Wednesday, 22 July 2026
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Crypto infrastructure provider BitGo's (BTGO) shares jumped as much as 20% on Wednesday after the company announced a $50 million share buyback program to support a stock that has struggled since its public debut earlie…
The crypto sector has been plagued by cybersecurity issues for years. Malicious actors, particularly North Korea’s Lazarus Group, have stolen more than $2.2 billion since 2022, prompting the industry to triple its numbe…
A new proposal for Bittensor, the decentralized AI network behind the TAO token, would change how the network pays its validators and turn them into something closer to fund managers.
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is heading the central bank's two-day policy meeting, concluding this afternoon, with investors looking beyond the interest-rate decision itself for clues about how he plans to reshape …
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The largest cryptocurrency pulled back below $65,000 after trading near $67,000 just a day earlier, CoinDesk data show. The broader market CoinDesk 20 Index (CD200) has lost 1.2% since midnight UTC, with all but four to…
Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego, whose net worth is estimated at roughly $5 billion, is a bitcoin maximalist.
With 60% of stablecoin payments flowing through a fragmented Asian corridor, new backend middleware lets autonomous software move capital without human steps.
SpaceX (SPCX) has climbed more than 40% since its June 12 debut to a roughly $2.5 trillion market value, making it the sixth-largest company in the world and worth nearly twice the entire bitcoin market.
For more than 135 years, the Kanoo family, one of Bahrain's wealthiest families, has helped build the Gulf’s entire commercial infrastructure.
If you're only looking at the dollar price of your portfolio, you may be missing part of the picture, which is significantly shaped by money supply growth.
XRP's push above $1.25 lasted only a few hours. Sellers showed up near the highs and drove the token back through $1.23 on some of the session's heaviest volume, turning what looked like a breakout into a reminder that …
More than any other congressional race this year, the crypto sector's campaign-funding operations dumped massive cash into Barry Moore's Alabama Senate bid, with the leading political action committee alone spending mor…
Bitcoin's risk-adjusted return has fallen to a level that has marked every bear-market bottom of the past decade, the latest on-chain reading to point toward accumulation rather than more downside.
Bitcoin is trading flat while the rest of the crypto market showing signs of a capital rotation.
Bitcoin miners that have spent the past two years reinventing themselves as AI infrastructure providers may be entering a more difficult phase of their transformation: proving they can actually deliver.
Coinbase (COIN) has unveiled a suite of products spanning stocks, derivatives, artificial intelligence and consumer finance as it continues its path toward becoming what the company calls an "everything exchange."
State regulators got sidelined in the U.S. Department of the Treasury's effort to implement the new U.S. stablecoin law, according to several senators from both parties who insist that the states need to be given an exp…
Strategy's (MSTR) dividend-paying preferred stock, STRC, closed at $91.79 on Tuesday, its third-lowest since trading began in July 2025, amid lower bitcoin prices and debt concerns.
Hyperliquid's HYPE, Uniswap's UNI and Worldcoin's WLD all posted double-digit gains, extending rallies that have made them some of this week's standout performers.
Coinbase (COIN) said it plans to introduce tokenized stocks backed one-for-one by underlying U.S. equities, joining the growing competition among crypto firms and traditional financial companies to bring stocks onto blo…
Ethereum developers are entering the final stretch of work on Glamsterdam, the network's next major upgrade, as teams begin testing a version of the fork that includes the planned protocol changes.
Ripple, the blockchain firm closely associated with the XRP Ledger (XRP) network, invested in African payments company Flutterwave as part of its Series E funding round, a deal centered on expanding the use of stablecoi…
Wall Street's largest asset managers are increasingly competing to manage the assets backing stablecoins, a market that could swell into the trillions of dollars as digital dollars become a larger part of the financial …