July 3, 2026
June payrolls missed badly, and traders read it as the rate-cut catalyst Bitcoin needed. Payrolls rose by just 57,000, against an estimate of 110,000. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also cut the prior two months by a combined 74,000, April down 31,000, and May down 43,000. Unemployment fell to 4.2%, and wages held at 3.5% […]
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July 3, 2026
Bitcoin’s second-quarter slide unfolded alongside a rare contraction in the stablecoin market, adding another sign that crypto liquidity weakened beyond spot prices alone. Bitcoin traded below $60,000 during the quarter, reaching its lowest level since 2024, and fell 14% across Q2. At the same time, total stablecoin supply slipped to $312 billion, down more than $3 […]
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July 3, 2026
The GENIUS Act’s one-year rulemaking deadline lands on July 18, and markets have mostly priced it as a legitimacy milestone for stablecoins. Mike McCluskey, CEO of tx, and Zaheer Ebtikar, chief strategy officer at Plasma, read it as a cost-visibility event that decides which issuers can afford to keep operating. GENIUS became law on July […]
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July 2, 2026
DeFi lending protocol Edel disclosed a $403,000 exploit that hit the layer where tokenized stocks are trying to become DeFi collateral. Edel said no depositor would bear losses, and the team would absorb the bad debt, restore affected balances one-to-one, and rebuild the protocol’s oracle architecture for a version two release. The attack manipulated the […]
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July 2, 2026
France’s response shows why visible crypto wealth now demands offline threat planning, data controls, and faster law-enforcement coordination.
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July 2, 2026
The 131-wallet freeze exposes how public-chain intelligence and issuer controls are becoming real-time enforcement infrastructure.
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July 2, 2026
A pseudonymous respondent has appeared in New York court to challenge a lawsuit seeking control of over $200 billion worth of long-dormant coins tied to the network’s earliest days, including those linked to Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s pseudonymous founder. The respondent, using the name John Doe 33, filed a notice of appearance on June 30 in […]
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July 2, 2026
Glassnode’s latest Week Onchain report shows that roughly 10.83 million BTC are now in the red, against 9.22 million still in profit. Loss-making supply now accounts for roughly 54% of the measured total, compared with 46% still in profit, meaning underwater coins exceed profitable coins by about 1.61 million BTC. Glassnode describes this as one […]
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July 2, 2026
Venice, the AI platform behind the VVV token, raised $65 million in a Series A led by Dragonfly at a $1 billion equity valuation, its first outside capital raise. The company chose stock over its own token, and the market is already arguing about what that choice means for VVV holders. Series A investors received […]
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July 2, 2026
Robinhood is pushing deeper into crypto infrastructure with the launch of its own blockchain network, tokenized stocks and decentralized lending products, even as one of its fastest-growing revenue opportunities may be forming outside crypto. On July 1, the brokerage launched the public mainnet for Robinhood Chain at a London event, marking its most direct move […]
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July 2, 2026
Ethereum Institutional announced its launch on July 1, folding a year of the Foundation’s go-to-market work into a group pitching Ethereum to banks and asset managers on tokenization and stablecoins. Ethlabs, built by five former senior Ethereum Foundation (EF) researchers, surfaced days earlier with the goal of faster settlement and ETH’s monetary case. Bitmine, Sharplink, […]
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July 2, 2026
The filing ties a full BTC liquidation to debt repayment, collateral language, Nasdaq pressure and an AI pivot.
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July 2, 2026
The stablecoin market has long rewarded the companies that issue digital dollars. They take in customer cash, hold reserves in short-term government securities, and earn the yield. Now, the companies that distribute those tokens want more of the economics. That tension is at the center of Open USD (OUSD), a planned stablecoin backed by more […]
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July 1, 2026
Allaire says the stablecoin fight will hinge on liquidity, integrations and regulated usage once OUSD goes live.
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July 1, 2026
Bitcoin is entering the second half of the year with its support system, which powered its last rally, under pressure. Data from CryptoSlate shows that the largest digital asset has fallen about 33% this year and more than 50% from its October record high above $126,000, trading near its weakest level since September 2024 at […]
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July 1, 2026
Xapo Bank is best for Bitcoin-first global members who want regulated USD banking, premium custody, and card/payments in one app rather than a high-volume trading exchange. Its strongest point is the combination of Gibraltar-regulated banking, 1:1 Bitcoin custody claims, and security controls such as MPC and a 48-hour BTC Vault delay; the biggest caveat is […]
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July 1, 2026
The 140-partner model challenges USDC reserve economics while leaving issuer, reserve and redemption tests unresolved.
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July 1, 2026
HB 505 tests whether caps, receipts, warnings, and conditional refunds can shift fraud costs onto kiosk businesses.
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July 1, 2026
The rules do not hand issuance to banks, but reserves, custody, audits and no-yield limits put financial infrastructure first.
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July 1, 2026
On June 29, the US Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump had the authority to remove the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, rejecting the statutory limits that previously allowed FTC commissioners to be fired only for cause. This decision overturned Humphrey’s Executor, the 1935 precedent that had protected certain independent agency commissioners […]
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July 1, 2026
Europe’s crypto market resets on July 1, when MiCA’s transitional period ends and unauthorized exchanges lose the legal right to operate in the EU. Whether the deadline holds depends on the app stores on European phones. Under the ESMA’s June 23 statement, unauthorized crypto exchanges must immediately stop onboarding new EU clients, opening accounts, and […]
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July 1, 2026
From July 1, AUSTRAC’s virtual-asset transfer rules change what exchanges ask before crypto moves.
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July 1, 2026
Bitcoin is close enough to my lower channel levels that the old $49K framework is back in play, but confirmation still depends on acceptance below the high-$50Ks and stress from flows, leverage, and miners.
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July 1, 2026
Bitcoin is close to losing $58,000, and the test below that level is whether the buyer stack that defined the post-ETF bull case still holds. Near $58,522 with an intraday low near $58,135, the market is asking whether anyone will buy in size at current prices, and the answer depends on two pillars of demand […]
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July 1, 2026
Crypto users spent years making USDC the default dollar of institutional DeFi trading, lending, and settlement, but Open Standard’s new Open USD stablecoin is testing whether the dollars users hold can be repaid. Open Standard says businesses will be able to mint and redeem Open USD for free, at unlimited volume, and that reserve earnings […]
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July 1, 2026
President Donald Trump’s 2025 annual financial disclosure was filed with the Office of Government Ethics on June 29 and certified on June 30, arriving as the CLARITY Act stalls over whether elected officials and their families should be allowed to hold, issue, promote, or profit from digital assets while writing the rules for those markets. […]
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June 30, 2026
DeFiLlama data shows $780.3 million in Q2 known losses as bridges, keys and protocol logic turn security into a live cost of participation.
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