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Bitcoin ETFs log record eighth straight negative week despite large Thursday inflow

Hyperliquid ETFs took in $4.3 million, their smallest week since launching in May, down from a record $111 million the week before.

Bitcoin’s weekend rally faces a $66k trap as traders still hedge for another drop

Bitcoin climbed back above $62,000 once a weak US jobs report cooled bets on a near-term Federal Reserve rate hike, and the spot chart reads as a relief rally. The options desks trading Bitcoin's futures are pricing something more guarded. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics put June payroll growth at...

Bitcoin’s BIP-110 fork fight gives exchanges an August deadline before miners signal support

Farside Investors' new BIP-110 signaling alerts have put Bitcoin's arbitrary-data dispute on a live deadline, giving exchanges, wallets, miners, pools, and node operators a concrete August window to plan around even while miner signaling remains low. A July 3 Farside post reported a new BIP-110 sign...

How ethical hackers with just a $3,000 server found a flaw that could've put $70 billion in crypto at risk

A critical flaw in the Aptos blockchain, which was patched, gave researchers a near-90% success rate at breaking a core security guarantee, with attack costs of just hundreds of dollars.

UK's bold new crypto rules promise to unlock global trading, but huge compliance hurdles still threaten the rollout

The U.K. FCA's crypto framework has been praised for prioritizing global liquidity and institutional adoption, but the authorization process is expected to be daunting.

Bitcoin to $53K? Exchange Deposits Jump as Analysts Warn of Increased Volatility

Bitcoin bounced back above $60,000 this week, but increased volatility might be on the way as crypto deposits to exchanges spike.

Bitcoin, Ether extend relief rallies as extreme fear meets renewed ETF buying

Bitcoin and Ether bounced off multi-year lows as dip buyers finally stepped in, and the spot BTC ETFs saw a $221 million inflow on July 2.

US law enforcement group drops opposition to CLARITY Act: Report

The Major County Sheriffs of America said it still wants the CLARITY Act amended to give local law enforcement more resources to investigate illicit finance cases.

Crypto exchanges are selling stock options and tokenized stocks but users may not own what they think

Bitget launched US stock options this week and says no other major crypto exchange offers them. The product starts with the simplest version of options trading, where eligible users buy single call or put contracts, with more complex strategies planned as it matures. It sits alongside Bitget's exist...

Revolut to delist USDT in August, citing regulatory and risk concerns

Revolut notified some customers it will delist USDT after Aug. 31, with remaining holdings automatically converted into users’ base currency.

EU moves to block retail investors from explosive boom of multibillion-dollar prediction markets

The region's regulators emphasized that a product's actual function as a derivative matters more than its commercial name or labeling when assessing compliance.

Bitcoin experts split over plan to freeze Satoshi's 1.1 million bitcoin as quantum threat grows

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said Satoshi Nakamoto's bitcoin should be frozen before quantum computers can steal it. Not everyone agrees.

Europe led on crypto regulation. Now implementation must match ambition

Aave’s new Monad market tops $100 million in deposits two days after launch

Aave's V4 deployment also crossed $250 million in deposits on Saturday, a new all-time high for that version of the protocol.

Bitcoin jumps above $63,000, reversing end-June losses

The token hit its highest in over a month during thin July 4 trading, with XRP up 5% in 24 hours to lead gains among majors.

Reported Riot 500 BTC custody transfer exposes Bitcoin miners’ AI funding pressure

Riot Platforms' reported 500 BTC movement to NYDIG Custody gives the market a live signal for how public miners may use coin treasuries as AI and data-center costs rise. PANews reported the July 3 transfer, citing on-chain monitoring data, and valued the movement at roughly $30.7 million. The availa...

Nearly 1 million wallets are down $3.81 billion on Trump’s memecoin: report

Trump's annual financial disclosure showed a $636 million payout tied to the token and more than $1.4 billion in total crypto-related income for 2025.

Bitcoin profit and loss ratio falls to 43-month low

Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan said the bottom is “closer than ever,” while a Swan Bitcoin analyst suggested investors buy now at a discount rather than overpaying later.

Kraken lets traders use tokenized stocks as collateral for leveraged trades

Eligible users can now use select tokenized stocks and ETFs as collateral for futures and margin trading without selling their holdings.

Why bitcoin's disconnect from record-high stocks won't last

Researchers at Schwab and Hashdex said AI has diverted capital from digital assets while bitcoin continues to follow a familiar post-halving recovery pattern.

OpenUSD’s partner mix-up puts its stablecoin alliance under scrutiny

OpenUSD's first proof point is a formal commitment. The project launched around a sweeping corporate roster, but the roster itself is now the part Open Standard has to explain. A July 3 Chosun Biz report said several Korean companies named in connection with the OUSD alliance had neither held offici...

Bitcoin’s next parabolic run may need $1 trillion in fresh capital

This cycle, about $697 billion in new money has generated a roughly 689% gain, compared with earlier cycles where far less capital drove returns of 2,000 percent to more than 50,000 percent.

XRP climbs 8% as record holder losses signal better risk-reward for buyers

The token's 30-day and 365-day MVRV, a measure of how far holders are underwater, sit near -45% and -47%, lows Santiment says XRP has never reached before. Some traders read stretched losses as a contrarian signal.

Tim Draper denies moving Bitcoin, reiterates $250,000 BTC prediction

Tim Draper denies moving Bitcoin after blockchain analysts linked him to a wallet that transferred 1,000 BTC to Coinbase Prime.

Crypto wanted to replace Wall Street – Instead, Wall Street took over crypto

Crypto was founded on a simple premise: people should be able to send, hold, and manage money without going through a bank. Fifteen years later, some of the industry's most significant developments involve banks doing that, on blockchains, for their own institutional clients. JPMorgan now settles pa...

Bollinger Bands creator eyes Bitcoin bear-market end, 'W'-shaped reversal

Bitcoin price strength could "break" the entire downtrend if the reversal pattern completed, John Bollinger suggested in light of the BTC rebound.

Kalshi hits record June trading volume as World Cup fuels prediction markets

DefiLlama data shows Kalshi posted a record month for trading volume as the expanded FIFA World Cup boosted prediction market activity.

Bitcoin’s Freedom Money to set Independence day liquidity benchmark while Wall Street shuts down

Bitcoin keeps trading when Wall Street stops. Independence Day turns that design choice into a market demonstration. Official exchange calendars list all NYSE markets as closed Friday, July 3, while Nasdaq lists U.S. equity and options markets as closed for the Independence Day observance. Meanwhile...

Tokenization's next use case is personalized portfolios, NYLIM executive says

Thomas Sy, head of multi-asset solutions at the $800-million asset manager, says blockchain can enable complex portfolio construction that's not yet possible in traditional finance.

Inside the Trading Engine Behind ChangeNOW’s ‘Fast, Seamless Swaps’

ChangeNOW CSO Pauline Shangett digs into the infrastructure underpinning the exchange’s simple, streamlined frontend.

Trump's crypto token buyers are down $3.8 billion, blockchain data shows

The TRUMP token is down 96% from its peak, and 85% of secondary market wallets for WLFI are underwater, reflecting a broader downturn in the sector.

Americans lost hundreds of billions on crypto speculation. Why is only some of it considered gambling?

Americans are on pace to lose more money on legal gambling this year than at any point in the country's history. A new analysis by economics writer Joseph Politano projects that the total will exceed a quarter trillion dollars in 2026. Losses have climbed 67% since the start of COVID-19 and another ...

Perplexity Co-Founder: AI Safety Is an Excuse to Lock Down Frontier

Andy Konwinski used Anthropic's Fable 5 debacle as exhibit A in the case against letting a handful of private labs govern who gets to do AI research.