Oil climbed for a third day and gold fell for a fourth while bitcoin is up 1.6% on the week.
Ripple has signed a five-year partnership with the University of Kansas, making XRP the first cryptocurrency to appear on the jerseys of a major NCAA Division I athletics program. The deal marks a new milestone for crypto’s presence in mainstream sports while carrying a personal meaning for Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse. Sharing the announcement on …
Former New York governor and ICE-OKX joint venture co-chair, Andrew Cuomo is calling on U.S. lawmakers to move quickly on the CLARITY Act. He says the crypto industry is not looking for special treatment, it simply wants clear regulations. Speaking on Bloomberg Crypto, Cuomo urged Congress to pass the bill before lawmakers leave for the …
Bitcoin’s next price floor could sit far higher than most investors expect, according to Alexandre Laizet, board director at Capital B, one of Europe’s leading Bitcoin treasury companies. Laizet points to a specific catalyst: digital credit, a new category of Bitcoin-backed listed instruments that he says is quietly reshaping demand for the asset. Why digital …
XRP’s next major re-rating will not come from retail traders chasing headlines, according to blockchain researcher Edo Farina. It will come from banks quietly parking the token on their balance sheets. In an interview with Coinpedia, Farina, founder of Alpha Lions Academy, laid out a case that XRP has already shown flashes of behaving like …
The Binance DOJ report has stirred fresh debate over how quickly law enforcement can respond to crypto-related crimes. According to a report by The Information, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) warned prosecutors that Binance would no longer provide voluntary “courtesy freezes” beginning June 8, potentially slowing asset seizure requests during cryptocurrency investigations. Binance, however, …
The AscendEX collapse didn’t arrive with fireworks. It arrived with frozen withdrawals, a shutdown notice, and a lot of uncomfortable questions. After operating since 2018, the centralized crypto exchange permanently halted trading, deposits, staking, and swap services effective July 1, 2026, while placing all remaining withdrawals under mandatory manual review. Officially, the exchange blamed the …
Stablecoin supply is shrinking, and it’s becoming one of the biggest reasons behind Bitcoin’s weak price action. New data from CryptoQuant shows fresh stablecoin inflows to exchanges have dropped 31% yearly. Meanwhile, the combined supply of USDT and USDC is also falling, reducing the buying power needed to support Bitcoin’s recovery. Stablecoin Supply Is Falling, …
The prediction market's head of U.S. operations says the business is taking steps to legitimize itself after years of legal scrutiny.
In this week's Crypto Long & Short, FalconX’s Gaspar Martin writes that BTC is reaching a market bottom and is poised for a turnaround.
The firm's latest fund backs AI and robotics startups but leadership says it remains committed to crypto investing.
The move comes as firms race to build the infrastructure for blockchain-based stocks and debate how tokenized stocks should work.
The companies will not complete the transaction under the original July 2025 agreement and the shareholder vote has been postponed indefinitely.
The network aims to process over 100,000 transactions per second by streaming them directly, eliminating public queues to make trades faster and more secure.
Nearly 40 percent of altcoins are trading close to their all-time lows, according to fresh data shared by crypto analyst Darkfost, underscoring how brutal this stretch of the market has become for token projects. A market stuck near the bottom “That’s today’s stat, and it reflects the harsh reality facing all these projects that chose …
After winning a 6 million-pound London arbitration award, Citadel dropped its U.S. trade secrets case, saying another judgment would likely go uncollected.
Onchain trackers found the newly public company shifted a tiny amount of bitcoin between its own addresses. Nothing reached an exchange.
Bitcoin’s fixed 21 million supply has always been one of the biggest reasons investors call it digital gold. But now, Zcash co-founder and StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson suggests Bitcoin should remove its supply cap and allow the supply to grow by up to 4% every year. Here’s why he is proposing such a major change. …
Your day-ahead look for July 8, 2026
Bitcoin and Ethereum prices have again dropped more than 2% today after U.S. President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire with Iran was “over.” This came after the U.S. launched strikes in response to Iran’s attacks on three commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. Following this news, as oil jumped 6%, Bitcoin fell to $61,700, …
Bitcoin fell, altcoins slid after Trump said the ceasefire with Iran is "over" as U.S. and Iran traded airstrikes.
The crypto market has started July on a stronger note, with investor confidence slowly returning after weeks of heavy selling. Although Bitcoin briefly climbed above $64,000 before pulling back to around $61,933, several altcoins have continued to post strong gains. According to blockchain analytics platform Santiment, this suggests that capital is quietly rotating back into …
European stocks declined after President Donald Trump said he wanted to halt all U.S. trade with Spain. Spain’s IBEX 35 fell 2.2%, its biggest one-day decline since early May, while the Stoxx 600 dropped 1.7%, marking its largest daily loss since mid-March, according to the source. The move highlights investor concerns over potential trade tensions. …
Indian regulators maintained a hawkish stance despite the growing embrace of digital assets and technology by governments worldwide.
Crypto analyst Benjamin Cowen says Bitcoin is once again following its well-known four-year market cycle. This is happening despite many traders dismissing the idea earlier this year. According to Cowen, investors shouldn’t ignore historical patterns simply because they seem too predictable. He argues that every market goes through periods of optimism, fear, corrections, and recovery, …
The new software leads among the network's validators, yet by node count it sits behind the older v3.1.3, and the security amendment bundled with it remains a separate, slower vote. The upgrade needs 80% of the trusted validator list to activate.
Judge Analisa Torres, known for presiding over the landmark Ripple case, has ruled against prediction market platform Kalshi. This was a significant legal setback for the company. Torres denied Kalshi’s request for a preliminary injunction. She found that New York’s gambling laws as applied to Kalshi’s sports event contracts are not preempted by the Commodity …
Major cryptocurrencies are trading in the red as renewed U.S.-Iran airstrikes push oil higher.
New Hampshire is taking another big step toward using Bitcoin in public finance. On Wednesday, the state’s Governor and Executive Council will hold a public hearing . They will decide whether to approve a plan for up to $100 million in Bitcoin-backed bonds. If approved, the plan would move forward as one of the first …
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has called for an agency meeting this month to develop regulatory frameworks for the cryptocurrency industry. The meeting will be led by the SEC Chairman Paul Atkins, who concurrently released the “Statement on the 2026 Regulatory Agenda”. The latter affirms that the SEC is working with the current …