Wednesday, 22 July 2026
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MoneyGram said Monday it has become a validator on the Solana (SOL) blockchain, the latest step in the remittance firm's ongoing push into crypto infrastructure as it builds payment services around stablecoins.
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Despite the green shoots among the majors, the broader market has yet to follow suit. The CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) remains slightly lower over 24 hours. Still, smaller outliers like DEXE and BEAT jumped of 8% and 5%.
The Bank of England officially reversed its controversial proposal to limit how much stablecoin individuals and consumers could hold, bowing to pressure from a U.K. House of Lords committee and the crypto industry.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is leading an OKX and New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) joint venture to build infrastructure to bridge traditional and digital financial markets.
Bitcoin's mining network is becoming increasingly sensitive to price movements as more miners operate near breakeven levels, according to Wall Street bank JPMorgan.
Michael Saylor and his embattled Strategy (MSTR) sold more common stock last week, using the proceeds to add a relatively small amount of bitcoin and $300 million in cash to its balance sheet.
The pattern is called a bear flag, and a breakdown could send the price of the largest cryptocurrency to as low as $54,000 initially, according to pseudonymous trader Doctor Profit, who called BTC's bull-market peak at …
Taiko, an Ethereum Layer 2 network that processes transactions off the main chain and settles them back to it, halted block production and told users to pull their funds after an attacker exploited its bridge earlier Mo…
Bitcoin started the week drifting near $64,000, sitting out a rally in Asian equities as the US and Iran moved closer to a lasting peace deal.
CME Group filed a lawsuit against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission alleging it should not have approved Kalshi's perpetual futures contracts the way it did and asking a court to vacate the approval and self-cert…
Jaredfromsubway.eth, one of Ethereum’s most infamous MEV bots, has been drained for more than $7.5 million after an attacker turned the bot’s own automated trading logic against it.
STRC, the dividend-paying preferred equity issued by bitcoin treasury company Strategy (MSTR), is designed to hold a price of $100, its par value. It doesn't always work that way.
Charles Schwab is working with Cboe Global Markets to launch a new type of options contract that would allow customers to make yes-or-no wagers on the performance of the S&P 500, marking the brokerage's first move into …
The largest cryptocurrencies remained under pressure for a fourth straight day, with bitcoin falling 2.5% in 24 hours to just below $62,400.
Where GoMining says it differs from incumbents is that the entire transaction is completed in bitcoin. Many competitors, including Square, allow customers to pay in bitcoin while delivering fiat currency to the retailer…
Malware that spreads via USB sticks has been infecting Windows personal computers and targeting crypto wallets since February, Microsoft said in a blog post.
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The digital credit market suffered one of its sharpest selloffs to date on Thursday, with Strive Asset Management CEO Matt Cole describing the move as a leverage-driven liquidation rather than a sign of weakening credit…
XRP gave back more of last week's rally on Wednesday after sellers pushed the token through $1.15 support, a level traders had been watching since the recent move above $1.20.
In the past 24 to 48 hours, crypto exchange Deribit saw heavy buying of short- and near-dated put options, spanning expirations from June 22 to July 31, according to data tracked by Laevitas. Notable flows included:
Bitcoin fell below $63,000 on Friday as risk assets sold off worldwide, erasing the gains it made earlier in the week on the back of the US-Iran peace deal.
The punishments of Alexander Mashinsky, the imprisoned former chief of Celsius until its high-profile collapse, continue with a formal banishment from any ability to seek business with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading…
The Ethereum Foundation's (EF) co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang shared that she has stepped down from her role leading the organization effective immediately, in a post shared on X on Thursday.