March sprint and May trade finance roundtable brought together banks, payment firms, stablecoin issuers and fintech companies to examine payment and programmable finance use cases. According to the UK Financial Conduct Authority, participants in its Stablecoin Sprint said stablecoins currently offer the clearest value in cross-border payments, especially in markets where access to U.S. dollars remains limited, while consumer adoption for everyday retail payments in the UK is likely to develop more slowly because existing payment systems already provide fast and low-cost transactions. The regulator published the findings from the policy sprint, held in March 2026, alongside insights from a trade finance roundtable conducted in May. Around 75 representatives from banks, payment service providers, merchant acquirers, fintech companies, infrastructure providers, stablecoin issuers and industry groups attended the two-day event, while another 30 participants later discussed programmable payments in trade finance. The exercise forms part of the FCA’s work on stablecoin payment regulation after it finalized rules for UK-issued stablecoins on June 30. Those rules require issuers to fully back stablecoins with reserve assets and redeem tokens at par, while the regulator said feedback gathered during the sprint will continue shaping future policy for stablecoin payments. Stablecoin payments offer the strongest case in cross-border…

DBS Bank’s Philip Wee notes that Dollar bulls have built substantial long USD positions ahead of the FOMC, encouraged by Brent’s sharp rebound and expectations of a surprise rate hike by Chairman Kevin Warsh. However, he highlights growing scepticism that markets have overpriced hawkishness, with softer US data and recent pullbacks in Brent and US Treasury yields tempering the outlook for further tightening. USD longs vulnerable to quiet Fed “Driven by the rebound in Brent crude from $70 to $100 in the first three weeks of July, dollar bulls accumulated long USD positions, betting that Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh would deliver a surprise rate hike at his second meeting.” “The sceptics believe that these USD bulls have overpriced such hawkishness, banking too much on volatile energy prices rather than data.” “The US Treasury 10-year yield eased, but hawks limited the decline to 4.60%, brushing aside the weakening US economic outlook.” “What markets are assured of is Warsh’s promise of “honest discussion” with his Fed colleagues and his commitment to end forward guidance.” “Hence, there is a risk that speculators may have to lighten their long USD positions if today’s FOMC meeting does not turn out hawkish enough to prompt a surprise hike today or to support a tightening in September.” (This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor. Know more.) Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/us-dollar-long-positioning-faces-fomc-risk-dbs-202607290807

Terrill Dicki Jul 29, 2026 07:22 ADA is pinned at $0.1638 in a volatility squeeze with zero directional momentum, while smart money stacks longs at a 2.2-to-1 ratio. Expect a directional break within 7 days — 60% odds the flush to… ADA’s Technical Reality Check The setup here is deceptively quiet, and quiet doesn’t mean safe. ADA is coiled in a razor-thin range between $0.155 and $0.166, and every major momentum signal has gone essentially dead. When the MACD histogram reads zero and RSI drifts at 47 without any directional conviction, that’s not stability — that’s a market holding its breath. The short-term EMAs have converged directly on spot price, and the Bollinger Bands have tightened into a classic squeeze that historically precedes a sharp, violent directional move. The Bollinger %B at 0.41 tells the real story: buyers are below the midpoint, drifting toward the lower band rather than fighting for the upper. What makes this particularly difficult to trade bullishly is the structural backdrop. ADA is sitting nearly 32% below its 200-day SMA at $0.24 — that’s not a minor technical overhang, that’s a full bearish regime. The 20-day SMA at $0.17 is acting as a hard ceiling, and price has been unable to reclaim it. The Stochastic adds a wrinkle: %K crossing above %D at the 38/30 level hints at a possible short-term mechanical bounce, but that’s a one-candle signal fighting a structurally broken trend. Blockchain.news has documented ADA’s history of these compression phases, and the resolution almost always comes with a 6–10% directional surge off the squeeze — the question is which direction the fuse lights. Hourly candlesticks (about 96 bars), same endpoint as our cryptocurrency price pages. Numbers below refresh from 1-minute klines. Full ADA price,…

Toncoin News Toncoin (TON), the altcoin closely associated with Telegram founder Pavel Durov, became the center of a new regulatory confrontation after Russia’s Federal Security Service accused him of facilitating terrorist activity and placed him on an international wanted list. The FSB alleged that Telegram failed to remove channels, group chats and bot accounts that Ukrainian intelligence services, terrorist organizations and extremist groups purportedly used to plan attacks, recruit participants and coordinate online fraud. Russian authorities framed the case as a response to platform moderation failures, saying the activity caused deaths, including women and children, and billions of rubles in damage. The accusation extends a criminal investigation first reported in February, when Durov said the state was inventing pretexts to restrict Russians’ access to Telegram and suppress privacy and free speech. Telegram and Durov have not issued a formal response to the latest charge. For Toncoin, the risk is reputational and operational because Durov remains the public face of the platform’s crypto wallet rollout. The charge carries a potential 15-year prison sentence, although enforcement outside Russia remains uncertain because Durov holds French and Emirati passports. The case was brought under Article 205.1 of Russia’s criminal code, which covers assistance to terrorist activity and can carry up to 15 years in prison. The FSB said Durov was charged as the executive responsible for Telegram’s operations, but it did not publish documentary evidence or case-by-case details to support the allegation. Russian media have described dozens of arrests over the past year involving people allegedly recruited through Telegram, with accusations ranging from arson on railways and telecom facilities to attacks on national infrastructure. The legal action also reflects a longer conflict between Moscow and Durov, who co-founded the VK social network before leaving Russia in 2014 after refusing government demands for user data.…

lmportant news this week: Wed, 29th Jul, 03:30 CET AU Consumer Price Index. Wed, 29th Jul, 20:00 CET US FOMC Interest Rate Decision. Thu, 30th Jul, 13:00 CET UK BoE Interest Rate Decision. Thu, 30th Jul, 14:30 CET US PCE Price Index. Fri, 31st Jul, tentative JP BoJ Interest Rate Decision. Rotation continues as markets await the FOMC decision Equity markets remain mixed as investors continue rotating out of AI and high-growth technology stocks into more traditional blue-chip names. The Dow Jones is outperforming, while the DAX remains one of the strongest major indices, supported by industrial and value-oriented sectors. The Nasdaq continues to lag as technology stocks struggle to regain momentum. Attention now turns to today’s FOMC decision, with markets having largely priced in another rate hike. The focus will be less on the decision itself and more on the Fed’s guidance regarding inflation and future policy.Precious metals are recovering after recent weakness, suggesting bargain buying is emerging ahead of the central bank announcement. Cryptocurrencies have also stabilised, with Bitcoin and major altcoins trading firmer as sentiment improves slightly. In FX markets, the Euro and British Pound remain broadly sideways against the US Dollar, while the Australian Dollar is underperforming. The weakness in AUD points to a slightly more cautious risk environment, even as equity markets remain relatively resilient. Market talk Today’s FOMC meeting is expected to be the main market driver. If the Fed maintains a hawkish tone and signals that rates will remain higher for longer, the US Dollar could strengthen further and renew pressure on equities, metals, and cryptocurrencies. A more balanced or dovish message, however, could support another leg higher in risk assets. With markets already positioned for a rate hike, the wording of Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference is likely to determine the next…

Key Highlights Morpho enters APAC through Hong Kong with its first major regional partnership alongside HashKey Group and HSK Chain. HashKey becomes Morpho’s institutional anchor partner, integrating KYC, wallet screening, and compliance controls into permissionless lending. The firms will develop BTC- and RWA-backed CeDeFi lending products while expanding institutional-grade collateral on Morpho. Morpho, one of the largest decentralized lending protocols by total value locked (TVL), has announced a major expansion move. It is entering the Asia-Pacific market through Hong Kong. Today, its APAC head Shan Shan Sui announced a strategic partnership with HashKey Group and HSK Chain to develop what the companies describe as Asia’s leading on-chain lending ecosystem. According to Morpho co-founder and CEO Paul Frambot, Asia has been a real focus since his tour there earlier this year. “Hong Kong is full of opportunities for onchain credit and excited to bring even more of it there”, he wrote in a X post.  HashKey will serve as the protocol’s anchor partner in one of the world’s most important capital markets. It will provide a launchpad for expanding permissionless lending infrastructure through licensed financial rails. What is the Morpho And Hashkey Partnership About Under the partnership, Morpho will complete a full deployment on HSK Chain and become the network’s official on-chain credit partner. Unlike traditional DeFi deployments that primarily target crypto-native users, the partnership focuses on enabling institutional participation while complying with local regulations. HashKey plans to integrate Know Your Customer (KYC), wallet screening, and access controls on top of Morpho’s permissionless lending infrastructure. “Hong Kong is a strategic entry to APAC: with its regulatory trajectory and institutional appetite,  Morpho’s APAC Shen wrote in a Linkedin post. As per the official announcement, the partnership also extends beyond lending. According to HashKey, the companies will jointly develop CeDeFi products, on-chain yield…

Every dollar Robinhood Chain earns, a tenth goes to a DAO treasury controlled by strangers. The arrangement has been covered a dozen times as good news for Arbitrum’s token. Summary Robinhood Chain runs on Arbitrum’s Orbit stack, and under the Arbitrum Expansion Program every Orbit chain settling outside Arbitrum One routes 10% of net protocol revenue back to the Arbitrum ecosystem. The split is fixed: 8% to the Arbitrum DAO treasury, controlled by ARB tokenholders, and 2% to the Arbitrum Developer Guild. The figures are now real, no longer theoretical. Robinhood Chain has passed $2 million in cumulative revenue since its July 1 launch, with roughly $200,000 flowing to Arbitrum, and Arbitrum reported the network earning over $800,000 in a single seven-day stretch, annualizing near $42 million. The payment is calculated on net revenue after operating costs, applies to sequencer profits, and may extend to MEV capture if the chain adopts Arbitrum’s Timeboost mechanism. Every version of this story published so far has been written for ARB holders. The unexamined half is what the arrangement costs the brokerage, and why a company with a $2.2 billion war chest chose to pay it. Nobody has asked the other question: what a licensed brokerage that spent a decade removing intermediaries bought by becoming a tenant. There is a particular irony in a company whose entire founding pitch was the removal of intermediaries acquiring one. Robinhood spent a decade telling retail investors that the layers between them and the market were extractive, that commissions were a tax on participation, and that the right architecture was fewer parties taking a cut. On July 1 it launched its own blockchain, the most complete expression of that philosophy available: a settlement layer it controls, sequencing it operates, and fee revenue it collects. And under the terms…

The Federal Reserve is expected to remain on hold when it announces its decision later on Wednesday. While a hold in rates at 3.5- 3.75% is likely, rising oil prices means that futures markets have priced in a growing chance of a rate hike at this meeting. The CME’s FedWatch tool indicates that there is a 30% chance of a rate hike at tonight’s meeting. The question is, will  new chair Kevin Warsh spring a ‘surprise’ hike on financial markets? The Fed Fund Futures market thinks that there is a decent chance that the Fed will embark on a preemptive rate hike to address potential inflation risks ahead of time. But is the market right to think  this? If the Fed does decide to hike rates tonight, then it would not be grounded in the current labour market or inflation readings, instead it will be rooted in risk management, in case this changes in the future. The current economic data available to the Fed does not suggest that the US economy is overheating. June NFPs slowed substantially to 57,000, and the May figure was also revised lower to 129k. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.2%, but there was a sharp drop in the labour force participation rate, which fell to 61.5% from 61.8%. The inflation outlook has also moderated in recent weeks. Headline inflation fell 0.4% on a month-on-month basis in June, and the annual rate was 3.5%. Core CPI was flat on a monthly basis, but the annual core CPI rate moderated to 2.6% from 2.9%. There are also signs that inflation could moderate further in the coming months: Tariff pass-through has been less than expected and should fall out of the CPI index in the second half of this year. Shelter inflation has also moderated sharply, which…

Joerg Hiller Jul 29, 2026 07:28 SOL sits at $74.04, pinned below every moving average that matters with momentum flatlined at zero — a slow grind toward $71.43 carries a 55% probability, but 74% of top traders positioned long cou… SOL’s Technical Reality Check SOL is not in a corrective pause. It’s in a structural breakdown. Trading at $74.04 with every meaningful moving average — the 7-day, 20-day, 50-day, and the all-important 200-day SMA — stacked above current price paints a picture that no amount of narrative spin can clean up. The SMA 200 at $87.15 sits more than 17% above the market right now, which means the long-term trend has been broken, not merely tested. SOL isn’t consolidating beneath resistance — it’s camped out in enemy territory. The MACD is the most damning exhibit. The histogram has flatlined at exactly zero, with both the MACD line and the signal locked in lockstep at -0.43. Momentum hasn’t reversed — it has simply stopped decaying. That’s not a bullish signal; that’s a boxer who’s stopped getting hit but still hasn’t gotten off the canvas. RSI at 44.56 confirms the same story: buyers are present but they’re hesitating, unwilling to commit capital without a cleaner setup. Meanwhile, Bollinger Band position at 0.16 places SOL effectively hugging the lower band at $73.09 — this is compressed, coiled price action that resolves with a decisive move, not a drift. The one legitimate counterargument lives in the Stochastic oscillator, where %K at 25.77 and %D at 20.61 are registering oversold conditions. Historically, that zone produces short-duration bounces. But in a downtrend with a broken MA structure, “oversold” is a condition that can persist far longer than any mean-reversion trade deserves respect. As Blockchain.news has tracked through Solana’s…

A trader realized a $2.2 million gain during this week’s SK Hynix liquidation incident on Hyperliquid. Trade.xyz, the team that operates the market, will now cover losses tied to the same event. It maintains that the oracle systems performed as specified. Trader Banks $2.2 Million While 960 Accounts Get Liquidated According to Arkham, the trader, Stately, realized approximately $2.2 million in profit after part of his short position in SK Hynix was automatically reduced during an auto-deleveraging (ADL) event during a liquidation cascade.  The trader remains short SK Hynix with an open position worth $13.36 million, which now shows an additional $2.1 million in unrealized gains. Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens HE MADE $2M ON SK HYNIX LIQUIDATIONS Trader ‘Stately’ was short SK Hynix and got ADL’d this morning on a liquidation cascade for $5.6M, instantly realizing $2.2M of PnL. He’s still short SK Hynix with $13.36M and is up $2.1M on the rest of the trade. pic.twitter.com/CWF4Bc7eO3 — Arkham (@arkham) July 28, 2026 The liquidation stems from a sharp decline in the SK Hynix perpetual contract, which fell 17.9%. BeInCrypto reported that the move triggered the liquidation of approximately $57.4 million in long positions across 960 accounts. It is worth noting that the SK Hynix perpetual contract was launched by Trade.xyz under Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 framework, rather than by Hyperliquid itself. In a post on X, Trade.xyz addressed the incident and outlined the steps it plans to take in response. The team said the SKHYNIX mark price fell from $1,127.90 to $917.25 at 23:01 UTC on July 27. According to the platform, the price was derived from an executed trade that was relayed by multiple independent data providers. “The XYZ oracle was live in external pricing and tracking that venue, which serves as…

USD/CAD extends its losses for the second consecutive day, trading around 1.4090 during the European hours on Wednesday. The pair loses ground as the Canadian Dollar (CAD) gains on higher oil prices, which have rebounded as renewed hostilities in the Middle East reignite geopolitical tensions after several days of relative calm, fueling fresh concerns over potential disruptions to global energy supplies. The escalation began as the US military reported intercepting what it described as a surprise Iranian attack targeting American troops stationed across the Middle East. Meanwhile, Iran-backed militias in Iraq launched drone strikes against oil facilities in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Region for a second consecutive day, though the full extent of the damage remains unclear. The incident is believed to be a direct countermeasure against recent US strikes on Iranian naval assets, which triggered immediate retaliation. CENTCOM subsequently executed precision airstrikes in Iraq aimed at neutralizing Iran-backed groups planning further operations against US forces and Saudi energy infrastructure. The USD/CAD pair also holds losses as the US Dollar (USD) struggles ahead of the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) upcoming policy decision. While the Fed is widely expected to leave interest rates unchanged, traders are currently pricing in an unusually high 30.5% chance of an immediate rate hike, signaling notable uncertainty ahead of the announcement. Looking further ahead, markets are factoring in a 76.6% probability of a rate increase in September, reinforcing expectations that global borrowing costs will remain elevated for longer. Canadian Dollar FAQs The key factors driving the Canadian Dollar (CAD) are the level of interest rates set by the Bank of Canada (BoC), the price of Oil, Canada’s largest export, the health of its economy, inflation and the Trade Balance, which is the difference between the value of Canada’s exports versus its imports. Other factors include market sentiment –…

Rongchai Wang Jul 29, 2026 07:32 DOGE is pinned at $0.0706 with momentum dead and futures traders dangerously crowded on the long side — a clean break below $0.069 triggers a cascade toward $0.064, while a hold and reclaim of $0.0… Market Context: Why DOGE Is Stalling Right Here DOGE is grinding sideways at $0.0706, printing a 24-hour range so tight it barely covers a cent and a half. That compresses into one clear narrative: nobody wants to commit. The broader bear structure is impossible to ignore — DOGE is sitting roughly 12% below its 50-day moving average and nearly 30% below its 200-day. That is not consolidation above support; that is a market that got cut down and is now struggling to decide whether it has the legs for a recovery or whether it’s about to roll over again. The $0.07 handle has become a gravitational center. Binance spot volume came in around $31.9 million for the day — respectable, but nowhere near the surge you need to see preceding a decisive directional break. This is the market in standoff mode, and standoffs always resolve violently. Blockchain.news has documented how meme-coin compression phases like this precede sharp single-session moves in either direction, and DOGE right now is a coiled spring with no identified release valve. Indicator Alignment: The Technicals Are Whispering “Not Yet” With momentum drifting into mid-range without any lift, buyers are clearly hesitating. The RSI sitting below 42 is the tell — it’s not oversold enough to trigger a credible mean-reversion bounce, and it’s far from the 55+ zone that signals accumulating demand. Add the MACD converging perfectly with its signal line at near-zero, with the histogram printing flat, and you have the technical picture of a market where…

MUFG’s Lee Hardman notes that the Australian Dollar, a beneficiary of AI-related demand, has weakened after another softer-than-expected Australian Consumer Price Index (CPI) release. Core inflation undershot the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) May forecasts, easing pressure for further tightening. Hardman highlights that this lower starting point for inflation reduces the urgency for additional RBA hikes, with market-implied odds for one final move later in 2026 now close to 50:50. Australian CPI surprise weighs on AUD “The Australian dollar has also been one of the beneficiaries from increased demand related to the AI buildout.” “The Australian dollar has weakened overnight although it was mainly triggered by the release of another softer than expected inflation report from Australia that has dampened expectations for further RBA rate hikes.” “Core inflation surprised to the downside for the second consecutive quarter in Q2.” “The trimmed mean measure of core inflation increased by 0.8%Q/Q and by an annual rate of 3.6%.” “The softer than expected print gives RBA policymakers a better starting point for their updated economic forecasts which helps to ease pressure to hike rates further even as inflation remains above target.” (This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor. Know more.) Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/australian-dollar-softer-inflation-tempers-rate-hike-odds-mufg-202607290831

TLDR The US and Iran have held a ceasefire since Sunday, but Polymarket odds of it lasting 14 days dropped from over 60% to around 53%. Prediction market Myriad shows most money betting that formal peace talks won’t start until August. President Trump told Axios he is ready to return to military action if diplomacy fails. Iran denies direct talks are happening, saying mediators are only passing messages. Oil prices dropped sharply, with Brent crude falling 4.8% to $84.09 as markets priced in lower conflict risk. The United States and Iran have gone three days without an attack after 13 straight nights of US strikes. But prediction markets are not convinced the pause will hold. A Polymarket contract tracking whether the ceasefire lasts 14 continuous days without a US strike on Iranian soil fell from over 60% to around 53% on Tuesday. That is close to a coin flip. What Prediction Markets Are Showing The drop suggests traders think there is a real chance fighting resumes before two weeks pass. A ceasefire announcement is not the same as a lasting halt in fighting. President Trump added to that uncertainty. He told Axios he was ready to return to “very strong military action” if talks with Iran fail. Myriad, a separate prediction market, tracks something more specific. It asks whether a formal, senior-level round of US-Iran peace talks will begin by July 31. Most of the money on Myriad is betting that any real talks will be delayed until next month. The platform’s rules do not count phone calls or messages passed through mediators as real negotiations. Iran has publicly denied that direct talks are underway. Officials say mediators are only carrying messages between the two sides. This is not the first time markets have doubted an Iran ceasefire. An earlier…

IQVIA Holdings (IQV) reported $4.37 billion in revenue for the quarter ended June 2026, representing a year-over-year increase of 8.7%. EPS of $3.15 for the same period compares to $2.81 a year ago. The reported revenue represents a surprise of +1.63% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $4.3 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $3.02, the EPS surprise was +4.31%. While investors closely watch year-over-year changes in headline numbers — revenue and earnings — and how they compare to Wall Street expectations to determine their next course of action, some key metrics always provide a better insight into a company’s underlying performance. As these metrics influence top- and bottom-line performance, comparing them to the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated helps investors project a stock’s price performance more accurately. Here is how IQVIA performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts: Revenues- Research & development solution: $2.58 billion versus $2.5 billion estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +17% change. Revenues – Commercial solutions: $1.79 billion versus the two-analyst average estimate of $1.8 billion. Segment profit – Commercial solutions: $419 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $388.56 million. Segment Profit – Research & development solutions: $526 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $490.13 million. Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/iqvia-iqv-q2-earnings-taking-a-look-at-key-metrics-versus-estimates-202607290833

Hong Kong’s OSL Hong Kong XRP retail trading chapter officially opened on July 29, 2026. OSL Digital Securities, a subsidiary of publicly listed OSL Group (HKEX: 863), confirmed the launch via X, making it the first Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)-licensed platform in the city to grant everyday investors direct spot access to XRP. Hong Kong’s First Retail XRP On-Ramp Goes Live on a Licensed Venue OSL announced two retail-accessible pairs at launch: Flash Trade XRP/USD and OTC XRP/USD plus XRP/HKD, all settled on the XRP Ledger. XRP now sits alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana as the only four tokens approved for retail trading on the platform. Breaking News]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/equities-record-allocation-sustains-dollar-exposure-bny https://media.ikmoon.com/equities-record-allocation-sustains-dollar-exposure-bny Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:01:25 +0600 crypto Equities:, Record, allocation, sustains, Dollar, exposure, –, BNY The post Equities: Record allocation sustains Dollar exposure – BNY appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Geoff Yu at BNY reports that global equity allocations have reached a record share of portfolios, with United States (US) markets dominating both equity and fixed-income holdings. Yu sees recent Dollar-selling from equity rebalancing as a healthy correction but expects the structural rotation toward equities to persist, with shifts likely within regional and sector allocations rather than back into bonds. Structural rotation keeps stocks dominant “We acknowledge near-term downside risk to global equity allocations, but the data suggest the rotation of the past three years is structural. In January and February, markets focused on the “debasement trade” as falling U.S. real rates weakened Treasury demand and encouraged more dollar hedging.” “The U.S. accounts for 64% of global equity holdings and 73% of fixed income holdings. Because equity hedge ratios are typically lower, global portfolios carry an additional upward bias to dollar exposure. For non-U.S. investors, increasing dollar hedges is the cleaner way to reduce the U.S. contribution to portfolio volatility.” “This is preferable to cutting U.S. allocations outright or rotating further into U.S. and global fixed income. Credible alternatives to U.S. assets remain limited, while bonds are likely to stay under pressure until inflation softens enough for markets to remove further rate hikes from the curve.” “We expect central banks to pivot back toward growth at the earliest opportunity, with lower real rates likely to form part of that shift. Beyond dollar hedging, this should support rotation into economies that benefit from a softer dollar, particularly EM with less exposure to concentrated AI themes.” “Global allocation is unlikely to swing decisively back toward fixed income. The more important shift may come within equities, where the regional and sector mix could change materially.” (This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor. Know…

Regulated exchanges in Africa are moving beyond blockchain research, beginning to test its potential to modernize financial markets. Against that backdrop, Tether [USDT] has partnered with the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) by signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU), representing a significant institutional milestone. The agreement focuses on three priorities, namely, digital asset education, securities tokenization through Tether’s Hadron platform, and a Kenya-specific anti-money laundering (AML)/KYC framework. Consequently, this initiative will support the NSE’s stated goal as part of its 2025-2029 strategic plan to evolve the market infrastructure and expand investor accessibility. Source: Tether on X More importantly, the collaboration positions Tether deeper within regulated capital markets, extending its role beyond stablecoin payments into institutional infrastructure. If these pilot programs demonstrate faster settlement, transparent ownership, and lower transaction costs, they could encourage similar initiatives across Africa. This would result in strengthening Tether’s presence in emerging markets while accelerating blockchain adoption within regulated financial systems. Tokenized securities take shape The partnership now moves from institutional commitment toward practical market infrastructure. Rather than limiting blockchain to payments, the NSE will test tokenized securities and fractional ownership within a regulated exchange. This model intends to lower investment thresholds, allowing more retail and diaspora investors to access assets previously reserved for larger participants. Meanwhile, blockchain settlement could shorten today’s multi-stage settlement process into near-instant transfers, freeing capital and improving market liquidity. Supporting that direction, Paolo Ardoino, Tether CEO, noted,  Digital assets are evolving from crypto into real-life applications and ultimately cross-border institutional finance. His comments reinforce Tether’s broader strategy of embedding blockchain technology into regulated financial systems. If these pilots succeed, the NSE could become one of Africa’s first exchanges to launch tokenized securities and stablecoin-assisted settlement under regulatory oversight. Can blockchain move beyond pilots? The partnership’s success now depends on execution rather than ambition.…

SACRAMENTO, CA: Luis Arraez of the San Francisco Giants flips his bat towards teammates in the dugout after hitting a home run against the Athletics at Sutter Health Park on May 15, 2026. Arraez is expected to be soon dealt to his fifth team in five years. (Photo by Scott Marshall/Getty Images) Getty Images The next five days will determine the future fate of many MLB players and teams. The 2026 MLB Trade Deadline is August 3, and who goes where or stays put by 6 p.m. ET on Monday is tied to which teams win or lose until then. There isn’t a team in any sport on any level on the planet that isn’t wishing to improve. In that sense, all 30 MLB teams would like to be “buyers” adding better and more expensive players by Monday. Some simply do not have the talent needed to exchange or the money to pay in return, however. Those clubs would usually be classified as “sellers” seeking to cut payroll and add promising prospects in hopes of rebuilding for the future. Except that in 2026, the future could be now – given the results of the next five days. The best possible prizes, pitchers Tarik Skubal and Mason Miller and shortstop C.J. Abrams could be retained to help their teams keep winning or dealt to wave the white flag for 2026 with hopes of waving a pennant in 2027. DETROIT: Tarik Skubal of the Detroit Tigers pitches against the Kansas City Royals at Comerica Park on July 24, 2026. The two-time AL Cy Young Award winner is the subject of much trade conjecture. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) Getty Images Each league has 12 teams reasonably in the running for one of six playoff spots apiece. Therefore, only six teams total are…

Luisa Crawford Jul 29, 2026 07:49 AVAX is caught in a slow bleed below every key moving average with momentum completely stalled near $6.42 — the high-probability path runs through $6.05-$6.12 before any credible bounce, but smart … Market Context: The Slow Bleed That Won’t Quit AVAX isn’t crashing — it’s doing something arguably worse. It’s grinding lower with no urgency, no volume spike, and no catalytic narrative to grab onto. At $6.42 against a 200-day SMA sitting nearly 40% higher at $8.87, this token is a walking monument to how badly last cycle’s momentum has unwound. The daily range today — $6.31 to $6.64 — tells the whole story in one number: $0.33 of spread, less than 5% candle body. That’s not a market coiling for a move. That’s a market losing interest. Spot volume on Binance came in just above $8.4 million in the last 24 hours. For a token that once commanded top-10 market cap status, that number is quietly damning. Thin liquidity doesn’t cushion drawdowns — it accelerates them when sellers get motivated. The broader context tracked by Blockchain.news shows AVAX is not uniquely suffering here, but that doesn’t make the chart any prettier. Context is comfort; the price action is the verdict. The near-term narrative vacuum is real. No fresh protocol catalysts, no ecosystem funding announcements, no major integration news driving a bid. What you have instead is a price hugging the lower third of its Bollinger Band structure at a %B of 0.27, with every short-term average — the 7, 20, and 50-day SMAs stacked between $6.50 and $6.57 — pressing down from above like a ceiling that won’t lift. Indicator Alignment: Everything Points the Same Direction, and It’s Not Up The technicals here are unusually…

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Trump Unveils 21,000 Securities Trades Worth at Least $858,000,000 in First Year Back as US President – The Daily Hodl No Result View All Result Source: https://dailyhodl.com/2026/07/29/trump-unveils-21000-stock-trades-worth-at-least-858000000-in-first-year-as-us-president/

According to a senior official from Iran, the nation doesn’t support Oman’s proposal for regional joint management of Strait of Hormuz, a critical chokepoint for almost 20% of global energy supply. Additional remarks The proposal has no chance of success. Only Iran and Oman can decide on arrangements for the strait based on respective shares. Iran rejects any role for other countries to be involved. The entire inbound route and part of the outbound route through the strait must be under Iranian control. Oman is a valuable neighbour but 50-50 joint control arrangement will not work. The statement from Iran came in response to the delivery of Oman’s Hormuz maintenance proposal on Tuesday. The proposal was based on Strait of Malacca, where those who use the strait voluntarily contribute to fund navigation, environmental protection, and search and rescue. Market reaction No immediate reaction was seen in the oil price following remarks from Iran on the regional Hormuz proposal. At press time, the WTI Oil price holds majority of early gains at around $81.00. WTI Oil FAQs WTI Oil is a type of Crude Oil sold on international markets. The WTI stands for West Texas Intermediate, one of three major types including Brent and Dubai Crude. WTI is also referred to as “light” and “sweet” because of its relatively low gravity and sulfur content respectively. It is considered a high quality Oil that is easily refined. It is sourced in the United States and distributed via the Cushing hub, which is considered “The Pipeline Crossroads of the World”. It is a benchmark for the Oil market and WTI price is frequently quoted in the media. Like all assets, supply and demand are the key drivers of WTI Oil price. As such, global growth can be a driver of increased demand and…

Russia has charged Telegram ​founder and CEO Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities. An international arrest warrant is also issued against the Russian-born entrepreneur, causing Gram (previously Toncoin) token to tumble more than 3%. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Faces Terrorism Charges in Russia Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) charged Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities and placed him on an international wanted list, Sputnik reported on July 29. FSB claimed the charges are related to Telegram’s failure to remove extremist content, child pornography and channels used by Ukrainian intel for sabotage. The agency said it is “used by Ukrainian ​special services and by terrorist and extremist organisations to prepare and coordinate acts of sabotage ​and terrorism, mass killings, and cyber-fraud operations within ​the Russian Federation.” The move comes amid FSB and global pressure on the encrypted messaging app, which has billions of users despite restrictions. Russia has recently tried to restrict Telegram’s use after Pavel Durov denied sharing user data or encryption keys. French ​authorities have also investigated Pavel Durov over allegations that Telegram failed to adequately counter criminal activity on the platform. The prosecutors raised concerns that Telegram ​did not cooperate enough with ​law enforcement requests. However, Durov denies wrongdoing. He claimed that maintaining Telegram’s privacy policies and refusal to grant backdoor access are matters of strict principle. GRAM Token Falls amid Arrest Warrant GRAM (previously Toncoin) plunges more than 3% in the past few hours, extending the fall to 12% in a week. The price is currently trading at $1.40, with a 24-hour low and high of $1.39 and $1.46, respectively. Furthermore, trading volume has increased by almost 70% over the last 24 hours, as traders moved in response to Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s arrest warrant. Recently, Durov revealed major Telegram network updates and…

Gold has traded sideways for a month in a range from the June low of 3943 up to Fibonacci resistance at 4160/4170. We remain right in the middle of that range in very quiet conditions, with little movement yesterday. We reversed again (which is to be expected in a sideways consolidation of course) to retest Friday’s low. We broke below the 10-day ascending trend line minor support at 4047/4042 to target 4023/4019, reaching 4010. We are now ranging from here back up to that 4042/4047 (we made a high for the bounce here in the afternoon). We will probably keep reversing and remain in a sideways trend. Bear in mind the Fed rate meeting today – a move is not expected but there may be expectations of a September rate hike. If this is talked about it could push Gold lower. A break below 4008 can target 4005, 3999 & even 3984/3980. A break above 4050 (above minor resistance at 4042/4047) can target stronger resistance at 4065/4070. A high for the day is possible but shorts need stops above 4076. Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/analysis/gold-traders-worry-about-todays-fomc-rate-decision-video-202607290651

One week you’re parking funds in a dollar stablecoin without a second thought. The next, a chart goes vertical the wrong way and a supposedly steady $1 starts blinking 0.97, 0.92, 0.41. We saw that movie again in July. On July 22, the algorithmic Balance Coin (BLC) cratered roughly 99.75% after a reported BTCB oracle manipulation tied to the 42DAO exploit, with about $912k–$915k drained, according to security firms cited by TechTimes (reporting SlowMist / PeckShield findings). A week earlier, the Arbitrum-based perps venue Ostium paused trading after an oracle-related exploit siphoned roughly $18 million in USDC from its OLP vault, per The Block. Meanwhile, the big fiat-backed names barely flinched. As of July 29, DeFiLlama shows around $308.45 billion in stablecoins, with USDT near 59.6% dominance and USDC roughly $72.4B, and both trading essentially on peg, while some smaller coins drifted wider, like Falcon USD at about 0.52% below $1 (DeFiLlama). Stablecoins promise $1 stability, but they’re not all playing the same game. Fiat-backed issuers defend pegs with cash-like reserves and redemption windows. Overcollateralized designs lean on crypto collateral and governance switches. Algorithmic coins rely on incentives and arbitrage that can vanish under stress. Pegs don’t fail because of one seller. They fail when the shock absorbers are thinner than the shock. Why now? 2026 kept surfacing the same fault line: oracles and liquidity. Attackers exploited data feeds and upkeep mechanics. Market makers backed off the long tail. The result was a string of small fires and one or two dramatic collapses. Users, protocols, and treasuries holding non-top-tier stables were the ones feeling it. What a Peg Actually Is A “peg” is just a target price with mechanisms that try to pin market trades to it. There’s no magic. There’s inventory, redemption, arbitrage, and trust. Fiat-backed redemptions…

Emirates launched Crypto.com Pay on July 28, allowing eligible UAE residents to pay for flight bookings through emirates.com and the Emirates App.  Summary Emirates now offers Crypto.com Pay for eligible UAE residents booking flights priced in dirhams online. Mobile customers approve payments inside Crypto.com, while desktop users scan a checkout QR code securely. Crypto.com’s UAE entity operates under a Central Bank Stored Value Facilities licence for regulated payments. The option applies only to bookings priced and settled in UAE dirhams and requires an active Crypto.com account. The rollout completes the partnership announced in July 2025, when Emirates and Crypto.com signed a memorandum of understanding to explore adding the payment service. At that stage, the companies said implementation would depend on technical readiness and regulatory approval. Emirates crypto payments are limited to UAE bookings Customers will see Crypto.com Pay among the available checkout methods when a qualifying itinerary meets the residency and currency conditions. Emirates has not announced access for travellers outside the UAE or bookings denominated in other currencies. Crypto․com is partnering with @emirates to enable Crypto․com Pay™ for flight bookings. Available to approved users in the UAE, this brings next-generation payments to world-class travel while accelerating the vision of the Dubai Cashless Strategy under the D33 Agenda ]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/oil-volatile-on-iran-conflict-swings-uob https://media.ikmoon.com/oil-volatile-on-iran-conflict-swings-uob Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:04:09 +0600 crypto Oil:, Volatile, Iran, conflict, swings, –, UOB The post Oil: Volatile on Iran conflict swings – UOB appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

UOB strategists report that Oil prices initially fell sharply as the United States (US) military campaign against Iran remained paused, with WTI dropping to USD 79.26 and Brent to USD 84.10. However, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) later rebounded as much as 5% above USD 83 after fresh fighting and news of a US interception of an Iranian attempted surprise attack, underscoring heightened geopolitical-driven volatility. Crude swings with Middle East risk “The continued decline in oil prices amid signs of de-escalation in the Iran conflict has been a welcome development for markets, with attention now shifting to the July FOMC meeting.” “That said, oil rebounded this morning (with WTI rising as much as 5% to top US$83) as fresh fighting erupted as the US military said it successfully intercepted an Iranian “attempted surprise attack” on US troops based in the Middle East.” “The recent rebound in crude oil prices has led markets to price in a 35.8% probability of a 25bp rate hike at the July FOMC meeting.” “Oil prices fell sharply as the US military campaign against Iran remained paused, raising hopes that a resolution to the conflict could be reached in the near term.” “WTI crude declined 4.1% to USD 79.26 per barrel, its lowest level since July 16, while front-month Brent crude fell 4.8% to USD 84.10 per barrel.” (This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor. Know more.) Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/oil-volatile-on-iran-conflict-swings-uob-202607290658

The post Why Everyone Is Watching Cardano Price Today appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Cardano price today has caught traders’ attention after a nearly 5% rally coincided with one of the strongest institutional signals the network has seen in months. ADA investment products have now posted 16 consecutive months of net inflows, underscoring persistent demand from professional investors despite the token’s extended downturn. With the daily chart also flashing … Source: https://coinpedia.org/price-analysis/why-everyone-is-watching-cardano-price-today/

Jump Capital has closed a $350 million venture fund with a stronger focus on crypto investments. Summary Jump Capital has closed a $350 million venture fund with a stronger focus on early stage crypto investments. The firm said the new fund will back blockchain infrastructure, DeFi, Web3, fintech, and enterprise software startups. Jump Capital has expanded its crypto portfolio through investments in Securitize, Shelby, and KGeN over the past year. The venture firm has completed more than 100 investments and nearly 30 exits since its launch. According to a July 29 announcement, Jump Capital has closed its seventh venture fund with $350 million in total capital commitments, describing it as the firm’s largest fund to date and outlining plans to increase investments across the crypto ecosystem while continuing to back early-stage technology startups. The firm’s official announcement said the new vehicle will continue investing in fintech, IT and data infrastructure, future of commerce and media, and B2B SaaS, while allocating more resources to blockchain and digital asset companies.  The fund follows nearly a decade of venture investing that has resulted in more than 100 portfolio companies and close to 30 exits. Jump Capital has expanded its crypto allocation Founded in 2012 alongside Jump Trading, Jump Capital said it originally focused on software and technology companies outside traditional coastal venture markets while supplying Series A and Series B funding to underserved founders across the United States. The firm said market conditions have changed considerably since then. Access to Series A and Series B capital has become more limited, while investor attention toward startups in the Midwest increased during the pandemic.  At the same time, blockchain emerged as what Jump Capital described as a technology capable of changing financial markets and introducing new models of ownership and value transfer. According to the…

Excerpt For now, we are sticking with our call for no change in rates from the Bank of England for the rest of the year. This view is predicated on the Iran war – a peaceful resolution in the not-too-distant future should be enough to temper second-round inflation effects and trigger a rapid unwinding in the market’s rate hike expectations. We also think the slack evident in the jobs market will be enough for the doves to get their way. With wage growth soft and unemployment drifting higher, we don’t see conditions conducive to material second-round effects, certainly nowhere near the extent seen after the 2022 energy price spike. For the pound and gilt markets, the clearest signal to watch this week is likely to be the bank’s vote distribution. A 7-2 split alongside remarks that play down the upside inflation risks from the energy spike could see a retreat in UK rate hike expectations and take some shine off the pound. Conversely, a 6-3 vote combined with forecasts showing inflation peaking closer to 4% than 3% would likely be bullish for sterling, while lifting yields at the short end of the curve. Thursday’s meeting also carries the bank’s annual review of quantitative tightening, but we don’t expect this to be a major market mover – any confirmation of a modestly slower pace of active gilt sales could suppress yields in the long-end, though this will be overshadowed by the vote split and inflation guidance. Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/analysis/boe-to-hold-rates-for-rest-of-2026-202607290700

Key Takeaways MARA’s Fred Thiel said that AI earns more per electron than bitcoin mining. MARA targets 1 GW near-term and 2.5 GW later, showing power assets now drive miner value. MARA will keep mining cheap energy as Hut 8’s $19.6B AI leases shape the industry’s next move. MARA Rethinks Its Power Portfolio as AI Margins Outpace Bitcoin Mining Power, not mining machines, is becoming the defining asset in the Bitcoin mining industry. MARA CEO Fred Thiel said electricity used for artificial intelligence infrastructure can generate substantially better returns than the same power devoted to bitcoin mining. That gap is pushing miners to recast themselves as data center developers. “You get a lot more money per electron if you’re doing it for AI than for bitcoin mining,” Thiel said in a July 23 interview with Natalie Brunell. The shift reflects tougher mining economics. Bitcoin’s scheduled halvings reduce the reward paid for each block, while electricity remains the industry’s largest operating expense. Thiel said miners must control power directly or work closely with utilities to stay competitive. MARA Builds Around Scarce Power MARA began buying sites where it had previously hosted mining equipment in late 2023 and early 2024, often below replacement cost, Thiel said. By the end of 2024, it owned about 70% of the infrastructure supporting its operations. The company then turned its focus to energy assets. MARA has partnered with Starwood on a platform targeting about 1 gigawatt of near-term computing capacity, with a path beyond 2.5 GW. It also agreed in July to acquire a Texas site with access to roughly 2 GW of power for digital infrastructure. Still, Thiel rejected the idea that AI will replace mining across MARA’s portfolio. “Bitcoin is a great way to optimize electrons, even in a data center-centric world,” he said.…

The Japanese Yen (JPY) has trimmed some losses against the US Dollar (USD) on Wednesday, but USD/JPY dips have been capped above previous highs, in the 163.30 area so far. The Yen remains close to the 40-year high of 163.99 reached earlier this month, with investors awaiting the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed) monetary policy decision due later in the day. The Fed is likely to leave its monetary policy unchanged. Futures markets, however, show a 35% chance of a rate hike, as measured by the CME Group’s FedWatch Tool, which poses an uncommon degree of uncertainty hours ahead of the decision. A surprise rate hike will likely send the US Dollar rallying, but a pause with some signals of monetary tightening in the coming months might also provide support for the USD. US economy has been showing signs of resilience to Iran’s war, and inflation remains well above target while recent hostilities in the Gulf have triggered an uptick in Oil prices. Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh is not a big supporter of forward guidance, but policymakers’ concerns about inflation are likely to be seen as a hawkish sign and likely to provide some support to the USD. Yen focus stays on Fed and energy as BoJ seen on hold Analysts at ING expect the Bank of Japan to leave policy unchanged on 31 July, and add that while some in the market see scope for “a faster tightening cycle and an October hike,” ING argues that “we doubt any modest hawkish shift will materially boost the yen or alter the USD/JPY outlook.” Instead, ING stresses that “energy prices and the Fed reaction function look to be the bigger driver of USD/JPY over the coming months, rather than a potentially more hawkish BoJ. The experts expect Wednesday’s FOMC meeting to “have…

Morgan Stanley just did something a lot of desks have been debating for a while: it launched exchange-traded products for Ethereum and Solana that build staking right into the wrapper. The Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust (MSSE) and Morgan Stanley Solana Trust (MSOL) opened for trading on NYSE Arca on July 28, 2026. That combination matters. Spot exposure plus staking yield, in a ticker you can buy in a brokerage account, is a different proposition than holding coins directly or buying a plain vanilla fund. Fees are thin, the staking ranges are clear, and the rewards are mostly passed through. It sounds straightforward on paper. The real test starts now, in live trading and with real validator performance. Point Details Launch date and venue July 28, 2026 on NYSE Arca for MSSE and MSOL Figment Product structure Exchange-traded trusts offering spot ETH and SOL exposure with staking integrated Figment Staking allocation policy MSSE generally targets 50%–80% of ETH staked; MSOL may stake up to 100% of SOL; funds will publish current staked percentage daily Figment Rewards pass-through Trusts are expected to pass through 95% of staking rewards to shareholders Figment Staking provider Figment selected as validator and staking provider Figment Expense ratio 0.14% (14 bps) for each ETP, per launch materials CoinLaw What Morgan Stanley actually put on the tape The names are simple enough: Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust (ticker MSSE) and Morgan Stanley Solana Trust (ticker MSOL). They trade on NYSE Arca, which means the same screens equity traders watch for other ETPs will show quotes, spreads, and volumes here too. The launch date was July 28,…

Binance will open trading for 10 new bStocks tokenized stock pairs today. The batch adds Apple, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, and PayPal. The exchange launched bStocks in June with several listings, including Circle Internet Group, NVIDIA, and Tesla. Since then, it has continued to add pairs in batches. Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens Binance Keeps Expanding Its Tokenized Stock Shelf bStocks are tokenized securities issued by a Binance affiliate, BTech Holdings Limited. They are certificates that track the performance of underlying stocks rather than representing direct share ownership.  Each token is fully backed by a corresponding US share held by a regulated custodian, allowing holders to gain price exposure and economic benefits, including dividend reinvestment, without owning the stock itself. The exchange has steadily expanded its bStocks offering throughout July, adding tokenized versions of companies including Coinbase, Alphabet, Robinhood, IBM, and Nokia.  Today, Binance announced that it will list 10 additional bStocks. The latest expansion adds Apple, Amazon, Applied Materials, Bloom Energy, Dell, Fluence Energy, Goldman Sachs, and PayPal, as well as two semiconductor ETFs. Spot trading and Spot Algo Trading Bots will open at 12:00 UTC. All 10 pairs will be tradeable against Tether (USDT). Within one hour of the Spot listing, users will also be able to trade tokenized stocks against Bitcoin (BTC) and other supported assets via Binance Convert, with zero conversion fees. Binance is also waiving maker fees on all bStocks trading pairs until August 31, 2026, at 23:59 UTC. Users can already tokenize eligible stock holdings into bStocks on a one-to-one basis without conversion fees. Withdrawals for the newly listed assets will open at 13:00 UTC on July 29. “bStocks are subject to liquidity risk, issuer risk, custody risk, broker risk, operational risk, technology risk, regulatory risk, tax risk,…

Deutsche Bank analysts note that lower oil prices and bond yields supported US equities, helping the equal-weighted S&P 500 reach a record high as investors rotated into defensive and non-tech sectors. However, continued weakness in semiconductor stocks left the NASDAQ 100 close to correction territory, while a deepening chip-led sell-off in South Korea pushed the KOSPI down around 12% and triggered another circuit breaker. Elsewhere in Asia, markets were mixed, with Australian equities advancing after softer-than-expected inflation reduced expectations of further RBA tightening. Equities gain as chips sell off “The decline in oil and rates also helped support equities, with the S&P 500 closing +0.21% higher. And the broader market mood was more clearly positive, with the equal-weighted version of the S&P (+1.14%) posting its best day in over a month and hitting a new record high.” “This came amid a broad rotation into non-tech and defensive sectors, though it was partially offset by continued losses for chipmakers. A -4.49% decline for the Philly semiconductor index left the gauge -24.6% below its June 22 high, though it is still up +55.8% YTD. Yesterday’s decline also left the NASDAQ 100 (-0.98%) just half a percent from technical correction territory.” “But it was not all bad news for tech yesterday, with Apple (+0.94%) exceeding the $5trn market cap for the first time, though it ended the session just below it at $4.995trn. The company is set to report its earnings tomorrow along with Amazon, after reports from Microsoft and Meta this evening.” “The KOSPI is seeing another dramatic sell-off, triggering a circuit breaker for the second time in two days after tumbling by -11.0% yesterday. A reassessment in Korea’s AI-driven valuations has been boosted by results from semiconductor heavyweight SK Hynix, which is down -16.5% as its +557% surge in quarterly profits…

The post Asian Stock Markets Crash as KOSPI, Nikkei and TAIEX Lose Over $950 Billion appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Asian stock markets tumbled as South Korea’s KOSPI, Japan’s Nikkei 225, and Taiwan’s TAIEX erased more than $950 billion in combined market value. The selloff was driven by concerns over the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision, fears surrounding China’s semiconductor industry, and continued weakness in AI-related stocks. KOSPI fell 10.8%, extending its decline to 41% … Source: https://coinpedia.org/crypto-live-news/asian-stock-markets-crash-as-kospi-nikkei-and-taiex-lose-over-950-billion/

Preview text: Chip rout deepens, Iran-US tensions reignite, & soft Aussie CPI reshapes RBA bets ahead of today’s Fed decision. Asia chip rout deepens The chip rout continued overnight in Asia, with South Korea’s Kospi sinking more than 6% by the close, bringing MTD losses to an eye-watering 33% and putting it on track to record its worst month on record. The losses also triggered another 20-minute trading halt after the index fell 8%. It comes back to SK Hynix and its recent earnings report. The stock was down as much as 20% at one point, which is remarkable given the company reported exceptional earnings growth. But it clearly was not enough to satisfy investor expectations. When you layer in the company lifting its capex, keeping a lid on shareholder returns and the pricing inside its long-term contracts, this has evidently left investors on edge. Frankly, I do not think it is about the earnings numbers for now; it is more about positioning. Investors piled into these names expecting nothing less than perfection, and when they are anything but, it comes across as disappointing. US-Iran tensions reignite Over in the Middle East, after a couple of days of calm between the US and Iran, tensions escalated again yesterday after the US reported intercepting an Iranian missile. The US and Saudi Arabia struck Iran-backed targets in Iraq, which, of course, brings the Strait of Hormuz back into focus. Benchmark oil prices are marginally higher this morning, though Brent is currently capped below the 50-day SMA at US$85.68. The RBA just got some breathing space The Q2 26 Australian CPI numbers hit the wires overnight and came in softer across the board, sending the AUD lower and the ASX 200 higher. Even the RBA’s preferred measure of inflation – the trimmed-mean figure…

Gate US joined BitGo’s Go Network Off-Exchange Settlement service on July 28, giving eligible institutional clients access to the exchange’s U.S. liquidity while their assets remain in custody at BitGo Bank & Trust, National Association. Summary Gate US clients can trade while assets remain segregated inside BitGo Bank and Trust custody. Ten named venues now appear on BitGo’s OES list after Gate US joins the network. BitGo Bank operates under an OCC national trust charter completed and effective in December 2025. The integration extends a broader partnership announced five days earlier. Gate US said BitGo would provide institutional custody, wallet management and risk-control technology as the exchange expands its U.S. business. Neither company disclosed financial terms, expected trading volume or a separate rollout schedule for the OES connection. Gate US clients can trade without pre-funding the exchange Under the arrangement, an institution allocates part of its balance held at BitGo Bank & Trust for trading on Gate US. BitGo then projects the available balance to the exchange for order execution, while the underlying assets remain in segregated custody until settlement. .@GateUS_Official is now part of BitGo’s Go Network Off-Exchange Settlement. How it works ]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/iraqi-pm-calls-for-urgent-security-meeting-after-saudi-us-strikes https://media.ikmoon.com/iraqi-pm-calls-for-urgent-security-meeting-after-saudi-us-strikes Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:02:15 +0600 crypto Iraqi, calls, for, urgent, security, meeting, after, Saudi-US, strikes The post Iraqi PM calls for urgent security meeting after Saudi-US strikes appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Iraqi Prime Minister (PM) Ali Faleh al-Zaydi has called for an urgent security meeting on Wednesday following a joint military operation from Saudi Arabia and the United States (US), according to a statement. The nation also reported that at least 20 of Iraq’s Iran-backed Shi’ite popular mobilization forces members were killed. Earlier, Saudi Arabia said that it carried out targeted strikes against Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq, in coordination with US Central Command (CENTCOM), Al Jazeera reported. Market reaction There seems to be no immediate reaction by the US Dollar (USD) following the news release. At press time, the US Dollar Index (DXY) trades subduedly near 101.30. US Dollar FAQs The US Dollar (USD) is the official currency of the United States of America, and the ‘de facto’ currency of a significant number of other countries where it is found in circulation alongside local notes. It is the most heavily traded currency in the world, accounting for over 88% of all global foreign exchange turnover, or an average of $6.6 trillion in transactions per day, according to data from 2022. Following the second world war, the USD took over from the British Pound as the world’s reserve currency. For most of its history, the US Dollar was backed by Gold, until the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1971 when the Gold Standard went away. The most important single factor impacting on the value of the US Dollar is monetary policy, which is shaped by the Federal Reserve (Fed). The Fed has two mandates: to achieve price stability (control inflation) and foster full employment. Its primary tool to achieve these two goals is by adjusting interest rates. When prices are rising too quickly and inflation is above the Fed’s 2% target, the Fed will raise rates, which helps the USD value. When…

Digital platform AlienWP, originally established in 2013, has announced a comprehensive rebranding as a dedicated iGaming news source and player-focused resource center, complete with casino reviews, regulatory coverage, and a proprietary comparison dashboard called Alien Wise Play. Strategic Repositioning The rebrand represents a significant departure from AlienWP’s previous position as a general digital resources platform. Moving forward, the site will concentrate exclusively on the online casino industry, delivering comprehensive coverage of regulatory developments, licensing news, bonus analysis, and player protection initiatives. According to AlienWP, this strategic pivot aims to establish the platform as an accessible, contemporary resource for individuals seeking trustworthy information about online gambling operators. The company emphasized its commitment to delivering clear, unbiased content rather than marketing-driven materials. Key Developments Central to this repositioning effort is the introduction of Alien Wise Play, a web-based player dashboard currently under development. This tool enables users to evaluate online casinos side-by-side, bookmark preferred platforms, monitor promotional offers, and access licensing details in a centralized location. The dashboard functions purely as an informational resource and does not facilitate gambling transactions, handle financial processing, or offer betting recommendations. While the platform generates revenue through affiliate marketing arrangements, AlienWP positions Alien Wise Play as distinctly player-oriented rather than following conventional affiliate marketing models. The company states that responsible gambling practices, transparent operations, and user-centered design form the foundation of its approach. The platform’s centerpiece is the Wise Play Score, a proprietary evaluation framework that assesses casino operators across multiple criteria including regulatory compliance, trustworthiness, payment processing reliability, operational transparency, customer service quality, and player safeguards. AlienWP has indicated that upcoming iterations will incorporate aggregated user reviews and artificial intelligence-supported evaluation tools, while maintaining editorial autonomy. Additional information can be found at Alien Wise Play. Official Statement Oliver Dale, speaking on behalf of AlienWP, commented:…

MUFG’s Lloyd Chan expects the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to deliver a hawkish hold, with the Federal Reserve (Fed) keeping rates unchanged while stressing elevated inflation risks. He notes softer recent US data but highlights that markets still price some probability of a July hike. Chan argues this stance should keep US yields and the Dollar supported, reinforcing USD resilience. Fed stance seen backing Dollar strength “US macro data surprised on the softer side yesterday. The ADP weekly employment rose 15,000, slightly below market expectations of 16,500. Wholesale inventories held steady at 0.3%mom, below 0.4%mom consensus.” “Consumer sentiment also softened, with the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index falling to 90.8 in July from 92.2 in June, missing expectations of 92.4. US 2-year and 10-year yields were about 4bps lower yesterday. Meanwhile, markets have priced in around 34% chance of a 25bps Fed rate hike at the July meeting, though somewhat lower than the 38% being priced in a couple of days ago.” “The FOMC rate decision is coming up next. Our base case is for a hawkish hold, with the Fed likely to keep rates unchanged and emphasized that inflation risks remain high. This could keep US yields and the dollar supported, in turn weighing on Asia FX broadly.” “The balance of risks remains tilted toward USD resilience should the Fed continue to emphasize its high-for-longer policy stance.” “Our analysis suggests that SGD, KRW, and MYR have exhibited the strongest correlation with DXY movements over the past 30 weeks, implying that shifts in Fed expectations, US yields and broad dollar sentiment have been key drivers of these currencies.” (This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor. Know more.) Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/us-dollar-hawkish-fed-hold-may-support-usd-mufg-202607290718

Tony Kim Jul 29, 2026 07:03 Bitcoin is pinned at $64,436 with its MACD histogram flatlined at zero and 62% of the market crowded long — a fragile setup that resolves violently in either direction. Clear $65,023 decisively or … The Immediate Setup Bitcoin is doing exactly what compressed, directionless markets do — absolutely nothing. At $64,436, BTC is trading millimeters below both its 7-day SMA ($64,445) and 20-day SMA ($64,513), a cluster that signals the short-term trend has gone from bearish to flatly indecisive. The MACD histogram has zeroed out entirely — not bearish, not bullish, but deadlocked — which historically precedes a sharp directional resolution rather than continued drift. RSI at 50.79 isn’t comfort; it’s a coiled spring with no bias. Spot volume on Binance barely cleared $900 million in 24 hours, and the intraday range of roughly $1,729 is tight for an asset with a daily ATR near $1,465. The market is breathing shallow, and shallow breathing before a key level usually ends in a gasp. As Blockchain.news has been tracking, BTC has now shed nearly 28% from its early-January 2026 highs near $89,772 — that overhead supply doesn’t evaporate, it waits. Key Levels Exposed The chart architecture here is brutally clean. Immediate resistance at $65,023 is the first wall. Crack that on volume, and $65,611 is the next meaningful test before the Bollinger upper band at $66,340 comes into play. Both levels sit in a congestion zone that has consistently capped rallies during this protracted downtrend from the $89K range, and neither should be treated as a quick scalp — they are genuine decision points. The downside structure is equally defined. The pivot at $63,883 is the immediate line of demarcation — a daily close below that level…

Fed expected to remain on hold The market’s focus is centred on the Fed’s interest rate decision. The bank is widely expected to remain on hold with the market’s expectations for the Fed to hike rates in September being high, while the bank is also expected to hike rates in December. The bar is currently high for the Fed, and a sufficiently hawkish tone and signals in its forward guidance could provide some support for the USD, while at the same time could weigh on US stock markets and gold’s price. On the flip side, should the Fed fail to sound as hawkish as expected, we may see the USD losing ground and US equities and gold’s price gaining. We intend to focus on the bank’s accompanying statement, the new dot plot and Fed Chair Warsh’s press conference, as key sources for any signals about the Fed’s intentions. Earnings reports to be released today Besides the Fed’s interest rate decision, US equity markets are expected to also keep a close eye on the release of the earnings reports of Meta Platforms and Microsoft in today’s after-market hours. Besides the EPS and revenue figures to be reported, market participants are expected to keep a close eye also on the companies’ AI spending plans, with market worries ongoing about overleveraging and liquidity.   Oil prices edge higher Oil prices edged higher yesterday. Expectations for OPEC to pause oil production hikes after September, the tightening of the US oil market and the US strikes on Iran-backed groups in Iraq, all may have supported oil prices on a fundamental level. Oil market focus remains on the US-Iran conflict, and a possible escalation of tensions could lift oil prices and vice versa. Gold’s price remains steady Gold’s price remained relatively stable ahead of the Fed’s interest…

Rongchai Wang Jul 29, 2026 07:08 ETH is pressing against a near-perfect resistance convergence at $1,975 with MACD momentum flatlined at a zero-line decision point — a clean breakout opens the door to $2,120, but a rejection here … ETH’s Technical Reality Check ETH at $1,918.85 sits in a position that looks healthier than it actually is. Yes, price is running above the 7, 20, and 50-day moving averages — the 50-SMA at $1,765 provides solid structural bedrock — but zoom out and that optimism hits a wall fast. The 200-day SMA looms at $2,123, a full 10% overhead, and represents everything wrong with ETH’s macro position: a ceiling packed with trapped holders from higher levels, every one of them waiting to reduce exposure on a bounce. The headline read right now is the MACD histogram sitting at exactly zero. That’s not a bullish signal — it’s a decision signal. Momentum has fully decompressed from its prior push and is asking for new instruction. What happens next gets determined by whether genuine buy-side conviction arrives or this move stalls out as exhausted short-covering. RSI at 57.85 gives theoretical runway; the oscillator has room to push into the low 70s without flashing overbought. But potential energy and kinetic energy are different things, and right now ETH has the former in abundance while the latter remains unconfirmed. The Bollinger Band setup sharpens the picture considerably. At a %B position of 0.72, ETH has already done meaningful work off the lower band at $1,774. The upper band terminates at $1,974.52 — and here’s the setup that traders should be laser-focused on: strong technical resistance lands at $1,974.59. Two independent resistance signals converging within seven cents of each other at $1,975 is not a coincidence. That’s…

BNY’s Geoff Yu highlights that INR faces strong selling pressure from a rebalancing perspective, as Indian bonds have outperformed major peers. With INR flows broadly flat, FX exposure has risen and investors are advised to keep hedging elevated after strong duration gains. Yu sees higher-beta currencies particularly exposed to July’s fixed-income moves. Indian bonds outperformance lifts FX risk “Selling pressure is strongest in INR. Like many emerging market (EM) bond markets, Indian duration benefited from lower oil prices during the first weeks of the ceasefire as real rates improved. The latest re-escalation has not erased those gains, and Indian bonds have outperformed the major markets we track.” “With INR flows broadly flat over the month, FX exposure has risen and hedging demand has increased with it.” “July’s duration gains are creating meaningful rebalancing needs, especially across higher-beta currencies. The real-rate outlook is more difficult, however, as central banks show growing reluctance to tighten further.” “Global supply chains will take time to normalize, leaving non-U.S. real rates vulnerable if current market pricing persists. This strengthens the case for greater FX hedging across fixed-income portfolios.” “Keep INR hedging elevated after strong bond returns and treat any rotation away from U.S. assets as a shift within equities rather than a broad move into fixed income.” (This article was created with the help of an Artificial Intelligence tool and reviewed by an editor. Know more.) Source: https://www.fxstreet.com/news/indian-rupee-hedging-demand-rises-on-bond-gains-bny-202607290728

Timothy Morano Jul 29, 2026 07:14 BNB is coiling in a suffocating compression zone around $570 with a dangerously crowded long book and momentum sitting dead flat — a setup that historically precedes sharp liquidation events. Expec… BNB’s Technical Reality Check The price action right now screams indecision with a bearish undertone. BNB is sandwiched between its 7-day SMA at $569.29 and its 20-day SMA at $571.87, with the 50-day SMA at $576.82 acting as a hard ceiling just above. The 200-day SMA at $648 is so far north it’s practically irrelevant to near-term traders — it simply confirms how structurally broken BNB remains on the longer timeframe. Momentum has gone comatose. The MACD histogram has flatlined at zero — this isn’t a bullish reversal signal, it’s a pause embedded within a broader bearish trend. The RSI hovering just under the 50 midline reinforces that buyers have shown up to defend, but they haven’t committed. When momentum stalls at the midline rather than surging through it, the path of least resistance almost always resolves downward. The Bollinger Band picture adds nuance but not comfort. With %B at 0.44, price is hugging just below the midband at $571.87, squeezed between $563.36 on the floor and $580.39 as the ceiling. With ATR running at only $10.53, BNB has barely one full ATR of room before hitting either band — a directional break is imminent. Given the SMA stack pressing from above and momentum sitting on empty, a break toward $563 carries meaningfully higher probability than a rip through $580. Volume & Price Alignment Daily spot volume on Binance came in at $46.1 million — underwhelming for a top-10 asset trading near $570. Thin volume on a 1% gain is noise, not conviction. The taker…

NEAR Protocol (NEAR) is trading in the red for the third consecutive day on Wednesday, bringing losses to more than 10% so far this week. Retail support for NEAR wanes, with its futures Open Interest (OI) and funding rate decreasing. The technical outlook for NEAR indicates roughly 15% downside potential, with bearish momentum remaining firm. NEAR Protocol loses speculative demand amid broader market risk-off sentiment NEAR Protocol is losing its retail strength in the derivatives market as broader crypto market sentiment turns risk-off. Crypto Fear and Greed Index at 35 shows a firm bearish grip on the market amid fears of a US Federal Reserve rate hike on Wednesday, as previously reported by FXStreet. On the retail side, CoinGlass data show that NEAR futures Open Interest (OI) is down 4% over the past 24 hours to $356.69 million, reflecting a decline in the notional value of active contracts and a potential positional wipeout. Total liquidation of $4.01 million in the same period, led by $3.94 million in long liquidation, reaffirms a sell-side bias, wiping out long positions. In addition, the funding rate has dropped to 0.0042% from 0.0099% the previous day, suggesting that bullish sentiment is easing among traders, reducing the premium paid to hold long positions. NEAR derivatives data. Source: CoinGlass Technical outlook: How low will NEAR price go? NEAR Protocol maintains a bearish near-term bias, as price remains in a clear downward trend over the last two weeks. NEAR trades below both the 50-day and 200-day Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs) at $1.9050 and $1.8024, suggesting rallies remain capped for now. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) near 31 signals weak momentum and proximity to oversold territory. The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) histogram is negative, with the MACD line below the signal line, reinforcing a downside tilt. Looking down,…

The post Top AI Crypto Coins in August 2026 appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News Artificial intelligence remains one of the strongest convictions for this cycle as institutional adoption continues to grow and real-world AI applications expand rapidly. One analyst says upcoming milestones, such as potential IPOs from companies like OpenAI or Anthropic, could shift fresh capital into AI-related Crypto coins.  While the broader market remains under pressure, with Bitcoin … Source: https://coinpedia.org/news/top-ai-crypto-coins-in-august-2026/

The post Nikkei 225 Falls Over 1,700 Points as Japan Stock Market Extends Selloff appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News The Nikkei 225 dropped more than 1,700 points in early trading, hitting an intraday low of 60,448.90 before trimming losses. The selloff was driven by weakness in semiconductor stocks, concerns over slowing AI-related demand, and fears of an unwind in the yen carry trade as the Japanese yen hovered near a 40-year low against the … Source: https://coinpedia.org/crypto-live-news/nikkei-225-falls-over-1700-points-as-japan-stock-market-extends-selloff/

The AUD/USD pair attracts sellers for the third straight day on Wednesday and dives to an over two-week trough following the release of softer Australian consumer inflation figures. Spot prices, however, rebound a few pips from the Asian session low and currently trade just above mid-0.6900s, still down around 0.25% for the day. The US Dollar (USD) remains on the back foot below the monthly high, touched on Tuesday, as bulls opt to move to the sidelines ahead of the crucial FOMC policy decision, due later today. This, in turn, offers some support to the AUD/USD pair. However, a fresh escalation of tensions between the US and Iran revives inflation fears. This, in turn, bolstered bets for at least one rate hike by the US Federal Reserve (Fed) in 2026, which favors USD bulls and backs the case for further depreciation for the currency pair. From a technical perspective, the recent repeated failures to find acceptance above the 0.7000 psychological mark and the latest leg down below the 0.6965-0.6960 confluence support could be seen as a key trigger for AUD/USD bears. The said area marked the lower boundary of a two-week-old range and the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level of the recent move up from a multi-month low, touched in June. Meanwhile, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) hovers near 38, hinting at lingering downside pressure. Moreover, the slightly negative Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) suggests that bearish momentum is present but not accelerating decisively. Moreover, an intraday resilience below the 50% retracement level makes it prudent to wait for some follow-through selling below the daily swing low, around the 0.6935 region, before placing fresh bearish bets on the AUD/USD pair. If selling extends, spot prices could fall to the 61.8% level at 0.6926 as traders await the FOMC decision. Meanwhile, a…

Pi Network (PI) holds steady above $0.0700 at press time on Wednesday, following a nearly 20% decline over the last seven days. PI faces firm selling pressure despite ongoing liquidity pool testing, including SLICE and Test-Pi tokens on Pi Launchpad. The technical outlook for PI is mixed, with the Relative Strength Index (RSI) suggesting early signs of a near-term rebound amid a long-term bearish trend.  Mild recovery in PI social volume amid Launchpad testing Pi Network experiences a mild recovery in social interest amid the ongoing liquidity pool testing on Pi Launchpad. Santiment data shows that the PI social volume and dominance are up to 10% and 0.01%, from 3% and 0.003% on Sunday, respectively. On the other hand, Pi Network announced the launch of the SLICE and Test-Pi tokens liquidity pool on the testnet, which uses an automated market maker algorithm to calculate swaps based on the amounts of both assets in the pool. This marks a step toward expansion of the DeFi ecosystem of the Pi Network.  PI social interest data. Source: Santiment Technical outlook: Will Pi Network rebound? Pi Network retains a bearish near-term bias after the recent 20% downside move over the last seven days, within a parallel bearish channel on the daily chart. Still, PI hovers around the day’s open, following a Hammer Candle formation the previous day, suggesting near-term indecision after an extended slide. The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) holds marginally above the signal line as buying pressure wanes, while the Relative Strength Index (RSI) lingers near the oversold band around 30. That said, the RSI is at a higher level compared to the July 13 low, while price retests the same zone, projecting a bullish divergence. A potential rebound in PI could test the 127.2% extension level, measured from $0.11998 to $0.1183,…

Zcash has completed its Ironwood network upgrade, replacing its vulnerable Orchard shielded pool with a formally verified alternative designed to prevent undetectable counterfeiting while beginning the migration of shielded funds into the new pool. Summary Zcash has activated the Ironwood upgrade and replaced Orchard with a new formally verified shielded pool. Ironwood adds new supply safeguards while Orchard now supports only fund withdrawals. Researchers completed a machine checked proof confirming Ironwood cannot create undetectable counterfeit ZEC under its design assumptions. More than 40,000 ZEC have already moved to Ironwood while about 3.6 million ZEC remain in Orchard. According to Project Tachyon and the Zcash development team, Ironwood activated as scheduled at block height 3,428,143 through the NU6.3 network upgrade on Tuesday, introducing a new shielded pool that developers say restores confidence in Zcash’s supply integrity after concerns surrounding Orchard.  Zcash’s biggest network upgrade in years is now live Ironwood brings:– A new Ironwood shielded pool– Stronger security guarantees for shielded transactions– Independently verifiable supply integrity– Privacy remains protected– A stronger foundation for the Zcash network At… https://t.co/NK13aDnvbk — Gemini (@Gemini) July 28, 2026 The activation followed months of work across multiple Zcash organizations after researchers disclosed a flaw that could theoretically have enabled counterfeit ZEC to be created without public detection. While Ironwood is now active, Orchard has entered an exit-only phase. Users can still withdraw funds from the older shielded pool at their discretion, but it no longer accepts new shielded activity. Data from Zcash’s migration tracker shows roughly 40,207 ZEC have already moved into Ironwood, while nearly 3.6 million ZEC remain inside Orchard awaiting migration. ZEC (ZEC) briefly fell about 9% to around $460 after the upgrade before recovering to roughly $475, according to the crypto.news price page. The token had already experienced significant volatility after the Orchard…

Asia Market Update: KR-JP chip-related carnage continues; Mid-East gets kinetic again; JP earthquake fallout; FOMC tonight (BOE Thu, BOJ Fri); with META, MSFT after Wed close. -“Carnage” is the only way to describe Korea’s Kospi index over the past two days, with today’s -12% plunge at its worse even darker than yesterday’s -11% losses. Kospi at 5,300 barely recognizable from its 9,250 peak just back in June. [Note: at time of writing losses pared to -8%]. SK Hynix -14% losses today even worse than the -13% lost yesterday, despite today’s record-breaking Q2 earnings and revenues for Hynix, although still missing lofty analyst expectations – underscoring how hard it is for some of the past year’s AI stars to outperform the market’s stratospheric expectations for them. -Samsung also -9% (-12% yesterday), ** Note that one of the core reasons for extreme volatility in the Kospi index itself is the extreme over-weighting of Hynix and Samsung; Samsung at ~27.5% and SK Hynix at ~23.6% hold a combined >50% of the entire Kospi – exacerbated since late May by the introduction of 18 single-stock ETFs based on the two memory-makers’ name, some of those ETFs being double-leveraged. -However chip-relateds were also hammered for a second-day running in Japan, with Tokyo Electron -12% (-11% yesterday), Kioxia -14% (-18% yesterday), Softbank -10% (-6% yesterday). However, the Nikkei 225 overall much less damaged, down “only” -2.7% to add to yesterday’s -4% fall. Taiwan’s Taiex also notably down more than -5%, coming amid the nation’s state stabilization fund saying it will continue to monitor stock market and measures of financial regulators. -Nasdaq FUTs relatively unscathed, pulled down -1% by Asian chip-relateds but managing to maintain the floor of the overnight US session. Notably during the US session as well US semi-stocks initially followed the prior day’s Kospi…

Fear of a rate hike is not supposed to peak when the Fed is widely expected to hold, but that is exactly what Santiment’s social chatter data is showing ahead of the July 28–29 FOMC meeting. According to a Santiment update, the volume of crowd talk around a potential hike has climbed steeply, echoing a surge last seen in mid-June just before Chair Kevin Warsh’s first decision. That prior move fizzled when the Federal Open Market Committee left rates untouched at 3.50% to 3.75%. Santiment tracks crypto-specific social chatter across Telegram, Reddit, X, and trading forums to measure crowd conviction around the three possible outcomes: rate hikes, rate cuts, and a hold. The most dangerous moments for crypto positioning, the feed suggests, are when the crowd is overwhelmingly sure of one path. In June, hike-fear spiked hard only to dissipate after the pause. Now, with markets pricing a 36% to 38% chance of a surprise move, the loudness of the crowd may be telling traders more about sentiment extremes than about actual policy risk. That dynamic matters because Bitcoin and the broader digital-asset space remain tightly coupled to macro liquidity expectations. An unexpected hike would tighten dollar liquidity and pressure risk assets, but the social volume itself reveals that many traders have already started hedging or front-running a hawkish scenario. This creates a setup where even a dovish hold could produce sharp short-term unwinds, as over-positioned speculators scramble to adjust. The fragile macro backdrop is compounded by legislative noise. Banks are trying to kill the biggest crypto bill in US history four days before a key Senate vote, adding a layer of policy-driven anxiety that can amplify knee-jerk reactions to any Fed surprise. The June Pattern That Traders Should Remember On June 16, the Santiment chart showed hike chatter spiking…

Homepage > News > Business > London Blockchain Finance Summit maps path to tokenization scaling Tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) is on the rise, but more work is needed to create the fertile ground for it to scale. This was the message of the recently held London Blockchain Summit on tokenization, in which expert speakers from across the decentralized finance (DeFi) and traditional finance (TradFi) spectrum charted a course forward for the market, with broad agreement that greater regulatory clarity can provide the necessary standards required for interoperability, which in turn will allow tokenization to scale. On July 7, London Blockchain hosted its “Institutional Tokenisation Summit” at the London offices of international law firm DLA Piper, bringing together 200 industry attendees to convene an institutional forum exploring the practicalities of tokenization. The who’s who of bankers, asset managers, market makers, legal and finance experts, and infrastructure providers were treated to an international lineup of expert speakers from the United Kingdom, the United States, Switzerland, and the European Union. The timing of the summit was no coincidence, coming as it did just as the tokenization space reached new heights, with on-chain equity volumes surging 145% to $3.86 billion in the wake of the June SpaceX IPO. In terms of the RWA tokenization market more broadly, a report published this July by BeInCrypto valued it at $60 billion across 7,000 products, and this seemingly booming market shows no signs of slowing, with some predicting it to reach $5.5 Trillion by 2030. However, the same BeInCrypto report also found that of the 1,289 surveyed tokenized assets above $100,000 in value, 910 of them—representing $32.9 billion—showed zero weekly transfer activity. A worrying stat that appeared to demonstrate that putting assets on chain is not the problem; rather, it is making this market more accessible…

Key Insights: Coinbase (COIN) led crypto stocks with a nearly 6% gain after BitMEX and BitMart announced planned shutdowns. GEMI stock also closed higher as investors turned to larger and more established exchanges. Bullish fell almost 5%, showing investors remained selective despite the sector news. Crypto stock prices ended Monday with mixed results after BitMEX and BitMart announced plans to shut down. The news pushed investors toward larger exchanges that have been in the market longer. COIN stock posted the strongest gain, GEMI stock also closed higher, while Bullish finished the day in the red despite the broader move. Crypto Stock Gains As Coinbase Moves Higher Crypto stock trading picked up after BitMEX and BitMart said they would shut down their operations. The announcement drew attention to companies that many investors already know well. Coinbase was one of the biggest winners during the session, with COIN stock rising nearly 6%. The stock opened at $163.32 and climbed as high as $167.87 before closing at $167.49. The move came after fresh buying during the trading day. Pre-market activity was quiet on Tuesday, but Monday’s close showed that many traders were willing to buy the stock after the latest news. COIN Stock Analysis | Source: Google Finance Some investors believe Coinbase could benefit if users from the closing exchanges move to larger platforms. The company has been one of the best-known names in the digital asset market for years. That made it one of the first stocks many traders looked at after the shutdown announcements. Coinbase now has a market value of more than $44 billion. It trades with a price-to-earnings ratio of 63.64. The share price is still below its 52-week high of $402, but it remains above the yearly low of $139, Yahoo Finance data showed. COIN stock is also…

The current situation for Bittensor (TAO) is marked by increased selling pressure following its fall beneath a vital support threshold, suggesting a more pronounced bearish sentiment in the market. Technical metrics are painting a cautious picture for this cryptocurrency unless there’s a significant recovery. Continue Reading:Pressure Mounts as TAO Navigates a Critical Juncture Source: https://en.bitcoinhaber.net/pressure-mounts-as-tao-navigates-a-critical-juncture

SPCXB News SPCXB (SPCXB), the crypto instrument tracked by COINOTAG, is heading into a 911.5M share unlock that has become the center of a cautionary call after a rough month for the underlying equity. The instrument has followed SPCX lower by about 29% over the past four weeks and changed hands below the $135 initial public offering reference, a level that once framed the debut. During Tuesday trading, the equity touched $107.01, its weakest post-IPO print, before finishing at $116.41 for a 2.56% daily gain. Even with that bounce, the price remains roughly 48% under the June 16 peak of $225.64, a drawdown that places SPCXB in bear market territory for many short-term holders. Jim Cramer urged buyers to stand aside, pointing to a supply event on Aug. 6, when about 911.5M shares become eligible for sale. His argument is mechanical: more tradable stock can pressure the quote if demand does not absorb the new float. The unlock is expected to more than double the public float, turning a liquidity event into a potential overhang. Cramer’s on-record plea was blunt: prospective buyers should wait for the first wave of insider selling restrictions to lapse, allow the resulting supply to pressure the quote, and only then consider building a position. He also tied the setup to the coming earnings release, arguing that even a strong quarter may not offset a sudden increase in available shares. Cramer has maintained respect for Elon Musk’s operating record, yet he framed the next sessions as a test of patience rather than conviction. For SPCXB traders, the takeaway is not a verdict on SpaceX’s long-term business, but a warning that the altcoin-style risk premium can move sharply when equity-market supply expands. The second layer of the SPCXB story is the first earnings report SpaceX has filed…

Writing for Forbes, journalist Billy Bambrough highlighted a post from Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst Eric Balchunas, who argued that “Gold ETFs’ 22-year history may offer the closest roadmap yet for bitcoin ETF investors.”

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:03:56 +0600 crypto Bitcoin, News, Today:, Saylor, Argues, Corporate, BTC, Buying, Could, Set, New, Price, Floor In Bitcoin news today, Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of Strategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), posted on X on July 18, 2026, that corporate adoption of Bitcoin is ‘necessary’ and ‘inevitable’ for BTC to succeed as a global monetary network.

The remarks landed as MSTR shares rose 3.13% and BTC-USD climbed 2.60% on the day, according to Simply Wall St’s Yahoo Finance page.

Strategy has increased its USD Reserve by $225 million. As of 7/19/2026, we hodl ₿843,775 in our BTC Reserve and $3.2 billion in our USD Reserve. $MSTR $STRC https://t.co/sci7bZHzsy

— Michael Saylor (@saylor) July 20, 2026

The central question this article addresses is: is Saylor’s corporate adoption thesis a structural demand argument for Bitcoin’s price floor, or aspirational positioning by the world’s largest corporate BTC holder?

This news dropped as Bitcoin surged +3.5% overnight, climbing back above $66,000, and is currently trading at $66,250. Daily trading volume for BTC sits at $32.9Bn.

Bitcoin News Today: What Strategy Is Actually Arguing

(SOURCE: Yahoo Finance)

Saylor’s claim is not simply that more companies will buy Bitcoin. His argument, as reported by Simply Wall St on July 20, 2026, is that corporate adoption is essential for Bitcoin to function as global money, linking Bitcoin’s long-term success as a currency to deeper engagement from corporations. That framing makes corporate adoption a structural prerequisite, not a nice-to-have – for Bitcoin to function as global money.

Strategy sits at the center of this narrative by design. The company has tied its entire balance sheet and brand identity to Bitcoin, functioning not just as a holder but as an active advocate shaping how other corporations think about institutional Bitcoin exposure. As Simply Wall St noted, that dual role means Saylor’s public commentary is inseparable from the investment thesis underpinning MSTR itself.

The editorial brief cites Saylor data showing that the number of public companies holding Bitcoin has increased in recent years, rising from earlier counts to 194 by Q4 2025.

Approximately 125 exchange-traded funds or exchange-traded products now hold Bitcoin, with roughly 1.4 million BTC sitting inside those vehicles, according to the same Q4 2025 earnings call data.

Why the Corporate Adoption Count Matters for BTC Price

The price argument embedded in Saylor’s thesis is a supply-and-demand one. Corporate treasuries that buy and hold Bitcoin, rather than trade it, reduce available liquidity in the market.

Pair that with the Bitcoin held within ETF and ETP products, and the thesis presents recurring institutional demand as supportive of broader availability in the spot market. JPMorgan, in a note dated July 15, 2026, described Strategy’s cash positioning as constructive for Bitcoin amid uneven ETF demand.

This is the distinction retail investors should hold onto: Saylor’s thesis is structural and long-dated, not a near-term trading trigger. Growing Bitcoin treasury adoption by corporations removes coins from circulation over years, not days, and supports a higher long-run price regime by raising the effective demand floor.

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Bull Case, Base Case, Bear Case for Corporate BTC Demand

(SOURCE: CoinGecko)

• Bull case: Corporate adoption accelerates as more corporations treat Bitcoin as a longer-term asset allocation theme. Supply compression intensifies, providing structural support for BTC above current levels.
• Base case: Corporate adoption continues at a measured pace. ETF and ETP demand remains an important institutional channel. BTC benefits from a slowly rising demand floor, but no step-change in the price regime is expected in the near term.
• Bear case: Corporate adoption proves slower or more cautious than Saylor expects. Concentrated balance-sheet exposure at firms like Strategy amplifies drawdowns when BTC sells off. As Simply Wall St flagged, if other corporations are slower or more cautious in adopting Bitcoin than Saylor expects, Strategy’s positioning could leave it out of step with mainstream treasury and payment practices.

The bear case is not a dismissal of the thesis; it is a timing and concentration risk. Corporate treasuries absorbing BTC’s volatility on their balance sheets creates real financial exposure for those companies, and that exposure can become a forced-selling mechanism in severe drawdowns.

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Bitcoin News Today: What to Watch Going Forward

In other Bitcoin news today, Simply Wall St has identified the most actionable signal for investors: watch whether Strategy backs Saylor’s thesis with concrete initiatives, new indexes, data products, or partnerships that give other corporations a practical framework for assessing Bitcoin adoption.

Equally important is how traditional financial institutions respond to their own treasury and payment policies. The positioning of major asset managers in Bitcoin ETFs offers a real-time read on whether institutional appetite is broadening or stalling.

If major banks move from custody services into actual balance-sheet exposure, that would validate Saylor’s inevitability argument with hard data rather than declared intent. Until then, the thesis is compelling, but still on trial.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/van-rossem-hard-fork-goes-live-what-protocol-version-11-means-for-cardano https://media.ikmoon.com/van-rossem-hard-fork-goes-live-what-protocol-version-11-means-for-cardano Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:03:48 +0600 crypto Van, Rossem, Hard, Fork, Goes, Live:, What, Protocol, Version, Means, for, Cardano Cardano activated the Van Rossem hard fork on July 18, 2026, moving the network to Protocol Version 11, as the hard fork reached Mainnet after months of testing, coordination, and governance discussions among developers, infrastructure providers, DReps, SPOs, founding entities, and the wider community.

It is a governance milestone within Cardano’s Voltaire era on-chain decision framework. Whether there is a price reaction after activation depends on broader market conditions as well as event-specific flows.

This news dropped as ADA surged nearly +10% overnight, making it one of the top-performing major cap tokens in recent days. It has a daily trading volume of $466M, a +12% uptick from yesterday.

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:03:39 +0600 crypto David, Schwartz, Regrets, Selling, XRP, 0.10, and, 40, 000, ETH, But, Stands, His, Logic In XRP news today, David Schwartz, Ripple’s CTO Emeritus and co-creator of the XRP Ledger, publicly admitted on July 20, 2026 that he regrets selling XRP at $0.10 and 40,000 ETH at roughly $1.05 each – but he was clear that neither sale reflected a loss of conviction in crypto. Both were products of a rules-based risk-management pact he had made with his wife years earlier.

The admission landed on X under his longtime handle @JoelKatz, after another user raised his history of selling XRP at $0.10 and Ethereum near $1.

Obviously, I wish I hadn't done those things. But I agreed with my wife to sell at every new ATH and I really, really hate risk. I wish I was more comfortable with risk, but I'm just not that person.

— David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz (@JoelKatz) July 20, 2026

With XRP price trading around $1.13 and ETH price near $1,927 at the time of the article’s publication, according to multiple price feeds, the scale of the missed upside is not hard to calculate.

The central tension this story unpacks: even one of crypto’s most technically sophisticated insiders – a man who helped build XRP from the ground up – systematically sold assets that later generated life-changing returns, and he did it on purpose.

XRP News: The ATH-Selling Pact That Drove the Early Exits

Schwartz’s explanation centers on an agreement he reached with his wife around 2012, when they discussed a cryptocurrency derisking plan.

She agreed to the plan on one condition: that they would sell a portion of their holdings at every new all-time high (ATH), steadily reducing household exposure to assets whose future prices were deeply uncertain.

In his July 20 post, Schwartz described the framework plainly. He added that he had agreed with his wife to reduce exposure whenever his holdings reached new highs because he strongly disliked financial risk.

The Ethereum sale illustrates the logic clearly. Schwartz sold 40,000 ETH at approximately $1.05 per ETH, for a total of roughly $42,000.

In a May 4, 2026, post, he explained the probabilistic thinking behind the exit. “If I had thought there was a 1% chance of it hitting $2,368, I would not have sold it for $1.05,” he wrote.

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XRP, Bitcoin, and a Pattern of Structured Derisking

Schwartz began selling XRP when the token first hit $0.10. According to his January 2026 comments, that price appeared extreme at the time; he said he never believed XRP would reach even $0.25.

His XRP holdings peaked at approximately 26 million tokens before he substantially reduced that position over subsequent years, according to Ripple executives’ XRP sales data since 2012. He has not provided a complete public breakdown of his current holdings.

The pattern extended to Bitcoin as well. Schwartz has previously acknowledged selling much of his early Bitcoin holdings as part of a broader effort to manage volatility rather than making a specific judgment about whether the underlying networks would fail.

For readers tracking XRP’s long-term price trajectory, Schwartz’s early exits serve as a sharp reminder of how difficult it was to assign credible probability to multi-hundred-percent gains during the asset class’s formative years.

(SOURCE: TradingView)

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Where Schwartz Stands Now

In other XRP news, Schwartz stepped away from day-to-day CTO duties at Ripple at the end of 2025 and became CTO Emeritus. He has said his primary exposure to the digital asset industry now runs through Ripple equity rather than direct token holdings, a structure that keeps him financially tied to crypto’s success without the volatility of holding tokens directly.

He has remained active in the XRPL community. In June 2026, he backed the XRP Ledger 3.2.0 upgrade by updating his independent hub server, a release that touched infrastructure connected to DeFi, lending, and tokenized assets.

His latest comments focus on the personal approach to risk that led to earlier sales. Schwartz has framed his decisions as rational, given the probability estimates available at the time, and his regret concerns the returns he left on the table rather than the overall logic he used to make the trade.

Schwartz has explicitly declined to present his approach as advice for other investors. It was a personal preference built around a household risk tolerance, one that, by his own admission, cost him a great deal of upside.

Whether that makes it a cautionary tale or simply an honest accounting of how hard it is to hold volatile assets through uncertainty is a judgment every investor has to make for themselves.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/dcent-s-wallet-review-design-features-supported-coins-security-pros-and-cons https://media.ikmoon.com/dcent-s-wallet-review-design-features-supported-coins-security-pros-and-cons Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:03:31 +0600 crypto DCENT, Wallet, Review:, Design, Features, Supported, Coins, Security, Pros, and, Cons We have seen quite a few major crypto hacks this year alone, with millions of dollars drained from exchange wallets, DeFi protocols, and even individual users who thought their assets were safe. The truth is that the crypto space remains a prime target for bad actors, and storing your digital assets on exchanges or in hot wallets is starting to feel more like a gamble than a responsible choice.

Hardware wallets are still the best solution for people serious about protecting their crypto. They keep your private keys offline, away from the prying eyes of hackers and malware. That much we all know. But, there are not many high-quality hardware wallets on the market right now that actually fit into modern life. Most of them look like USB sticks or small gadgets that you have to plug in, charge, or pair via Bluetooth. They work, sure, but they are not exactly convenient for everyday use.

This is where the DCENT S wallet comes into play. In my opinion, this device ticks all the boxes to be one of the best hardware wallets available right now. It takes a completely fresh approach to cold storage, ditching cables and batteries in favor of something far more intuitive. The idea is simple;self-custody that fits in your wallet, literally.

I have spent some time getting to know this device, and I want to share what makes it different, where it excels, and who it is really for.

What Is DCENT S?

DCENT S is a credit-card-sized hardware wallet created by IOTRUST, a South Korean company that has been building hardware wallet solutions since 2017. They are the team behind the broader DCENT wallet ecosystem, and with this new product, they are trying to redefine what a cold wallet can look like and how it can function.

The device is exactly what it sounds like; a cold wallet that looks and feels like a normal credit card. It measures 85.6 by 54 millimeters and is just 0.9 millimeters thick, which means it fits inside any standard wallet slot without adding bulk. Unlike traditional hardware wallets that require USB cables, batteries, or Bluetooth pairing, this one uses NFC technology. You simply tap the card against your phone to sign transactions.

It is important to clear up one misconception early on. The DCENT S is not a crypto payment card. It is not a Visa or Mastercard. You cannot use it to buy coffee at your local café or swipe it at a store terminal. It is purely a device for storing and using cryptocurrency private keys securely. Think of it as a digital safe that fits in your back pocket rather than a spending tool.

IOTRUST launched this product on July 21, 2026, and they have positioned it as a solution that removes the biggest barriers preventing people from using cold wallets. Traditional hardware wallets require users to deal with cables, batteries, firmware updates, Bluetooth pairing, writing down 12 to 24 seed words, and storing paper backups. DCENT S removes nearly all of these friction points and tries to offer a cold wallet that does not force users to choose between security and convenience.

Design & In-Box Experience

The first thing you notice when you hold the DCENT S is how thin it is. At 0.9 mm, it has the same thickness as a standard credit card. It feels sturdy but remarkably light in your hand. The card has a clean, minimalist design with the DCENT branding on the front and the NFC chip embedded inside. There are no buttons, no ports, and no visible electronics.

Opening the box gives you exactly what you need and nothing you do not. Inside the package, you will find the DCENT S wallet itself, a second card called the R3covery Card, and a quick start guide. That is it. No USB cables, no adapters, no extra fluff. The packaging is compact and straightforward, which aligns perfectly with the product philosophy of keeping things simple.

The card itself carries an IP69 rating for dust and water resistance. This means it can handle being splashed, dropped in a puddle, or exposed to dusty environments without any damage. The operating temperature ranges from minus 30 degrees Celsius up to 50 degrees Celsius, so you do not have to worry about leaving it in a hot car or taking it somewhere with freezing temperatures.

What really stands out in the design is the deliberate absence of any batteries or charging ports. The card draws power entirely from the NFC field of your smartphone during the signing process. This is a clever design choice because it means the device never runs out of charge, never needs to be plugged in, and has one less component that could fail over time.

Setup Process

Setting up the DCENT S is fast. The company claims it takes about three minutes for the initial setup, and from what I experienced, that is not an exaggeration. The process begins with downloading the DCENT app on your NFC-enabled Android or iPhone. Once the app is installed, you follow the on-screen prompts and tap the card against the back of your phone.

The NFC reader activates the card, and the secure chip inside generates your private keys. The private keys never leave the secure chip. They are generated, stored, and used entirely within the card’s hardware. Your smartphone only acts as a bridge to broadcast signed transactions, but it never sees the keys themselves.

During the setup, you are also prompted to create a PIN code for the card. This adds an extra layer of protection in case someone gets physical access to your wallet. The PIN is required every time you use the card to sign a transaction, so even if someone steals the DCENT S, they cannot use it without knowing your PIN.

The entire process is intuitive and does not require any technical knowledge. There is no need to write down a seed phrase if you choose the seedless setup, and users who prefer a traditional backup flow can also choose to generate and confirm a seed phrase. You tap the card, set your PIN, and you are ready to start receiving and sending crypto.

Security Features

The security architecture of the DCENT S is where this wallet really earns its stripes. At the heart of the device is an EAL6+ certified secure element. This is the same certification level used in government identification documents, EMV payment cards, and banking smart cards. It is a serious piece of hardware designed to resist physical attacks and unauthorized access.

Your private keys are generated and stored inside this secure element, and they never leave the chip under any circumstances. They never touch your smartphone, never touch cloud servers, and never touch DCENT’s servers. When you want to sign a transaction, the card handles the entire signing process internally using the private key, and only the signed transaction data is sent back to the phone.

The card also includes tamper protection features. If someone attempts to extract the chip, physically tamper with the card, or enter the wrong PIN too many times, the card locks itself automatically. This makes it essentially useless to anyone who tries to steal it and crack it open.

One of the more interesting security decisions is the battery-free design. Because the card has no battery, there is no power source that could be exploited. The only time the card is active is when it is being powered by your phone’s NFC field during a signing session. The rest of the time, it is completely inert. This reduces the attack surface dramatically compared to Bluetooth-enabled wallets that are always on and potentially discoverable.

R3covery Card: The Biggest Difference

The R3covery card is the feature that sets DCENT S apart from every other hardware wallet on the market, and honestly, it is probably the biggest reason to consider this device. Most hardware wallets require you to write down a recovery phrase (a list of 12 or 24 words that you must store safely in case you lose your wallet or it gets damaged).

This method has been the industry standard for years, but it comes with its own set of problems. People lose paper backups, take photos of their seed phrases on their phones, or store them in unsafe places.

DCENT S supports a seedless setup, so users can get started without writing down a paper seed phrase, while still keeping the option to generate and confirm one if they prefer.

Also, every package includes a second secure card called the R3covery card. This card contains an encrypted backup of your wallet inside its own EAL6+ secure chip. The seed is never displayed as words, never typed, never photographed, and never stored on paper.

In the seedless flow, users do not need to display or write down recovery words. Users who prefer can also choose to generate and confirm a seed phrase themselves.

If you lose your main DCENT S card, you can use the R3covery card to restore your wallet. The process is simple; you tap the R3covery card against your phone, follow the recovery prompts, and then transfer your wallet to a new DCENT S card. The R3covery card itself cannot sign transactions, which means it is useless to a thief on its own.

If you lose the R3covery card but still have your DCENT S, your funds remain safe. The recommended process in this scenario is to order a replacement R3covery card and register a new backup. Alternatively, you can create a new seed and migrate your assets if you prefer a completely fresh start.

Another interesting feature is the ability to issue replacement DCENT S cards repeatedly using the R3covery card. There is no stated limit to how many times you can do this. If you wear out your main card or simply want a spare, you can generate a new card from your existing backup.

Supported Coins & Networks

The DCENT S supports over 100 blockchains and more than 4,900 tokens, which covers just about anything you are likely to hold. Major networks like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP are all supported, along with Stellar, EVM-compatible chains, and many additional networks.

New blockchain support is added through the DCENT app without requiring firmware updates. This is a smart approach because it means the card itself does not need to be updated manually. You just keep the app up to date, and new coins become available automatically.

The wallet handles sending, receiving, and holding tokens across all these networks. It also supports more advanced features like interacting with decentralized applications, swapping tokens, and managing trust lines on networks like the XRP Ledger.

For most users, the coverage is more than sufficient. Unless you are dealing with extremely obscure or brand-new networks that have not been added yet, you will likely find support for everything you need.

XRP / XRPL Support

If you hold XRP, this wallet deserves your attention. The marketing materials position DCENT S as a strong option for XRP holders and users who value recovery-focused self-custody.

The DCENT S supports Trust Lines, decentralized applications on the XRP Ledger, swaps, sending, receiving, and holding XRP. The experience is identical to what DCENT offers with their existing hardware wallet, which means it is polished and reliable.

For XRP holders who want to interact with the broader XRPL ecosystem while keeping their keys secure, this wallet provides a smooth experience. The NFC tap-to-sign approach makes it particularly convenient for users who frequently engage with XRP-based services or decentralized applications.

Daily Usage & Mobile App Experience

Using the DCENT S on a daily basis is about as simple as it gets. The workflow goes like this: you open the DCENT app, create a transaction, tap the DCENT S against your phone, the NFC powers the card, the secure chip signs the transaction, and the transaction is broadcast. The entire signing process takes roughly one second.

There are no cables to deal with, no Bluetooth pairing to establish, and no charging to worry about. You just pull the card out of your wallet, tap it, and put it back. It feels natural because it mimics the same behavior you already use for contactless payments.

The DCENT app itself is clean and functional. It gives you a clear view of your portfolio, transaction history, and available networks. The interface is not overly complicated, and it does not assume you are a technical expert. If you know how to use a smartphone, you know how to use this app.

One thing worth noting is that the app is the same one used across the broader DCENT ecosystem. If you already use a DCENT wallet, you will find everything familiar. The company has built a cohesive experience that works across their entire product lineup.

Durability & Build Quality

The physical construction of the DCENT S feels solid. The card is made from durable materials that can withstand daily wear and tear. The IP69 rating for dust and water resistance means you do not have to baby this device. It can handle being in a pocket with keys, getting splashed with water, or exposed to dirt and sand.

The operating temperature range of minus 30 to 50 degrees Celsius means the card works in extreme conditions. Whether you live in a cold climate or a hot one, the card will function without issues. The lack of a battery also means you never have to worry about temperature damage affecting a power source.

IOTRUST backs the device with a 1-year warranty, which gives you some peace of mind about longevity. The company also ships from a U.S. warehouse with free domestic shipping, so getting a replacement is straightforward if you ever need one.

DCENT S vs Tangem

Tangem is probably the most direct competitor to DCENT S, and the D’CENT team has made a point of outlining where they believe their product has the edge. Both wallets are credit-card-sized and use NFC, but the differences in approach are worth understanding.

The backup method is the biggest distinction. Tangem uses multiple identical wallet cards as backups. If you lose one, you can use another duplicate card to access your funds. DCENT S takes a different route with one primary wallet and one dedicated encrypted recovery card.

The recovery process is also different. With Tangem, you use another duplicate card to restore access. With D’CENT claims that the recovery card is single-purpose and cannot be used for transactions, which they argue is a more secure approach.

For XRP users, D’CENT offers their complete XRPL support, including Trust Lines, swaps, and dApps. They have been supporting XRP since 2018, and they clearly see this as a competitive advantage.

The software ecosystem is another area where DCENT differentiates itself. They promote the use of the full DCENT application, which is already established and widely used. Tangem has its own app, but DCENT believes their existing ecosystem gives them an advantage.

Pros

The DCENT S has several clear strengths that make it an appealing choice.

The credit-card form factor is a genuine innovation. It fits in any standard wallet slot and is comfortable to carry. You do not have to worry about a bulky USB device dangling from a keychain or getting lost in your bag.

The battery-free NFC design eliminates all the frustrations associated with charging and Bluetooth pairing. You tap the card and it works. There is nothing to turn on, nothing to pair, and nothing to charge.

The R3covery card completely removes the need for paper seed phrases. This is a massive improvement over traditional backup methods and addresses a real vulnerability in how most people store their recovery information.

The EAL6+ secure element provides a high level of security that matches what banks and governments use for their most sensitive applications. Your keys remain offline and protected against physical tampering.

The IP69 water and dust resistance means the card is durable enough to handle real-world conditions. You do not have to treat it like fragile electronics.

Setup is fast and straightforward. The three-minute claim is accurate, and the process does not require any technical knowledge.

Support for over 100 blockchains and nearly 5,000 tokens covers the vast majority of assets people actually hold.

The XRP support is comprehensive and polished, which is great for anyone active on the XRP Ledger.

The limited lifetime warranty provides long-term protection for your investment in the device.

Cons

No product is perfect, and the DCENT S does have some limitations worth considering.

The biggest one is that the wallet requires a smartphone with NFC. If you do not have an NFC-enabled phone, you cannot use it at all. This is a limitation that traditional USB-based wallets do not have.

The tap-to-sign process, while convenient, means the card must be physically present for every transaction. You cannot sign transactions remotely or use the card with a desktop computer unless you have an NFC reader attached.

The card does not have a display. Traditional hardware wallets with screens allow you to verify transaction details directly on the device, which adds a layer of protection against blind signing attacks. With the DCENT S, you rely on the app to show you transaction details before you sign.

The ability to issue unlimited replacement cards from the R3covery card is convenient, but it also means that someone with access to your R3covery card could potentially generate new cards and restore your wallet. This makes the R3covery card a high-value target.

The price point is also something to consider. Card-form hardware wallets with secure elements tend to be priced higher than basic USB wallets. You are paying for the form factor and the recovery card system.

Who Should Buy DCENT S?

The DCENT S is best suited for people who want cold storage but have been put off by the complexity of traditional hardware wallets. If you have ever looked at a seed phrase sheet and wondered how you are supposed to keep it safe, this device addresses that problem directly.

It is also ideal for people who want to carry their crypto wallet with them everywhere. The credit-card form factor makes it easy to keep in your physical wallet alongside your regular payment cards. You do not have to remember to grab a separate gadget when you leave the house.

XRP users should take a close look at this wallet. DCENT S makes a strong case for XRP holders, with XRP-oriented support such as Trust Line-related workflows and a recovery-focused mobile experience.

Mobile-first users who do most of their crypto activity on their phones will appreciate the NFC tap-to-sign workflow. It feels natural and aligns with how people already interact with their devices.

People who dislike the idea of writing down seed words and storing paper backups will find the R3covery card system to be a refreshing alternative.

Final Verdict

The DCENT S is a genuinely interesting hardware wallet that solves real problems with the way cold storage has traditionally worked. The combination of a credit-card form factor, NFC signing, and a hardware-based recovery card makes it one of the most user-friendly cold wallets I have seen.

The security is solid. The EAL6+ secure element provides bank-grade protection, and the battery-free design reduces potential attack vectors. Your private keys never leave the chip, which is exactly what you want from a hardware wallet.

The R3covery card system is a genuine improvement over paper seed phrases. It eliminates a major point of failure in the self-custody equation and makes recovery simple enough that anyone can do it.

The trade-offs are the lack of a display, the requirement for an NFC phone, and the inability to sign transactions without physical access to the card. These are not dealbreakers for most users, but they are worth knowing about before you buy.

If you have been looking for a hardware wallet that actually fits into your daily life, the DCENT S is worth a serious look. It is not trying to be all things to all people. It is focused on making self-custody accessible and convenient, and it largely succeeds at that mission.

The market needed a cold wallet that did not force users to choose between security and convenience. DCENT S delivers on that promise. It is one of the few hardware wallets that I can honestly recommend to both beginners and experienced users who value simplicity without sacrificing security.

FAQs

What is DCENT S?

DCENT S is a credit-card-sized hardware wallet that stores your private keys offline inside an EAL6+ secure chip. You sign transactions by tapping the card against your NFC phone, and each box includes a dedicated backup card called the R3covery Card.

What is the R3covery Card?

The R3covery Card is a backup-only card that cannot sign transactions and is meant to be stored separately from your main DCENT S. Its only job is to restore your wallet if the primary card gets lost or damaged.

What happens if I lose my DCENT S?

You can restore your wallet by using the R3covery Card on a new DCENT S device without ever exposing your recovery data online. The key rule is to keep your two cards in different places.

What if I lose my R3covery Card?

Your funds stay safe as long as you still have your DCENT S, and you can order a replacement backup card to register anew. For extra peace of mind, you can also create a fresh wallet and move your assets over.

How is the R3covery Card different from a traditional seed phrase?

Traditional wallets force you to write down and safeguard a 12‑ or 24‑word recovery phrase, while DCENT S replaces that with a physical recovery card. You simply tap the card to restore your wallet.

How secure is DCENT S?

It uses an EAL6+ certified Secure Element (the same class of chip found in government IDs and payment cards) so private keys never leave the chip or touch your phone. The card locks itself automatically against physical tampering or repeated wrong PIN entries.

What happens if DCENT shuts down?

Your assets remain entirely under your control because your private keys live only on your DCENT S card and are never stored on DCENT’s servers. As long as you have the card, you keep full access regardless of the company’s future.

Which cryptocurrencies are supported?

DCENT S supports over 100 blockchains and more than 4,900 tokens, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Stellar, and all EVM‑compatible networks. New chains are added through the DCENT app without needing firmware updates.

Does DCENT S need charging?

No, it has no battery, no charging port, and no Bluetooth, drawing all its power from your phone’s NFC field during signing. Setup takes about three minutes, and each transaction signs in roughly one second.

How can I buy DCENT S?

It launched on July 21, 2026 through the official DCENT online store, with free U.S. shipping, a 30‑day money‑back guarantee, and a 1-year limited warranty. Pricing and availability are available directly from the DCENT store.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/six-day-etf-inflow-streak-pulls-bitcoin-back-above-66k-after-27bn-exodus https://media.ikmoon.com/six-day-etf-inflow-streak-pulls-bitcoin-back-above-66k-after-27bn-exodus Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:03:22 +0600 crypto Six-Day, ETF, Inflow, Streak, Pulls, Bitcoin, Back, Above, 66K, After, 2.7Bn, Exodus In Bitcoin ETF news today, US spot ETFs recorded $723.3M in net inflows across five consecutive sessions through July 20, 2026 – the longest winning streak since May, reversing what had been a brutal 10-day, $2.7Bn outflow cycle.

The structural question that matters: whether this is durable institutional re-engagement or a short-lived relief rally dressed up in ETF clothing.

(SOURCE: CoinGlass)

At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price is approximately $65,700, up +0.2% in 24 hours, with a market capitalization of $1.31 trillion and a daily trading volume of $29.72Bn, according to CoinGecko.

The broader crypto market added roughly $63Bn in value in the same window, with Ethereum, XRP, and Dogecoin all posting gains.

Bitcoin ETF News: Six-Day Inflow Streak of $900M, and a Clean Break From the Outflow Cycle

According to SoSoValue data, spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $203 million in net inflows on July 21 (ET), marking the sixth consecutive day of net inflows. Spot Ethereum ETFs saw $37.471 million in net inflows, extending their net inflow streak to three days. pic.twitter.com/kmkANGsLwA

— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) July 22, 2026

The mechanics of the reversal are worth tracing precisely. The prior 10-day outflow streak had extracted over $2.7Bn from US spot Bitcoin ETF products, a sustained institutional retreat that compressed sentiment and pressured BTC below $55,000 at its worst point.

Yesterday (July 21) delivered the standout recent recovery period: $226M in a single day, with BlackRock IBIT contributing the decisive institutional volume.

The mid-July sessions, ranging from approximately $108M to $181M across July 14 to July 17, kept the streak alive without headline-grabbing figures. July 20 closed the five-day run at $226.8M, bringing the cumulative two-week total to roughly $273M across back-to-back positive weeks.

Think of it like a tap that had been turned off hard during the outflow phase: the first few days after reopening push through at high pressure, then settle into a steadier flow. That steadier flow, consistent daily positives rather than single blockbuster days – is arguably the more durable signal.

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IBIT, FBTC, and ARKB: Who’s Doing the Heavy Lifting

Institutional Bitcoin demand is not distributed evenly across the ETF landscape. BlackRock IBIT, Fidelity FBTC, and ARK ARKB led inflows across multiple sessions during the six-day streak, per CoinGlass data.

The pattern is consistent with how these three products have behaved since US spot Bitcoin ETFs launched; the largest issuers capture the largest share of institutional flow, partly because their distribution relationships with wealth platforms and advisory networks are deeper.

BlackRock’s Larry Fink has publicly framed IBIT as a long-term portfolio allocation tool rather than a short-term trading vehicle, a positioning that resonates with the pension consultants and family office allocators who tend to move in size and hold through volatility.

That framing matters here: the fact that ETF inflows resumed while sentiment was still below neutral, before the market had clearly recovered, suggests the buyers stepping in were not momentum chasers.

Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas laid out the actual roadmap for Bitcoin ETFs. Gold's.

GLD hit $76B in 2011, briefly the world's largest ETF, then crashed to $22B. Recovered to $84B, fell to $48B, and now sits near $190B. 15 years, four full cycles.$IBIT already did the first leg.… pic.twitter.com/pZDTrciS6s

— Crypto Jargon (@Crypto_Jargon) July 19, 2026

The Two Regulatory Catalysts That Shifted the Macro Picture

In other Bitcoin ETF news, the inflow streak did not occur in isolation, as two significant regulatory developments influenced market sentiment. First, the US White House reportedly brokered a deal on an ethics package that had stalled the CLARITY Act, which aims to clarify the jurisdictional overlap between the SEC and the CFTC over digital assets.

This resolution increases the likelihood that the bill will advance in the Senate, providing much-needed clarity on asset classification, which affects ETF structures.

Second, on July 21, Russia’s State Duma passed a comprehensive crypto market law, officially classifying cryptocurrencies as property and allowing regulated trading under the Bank of Russia’s oversight.

Non-qualified retail investors will face a purchase limit of 300,000 rubles, while qualified investors have no cap but must complete risk assessments. The law takes effect on September 1, 2026.

While neither development immediately unlocks new Bitcoin ETF flows, they collectively reduce policy uncertainty, lessening the regulatory risk premium that affects BTC valuations in institutional models.

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Bitcoin ETF News: Whales Accumulated 66,700 BTC While Retail Hesitated

Bitcoin Whales Buy Billions In BTC As Smaller Holders Exit

Bitcoin whales holding 1,000 to 10,000 $BTC accumulated 66,700 BTC over the past 60 days, their strongest accumulation since February, CryptoQuant says.

Meanwhile, 100 to 1,000 BTC wallets posted one of their biggest… pic.twitter.com/0SPkkVa1yc

— BSCN (@BSCNews) July 20, 2026

Beneath the ETF flow data, an on-chain accumulation story was unfolding. According to CryptoQuant, Bitcoin whales, addresses holding between 1,000 and 10,000 BTC, accelerated their buying after BTC dropped below $55,000 in July, accumulating over 66,700 BTC worth approximately $4.415Bn.

While Bitcoin’s price remained below its peak, these mid-to-large holders increased their purchases, a pattern that could signal supply tightening and upward price pressure.

In contrast, retail participation has been cautious, creating a scenario where whale accumulation occurs while retail sits on the sidelines. History shows that retail typically re-enters after prices rise, often paying more for the same supply.

Strategy, the former MicroStrategy, demonstrated continued confidence by raising $500 million through a convertible notes offering while maintaining its BTC holdings, suggesting plans for future acquisitions.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/pavel-durovs-native-telegram-wallet-play-what-it-means-for-grams-price https://media.ikmoon.com/pavel-durovs-native-telegram-wallet-play-what-it-means-for-grams-price Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:03:14 +0600 crypto Pavel, Durov’s, Native, Telegram, Wallet, Play:, What, Means, for, Gram’s, Price Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced on July 21, 2026, that the messaging app will roll out a native, non-custodial wallet across all versions of its app, targeting more than 1 billion monthly active users with instant, zero-fee crypto transactions.

GRAM, the native token of The Open Network (TON) blockchain, jumped roughly +7% on the news, climbing from around $1.36 to above $1.50, pushing the coin’s market cap to approximately $4.18Bn, according to CoinGecko data.

Durov wants a Gram wallet in every Telegram app by summer

Pavel @durov is teeing up what he's calling the largest non-custodial wallet rollout in history, and the plan is to bake a native the-open-network:native wallet straight into every Telegram app before summer's out.

That… pic.twitter.com/O01DkbPJfN

— BSCN (@BSCNews) July 21, 2026

The announcement is the largest distribution play in the history of self-custody crypto. For context, MetaMask, the most widely used non-custodial wallet in the space, counts tens of millions of users.

Telegram is proposing to put self-custody rails in front of an audience that dwarfs anything crypto has attempted before, which would mark a huge move for the space.

What Durov Actually Announced and What’s Different From What Telegram Already Has

(SOURCE: TradingView)

Telegram already operates a crypto wallet product: the @wallet bot, run by a separate company called The Open Platform, with over 150 million registered users. The critical difference is that @wallet runs in custodial mode by default: a company holds the keys on users’ behalf, and users must actively seek it out in the app.

The new wallet is native to Telegram itself, meaning it ships baked into every version of the app rather than as an optional bot. It is non-custodial from day one, so users hold the keys to their own funds, the digital equivalent of carrying cash instead of keeping money in a bank account that a third party can freeze or block.

Whether the new wallet replaces @wallet or coexists with it has not been confirmed, and Telegram has not yet disclosed which assets beyond Gram it will support or how key management will work at scale for users who have never touched crypto before.

For those weighing the mechanics of self-custody more broadly, a detailed breakdown of how non-custodial wallets handle security and key management illustrates exactly what’s at stake when an app pushes those responsibilities to the user.

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The Make TON Great Again Roadmap and Where This Fits

Telegram's upcoming narrative:

– Ton's ticker changed to the-open-network:native (previously named the telegram equity ticker)
– The only L1 with a billion-user app attached
– Telegram having more control into the chain and platform destiny as biggest validator
– Upcoming self…

— bobdbldr (@0xBobdbldr) July 21, 2026

The wallet announcement is the next step in what Durov has called the Make TON Great Again (MTONGA) roadmap. In April 2026, Durov said the TON blockchain received a 10x speed upgrade, including a 6x increase in block rate bringing transactions to sub-second finality, listed as step one of seven in the roadmap. Step two was a 6x reduction in fees.

The rebrand from Toncoin back to Gram in June 2026, approved by 81% of community voters, was itself a symbolic reset. Gram was the name Telegram originally chose in 2018 when it raised $1.7Bn for what it called the Telegram Open Network, before the SEC sued, arguing the tokens were unregistered securities.

Telegram settled in 2020, returned $1.2Bn to investors, paid an $18.5M civil penalty, and walked away. Community developers kept the chain alive as Toncoin until Durov retook the reins in 2026.

The name “restoration” was a deliberate signal that, this time, the project is Telegram’s again. XRP’s protracted SEC legal battle offers a notable parallel – another token whose trajectory was fundamentally shaped by US regulatory action, as covered in detail here.

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The Gram Price Picture: Catalysts Don’t Fix a Bearish Chart

What went wrong here?$TON / $GRAM is crazy weak pic.twitter.com/A858DCHfJQ

— VIKTOR (@thedefivillain) July 20, 2026

Gram’s 7% move on the announcement partially offset a punishing 25% slide through most of July, but the broader technical picture remains difficult. The coin’s 200-day exponential moving average sits well above the current price, confirming that the macro trend remains bearish, according to Decrypt’s analysis of TradingView data.

The more immediate milestone would require an 88% rally from the current $1.52 level just to reach Gram’s May 2026 peak of $2.89 – the high set when Telegram first announced its takeover of the network. The all-time high of $8.25, reached in June 2024 during Telegram’s tap-to-earn gaming craze, is a separate conversation entirely.

The adoption gap is the real test. If even 1% of Telegram’s billion-plus users activate the new wallet and transact regularly, that figure multiplies by orders of magnitude. Distribution and activation are not the same thing, and Durov has given no launch date beyond “this summer.”

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/satsumas-bitcoin-treasury-collapses-leaving-shareholders-18p-on-the-pound https://media.ikmoon.com/satsumas-bitcoin-treasury-collapses-leaving-shareholders-18p-on-the-pound Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:03:05 +0600 crypto Satsuma’s, Bitcoin, Treasury, Collapses, Leaving, Shareholders, 18p, the, Pound In Bitcoin news today, Satsuma Technology raised £163.6M in August 2025 to build a Bitcoin treasury on the London Stock Exchange, and is now expected to return between £26.8M and £30M to shareholders after wind-down costs. That is roughly 18p on the pound at the low end, and the gap between those two numbers is the story.

Satsuma’s collapse is not simply a case of bad timing on a Bitcoin bet. It is what happens when a company uses fixed-obligation debt to fund a volatile asset, then watches the asset slide, the executives leave, and the creditors take priority in the exit queue.

This Bitcoin Treasury collapse out of the UK comes as BTC USD is trading at $65,800, down -0.4% over the past 24-hours after briefly reclaiming $66,000. Daily trading volume sits at $33.4Bn.

$BTC daily Supertrend has flipped green.

Last one pumped Bitcoin by almost 15% in 4 weeks.

A similar pump means BTC will hit $76,000 by August. pic.twitter.com/4eVmGYLxbv

— Ted (@TedPillows) July 22, 2026

Bitcoin News: What Satsuma Was, and How It Got Here

Satsuma Technology, formerly known as TAO Alpha, is a U.K.-listed AI firm that rebranded and hired Mark Moss, a prominent Bitcoin commentator, as Chief Bitcoin Strategist.

In August 2025, it raised £163.6 million ($218M) through convertible notes, with ParaFi Capital leading the round. Investors contributed 1,097 BTC, making Satsuma a digital asset treasury company focused on Bitcoin rather than traditional revenue.

The DAT model gained traction among small-cap firms in 2025, following strategies popularized by Michael Saylor. Satsuma’s stock peaked at nearly £14 per share in June 2025.

However, it declined after Bitcoin’s all-time high of $126,000 in October, leading to a prolonged market downturn in crypto equities.

JUST IN: Shareholders of Mark Moss-backed British #Bitcoin treasury company Satsuma Technology ($SATS) have voted to sell all of its remaining 668 BTC, return capital to shareholders, and shut down the company. pic.twitter.com/1kdDkazYMc

— BitcoinTreasuries.NET (@BTCtreasuries) July 21, 2026

The Fire Sale, the Departures, and the Activist Push

By December 2025, Satsuma was selling assets to stay solvent. It offloaded 579 BTC for £40M to cover cash obligations to noteholders who chose not to convert their debt into equity by the year-end deadline.

That fire sale, a Bitcoin liquidation driven by creditor pressure rather than strategic choice, left the company holding 668 BTC and significantly reduced firepower.

The CFO departed in February 2026. The CEO followed in March. By April, shares had shed more than 99% of their June 2025 peak value, trading at fractions of a penny.

That is when Pantera Capital, which held approximately 6.7% of Satsuma’s issued shares, began publicly calling for a full liquidation.

The logic was straightforward: Satsuma’s total market capitalization, the combined dollar value of all its shares, had fallen well below the market value of the Bitcoin on its balance sheet.

Owning the stock had become a strictly worse way to get Bitcoin exposure than simply buying the coin. A shareholder group representing more than 20% of issued capital formally tabled a resolution to wind down the company.

The board split hard – four of six directors opposed liquidation, arguing Satsuma remained a viable listed Bitcoin vehicle. Two sided with shareholders. The shareholders overruled the board majority by a wide margin: more than 90% of the votes cast backed two resolutions to sell the remaining 668 BTC, worth roughly $43.5M at the time, and to cancel the LSE delisting.

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Bitcoin Treasury News: Who Gets Paid, and How Little

In other Bitcoin news, the wind-down runs through a B Share Scheme, a U.K. legal mechanism for distributing cash assets back to shareholders without triggering certain tax complications. Estimated termination costs are £2.7M, covering legal fees, severance, delisting charges, and run-off insurance, according to the filing.

After those costs, Satsuma expects to return £26.8M to £30M. Combined with the £40M recovered in December’s BTC sale, total capital recovered lands around £66M to £70M against the £163.6M originally raised, less than half the original raise.

And because holders of the convertible notes rank above ordinary equity in any payout waterfall, common shareholders could receive considerably less than even those headline figures suggest. Creditors get paid first; equity gets what remains.

This is the same structural risk that has weighed on other corporate Bitcoin treasury vehicles that used debt to fund BTC accumulation; when the asset drops and debt redemption deadlines arrive, the company is forced to sell at the worst possible moment.

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What Comes Next for U.K. Bitcoin Treasuries

(SOURCE: CoinGecko)

Satsuma is the second-largest U.K.-listed Bitcoin treasury company, holding significantly less than The Smarter Web Company, which has 2,878 BTC and plans to continue operations.

U.K. High Court hearings for Satsuma’s capital return are set for August and September 2026, with a delisting from the LSE aimed for mid-September and shareholder payments expected by late September.

The situation has drawn scrutiny from other Digital Asset Trusts (DATs), as Satsuma’s troubles stem from a failure to manage convertible debt against volatile BTC collateral, resulting in a loss of over 57% of capital within a year.

Institutional interest in Bitcoin has rebounded since 2025, but Satsuma shareholders face the prospect of minimal returns in September.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/teslas-112m-bitcoin-impairment-didnt-move-a-single-coin-in-q2-2026 https://media.ikmoon.com/teslas-112m-bitcoin-impairment-didnt-move-a-single-coin-in-q2-2026 Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:02:56 +0600 crypto Tesla’s, 112M, Bitcoin, Impairment, Didn’t, Move, Single, Coin, 2026 In Bitcoin news today, Tesla absorbed a $112M impairment loss on its Bitcoin holdings in Q2 2026 and did not sell a single coin. The company’s 11,509 BTC position remained static throughout the quarter as BTC fell roughly 14%, sliding from around $83,000 at the quarter’s open to approximately $58,000 by the end of June.

With the Tesla impairment loss news dropping, Bitcoin is trading at $65,700, down -0.5% overnight, as it continues to hold steady after briefly pushing above $66,000 earlier this week. 24-hour trading volume on Bitcoin is sitting at $23.2Bn.

The central tension this story forces into focus: if a nine-figure accounting loss is not enough to shake Tesla loose from its Bitcoin stack, what exactly would be?

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:02:46 +0600 crypto Cardano, Technicals, Screaming, Breakout, 0.60, But, First, 0.20 Cardano is trading at roughly $0.175, bouncing 27% off a June low that touched 2020-era levels at $0.138, and Crypto Banter analyst Sheldon says the altcoin is coiling inside a textbook descending wedge with a September detonation window. The price prediction: a move to $0.50–$0.60, contingent on one make-or-break level holding the key.

The central tension here is straightforward: a pattern-based bull case targets 186%–243% upside from current prices, while the wedge’s upper resistance has limited upside attempts. Something has to give, and Sheldon has a timeline for when that will happen.

ADA is up +7% over the past week, capping an impressive stretch that has seen the Charles Hoskinson-led token surge nearly +14% in July. Daily trading volume for Cardano is sitting at over $271M.

What the Descending Wedge Is Telling You

A descending wedge is a chart pattern in which both the upper resistance line and the lower support line slope downward. It is generally read as a bullish continuation or reversal pattern; the narrowing range signals that selling pressure is exhausting itself, and the eventual breakout tends to be sharp and directional.

Sheldon analyzed the 1-week ADA chart and identified exactly this structure. The wedge’s lower support boundary traces back to the October 10 crash low of $0.27; the upper resistance originates from the early December high of $0.48.

Cardano has persistently slid lower within this wedge, shuffling between the descending upper and lower boundaries, most recently tagging the lower rail at $0.138 in June before bouncing.

Crucially, that lower boundary held again. The +27% rebound from June’s multi-year floor has pushed ADA toward the wedge’s upper resistance line, where the trade thesis either validates or collapses.

$ADA moves towards a key convering/breaking point and a positive response could kick start a massive run towards the $2.90 areas which we are targeting!

This target is over ~1,500% away…

(Cardano) pic.twitter.com/qvPj1K2svb

— JAVONMARKS (@JavonTM1) July 21, 2026

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The $0.20 Line and the September Window

Sheldon identified $0.20 as the critical breakout confirmation level. Reclaiming and sustaining price above that zone, roughly a 14% move from current levels, would constitute a structural break from the wedge and signal that the multi-month compression has resolved to the upside.

Once above $0.20, Sheldon’s measured target is in the $0.50–$0.60 range, representing 186%-243% upside from $0.175. Those price levels were last visited in November 2025, meaning the trade is essentially asking whether ADA can retrace a significant portion of last year’s decline.

According to Crypto Banter’s Sheldon, the wedge is likely to keep the altcoin range-bound until around September 2026, when he expects the breakout to materialize, a timeline that aligns with the broader market narrative of a more sustained crypto recovery in Q4 2026.

It is worth noting that Sheldon’s target is a significant departure from conservative baseline forecasts. Quantitative models from CoinCodex, for example, project ADA in a $0.16–$0.18 range across 2026 under neutral assumptions, a reminder that the wedge breakout thesis carries meaningful execution risk.

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A Shorter-Term Setup for Cardano is Also in Play

(SOURCE: TradingView)

While Sheldon’s wedge trade frames the multi-month thesis, Cardano stake pool operator Ssebi identified a separate, shorter-duration pattern on the daily chart: an inverse head-and-shoulders (IH&S) formation. In a standard IH&S, three swing lows form – and a sustained move above the neckline signals a bullish reversal.

Ssebi’s pattern has the left shoulder at the June 6 low of $0.148, the head at $0.138 on June 25, and the right shoulder at $0.155 on July 13. The measured target from that setup is $0.25, representing a 43% gain from current prices. The invalidation condition is clean: a daily close below the right shoulder at approximately $0.155 would negate the pattern.

The two analyses stack neatly; Ssebi’s $0.25 IH&S target would represent an early waypoint on the road toward Sheldon’s $0.60 wedge target, assuming the broader structure plays out. The upgrade adds context on scalability, explaining why Q3 2026 is being watched as a potential inflection point for ADA.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/xrp-targets-121-but-institutional-demand-is-quietly-drying-up https://media.ikmoon.com/xrp-targets-121-but-institutional-demand-is-quietly-drying-up Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:02:36 +0600 crypto XRP, Targets, 1.21, but, Institutional, Demand, Quietly, Drying In XRP news today, Ripple has slipped since July 21 but remains around $1.13, tracing a textbook cup-and-handle formation on the daily chart, with $1.15 as the breakout trigger and $1.21 as the pattern target.

The setup looks clean. The institutional money flow behind it does not. That gap between the chart structure and the capital supporting it is the central tension shaping the XRP trade right now.

According to data from CoinGlass, spot XRP ETF monthly inflows have collapsed from a $131.94M peak in May to just $12.43 million in July, the weakest month on record. Inflows are still technically positive, but it is not a technicality worth glossing over.

XRP News: The Cup and Handle Setup and What it Means

Since early July, XRP has formed a cup-and-handle pattern on the daily chart. The cup represents a gradual recovery from selling pressure, while the handle reflects a consolidation phase since July 21.

The bullish outlook remains supported by declining sell volume as prices drift lower, indicating a pause rather than a fresh wave of selling. Key resistance is at $1.15, aligning with the 0.618 Fibonacci retracement level.

A daily close above this would break the handle and activate the cup neckline at $1.16, with $1.18 and $1.21 as potential targets for XRP Ripple.

However, it’s important to note that XRP has previously failed to sustain cup formations. A single candle wick above $1.15 is insufficient; a confirmed daily close is necessary for a convincing breakout.

$XRP

Say what you want, but this entire setup looks insane!

Sweep the lows or not…

A major move is coming. pic.twitter.com/MJFD9UJNzh

— Jim Knox (@Jim_Knox589) July 23, 2026

ETF Inflows: Green on the Surface, Fading Underneath

In other XRP news, ETF inflows have consistently been net positive since their launch, though monthly totals have declined. According to CoinGlass, inflows were $81.59M in April, peaked at $131.94M in May, then dropped to $59.46M in June, and fell further to $12.43M in July.

This downward trend suggests that institutional demand for XRP has weakened, as ETF inflows typically indicate professional buyers’ interest, which makes it a crucial data point to watch in the coming weeks.

A decline in these flows could affect XRP’s price, especially as it nears a breakout point. Similar patterns of reduced institutional demand are also seen in Bitcoin ETF products.

(SOURCE: CoinGlass)

What Glassnode’s Hodler Metric Is Signaling

The Hodler Net Position Change metric from Glassnode tracks whether long-term XRP holders are net adding to or trimming their positions. It is an on-chain measure of accumulation or distribution behavior among wallets that have held for extended periods, the cohort least likely to be driven by short-term noise.

The metric’s recent history is worth tracing carefully because it has already run this playbook once. On June 22, the Hodler Net Position Change hit one of its highest readings. From that peak, it fell steadily through to July 1.

During exactly that window, XRP price corrected from $1.13 down to $1.05 – a 7% move that caught many traders offside who were watching the chart setup rather than the on-chain signal. Then, as long-term holders began adding again, price recovered.

Since July 19, the metric has turned lower again. It has eased from approximately 231 million to roughly 226 million XRP, according to Glassnode data cited in the BeInCrypto analysis. The setup is close enough to the June precedent to warrant attention.

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Three Scenarios for What Happens Next: XRP News Catalysts Needed for Bullish Continuation

(SOURCE: TradingView)

The chart and institutional data for XRP news indicate three potential paths for its price action:

Bull Case: XRP closes above $1.15, confirming a cup-and-handle breakout. If $1.16 is breached, the $1.21 target could be met, but this would require stable ETF inflows to maintain gains.

Base Case: XRP trades sideways between $1.12 and $1.15 as Hodler Net Position Change declines and ETF inflows remain weak. The cup-and-handle pattern remains valid but unconfirmed, awaiting a macro catalyst.

Bear Case: A sharper decline in Hodler metrics leads to a drop below $1.13, exposing support levels at $1.12 and $1.09. A break below $1.05 invalidates the pattern and shifts focus to broader support. This scenario aligns with current ETF flow trends.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/seven-straight-bitcoin-etf-inflow-days-recover-just-15-of-junes-losses https://media.ikmoon.com/seven-straight-bitcoin-etf-inflow-days-recover-just-15-of-junes-losses Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:02:27 +0600 crypto Seven, Straight, Bitcoin, ETF, Inflow, Days, Recover, Just, 15, June’s, Losses In Bitcoin news today, US spot BTC ETF funds recorded nearly $1Bn in net inflows over seven consecutive sessions through July 22, 2026 – their longest positive run in 11 weeks, with BlackRock IBIT capturing $319.16M of the $499.05M added this week alone.

However, that streak has already come to an end, as yesterday’s session closed with -$225M in outflows, even as Bitcoin has held steady above $65,000 despite ETF sell pressure.

Bitcoin climbed above $66,000 during the streak’s strongest two sessions, July 20 and July 21, according to 247 Wall St. The catalyst was news that President Trump had agreed to the ethics rules holding up the CLARITY Act.

This bipartisan digital-asset legislation, which would establish clearer regulatory boundaries for crypto markets, appeared to unlock a wave of institutional demand.

Bitcoin ETF News: Seven Days of Inflows Snapped by -$225M Outflow

(SOURCE: CoinGlass)

The last outflow day was July 13, when investors pulled $424.66M, the heaviest single-day withdrawal of the month. Since then, money has come back in every session, but not uniformly.

Flows on July 14 reached $181.08M, then faded to $107.80M on July 15, $79.15M on July 16, and recovered to $132.30M on July 17, according to CoinGlass data.

The two dominant sessions arrived with the CLARITY Act headlines. July 20 logged $226.92M, and July 21 added $203.14M as Bitcoin price pushed through $66,000.

By July 22, daily inflows had retreated to $68.99M, the weakest session of the entire streak. That deceleration pattern was telling, as yesterday saw -$225M in outflows, snapping the seven-day streak as a result.

The last time institutional demand for Bitcoin through ETF vehicles sustained this kind of multi-day consistency was in early October 2025, when Bitcoin was trading near its all-time high of approximately $126,000.

Why IBIT Keeps Winning Despite Not Being the Cheapest Option

BREAKING: Bitcoin ETFs attracted +$900 million in inflows last week, the largest weekly inflow since early May.

This marks a sharp acceleration from +$197 million in inflows in the prior week.

The largest Bitcoin ETF, $IBIT, led the surge, attracting +$193 million last week,… pic.twitter.com/tr8lo363oX

— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) July 22, 2026

The fee structure alone doesn’t account for IBIT’s dominance. Despite Fidelity FBTC charging no management fees and holding $11.38Bn in AUM, IBIT leads with $48.86Bn in AUM. Over ten years, the 0.25% annual fee for IBIT compounds significantly for long-term investors.

247 Wall St. attributes IBIT’s success to its distribution advantages. BlackRock’s products are familiar to pension managers and registered advisers, making purchasing IBIT a seamless experience with minimal compliance hurdles, rendering the fee less important.

Trading volume also highlights this concentration: on July 22, IBIT accounted for nearly 79% of the $1.11Bn in total trading across all 13 spot Bitcoin ETFs. IBIT holds 3.70% of all Bitcoins, while the other twelve ETFs combined hold only 2.38%, indicating significant institutional activity in IBIT during this period.

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Bitcoin ETF News: Grayscale GBTC, The Fund That Still Drags the Whole Complex

In other Bitcoin ETF news, Grayscale GBTC, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust that converted from a closed-end fund to a spot ETF, remains the single largest structural headwind to the ETF complex’s net position. Since converting to ETF format, GBTC has shed $27.42Bn in cumulative outflows. On July 22 alone, another $38.30M left the fund.

The fee differential is the root cause. Grayscale charges 1.50% annually. IBIT charges 0.25%. For an investor holding $100,000 for five years, that 1.25 percentage-point gap compounds to roughly $6,500 in additional fees, before considering any performance difference.

The cumulative effect is that GBTC’s outflows have overwhelmed the genuine demand visible in IBIT and, to a lesser extent, other competitors.

Total net inflows across all 13 Bitcoin ETF funds stand at $51.85Bn since launch, but that figure is what remains after subtracting $ 27.42Bn from GBTC. Without GBTC’s drag, the headline numbers for the ETF complex would look considerably stronger.

$BTC — If we somehow deviate back and reclaim 65.5K on 4HR TF, we'll quickly see 70Ks!

Else chop continues till 64K.

I'm optimistic about upside movement due to the relative strength our orange coin had despite SPY weakness yesterday.

70K+ $BTC is programmed in the next few… pic.twitter.com/Ug9eGaGPUX

— Friedrich Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:02:18 +0600 crypto Has, Crypto, Finally, Exhausted, Wall, Street, Time, Buy, The, Dip, BTC, ETF, Hit, 2024, Lows Bitcoin (BTC) price is trading near $65,100 as Wall Street’s patience wears visibly thin, and the Bitcoin ETF data is starting to look ugly. Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) weekly trading volume just hit its lowest level for a full five-session week since October 2024, clocking in at roughly $8.05 billion, a 14% drop from $9.37 billion the prior week.

That’s not a blip, it’s a trend. Citigroup moved first among major banks, slashing its 12-month Bitcoin target to $82,000 from $112,000 and its Ethereum target to $2,240 from $3,175, explicitly citing negative ETF flows and stalled U.S. digital asset legislation. Whether this is capitulation or a genuine pause defines the entire trade from here.

Can Bitcoin Recover From 2024-Low ETF Volume, or Is the Bull Run on Ice?

The volume collapse tells one story. The flow data tells a messier one. Bitcoin ETFs finished the recent week with just $33.8 million in net inflows, the softest of three consecutive positive weeks, following $75.7 million the week before and $197.4 million the week prior to that.

The deterioration is sharp. ETFs pulled in roughly $499.1 million across the first three sessions of the week before investors yanked $225.2 million on Thursday and another $240.1 million on Friday, nearly erasing the full week’s gains in 48 hours.

BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (ticker: IBIT), the largest spot Bitcoin ETF by net assets, recorded $95.5 million in net outflows for the week after hemorrhaging a combined $414.7 million in just the final two sessions.

Grayscale’s Bitcoin Mini Trust and the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF partially offset that with approximately $85.8 million and $78.1 million in inflows, respectively, not nearly enough to plug the gap.

Citi’s analysts wrote that the “absence of a catalyst for increased investor interest” led them to assume no net ETF inflows over the next 12 months. That’s a bold assumption.

Technically, Bitcoin is holding a contested support zone in the mid-$50,000s, near Citi’s bear-case target of $53,000, while the $80,000–$82,000 band now functions as medium-term resistance under Citi’s revised base case. The bull scenario requires re-accelerating ETF inflows and meaningful progress on U.S. crypto legislation; the bear case is a macro-driven recession that pushes BTC toward $53,000.

Not everyone is folding. Bernstein characterized the ETF slowdown as a “short-term pause” and held its $150,000 BTC target for end-2025, arguing the structural bull run remains intact. That’s a wide spread of opinion for sophisticated desks to carry simultaneously (make of that what you will).

Ethereum is in a similar bind: ETH is quoted near $1,570, bracketed by Citi’s bear-case floor of $1,094 and base-case target of $2,240. Notably, Ether ETFs drew $103.9 million in net inflows last week, more than three times the Bitcoin ETFs’ total, despite holding roughly one-eighth the net assets. That relative outperformance is worth watching.

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Bitcoin Hyper Targets Early-Stage Upside as BTC Tests Structural Support

Spot BTC at $58,400 with flat ETF flows and a slashed Wall Street target offers a defined risk range, but the upside to Citi’s base case of $82,000 still represents roughly 40% from current levels.

The problem: that return is spread across 12 months, carries macro risk on both sides, and lands in an asset with hundreds of billions in market cap already priced in. Early-stage infrastructure plays on Bitcoin’s own ecosystem can compress that timeline, and that’s the thesis behind Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER).

Bitcoin Hyper is positioning as the first Bitcoin Layer 2, a secondary network that processes transactions off Bitcoin’s main chain to increase speed and reduce fees, with integrated Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) support, enabling fast, programmable smart contracts directly within Bitcoin’s security model.

The project claims sub-Solana latency via its Layer 2 architecture and includes a Decentralized Canonical Bridge for native BTC transfers.

The presale has raised $32,982,915.68 at a current price of $0.0136837, with staking available at a high APY (specific rate undisclosed at this stage). Presale-stage assets carry significant risk: liquidity is limited, the project is unproven at scale, and Layer 2 execution risk is real.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/were-going-to-need-another-color-says-saylor-will-microstrategy-buy-bitcoin-dip-today https://media.ikmoon.com/were-going-to-need-another-color-says-saylor-will-microstrategy-buy-bitcoin-dip-today Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:02:09 +0600 crypto We’re, Going, Need, Another, Color, Says, Saylor:, Will, Microstrategy, Buy, Bitcoin, Dip, Today Microstrategy has gone four consecutive weeks without buying a single satoshi of Bitcoin, its longest buying freeze in two years, while Michael Saylor keeps posting accumulation charts to X with the caption “We’re gonna need another color.”

The company sits on $3.225 billion in cash, MSTR is down roughly 33% year-to-date, and Q2 earnings land Thursday after the US market close. The central question for retail investors is blunt: is the BTC dip buy coming today, or is the math still broken?

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Microstrategy And Bitcoin: Four Weeks of Silence, Five Teases

The mechanics of the freeze are straightforward. SEC filings on Jun. 29, Jul. 6, Jul. 13 and Jul. 20 each recorded no Bitcoin buys made under its standing acquisition programs. The filings covering June 29, July 6, July 13, and July 20 contained the same answer: nothing.

What makes the silence louder is the contrast with Saylor’s behavior on X. He posted Strategy’s color-coded Bitcoin accumulation chart on Sunday, July 27, under the caption “We’re gonna need another color”, a reference to how new purchase tranches get assigned a distinct color bubble on the chart.

We’re gonna need another color. pic.twitter.com/AqZO5UeXDx

— Michael Saylor (@saylor) July 26, 2026

It was his fifth such post since the last confirmed purchase, according to the primary source. No transaction has been confirmed for the current week.

The teasing pattern is deliberate. Saylor has used these posts consistently as a way of signaling to the market that Bitcoin accumulation remains the firm’s strategic orientation, even during periods when the balance sheet is being actively restructured.

Whether the signal precedes a purchase or simply manages sentiment during a liquidity-management pause is the question the market is repricing right now.

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The mNAV Flywheel and Why It Matters

To understand why Strategy’s freeze is more structurally significant than a simple tactical pause, you need to understand the mNAV flywheel. The company’s entire capital model depends on its stock trading at a premium to the Bitcoin it holds.

When mNAV, market value of equity divided by the net asset value of Bitcoin holdings – sits comfortably above 1.0, Strategy can issue new shares at a premium, use the proceeds to buy more Bitcoin, and thereby increase Bitcoin per share. The premium justifies the dilution.

That mechanism broke down in late June. The mNAV ratio touched approximately 0.99, the first time in company history it slipped below parity, according to the primary source.

It has since recovered to roughly 1.03, but management’s stated breakeven for the flywheel to generate value for common shareholders sits near 1.22. At 1.03, buying Bitcoin with freshly issued equity is marginally dilutive rather than accretive.

Julio Moreno, head of research at CryptoQuant, attributed a slide in Strategy’s preferred stock to what he called a “deterioration in Strategy’s fundamentals” in late June. Dividend obligations had quadrupled inside six months to $1.2 billion, and the coverage ratio, how long existing Bitcoin holdings could theoretically fund those dividends, collapsed from more than seven years to roughly 14 months.

CryptoQuant’s explicit recommendation: stop buying and rebuild cash. The four-week freeze is, at least in part, a strategy following that advice.

Understanding why Strategy’s dividend pressure creates this bind matters for any investor tracking how the company’s Bitcoin treasury strategy interacts with its capital structure obligations. The short version: preferred shareholders get paid before common shareholders get any Bitcoin-per-share accretion.

The Sell-Off That Changed the Narrative

The freeze is not simply inaction. The primary source confirms that between June 29 and July 5, Strategy sold 3,588 BTC for approximately $216 million, the largest single Bitcoin disposal in the company’s history. Proceeds were routed toward preferred dividends and the cash reserve.

This is a material signal. A company that has built its entire identity around never selling Bitcoin sold Bitcoin. The framework adopted in late June authorized $1 billion in common stock buybacks, $1 billion in digital credit securities, and up to $1.25 billion in additional Bitcoin sales.

That authorization does not mean all of it will be executed, but its existence tells you management is no longer treating the Bitcoin treasury as untouchable collateral.

The most recent SEC filing confirmed $263.5 million of MSTR share sales, with the proceeds building the cash reserve to $3.225 billion rather than funding new Bitcoin purchases. Strategy is to raise money and park it, not deploy it immediately into BTC. That is liability management, not accumulation mode.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/xrp-price-analysis-how-much-xrp-do-you-need-to-retire https://media.ikmoon.com/xrp-price-analysis-how-much-xrp-do-you-need-to-retire Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:01:59 +0600 crypto XRP, Price, Analysis:, How, Much, XRP, You, Need, Retire In XRP news today, with today’s XRP price of $1.10, hitting a $1M retirement target requires roughly 900,000 coins, a figure that immediately exposes the central problem with crypto retirement math.

The real question isn’t what XRP costs now; it’s how many coins you need to buy today based on where the price could be when you actually stop working.

This Ripple millionaire daydream comes as XRP is trading for around $1.10, up +0.8% over the past 24 hours, with a daily trading volume of more than $683M.

XRP News Today: Working Backward From $1M

Americans say they need $1.46M to retire comfortably, according to Northwestern Mutual’s 2026 Planning Progress Study, $200,000 more than the prior year’s figure.

For practical modeling, $1M is a cleaner benchmark: drawing 4% annually from that sum produces roughly $40,000 in income, a realistic target for many retirees.

Nobody funds retirement by buying 900,000 XRP today at spot. The practical approach starts with a forecast price at the target retirement date and works backward to determine how many coins to accumulate now.

The table below uses decade-out projections ranging from $5 in 2027 to $38 by 2035:

Retirement Year	XRP Forecast Price	Coins Needed	Cost Today at $1.10
2027	$5.00	200,000	$220,000
2028	$9.00	111,000	$122,000
2029	$15.00	67,000	$73,000
2030	$28.00	36,000	$39,000
2031–2032	$24.00	42,000	$46,000
2033–2034	$32.00	31,000	$34,000
2035	$38.00	26,000	$29,000

The XRP price 2035 scenario is the most striking: about $29,000 spent today buys enough XRP to reach $1M if that $38 forecast materializes.

That is an extraordinary return on a relatively low entry cost, but it rests on a market cap assumption of roughly $2.4 trillion, which would exceed the combined value of all cryptocurrencies in existence today.

That outcome requires XRP to become a genuine core settlement infrastructure globally, not merely a speculative asset. It is worth noting that these are bullish, optimistic projections.

Mainstream forecasts sit considerably lower. Anyone sizing a position for crypto retirement should stress-test their plan against both the bullish and conservative cases, not anchor exclusively to the upside.

(SOURCE: TradingView)

Most XRP Holders Are Nowhere Near Retirement-Ready

In March 2026, on-chain analytics firm Santiment reported that 5.66 million XRP wallets (about 73%) hold fewer than 100 coins, valued at around $110.

Another 2.01 million wallets contain between 100 and 100,000 XRP, while just 32,054 wallets (0.4%) hold more than 100,000 coins. By May 2026, there were 332,230 wallets with at least 10,000 XRP, an all-time high, representing 4% of all wallets.

However, to retire comfortably by 2035, with a forecast price of $38 per XRP, one would need at least 26,000 coins, which would currently cost about $29,000.

It’s important to note that wallets don’t equate to individual investors, as a single wallet can belong to many users, complicating the analysis of retirement-ready investors.

JUST IN: XRP whale wallets (100K–100M XRP) have accumulated +2.8% more coins over the past 5 weeks, while retail wallets (≤0.01 XRP) offloaded -5.2% in the same period.

Price has rebounded to a 2-week high of $1.16 as smart money quietly builds its position.

Data: Santiment pic.twitter.com/oYu5EQJtpE

— ]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/expert-predicts-fed-decision-could-bail-out-beaten-cardano-price https://media.ikmoon.com/expert-predicts-fed-decision-could-bail-out-beaten-cardano-price Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:01:50 +0600 crypto Expert, Predicts, Fed, Decision, Could, Bail, Out, Beaten, Cardano, Price ADA USD is trading at $0.165 on July 27, 2026, pinned below every major moving average and flashing bearish derivatives signals that are actively capping any Cardano recovery.

The question now splitting analysts is whether an upcoming FOMC decision can act as a macro relief valve for beaten ADA holders, or whether history will repeat and ADA simply sells the news.

The central tension this article unpacks: the technical and derivatives picture is unambiguously bearish right now, but a sufficiently dovish Fed signal could still force a counter-trend move toward the $0.20–$0.24 resistance band, provided traders choose to buy it rather than fade it.

Bearish Derivatives Are Capping the ADA Price Forecast

The ADA derivatives data from CoinGlass tells a straightforward story. The long-to-short ratio is 0.82, near its lowest level in over a month.

Any reading below 1.0 means more traders are positioned for a price decline than for a rally, and Monday’s 0.82 is nearing the lowest level in over a month. A ratio below 1 indicates bearish sentiment, as traders bet the asset’s price will fall.

Funding rates, which are periodic payments exchanged between long and short position holders in perpetual futures contracts, flipped negative on Sunday and were reading -0.008 on Monday according to CoinGlass.

Negative funding means shorts are paying longs – a structural signal that the market is tilted toward a price decline rather than expecting a bounce. Together, these ADA derivatives readings confirm the bearish bias visible in the chart.

Cardano Support, Resistance, and the EMA Wall

$ADA (per request)

Possible diamond bottom attempting to break out? pic.twitter.com/VtTdNZiefe

— Nebraskangooner (@Nebraskangooner) July 21, 2026

According to technical analysis published by Manish Chhetri, the Cardano price faces a layered wall of resistance overhead. The 50-day Exponential Moving Average, a smoothed trend line weighted toward recent price action, sits at roughly $0.175.

The 23.6% Fibonacci retracement level at $0.173 forms a tight cluster just below it. A sustained break above this band would open the path to the 38.2% Fibonacci level at $0.195 and the 100-day EMA near $0.200.

Further up, the 50% Fibonacci retracement at $0.213 and the 61.8% level at $0.231 precede a dense ADA support resistance band between $0.236 and $0.245.

On the downside, immediate support holds at the horizontal level of $0.150, with the Fibonacci anchor low at $0.137 as the last meaningful buyer zone if that level gives way.

The RSI, Relative Strength Index, a momentum oscillator scaled from 0 to 100, sits at approximately 47, just below the neutral midpoint of 50.

Chhetri characterized this as suggesting only modest recovery attempts within a broader downtrend. A comparable picture of bearish derivatives and technical pressure playing out across major altcoins provides useful comparative context.

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FOMC Crypto Impact: Relief Valve or Volatility Trap?

Big Week Ahead For Crypto Holders Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:01:41 +0600 crypto Crypto, News, Today, July, 28:, BTC, Heading, Toward, 60K, NFL, Calls, for, Stricter, Regulation, Prediction, Markets, and, Securitize, Wins, SEC, Adviser, Status In crypto news today (July 28), Bitcoin has dropped nearly -3% overnight, losing $65,000 and looking likely to retest $60,000 ahead of today’s FOMC meeting. Liquidations have picked up as a result, with over $600M in positions blown up since yesterday, and unsurprisingly, more than $530M of that figure has come from long trades.

Yesterday saw a second consecutive day of positive ETF flows for Bitcoin, a metric that is helping the market in its recent rally. Over $265M BTC was bought via ETFs yesterday, with over $200M of that figure coming from BlackRock’s IBIT after selling nearly $10Bn over the past ten sessions.

While nearly every major cap token is in the red over the past 24 hours, Pump.fun (PUMP) and Canton (CC) are two of the more notable projects in the green, up around +1%. Daily trading volume has dropped over the past 24 hours, going from $75Bn yesterday to $66Bn today.

The Fear & Greed Index is beginning to reflect the drop in price across the markets, sitting at 29/100, down from 30/100 yesterday, although it is still sitting in ‘Fear’ territory, just outside of ‘Extreme Fear’

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Crypto News Today: NFL Calls for More Oversight of Prediction Markets

The National Football League (NFL) has urged Michael Selig, the Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to enhance oversight of sports prediction markets. The league argues that the CFTC’s proposed rules for event contracts do not adequately protect the integrity of competitions or users’ interests.

These concerns were expressed in a letter from the NFL dated July 27, per reports. In the letter, the league commented on the CFTC’s recently published draft rules, emphasizing that maintaining the integrity of its games is its top priority.

While the NFL acknowledged that the CFTC proposal includes several constructive measures, it also noted that some provisions need to be significantly strengthened.

Unlike the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball, which have partnered with platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, the NFL has taken a firmer stance on prediction markets. In March, the league had already sent letters to Kalshi and Polymarket requesting that they limit the variety of sports contracts available on their platforms.

News: The NFL sent a letter to the CFTC on prediction markets.

“….the draft rules fall significantly short of protecting the integrity of sporting events
and the fans who participate in these markets.” pic.twitter.com/qd3rSbgpgs

— Dustin Gouker (@DustinGouker) July 27, 2026

Securitize Registers with SEC as Investment Adviser

​In other crypto news today, Securitize, a real-world asset (RWA) tokenization company, has registered as a registered investment adviser (RIA) with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The new status will allow the firm to expand its services for institutional investors and asset managers.

According to The Block, the registration was granted to Securitize Capital LLC, the company’s subsidiary. Securitize said the approval strengthens its position in the regulated financial services market.

With the new registration, Securitize’s US business now brings several regulated entities under a single umbrella. In addition to its RIA registration, the company operates an SEC-registered broker-dealer with an alternative trading system (ATS), a transfer agent, and a fund administration business.

According to Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo, institutional investors are looking for partners that can not only implement tokenization but also operate within the framework of regulated financial markets.

He said obtaining RIA status marks another milestone for the company. Through Securitize Capital, the firm plans to help financial institutions develop and manage investment strategies built on onchain infrastructure.

Securitize remains one of the largest players in the RWA tokenization market. The platform works with leading asset managers and has participated in the launch of multiple investment products.

Securitize Capital Secures SEC Investment Adviser Registration@Securitize officially expands its regulatory architecture with the registration of Securitize Capital LLC as an investment adviser with the SEC.

This milestone enables the firm to provide specialized advisory… pic.twitter.com/Gektz4GSyl

— BSCN (@BSCNews) July 27, 2026

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/blackrock-is-latest-asset-manager-to-officially-backs-clarity-act https://media.ikmoon.com/blackrock-is-latest-asset-manager-to-officially-backs-clarity-act Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:01:31 +0600 crypto Blackrock, Latest, Asset, Manager, Officially, Backs, CLARITY, Act In BlackRock Bitcoin news, the asset manager has formally endorsed the CLARITY Act, the most consequential piece of US crypto regulation legislation currently before Congress, and Coinbase Vice Chairman Ryan VanGrack made sure no one missed it.

On July 27, VanGrack posted on X that “BlackRock is officially on board,” citing a Politico report carrying BlackRock’s public statement on the bill.

The announcement crystallizes an unprecedented coalition of traditional finance heavyweights behind a single piece of digital asset legislation, but the vote math in the Senate remains unresolved.

This endorsement came as BTC USD dropped -3% overnight, falling to $63,250, losing key support at $65,000 as today’s FOMC meeting has seemingly spooked the markets. Daily trading volume has dropped to $25.1Bn, down from over $30Bn yesterday.

$BTC failed to hold the $65,000 level.

This happened as the Senate put the Clarity Act on hold.

Now, the next key support level for Bitcoin is $62,000-$65,000.

This should hold, or else BTC will end up giving all the gains. pic.twitter.com/CVFjOqdY4Q

— Ted (@TedPillows) July 28, 2026

What the BlackRock Bitcoin and CLARITY Act Endorsement Means

Samara Cohen, BlackRock’s Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Market Development, described the CLARITY Act as “an important step toward establishing a regulatory framework for digital assets that puts investors first,” according to the statement provided to Politico.

Cohen added that the legislation would help the United States shape the next era of crypto market structure while preserving the transparency, resilience, and investor protections that underpin US capital markets leadership.

We got our answer. @BlackRock is officially on board.

The world's largest asset manager joins @CharlesSchwab, @Fidelity, @GoldmanSachs in backing Clarity.

Your turn, Congress. https://t.co/28QS7cxKvb

— Ryan VanGrack (@RVanGrack) July 27, 2026

The statement is BlackRock’s clearest public endorsement of any US crypto regulation bill to date. BlackRock now joins Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, and Grayscale in backing the legislation, a coalition that spans crypto-native firms and the largest names in global asset management.

Patrick Witt, Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, pushed back against critics of the endorsement, according to the primary-source report. His response, directed at those skeptical of BlackRock’s involvement, underscored that institutional backing at this scale is not routine.

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What the CLARITY Act Means for Crypto

The CLARITY Act is designed to end the regulatory ambiguity that has driven years of enforcement-led policy from US watchdogs. The bill formally divides digital asset oversight between two federal regulators.

The SEC would retain authority over tokens classified as digital asset securities, while the CFTC would oversee digital commodities. Think of it as a jurisdictional map that replaces a decade of contested turf.

Supporters argue that clearer SEC CFTC boundary lines would reduce litigation risk for exchanges, custodians, and intermediaries, precisely the outcome large institutions like BlackRock need before scaling tokenized funds and on-chain trading desks at any meaningful size.

The bill passed the House with a 294–134 bipartisan vote in July 2025 and cleared the Senate Banking Committee 15–9 in May 2026, per pre-research context.

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The Senate Math Is Still the Problem Even With the BlackRock Bitcoin Endorsement

(SOURCE: Polymarket)

Institutional momentum and Senate arithmetic are two different things. The CLARITY Act currently needs at least nine additional Senate votes to clear the 60-vote cloture threshold – the procedural bar required to advance a bill to a floor vote. That threshold means at least some Democratic support is not optional; it is a numerical requirement.

Democratic concerns have centered not on crypto policy itself but on ethics provisions and conflict-of-interest rules baked into the bill’s current text, according to the primary source report.

Republican lawmakers are expected to hold further discussions with the White House as those negotiations continue. The effective deadline is the August recess, after which the political window for passage in 2026 narrows sharply given the midterm election calendar.

Chainlink executive Andrew McCormick has separately urged Democratic Senators Cory Booker and Andy Kim to back the legislation, reflecting the ongoing effort to build bipartisan support beyond the existing coalition. Franklin Templeton also publicly endorsed the bill, adding another major asset manager to the growing list of institutional backers.

Whether the combined weight of BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, Schwab, Grayscale, and Franklin Templeton translates into nine Senate votes before the recess is the only question that matters now. The coalition is assembled. The clock is running.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/ibms-blockchain-patent-empire-lands-at-circle-in-landmark-ip-deal https://media.ikmoon.com/ibms-blockchain-patent-empire-lands-at-circle-in-landmark-ip-deal Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:01:21 +0600 crypto IBM’s, Blockchain, Patent, Empire, Lands, Circle, Landmark, Deal Circle Internet Group announced on July 27, 2026, that it has acquired more than 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 issued blockchain patents worldwide from IBM in a single transaction, making Circle the largest blockchain patent holder in the United States.

The portfolio directly underpins Circle’s core products: USDC, the Circle Payments Network (CPN), and Arc, the company’s enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure.

CRCL, the publicly traded stock of Circle, is trading at $65.67, up about +5% in the past 24 hours as investors digest this major news. The market cap for CRCL is $17.5Bn.

$CRCL is acquiring $IBM blockchain patent portfolio adding nearly 1,000 issued patents across more than 680 patent families worldwide.

The deal significantly expands Circle’s intellectual property base as it builds out its stablecoin and payments infrastructure. pic.twitter.com/2U0A6PvIdI

— Shay Boloor (@StockSavvyShay) July 27, 2026

What Circle Just Bought and Why It Matters

The IBM blockchain patent portfolio spans foundational distributed-ledger technology, banking and financial services workflows, insurance infrastructure, supply-chain verification, and secure cloud operations. That breadth signals Circle is not just defending its stablecoin business; it is staking a claim across the full stack of institutional and enterprise onchain finance.

IBM built much of this IP over a decade of enterprise blockchain R&D, including work tied to Hyperledger Fabric, an open-source permissioned ledger framework, and partnerships with major corporates in shipping and food traceability, according to background research. With this IP acquisition, that foundational layer now belongs outright to Circle rather than sitting inside a legacy technology conglomerate.

Deal terms and purchase price were not disclosed. Circle and IBM also stated they plan to explore additional commercial opportunities beyond the sale, leaving the door open for technical collaborations or further licensing arrangements.

Strategic Value: Defense First, Then the Offense

Owning a large patent portfolio outright, as an asset purchase rather than a license, gives Circle three distinct levers: a litigation shield against infringement claims targeting USDC or CPN, the freedom to build new products without stepping around third-party IP, and potential cross-licensing leverage with banks and fintechs entering the onchain payments space.

Analysts covering the deal characterize the near-term priority as defensive, protecting Circle’s existing infrastructure from IP disputes as institutional adoption of stablecoins accelerates. The scale of blockchain adoption by major financial institutions has intensified precisely the kind of IP competition this portfolio is designed to neutralize.

Sarah Wilson, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Circle, said the acquisition expands Circle’s ability to advance the infrastructure that powers global, internet-native finance, calling IBM a pioneer in technological innovation whose IP now strengthens Circle’s onchain mission.

What This Means for Circle’s Product Roadmap

(SOURCE: Yahoo Finance)

Circle explicitly ties the newly acquired IP to USDC, the Circle Payments Network, and Arc, its enterprise blockchain described as the Economic OS for the internet, as well as a growing suite of agentic financial tools.

Market watchers are now looking for concrete deployments: new compliance features, settlement mechanisms, or supply-chain verification capabilities inside Arc and CPN that demonstrate how the patents reshape Circle’s product roadmap in practice.

The deal also reflects a broader shift in blockchain IP ownership, with foundational enterprise patents moving from legacy tech firms toward crypto-native financial platforms.

For the financial services and securities infrastructure now being built on blockchain rails, the question of who controls foundational IP is increasingly consequential, and Circle just answered it emphatically in its own favor.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/will-the-elon-musk-prediction-prove-right-about-ai-abundance https://media.ikmoon.com/will-the-elon-musk-prediction-prove-right-about-ai-abundance Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:01:09 +0600 crypto Will, the, Elon, Musk, Prediction, Prove, Right, About, Abundance The Elon Musk prediction everyone is talking about came when the billionaire told The Economist that money will effectively cease to exist as a concept within a decade, and that claim lands like a wrecking ball at the foundation of Bitcoin’s core investment thesis.

Speaking in an interview published in late July 2026, Musk predicted that AI will surpass the combined intelligence of all humanity around 2031 and that humans are unlikely to remain in control of AI by 2036.

The central tension this article unpacks is this: if Musk is right that AI-driven abundance makes money irrelevant, does Bitcoin, the asset explicitly designed around scarcity and sound money, become worthless, or does it evolve into something more durable than an inflation hedge?

Elon Musk Prediction: What Musk Actually Said and What It Assumes

In the Economist interview, editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes summarised the Elon Musk prediction picture as a world in which “money will be irrelevant” because AI-generated abundance will be so extreme that the traditional function of currency collapses.

Musk elaborated separately that he sees money as essentially a “database for labor allocation”; once AI and robots can produce anything anyone needs, that database becomes redundant.

He went further at the World Economic Forum in Davos in early 2026, arguing that AI, robotics, and solar power could unlock economic growth “truly beyond all precedent” and eliminate poverty at scale.

His phrase for the end state: universal high income, not universal basic income paid in cash, but a world of such material surplus that income as a concept dissolves. Michael Burry, the investor famous for his 2008 short, publicly called that specific claim false.

Critically, Musk does not present this as a certainty. He acknowledged that the risk of AI going catastrophically wrong is not zero, with earlier statements placing the probability of a very bad outcome at somewhere between 10 and 20 percent.

Key takeaways from Elon Musk recent interview:

• Humanoid robots will create a quasi-infinite economy. Once you have massive numbers of intelligent robots that can move atoms, the production of goods and services becomes essentially unlimited.

• Money will stop mattering.… pic.twitter.com/lvtVwpRvpx

— maximum (@maximumdegen) July 27, 2026

Bitcoin’s Inflation Hedge Thesis Meets Its Stress Test

Bitcoin’s dominant institutional narrative since 2020 has been built on the assumption that fiat currency would continue to debase, fiscal deficits would persist, and the 21 million fixed supply cap would reward long-term holders.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink has framed Bitcoin as a legitimate store of value in that inflationary context, and firms like Fidelity have published research explicitly linking BTC’s scarcity to a world of ongoing monetary expansion.

The Elon Musk prediction inverts every one of those assumptions. He predicts deflation, not inflation, as AI and robotics push the marginal cost of goods and services toward zero faster than money supplies grow.

If bread, energy, housing, and medical care all effectively approach zero cost through AI-driven production, the inflation-hedge argument for Bitcoin evaporates alongside the inflation itself.

Corporate Bitcoin adoption strategies anchored to the monetary debasement thesis, the model championed most aggressively by MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor, face an especially sharp challenge here.

That entire framework assumes humans continue to earn, save, and allocate capital across decades. Musk is arguing the mechanism itself may not survive the 2030s.

(SOURCE: TradingView)

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Does Scarcity Still Matter When Abundance Arrives?

The more interesting question for crypto investors is whether Bitcoin’s value proposition can survive its own core argument becoming obsolete. Several threads suggest it might, though none are guaranteed.

First, even in a world of material abundance, governance, identity, and cross-jurisdictional coordination do not resolve themselves automatically.

A censorship-resistant, neutral settlement layer, which is what Bitcoin’s base protocol actually is, retains utility for machine-to-machine payments, AI agent transactions, and jurisdictions that distrust centralized AI operators.

Bitcoin’s trajectory alongside gold, as a scarcity asset, becomes less relevant in this framing; its value shifts toward sovereignty infrastructure.

Second, Musk’s own companies, xAI, Tesla, and SpaceX, represent enormous concentrations of the AI and robotics infrastructure he says will produce abundance.

A world where a handful of AI systems control most productive capacity is not obviously post-scarcity for everyone; it may simply relocate scarcity from goods to access and political power. In that world, a neutral, programmable, uncensorable asset like Bitcoin could matter more, not less.

Third, Musk’s critique of OpenAI’s transformation from a nonprofit to an $800Bn for-profit entity with closed-source models illustrates exactly the centralization risk that Bitcoin’s architecture was designed to resist.

His $150Bn lawsuit against OpenAI was dismissed by a California jury in May 2026, but the underlying tension – who controls the most powerful AI systems and on whose terms – is not resolved by a court verdict.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/morgan-stanley-files-staking-etfs-for-eth-and-sol-at-014-fee https://media.ikmoon.com/morgan-stanley-files-staking-etfs-for-eth-and-sol-at-014-fee Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:01:36 +0600 crypto Morgan, Stanley, Files, Staking, ETFs, for, ETH, and, SOL, 0.14, Fee In Morgan Stanley ETF news, the asset manager filed amended S-1 registration statements with the SEC on June 18, 2026, for spot Ethereum and Solana ETFs, both priced at a 0.14% annual sponsor fee, undercutting every existing US competitor in both categories. The filings also introduce staking provisions that turn these into yield-generating instruments rather than passive tracking vehicles.

The central tension this filing forces into the open is that fee pressure that reshaped the Bitcoin ETF market is now arriving simultaneously in ETH and SOL, and incumbent issuers like Grayscale and Franklin Templeton either cut costs or get left behind on price.

This news dropped as Bitcoin surged +1.5% on the day following news that Michael Saylor’s Strategy bought 520 Bitcoin for $35M, prompting a positive market reaction.

Franklin Templeton⁠ has filed for two new bitcoin-linked ETFs: the Franklin US Equity Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF and the Franklin US Innovation Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF.

Both funds would maintain a 95% U.S. equity / 5% bitcoin allocation by automatically reinvesting stock dividends… pic.twitter.com/V5imybEmu3

— Frank Chaparro (@fintechfrank) June 21, 2026

What Morgan Stanley ETF Actually Filed and How the Fee Math Works

The two products – the Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust (proposed ticker: MSSE) and the Morgan Stanley Solana Trust (proposed ticker: MSOL) – are structured as grantor trusts that hold spot ETH and SOL directly.

The 0.14% sponsor fee is calculated on net asset value (NAV), accrues daily, and is paid monthly from trust assets, according to the amended SEC filing. Investors see the fee reflected in the fund’s tracking performance rather than as a separate line-item charge.

That structure mirrors Morgan Stanley’s own spot Bitcoin ETF (MSBT), which launched at the same 0.14% rate, making a consistent platform-wide pricing strategy across all three assets.

The bank first filed for these products in January 2026; the June amendments represent at least a second round of revisions as it works through SEC review of staking mechanics and fee structure.

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Staking Provisions: Where These ETFs Go Beyond Simple Spot Exposure

Staking is the mechanism that distinguishes these filings from those of a standard spot ETF. When a blockchain like Ethereum or Solana uses proof-of-stake consensus, the system by which validators lock up tokens to confirm transactions and secure the network, token holders can earn yield on their holdings in return.

Morgan Stanley’s filings direct 95% of those staking rewards back to fund shareholders, with the remaining 5% allocated to named infrastructure providers: Figment Inc, Galaxy Blockchain Infrastructure LLC, and Coinbase Canada Inc.

This structure effectively provides both ETFs with yield-enhanced spot exposure, which is particularly significant for Solana, where native on-chain staking yields are meaningfully higher than Ethereum’s.

A CoinMarketCap Academy analysis noted that Morgan Stanley is “forcing competitors to either cut costs or enhance their own value-add,” particularly around staking and liquidity services.

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The Fee Comparison: How Morgan Stanley Stacks Up Against Rivals

(SOURCE: CoinGlass)

At 14 basis points (one basis point equals 0.01 percentage point), Morgan Stanley undercuts every existing US spot ETH and SOL product. Grayscale’s Mini Ethereum Trust, already a response to fee pressure in the Ethereum ETF category, charges a 0.15% fee. Franklin Templeton’s Solana ETF sits at 0.19%, meaning Morgan Stanley undercuts it by five full basis points.

Those numbers may look narrow in isolation. At scale, among institutional allocators operating under strict fee caps or pension mandates, even a one-basis-point difference can materially affect net returns and determine which fund captures new inflows.

That is exactly how the Bitcoin ETF fee war played out after spot BTC products launched in January 2024, with TradFi issuers racing toward the floor to win assets under management. The same dynamic now has a second front.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/are-ethereum-validators-vitalik-buterins-new-cash-cow https://media.ikmoon.com/are-ethereum-validators-vitalik-buterins-new-cash-cow Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:01:32 +0600 crypto Are, Ethereum, Validators, Vitalik, Buterin’s, New, Cash, Cow In Ethereum news today, a new governance proposal would force Ethereum validators to redirect up to 10% of their ETH staking rewards toward ecosystem funding, and if a majority of validators signal support, every validator on the network gets swept in, whether they voted for it or not.

At current staking levels, that mechanism could channel approximately $120M worth of ETH annually into public goods projects that have historically struggled to attract consistent funding.

The central tension this story unpacks is that a protocol-level tax on validator rewards may solve Ethereum’s chronic free-rider problem, but it creates new risks of cartelization, yield dilution for ordinary ETH holders, and a governance structure that critics argue looks uncomfortably close to a 51% takeover in slow motion.

Ethereum News Today: What the VRR Proposal Actually Does

The Validator Redirected Revenue (VRR) mechanism, introduced by Devansh Mehta from the Ethereum Foundation in April 2026, addresses the free-rider problem in Ethereum.

It allows validators to set a redirect rate between 0% and 10% of their staking rewards, effectively serving as a charitable payroll deduction. If 51% or more of validators choose a non-zero rate, it becomes mandatory for all.

Redirected funds are managed by a “splitter” contract that allocates resources to recipient addresses, such as Gitcoin or security audit organizations, based on validators’ preferences. This concept builds on the existing gas-limit signaling model used by validators to support the network.

The Numbers Behind the Proposal

In other Ethereum news, validators currently earn roughly 700,000 ETH per year in staking rewards, according to figures cited in the VRR research post. A redirect rate of 5% to 10% would divert approximately 35,000 to 70,000 ETH annually toward ecosystem funding, worth around $85M to $120M at ETH’s current market price of $1,746.

The 10% ceiling is not an arbitrary figure. The VRR post frames it as a Schelling point, a focal number people converge on when explicit coordination is difficult, referencing the historical tithe norm as a cultural anchor for what a “reasonable” contribution looks like.

The proposal addresses a genuine funding gap. The Ethereum Foundation has historically stepped in when ecosystem projects are underfunded, in some cases selling ETH from the treasury to cover costs.

In 2026, the EF staked 70,000 ETH specifically to fund operations through validator yield rather than asset liquidations, a workaround that VRR would make structurally unnecessary if adopted.

Understanding the current dynamics of Ethereum staking and validator economics helps clarify why the Foundation has been looking for alternatives to ad hoc treasury drawdowns.

Lefteris Warns Validator Funding Plan Could Create Staking Cartel

Rotki founder and Ethereum developer @LefterisJP opposed a proposal to fund Ethereum core development through validator rewards, arguing it could create a cartel among large stakers capable of diverting up to… pic.twitter.com/uoKpj1OcZ2

— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) June 22, 2026

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Ethereum News: Three Risks That Could Sink It

The proposal has drawn immediate scrutiny on three fronts. The first is validator cartelization: if a coordinated bloc of validators crosses the 51% threshold, they could push the redirect rate to its 10% ceiling and route funds to themselves or politically aligned groups, effectively turning a public-goods mechanism into a validator subsidy scheme.

The second risk sits in the gap between staking operators and the ETH holders who delegate to them. The majority of staked ETH does not sit with individuals running their own validators. It flows through liquid staking protocols such as Lido and Rocket Pool, or through centralized exchanges.

In that model, the operator sets the redirect preference, but the yield reduction comes directly out of the rewards owed to the delegating ETH holder. Institutional validator revenue structures, including those built into Ethereum staking pass-through mechanisms within ETF products, would face the same principal-agent tension at scale.

Third is the issuance argument. If validators are willing to voluntarily give up a portion of their yield, critics contend that Ethereum should simply reduce issuance rather than route that value through a new funding mechanism – a cleaner solution that avoids governance risk entirely.

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ETH Price and What Comes Next

$ETH looking good here around $1700

Most people aren't looking when the asset is cheap

They rather FOMO back in when it reached the top range again. Nothing changed except more institutional adoption

Big banks are building on Ethereum the financial layer pic.twitter.com/eAOpwaECcG

— Seth (@seth_fin) June 22, 2026

VRR’s relationship to ETH price cuts both ways. A well-funded ecosystem could accelerate developer activity, increase network usage, and drive more ETH burn under EIP-1559 (Ethereum’s fee-burning mechanism, active since August 2021, which permanently removes a portion of each transaction fee from circulation).

That chain of effects supports a higher ETH valuation over time. The near-term trade-off, however, is a lower staking APY for the validator ecosystem and for the staking supply metrics that institutional and retail stakers track closely.

The proposal carries no EIP number and no scheduled hard fork; it would require a hard fork to both encode the redirect rate and specify recipient addresses, making implementation a multi-year question at minimum.

Mehta and the Ethereum Research community have framed VRR as a starting point for discussion, not a finished specification. Whether it survives the gauntlet of validator operators, client developers, and core researchers skeptical of new coordination mechanisms remains entirely open.

The most immediate question is not whether VRR gets approved. It is whether the Ethereum community can design a version that funds the ecosystem without handing a 51% validator coalition the keys to a $120M annual budget.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/crypto-news-today-june-23-btc-crashes-below-63k-metaplanet-removed-from-sp-japan-rwa-market-hits-51bn https://media.ikmoon.com/crypto-news-today-june-23-btc-crashes-below-63k-metaplanet-removed-from-sp-japan-rwa-market-hits-51bn Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:01:27 +0600 crypto Crypto, News, Today, June, 23:, BTC, Crashes, Below, 63K, Metaplanet, Removed, From, S&P, Japan, RWA, Market, Hits, 51Bn In crypto news today (June 23), Bitcoin has crashed below $63,000, sparking fears that a drop to $60,000 is imminent. ETF flows are dictating current price action once again, with three consecutive red days, and yesterday alone saw $68M BTC sold.

Liquidations have also picked up, with over $575M over the past 24-hours and $458M of that figure coming from long positions. Liquidations, mostly from longs, signal that the market is back in a downtrend, but bulls have yet to accept that truth.

Chainlink (LINK) and Monero (XMR) are two of the only major caps in the green today, each up around +2.5%, highlighting strength while the broader market bleeds. Trading volume has dropped off considerably, sitting at $68Bn over the past 24-hours, down from over $110Bn just two days ago.

With Bitcoin and the broader market continuing to bleed, the Fear & Greed Index remains at 23/100, maintaining the 20-25 range over the last seven days and indicating a lack of clear direction across crypto.

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Crypto News Today: Metaplanet Dropped From the S&P Japan Index as its Bitcoin Treasury Strategy Faces Pressure

Metaplanet has been removed from the S&P Japan Mid Cap 100, marking a setback for a company whose market profile had risen sharply due to its aggressive Bitcoin treasury strategy. The Tokyo-listed firm is now working to keep shareholders engaged through a Bitcoin rewards program, even as its stock has declined significantly this year.

S&P Dow Jones Indices removed Metaplanet from the S&P Japan Mid Cap 100 as part of a rebalancing effort. The company had previously joined the index after successful trading linked to its strategy of accumulating Bitcoin, making it Asia’s largest corporate Bitcoin treasury firm, according to CoinGape.

This removal follows a significant drop in the company’s stock price. Over the past month, Metaplanet’s shares have fallen by -21% and are down -44% year-to-date, despite the company expanding beyond passive Bitcoin accumulation to include income-generating businesses and Bitcoin-linked financial products. Recently, it also acquired Siiibo Securities as part of this broader initiative.

Most people still think Metaplanet $MPJPY $MTPLF is just "Japan's" $MSTR.

They're missing the bigger picture.

Metaplanet isn't copying Strategy.

It's building a global Bitcoin capital machine that could become impossible to compete with.

In this conversation with… pic.twitter.com/2SO5nKrovm

— One Chair (@OneChairPod) June 21, 2026

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Tokenized RWA Market Tops $51Bn Following +40% Growth in 2026

In other crypto news today, the market capitalization of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) has exceeded $51Bn, reflecting a 40% increase since the start of 2026. According to analysts, this sector continues to grow despite a 20% decline in the broader cryptocurrency market, indicating rising institutional interest.

Per a Bernstein research note, private credit accounts for nearly half of the tokenized RWA market, at 47%. Tokenized US Treasuries rank second, accounting for approximately 30% of total market capitalization, while commodities account for an additional 9%.

(SOURCE: CoinGecko)

Most activity in this space is concentrated on the Provenance and Ethereum networks, which together represent over 70% of all tokenized assets. Furthermore, the number of RWA holders has increased by about 60% since the beginning of the year, surpassing 917,000.

Analysts have identified tokenized equities as the fastest-growing segment of the market. Since the start of the year, its capitalization has more than doubled, rising from $700M to $1.6Bn.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/bitcoin-news-digital-dollar-blocked-to-2030-while-staking-tax-bill-stalls-in-congress https://media.ikmoon.com/bitcoin-news-digital-dollar-blocked-to-2030-while-staking-tax-bill-stalls-in-congress Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:01:23 +0600 crypto Bitcoin, News:, Digital, Dollar, Blocked, 2030, While, Staking, Tax, Bill, Stalls, Congress In Bitcoin news today, Congress is simultaneously drawing two boundary lines around US digital money: one blocking the Federal Reserve from issuing a government-controlled digital dollar, and another shaping how miners and stakers pay crypto tax on rewards they earn but may not yet be able to spend.

Both moves landed in the same week, and together they sketch the clearest picture yet of where Washington wants the digital asset ecosystem to sit.

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:01:19 +0600 crypto XRP, Ripple, ETF, Inflows, Hit, 1.35Bn:, Why, Hasn’t, XRP, Price, Broken, Out XRP Ripple is sitting at $1.10, down -3% today. Seven consecutive weeks of net inflows into spot ETFs have pushed cumulative institutional demand to $1.35Bn, yet the price has not broken out.

That gap between sustained buying and sideways price action is the central tension every XRP holder needs to understand right now, with XRP falling closer and closer to $1.

The broader crypto market is recovering on Monday, helped in part by early diplomatic progress between the United States and Iran toward a 60-day peace framework.

That macro tailwind has lifted sentiment, but XRP’s own story is more structural than geopolitical. The ETF bid is real, persistent, and measurable. The question is whether it is a floor or a launching pad.

(SOURCE: CoinGlass)

XRP Ripple News: The ETF Inflow Streak in Context

US spot XRP ETFs launched in November 2025, providing investors with a regulated way to access XRP without holding it on a crypto exchange. This was bolstered on March 17, 2026, when the SEC and CFTC classified XRP as a digital commodity, similar to Bitcoin and Ethereum, alleviating previous legal concerns for Ripple.

Since the classification, ETF inflows have been steady, accumulating $1.45Bn in net demand over seven weeks, with an average AUM of $995M. The latest weekly inflow was $11M, significant given that most other crypto ETFs were experiencing outflows.

For the week ending June 12, XRP ETFs saw about $10.68M in inflows while Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana funds faced net outflows. This relative strength amidst a declining market is noteworthy, even if the absolute figures are modest.

Why the Price Has Not Followed the Money

The uncomfortable truth from the inflow data reveals that $1.45Bn in cumulative ETF demand hasn’t led to a sustained price increase for XRP, which peaked at $2.40 in January 2026 and has since dropped about 45%, settling in the $1.10–$1.30 range.

Despite strong ETF inflows during this downturn, institutions appear to be taking “placeholder” positions rather than fully committing.

XRP exchange reserves have plummeted to a seven-year low, indicating that much of the circulating supply has moved into ETF custody and long-term wallets, which is bullish for the long term but reduces active trading supply, compressing volatility.

Additionally, the derivatives market reflects caution, with open interest at $2.55Bn, 77% lower than July’s record, suggesting limited leveraged bets on XRP’s price. Without significant support from derivatives, price breakouts are unlikely to sustain momentum.

GM CT!$XRP is approaching a long-term descending trendline that has acted as a key reaction zone multiple times before.

A successful defense here could spark a strong reversal, while a breakdown may open the door to lower levels. Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:01:16 +0600 crypto China, Crypto:, PBOC’s, Crypto, Crackdown, and, Xiaowei, Signal, China’s, Digital, Future China delivered a two-part signal to the crypto market this week: Tencent began testing Xiaowei, a native AI agent embedded in WeChat’s 1.4 billion-user platform, while the PBOC (People’s Bank of China) published a sweeping review of its anti-money-laundering enforcement.

It reported more than 2,000 money-laundering convictions in 2025 alone and named virtual-currency laundering a top enforcement priority heading into the next five-year policy cycle.

The two developments are not coincidental. Together, they sketch a clear picture of where China wants its digital economy to go – and where it emphatically does not.

Tencent and Ant Group are both making fresh consumer AI platform moves, even as OpenAI's margins worsen. 未尽研究 · Weijin Research maps the distinct logic: Tencent is wiring agents into its social graph and mini-program layer, while Ant is embedding skills into its financial… pic.twitter.com/WqSeRjs5aW

— Tech Buzz China (@TechBuzzChina) June 23, 2026

China’s Anti-Money Laundering Crackdown Goes Deeper on Crypto

The PBOC’s policy document highlights that criminals are increasingly using virtual currencies and new technologies to hide and transfer illicit funds.

In 2025, Chinese courts issued over 2,000 judgments for money laundering, with illicit crypto laundering estimated at $82Bn globally; Chinese networks accounted for $16.1Bn.

In response, China enhanced enforcement through a revised Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Law and established a beneficial ownership reporting system in 2024 to combat shell companies.

In February 2026, the PBOC and other agencies extended regulations to include offshore stablecoins and tokenized assets, designating various crypto activities as illegal. This approach reflects a broader crackdown on crypto-related financial crime beyond China’s borders.

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Xiaowei on WeChat: An AML Tool in Disguise?

We got early access to WeChat's new AI assistant "Xiaowei" and ran an initial test. Xiaowei says it's built by the WeChat team, runs on their in-house Chinese LLM WeLM, with DeepSeek handling some responses.
Users activate it manually. From there, Xiaowei can set calendar events,… pic.twitter.com/vHhqwJABeJ

— X.PIN (@thexpin) June 23, 2026

Tencent’s Xiaowei WeChat AI agent, currently in small-scale testing, supports text and voice interaction and can open WeChat mini-programs, the built-in apps that power payments, merchant transactions, bookings, and dozens of daily services.

Tencent has not disclosed the underlying model, but the strategic logic is straightforward: embed an AI agent into the world’s most data-rich super-app and let it operate exclusively on state-approved payment rails, including WeChat Pay and the PBOC’s own e-CNY (China’s central bank digital currency, also known as the digital yuan).

That architecture is the opposite of pseudonymous crypto. Every Xiaowei interaction takes place in a fully KYC’d (Know Your Customer, identity-verified) environment where behavioral data flows to Tencent and, by extension, to regulators. For the PBOC, an AI agent that nudges 1.4 billion users toward e-CNY and away from unregulated virtual currency is a compliance asset, not a competitor.

The contrast with Russia’s simultaneous move to embrace crypto for state purposes, detailed in Russia’s July 2026 crypto law, illustrates how sharply major powers are diverging on digital asset strategy even as they share concerns about financial crime.

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China Crypto: One Nuanced Signal From the PBOC

(SOURCE: CoinGecko)

Not every signal from Beijing is restrictive. Wang Xin, director-general of the Research Bureau at the PBOC, said at the Lujiazui Forum on June 17 that stablecoins “could assume a larger role in international payments in the future” and called for regulatory coordination and international cooperation. That is a notable concession from a central bank that has otherwise spent five years tightening the perimeter of Chinese crypto regulation.

Liu Guixiang, a member of the judicial committee of China’s Supreme People’s Court, added in May that courts would conduct further research into adjudication standards for virtual currency disputes, a sign that the legal framework around crypto is still being written, not permanently closed.

For retail investors, the read is straightforward: China is not softening on open crypto flows, but it has not ruled out a state-controlled digital asset layer built around e-CNY and tightly supervised stablecoins. Xiaowei is the delivery mechanism for that future. Unregulated virtual currency is not invited.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/ripple-joins-210-mica-compliant-firms-days-before-eu-hard-deadline https://media.ikmoon.com/ripple-joins-210-mica-compliant-firms-days-before-eu-hard-deadline Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:01:12 +0600 crypto Ripple, Joins, 210, MiCA-Compliant, Firms, Days, Before, Hard, Deadline In XRP news today, Ripple has received a preliminary ‘Green Light Letter’ for its Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), the country’s financial regulator, under the EU’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation, announced June 23, 2026.

The approval, still subject to final conditions, covers all 30 countries of the European Economic Area and arrives just eight days before the July 1, 2026, hard deadline, after which unlicensed crypto firms operating in the EU are in breach of MiCA rules.

This positive news for Ripple dropped as XRP fell -2.9% overnight, and is sitting right on support at $1.10 with a daily trading volume of $1.56Bn as the broader market continues to bleed.

Ripple Lands MiCA License In Luxembourg To Serve All 30 EEA Countries

Ripple (@Ripple) has received preliminary CASP approval from Luxembourg's financial regulator, the CSSF, under the EU's MiCA framework.

The green light gives Ripple regulated access to all 30 European… pic.twitter.com/2R119uGJZe

— BSCN (@BSCNews) June 23, 2026

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What the CASP License Actually Unlocks

The CASP license, which authorizes firms to provide crypto asset services, including exchange, transfer, and custody, on behalf of clients, is the second piece of a two-part regulatory structure that Ripple has been assembling in Luxembourg.

Combined with its existing EU Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license, it means European banks, fintechs, and corporates can access Ripple’s full payment stack, collect, exchange, and pay out – through a single integration for the first time.

That combination matters for RLUSD, Ripple’s stablecoin, which had grown past $300M in circulation as of Q1 2026, according to DeFiLlama. The paired EMI and CASP authorizations create a pathway for European clients to issue and redeem RLUSD under MiCA’s stablecoin framework.

Ripple Payments, the cross-border crypto payments platform underpinning these services, has processed more than $100Bn in volume to date and operates across 60-plus markets globally, according to Ripple.

The approval is preliminary, not final. A Green Light Letter is the CSSF’s signal that a firm has met the substantive requirements, but full authorization, and with it, the ability to formally passport services across the EEA, follows only once all remaining conditions are satisfied. Ripple went through this same two-step process with its EMI license: Green Light in January 2026, full authorization by February 2, 2026.

GM CT!$XRP is approaching a long-term descending trendline that has acted as a key reaction zone multiple times before.

A successful defense here could spark a strong reversal, while a breakdown may open the door to lower levels. Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:01:08 +0600 crypto BlackRock, Bitcoin, News:, BTC, 62K, and, How, Institutions, Play, Their, Part In BlackRock Bitcoin news today, BTC USD price is sitting near $62,240, roughly halfway back from the peak it set just eight months ago, and Wall Street’s two most powerful asset managers have reached opposite conclusions about what that means for the next 12 months.

The central tension this article unpacks is whether the next wave of institutional capital flows into Bitcoin as a sovereign-debt hedge or into AI equities as the defining growth trade of the decade.

BlackRock’s head of digital assets, Robert Mitchnick, and JPMorgan’s chief, Jamie Dimon, are not having a theoretical argument. Both institutions manage trillions in client assets, and their public positioning shapes what gets bought.

The split between them is, in practical terms, a directional bet on where hundreds of billions of institutional capital will land before the end of 2026.

Where Bitcoin Stands Right Now

$BTC took 65K liquidity and dumped.

The short from yesterdays Bitcoin analysis played out perfectly, GG if you took it.

Watching the reaction at 65K/66K was the plan, I entered around 65.1K after my trigger and took 60% of the profit here.

For new trades, we're trading… pic.twitter.com/JeL15MUDjp

— Lennaert Snyder (@LennaertSnyder) June 23, 2026

Bitcoin’s current price of approximately $62,300 represents a -49% drawdown from its October 2025 record of $126,080. That decline is not noise; it is the backdrop against which the entire BlackRock-versus-JPMorgan debate takes place.

The drop in the Bitcoin ETF outflows tells the same story in flow-of-funds terms. Spot Bitcoin ETF products have shed $6.4Bn since May 7, according to research firm NYDIG, with only two positive flow days recorded over that period.

Stablecoin balances, effectively the cash sitting in crypto waiting rooms, have dropped a further $8Bn since May 22. Neither metric suggests institutional conviction is building.

Greg Cipolaro, analyst at NYDIG, noted that Bitcoin’s historically weakest months are August and September. That seasonal headwind arrives before the midterm debate BlackRock is counting on as a catalyst, which means the burden-of-proof window for the Bitcoin bull case is narrower than it looks on a calendar.

BlackRock Bitcoin Thesis: Debt Fear Is the Catalyst

BlackRock’s perspective on Bitcoin is structural, not driven by momentum. Mitchnick notes that Bitcoin has lagged not due to a failing macro outlook but because AI has attracted attention and capital that could have gone to Bitcoin.

He believes that as US deficit discussions heat up ahead of the 2026 midterms, investment will shift back to Bitcoin, especially as fears about borrowing and monetary policy rise.

BlackRock’s IBIT, the largest spot Bitcoin ETF, held about 774,000 BTC as of 2026 and is the fastest-growing exchange-traded product ever.

In June 2026, BlackRock launched the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA), which writes covered calls on a portion of its IBIT portfolio for income. CIO Rick Rieder expects Bitcoin to trend “considerably higher” over the long term, while maintaining moderate exposure given other attractive investment opportunities.

BlackRock views its digital asset strategy as focused on financial infrastructure modernization rather than mere price speculation. The company’s 2026 Thematic Outlook highlights crypto alongside AI and energy infrastructure as key themes reshaping markets, with crypto as a secondary focus.

(SOURCE: CoinGlass)

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Dimon’s Counter: AI Is Already the Tsunami

Jamie Dimon does not frame AI investment as a speculative wave. He frames it as an embedded productivity transformation that is already priced into corporate earnings, capital expenditure budgets, and hiring decisions across every major sector.

“We’re in a bull market. It’s like a little tsunami. When that kind of thing happens, it’s very hard to stop,” Dimon said.

The data supporting that view is hard to dismiss. AI spending is on track for roughly $700Bn in 2026. US unemployment stands at 4.3%, consistent with a late-cycle expansion rather than an imminent contraction.

The S&P 500 cleared 7,600 for the first time in early June, led by AI-exposed names. That is the environment in which Dimon is arguing investors should stay positioned in growth equities rather than rotate into a macro hedge.

Dimon has historically dismissed Bitcoin; he once called it a fraud, but his current position is more nuanced. He acknowledged that geopolitical and fiscal risks are building beneath the surface over the next one to two years. That caveat is, notably, structurally compatible with Mitchnick’s midterm thesis. The disagreement is about timing and magnitude, not the existence of the risk itself.

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JPMorgan’s Institutional Behavior Contradicts Dimon’s Rhetoric

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:01:05 +0600 crypto Crypto, News, Today, June, 24:, BTC, Struggling, Reclaim, 63K, THORChain, Resumes, Trading, and, Chainlink, Joins, Bank, Stablecoin, Push In crypto news today (June 24), Bitcoin is struggling to reclaim $63,000, and this weakness has sparked fears that a drop to $60,000 is coming next. Although BTC/USD is stuck in a tight range, Michael Saylor’s Strategy has begun buying Bitcoin again.

Liquidations have cooled off from yesterday, with just $346M picked up, down from over $ 575M. Of that $346M figure, $278M was liquidations of long positions.

While BTC and ETH are down -0.5% and -1% in the past 24-hours, respectively, SUI and AVAX are two of the only major caps in the green today. SUI is up +2% while AVAX is up +3.5% since yesterday. Trading volume has picked up slightly since yesterday, now at $76Bn, up from $68Bn.

With Bitcoin and the broader market continuing to bleed, the Fear & Greed Index dropped to 17/100, falling below the 20-25 range that had held steady over the past week and indicating a fresh wave of investor concern.

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Crypto News Today: THORChain Resumes Operations Following $11M Exploit

THORChain has resumed trading after more than five weeks of downtime. On Tuesday, the decentralized cross-chain liquidity protocol announced it had restored operations, ending the pause triggered by a May exploit.

According to the team, transaction signing, liquidity provider actions, and swaps are now available again. THORChain positions itself as the world’s leading decentralized exchange for Bitcoin, allowing users to swap native assets across different blockchains without the need to wrap tokens or rely on centralized intermediaries for bridging.

Trading on THORChain was halted on May 15 after blockchain investigator ZachXBT and the security firm PeckShield reported a suspected exploit affecting Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Base.

This vulnerability led to the withdrawal of approximately $10.7M from one of the protocol’s Asgard vaults, while the other five vaults remained unaffected.

THORChain is Back Online Following May Exploit

After more than a month offline, @THORChain has resumed trading.

According to the protocol, signing, churning, securing, and trading assets, LP actions, and swaps are all up and running.

The Bitcoin DEX got hit back in May,… pic.twitter.com/8lpjPB9p1B

— BSCN (@BSCNews) June 23, 2026

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Chainlink Joins 47 European and South Korean Banks to Speed up Stablecoin Payments

In other crypto news today, Chainlink has joined Project Pangea, a collaboration of 47 banks aiming to enhance cross-border payments with stablecoins. The initiative seeks to reduce foreign exchange settlement times from two days to near-instant execution.

It involves the European banking consortium Qivalis and South Korea’s UniKA alliance, which together manage over $10 trillion in assets, highlighting the significance of this project and Chainlink’s involvement.

Focusing on the Europe–South Korea trade corridor, with over $150Bn in annual trade, banks will use euro- and Korean won-denominated stablecoins for real-time settlement of transactions.

The Payment-versus-Payment (PvP) model will enable simultaneous currency exchanges, lowering both settlement risk and liquidity requirements, a key feature for the project.

Importantly, the initiative will be compatible with existing infrastructures such as SWIFT and ISO 20022, leveraging Chainlink for interoperability with blockchain systems.

Another day, another proof point of Chainlink powering real-world TradFi use cases Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:01:01 +0600 crypto Binance, XRP, Outflows, Signal, Accumulation, While, MoneyGram’s, Stellar, Move, Old, News In XRP news today, withdrawal transactions on Binance accounted for 53.8% of total XRP transaction activity over a seven-day rolling period ending June 23, 2026, the highest reading since June 2024, according to CryptoQuant, the on-chain analytics platform.

That streak of seven consecutive days where XRP withdrawals outpaced deposits landed against a backdrop of XRP trading near $1.10, close to recent lows, and a news cycle dominated by MoneyGram choosing Stellar for its new stablecoin.

The two storylines are colliding in the XRP community discussion, but they tell different stories. One is a behavioral signal in the exchange flow data. The other is a narrative wound with roots going back years, not days.

@MoneyGram has been quietly building on blockchain for over five years. Now, with its own stablecoin (MGUSD), a Kraken partnership, a validator seat on the Tempo network, and $2B+ in stablecoin settlements already running — the pace is accelerating.

CEO @anthonysoohoo joins… pic.twitter.com/DAlAFoClmP

— Converge (@ConvergeDefiant) June 23, 2026

XRP News: What the Binance Withdrawal Data Actually Says

The CryptoQuant metric tracking exchange flows on Binance measures the frequency of withdrawals versus deposits, rather than the raw dollar value of XRP moved. A rise in withdrawal transactions indicates more individual withdrawals than deposits, often reflecting holders moving XRP to cold storage or ETF custody rather than a single outflow event.

Deposits on Binance dropped to 46.1% of total XRP activity, the lowest level since 2024, creating a 7.7-percentage-point divergence. Between June 3 and June 14, about 722 million XRP left exchanges, with approximately 425 million from Binance.

CryptoQuant data from early 2026 linked ongoing exchange outflows to XRP ETF net inflows, which had absorbed around $1.4Bn by March 2026, indicating institutional accumulation.

CryptoQuant analysts advised that the withdrawal dominance reading should not be seen as a direct buy-or-sell signal. The data suggests a gradual supply removal rather than panic selling, indicating a quiet supply squeeze rather than abrupt market moves. For detailed mechanics on ETF inflows and their impact on XRP’s market structure, additional analysis is available.

(SOURCE: CoinGlass)

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MoneyGram Chose Stellar, but the Ripple Breakup Happened in 2021

MoneyGram launched MGUSD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin, on the Stellar blockchain in June 2026. Utilizing Stripe’s Bridge platform for issuance, M0 smart contracts for the token layer, and Fireblocks for wallet management.

The non-custodial wallet is integrated into the MoneyGram app. This allows users to easily transfer dollars across Stellar and convert them to local currency at approximately 500,000 physical locations.

Contrary to reports, this move does not represent a shift from Ripple to Stellar. MoneyGram and Ripple partnered between 2019 and 2021, with Ripple investing around $50 million and using its On-Demand Liquidity service.

However, as Ripple’s legal issues escalated, MoneyGram ceased using this service, and by 2026, XRP had not been part of its transactions for years.

MoneyGram’s launch of MGUSD on Stellar builds on its existing service, MoneyGram Access, which facilitated cash-to-USDC transfers on Stellar. This is an extension of the company’s infrastructure, not a new direction.

The relationship is symbolic, considering Stellar’s co-founder, Jed McCaleb, previously co-founded Ripple, and both networks have long targeted the same cross-border settlement space. Ultimately, this impacts the narrative rather than any current revenue stream.

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The Bigger Threat Is the Stablecoin Model Itself

XRP is unaffected by the launch of MGUSD on Stellar, as it already saw no flow from MoneyGram. The real threat to Ripple lies in MoneyGram issuing its own USD-backed stablecoin.

This enables it to capture reserves that earn yield, incentivizing payment firms to favor its dollar rail over bridge assets. Ripple is not idle, as it is developing its own dollar stablecoin, RLUSD, and forming partnerships, such as one with Flutterwave for Africa.

The U.S. regulatory framework has made launching compliant stablecoins a viable option for payment firms. While XLM benefits from MGUSD’s visibility, the true advantage lies in the stablecoin structure rather than any specific bridge token.

For XRP holders, the focus should be on accumulation trends, as the impact of proprietary stablecoins on the broader bridge-token narrative and new institutional partnerships remains to be seen.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/orion-expands-hsbc-bring-dirham-onto-corporate-blockchain https://media.ikmoon.com/orion-expands-hsbc-bring-dirham-onto-corporate-blockchain Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:00:57 +0600 crypto Orion, Expands:, HSBC, Bring, Dirham, onto, Corporate, Blockchain HSBC Bank Middle East Limited has launched a live tokenized deposit service in the UAE, adding the UAE dirham to its HSBC Orion blockchain network and giving eligible corporate clients instant, around-the-clock access to cross-border liquidity, a production deployment, not a pilot.

The dirham becomes the sixth fiat currency on Orion, joining the euro, British pound, US dollar, Hong Kong dollar, and Singapore dollar, highlighting the recent strength shown by the UAE’s national currency.

This institutional adoption news dropped as Bitcoin sits fairly flat on the day, up a modest +0.4% in the past 24 hours, although the world’s largest digital asset is struggling to reclaim $63,000 and is currently trading for $62,700.

$BTC is currently in the sideways zone.

Either a full reclaim of $65,000 is needed or a sweep of the $60,500-$61,000 zone.

Given the $62,000 level is holding so far, Bitcoin could move towards the upside target first. pic.twitter.com/nq8OG2LXUf

— Ted (@TedPillows) June 24, 2026

What the HSBC Bank Tokenized Deposit Service Actually Does

Tokenized deposits work by representing a conventional bank deposit as a digital token on a permissioned blockchain, meaning the underlying funds stay inside the regulated banking system, but they move with the speed and programmability of crypto rails.

Corporate treasury teams can shift funds instantly between subsidiaries and across borders, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, without waiting for correspondent banking windows to open.

The service is built on Orion, HSBC’s proprietary distributed ledger platform, a private, permissioned network rather than a public chain. Eligible corporate and institutional clients can onboard immediately, subject to UAE regulatory approvals and standard know-your-customer documentation requirements.

Mohamed Al Marzooqi, chief executive officer of HSBC UAE, said the rollout reflects both local regulatory readiness and genuine corporate demand. “The introduction of tokenized deposits to the UAE is a reflection of the maturity of the local regulatory environment when it comes to digital finance and the genuine demand from corporates operating in and through this market for more capable treasury tools,” Al Marzooqi said.

HSBC Launches Tokenised Deposit Service in the UAE https://t.co/0J0fdGwp1r #fintech #middleeast

— Fintech News UAE (@MeFintech) June 23, 2026

Orion’s Track Record in Digital Bonds

The UAE launch is the latest step in a multi-year build-out of HSBC’s digital asset infrastructure. Orion powered a $1.3Bn-equivalent multicurrency digital green bond issuance for the Hong Kong government.

It is being described as the largest digital bond of its kind at the time, and facilitated the European Investment Bank’s first bond denominated in British pounds on a blockchain.

The UK government selected Orion as the platform provider for its sovereign Digital Gilt Instrument pilot program in February 2026. Kyle Boag, regional head of global payments solutions for HSBC Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye, said demand for real-time infrastructure continues to accelerate.

“The demand for instant, secure, always-on liquidity solutions is only increasing as businesses seek to compete in a globalized and highly digitalized world,” Boag said.

Why Retail Crypto Readers Should Pay Attention

(SOURCE: CoinGecko)

For traders tracking the real-world assets narrative, this matters. Tokenized deposits issued by a Tier-1 bank on a permissioned network function as a regulated stablecoin alternative for institutional flows, bank-grade credit backing, regulatory oversight, but crypto-like settlement speed.

The RWA market has already surpassed $51Bn, and HSBC’s move into the UAE adds a major institutional pillar to that figure. The UAE’s embrace of on-chain fiat, from HSBC’s dirham tokenization to broader tokenization initiatives across the Gulf, reinforces the region’s positioning as a regulated hub for corporate crypto adoption.

That regulatory maturity is precisely what draws institutional capital, and institutional capital is what gives blockchain-based financial infrastructure long-term durability beyond the hype cycle.

The broader RWA and tokenization trend is also reshaping payment corridors. Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin is expanding cross-chain into new markets along similar rails, signaling that both bank-issued and protocol-native tokenized fiat are converging on the same institutional use cases.

HSBC bank has signaled plans to extend Orion to additional jurisdictions and to layer programmable payment and treasury automation capabilities atop the deposit infrastructure, suggesting the dirham launch is a waypoint, not a destination, in the broader on-chain cash management buildout.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/strategys-14b-cash-race-can-saylor-rescue-strc-before-its-too-late https://media.ikmoon.com/strategys-14b-cash-race-can-saylor-rescue-strc-before-its-too-late Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:00:54 +0600 crypto Strategy’s, 1.4B, Cash, Race:, Can, Saylor, Rescue, STRC, Before, It’s, Too, Late On June 23, CryptoQuant research analyst Julio Moreno issued a pointed recommendation: MicroStrategy (ticker: MSTR) should stop buying Bitcoin and rebuild its cash buffer before its preferred stock collapses further. The advice was sound. It was also two weeks late.

What CryptoQuant Actually Said

Moreno’s case is built on hard numbers. Strategy’s annualized dividend obligations have nearly quadrupled to $1.2 billion in 2026, according to CryptoQuant data. Over the same period, its USD cash reserve, the buffer funding those payments, dropped 38%.

The stress is visible in STRC, Strategy’s variable-rate preferred stock that was marketed as a stable instrument near its $100 par value. STRC slid to a record low of $82.50 last week, a 17.5% discount to par. That gap tells you the market has started pricing real tail risk into the capital structure.

Overstretched: Strategy Needs To Stop Buying Bitcoin, Rebuild Its Cash Reserve, And Get More Strategic About Timinghttps://t.co/efZhSOuG7a

— Julio Moreno (@jjcmoreno) June 23, 2026

“The company’s strategic priority should be to pause Bitcoin purchases and rebuild its cash reserve,” Moreno said. CryptoQuant’s math shows dividend coverage has collapsed from more than seven years to roughly 14 months. The firm estimates the reserve must reach approximately $2.8 billion, equivalent to 24 months of coverage, before STRC can recover meaningfully.

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Michael Saylor Had Already Read the Room

Michael Saylor and his team did not wait for the CryptoQuant report. The pivot showed up in Strategy’s own weekly purchase disclosures. In the week ending June 22, the company bought just 520 Bitcoin for approximately $35 million, a fraction of its historical pace, while simultaneously raising $335.5 million through common stock sales and routing $300 million of that directly into its USD reserve.

That lifted the reserve to $1.4 billion and pushed the total Bitcoin treasury to 847,363 BTC. The prior week, Strategy had bought 1,587 BTC but still directed most of its fresh capital toward cash. Across both weeks, the company was raising far more than it was spending on Bitcoin.

Strategy has increased its USD Reserve by $300 million to $1.4 billion and plans to continue replenishing it to support the credit quality of its Digital Credit securities. We also acquired 520 BTC for $35 million, increasing our $BTC Reserve to ₿847,363. $MSTR $STRC.…

— Strategy (@Strategy) June 22, 2026

Strategy’s official statement made the priority explicit: “Strategy has increased its USD Reserve by $300 million to $1.4 billion and plans to continue replenishing it to support the credit quality of its Digital Credit securities. We also acquired 520 BTC for $35 million, increasing our $BTC Reserve to ₿847,363.”

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The Race That Still Matters

The debate has moved on from whether to rebuild. Strategy is clearly doing that. The real question is speed. At $1.4 billion, the reserve sits exactly halfway to CryptoQuant’s $2.8 billion target.

Bitcoin’s spot price hovered near $62,534 on the day of the report, down about 2.5%, keeping the entire treasury underwater relative to Strategy’s average acquisition cost of roughly $75,000 per coin. That translates to an estimated $10.6 billion unrealized loss on the books.

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Selling Bitcoin to close the gap is not on the table; doing so at a loss would crystallize damage rather than repair it. Strategy’s available levers are the ones it has already been pulling: equity issuance via its at-the-market program and the 11.5% cashflow from STRC dividends that it must maintain to keep preferred holders onside.

The pace of equity raises will determine how quickly the reserve closes the remaining $1.4 billion gap.

The broader institutional Bitcoin market offers no near-term relief, with ETF outflows and price pressure around the $60,000 level complicating any assumption that BTC will simply rally past Strategy’s cost basis and solve the problem organically. Strategy’s next weekly purchase update will show whether cash accumulation is staying ahead of dividend obligations or falling behind.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/secondfi-hack-puts-up-to-129m-ada-at-risk-what-it-means-for-cardano https://media.ikmoon.com/secondfi-hack-puts-up-to-129m-ada-at-risk-what-it-means-for-cardano Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:00:50 +0600 crypto SecondFi, Hack, Puts, 129M, ADA, Risk:, What, Means, for, Cardano SecondFi, the EMURGO-backed Cardano wallet platform, disclosed a critical security flaw in its native web wallet-generation software on June 23, 2026 – and the damage estimates are still climbing.

ADA is trading at approximately $0.15 at press time, down nearly 3% in 24 hours, compounding losses after the token fell below $0.20 in June and sits near multi-year lows.

The central question this incident raises is whether the SecondFi crypto hack is contained at the application layer or whether the reputational fallout from a flagship Cardano wallet bleeds into a prolonged suppression of the ADA price?

Hoskinson Breaks Silence On SecondFi Exploit

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) called the Cardano project, SecondFi hack "the unfortunate reality of crypto."

He acknowledged the losses may seem small compared to other hacks. But he said that brings no comfort… https://t.co/2ru5d74Ics pic.twitter.com/hU30okXfQV

— BSCN (@BSCNews) June 24, 2026

What Broke And Why It’s Worse Than a Typical Exploit

Most crypto security incidents trace to smart contract bugs or front-end phishing. The SecondFi breach is neither. The vulnerability sits inside the platform’s native Cardano web wallet-generation software – the system that creates wallets and derives the private keys that control funds.

Think of it like a locksmith whose key-cutting machine was secretly producing duplicate keys. Every lock made through that machine is compromised, regardless of how securely the customer stored their copy.

Blink Labs, a Cardano infrastructure firm, warned publicly that any wallet generated through the affected flow should be treated as unsafe and advised users to migrate to a different wallet immediately.

SecondFi said it has isolated the root cause. “We have isolated the root cause of the recent security incident. The issue was confined to our native Cardano web wallet generation software,” the project team said in its security update.

The platform paused all front-end activity, entered maintenance mode, and commissioned an independent technical review with a blockchain security firm.

Cardano News: Two Loss Figures, One Growing Concern

Cardano's wallet SecondFi has been exploited for potentially $20,000,000.$ADA dropped to its lowest level since December 2020 after this. pic.twitter.com/LiXBrplnI9

— Ted (@TedPillows) June 24, 2026

SecondFi’s preliminary on-chain analysis puts the total affected at approximately 16 million ADA. That figure, at current prices, represents roughly $2.4M, serious, but arguably containable for a platform backed by EMURGO, the commercial arm of the Cardano ecosystem.

SlowMist, the blockchain security firm, tells a different story. Yu Xian (known publicly as Cos), founder of SlowMist, tracked two Cardano addresses he identified as suspected attacker wallets and said the picture is significantly larger.

“The users of this wallet have likely lost over $20M,” Cos said, noting the possible loss may involve more than 129 million ADA and other tokens.

He said on-chain transaction patterns suggested the attacker obtained a batch of mnemonic phrases or private keys and moved funds over many hours, draining larger wallets first before working down to smaller ones.

On-chain community trackers have identified around 178 affected wallets, with suspicious transactions concentrated in the June 21–22 window. No stolen funds have been recovered. SecondFi has not yet published a final technical report or a compensation framework.

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SecondFi’s History Makes This Hit Harder

SecondFi is the direct successor to Yoroi, the self-custody Cardano wallet that EMURGO originally launched and positioned as the ecosystem’s primary retail entry point.

When EMURGO rebranded the product as SecondFi, expanding its mandate to spending, trading, earning, and saving, it was listed in Cardano’s official app catalog. This is not a fringe third-party tool. It is a flagship product with institutional backing.

That provenance matters for the broader Cardano crypto security narrative. Ecosystem damage from wallet-layer exploits on other chains has historically been more persistent when the compromised product carried official endorsement.

The Bo Shen $42M wallet hack, which SlowMist later linked to a compromised mnemonic seed phrase, showed how exposure of a seed phrase creates recovery problems that outlast the initial incident.

For context on how the Cardano network itself has evolved during this period of pressure, the recent Van Rossem hard fork mainnet decision signals that protocol-level development continues independently of the wallet-layer crisis.

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Cardano Price Prediction: Three Scenarios

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ADA’s technical position is fragile. The token has shed roughly 12% over the past seven days according to press-time data, and the $0.15 level represents territory last visited during the 2023 bear market trough. Here is how the path forward splits depending on how the SecondFi audit resolves:

• Bull case: The independent audit confirms SecondFi’s lower estimate of 16 million ADA affected; a compensation plan is announced within weeks; and on-chain data show the suspected attacker addresses are not actively selling. ADA retests the $0.20 level as the narrative pivots to ‘contained app-layer incident, chain unaffected.’ The Cardano protocol itself has not been implicated in the flaw.
• Base case: The audit lands somewhere between the two estimates, SecondFi publishes a partial compensation framework, and ADA consolidates in the $0.13–$0.17 range for several weeks while the market waits for confirmation that attacker wallets are dormant. Recovery is slow but not blocked.
• Bear case: SlowMist’s 129 million ADA figure is validated, attacker addresses begin distributing funds to exchanges, and no credible compensation plan emerges from EMURGO or SecondFi. Combined with existing governance disputes and the lack of a broader market catalyst, ADA tests the $0.10 level. The reputational damage to the ecosystem’s flagship self-custody tool deters new retail inflows.

The North Korea-linked crypto theft pattern documented at the G7 Evian summit illustrates how state-level actors exploit wallet-layer vulnerabilities across multiple chains, a reminder that wallet exploits carry contagion risk beyond any single ecosystem.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/how-the-steak-and-shake-bitcoin-payments-could-save-6m-a-year-in-fees https://media.ikmoon.com/how-the-steak-and-shake-bitcoin-payments-could-save-6m-a-year-in-fees Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:00:46 +0600 crypto How, the, Steak, and, Shake, Bitcoin, Payments, Could, Save, 6M, Year, Fees Steak and Shake is saving roughly 50% on payment processing fees by accepting Bitcoin, and projecting $6 million in annual savings if its full credit-card customer base made the switch.

That number, confirmed again in a June 2026 company statement, makes the 90-year-old burger chain one of the most concrete proof points in the argument that Bitcoin’s value as a payment network is more immediately useful to most businesses than its value as a portfolio asset.

This bullish institutional adoption news dropped as Bitcoin USD trades at $62,400, up a modest +0.5% in the past 24 hours, with a daily trading volume of $24.1Bn.

STEAK 'N SHAKE COO SAID, "BITCOIN IS FASTER THAN CREDIT CARDS. WE ARE SAVING 50% IN PROCESSING FEES."

"WE ARE SEEING A SPIKE IN GROWTH AFTER ACCEPTING BITCOIN" pic.twitter.com/6ajkDeBZNC

— Vivek Sen (@Vivek4real_) June 23, 2026

Steak and Shake: The Fee Math That Makes This Work

Traditional card payments, Visa, Mastercard, and their processing partners, layer interchange fees, network assessments, and processor margins on top of each transaction, typically landing between 2.5% and 3.5% per sale.

Bitcoin payment processing fees over the Lightning Network are at a median of about 0.022%, according to analyses cited at the Bitcoin 2026 conference earlier this year.

That gap is why a 50% reduction in processing costs is not a marketing claim; it is arithmetic. Steak ‘n Shake COO Dan Edwards said at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in May 2025 that “when customers choose to pay in bitcoin instead of credit cards, we are saving about 50% in our processing fees.”

CEO Michael Boes sharpened that figure at the Bitcoin 2026 conference. He said, “If every credit card user used Bitcoin, we would save roughly $6 million annually, which is huge for our bottom line.”

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Scale, Treasury, and a Closed-Loop Model

Steak ‘n Shake launched Bitcoin payments via the Lightning Network on May 16, 2025, across approximately 393 US locations, making it one of the largest contiguous brick-and-mortar Lightning deployments in the US restaurant sector.

On launch day alone, the chain reportedly accounted for 1 in every 500 Bitcoin transactions worldwide – a figure executives used to argue that consumer demand for spending BTC exists when the user experience is right.

Unlike earlier restaurant crypto experiments at chains such as Subway or Burger King – which routed payments through third-party processors and converted instantly to dollars, Steak and Shake retains the Bitcoin it receives.

The company holds a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve of 168.6 BTC, valued at roughly $15M in early 2026, built from customer payments and direct treasury purchases, including an initial $10M allocation in May 2025.

The chain also pays hourly workers a $0.21-per-hour Bitcoin bonus, funded from that reserve and launched on March 1, 2026, with a two-year vesting period.

Same-store sales rose 11% in Q2 2025 and 15% in Q3 2025, with 18% growth projected for 2026, according to company data cited by CryptoRank. The payments program, the treasury, and the employee incentives are designed as a single integrated system – not a pilot.

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Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:00:43 +0600 crypto Kentucky’s, Prediction, Market, Crackdown, Faces, Federal, Lawsuit, and, Preemption, Fight The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal derivatives regulator, filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Kentucky on June 23, 2026, making it the ninth state the agency has sued in an accelerating battle over who gets to regulate prediction markets in the United States.

Kentucky had moved the prior week to shut down Polymarket, Kalshi, Coinbase, Robinhood, and Webull, calling them unlicensed gambling operators, and then hit them with a 14.25% excise tax designed, the CFTC argues, to make the business economically impossible in the state.

This fresh wave of prediction market regulation news comes as Mark Zuckerberg has greenlit Meta Arena, a prediction market platform from Meta, reportedly making it a priority for the firm’s developers.

EXCLUSIVE: The CFTC is suing its ninth state, Kentucky, in its escalating fight over sports-event contracts, FOS has learned.

The move follows last week’s lawsuits by Kentucky’s attorney general against Kalshi and Polymarket.

— Front Office Sports (@FOS) June 23, 2026

What Kentucky Did and Why the CFTC Moved Fast

Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman filed three state lawsuits around June 17–18, 2026, targeting Kalshi and Polymarket alongside their distribution partners.

The state argued that sports event contracts, tradeable instruments tied to real-world outcomes, “fall squarely within the definition of ‘sports wagering’ under Kentucky law,” according to the state’s own filings.

Sports betting has sat under the jurisdiction of the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation since 2023, and Coleman’s office alleged the platforms were operating without a Kentucky gaming license and offered users “few or no resources” to identify or seek help for a gambling problem, as state law requires.

The CFTC’s federal complaint names Governor Andrew Beshear, Attorney General Coleman, Department of Revenue Commissioner Thomas Miller, and the Kentucky Racing and Gaming Corporation as defendants.

It seeks declaratory and injunctive relief, meaning the CFTC wants a court order blocking Kentucky’s lawsuits and tax from taking effect while the legal question of jurisdiction is resolved.

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The Tax That Prompted a McCulloch v. Maryland Argument

Kentucky’s House Bill 757, passed April 14, 2026, amends the state tax code to impose a 14.25% excise tax on prediction market transaction fees, mirroring the rate applied to online sportsbooks.

The CFTC’s complaint calls it the first such state tax on prediction markets in the country and invokes Chief Justice Marshall’s line from McCulloch v. Maryland: “the power to tax involves the power to destroy.”

The argument is blunt – this is not legitimate tax policy; it is a mechanism to drive federally regulated markets out of the state. “This tax essentially makes it impossible for prediction markets to operate in Kentucky,” the CFTC argued in its complaint, according to the agency’s press release.

The Coalition for Fair Markets, a group representing Kalshi, Polymarket, Crypto.com, and Robinhood, filed its own parallel suit in Franklin Circuit Court around June 12, calling the tax “discriminatory, unconstitutional, and preempted by federal law.”

ICYMI: The @CFTC has sued Kentucky, accusing the state of unlawfully targeting federally regulated prediction markets.

The regulator says Kentucky's enforcement actions, penalties, and new transaction fee on CFTC-registered exchanges violate federal law and interfere with the… pic.twitter.com/2F9hMdkk3S

— The Crypto Times (@CryptoTimes_io) June 24, 2026

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Federal Preemption Is the Core Legal Claim

The CFTC’s legal theory is based on the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), which regulates derivatives markets. Kalshi and Polymarket are designated contract markets with federal exchange licenses, classifying their event contracts as “swaps.”

Coinbase, Robinhood, and Webull are registered futures commission merchants, allowing them to offer event contracts in collaboration with licensed exchanges.

Federal preemption dictates that federal law preempts conflicting state law when Congress grants exclusive authority to a federal agency.

CFTC Chair Mike Selig emphasized this, noting that Kentucky is attempting to restrict federally regulated event contracts, and the CFTC is committed to maintaining its jurisdiction over prediction markets.

A recent ruling in Tennessee supports the CFTC’s position: a US District Court granted Kalshi a preliminary injunction, finding that its products are likely legal swaps under the CEA and that federal law preempts state action.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/crypto-news-today-june-25-btc-crashed-below-60k-already-back-to-61k-more-binance-eu-licence-drama-and-standard-chartered-calls-for-aave-to-hit-3500 https://media.ikmoon.com/crypto-news-today-june-25-btc-crashed-below-60k-already-back-to-61k-more-binance-eu-licence-drama-and-standard-chartered-calls-for-aave-to-hit-3500 Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:00:39 +0600 crypto Crypto, News, Today, June, 25:, BTC, Crashed, Below, 60K, Already, Back, 61K, More, Binance, Licence, Drama, and, Standard, Chartered, Calls, for, AAVE, Hit, 3, 500 In crypto news today (June 25), BTC USD crashed below $60,000 late yesterday but has since recovered to $61,500, with nearly $1Bn in liquidations piling up and $780M of that $994M figure coming from long positions.

The Bitcoin crash coincided with ETF flows seeing $469M exit the various BTC funds, the largest day of outflows this month, and unsurprisingly, BlackRock leading the way with $239M of that figure being from the IBIT ETF.

While BTC and ETH are down around -2% each over the past 24 hours, HYPE and AVAX are two of the few major caps in the green today. HYPE is up +3% while AVAX is up +2.5% since yesterday. With the volatile price action, trading volume has picked up to $98Bn, up from $76Bn yesterday.

With Bitcoin briefly dropping below $60K, the Fear & Greed Index also dropped to 12/100, down from 24/100 just two days ago. The index is back near all-time lows, and another drop below $60K will likely see single-digit readings next.

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Crypto News Today: Standard Chartered Makes Bold AAVE Call, Claims $3,500 by 2030

Standard Chartered has begun coverage of AAVE, predicting the token could reach $3,500 by the end of 2030. The bank cites the recovery of decentralized finance (DeFi) and growth in tokenized real-world assets (RWA) as key factors that could benefit Aave significantly.

Geoff Kendrick, Head of Digital Assets Research at Standard Chartered, notes that Aave has already bounced back from the April incident affecting DeFi and remains a leader in decentralized lending.

Kendrick’s $3,500 price target suggests a 50-fold increase from current levels, potentially allowing AAVE to outperform Bitcoin and Ethereum. The bank expects tokenized assets in DeFi to grow approximately 37-fold by the decade’s end.

Aave’s revenue and token value are likely to benefit from higher lending activity, and a relaunch of Aave’s buyback program and its Horizon initiative, focused on lending against tokenized real-world assets, could serve as additional growth catalysts.

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:00:35 +0600 crypto Why, Crypto, Down, and, Will, Recover, Options, and, Inflation, Reveal, Smoking, Gun There’s no doubt about it, the cryptocurrency market has been absolutely hammered in 2026. Today, Bitcoin (BTC) price slipped back under $60,000 in a catastrophe for the short-lived recovery in its technical structure. And for those diamond-handed gems still holding on in the space, the pained anxiety of why is crypto down now, and ‘will crypto recover?’ is still front and center.

Well, let’s step back for a second. Bitcoin price is still over $50,000, and I’m bullish.

For those of you who remember the pits of despair in 2022, when FTX had ripped the trading stack out of your pocket and dumped a cascading devaluation on your dreams, Bitcoin (BTC) was trading at $59,188 isn’t that bad, with Bitcoin price returning to the exact same range it inhabited in the excitement before the last halving event and still 10% clean of likely lower supports.

(Source – BTC USD Price, TradingView)

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Why is Crypto Going Down Today? It’s Not Iran, It’s Inflation

Let’s jump right into it. Despite the joy of the World Cup, we have not yet achieved a peaceful resolution to the US-initiated conflict in the Gulf, which continues to induce widespread fear in the market.

In the latest move in the saga, the US Senate has voted to stop the war in Iran, and while it’s largely a symbolic crescendo from the growing chorus of anti-war voices, the takeaway for the market is clear: domestic pressure is building outside the gates of the White House, and Trump’s room to maneuver is shrinking.

“Losers!”, the esteemed President remarked in a scathing critique of anti-war GOP Senators on X.

Whilst in the Gulf, Trump’s 14-point peace plan with Iran is still predictably hitting speed bumps, as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) argues with Tehran over inspector access to nuclear sites, the Israeli’s continue to engage Lebanon in direct bilateral peace talks already superseded by Trump’s renewed Iran negotiations over whether there will or will not be a toll in Hormuz. Organized chaos? That would be a blessing.

Despite the hypernormalisation of risk, oil markets themselves look happy that the deal is done, with Brent crude now back just $3 above pre-war price levels. And as they say, the rest is politics.

 

(Source – Brent Crude Oil, TradingEconomics)

So if the market isn’t dumping because of another tumultuous twist in the looming existential crisis in the Gulf, what’s going on?

Well, there are two main forces behind Today’s risk-off move. The first of which is the latest inflation data, which just dropped, and it’s not looking pretty.

The Federal Reserve’s most-watched inflation gauge slammed a three-year high Today, as the Commerce Department revealed consumer prices soared a shocking +4.1% in May 2026.

(Source –US CPI, TradingEconomics)

Now you might be thinking, “Wait, oil prices have fallen, why is inflation still high?” And the answer is more nuanced than the lagging market impact of May’s peak oil pricing.

Back in April, J.P. Morgan’s Chief Global Strategist, David Kelly, flagged that short-term inflation is partly attributable to the so-called “tsunami of spending” flooding into AI development, infrastructure, and usage.

Kevin Warsh knows this; it’s nothing new. He himself claimed that the productive growth and savings from AI would eventually lead to AI-powered disinflation.

But it’s clear Kelly believes there is little prospect of Warsh flying in with lower rates for relief, with existential risk from Iran, mid-terms, and tariffs creating more ‘if’ conditions than certainty, and this remains the case as of Warsh’ first FOMC meeting last week, which saw rates hold steady.

“It still looks like May was the peak in the latest bout of inflation, and falling inflation for the rest of the year could be just enough to keep the Fed on hold,” claimed Kelly in his insights on Warsh’s first FOMC.

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Inflation Was the trigger, but Tomorrow’s $10Bn Bitcoin Options Expiry is the Smoking Gun

If macro stress on the horizon triggered the downside move below $60,000 earlier Today, then an upcoming mass options expiry event Tomorrow could well be the smoking gun, especially paired with a low-volume bear-market summer weekend.

$10Bn worth of Bitcoin options is set to expire on Deribit Tomorrow, representing about 37% of open interest in the entire Bitcoin market, and with the majority of call contracts now out of the money, it seems put positions will carpe diem with thin liquidity on the last weekend of June, and Bitcoin price will follow.

This is especially true when we remember that the macro stress is likely to compound this bearish sentiment, with contracting liquidity never a good sign for crypto markets.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/crypto-news-today-june-26-btc-barely-holding-60k-uniswap-and-spark-launch-fx-layer-dubai-to-launch-token-backed-by-nasdaq-etf https://media.ikmoon.com/crypto-news-today-june-26-btc-barely-holding-60k-uniswap-and-spark-launch-fx-layer-dubai-to-launch-token-backed-by-nasdaq-etf Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:00:30 +0600 crypto Crypto, News, Today, June, 26:, BTC, Barely, Holding, 60K, Uniswap, and, Spark, Launch, Layer, Dubai, Launch, Token, Backed, Nasdaq, ETF In crypto news today (June 26), BTC USD continues its struggle to hold key support at $60,000, currently trading around $60,200. Liquidations hit $1Bn over the past 24-hours, with more than $845M from long positions.

Worryingly, ETF flows have become extremely bearish, as yesterday saw $691M in Bitcoin outflows, coupled with Wednesday’s $469M flows, taking the two-day total to over $1Bn, a worrying amount of Bitcoin being sold, and a main catalyst being recent price action across the market.

While nearly every major cap token is currently in the red over the past 24 hours, OG coins in Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Litecoin (LTC) are two of the established projects in the green today, each up a modest +0.5. Daily trading volume has exceeded $105Bn, an increase of more than $10Bn compared with yesterday.

With Bitcoin looking unsteady just above $60K, the Fear & Greed Index reflects this shaky price action, sitting at 13/100, down from 24/100 at the beginning of the week.

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Crypto News Today: Uniswap and Spark Launch FX Layer to Unify Stablecoin Liquidity

Uniswap and Spark have introduced FX Layer, a unified liquidity network specifically designed for the stablecoin market. This initiative aims to simplify the process of swapping stablecoins issued by different providers while also preparing the infrastructure for the anticipated arrival of hundreds of new issuers.

As part of the launch, Spark will migrate around $150M in liquidity to Uniswap v4. The initial liquidity pool will feature USDS, USDT, and PYUSD, with plans for additional stablecoin issuers to join over time.

According to Spark CEO Sam MacPherson, the next phase of the stablecoin market will not focus on launching more digital dollars but on building infrastructure that connects hundreds of issuers within a single ecosystem.

The developers anticipate that idle liquidity will generate yield until it is used in trading, while swaps between different stablecoins should become faster and more capital-efficient.

Spark believes that as the number of stablecoins continues to grow, the industry will need infrastructure akin to the global foreign exchange market, enabling liquidity to move seamlessly between digital currencies.

Spark is building stablecoin infrastructure on Uniswap

They just moved $150M in liquidity to the protocol, marking one of the largest migrations in DeFi history

This liquidity will soon move to their new DualPool hook, so they can earn on both active and idle assets pic.twitter.com/2xo4BcPtEm

— Uniswap (@Uniswap) June 25, 2026

Atlas of Dubai Entering DeFi Space With Regulated ETF-Backed USAFi Token

In other crypto news today, Atlas Capital Team plans to launch USAFi, a regulated digital security backed by a Nasdaq-listed ETF, in the third quarter of 2026. This project marks a significant shift for economist Nouriel Roubini, who has been a vocal critic of cryptocurrencies for many years.

Atlas, along with its Dubai subsidiary, Atlas AI Labs, has developed a whitepaper that outlines USAFi and introduces a broader concept referred to as the “Technodollar.” This idea connects the future of dollar-based reserve assets with artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, and tokenized financial products.

USAFi is expected to be issued under the framework of Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA). Atlas has indicated that the token will comply with VARA’s Asset-Referenced Virtual Asset Rulebook, placing it among the more advanced regulatory systems for virtual assets in the Middle East.

The token is designed as an ERC-20 asset, which allows it to operate across permissionless blockchain networks. It will be backed by the Atlas America Fund, an SEC-registered actively managed ETF listed on Nasdaq, with reserve assets held at the Bank of New York.

Atlas is presenting this structure as a means of linking institutional collateral to decentralized finance. The aim is to maintain the portability and 24-hour accessibility of on-chain assets while ensuring that the token is supported by regulated reserves, rather than driven solely by speculative demand.

Nouriel Roubini, once known as a vocal crypto critic, is now backing USAFi, a planned tokenized version of the Nasdaq-listed Atlas America Fund.

The fund is expected to launch in Dubai under VARA’s framework, with Securitize providing the tokenization infrastructure.

From… pic.twitter.com/hIey7tpRiZ

— PIPO (@pipo_stocks) June 25, 2026

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/bitcoin-price-could-flash-crash-to-50000-this-weekend-dont-get-scared-now https://media.ikmoon.com/bitcoin-price-could-flash-crash-to-50000-this-weekend-dont-get-scared-now Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:00:23 +0600 crypto Bitcoin, Price, Could, Flash, Crash, 50, 000, This, Weekend:, Don’t, Get, Scared, Now Bitcoin news today: price crashed to $58,100 on Thursday, its lowest level since September 2024, after a hotter-than-expected inflation reading effectively buried near-term Federal Reserve rate-cut expectations and triggered more than $1.26Bn in crypto liquidations across 209,000 traders.

The selloff was sharp enough to reprice prediction markets overnight: on Polymarket, a decentralized prediction platform where traders stake real money on outcome probabilities, the odds of Bitcoin hitting $50,000 before year-end jumped to 65%.

The central tension the data now forces: is this a high-velocity flush that sets up a recovery, or the opening chapter of a BTC bear market that sends price into the low $40,000s? The answer likely hinges on one building in Washington, D.C., and whether the Fed’s July meeting delivers any relief.

(SOURCE: Polymarket)

Bitcoin News Today: A Hot PCE Print Caused Over $1Bn in Liquidations

The catalyst for recent market movements was Thursday’s PCE inflation report, the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of consumer inflation. In May 2026, the PCE price index rose to 4.1% year-over-year, exceeding expectations, while core PCE was 3.4%.

These figures significantly reduced rate-cut probabilities, as accelerating inflation weakens the case for lowering interest rates, leading risk assets like Bitcoin to adjust quickly.

As a result, a BTC flash crash occurred, liquidating over $1.26Bn in crypto positions across major exchanges, impacting 209,000 traders. This forced deleveraging, rather than organic selling, drove much of the volatility and is crucial for understanding the recovery path.

BREAKING Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:00:16 +0600 crypto Coinbase, Cooked, Single, Invalid, Block, Froze, Base, for, Two, Hours Coinbase’s Base blockchain went dark for nearly two hours on Thursday after a single invalid block triggered a consensus failure that froze the entire network, and the incident has reignited a blunt question about whether the most-used Ethereum Layer 2 is actually ready for the 24/7 global finance role its creators are pitching. No funds were lost, but every swap, liquidation, and deposit on Base stalled completely while the team scrambled to isolate the problem.

The central tension the Base team now faces is that a network positioned as critical financial infrastructure remains dependent on a single sequencer, meaning a single bad block can bring the whole chain to a standstill.

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:02:01 +0600 crypto Sui, Crypto, Network, Crashed, Times, Hours, After, Single, Upgrade, Bug:, SUI, Actually, Safe Between Thursday and Friday, June 1, 2026, the Sui Crypto Network stopped processing transactions not once, not twice, but three times in under 48 hours, the result of a software bug introduced in a recent protocol upgrade.

SUI fell roughly -8% intraday during the disruption, sliding from around $0.99 to $0.87, as traders reacted to what looked, on the surface, like a network in serious trouble.

Here is the central tension this article unpacks: three halts in two days sounds catastrophic, but does it mean your SUI is at risk, and what does it say about a blockchain that bills itself as one of the fastest Layer 1 networks in crypto?

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Sui Upgrade Bug: What Actually Caused the Sui Network Halts

Think of a blockchain’s validators like a panel of judges who must all agree on every decision before the next case proceeds. If one judge gets handed paperwork that doesn’t make sense, numbers that don’t add up – the whole courtroom freezes rather than risk making a wrong ruling.

That’s essentially what happened here, and it happened three separate times.

The SUI outage chain began with protocol version v1.72, which introduced two new features: an “address balances” accounting model and gasless stablecoin transfer pathways designed to reduce friction for everyday users. The problem was a logic bug buried in how these new payment routes interacted with Sui’s gas-charging system.

In certain transactions, the network would cancel a payment for insufficient funds, but still mark those funds as spent, creating a negative balance that validators couldn’t reconcile. The network halted rather than record something contradictory, per the Sui Foundation’s postmortem.

Following last week’s outages related to the 1.72 release, the Sui Core Team has completed an investigation and incident review, detailing what happened and the steps taken by validators to restart the network.

— Sui (@SuiNetwork) May 31, 2026

The first Mainnet halt ran from approximately 7:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. PT on Thursday. Developers deployed an emergency patch to restore the chain – but explicitly acknowledged it carried a known probability of causing another halt.

That’s a significant admission: they knowingly shipped a fix that might break things again, choosing speed over certainty to get the network back online. Sure enough, a variant of the same gas-fee bug triggered a second blockchain downtime event on Friday morning.

The third outage had a distinct cause entirely. When validators rebooted to apply the Friday fix, a randomness mechanism used by certain on-chain applications failed to properly record its deactivation status. The protocol deadlocked, unable to close the current epoch, and the chain froze again from roughly 1:30 p.m. to 7:20 p.m. PT Friday. Three separate failure points, all triggered by a single Sui upgrade bug in v1.72.

Is Your SUI Crypto Safe? What Holders Need to Know Right Now

The answer depends on where your SUI was sitting and what you were doing with it during the outages.

The critical distinction is between a liveness failure and a safety failure. This was a liveness failure. The network stopped moving forward. It did not alter, erase, or expose any existing balances or private keys.

Sui Foundation explains causes of three consecutive mainnet halts

Sui Foundation said three mainnet halts on Thursday and Friday were caused by two separate bugs introduced in the v1.72 upgrade. The first two halts were tied to a gas-charging bug exposed by the “address… pic.twitter.com/7wfhVbUKge

— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) June 1, 2026

If your SUI was on an exchange, your funds were not at risk. Exchanges typically suspend deposits and withdrawals during network disruptions, which is standard practice. You could not move your SUI during the outage windows but your balance remained intact.

If your SUI was in a self-custody wallet, your assets were safe throughout. A network halt does not touch the ledger state. Your tokens existed on-chain exactly as they did before the freeze. No one can access your funds without your private keys and the halt had no bearing on key security.

If you had a pending transaction or an open DeFi position during the halt, this is where real frustration occurred. Leveraged positions could not be managed. Time-sensitive trades could not be executed. Transactions submitted during the outage windows were either delayed or failed outright.

You did not lose funds to the bug itself, but market moves during downtime were entirely outside anyone’s control. That is a genuine and legitimate risk for active DeFi users on Sui.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/bitcoin-etf-news-btc-etfs-hit-10-day-outflow-streak-is-institutional-hype-over https://media.ikmoon.com/bitcoin-etf-news-btc-etfs-hit-10-day-outflow-streak-is-institutional-hype-over Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:01:57 +0600 crypto Bitcoin, ETF, News:, BTC, ETFs, Hit, 10-Day, Outflow, Streak, Institutional, Hype, Over Bitcoin ETF News: U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have now posted 10 consecutive trading days of net outflows, with roughly $2.9–3.0 billion redeemed since mid-May 2026, according to CoinGlass data, the longest sustained outflow streak since the products launched in January 2024.

That streak eclipses the prior record of eight consecutive outflow days set earlier in 2025, a run that itself followed one of the strongest institutional inflow periods in ETF history.

Combined net assets across U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs fell from roughly $104.3 billion to $94.2 billion in under two weeks, as both price softness and capital exits compressed the complex.

Here is the central tension this article unpacks: if 10 consecutive days of Bitcoin ETF outflows signal that institutional players are abandoning ship, why do cumulative net inflows into these same products remain near all-time highs, and why is Bitcoin still trading not far from its cycle peak?

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Bitcoin ETF News: 10-Day Outflow Streak: What the $3 Billion Number Actually Tells You

Think of a Bitcoin ETF like a coat-check at a busy venue. When guests arrive, they hand over their coats, that is new money flowing in, and the coat-check grows. When guests leave and reclaim their coats, the attendant has to retrieve them, that is a redemption. The coat-check gets smaller, but it does not mean the venue is closing. It means some guests decided to go home early.

Mechanically, when an institutional investor redeems shares in a spot Bitcoin ETF, the fund’s authorized participants sell the underlying Bitcoin to return cash. That is the selling pressure you see move the market. It is a structural consequence of the redemption process, not a declaration that the institution has lost faith in Bitcoin forever.

Context matters enormously here. Per CoinGlass, cumulative net inflows into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs since their January 2024 launch remain in strongly positive territory even after this streak.

The $2.9–3.0 billion redeemed over 10 days represents a fraction of the total capital that institutional and advisory accounts have deployed into these products over 18 months.

One single day during the streak saw $733 million withdrawn, a headline-grabbing figure that, when set against total ETF AUM still measured in the tens of billions, looks less like a collapse and more like a correction in the margin.

As our explainer on what ETF outflows mean for BTC-USD walks through, the mechanical reality of redemptions rarely matches the catastrophic tone of the headlines that surround them.

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Seasonal Cooling or Structural Exit? Reading the 10-Day Streak Correctly

This is not the first time Bitcoin ETF outflows have clustered into a streak, and history offers a useful anchor. The prior eight-day outflow record in early 2025 resolved with a return to net inflows within days, and BTC price subsequently held its broader uptrend.

That episode was driven by a combination of macro repositioning and quarter-end rebalancing, the same forces analysts are citing now.

Galaxy Research analysts characterized the largest single-day outflow during this current streak as a directional recalibration by institutional players, pointing specifically to geopolitical tensions and rotation into AI-linked equity opportunities as the key drivers.

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That framing, rotation, not retreat, is the critical distinction. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas has consistently noted that large outflow clusters tend to reflect portfolio-level rebalancing decisions made above the asset class, not judgments about Bitcoin specifically.

When a multi-asset fund trims its crypto allocation to increase its AI equity exposure, the Bitcoin ETF outflow is a downstream accounting entry, not an editorial statement about BTC’s future.

The issuer-level data reinforces this reading. Reports indicate that BlackRock’s IBIT, previously the dominant daily inflow leader among all U.S. ETFs in any category, has contributed meaningfully to recent redemptions.

As covered in our piece on what IBIT’s worst outflow day means for beginners, even the stickiest institutional capital rebalances periodically – and that behavior should not be read as a vote against the underlying asset.

Meanwhile, Ether products have seen 14 consecutive sessions of outflows alongside Bitcoin’s streak, which suggests a broader cooling of institutional crypto beta rather than a Bitcoin-specific problem. Right now, that signal says caution. It does not say exit.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/ada-holders-just-voted-to-cancel-the-cardano-summit-proposal-self-sabotage https://media.ikmoon.com/ada-holders-just-voted-to-cancel-the-cardano-summit-proposal-self-sabotage Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:01:53 +0600 crypto ADA, Holders, Just, Voted, Cancel, the, Cardano, Summit, Proposal, Self-Sabotage ADA holders just vetoed a 7.8 million ADA proposal, roughly $2 million, to fund the Cardano Summit 2026 in Singapore, and the Cardano Foundation has confirmed the event is cancelled.

That outcome matters beyond one conference. It is the clearest real-world proof yet that Cardano’s shift to on-chain governance has real teeth.

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What the Vote Actually Was, and How It Killed a $2M Proposal

The proposal went through Intersect, the member-based organization managing Cardano’s governance processes, and asked the Cardano crypto treasury to fund a flagship community summit.

The request: 7.8 million ADA, priced at approximately $2 million at the time of the vote. The purpose was a high-visibility ecosystem event, the kind of showcase that other blockchain projects fund without a second thought.

Governance requires not only participation, but also a commitment to accept collective decisions. The Cardano community has spoken and we respect the outcome.

Following the outcome of the Treasury proposal votes, the Cardano Foundation's proposed Cardano Summit 2026, will not…

— Cardano Foundation (@Cardano_CF) May 30, 2026

Under Cardano’s Voltaire-era governance rules, treasury spending requires approval from ADA holders and their elected Decentralized Representatives, known as DReps. Reports indicate that roughly 65% of participating voters supported the proposal, a majority by most standards, but not enough.

Cardano’s approval thresholds are deliberately high, and the proposal did not clear the bar. The veto stands.

This is not an isolated result. A separate Cardano treasury request for 33 million ADA, tied to quantum-resistance research for the Leios project, was rejected by 86% of voters. Large spending proposals are facing real scrutiny now. That distinction matters: this is a pattern, not a one-off protest vote.

The Cardano Community Was Split, Here Is What Both Sides Said

Opponents of the summit proposal made a straightforward case: $2 million is a lot of money for a single event, and the return on investment for the broader Cardano ecosystem was never clearly demonstrated.

Community members flagged a preference for directing treasury funds toward core technical development rather than marketing showcases. The argument was essentially that ADA holders should act like a disciplined board of directors, not a rubber stamp.

This is sad, because 1.8% decided that we cannot show our tech to all the devs/businesses/vcs with a dedicated event this year. As i have already booked my flight and hotel last year, i will still be around in Singapore for the Token2049 and Sideevents.

Who else is still in… https://t.co/G76UP2u6ny

— ATADA / ATAD2 Cardano StakePool Austria (@ATADA_Stakepool) May 30, 2026

Supporters pushed back with an equally fair point, visibility matters in crypto. A flagship summit generates press, attracts developers, and signals that the ecosystem is alive and growing. Killing it, they argued, risks making Cardano look like a project that cannot put on a show.

Broader Cardano ecosystem pressures, including regulatory scrutiny and DeFi competition, add weight to that concern, the ecosystem can ill afford to go quiet.

Charles Hoskinson has said publicly that ADA holders are not passive spectators but active participants in a governance system built to be contested. The vote reflects exactly that design. Whether the outcome is wise policy or costly caution depends on who you ask.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/cardano-ceo-charles-hoskinson-alleges-henry-nowak-cover-up-by-uk-police https://media.ikmoon.com/cardano-ceo-charles-hoskinson-alleges-henry-nowak-cover-up-by-uk-police Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:01:50 +0600 crypto Cardano, CEO, Charles, Hoskinson, Alleges, Henry, Nowak, Cover, Police Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has taken to X to allege that UK police covered up the Henry Nowak case, claiming that despite available evidence and victim testimony, UK law enforcement failed to act or actively suppressed information regarding a violent assault involving Nowak. The post generated significant engagement almost immediately.

Here is the central tension this article unpacks: when the most public face of a top-tier blockchain protocol uses his global platform to make explosive allegations of law-enforcement corruption, the controversy is no longer just about Hoskinson; it becomes a live stress test for every ADA holder’s portfolio.

I wonder where the full tape of Henry Nowak is? Especially the parts after the police realized they fucked up handcuffing a dying man. What did they say after that point? What private conversations did they have about how they were going to cover it up?

— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) June 1, 2026

Hoskinson’s tweet came as the crypto market saw over $766M in liquidations in the past 24 hours, with Bitcoin dropping below $70,000 for the first time since early April 2026.

ADA itself has dropped by 3.2% overnight, falling to $0.223 on dwindling volume, leaving many in the Cardano community wondering whether Hoskinson’s comments are having a negative effect on the ADA price.

(SOURCE: TradingView)

What Hoskinson Actually Said and Why It Went Viral

In a thread posted on X, Hoskinson alleged a systemic failure and potential deliberate suppression by UK authorities in the Henry Nowak case. He claimed that despite clear evidence and witness accounts of a violent assault, police had not taken meaningful action, and framed this as a cover-up rather than bureaucratic inaction.

The thread is consistent with Hoskinson’s established pattern of using social media as a primary weapon: direct, named, and unapologetic. Supporters praised him for using his platform to demand accountability where victims allegedly had none. Critics, however, questioned whether unverified claims from a crypto CEO constituted responsible advocacy or simply fuel for a news cycle that could bleed into ADA’s reputation.

It is worth being precise about what these claims are at the time of publication: allegations made by one individual on social media. No UK mainstream outlet, the BBC, the Guardian, or others, has corroborated a cover-up. That gap between the claim and the confirmation is exactly where retail investors tend to get burned when they trade on headlines rather than facts.

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Who is Henry Nowak, and What is the Case About

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:01:46 +0600 crypto Bitcoin, ETFs, Hit, 11-Day, Slump:, Macro, Uncertainty, Making, Investors, Blink U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have now recorded 11 consecutive days of net outflows, the longest sustained negative streak since the products launched in January 2024, according to CoinGlass data.

The selling has arrived in waves, Bloomberg reported a roughly $2.8 billion redemption run over a nine-session stretch in late May 2026, with a $1.26 billion weekly outflow period earlier that same month compounding the pressure.

Here is the central tension this article unpacks: while institutional investors are pulling back from the Bitcoin ETF wrapper with unusual persistence, on-chain data shows that long-term spot holders, the people who own actual Bitcoin in self-custody wallets, have barely moved. Two groups, same asset, completely different reactions to the same macro environment.

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Bitcoin ETF Outflows: What the 15-Day Streak Actually Tells You

Think of a spot Bitcoin ETF like a coat-check counter at a large financial institution. The institution hands over its Bitcoin exposure at the door in exchange for a ticket, a share of the fund, that it can redeem whenever it needs its coat back.

The coat itself (the actual Bitcoin) sits in cold storage with a custodian like Coinbase. When an institutional investor redeems shares, the fund mechanically sells Bitcoin to meet that redemption. The decision to redeem is not a verdict on Bitcoin’s long-term value, it is a portfolio-level decision driven by whatever else is happening in that investor’s book.

That mechanical reality is important context for the current streak. Cumulative net inflows into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs since their January 2024 launch remain structurally positive, the $2.8 billion redeemed over recent weeks sits against a much larger base of capital that entered and stayed.

BlackRock’s IBIT and Fidelity’s FBTC, the two largest funds by assets, have absorbed the bulk of recent redemptions, with IBIT repeatedly posting the largest single-session outflows during the May stretch. The streak is significant. It is not, by itself, evidence of a structural exit.

As our earlier coverage of the 10-day outflow phase of this same trend documented, the redemption pattern built in stages rather than arriving in a single shock. The current 11-day run extends that same wave, which means the underlying cause has not yet resolved.

Tactical Pause or Structural Exit? Reading the Streak Correctly

The prior record for consecutive outflow days in U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs was set during an eight-day stretch earlier in 2025, which resolved with a sharp inflow reversal once the macro catalyst that triggered it faded.

Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas has consistently noted that large outflow clusters tend to reflect portfolio-level rebalancing decisions made above the asset class – not judgments about Bitcoin specifically. That framing, rotation, not retreat, is the critical distinction for reading what is happening now.

Related, I was talking to someone yest.. $IBIT is now $54b.. let's say it just hit that mark, it would still be the fastest ETF to that mark. In fact, it could sit at $54b until 2030 and STILL be the fastest to that mark. That's how insane the first 18mo of the btc etfs was..

— Eric Balchunas (@EricBalchunas) May 29, 2026

This is also where the ‘paper Bitcoin’ concept becomes useful. ETF-held Bitcoin is paper Bitcoin: it is exposure to the asset mediated through a financial product that sits inside an institutional portfolio alongside equities, bonds, and commodities. When macro conditions shift, portfolio managers respond to the whole book, not just one line item.

Spot holders who have accumulated Bitcoin directly over multiple cycles carry a completely different cost basis and a completely different decision-making framework, they are not responding to the same triggers.

The divergence playing out right now is precisely that split. As our explainer on what Bitcoin ETF outflows mean for BTC price action walks through, sustained institutional selling can suppress price even when underlying on-chain conviction remains intact, which is the uncomfortable middle ground the market is currently navigating.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/crypto-news-today-june-2-766m-in-liquidations-as-btc-crashes-below-70k https://media.ikmoon.com/crypto-news-today-june-2-766m-in-liquidations-as-btc-crashes-below-70k Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:01:43 +0600 crypto Crypto, News, Today, June, 2:, 766M, Liquidations, BTC, Crashes, Below, 70K In crypto news today (June 2), the market has gone into a mini-meltdown as Bitcoin crashed below $70,000 in this European morning trading session, falling by -3.8% overnight. The crash caused more than $766M in daily liquidations, with over $600M of that figure being long trades.

This price action hasn’t been helped by ETF flows, with over $480M exiting the various Bitcoin ETF products yesterday and $44M leaving the Ethereum ETFs, which only added to the sell pressure across crypto.

This crash started yesterday after news emerged that Michael Saylor and Strategy sold 32 Bitcoin, valued at over $2.2M, the first BTC sale by the firm after years of claiming they would never sell.

Daily trading volume has surged on this crash, exceeding $120Bn in the past 24 hours, up from just $88Bn yesterday. This surge in volume is mostly traders offloading bags in anticipation of a deeper drop.

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Crypto News Today: Fear & Greed Index Back Into ‘Extreme Fear’ as BTC Loses $70,000

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index is at 23/100, firmly back into Extreme Fear territory, as Bitcoin crashed below $70,000 in this early European trading session.

A combination of the ongoing US-Iran conflict, Saylor selling Bitcoin, and bleeding in Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs is causing renewed fear throughout crypto, with over $760M in liquidations across the market since yesterday.

While historically the best buying opportunities have come when the index is at these levels, with so many global macroeconomic catalysts building at around the same time, this could be seen as unprecedented for crypto, and the downtrend could continue for much longer still.

(SOURCE: Fear & Greed Index)

BlackRock Sells Over $400M in Bitcoin – Is Larry Fink Behind Today’s BTC Crash?

In other crypto news, ETF flows continue to be the bane of the markets, with over $480M in Bitcoin exiting various funds yesterday, BlackRock’s IBIT product accounting for $440M of that total.

Many market participants are beginning to feel that BlackRock is suppressing crypto with these consistent outflows, as the world’s leading asset manager has sold over $2.4Bn worth of BTC via its IBIT product since May 18, 2026.

Bitcoin ETFs are now riding a 10-day red streak, with more than $3Bn exiting the dozen or so funds during that time. Until this trend reverses, the broader market will likely continue to struggle under the weight of this monumental sell pressure.

(SOURCE: CoinGlass)

Pavel Durov Wants to Rename TON back to Gram

The Open Network is planning to rename the Toncoin (TON) token, returning to its original name, Gram (GRAM). Project founder Pavel Durov announced the move on Telegram.

According to Durov, the rebrand will “pave the way for the next stage,” while the transition itself will take around three weeks, with traders anticipating some volatile price action for the TON token in the meantime.

The move brings the project back to the token name used in TON’s 2018 white paper. Telegram abandoned it after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) blocked its $1.7Bn ICO in 2020.

The decision comes after Telegram effectively took over from the TON Foundation in May as the network’s main driver and became its largest validator.

TON Coin is Rebranding to GRAM

Telegram CEO @durov has announced the rebranding of $TON coin to $GRAM.

According to his statement, GRAM was the original name of TON's currency in the first whitepaper, and the rebranding will "pave the way for what comes next."

The transition… pic.twitter.com/URiBtbm1Du

— BSCN (@BSCNews) June 1, 2026

2 days ago

MicroStrategy Sells Bitcoin for First Time Since 2022: Should You Panic?

By alexcostea

MicroStrategy sold 32 bitcoin last week for roughly $2.5M, its first confirmed sale since late 2022, and the market noticed immediately, sending the company’s shares down 6% and bitcoin itself down 3% to approximately $71,486.

The sale was disclosed in a regulatory filing and tied directly to funding distributions on the company’s preferred stock.

It comes from a firm whose founder, Michael Saylor, built his entire public identity around one phrase: never sell bitcoin. Here is the central tension this article unpacks: if Saylor has spent years urging the world to hold bitcoin at all costs, why did MicroStrategy just become a seller?

Read the full story here.

2 days ago

Grayscale Hyperliquid ETF Imminent Per New Filing

By alexcostea

Grayscale has filed its sixth amendment to its Hyperliquid ETF registration, disclosing a 0.29% management fee and the ticker HYPG, the clearest signal yet that a launch is days away. Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart characterized the update as making the launch “likely imminent,” adding he was “expecting the launch this week.”

Here is the central tension this article unpacks: a competitive fee structure tells you something concrete about where this product sits in the approval queue, but a regulated on-ramp for HYPE and automatic price appreciation are two very different things.

Read the full story here.

3 days ago

Bitcoin ETFs Hit 11-Day Slump: Is Macro Uncertainty Making Investors Blink?

By alexcostea

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have now recorded 11 consecutive days of net outflows, the longest sustained negative streak since the products launched in January 2024, according to CoinGlass data.

The selling has arrived in waves; Bloomberg reported a roughly $2.8 billion redemption run over a nine-session stretch in late May 2026, with a $1.26 billion weekly outflow period earlier that same month compounding the pressure.

Read the full story here.

3 days ago

Cardano CEO Charles Hoskinson Alleges Henry Nowak Cover Up By UK Police

By alexcostea

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has taken to X to allege that UK police covered up the Henry Nowak case, claiming that despite available evidence and victim testimony, UK law enforcement failed to act or actively suppressed information regarding a violent assault involving Nowak. The post generated significant engagement almost immediately.

Here is the central tension this article unpacks: when the most public face of a top-tier blockchain protocol uses his global platform to make explosive allegations of law-enforcement corruption, the controversy is no longer just about Hoskinson; it becomes a live stress test for every ADA holder’s portfolio.

Read the full story here.

3 days ago

Why Is Crypto Down Today? $766M in Liquidations as BTC Loses $70K

By alexcostea

The crypto market is flashing red again, in a major way. Bitcoin is trading around $70,000 after mass liquidations sent it down 3.7% overnight, briefly falling to $69,750 and prompting terrified traders to ask, ‘Why is crypto down today?’

In the past 24 hours, over $766M in liquidations hit crypto, with $646M of that figure being long trades, highlighting that traders are still overly optimistic and continue to be punished for it.

Read the full story here.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/xrp-news-ripples-rlusd-arrives-in-turkey-in-a-hedge-against-inflation https://media.ikmoon.com/xrp-news-ripples-rlusd-arrives-in-turkey-in-a-hedge-against-inflation Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:01:39 +0600 crypto XRP, News:, Ripple’s, RLUSD, Arrives, Turkey, Hedge, Against, Inflation In XRP news today, the company has launched its USD-backed stablecoin RLUSD in Turkey through partnerships with three local platforms, BiLira, Bitexen, and Bitlo, giving Turkish users direct access to a regulated, dollar-denominated digital asset for the first time via the RLUSD product specifically.

RLUSD has reached $1.7Bn in market capitalization since its late 2024 launch, and Turkey processes nearly $200Bn in annual crypto transaction volume, making it one of the most consequential emerging markets Ripple has entered.

Ripple's RLUSD Expands Into Turkey

Ripple announced that $RLUSD is now available in Türkiye through BiLira, Bitexen and Bitlo.

The expansion marks another milestone for the stablecoin, which has grown to a market capitalization exceeding $1.7 billion in less than a year.… pic.twitter.com/WPsTV5NPYQ

— BSCN (@BSCNews) June 2, 2026

Here is the central tension this article unpacks: persistent lira inflation has already pushed millions of Turkish users toward stablecoins as a matter of financial survival, but access to dollar-pegged assets is not the same as protection.

Whether RLUSD’s regulated structure and transparent reserves make it meaningfully better than what Turkish users already hold is a question worth answering honestly before you move a single lira.

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XRP News: What a Ripple USD-Backed Stablecoin Actually Means for Turkish Users

Think of RLUSD like a digital safety deposit box denominated in US dollars. Every token you hold represents one real dollar sitting in reserve, held in US dollar deposits, short-term US Treasury bills, and cash equivalents, and a New York-regulated trust company is responsible for keeping that ratio intact, with monthly third-party attestations confirming the reserves are actually there.

That is meaningfully different from keeping your savings in Turkish lira, which has lost a substantial portion of its value against the dollar over recent years as lira inflation eroded purchasing power. It is also different from buying USDT on an exchange – Tether’s reserves have historically faced scrutiny and lacked the same regulatory oversight.

RLUSD is issued under a charter from the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), runs on both the XRP Ledger and Ethereum, and is not algorithmic – there is no complex mechanism propping up its dollar peg that could collapse under pressure, the way Terra’s UST did in 2022.

What this is not: it is not a Turkish bank account, it is not insured by any Turkish deposit guarantee scheme, and holding it does not mean Ripple is managing your money. You are holding a token that represents a claim on dollars held by a US trust company, which is a genuinely useful thing, but comes with its own layer of counterparty exposure.

(SOURCE: CoinGecko)

What RLUSD in Turley Actually Means for Users and What It Doesn’t Solve

The benefits of RLUSD start with inflation protection; it allows Turkish users to preserve purchasing power in a regulated, transparent manner through local exchanges recognized by Turkey’s Capital Markets Board.

Additionally, it improves remittance efficiency: using RLUSD on the XRP Ledger can significantly reduce costs and enable settlement in seconds compared to traditional SWIFT methods.

However, RLUSD does not address all issues. It is not legal tender in Turkey, meaning you can’t use it for rent or taxes. Turkish exchanges must meet anti-money laundering requirements, so transactions are not anonymous and require KYC compliance.

There are also risks associated with smart contracts and platform stability; if the exchange is hacked or goes insolvent, legal recourse is limited. Lastly, regulated status ensures transparency about reserves but does not inherently guarantee the safety of the underlying assets.

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The Partnerships Behind the Launch and What Ripple’s Broader Strategy Signals

Ripple Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:01:35 +0600 crypto Mt., Gox, Moves, 739M, Bitcoin:, Bigger, Market, Crash, Coming Mt. Gox has transferred approximately $739M in Bitcoin to a new wallet, a move confirmed by on-chain monitoring firms Arkham Intelligence and Whale Alert, who traced the transaction to cold storage addresses linked to the defunct exchange’s 2011–2014 holdings.

The transfer signals the continuation of the long-awaited Bitcoin repayment process for creditors who have been waiting over a decade to recover their funds. The immediate question rattling crypto markets: does $739M in BTC hitting the pipeline mean a market crash is imminent?

Mt. Gox Moves $731M In Bitcoin

Defunct exchange Mt. Gox has transferred 10,306 BTC worth roughly $731 million to a new wallet, according to Lookonchain.

The purpose of the transfer remains unclear.

While no sale has been confirmed, the transaction is one of the largest Bitcoin… pic.twitter.com/TWzT1qHTIh

— BSCN (@BSCNews) June 2, 2026

Here is the central tension this article unpacks: if this is the largest Mt. Gox BTC transfer in recent memory, why have previous large movements produced only brief, limited price dips rather than sustained collapses?

The answer lies in the mechanics of how this supply actually reaches the market and whether institutional demand can absorb what does.

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Mt. Gox Bitcoin Repayment: What the $739M Number Actually Tells You

Think of the Mt. Gox repayment as a court-ordered estate distribution. Assets are cataloged and disbursed in stages, similar to how the $739M BTC transfer is routed between wallets controlled by Rehabilitation Trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi, rather than a market sell order.

Creditors must first receive their coins and then decide whether to sell, and many have shown a preference for holding rather than liquidating, as seen on Reddit.

Since repayments began in July 2024, about 107,311 BTC have been distributed from an original pool of ~142,000 BTC, leaving approximately 34,000–35,000 BTC remaining. The recent transfer is a routine step in the winding-down process, not an influx of sell pressure.

On-chain analysts view these transfers as logistical rather than signs of mass liquidation, underscoring the importance of understanding their impact on the market.

Mt. Gox just transferred $731,000,000 $BTC to a new wallet.

Let the FUD begin Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:01:31 +0600 crypto Grayscale, Hyperliquid, ETF, Imminent, Per, New, Filing Grayscale has filed its sixth amendment to its Hyperliquid ETF registration, disclosing a 0.29% management fee and the ticker HYPG, the clearest signal yet that a launch is days away. Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart characterized the update as making the launch “likely imminent,” adding he was “expecting the launch this week.”

Here is the central tension this article unpacks: a competitive fee structure tells you something concrete about where this product sits in the approval queue, but a regulated on-ramp for HYPE and automatic price appreciation are two very different things.

Breaking: Launch likely imminent for @Grayscale's Hyperliquid ETF. Amendment number 6 just dropped. Ticker will be $HYPG. Fee will be 0.29%. hyperliquid:native pic.twitter.com/RVxuIbt7k4

— James Seyffart (@JSeyff) June 1, 2026

Context for the price: HYPE reached an all-time high of $75.30 on Monday, pushing its market capitalization to $16.7Bn and cementing its position as the 10th-largest cryptocurrency by market value.

That move happened as the two existing Hyperliquid ETFs, from 21Shares and Bitwise, both launched in mid-May, recorded nearly $140M in combined net inflows since their debut.

Grayscale Hype ETF Filing: What the 0.29% Fee Actually Tells You

Consider ETF fee competition like a price war: when a new player lowers fees, it signals confidence in demand. Grayscale’s proposed 0.29% fee for HYPG slightly undercuts 21Shares’ ETF at 0.30% and beats Bitwise’s at 0.34%.

ETF fees are crucial competitive differentiators; once investors choose a low-cost fund, they stick with it. Grayscale, managing about $35 billion in crypto assets, is positioning HYPG as the cost-effective choice for HYPE exposure, reflecting its serious commitment as indicated by its six filings with regulators.

Notably, the current filing doesn’t allow HYPE staking initially but includes a “Staking Condition” for future yield distribution once regulatory clarity is achieved. This approach aligns with what 21Shares and Bitwise have implemented, showing Grayscale’s intent to grow through both yield and fees. Overall, this trend reflects the current dynamics affecting flows across the crypto asset class.

Is the Grayscale Hype ETF the Catalyst HYPE Has Been Waiting For?

While $BTC is dumping, $HYPE just set another ATH pic.twitter.com/xIqDCwBSDr

— 0xMarioNawfal (@RoundtableSpace) June 1, 2026

A Grayscale ETF does something specific for HYPE: it creates a regulated, brokerage-accessible wrapper that institutional allocators, RIAs, and retirement accounts can hold without touching a crypto wallet.

That is a genuine structural expansion of the potential buyer base. But that is not the same as guaranteed demand; the product has to attract capital, and capital is not currently flowing indiscriminately into crypto ETFs.

That distinction is critical. US-listed Bitcoin ETFs have posted net outflows across 10 consecutive trading days, bleeding nearly $3Bn in that stretch. Ethereum ETFs are on a 14-day streak of outflows. The macro environment for crypto ETF inflows is not uniformly favorable, even as individual products like the Hyperliquid ETFs have attracted real capital.

What makes the HYPE case structurally different is the underlying platform. Hyperliquid now consistently facilitates over $170 billion in monthly trading volume – a number that gives the ETF a credible fundamental story beyond token speculation.

The platform’s fee-burn mechanics tie protocol revenue directly to HYPE’s supply dynamics, meaning institutional inflows via ETFs could interact with an already deflationary tokenomics structure in ways that pure price speculation doesn’t capture.

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Can Hyperliquid Hold Its All-Time High as the Grayscale ETF Launch Approaches?

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• Bull case: HYPE approval momentum, combined with continued Hyperliquid volume growth and fee burns, sustains a push toward $85–90. Grayscale’s lower fee accelerates inflows into HYPG, adding structural buy pressure from institutional allocators who bypassed the 21Shares and Bitwise products while waiting for the better-priced option.
• Base case: HYPE consolidates in the $65–75 range as the market prices in the ETF launch, waiting on tangible inflow data before extending the move. The broader outflow environment in Bitcoin and Ether ETFs acts as a ceiling on enthusiasm until macro conditions shift.
• Bear case: A sell-the-news flush following HYPG’s launch pulls HYPE back toward the $50–55 range, particularly if broader crypto ETF outflows accelerate and institutional positioning rotates away from altcoin exposure.

The base case is probably the most honest read of the current setup: the ETF infrastructure is being built at pace, but infrastructure and price momentum are not the same trade.

Six amendments, a competitive fee, and an analyst expecting a launch this week: what the HYPG filing actually signals is that Grayscale is done positioning and ready to execute. That signal says institutional access is arriving. It does not say the price move has already been priced in.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/microstrategy-sells-bitcoin-for-first-time-since-2022-should-you-panic https://media.ikmoon.com/microstrategy-sells-bitcoin-for-first-time-since-2022-should-you-panic Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:01:27 +0600 crypto MicroStrategy, Sells, Bitcoin, for, First, Time, Since, 2022:, Should, You, Panic MicroStrategy sold 32 bitcoin last week for roughly $2.5M, its first confirmed sale since late 2022, and the market noticed immediately, sending the company’s shares down 6% and bitcoin itself down 3% to approximately $71,486.

The sale was disclosed in a regulatory filing and tied directly to funding distributions on the company’s preferred stock.

It comes from a firm whose founder, Michael Saylor, built his entire public identity around one phrase: never sell bitcoin. Here is the central tension this article unpacks: if Saylor has spent years urging the world to hold bitcoin at all costs, why did MicroStrategy just become a seller?

Never sell your Bitcoin.

— Michael Saylor (@saylor) February 2, 2025

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MicroStrategy Bitcoin Sale Explained: What the 32 BTC Number Actually Tells You

To understand why this sale happened, you need to understand how MicroStrategy is structured. Think of the company less like a traditional software firm and more like a landlord who borrowed money to buy as many properties as possible, then issued rental contracts to investors expecting steady income.

The “properties” are bitcoin. The “rental income” is the dividend owed to holders of its preferred stock – specifically, a Series A perpetual preferred stock paying an 11.5% annual dividend.

When those dividend obligations come due, MicroStrategy needs cash. Rather than sell new shares or draw on reserves alone, the company tapped a tiny sliver of its bitcoin treasury. As of Q1 2026, MicroStrategy held approximately 818,334 BTC, worth roughly $61.8B, purchased at an average price near $75,500 per coin.

MICROSTRATEGY SELLS 32 BTC FOR $2.5M AT AVERAGE OF $77.135K: FILING

— Aggr News (@AggrNews) June 1, 2026

Selling 32 BTC to cover a dividend obligation is the equivalent of a landlord cracking open a piggy bank that contains $61 billion to pay a $2,500 bill. The math is not alarming. The symbolism, however, is.

CEO Phong Le has also outlined a formal framework for any future sales: MicroStrategy would only sell bitcoin when doing so is “accretive to bitcoin per share”, meaning the sale would actually improve how much bitcoin each share of MSTR represents, not dilute it.

This is a treasury management principle, not a retreat from the bitcoin thesis. You can read more about how Saylor’s Bitcoin buying strategy has historically worked for smaller investors to get a fuller picture of the accumulation side of this equation.

Is This a Pivot or Just Responsible Balance Sheet Management?

MicroStrategy’s last bitcoin sale before this one came in late 2022, during the depths of crypto winter. At the time, the company sold roughly 704 BTC, and then turned around and bought more almost immediately.

That sale was widely understood as a crypto tax loss harvesting move: selling at a loss to realize a tax benefit, then rebuying to maintain exposure. It was accounting mechanics, not capitulation.

This 2026 sale is different in nature; it is liquidity-driven rather than tax-driven, but similar in scale relative to total holdings. What matters is whether it becomes a pattern. MicroStrategy simultaneously raised approximately $1.44B through a stock offering to cover 12 to 24 months of preferred dividends and debt interest, while also buying an additional 130 BTC during the same period.

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:01:23 +0600 crypto Can, Sugarcane, Actually, Power, Bitcoin, Inside, Tether, New, Brazil, Mining, Play Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin, is preparing to mine Bitcoin using electricity generated from sugarcane waste in Brazil, and the pilot is set to go live by July 1, 2026. The operation, run through Tether-backed agribusiness Adecoagro, will start with 10 megawatts of capacity and approximately 1,280 Bitcoin mining machines powered entirely by biomass energy from sugarcane processing.

Adecoagro already operates more than 230 megawatts of renewable electricity generation capacity across South America, giving the project an established energy platform before a single mining rig is switched on.

The 10-megawatt pilot is a small slice of that, deliberately so. This is a test, not a full rollout.

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Here is the central tension this article unpacks: sugarcane biomass genuinely offers a cleaner energy source for Bitcoin mining than fossil-fuel grids, and understanding the difference between a circular agricultural economy and a greenwashing narrative matters for anyone trying to evaluate whether this is genuine sustainable infrastructure or a clever piece of brand positioning.

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How Sugarcane Biomass and Bitcoin Mining Actually Work Together

Imagine you run a juice factory. Every orange you squeeze leaves behind pulp, a byproduct you didn’t set out to make but now have to deal with. You could throw it away, or you could find someone who wants it. Now imagine that pulp could be burned to generate electricity, and that electricity could run a business 24 hours a day, seven days a week, without any downtime.

That is roughly how bagasse-powered Bitcoin mining works in this context.

Bagasse is the fibrous material left behind after sugarcane is crushed to extract juice for sugar and ethanol production. In large-scale mills, bagasse is fed into high-efficiency boilers that generate steam, which spins turbines to produce electricity.

The process often generates more power than the mill itself consumes, creating surplus electricity that can be sold to the grid or redirected to other uses.

Tether-Backed Adecoagro to Launch Sugarcane-Powered Bitcoin Mining in Brazil

Adecoagro, a South American agricultural company in which Tether is a major shareholder, is preparing to launch Bitcoin mining in Brazil using clean energy generated from burning sugarcane residue.… pic.twitter.com/3Gs7eT8jlx

— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) June 3, 2026

Bitcoin mining steps in as that other use. Mining requires constant, uninterrupted power, making it an ideal flexible buyer for surplus energy that might otherwise be curtailed or sold at low spot prices. In Brazil, where Adecoagro operates across massive sugarcane-growing regions, that surplus is predictable, scalable, and structurally embedded in the existing industrial process.

The key mechanism here is co-generation: one agricultural process produces two sellable outputs, commodity products and electricity. Bitcoin mining adds a third revenue stream without requiring entirely new power infrastructure. That is not a small efficiency gain.

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Tether Adecoagro Investment: What the Deal Actually Involves

Adecoagro is a NYSE-listed agro-industrial company with operations across Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, spanning sugar, ethanol, rice, dairy, and renewable energy. It owns approximately 210,400 hectares of farmland and produces over 3.1 million tons of agricultural products and more than 1 million MWh of renewable electricity annually.

Tether acquired a majority stake in Adecoagro, giving the stablecoin issuer direct exposure to physical commodities, agricultural land, and renewable energy infrastructure. Adecoagro’s independent committee reviewed and approved the Bitcoin mining pilot under the company’s related-party transaction rules, a procedural detail worth noting because Tether’s ownership position makes governance scrutiny important.

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/crypto-news-today-june-3-18bn-in-liquidations-as-btc-crashes-below-67k https://media.ikmoon.com/crypto-news-today-june-3-18bn-in-liquidations-as-btc-crashes-below-67k Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:01:19 +0600 crypto Crypto, News, Today, June, 3:, 1.8Bn, Liquidations, BTC, Crashes, Below, 67K In crypto news today (June 3), crypto is proving the old adage of ‘Sell in May and go away,’ as June continues its bearish trend throughout crypto. Bitcoin crashed below $67,000 overnight, falling by -4.2% over the past 24 hours. The crash caused more than $1.8Bn in daily liquidations, with over $1.54Bn of that figure being long trades.

This price action hasn’t been helped by ETF flows, with a further $500M+ exiting the various Bitcoin ETF products, taking the ten-day total to over $3Bn, a figure that is only adding to the brutal sell pressure across the market.

This crash began on June 1 and has been exacerbated by news that Michael Saylor and Strategy sold Bitcoin for the first time ever, by Iran and the US continuing their conflict in the Middle East, and by negative ETF flows.

Daily trading volume has surged on this crash, exceeding $143Bn in the past 24 hours, up from $120Bn yesterday. This surge in volume is mostly traders offloading bags in anticipation of a deeper drop.

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Crypto News Today: Iran Attacks US Bases in Bahrain and Kuwait in Response to US Strikes

It has been reported overnight that Iran launched a massive ballistic missile and drone attack, striking the US 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain along with US bases in Kuwait and an oil tanker near Dubai, in response to new US strikes on Qeshm Island and an Iranian oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran says it has officially abandoned tit-for-tat retaliation, now striking back “at least 1.5x as hard” for every US attack, with the IRGC warning “disrupting the security of the Strait of Hormuz will have a heavy price for the invading US military.”

With this fresh wave of attacks across the Middle East, negotiations for peace seem further away than ever, and the market is clearly spooked by a wider breakout of conflict, as evidenced by the crypto crash overnight.

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:01:15 +0600 crypto Solana, Grows, Up:, Can, Native, Subscriptions, Replace, the, Meme, Coin, Casino Solana has launched native subscription and recurring payment infrastructure directly on its blockchain, audited by security firms Cantina and Spearbit, live on mainnet, and already being integrated by companies including Helius, Confirmo, and Dynamic.

It arrives at a pointed moment: SOL’s on-chain DEX volume has dropped more than 86% from its meme coin peak in early 2024, when daily volumes briefly topped $3–4 billion and Solana overtook Ethereum in spot trading activity.

Here is the central tension this article unpacks: Solana built its audience on speculation, meme coins, fast flips, and casino-grade volatility, but the infrastructure it is shipping is designed for something quieter and more durable. Can recurring payments actually replace the excitement that drew users here in the first place, or is this a technical upgrade that solves a problem most Solana users never had?

Subscriptions & Allowances are now native to Solana.

Recurring billing and delegated spending, live on mainnet as one shared program any team can build on. pic.twitter.com/ob3lnJhHAQ

— Solana Foundation (@SolanaFndn) June 2, 2026

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Solana Subscriptions: What the New Program Actually Does

Think of the new Solana Subscriptions and Allowances program like giving your wallet a standing order, the same way you authorize Netflix to pull $15.99 every month without you doing anything.

Until now, building that kind of recurring payment on a blockchain required developers to write custom infrastructure from scratch, pass their own security audits, and stitch together off-chain systems to trigger on-chain transactions. That could take weeks and introduced meaningful risk.

The new program bakes three payment models directly into Solana as shared, audited infrastructure any developer can use. Allowances let a user pre-authorize a one-time spend up to a set cap, useful for AI agents operating within a budget.

Recurring Delegations let a delegate pull up to a fixed amount on a repeating schedule, such as $500 every two weeks, with the cap resetting each cycle, suited to payroll or contractor payments encoded on-chain. Subscription Plans let a merchant publish fixed pricing tiers, like $49 or $199 per month, with terms locked in at the moment a user subscribes.

Solana has launched native Subscriptions and Allowances on mainnet. Developers can now implement recurring billing, spending caps, and subscription tiers directly using audited open-source SPL Token code. The feature supports AI agent allowances, scheduled payroll, and merchant…

— Bit & Alts (@BitAndAlts) June 3, 2026

The program works with both SPL Token and Token-2022 standards, including confidential transfers, and has been integration-tested with Squads multisig and Swig smart wallet setups. Builders say the practical upside is collapsing weeks of custom work into days of integration, and doing it on infrastructure that has already been independently audited.

This fits neatly into Solana’s broader payments story. The network’s payment rails have been live since 2020 and are already used by Visa, PayPal, Western Union, and Fiserv. Solana processed more than $2 trillion in stablecoin transfers in a single quarter, with sub-penny fees and block confirmations around 395 milliseconds. Solana’s Q1 2026 network report shows the ecosystem’s real transaction volume growing well beyond what meme coin activity alone would explain.

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What the 86% DEX Volume Drop Actually Means, and What It Doesn’t

The meme coin boom of 2023–2024 was genuinely extraordinary for Solana. Tickers like BONK and WIF drove retail speculation to fever pitch, platforms like Pump.fun made launching new tokens frictionless, and DEX volume on Solana briefly overtook Ethereum.

Then it cooled, sharply. By late 2024, that DEX volume had fallen more than 80% from its highs as speculative liquidity rotated away and many meme coins drained to zero.

Here is what the data tells you: the speculative cycle that defined Solana’s public image is contracting. Here is what it does not tell you: that the underlying network is shrinking. Daily active addresses on Solana frequently exceeded one million through 2024, and stablecoin transfer volume grew more than 5x year-on-year, driven by USDC and USDT payroll, remittances, and merchant payments, activity that never showed up in meme coin narratives but never went away either.

The bullish read is that Solana is doing exactly what a maturing network should do: the casino brought users and liquidity, and now tooling like Actions, Blinks, and Subscriptions is what determines whether those users stay for real economic activity.

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Blinks, Blockchain Links that turn on-chain actions into shareable URLs signable from any web surface, are already being used by consumer apps for tipping, paywalls, and event ticketing, which plugs directly into subscription flows. Institutional capital is flowing into Solana for utility purposes, not meme trading, which supports the maturation narrative with real on-chain evidence.

The skeptical read is equally valid: subscription infrastructure solves a developer problem, not a user desire. The users who came to Solana for meme coins were not looking for a Stripe alternative, they wanted asymmetric upside. Replacing DEX volume with recurring billing revenue is a fundamentally different value proposition, and there is no guarantee the same audience wants both.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/blackrock-bitcoin-news-can-treasury-accumulation-save-btc https://media.ikmoon.com/blackrock-bitcoin-news-can-treasury-accumulation-save-btc Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:01:10 +0600 crypto Blackrock, Bitcoin, News:, Can, Treasury, Accumulation, Save, BTC BlackRock Bitcoin is back in the spotlight, as institutional money is dominating the space right now. Corporations are quietly stacking BTC on their balance sheets, treating it less like a speculative bet and more like a long-term treasury asset. The question is whether that quiet accumulation signals a floor or just a pause before more turbulence.

Recent data points to serious corporate conviction. A widely circulated video report highlighted that SpaceX holds 18,712 BTC acquired at an average cost of roughly $35,000 per coin, a total cost basis of nearly $661M, now valued at around $1.3Bn. That’s not a trade.

(SOURCE: Arkham)

Meanwhile, Bitcoin briefly slipped below $66,000 amid macro concerns and selling pressure from large holders, a reminder that institutional conviction and short-term price volatility can coexist uncomfortably.

BTC USD is down -3.2% over the past 24 hours, trading for $67,200 at the time of writing as the market continues to bleed, with the total crypto market cap dropping below $2.4 trillion for the first time in the past six weeks.

Can BTC Hold Its Ground as BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Creates Selling Pressure?

$BTC tapped the March lows before a bounceback.

$65,000 is the last strong support zone for Bitcoin, and losing this will accelerate the dump to new lows. pic.twitter.com/jUOceYTQ1n

— Ted (@TedPillows) June 3, 2026

Bitcoin’s price structure is caught between two forces right now. On one side: sustained corporate treasury buying that treats BTC as a store-of-value asset — a theme reinforced by the ongoing institutional interest in BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF and its record inflows. On the other hand, headline-driven volatility that briefly pushed the price under $66,000, the kind of level that makes leveraged traders nervous.

That $66,000 zone is now the critical line in the sand. A decisive close below it, especially on rising volume, would suggest the selling pressure is structural, not just noise. Conversely, a reclaim and hold above that level on strong volume would signal that buyers absorbed the dip and the bullish thesis remains intact.

Three scenarios are plausible from here:

• Bull case: Institutional ETF inflows accelerate, macro risk cools, and Bitcoin pushes back toward the $69,000–$72,000 range. Corporate treasury filings add fresh narrative fuel.
• Base case: Price consolidates in the $66,000–$68,000 range as the market digests selling by large holders. Momentum stays choppy, but the broader uptrend structure holds.
• Bear case: A sustained break below $65,000 invalidates the short-term recovery thesis and opens the door to a deeper retest of the mid-$50,000s.

The SpaceX cost basis of ~$35,000 is a useful reminder that long-term holders are sitting on substantial unrealized gains, meaning they could sell without panic. Whether they do depends on macro conditions most analysts can’t fully predict.

That uncertainty, frankly, is what makes Bitcoin so maddening to model. For a deeper look at how BlackRock’s ETF structure shapes Bitcoin’s accessibility for everyday investors, this breakdown of IBIT is worth reading.

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LiquidChain Targets Early-Mover Upside While Bitcoin Tests Key Levels

While BlackRock Bitcoin selling is causing bearish price action, LiquidChain ($LIQUID) is quietly emerging as a Layer 3 infrastructure project with a specific, concrete pitch: fuse Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana liquidity into a single execution environment. Developers deploy once and access all three ecosystems.

No bridging gymnastics. No fragmented liquidity pools. Its Unified Liquidity Layer and Single-Step Execution architecture are designed to eliminate the friction that currently makes cross-chain development painful.

The presale numbers are specific: $LIQUID is priced at $0.01466, with $821,588.43 raised to date. That’s meaningful traction for an early-stage raise, suggesting genuine investor interest rather than paper momentum.

This beginner-focused overview of the LiquidChain presale covers the fundamentals clearly. Research it at the official presale page before committing anything.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/what-the-saylor-strategy-bitcoin-sale-really-means https://media.ikmoon.com/what-the-saylor-strategy-bitcoin-sale-really-means Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:01:05 +0600 crypto What, The, Saylor, Strategy, Bitcoin, Sale, Really, Means In Bitcoin News today, Strategy sold 32 Bitcoins on June 3, 2026, receiving roughly $2.5M, and the market immediately treated it like a five-alarm fire, sending Bitcoin down 3.1% to $65,391 and erasing approximately $160Bn in total crypto market value within the week.

The company, which holds 843,706 BTC worth over $60Bn, parted with a fraction so small it barely registers as a line item on its balance sheet. Yet institutional investors pulled nearly $4Bn from US-listed Bitcoin ETFs over the following 12 sessions, a record consecutive-outflow streak.

Here is the central tension this article unpacks: a sale that is mathematically trivial triggered a psychologically devastating response because it cracked one of Bitcoin’s most powerful support narratives, the idea that Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy would never, ever sell.

Bitcoin News: Strategy BTC Sale Explained

Think of MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin treasury like a dam: its value relies not just on the water or Bitcoin it holds but on the belief that it will not sell. When the company sold 32 BTC for $2.5M, it raised concerns, even though the sale was insignificant relative to its $62 billion position. As Rajiv Sawhney noted, the symbolism is more important than the numbers.

To put it in perspective, selling 32 BTC from an 843,706-coin hoard is like a landlord breaking open a piggy bank containing $61Bn for a $2,500 bill. This was only MicroStrategy’s second Bitcoin sale; the first was in December 2022 to manage tax losses. The recent sale coincided with a shift in capital management, as the company also sold shares to raise cash.

CEO Phong Le has stated that MicroStrategy will only sell BTC if it enhances “Bitcoin per share.” This context is crucial for those who interpret the sale as capitulation, as the company has historically engaged in small, tactical transactions without compromising its overall accumulation strategy.

$BTC tapped the March lows before a bounceback.

$65,000 is the last strong support zone for Bitcoin, and losing this will accelerate the dump to new lows. pic.twitter.com/jUOceYTQ1n

— Ted (@TedPillows) June 3, 2026

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Is This a Pivot or Just Responsible Balance Sheet Management?

In other Bitcoin news, two competing narratives are emerging in the crypto space. The first suggests that MicroStrategy has abandoned its “never sell” stance, indicating a decline in institutional confidence in Bitcoin. The second argues that the company, constrained by convertible debt and index pressures, needs to sell positions for reasons unrelated to its long-term belief in Bitcoin.

Research from TD Cowen supports the second narrative, showing that MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin purchases account for only about 3.3% of weekly trading volume and show little correlation with Bitcoin’s price movements. The company’s transactions are overshadowed by broader market forces, such as significant ETF outflows and futures liquidations.

(SOURCE: CoinGecko)

Additionally, there’s a noticeable shift in capital, with firms like FXHB Asset Management moving investments from Bitcoin to AI equities, as the Nasdaq has risen by 41.5% while Bitcoin has dropped 37% over the past year. This divergence highlights broader institutional trends rather than a loss of faith in Bitcoin itself.

There is, however, a risk associated with leveraged funds tied to MicroStrategy’s stock, which have fallen over 70% from their peak. Concerns have arisen about a “vicious feedback loop” in which declines in MicroStrategy shares lead to further outflows, negatively impacting sentiment toward their trades. Investors in these leveraged vehicles should be cautious of this risk.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/crypto-etf-outflows-hit-609m-should-beginners-panic-or-buy-the-dip https://media.ikmoon.com/crypto-etf-outflows-hit-609m-should-beginners-panic-or-buy-the-dip Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:01:00 +0600 crypto Crypto, ETF, Outflows, Hit, 609M:, Should, Beginners, Panic, Buy, the, Dip US spot crypto ETF flows turned sharply negative in a single session, with Bitcoin and Ether ETFs recording a combined $609.3M in net outflows as Bitcoin slid to $65,700 and Ether dropped below $1,900.

The two-day total for June has now exceeded $1Bn in Bitcoin outflows alone, making it one of the heavier institutional crypto redemption windows of the year. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust led the selling with $388.6M in withdrawals, nearly 75% of total spot Bitcoin ETF redemptions for the session.

Here is the central tension this article unpacks: the biggest names in institutional crypto, BlackRock, Fidelity, and Grayscale, are pulling capital out of the very products retail investors were told signaled mainstream legitimacy. Does that mean you should follow them for the exit?

(SOURCE: CoinGlass)

ETF Outflows Explained: What the $609M Number Actually Tells You

In plain English, when investors redeem ETF shares, authorized participants must sell the underlying Bitcoin or Ether to return cash. The $609.3M figure represents the amount institutional investors handed back in a single session. It is a measure of redemption mechanics, not a referendum on the asset itself.

To recontextualize that number: US spot Bitcoin ETFs accumulated over $50Bn in assets in roughly their first year of trading after launching in January 2024. A $519.1M single-session outflow, while large in headline terms, represents approximately 1% of that cumulative base.

As our explainer on what ETF outflows mean for Bitcoin’s price walks through, the mechanics of redemption and the long-term direction of institutional demand are two separate conversations. The $609M is a data point about portfolio-level mechanics, not a verdict on Bitcoin or Ether.

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Crypto ETF News: Rotation or Retreat – Why Institutions Are Pulling Back Right Now

$BTC tapped the March lows before a bounceback.

$65,000 is the last strong support zone for Bitcoin, and losing this will accelerate the dump to new lows. pic.twitter.com/jUOceYTQ1n

— Ted (@TedPillows) June 3, 2026

The macro backdrop is significant, with stronger-than-expected US employment data pushing rate-cut expectations into late 2026 and reinforcing the Federal Reserve’s higher-for-longer stance.

This environment makes non-yielding assets like Bitcoin less appealing to macro funds, leading portfolio managers to reduce exposure based on risk models rather than a loss of faith in crypto.

Bloomberg crypto ETF analyst Eric Balchunas notes that large outflows often reflect portfolio-level rebalancing rather than negative sentiment toward Bitcoin specifically. The concentration of redemptions in products from BlackRock, Fidelity, and Grayscale indicates larger allocators adjusting their positions, rather than retail panic selling. Research from Hyblock Capital attributes previous substantial outflows to hedge funds closing cash-and-carry trades amid rising volatility.

Should You Panic or Buy the Dip? What This Means for Beginners

Here is the uncomfortable truth: you are watching institutions with billion-dollar risk desks reduce exposure, and the headlines make it feel like you should be doing the same thing at the same time. But institutional investors and retail holders are playing entirely different games with entirely different rules.

Spot Ether ETF outflows of $90.2M this session, led by BlackRock’s ETHA losing $44.3M, add pressure to a market with less institutional depth than Bitcoin. But on-chain data continues to show a record number of small-balance wallets accumulating, individual spot holders who do not have the same liquidity pressures or mandate constraints as a macro fund. That divergence between ‘paper Bitcoin’ ETF holders and actual spot holders is important context when reading these numbers.

Here is how the scenario triad looks right now:

• Bull case: The macro headwind is already priced in, rate-cut expectations firm up later this year, and institutional money reverses sharply – as it has done repeatedly through prior market cycles. ETF flows flip positive, providing a demand tailwind for spot prices.
• Base case: Outflows continue at a moderate pace through the summer rebalancing window, Bitcoin holds key support in the mid-to-upper $60,000 range, and the Ethereum ETF market stabilizes as product awareness grows. Slow consolidation, not a collapse.
• Bear case: Macro conditions deteriorate further, rate cuts get pushed into 2027, and sustained institutional crypto de-risking accelerates the current drawdown into a deeper correction. The high-liquidity nature of these ETF products means capital can exit quickly.

The most useful concrete step is not to act on today’s headline; it is to start tracking daily ETF flow data directly from CoinGlass or SoSoValue. Two or three consecutive sessions of accelerating outflows at declining price levels would be a more meaningful warning signal than any single headline number.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/uk-football-vs-crypto-shirts-why-your-clubs-sponsor-might-be-breaking-the-law https://media.ikmoon.com/uk-football-vs-crypto-shirts-why-your-clubs-sponsor-might-be-breaking-the-law Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:00:54 +0600 crypto Football, vs., Crypto, Shirts:, Why, Your, Club’s, Sponsor, Might, Breaking, the, Law The Financial Conduct Authority has sent a formal warning letter to British football clubs, primarily those in the Premier League, warning that sponsorship deals with unauthorized international crypto firms and trading platforms may breach UK law.

The timing is deliberate: with England, Scotland, and other home nations heading to the United States, Mexico, and Canada for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off on June 11, regulators want the problem addressed before the marketing frenzy begins.

UK FCA: Football Clubs Face Legal and Money Laundering Risks From Unauthorized Crypto Sponsors

Reuters reported that the UK Financial Conduct Authority warned Premier League and other football clubs that sponsorship deals with unauthorized crypto firms and trading platforms… pic.twitter.com/3AmIjUvlvx

— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) June 3, 2026

Here is the central tension this article unpacks: football clubs need sponsorship revenue, crypto firms need mainstream credibility, and UK financial promotion law sits squarely between the two.

Under current rules, promoting crypto-assets to UK consumers without FCA authorization is not just a regulatory grey area – it is a potential criminal offense. And clubs that display those logos may not be as insulated from liability as their legal teams assumed.

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UK Football: What the FCA Warning Actually Says, The Detail Most Headlines Miss

The FCA’s warning does not claim that Premier League clubs knowingly assist criminals. Instead, it suggests that by partnering with unauthorized offshore crypto exchanges, clubs might be promoting illegal financial products to their supporters.

Under the UK’s Financial Promotion Regime, any business marketing financial products to UK consumers must be FCA-authorized or have endorsements from an authorized firm. This rule now applies specifically to crypto-assets.

Many exchanges that sponsor Premier League clubs are based in offshore jurisdictions and lack FCA registration. This means that displaying their logos or linking to their platforms may constitute unauthorized financial promotions.

Lucy Castledine from the FCA emphasized that clubs should not let unauthorized firms exploit fan loyalty by promoting potentially risky products. The FCA has urged clubs to conduct thorough due diligence before entering sponsorship agreements and is collaborating with the government and football regulators to uphold these standards.

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Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:00:49 +0600 crypto Crypto, News, Today, June, 4:, BTC, Taps, 61K, Overnight, Liquidations, Pile In crypto news today (June 4), the market continues to bleed as June maintains its bearish trend. Bitcoin crashed below $62,000 overnight, falling by -4.8% over the past 24 hours. The crash has caused more than $1.63Bn in daily liquidations, with over $1.38Bn of that figure being long trades.

This recent spate of liquidations has contributed to the daily trading volume exceeding $393Bn, more than double yesterday’s $143Bn. The spike in volume highlights trader activity, with many participants offloading bags before any deeper drop.

This price action also hasn’t been helped by ETF flows, with a further $396M+ exiting the various Bitcoin ETF products, which is less than yesterday’s $500M+ figure but does extend the run to 11 consecutive days of outflows.

June has been awful for crypto, with Michael Saylor and Tom Lee seemingly competing to hit -$10Bn PnL first, as the crypto treasury strategy begins to show serious signs of weakness.

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Iran and the US on the Brink of All-Out War

Trump has reportedly drawn his private red line with Iran, and that line is American blood. The President reportedly told aides he would consider ending the ceasefire if Iran kills US troops, even as officials publicly insist the truce remains intact through the constant skirmishes.

His hesitation to resume the war indicates that he is willing to endure these flare-ups for weeks or even months, rather than risk escalating into a broader conflict in the Middle East.

This also clarifies the unusual pattern we have observed over the past two weeks. Iran continues to launch barrages that do not target American interests, and Trump continues to absorb these attacks without reigniting the war.

Both sides are fully aware of the boundaries, and they are carefully navigating along them. However, the situation could change dramatically with the loss of even one more American soldier.

Any further escalation of the situation in the Middle East would likely spell disaster for crypto, possibly serving as the catalyst for the next leg down, which many believe is toward $50,000.

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:00:44 +0600 crypto Bitcoin, News, Today:, BTC, Fully, Retraces, its, Pre-Iran, Conflict, Pump In Bitcoin news today, the BTC price has fully retraced to its pre-Iran conflict lows, dropping -5.5% to $61,322 in early Singapore trading on June 4, its weakest level since February 6, 2026, before recovering to around $64,200 by early afternoon.

The move wipes out the entire geopolitical premium that had lifted BTC toward the $74,000 region following the late-February US-Israel strike on Iran, completing a round trip that took roughly three months to play out.

This is not just a Bitcoin story. The broader market correction has dragged Ethereum and high-beta altcoins down sharply, with over $500M in leveraged long positions liquidated as the price broke through key support.

The pattern, spike on conflict headlines, rally briefly on safe-haven narrative, then fully retrace, is one the market has now run several times. Understanding why it keeps happening matters more than any single price level.

$BTC Has seen its highest total long liquidations this week since September 2021.

June 2nd was also the highest single long liquidation day since the 10/10 dump. pic.twitter.com/etVpgQhufp

— Daan Crypto Trades (@DaanCrypto) June 4, 2026

Bitcoin News Today:  What Is a Geopolitical Premium in Crypto and Why Did One Form Here?

A geopolitical premium is simply the extra price the market assigns to an asset when fear runs hot. Think of it like a thermostat: when global anxiety spikes, some investors turn the dial toward perceived safe havens, and Bitcoin has increasingly been pitched as one of those destinations – the digital gold narrative at work.

Here is how it formed this time. When news of the US-Israel strike on Iran broke on February 28, 2026, Bitcoin initially sold off hard, dropping nearly -6% in 45 minutes from around $70,000 to a low of $63,038, triggering approximately $515M in forced crypto liquidations and erasing over $128Bn from total crypto market cap. That is the classic risk-asset reaction: acute fear, forced selling, and fast-moving leverage unwinding.

Then the narrative flipped. Traders began framing the Iran conflict as a potential dollar-destabilizing macro shock – the kind of environment where Bitcoin, as a non-sovereign store of value, might outperform. BTC ripped back above $73,000 by mid-March, at one point approaching $74,000, a roughly 12-15% swing from the local war low. That recovery is priced in the geopolitical premium.

We covered the macro mechanics behind how US-Iran tensions ripple through crypto markets – including the oil price and risk-asset correlation that amplifies these moves in both directions.

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Why Geopolitical Pumps Almost Always Fade: The Pattern Retail Traders Miss

IS BITCOIN’S SELLOFF RELATED TO THE WAR WITH Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:00:39 +0600 crypto Arthur, Hayes, HYPE, and, NEAR, Offloading:, Why, Did, Dump BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes announced on June 4, 2026, that he had sold his entire positions in the HYPE token and NEAR Protocol, citing rising energy prices due to tensions with Iran, three upcoming mega AI IPOs, and a prediction that Trump would turn anti-AI.

The announcement triggered an immediate wave of discussion across crypto social media, with whale movements of this size drawing intense scrutiny from both supporters and critics.

I just dumped my entire $HYPE and $NEAR position, I will explain why in my essay "Reality Test" dropping next Tuesday.

TLDR:
– Higher energy prices due to Iran war and inventory restocking
– 3 Mega AI IPOs between now and early Q3
– Prediction that Trump goes anti-AI to win…

— Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes) June 4, 2026

Here is the central tension this article unpacks: Hayes had publicly posted a $150 price target for HYPE just four days before dumping his entire position, so what does that pattern actually mean for retail investors watching from the sidelines?

As Hayes dropped the bombshell on X, HYPE reacted with a -9% move overnight, dropping to around $66. NEAR has been hit harder, losing more than 16% in value over the past 24 hours, dropping to $2.37.

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Think of a large crypto investor like a professional poker player who bets aggressively, reads the table constantly, and folds without sentiment the moment the odds shift, even if they were raising the pot sixty seconds earlier.

That is not an inconsistency. That is the actual job description. Hayes is not a retail investor with a buy-and-hold horizon. He is the CIO of Maelstrom, a fund with specific risk-management mandates and macro triggers that have nothing to do with whether a project is good or bad in the long term.

The mechanics here are worth understanding precisely. On September 21, 2025, Hayes had already sold his entire HYPE position once before, clearing $5.1M after aggressively promoting the token on stage.

He later re-accumulated, bought more on the way up, and by early 2026 was publicly calling for a $150 price target while maintaining what he described as his “holy trinity” of altcoins: HYPE, ZEC, and NEAR.

If you were following Hayes’ full holy trinity thesis, including Hyperliquid and NEAR, you already knew this was a concentrated, high-conviction trade – not a passive long-term hold.

On-chain data tracked by @Lookonchain had previously shown Hayes accumulating 247,334 HYPE, worth approximately $10.44M, built in part by rotating out of PENDLE and ENA positions.

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$NEAR/usdt 4 hour$NEAR nuking 20% after getting rejected at ascending channel diagonal resistance ….

… bounce here on diagonal channel support? pic.twitter.com/QICFTEjGnp

— Satoshi Flipper (@SatoshiFlipper) June 4, 2026

Why Did the Hayes HYPE and NEAR Train Come to a Halt Right Now?

There are two competing narratives regarding Hayes. The first is that he is a macro-driven trader who views energy price shocks and AI IPOs as legitimate risks, making his move into Bitcoin justifiable from a risk-management perspective.

The second narrative suggests a troubling pattern: Hayes has previously promoted tokens with aggressive price targets, only to exit shortly thereafter, leaving retail investors frustrated. These promotions create strong expectations, and his quick exits, driven by changing macro views, can mislead those without access to real-time analysis.

One analyst noted that Hayes approaches public writing like an options desk, quick to act without sentiment. This explains the simultaneous selling of both his NEAR Protocol and HYPE token positions when his macro thesis changed. While crypto has bullish narratives, it often lacks accountability when those narratives vanish as profits materialize, leaving a complex tension unresolved.

Should You Panic or Sit Tight, and Why Buying Influencers’ Calls Can Backfire

Boom. There goes the distribution $hype @HyperliquidX

What stood out here:

• Spot was being heavily sold on Bybit
• Perps were used to keep price elevated
• OI was consolidating
• Funding hit ~100% this morning

The move down may have been triggered by Arthur Hayes taking… https://t.co/lQOOrOzmml pic.twitter.com/L9rBofrwVS

— noorucn (@sportytechworld) June 4, 2026

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: if you bought HYPE or NEAR Protocol based on Arthur Hayes’ recommendation, you’re likely misaligned. Hayes manages a fund with distinct macro triggers and liquidity needs, and his decisions serve his portfolio, not yours.

It’s natural to react when a whale moves, but that doesn’t mean you should. On-chain data is public, but transparency doesn’t equal alignment. A sell-off due to one large actor’s concerns doesn’t indicate that the underlying projects are broken. Hyperliquid and NEAR Protocol’s fundamentals remain intact.

From a retail perspective, consider these scenarios:

Bull case: Hayes HYPE concerns prove unfounded, leading to a swift recovery for HYPE and NEAR. Patient holders are rewarded.
Base case: Market volatility lingers post-sell-off, but Hayes’ insights help steer the narrative cycle.
Bear case: Hayes is correct, and both tokens underperform as institutional capital flows out of crypto.

Monitor Hayes’ on-chain wallet activity in the next 30 days. If he re-accumulates HYPE or NEAR, it’s a positive sign. If not, the bear case may extend. Stay informed and don’t let a whale’s exit dictate your decisions.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/google-chrome-secretly-installs-4gb-ai-model https://media.ikmoon.com/google-chrome-secretly-installs-4gb-ai-model Sat, 09 May 2026 13:04:14 +0600 crypto Google, Chrome, secretly, installs, 4GB, model The post Google Chrome secretly installs 4GB AI model appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Google Chrome has been silently installing a 4GB AI model called Gemini Nano on users’ devices without consent, a researcher found. Summary Researcher Alexander Hanff documented Chrome secretly downloading a 4GB AI model called Gemini Nano to eligible devices without user notification or consent. The model reinstalls itself automatically if users delete it, and Chrome does not offer an opt-out prompt during installation. Hanff argues the practice likely violates the EU’s ePrivacy Directive and GDPR, raising legal questions that have not yet been tested in court. Google Chrome is silently installing a 4GB AI model on users’ devices without consent, a researcher found. Privacy researcher and computer scientist Alexander Hanff documented the installation after discovering that a Chrome profile he created for automated privacy audits had accumulated 4GB of model files called weights.bin inside a folder named OptGuideOnDeviceModel, despite receiving zero human input at any point. The model is Google’s Gemini Nano, a lightweight on-device large language model. Hanff’s evidence chain shows Chrome downloading the 4GB file in 14 minutes and 28 seconds on April 24, 2026, without a consent prompt, without a settings notification, and without a checkbox. The file reinstalls automatically when restarted after deletion, according to multiple independent reports across Windows, macOS, and Linux. What Chrome does with the model Chrome 147 displays an “AI Mode” pill in the address bar, which users might reasonably assume routes queries to the local on-device model. According to Hanff’s investigation, that assumption is wrong. The AI Mode pill is a cloud-backed Search Generative Experience that sends every query to Google’s servers. The on-device Gemini Nano powers right-click menu features that most users never access. Snopes verified the claim as mostly true, finding the weights.bin file on the devices of three of six staffers checked, spanning both macOS and Windows machines.…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/understanding-skyais-30-price-correction-and-the-next-steps-for-traders https://media.ikmoon.com/understanding-skyais-30-price-correction-and-the-next-steps-for-traders Sat, 09 May 2026 13:04:12 +0600 crypto Understanding, SkyAI’s, 30, price, correction, and, the, next, steps, for, traders The post Understanding SkyAI’s 30% price correction and the next steps for traders appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

SkyAI [SKYAI] shed 4.5% of its value in the last 24 hours after a stellar rally in recent weeks. In fact, the token was up 61% for the week, and around 780% over the past month. It has been trending higher since February, with its remarkable rally accelerating in April. After hitting an all-time high of $0.8569 on Wednesday, 06 May, SKYAI fell by around 30%. It was accompanied by a slowdown in speculative interest. Evidence for a bearish SKYAI move in the coming days AMBCrypto had previously reported that Binance traders were positioning themselves bearishly in the perpetual futures market. Momentum was also getting strained, the report read, and within hours, the token saw a pullback from its all-time highs. Source: Coinalyze Coinalyze data revealed a fall in Open Interest in the last 48 hours, with the funding rate also dropping towards zero. Both signs pointed towards weakness too. The falling OI hinted at increasingly sidelined speculators, with the falling funding rate showing that more and more participants were closing long positions and staying neutral – Sign that the long side was no longer overcrowded. The volatility reset and unwinding market resulted in the recent correction. The question now is, how deep can this pullback go? Source: SKYAI/USDT on TradingView The path higher has been explosive for SKYAI, and the price did not stop at many places, from $0.15 to $0.86, to establish local support levels. $0.350 and $0.467 were two levels that saw some retests before sustained gains. Therefore, a set of Fibonacci retracement levels was plotted based on the bullish swing move to ascertain key support levels. $0.24 and $0.373 are the ones to watch out for. If the bulls are strong and demand is high, a bullish reaction from $0.467, the 50% level, is also possible.…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/us-treasury-adds-4b-liquidity-as-stocks-hit-highs https://media.ikmoon.com/us-treasury-adds-4b-liquidity-as-stocks-hit-highs Sat, 09 May 2026 13:04:09 +0600 crypto U.S., Treasury, Adds, 4B, Liquidity, Stocks, Hit, Highs The post U.S. Treasury Adds $4B Liquidity as Stocks Hit Highs appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

U.S. Treasury bought back $4 billion of debt, lifting weekly support close to $6 billion. Buybacks targeted off-the-run bonds to improve liquidity and reduce bond price swings. Tech-led stock gains drew crypto focus as traders watched Bitcoin and XRP demand grow. The U.S. Treasury completed a $4 billion buyback of its debt this week. The move aimed to improve market liquidity and support bond trading conditions. It also drew attention from XRP investors, as stronger liquidity has historically supported rallies in Bitcoin and other digital assets. According to a press release, the Treasury carried out two buyback operations. The Treasury settled a buyback of 10- to 20-year nominal coupon securities on May 7. It followed with a short-term TIPS repurchase on May 8, pushing total weekly liquidity support close to $6 billion. Treasury Buyback Comes as U.S. Stocks Rally The U.S. Treasury said the purchases mainly targeted older “off-the-run” securities. These bonds are less actively traded in secondary markets. By repurchasing them, the government aims to improve liquidity, reduce bond price volatility, and support smoother trading conditions. The Treasury market remains a central pillar of global finance. U.S. government bonds serve as key reserve assets and help support liquidity across financial markets. The buyback came during a strong move in U.S. equities. In an X post, analyst Ash Crypto said the Nasdaq reached 29,000 for the first time in history. However, analysts said that the S&P 500 hit a new all-time high at 7,400. U.S. stocks have added $10 trillion since their March 30 bottom. Ash Crypto called the market move positive for crypto.  Five Tech Stocks Lead S&P 500 Rally However, the Kobeissi Letter highlighted that Alphabet, Nvidia, Amazon, Broadcom, and Apple accounted for about 50% of the S&P 500’s total gains since April 1. Together, the five companies…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/bitcoin-layer-2-an-overview-of-stacks-merlin-chain-and-more https://media.ikmoon.com/bitcoin-layer-2-an-overview-of-stacks-merlin-chain-and-more Sat, 09 May 2026 13:04:07 +0600 crypto Bitcoin, Layer, Overview, Stacks, Merlin, Chain, and, More The post Bitcoin Layer 2: An Overview of Stacks, Merlin Chain, and More appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Bitcoin Layer 2 (L2) solutions are secondary networks built on top of the Bitcoin mainnet to enable fast, low-cost transactions and complex smart contracts. By processing data off-chain and anchoring the final results to the Bitcoin blockchain, these protocols unlock “BTCFi”—a new ecosystem of decentralized finance, lending, and yield-bearing products for Bitcoin holders. Why Does Bitcoin Need Layer 2? While Bitcoin is the most secure and decentralized network in the world, its base layer is intentionally simple and slow. To keep the network stable, it can only process a handful of transactions per second. Layer 2s solve this by acting as a “high-speed lane” for Bitcoin. They allow for the speed and flexibility of modern blockchains like Ethereum while still relying on Bitcoin for ultimate security and finality. Key Players in the 2026 Ecosystem The Bitcoin L2 landscape has matured into several distinct technical approaches: Stacks (STX): Stacks is a leading L2 that uses a unique “Proof-of-Transfer” (PoX) consensus. In early 2026, the Nakamoto Upgrade and the full rollout of sBTC have enabled 100x faster throughput. This allows users to earn BTC rewards directly by “stacking” STX tokens and use sBTC (a decentralized 1:1 Bitcoin-backed asset) in various DeFi apps. Merlin Chain: A prominent Zero-Knowledge (ZK) Rollup that has gained massive traction in 2026. Merlin bundles thousands of transactions together and generates a cryptographic proof that is verified on the Bitcoin mainnet. It is a major hub for “Bitcoin-native” DeFi, supporting Ordinals, Runes, and a wide array of gaming applications. Rootstock (RSK): The oldest Bitcoin sidechain, which is EVM-compatible. This means developers can easily port Ethereum-based applications over to the Bitcoin ecosystem. Lightning Network: While primarily used for instant micro-payments, the Lightning Network remains a core pillar of the L2 ecosystem, increasingly being used…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/sportix-raises-35m-to-build-ai-powered-soccer-intelligence-platform-ahead-of-2026-world-cup https://media.ikmoon.com/sportix-raises-35m-to-build-ai-powered-soccer-intelligence-platform-ahead-of-2026-world-cup Sat, 09 May 2026 13:04:04 +0600 crypto Sportix, Raises, 3.5M, Build, AI-powered, Soccer, Intelligence, Platform, Ahead, 2026, World, Cup The post Sportix Raises $3.5M To Build AI-powered Soccer Intelligence Platform Ahead Of 2026 World Cup appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Sportix Raises $3.5M To Build AI-powered Soccer Intelligence Platform Ahead Of 2026 World Cup Skip to content Home Crypto News Sportix raises $3.5M to build AI-powered soccer intelligence platform ahead of 2026 World Cup Source: https://bitcoinworld.co.in/sportix-ai-soccer-analytics-funding/

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/m3-dao-and-rei-network-forge-alliance-to-drive-zero-fee-web3-onboarding-for-200000-members https://media.ikmoon.com/m3-dao-and-rei-network-forge-alliance-to-drive-zero-fee-web3-onboarding-for-200000-members Sat, 09 May 2026 13:04:02 +0600 crypto DAO, and, REI, Network, Forge, Alliance, Drive, Zero-Fee, Web3, Onboarding, for, 200, 000, Members The post M3 DAO and REI Network Forge Alliance to Drive Zero-Fee Web3 Onboarding for 200,000 Members appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

The rapid rise of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) has posed major challenges inhibiting widescale adoption of DAOs. High fees and poor user experience are the primary obstacles to adoption, currently hindering users’ ability to engage effectively with DAOs. M3 DAO has partnered with REI Network to build solutions to the challenges of operating within the present DAO ecosystem. By partnering with REI Networks, M3 DAO will be able to utilize their use of providing zero-cost, lightweight technologies that enable M3 DAO to enhance the onboarding experience for an estimated 200,000 current global users to the Web3 solution. Bridging the Gap with Zero-Fee Infrastructure The foundation of this alliance is built on the technical expertise and infrastructure capabilities of REI Network. The REI Network was created to address the scalability problems of Layer-1 blockchains with a zero-fee model that allows users to interact with dApps without costly and variable transaction fees. Zero gas fee model provides M3 DAO to an entire community with a chance to use dApps very differently than in the past. Through its EVM-based architecture built on the REI project, the M3 DAO provides a governance model, asset management, and community incentive opportunities to its members. This is achieved without burdening users with the costs associated with interacting with the underlying public blockchain. The focus on “frictionless onboarding” is intentional so that non crypto native users have a lower barrier to entry into the M3 ecosystem. Empowering 200,000 Global Members M3 DAO has positioned itself within Decentralized space as a viable competitor and has an extensive number of active users around the world. The partnership will not only create a technical delivery model but also expand global impact through “pure decentralized growth.” This is in line with the new direction of REI Network as it moves from GXChain’s…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/intel-lands-apple-chip-deal-as-two-tech-giants-end-intensive-year-long-talks https://media.ikmoon.com/intel-lands-apple-chip-deal-as-two-tech-giants-end-intensive-year-long-talks Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:59 +0600 crypto Intel, lands, Apple, chip, deal, two, tech, giants, end, intensive, year-long, talks The post Intel lands Apple chip deal as two tech giants end intensive year-long talks appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Apple has tapped Intel for chip production in a major win for the struggling US semiconductor firm, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Apple, which ships more than 200 million iPhones a year, and Intel, now led by CEO Lip-Bu Tan, have reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to fabricate some of the processors used in Apple devices. Apple has relied primarily on TSMC to build its custom silicon for years, though it previously split some production between TSMC and Samsung before TSMC became its main manufacturing partner. By 2020, Apple was spending roughly $11 billion a year on TSMC, about a quarter of the foundry’s total revenue. Intel (INTC) stock jumped 12% intraday to a fresh peak of $123, pushing its valuation to around $620 billion. Supply constraints and geopolitics Apple CEO Tim Cook flagged supply constraints during 2025 earnings calls, underscoring how dependent Apple remains on leading-edge chip capacity. That dependence is also a geopolitical risk, since Taiwan sits at the center of global advanced semiconductor production and any major disruptions in the Taiwan Strait could ripple through the industry. Intel, under Lip-Bu Tan, has been regaining momentum after a difficult 2024, and Washington has even discussed converting CHIPS Act support into an equity stake. What the deal looks like Apple and Intel are reportedly targeting the 18A-P process node for the production of entry-level chips. Estimated production volumes are in the range of 15 to 20 million units, with manufacturing potentially starting as early as mid-2027. Apple is also talking to Samsung, which has a newly built semiconductor facility in Texas backed by a $17 billion investment. What it means for TSMC and Intel TSMC posted about $35.9 billion in Q1 2026 revenue, driven by strong AI demand. While losing 15 to 20 million entry-level chip orders…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/bitcoin-ethereum-and-solana-experience-declines-on-the-same-day-of-the-week-for-the-13th-consecutive-week https://media.ikmoon.com/bitcoin-ethereum-and-solana-experience-declines-on-the-same-day-of-the-week-for-the-13th-consecutive-week Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:56 +0600 crypto Bitcoin, Ethereum, and, Solana, Experience, Declines, the, Same, Day, the, Week, for, the, 13th, Consecutive, Week The post Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana Experience Declines on the Same Day of the Week for the 13th Consecutive Week appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/kraken-sues-etana-over-25m-client-fund-theft https://media.ikmoon.com/kraken-sues-etana-over-25m-client-fund-theft Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:53 +0600 crypto Kraken, sues, Etana, over, 25m, client, fund, theft The post Kraken sues Etana over $25m client fund theft appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Kraken’s Etana fraud case alleges a Ponzi-like scheme diverted more than $25m in client funds. Summary Kraken parent Payward filed a second amended complaint in Colorado federal court accusing Etana Custody and CEO Dion Russell of misappropriating over $25m in client funds. The complaint alleges Etana commingled custodial assets with operating funds, made risky bets totaling $16m through Seabury Trade Capital notes, and issued falsified account statements. Etana entered court-supervised liquidation in November 2025 with just $6.83m in cash against more than $26m in liabilities. Kraken’s Etana fraud case alleges a Ponzi-like scheme diverted more than $25m in client funds. Kraken’s parent company Payward filed a second amended complaint on May 4 in the US District Court for the District of Colorado, accusing Etana Custody and its CEO Dion Brandon Russell of commingling custodial assets with operating funds, financing risky bets, and sending falsified account reports that showed balances as fully intact while a funding gap widened. Payward says Etana operated a “Ponzi-like enterprise” that recycled incoming client deposits to cover prior shortfalls. When Kraken attempted to withdraw roughly $25m in reserve funds in April 2025, Etana stalled with what the complaint calls fabricated reconciliation issues. At least $16m of the shortfall is tied to promissory notes issued by Seabury Trade Capital, which later defaulted. What the court records show Etana entered statutory liquidation in November 2025 after Colorado regulators issued a cease-and-desist order and increased capital requirements. Court filings show roughly $6.83m in cash against liabilities exceeding $26m, most of which represents the Kraken claim. The federal case against Etana entities is currently stayed, with proceedings continuing against Russell personally. Kraken is seeking at least $25m in compensatory damages, potential treble damages under civil theft claims, injunctive relief, and attorneys’ fees. The complaint also names Russell personally, alleging he…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/switzerlands-bold-bitcoin-endeavor-meets-an-unexpected-halt https://media.ikmoon.com/switzerlands-bold-bitcoin-endeavor-meets-an-unexpected-halt Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:50 +0600 crypto Switzerland’s, Bold, Bitcoin, Endeavor, Meets, Unexpected, Halt The post Switzerland’s Bold Bitcoin Endeavor Meets an Unexpected Halt appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

The ambitious initiative to introduce Bitcoin to the Swiss National Bank’s reserves met its demise as it fell short of the necessary signatures to advance. Spearheaded as the “Bitcoin Initiative,” the campaign sought to modify the nation’s constitution, specifically aiming to include Bitcoin alongside gold in the central bank’s reserve assets. Continue Reading:Switzerland’s Bold Bitcoin Endeavor Meets an Unexpected Halt Source: https://en.bitcoinhaber.net/switzerlands-bold-bitcoin-endeavor-meets-an-unexpected-halt

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/ethereum-faces-whale-pressure-as-binance-deposits-hit-178-m https://media.ikmoon.com/ethereum-faces-whale-pressure-as-binance-deposits-hit-178-m Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:47 +0600 crypto Ethereum, Faces, Whale, Pressure, Binance, Deposits, Hit, 178 The post Ethereum Faces Whale Pressure as Binance Deposits Hit $178 M appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Onchain Lens said that Garrett Jin deposited 78,077 ETH, worth about $177.92 million, into Binance. Crypto Rover called the latest Binance deposit bearish and cited the prior ETH drop. Lookonchain said a whale linked to Erik Voorhees bought 2,920 ETH for $6.67 million. Ethereum whale activity has intensified as ETH continues to struggle against Bitcoin, bringing fresh attention to large exchange deposits and private-wallet accumulation. On-chain data shared on X showed one OG whale sending 78,077 ETH, worth about $177.92 million, into Binance. The transfer added to a broader three-day flow from the same whale, while separate data showed another large wallet buying more ETH near $2,284. Meanwhile, traders are watching whether exchange inflows create near-term volatility as Ethereum tries to regain strength against BTC. OG Whale Sends ETH to Binance Onchain Lens reported that Garrett Jin, also known as the “Bitcoin OG 10/11,” deposited 78,077 ETH, worth $177.92 million, into Binance. The Arkham data showed the transfer landing in a Binance deposit wallet marked 0x326. Analyst Ai also tracked the same wallet and said the whale deposited another 78,076.87 ETH into Binance, worth about $178 million. According to that post, the wallet had already moved a much larger amount to exchanges in recent days. The post said the whale transferred 244,099.81 ETH to exchanges over the past three days, with the cumulative value placed around $574 million. It also said the wallet still holds more than 300,000 ETH on-chain. Notably, exchange deposits from large holders often draw attention as traders weigh possible sell pressure. However, deposits do not confirm immediate sales, as whales may transfer funds for liquidity management, collateral, market making, or other exchange-related actions. Market Watches Volatility Risk Crypto Rover described the latest move as bearish and said the same OG whale previously transferred large ETH amounts…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/kraken-parent-goes-for-the-occ-charter-in-bid-to-become-a-federal-crypto-bank https://media.ikmoon.com/kraken-parent-goes-for-the-occ-charter-in-bid-to-become-a-federal-crypto-bank Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:44 +0600 crypto Kraken, parent, goes, for, the, OCC, charter, bid, become, federal, crypto, bank The post Kraken parent goes for the OCC charter in bid to become a federal crypto bank appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, has applied for a national trust company charter with the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), according to a Friday announcement shared with CoinDesk, as the company looks to expand its regulated digital-asset custody business. If approved, the charter would establish Payward National Trust Company (PNTC), a federally regulated entity focused on fiduciary custody and related services for digital assets. Kraken said the trust would primarily serve institutions and customers seeking bank-level custody protections under OCC oversight. The filing marks Payward’s latest effort to expand its U.S. regulatory footprint as crypto firms increasingly pursue traditional financial charters to attract institutional clients and navigate a shifting regulatory environment. “A national trust company provides the certainty institutions require and establishes the infrastructure to build the next generation of custody,” Payward and Kraken Co-CEO Arjun Sethi said in the statement. The move comes as crypto firms increasingly seek federal charters, licenses and banking approvals under the Trump administration’s more industry-friendly approach to digital-asset regulation. Kraken’s broader expansion strategy has included a string of acquisitions aimed at building regulated trading and payments infrastructure ahead of a potential IPO. In addition to its $1.5 billion acquisition of retail futures platform NinjaTrader in 2025, Payward agreed in April to acquire crypto derivatives exchange Bitnomial for up to $550 million, adding a full suite of Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) licenses covering brokerage, clearing and exchange operations. This week, the company also struck a $600 million deal to buy Hong Kong-based payments firm Reap Technologies, expanding Kraken’s push into stablecoin-powered cross-border payments and card infrastructure in Asia The proposed trust company would complement Kraken Financial, the Wyoming special purpose depository institution (SPDI) chartered in 2020. Kraken Financial became the first digital-asset bank to secure a Federal…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/eurusd-under-pressure-oil-shock-real-rates-and-conflict-risks-commerzbank https://media.ikmoon.com/eurusd-under-pressure-oil-shock-real-rates-and-conflict-risks-commerzbank Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:40 +0600 crypto EURUSD, Under, Pressure:, Oil, Shock, Real, Rates, And, Conflict, Risks, –, Commerzbank The post EUR/USD Under Pressure: Oil Shock, Real Rates, And Conflict Risks – Commerzbank appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

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]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/kelp-dao-fallout-pushes-solv-defi-protocols-toward-chainlink https://media.ikmoon.com/kelp-dao-fallout-pushes-solv-defi-protocols-toward-chainlink Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:37 +0600 crypto Kelp, DAO, Fallout, Pushes, Solv, DeFi, Protocols, Toward, Chainlink The post Kelp DAO Fallout Pushes Solv, DeFi Protocols Toward Chainlink appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Decentralized finance protocols are reevaluating their blockchain oracle providers’ security after the fallout from the $293 million Kelp DAO exploit last month. Several protocols have announced migrations to Chainlink infrastructure in recent days, citing security concerns around third-party oracle and bridge providers. On Thursday, Bitcoin DeFi platform Solv Protocol announced it would migrate to Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and replace LayerZero bridges, citing an “extensive security review” concluding that CCIP provided the “strongest security assurances.”  A day earlier, liquidity protocol Tydro also said it was moving to Chainlink after its previous oracle provider, Chaos Labs, suffered an incident that prompted Tydro to pause markets over concerns about inaccurate price feeds. The migrations come after an April 18 exploit in which attackers drained 116,500 Kelp DAO restaked ETH (rsETH) tokens worth between $290 million and $293 million. Following the exploit, Kelp DAO also migrated its rsETH token to Chainlink, moving away from its previous LayerZero-powered bridge after attributing the incident to weaknesses in its cross-chain setup. Source: Solv Protocol LayerZero, however, said on April 20 that the exploit resulted from a single point of failure in Kelp DAO’s implementation, which relied on a single LayerZero DVN as the only verified path despite prior warnings against that configuration. DeFi protocols review oracle security after Kelp exploit The Kelp DAO exploit triggered a “wake-up call” for DeFi providers, according to Zach Rynes, strategic initiatives lead at Chainlink Labs. Related: Aave liquidates Kelp DAO hacker’s rsETH positions on Ethereum, Arbitrum Rynes told Cointelegraph that DeFi teams conducting security reviews are increasingly deciding to replace older oracle and bridge systems with Chainlink infrastructure to strengthen baseline security protections, and multiple other DeFi protocols are discussing potential migrations to Chainlink following the exploit. Oracle providers with long operating histories and strong reliability are becoming increasingly…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/russia-ukraine-agree-to-three-day-ceasefire-with-prisoner-swap https://media.ikmoon.com/russia-ukraine-agree-to-three-day-ceasefire-with-prisoner-swap Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:34 +0600 crypto Russia, Ukraine, agree, three-day, ceasefire, with, prisoner, swap The post Russia, Ukraine agree to three-day ceasefire with prisoner swap appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

## Market Snapshot The market “Russia x Ukraine ceasefire by June 30, 2026?” currently shows a 59% YES probability. The announcement of a three-day ceasefire with a prisoner swap has increased this from 8% just 24 hours ago. The “Russia x Ukraine ceasefire by May 31, 2026?” market also rose to 52% YES. ## Key Takeaways – The announcement of a three-day ceasefire from May 9 to 11 appears to have significantly influenced market expectations for a broader ceasefire agreement. – The involvement of Donald Trump in brokering this temporary ceasefire suggests a potential shift in diplomatic dynamics. – Market pricing suggests increased confidence in the possibility of a larger ceasefire agreement by June 30, 2026. ## Article Body Former U.S. President Donald Trump announced a temporary three-day ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine, set to occur from May 9 to 11, coinciding with Victory Day celebrations. This announcement includes a significant prisoner swap, with each side agreeing to exchange 1,000 prisoners. The agreement marks the first multi-day ceasefire since the conflict began in February 2022. Previous attempts at unilateral ceasefires have unraveled amid accusations of violations. This development comes after recent U.S.-mediated talks resulted in a smaller prisoner exchange. The ceasefire could indicate a potential de-escalation in the ongoing conflict, which has drawn international attention and involvement. ## Market Interpretation The announcement is supportive of a YES outcome in markets focused on a ceasefire agreement by June 30, 2026, with a high impact on market sentiment. The market for a ceasefire by May 31 has also seen a notable rise, reflecting increased optimism. This development appears consistent with scenarios where diplomatic progress might lead to a more extended ceasefire or peace agreement. ## What to Watch Observers will be closely monitoring the implementation of the ceasefire and prisoner swap,…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/pi-network-hits-421k-mainnet-nodes-ahead-of-protocol-23-smart-contract-launch https://media.ikmoon.com/pi-network-hits-421k-mainnet-nodes-ahead-of-protocol-23-smart-contract-launch Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:31 +0600 crypto Network, Hits, 421K, Mainnet, Nodes, Ahead, Protocol, Smart, Contract, Launch The post Pi Network Hits 421K Mainnet Nodes Ahead of Protocol 23 Smart Contract Launch appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

TLDR: Pi Network confirmed 421,000 active mainnet nodes ahead of the highly anticipated Protocol 23 upgrade. More than 10 billion PI tokens have already migrated from testnet into the live mainnet ecosystem. Protocol 23 will introduce smart contracts, enabling DeFi, dApps, and broader blockchain utility. The expanding validator network strengthens Pi Network’s decentralization and ecosystem scalability. Pi Network has reached a new milestone with 421,000 active mainnet nodes now confirmed by the development team. This places the network among the platforms with the largest validator systems in the Layer 1 blockchain space today. In addition, over 10 billion PI tokens have been migrated to the mainnet. Both developments are taking place just ahead of Protocol 23, the most anticipated upgrade on the network. The protocol is set to unlock full smart contract functionality on the platform. Node Count Places Pi Among the Largest Validator Networks The 421,000 active node figure places Pi Network among blockchain platforms with the largest validator systems. Very few Layer 1 networks have recorded this level of active participation across their node infrastructure. The data was released ahead of a protocol change that the community has been awaiting for months. This level of activity reflects strong engagement from a distributed global user base. According to a recent post shared by BiCanTho on X, the active mainnet nodes have now hit the 421,000 mark. The post also noted that over 10 billion PI has already been migrated to the mainnet. Furthermore, it confirmed that Pi now ranks among the top networks by validator count in Layer 1. PI NETWORK ĐẠT 421.000 NODE HOẠT ĐỘNG TRƯỚC THỀM PROTOCOL 23 Pi Network vừa ghi nhận một cột mốc quan trọng khi số lượng node mainnet hoạt động đã chạm mốc 421.000, theo cập nhật mới nhất từ đội ngũ…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/china-war-risks-reshape-growth-outlook-warns-rabobank https://media.ikmoon.com/china-war-risks-reshape-growth-outlook-warns-rabobank Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:28 +0600 crypto China:, War, Risks, Reshape, Growth, Outlook, Warns, Rabobank The post China: War Risks Reshape Growth Outlook, Warns Rabobank appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

A new analysis from Rabobank indicates that escalating geopolitical tensions and the rising risk of conflict are fundamentally reshaping China’s economic growth trajectory. The Dutch banking group’s assessment highlights how potential war scenarios, particularly those involving Taiwan and the South China Sea, are introducing significant uncertainty into the world’s second-largest economy. Rabobank’s Assessment: A Shift in the Risk Landscape Rabobank’s economists have revised their outlook for China, emphasizing that traditional economic headwinds such as property sector weakness and demographic decline are now compounded by a new layer of geopolitical risk. The bank’s report suggests that the probability of a major conflict, while still low, has increased enough to alter long-term growth calculations. This shift is prompting reassessments of supply chain resilience, foreign direct investment, and domestic consumer confidence. The analysis points to several key channels through which war risk impacts growth: trade disruptions, capital flight, increased military spending diverting resources from civilian sectors, and a potential loss of access to critical technologies. Rabobank notes that these factors could subtract as much as 1-2 percentage points from China’s annual GDP growth in a heightened conflict scenario, a significant adjustment for an economy already slowing. Context: A Broader Trend of Geopolitical Economic Fragmentation Rabobank’s warning aligns with a growing consensus among international financial institutions that geopolitical fragmentation is a primary risk to global economic stability. The International Monetary Fund and World Bank have repeatedly flagged rising trade barriers, technology decoupling, and regional conflicts as threats to growth. For China, the specific risks are acute given its deep integration into global supply chains and its status as a manufacturing hub. Recent developments, including increased military exercises around Taiwan and heightened rhetoric in the South China Sea, have reinforced these concerns. While diplomatic channels remain open, the analytical community is increasingly pricing in a…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/the-us-navys-next-supercarriers-face-lengthy-delays https://media.ikmoon.com/the-us-navys-next-supercarriers-face-lengthy-delays Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:24 +0600 crypto The, Navy’s, Next, Supercarriers, Face, Lengthy, Delays The post The US Navy’s Next Supercarriers Face Lengthy Delays appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

The USS Enterprise CVN-80 is seen in the Newport News Shipbuilding yard on Aug. 26, 2022 (Kendall Warner/Daily Press/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) TNS The United States Navy is likely to face continued delays with its nuclear-powered supercarriers. It is not a new problem, but it shows no signs of resolution. The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the service’s newest active aircraft carrier, was delivered more than two and a half years behind its original schedule. Nine years after being commissioned in 2017, the nuclear-powered warship still requires significant upgrades and modifications to fully operate the fifth-generation Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II. Delivery of the second Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), was delayed last year from August 2025 to March 2027 to incorporate several critical upgrades. The decision was made to complete that work rather than address the modifications following delivery. Unfortunately for the U.S. Navy, the delays won’t end with CVN-79. The future USS Enterprise (CVN-80), which was to be delivered in March 2028, had its handover previously shifted to July 2030. On Friday, it was announced that the U.S. Navy won’t receive the warship until March 2031 at the earliest. That eight-month slip is an improvement over the year and a half the future USS John F. Kennedy has faced, but it is just the latest delay the service is facing with its supercarriers. As USNI News reported, the “schedule means it will take just over 12 years to build Enterprise.” The delays are set to be even worse with the future USS Doris Miller (CVN-81), which could arrive at least two-years later than previously planned. The U.S. Navy will continue to face such cascading holdups because as construction on one vessel slips, it impacts the next ship in line…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/xrp-ledger-foundation-signals-public-collaboration-push-across-ecosystem https://media.ikmoon.com/xrp-ledger-foundation-signals-public-collaboration-push-across-ecosystem Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:21 +0600 crypto XRP, Ledger, Foundation, Signals, Public, Collaboration, Push, Across, Ecosystem The post XRP Ledger Foundation Signals Public Collaboration Push Across Ecosystem appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Key Takeaways The XRP Ledger Foundation introduced leaders across operations, engineering, and community engagement. The update emphasized collaboration with developers, validators, and infrastructure operators. Public coordination will focus on advocacy, development, and events. XRP Ledger Foundation Formalizes Broader Operating Structure The XRP Ledger Foundation, a nonprofit organization that contributes to, grows, and advocates for the XRP Ledger and its community, said in a May 8 post on X that it is entering a more public phase of collaboration across the XRP ecosystem. The update introduced the team managing daily operations, engineering coordination, and community engagement. “The XRP Ledger Foundation exists to support the XRP Ledger and everyone shaping it,” the Foundation said, adding: “Today we introduce the new team driving that work day-to-day — the people you’ll be hearing from, building with, and running into at events throughout the year.” Brett Mollin leads the organization as executive director, setting strategic direction, working with the board on long-term priorities, and coordinating engineering, community, operations, and partnerships. Denis Angell, one of the most active contributors to the XRPL codebase, is transitioning from XRPL Labs to become chief technology officer. He will lead engineering work, including technical direction, amendment development, standards, and production contributions. Rene Huijsen serves as director of operations, handling financial coordination and supporting the operating structure behind the team’s work. He previously spent years at Ripple as director of payment operations and took part in the Bank for International Settlements Cross-border Payments Interoperability and Extension task force. Hussein Zangana, known as Vet, leads community efforts across communications, social presence, validator and developer engagement, events, liaison work, and content creation. His background includes infrastructure work, amendment proposals, documentation, education, X Spaces, livestreams, and XRP Cafe. Public Coordination Emerges as Key XRPL Focus The appointments coincide with a broader push toward public…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/china-confirms-attack-on-oil-tanker-in-strait-of-hormuz-amid-regional-tensions https://media.ikmoon.com/china-confirms-attack-on-oil-tanker-in-strait-of-hormuz-amid-regional-tensions Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:19 +0600 crypto China, confirms, attack, oil, tanker, Strait, Hormuz, amid, regional, tensions The post China confirms attack on oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz amid regional tensions appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

## Market Snapshot The market for “Will 20 ships transit the Strait of Hormuz on any day by May 31?” is currently priced at 67% YES. This represents a decrease from 76% YES 24 hours ago. The market for “Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal by May 15?” is priced at 2.4% YES, down from 4% 24 hours ago. ## Key Takeaways – The confirmed attack appears to indicate increased targeting of neutral shipping, suggesting reduced likelihood of 20 ships transiting by May 31. – The halt in maritime traffic is consistent with decreased chances of a return to normal traffic levels by May 15. – Observations suggest that broader regional instability could further impact maritime movements in the Strait of Hormuz. ## Article Body China has confirmed that an oil tanker was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz, escalating concerns about the safety of neutral shipping in the volatile region. The incident is part of the ongoing hostilities between the United States and Iran, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) accused of targeting multiple merchant vessels. The Strait of Hormuz, a critical maritime chokepoint, has seen a cessation of commercial traffic due to heightened military activity. This development marks the first confirmed attack on a Chinese-owned vessel, broadening the scope of targeted shipping amidst mutual ceasefire violation accusations. ## Market Interpretation Market pricing suggests that the attack has had a high impact on expectations for shipping activity in the Strait of Hormuz. The decrease in YES pricing for ship transit by May 31 is consistent with scenarios where heightened risk deters commercial navigation. Similarly, the low probability of a return to normal traffic by May 15 reflects continued uncertainty and potential for further disruptions. ## What to Watch Key factors to watch include any official statements from…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/solv-ditches-layerzero-in-700m-btc-move https://media.ikmoon.com/solv-ditches-layerzero-in-700m-btc-move Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:16 +0600 crypto Solv, Ditches, LayerZero, 700M, BTC, Move The post Solv Ditches LayerZero In $700M BTC Move appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Solv Protocol moves $700M in tokenized Bitcoin to Chainlink CCIP. Drops LayerZero bridges across Corn, Berachain, Rootstock, and TAC networks. The decision follows cross-chain security reviews and recent bridge hacks. The Solv Protocol has initiated a fundamental transformation of its cross-chain operations to protect users’ digital assets. The protocol is transferring more than $700 million in tokenized Bitcoin assets to the Chainlink system. This big switch is a significant turnaround in the decentralized finance world today. Solv Protocol Enhances Security Standards Solv has officially announced it will stop using LayerZero for cross-chain transfers. SolvBTC and xSolvBTC are subject to the migration across multiple well-known blockchain networks.  Consequently, the protocol will no longer support LayerZero bridges on Corn and Berachain. The alteration impacts both the rootstock and the TAC network ecosystems. The team puts its $700 million Bitcoin reserve ahead of all else. The organization reached its decision after completing a complete internal security assessment together with an audit. The recent breaches in the cryptocurrency sector have created stricter examination requirements for bridge operators.  In addition, the recent Kelp DAO hacking incident served as a critical alert to the system’s security weaknesses. Solv chose to act quickly to avoid more such problems on its own. Strategic Infrastructure Shift for Solv Assets Chainlink CCIP is now the official cross-chain standard for all Solv operations. This technology provides higher security for the tokenized Bitcoin while it is being transported from one chain to another.  Besides, the protocol seeks the most battle-tested infrastructure available for its users. CCIP offers a distributed risk management network used to monitor for malicious activity. This layer of defence is essential for maintaining trust in the Solv ecosystem. Investors have come to expect the maximum level of security for their digital assets. This is a standard which removes many of…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/us-dollar-index-steadies-above-9800-as-iran-ceasefire-uncertainty-lingers https://media.ikmoon.com/us-dollar-index-steadies-above-9800-as-iran-ceasefire-uncertainty-lingers Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:12 +0600 crypto Dollar, Index, Steadies, Above, 98.00, Iran, Ceasefire, Uncertainty, Lingers The post US Dollar Index Steadies Above 98.00 As Iran Ceasefire Uncertainty Lingers appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

US Dollar Index Steadies Above 98.00 As Iran Ceasefire Uncertainty Lingers Skip to content Home Forex News US Dollar Index Steadies Above 98.00 as Iran Ceasefire Uncertainty Lingers Source: https://bitcoinworld.co.in/dollar-index-steady-above-98-iran-ceasefire/

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/layerzero-concedes-11-dvn-mistake-as-chainlink-gains-from-bridge-security-fears https://media.ikmoon.com/layerzero-concedes-11-dvn-mistake-as-chainlink-gains-from-bridge-security-fears Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:09 +0600 crypto LayerZero, concedes, 11, DVN, mistake, Chainlink, gains, from, bridge, security, fears The post LayerZero concedes 1/1 DVN mistake as Chainlink gains from bridge security fears appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

LayerZero Labs has admitted it made a critical security mistake by allowing its decentralized verifier network [DVN] to operate in a 1/1 configuration for high-value applications, as several protocols continue migrating away from its infrastructure following April’s rsETH exploit. In a lengthy statement published on 8 May, the company apologized for its communication around the incident. Also, it acknowledged that its own internal RPC infrastructure used by the LayerZero Labs DVN was compromised during the attack. “We made a mistake by allowing our DVN to act as a 1/1 DVN for high-value transactions,” the company said. “We didn’t police what our DVN was securing, which created a risk we simply didn’t see.” The comments mark LayerZero’s clearest concession yet after weeks of criticism from protocols and security researchers following the roughly $292 million rsETH exploit linked to KelpDAO’s LayerZero bridge infrastructure. LayerZero confirms RPC poisoning attack According to the statement, attackers linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group compromised internal RPC infrastructure used by the LayerZero Labs DVN. They also launched simultaneous DDoS attacks against external RPC providers. LayerZero maintained that its core protocol remained unaffected throughout the incident. The company argued that developers ultimately control their own security assumptions on LayerZero. However, it admitted that allowing 1/1 DVN configurations for production assets created unacceptable risks. LayerZero also confirmed that its DVN no longer supports 1/1 configurations. The company said all default pathways are now moving toward 5/5 or minimum 3/3 verification setups where possible. Protocols managing over $1B migrate to Chainlink CCIP The fallout has already started reshaping bridge preferences across the industry. KelpDAO became the first major protocol to announce a migration away from LayerZero. It said it would move rsETH cross-chain infrastructure to Chainlink CCIP after publicly blaming LayerZero infrastructure for the exploit. Since then, other projects have…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/daniil-liberman-control-of-ai-infrastructure-threatens-human-freedom-equitable-access-is-essential-for-autonomy-and-the-historical-battle-between-decentralization-and-centralization-mirrors-todays-tech-landscape https://media.ikmoon.com/daniil-liberman-control-of-ai-infrastructure-threatens-human-freedom-equitable-access-is-essential-for-autonomy-and-the-historical-battle-between-decentralization-and-centralization-mirrors-todays-tech-landscape Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:06 +0600 crypto Daniil, Liberman:, Control, infrastructure, threatens, human, freedom, equitable, access, essential, for, autonomy, and, the, historical, battle, between, decentralization, and, centralization, mirrors, today’s, tech, landscape The post Daniil Liberman: Control of AI infrastructure threatens human freedom, equitable access is essential for autonomy, and the historical battle between decentralization and centralization mirrors today’s tech landscape appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Daniil Liberman: Control of AI infrastructure threatens human freedom, equitable access is essential for autonomy, and the historical battle between decentralization and centralization mirrors today’s tech landscape | The Peter McCormack Show AI centralization risks mirror past financial crises, threatening freedom and driving demand for decentralized solutions. Key Takeaways Control of AI infrastructure by a few corporations or governments could severely impact human freedom. Equitable access to AI infrastructure is crucial for enhancing human freedom. Increasing trust in AI systems could be exploited by malicious actors to manipulate public opinion. Opting out of AI systems may lead to decreased competitiveness in the job market. The battle between decentralization and centralization in finance mirrors historical conflicts like the American Revolution. Financial crises have historically driven people towards decentralized alternatives, a trend expected to continue with AI. Current access to AI models may become more restricted in the future. The rapid development of AI can lead to user exhaustion and dependency. AI centralizes innovation and wealth, potentially leading to a gig economy where many lack meaningful jobs. Historical centralization of power and resources continues to limit broader access to technology. The socio-economic impact of AI could exacerbate inequality and job displacement. The psychological effects of AI advancements include anxiety and fear of missing out. AI’s integration into industries necessitates discussions on productivity and mental health. The implications of AI on societal freedom and individual autonomy are significant. Understanding the relationship between technology access and freedom is crucial for future AI discussions. Guest intro Daniil Liberman is co-founder of GonkaAI, a decentralized computing platform for training neural networks using a crypto mining model with the GNK token. He previously co-founded Kernel AR, which was acquired by Snap Inc in 2016, and served as a director of product at Snapchat. With his brother David,…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/block-shares-surge-8-after-q1-earnings-beat-bitcoin-loss https://media.ikmoon.com/block-shares-surge-8-after-q1-earnings-beat-bitcoin-loss Sat, 09 May 2026 13:03:02 +0600 crypto Block, Shares, Surge, After, Earnings, Beat, Bitcoin, Loss The post Block Shares Surge 8% After Q1 Earnings Beat, Bitcoin Loss appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Rongchai Wang May 08, 2026 03:06 Block’s shares jumped 8% in after-hours trading despite a $309M net loss due to Bitcoin revaluation, as Q1 earnings topped estimates. Block (formerly Square), Jack Dorsey’s payments firm, saw its shares climb 8% in after-hours trading on Thursday following a surprising Q1 earnings beat. The company reported earnings of 85 cents per share, significantly surpassing the Zacks consensus estimate of 68 cents per share — a 25.68% surprise. Shares closed at $75.70 in after-hours trading, reflecting investor confidence despite Block posting its first quarterly net loss in three years. The $309 million net loss for Q1 2026 was largely attributed to a $172.8 million revaluation loss on the company’s Bitcoin holdings. Block held 8,883 BTC as of March 31. The loss aligns with Bitcoin’s 23.8% price drop over the quarter, as BTC slid from $106,712 at the start of January to $81,309 by the end of March. Revenue from Bitcoin-related services, including Cash App, fell to $1.8 billion, down from $2.33 billion in Q1 2025. However, Block’s gross profit grew 27% year-over-year to $2.9 billion, driven by strong performance across its payment services. Bitcoin transactions contributed $63 million to the gross profit, with Cash App remaining a key growth driver. Dorsey’s vision of integrating Bitcoin into mainstream payments continues to reshape the company’s offerings. As of late April, over 800,000 U.S. merchants have enabled Bitcoin transactions through Block’s platforms. Strategic Adjustments and Bitcoin Push Block’s Q1 performance came amid a broader restructuring effort, which included a 40% workforce reduction (approximately 4,000 employees). The company aims to shift toward AI-driven efficiency while expanding Bitcoin-related services. Recent initiatives include launching proof-of-reserves transparency for Bitcoin balances on Cash App and Square, introducing a touchscreen hardware wallet called Bitkey, and…

]]> https://media.ikmoon.com/defi-security-and-kyc-hurdles-keep-institutions-on-the-sidelines-of-perp-dexs-consensus-panel-says https://media.ikmoon.com/defi-security-and-kyc-hurdles-keep-institutions-on-the-sidelines-of-perp-dexs-consensus-panel-says Sat, 09 May 2026 13:02:59 +0600 crypto DeFi, Security, And, KYC, Hurdles, Keep, Institutions, The, Sidelines, Perp, DEXs, Consensus, Panel, Says The post DeFi Security And KYC Hurdles Keep Institutions On The Sidelines Of Perp DEXs, Consensus Panel Says appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

DeFi Security And KYC Hurdles Keep Institutions On The Sidelines Of Perp DEXs, Consensus Panel Says Skip to content Home Crypto News DeFi Security and KYC Hurdles Keep Institutions on the Sidelines of Perp DEXs, Consensus Panel Says Source: https://bitcoinworld.co.in/perp-dex-institutional-adoption-barriers-consensus-2026/

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