Wednesday, 22 July 2026
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The standout equity winners this year have been memory and semiconductor stocks, which are crucial to the AI industry and have sidelined much of the crypto industry as investors sought to get a look-in on the hottest ne…
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The crypto market is ending the week in a healthier position than where it started, with bitcoin
Fidelity’s FBTC led the charge with a hefty $165.96 million inflow, followed by ARKB at $91.84 million and HODL at $4.35 million. BlackRock’s IBIT, the world’s largest Bitcoin ETF, was the outlier with a $40.43 million …
Ether and solana led crypto higher on Friday as a squeeze on bearish traders pushed bitcoin toward $62,000, capping the market's first genuinely strong week since mid June.
Roughly 10.83 million BTC are currently held at a loss, meaning their holders paid more than today's price, against 9.22 million still in profit, according to Glassnode data. It is the first time loss-making supply has …
XRP is starting to build a higher base above $1 following last week's sell-off. The token edged higher through the U.S. session, held $1.08 on repeated tests and pushed toward $1.10 before sellers slowed the move. That …
Asset manager Bitwise said the sharp decline in Strategy’s (MSTR) perpetual preferred stock, STRC, is a hallmark of a maturing crypto cycle rather than evidence of a looming crisis at the company.
Securitize (SECZ), a tokenization specialist backed by BlackRock and ARK Invest, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, and simultaneously brought its own shares to blockchain investors.
Digital broker eToro (ETOR) is doubling down on decentralized finance (DeFi) as online brokerages race to bring blockchain-based trading to mainstream investors.
SBI Crypto has announced it will shut down its mining pool on July 31, ending a service tied to one of Japan’s largest financial groups and giving miners less than a month to redirect their hashrate.
The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added 134 crypto wallet addresses to its ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K) sanctions entry on Wednesday, including 131 Tron addresses and 3 Monero addresses.
K Wave Media, a Nasdaq-listed Korean media company, has filed to raise up to $250 million from investors, according to a June 30 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, weeks after abandoning a bitcoin …
The company said Thursday the tokenized securities are issued on Ethereum through Oasis Pro TA, an SEC-registered transfer agent Ondo acquired last year. Financial infrastructure provider Broadridge (BR) will handle pro…
Memecore’s M and Audiera’s BEAT have gained 81% and 12%, respectively, making them the best performers among the top 100 coins by market value. At No. 3, Venice Token (VVV) is up 9%.
OpenAI has explored the idea of granting the U.S. government a 5% equity stake as part of efforts to strengthen ties with the Trump administration and broaden public participation in the benefits of artificial intellige…
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Metaplanet (3350) announced the purchase of an additional 2,823 BTC ($170.7 million), bringing its total treasury to 43,000 BTC ($2.6 billion).
U.S. jobs growth disappointed last month, with the data likely to set back market expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike as soon as this summer or early Fall.
Binance saw over $2 billion in net outflows over the past 7 days, according to CoinMarketCap data.
It’s been six years since Europe’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) was first mooted and three years since it was enacted. A lot has changed in the meantime, not the least the growing interest from businesses and individ…
Programmable blockchain Solana has introduced a formal onchain governance system, its GitHub repository shows, giving its validators and token holders a direct, recorded vote on the network’s future for the first time.
According to analysis of blockchain data by Glassnode, positive undercurrents are forming beneath the surface, contradicting the bearish sentiment following June's 20% drop.
Bitcoin traded above $60,700 on Thursday after a quick overnight reversal after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said inflation risks had eased, giving a market that spent most of June grinding lower its first clear li…