MegaETH is shutting down its flagship Mega Mafia startup accelerator after two years and two successful cohorts. Co-founder Shuyao Kong confirmed there will be no Mega Mafia 3.0. However, the network will continue supporting projects that already went through the program. The decision marks a major strategy shift. While Mega Mafia helped launch successful crypto …
Brian Chesky regained control of his account and told any new crypto followers he would be a "disappointing follow".
Japan's Nikkei had its worst day since March. Ether is still the only major holding a gain on the week, barely.
The mega trade aims to profit from a potential surge in ether price turbulence.
After years of lagging behind Bitcoin, altcoins may finally be approaching a turning point. Several market indicators are beginning to align, with Ethereum sitting at the center of the discussion. Analysts say the next major move in the ETH/BTC chart, along with improving macro conditions, could determine whether altcoin season finally see a broader recovery. …
While BIP 110 wants to restrict data through a consensus change and has almost no miner support, a new DOG Mode client wants the opposite and requires no vote at all.
Geopolitical tensions and renewed fears of U.S.-China frictions are weighing on risk assets, including bitcoin.
The U.S. Senate’s version of the CLARITY Act has hit another roadblock. According to new report, the updated draft expected this week still does not have broad support from Senate Democrats. Therefore, negotiations remain active before lawmakers can schedule a floor vote. The disagreement comes even as the crypto industry continues pushing for the bill. …
A new study by Stanford University and Singapore Management University says Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin prediction markets may have given sophisticated traders an unfair advantage. After analyzing nearly 16,000 Bitcoin contracts over two months, researchers found trading patterns that suggest some participants were able to briefly move Bitcoin’s price just before settlement. As a result, some …
President Trump delivered a primetime address to the nation on July 16, 2026, mixing an economic progress report with a lengthy, controversial announcement about declassified intelligence tied to elections. Trump opened by touting economic gains under his administration. “Our country is safer, stronger, and far wealthier than it has ever been before,” he said, contrasting …
T. Rowe Price launched what it says is the industry's first actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETF, offering diversified exposure to digital assets.
The exchange's first institutional funding round values it at $20 billion and will fund expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives.
Polygon Labs eliminated a portion of its workforce this week as the firm reshapes itself around a payments-focused business model rather than its earlier identity as a blockchain foundation. CEO Marc Boiron disclosed the restructuring in a post on X, tying the timing to Polygon Labs’ pending purchase of Coinme. Polygon Labs is nearing completion …
If Stripe acquires PayPal, the real prize could be consumer wallets, stablecoin issuance or the infrastructure powering the next generation of digital payments.
Visa launched a stablecoin platform that lets banks and fintechs issue, manage and settle digital dollars through its payments network.
Enterprise blockchain adoption doesn’t get limelight overnight, but Hedera today added another piece to a much bigger puzzle. The network has integrated with Utila, which is known as an institutional grade digital asset custody and wallet infra provider. By joining hands they are expanding secure access to HBAR and Hedera Token Service (HTS) tokens for …
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says the problem with today’s payment apps isn’t complicated. They just weren’t built to talk to each other. Speaking at an event, Garlinghouse compared modern payment networks to the earliest days of the internet. Garlinghouse compared today’s payment apps to old closed networks like AOL once, pointing out that Venmo and …
The deal adds institutional trading clients, derivatives expertise and regulatory licenses as Keyrock looks to deepen its presence in crypto capital markets.
Strengthening defenses against AI fraud
Bitcoin traders got caught on both sides of the same trap this week, according to one chart analyst tracking the recent price swing, and the fallout is exposing exactly which level really matters right now. Bitcoin had been consolidating inside a triangle pattern for days. When price finally broke toward the upside, traders piled into …
The company at one pointed cleared or custodied roughly 94% of tokenized U.S. equities, now holding over $1.5 billion in underlying stocks for its partners.
XRP is sitting near $1.11 today, and traders are watching two things closely: what the price charts are showing, and what happens at a big Washington hearing tomorrow. XRP is still stuck in a long-term downtrend on the bigger picture weekly chart. That bigger trend hasn’t reversed yet. But on the daily chart, things look …
SBI Group, one of Japan’s largest financial companies with more than $250 billion in assets, has partnered with Ondo Finance, the world’s leading tokenized equity platform, to bring Japanese real-world assets (RWAs) onchain. The partnership will allow Japanese equities to be tokenized, distribute Ondo’s products through SBI’s financial ecosystem, and use SBI’s JPYSC stablecoin for …
AI agents can read wallet balances and analyze portfolios but requires every sensitive action to be approved on a Ledger hardware device before it can be executed.
Tomorrow is going to be a big day for the CLARITY Act as the House holds a special field hearing in New York. Although the bill cannot be approved at the hearing, the event is expected to build support before Congress begins its August recess. Here’s a look at the key issues that will be …
The crypto financial services firm launched Galaxy Curator, a Morpho-based platform that gives Fireblocks' 2,400 institutional clients access to onchain yield strategies.
Bitcoin investor Lark Davis has called Cardano, Polkadot, Ethereum Classic, and Arbitrum the most overvalued cryptocurrencies in the top 100 coins list. Despite carrying multi billion dollar valuations, these projects still show weak network activity and low revenue. According to Davis, these networks have good technology in some cases, but their ecosystems have failed to …
Your day-ahead look for July 18, 2026
The newly-convened x402 Foundation is a neutral space where competitors and payment methods can work together to create an open standard for AI agentic commerce.
Profit-taking after bitcoin hit a $65,500 monthly high combined with fresh Iranian strikes on U.S. bases sent crypto lower, with bears leading price action across most tokens.