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Bitcoin slides 2% after U.S. close while Korea’s Kospi plunges 10%

Kalshi, Polymarket win pause against Minnesota's prediction market ban

A federal judge ruled that Minnesota's law criminalizing prediction markets would probably violate the federal Commodity Exchange Act.

U.S. Senate puts off crypto Clarity Act for now as it focuses limited bandwidth elsewhere

The majority leader is pursuing floor time for unrelated bills as the crypto industry waits for its policy effort to get its chance for votes.

Bitcoin shrugs off AI selloff but high-stakes Fed meeting could determine what's next

BTC held near $65,000 even as Nvidia and AI stocks fell sharply. This week's Fed decision could determine whether bitcoin finally breaks higher or revisits June's lows, analysts said.

Digital asset trading platform Uphold cuts 17% of global headcount as crypto winter bites

The crypto trading platform said the layoffs reflect a strategic shift toward its fast-growing enterprise business.

Crypto’s favorite $90 trillion trading product is coming to Wall Street, but big banks are taking it slow

Regulated perpetual futures are officially landing in the U.S., but while agile trading firms and crypto exchanges race to capture massive retail demand, traditional Wall Street banks are holding back until liquidity, rules, and infrastructure mature.

Cantor is advising crypto bank AMINA on path to potential public listing

The Swiss bank is exploring multiple paths to the public markets, though discussions are ongoing and no final decision has been made.

Fanatics buys regulated exchange in bid to grow prediction markets business

The deal gives Fanatics control of its own prediction market infrastructure as event-based trading gains traction across sports, finance and crypto.

What are perps, anyway? Everything you need to know about crypto’s hottest trading instrument

Perps, which launched on BitMEX in 2016, have become one of the most traded financial products in the world.

Michael Saylor's Strategy boosted cash reserve to $3.75 billion, repurchased $25 million of STRC

The company last week raised $544.5 million in cash via sales of its common stock.

Circle buys nearly 1,000 blockchain patents from IBM

The portfolio covers blockchain technology, banking, insurance, and cloud security, though the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Bitmine buys more ether as Tom Lee says rising ETH/BTC ratio points to stronger crypto prices

The Ethereum treasury company added nearly 10,000 ETH while expanding its stock buyback, citing ether outperforming bitcoin is sending a bullish signal.

Crypto is rewriting how Wall Street traders spend their weekends

Around-the-clock crypto markets are forcing Wall Street to reevaluate one of its oldest assumptions: that weekends are for waiting.

Securitize builds Wall Street credentials with SEC adviser license as tokenization expands

The license broadens the BlackRock tokenization partner's offering as regulators weigh rules for onchain investment products.

Nvidia forms 37-member AI security alliance without OpenAI, Anthropic or Google

The chipmaker and 36 other companies say defenders need AI they can run themselves. Major AI players OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are not among them.

Thailand's SEC alleges Bitkub concealed cyberattack that led to $50 million hack

Bitkub was the victim of a cyberattack in May 2021, which led to hacks stealing 1.7 billion baht across 16 different digital assets.

Lido begins moving $16.5 billion in staked ether to cut validator count by a third

The liquid staking protocol is consolidating 8 million ETH and requiring its professional node operators to post bonds for the first time.

Crypto steadies as Iran-U.S. pause sends oil tumbling, lifts risk assets

Brent crude plunged 7% after the U.S. and Iran paused Strait of Hormuz strikes, lifting equities and DeFi tokens while bitcoin held near $65,000 ahead of a pivotal Fed decision Wednesday.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong criticizes crypto startups that rebrand to AI

Armstrong said blockchain technology acts as a general-purpose infrastructure that will underpin future automation rather than competing with it.

Bitcoin ETFs post third straight weekly inflows despite $465 million in late-week losses

The vast majority of the activity was concentrated in BlackRock’s IBIT product accounting for nearly $415 million of the outflows.

Ballooning U.S. debt sends investors to bitcoin, gold to shelter from dollar devaluation

Your day-ahead look for July 27, 2026

Bitcoin options traders are dropping their hedges going into the Fed meeting

The put/call ratio has fallen to about 0.52 from 0.76 in late June, and one-week downside protection has collapsed in price. The options market is positioned for a quiet week that contains an FOMC decision.

Cloud data firm Storj files for Chapter 11, extending a week of crypto failures. Token slides 16%

The decentralized data storage company says operations continue and proposes that token holders take equity in the restructured business — an unusual arrangement in bankruptcy.

Interest rates in U.S., U.K., Japan and Coinbase, Strategy earnings: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting July 27.

Crypto is the canary in the coal mine for the quantum computing threat, experts say

As estimates for “Q-Day” move closer, experts warn that crypto’s slow governance, not its cryptography, may be the biggest obstacle to defending against quantum attacks.

Live updates: Ether leads crypto higher. China's gold imports surge

CoinEx's Jeff Ko sees bitcoin staying range-bound near $65,000 while retreating oil, a 4.7% 10-year yield and a week of mega-cap earnings set the tone.

Bitcoin is back above $65,000 as U.S. and Iran hold fire. Oil drops 5%

ETH outperforms BTC, hinting at potential altcoin rally, as the U.S. and Iran hold fire and oil drops.

South Korea trading giant puts receivables onchain in tokenization test with LG CNS

POSCO International and LG CNS is tapping Injective network to tokenize live commercial invoices, another sign blockchain rails are moving deeper into corporate finance.

2 weeks left for Clarity: State of Crypto

The Senate leaves town in two weeks. Here's what needs to happen for Clarity to advance before then.

U.S. regulator warns prediction markets against cutting corners in event contracts

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission again issued an advisory that signals firms have been straying into cookie-cutter self-certification.

Europe's high regulatory bar could spark new crypto industry M&A wave

As MiCA beds in and the U.K. finalizes its crypto framework, stringent regulation could spur mergers, acquisitions and closer ties with banks.

Crypto exchange BitMart to shut down after nine years, BMX token crashes 58%

Users have a month to close trades and six months to withdraw, and the exchange gave no specific reason for closing.

Shiba Inu surges 36% as South Korean traders fuel mystery rally

The rally has no announcement behind it, other dog tokens haven't matched it, and Korean venues are carrying the volume.

Russia’s largest bank Sberbank plans crypto trading infrastructure by December

New regulations for crypto trading, custody, and settlement in Russia take effect Sept. 1, with requirements for licensed intermediaries applying from July 2027.

North Korea arrests hackers accused of laundering stolen funds from country's bank via crypto

The group allegedly breached Central Bank systems, converted crypto to cash via Chinese brokers, and used small transfers to evade detection.

Democratizing weather derivatives through tokenization could be crypto's most important real-world use case

Main Street, which faces the most significant climate-related financial risk, currently lacks an avenue to hedge weather-related risks, argues CoinDesk’s Omkar Godbole.

Robinhood Chain's real-world assets jump fivefold as tokenized stocks start trading in bigger size

The chain built to put equities onchain has tripled in size since mid-July, and a dozen tokenized stocks are now each clearing $500,000 a day. Real-world assets are growing fast, though memecoins and stablecoins still dominate the chain.

Institutional crypto trading platform LMAX is exploring sale, IPO

LMAX is working with Morgan Stanley and investment bank KBW to assess its options, which could lead to a sale or a public offering.

Sam Altman-backed World Network secures $52.5 million in fresh funding to fight online AI deepfakes

The project is moving away from basic network expansion to focus entirely on integrating its biometric screening devices across enterprise software suites.

Senate Dems should accept the victory they won on Trump's crypto limits: White House

U.S. Senate Democrats got President Donald Trump to accept potential limits on his lucrative crypto dealings, but they say the Clarity Act's restrictions aren't enough.