Saturday, 18 July 2026
Global markets, trading & world business — for professional traders
The stablecoin market posted its biggest retreat in years in June, a sign that onchain liquidity has dwindled as crypto markets continued to consolidate near 2026 lows.
Jurrien Timmer, Fidelity's director of global macro, says bitcoin is drifting toward the bottom edge of the model he has used to track it for years.
Bitcoin held near $63,800 on Saturday after the U.S. launched its third round of strikes on Iran this week and Tehran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed "until further notice." The largest cryptocurrency was down 0.3%…
Ripple came close to shutting down rather than fighting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Chief Executive Brad Garlinghouse said, describing a decision he and co-founder Chris Larsen faced after the agency su…
The sales come months after a major Empery shareholder demanded the firm ditch its Bitcoin treasury strategy and force the resignation of its CEO and board.
Bonzo Lend, a decentralized lending protocol on the Hedera network, suffered an estimated $9.05 million loss after an attacker exploited a verification flaw in a third-party Supra oracle contract, allowing them to borro…
The market for crypto initial public offerings has slowed sharply as investors rotate capital into other sectors and growing macroeconomic uncertainty dampens appetite for risk assets, according to Christian Lopez, head…
Robinhood Chain is a blockchain network developed by Robinhood, the financial services company behind the stock and crypto trading platform.
Google last week launched Nano Banana 2 Lite—officially gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image—as the entry point in its image generation stack, sitting below Nano Banana 2 and well below Nano Banana Pro. It delivers text-to-image…
Empery Digital (EMPD) on Friday announced the sale of 1,400 bitcoin for $62,200 each, generating $87.1 million in proceeds.
Bitcoin price gains approached 10% for the first two weeks of the month, but analysis warned of the bear market returning from August onward.
An attacker inflated the value of SAUCE collateral and borrowed $9 million from Bonzo Lend through a flaw in Supra’s on-chain oracle verifier.
Despite strong tokenization gains and institutional accumulation, weak onchain and derivatives data leaves ETH vulnerable to a $1,700 retest.
Five senators called for committee hearings to investigate US President Donald Trump’s policies potentially being influenced by crypto funding from United Arab Emirates-linked and other entities.
The redesigned app will use AI to recommend trades and tailor investing tools around users' financial goals as Kraken expands into broader financial services.
Democratic senators are calling for congressional hearings into President Donald Trump’s crypto holdings after new financial disclosures revealed they generated over $1.2 billion in income for him last year.
In a wide-ranging conversation on CoinDesk Spotlight, Schultz laid out a view of Meta's future in which agentic commerce is not a product category but an inevitability.
The launch comes as tokenized stocks become one of the fastest-growing corners of crypto, with exchanges and traditional finance firms racing to expand 24/7 trading.
Stablecoins are carving out specialized roles as regulation reshapes the market, while Strategy’s Bitcoin sale and Vanguard’s tokenization push highlight crypto’s evolving financial landscape.
Donald Trump confirmed on social media that he would not sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which includes a ban on a US CBDC until the end of 2030, setting the stage for the bill to become law on Saturday.
As the CLARITY Act advances, crypto's growing political influence in Washington is under scrutiny. But the crypto lobby's massive campaign spend is only part of the story.
Circle has received final approval to establish a national trust bank from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a move that’s set to shift the stablecoin issuer’s operations from a patchwork of state-by-s…
State representative Keith Ammon said the New Hampshire executive council's vote against Bitcoin-backed bonds was “short-sighted,” urging the body to reconsider the measure.
The crypto industry's long animosity toward the idea of a U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC) will be rewarded with a ban under the housing bill set to pass into law in the first moment of Saturday.