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92 itemsJuly 16, 2026
- Cointelegraph
Citadel Securities invests $400M in Crypto.com at $20B valuation
Crypto exchanges have increasingly positioned themselves as bridges between digital asset markets and traditional finance.
- CoinDeskScore: 90
Stripe’s $53 billion PayPal bid is a high-stakes play to own the future of digital payments
If Stripe acquires PayPal, the real prize could be consumer wallets, stablecoin issuance or the infrastructure powering the next generation of digital payments.
- CoinDeskScore: 85
U.S. adds four Iran central bank crypto wallets to sanctions, Tether freezes $131 million of contents
The freeze targets TRON-based addresses that held over $165 million, preventing those specific funds from being transferred or redeemed.
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Tradable’s $1B Stellar deal adds to institutional tokenization boom
Tradable will bring up to $1 billion in private credit assets to Stellar, extending the blockchain’s push into institutional finance and tokenized real-world assets.
- The BlockScore: 85
Citadel Securities invests $400 million in Crypto.com at $20 billion valuation
Crypto.com plans to use proceeds from its “first institutional funding round" to expand its tokenization and derivatives operations.
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Citadel Securities invests $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing exchange at $20 billion
The exchange's first institutional funding round values it at $20 billion and will fund expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
How prices from the future fooled a crypto oracle into paying out up to $24 million
Ostium, an on-chain perpetuals trading platform, said a five-minute security incident caused losses from its public liquidity vault. Security firms estimated the exploit at up to $24 million. Co-founder Kaledora Kiernan-Linn confirmed that the issue ran from 14:18 to 14:23 UTC on July 15 and affecte...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Japan passes the crypto law traders wanted but its 20% tax could still wait until 2028
Japan's House of Councilors approved Cabinet Bill 57 by majority vote on July 15, completing Diet passage of legislation that will move regulated crypto activity into the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. The legal framework is now in place, but traders may still wait until 2027 or 2028 for th...
- CoinDeskScore: 80
Two Groups of bitcoin Investors sell on the rise as U.S. inflation lifts prices to nearly $65,000
Bitcoin surges toward $65,000 on softer-than-expected inflation data, but on-chain signals show two key investor groups selling into the bounce.
- DecryptScore: 80
Morning Minute: Base Hands Its App Over to Cobie
Plus, Stripe makes a $53 billion move that could crown a stablecoin king. And Ostium gets drained of $18M in the latest DeFi exploit.
- CointelegraphScore: 80
Alpaca raises $135M to fund tokenized agent-first infrastructure
The BNP-backed brokerage infrastructure provider is expanding into tokenized markets and AI-native financial services as both DeFi and TradFi companies pursue onchain business.
- DecryptScore: 80
Dormant Bitcoin Whale Moves $383 Million After More Than 8 Years
The wallet holding nearly 5,908 BTC since 2017 transferred its entire balance to a new address.
- CoinDeskScore: 80
Visa backs Open USD with new stablecoin platform as Circle faces fresh competition
Visa launched a stablecoin platform that lets banks and fintechs issue, manage and settle digital dollars through its payments network.
- DecryptScore: 80
Visa Unveils Stablecoin Platform for Banks and Fintech Companies
The Visa Stablecoin Platform will let financial institutions integrate stablecoin payments and treasury operations into Visa's existing network.
- The BlockScore: 75
California pair charged with laundering crypto proceeds from darknet fentanyl sales
The pair allegedly shipped over 500 drug parcels over a seven-month period and laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars through crypto.
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Ether outruns bitcoin as ETF money returns, almost all of from BlackRock's fund
This is not a broad rally as bitcoin is up 4% over the same stretch, and solana, TRON and hyperliquid are all lower.
- CoinDeskScore: 75
A bitcoin wallet dormant since the 2017 peak just moved $383 million
The coins went to a fresh address rather than an exchange, so nothing has been sold yet.
- The BlockScore: 75
Bitcoin whale moves $383 million in BTC after 8 years of dormancy: onchain data
A bitcoin OG wallet transferred 5,908 BTC to a new address on Wednesday, according to Lookonchain, citing Arkham data.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Ethereum is flashing a $478 million buy signal but top traders still expect it to fail
Ethereum has recorded $478 million in net exchange outflows over the last 7 days, a pace running roughly five times above average and the kind of supply-side move traders typically read as accumulation, according to Nansen. Nansen's data complicates that reading, as top-PnL wallets sold a net $64 mi...
- DecryptScore: 75
Feds Arrest Florida Man Over Video Game Malware That Stole $220K in Crypto
Zyaire Wilkins allegedly procured malware hidden in video games that infected 8,000 devices and broke into 80 crypto wallets, the FBI says.
- The BlockScore: 75
MoonPay acquires Y Combinator-backed crypto deposits startup Glide in all-equity deal
Crypto unicorn MoonPay has acquired Glide, a Y Combinator-backed crypto deposits startup, in an all-equity deal.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
MoonPay buys Glide to bolster crypto deposits infrastructure
MoonPay acquired Glide, a crypto infrastructure startup founded by former Robinhood Wallet engineers, to expand cross-chain crypto deposit infrastructure.
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Crypto brokerage firm Alpaca raises $135 million for tokenized stock infrastructure
The company has previously cleared or held in custody roughly 94% of tokenized U.S. equities and now holds over $1.5 billion in underlying stocks.
- The BlockScore: 75
Visa launching internal stablecoin platform for clients that provides access to OUSD: report
Open Standard's stablecoin is expected to become a major competitor to Circle's USDC, the dominant stablecoin in the U.S.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Morgan Stanley’s E*TRADE launches spot crypto trading through Zero Hash
Eligible E*TRADE retail clients can now buy, sell and hold Bitcoin, Ether and Solana through a partnership with crypto infrastructure provider Zero Hash.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin treasury troubles reach London as company votes to sell its entire BTC stack and delist
Satsuma Technology passed its final proxy deadline today for its proposal to sell its entire Bitcoin treasury and cancel its London Stock Exchange listing, This leaves the upcoming July 20 general meeting as the next decision point. Approval of both resolutions would start a process to sell all its ...
- CoinDeskScore: 75
$1.9 trillion asset manager T. Rowe Price bets on active management with first multi-token crypto ETF
T. Rowe Price launched what it says is the industry's first actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETF, offering diversified exposure to digital assets.
- DecryptScore: 75
Bitcoin Q-Day Recovery Proposal Aims to Let Users Prove Ownership After Quantum Attack
Project Eleven says a new post-quantum cryptographic proof could help Bitcoin users recover wallets after Q-Day by verifying ownership.
- DecryptScore: 75
Morgan Stanley Launches Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana Trading on E*Trade
Eligible customers can now buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana with Morgan Stanley via Zero Hash.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Polygon CEO announces job cuts amid Coinme acquisition
The round of layoffs was part of Polygon transitioning operations to payments following a $250 million deal to acquire Coinme and Sequence in January.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Trump to meet with senators over CLARITY Act on Thursday: Politico
US President Donald Trump is set to meet with several senators on Thursday as negotiators race to get the CLARITY Act across the line before the Senate’s August recess.
- CoinDeskScore: 70
U.S. Senate unanimously opposes clemency for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried
The nonbinding resolution passed without objection after Bankman-Fried asked for clemency, months after Trump pardoned other major crypto figures, including Changpeng Zhao and Ross Ulbricht.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Tether invests $20M into Argentine neobank Ualá
Tether reportedly invested $20 million into Ualá, as part of the Argentine neobank’s $197 million funding round announced earlier in March.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
BlackRock earned $82M while its crypto funds erased $30B – now it wants inside your wallet
BlackRock generated $82 million in revenue from its digital-asset products during the first half of 2026, even as falling Bitcoin and Ethereum prices erased nearly $30 billion from the assets supporting the business. The world's largest asset manager recorded $42 million in digital-asset base fees a...
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Bitcoin pulls back to $64,000 after hitting monthly high as bears take control
Profit-taking after bitcoin hit a $65,500 monthly high combined with fresh Iranian strikes on U.S. bases sent crypto lower, with bears leading price action across most tokens.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
FATF urges faster crypto AML enforcement as stablecoin crime increases
The global task force said criminal networks are using stablecoins and developing proprietary tokens to evade asset freezes as countries struggle to enforce crypto AML rules.
- The BlockScore: 70
Ledger unveils hardware-backed Agent Stack to prevent rogue AI transactions
With Ledger Agent Stack, users can deploy bots to read balances, suggest transactions, prepare swaps and draft operations.
- The BlockScore: 70
US jury indicts South Dakota crypto investor on 29 counts over alleged $20 million investor fraud
DOJ indicted Sioux Falls crypto investor Benjamin Paul Wiener on 29 counts over an alleged $20 million fraud, with a trial set for Sept. 15.
- The BlockScore: 70
$1.9 trillion asset manager T. Rowe Price launches first actively managed multi-token crypto ETF
T. Rowe Price's TKNZ Active Crypto ETF began trading Thursday after the firm filed for the product in October.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
BitPay secures Dutch licensing under MiCA, plans to expand stablecoin payments
The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets approved BitPay’s application as a crypto-asset service provider under the Markets in Crypto-Assets requirements.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Injective files for SEC transfer agent registration to bring securities ownership records onchain
The company said the filing would create a regulated pathway for maintaining ownership records for tokenized securities onchain.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Robinhood tackled Coinbase head-on then immediately inherited Base’s biggest problem
Coinbase is reshaping its Ethereum layer-2 network, Base, around trading, payments and tokenized assets as Robinhood’s new blockchain rapidly gains users and liquidity in many of the same markets. On July 15, Base creator Jesse Pollak acknowledged that the network’s earlier emphasis on social produc...
- The BlockScore: 65
Visa says stablecoins will power micro-commerce in AI agentic economy
Visa said it expects agentic commerce to integrate a hybrid flow that combines both card and stablecoin rails at different stages of a task.
- CoinDeskScore: 65
Tether invests $20 million in Argentine neobank Ualá as it expands Latin America push
Ualá’s CEO clarified Tether is acting solely as a financial investor, citing current regional regulations preventing any immediate USDT integration.
- CointelegraphScore: 65
Prediction markets defy crypto downturn with record Q2 volume: CoinGecko
Prediction markets reached a record $113.8 billion in notional volume in Q2 as spot CEX trading, derivatives volume and stablecoin market cap declined.
- CoinDeskScore: 65
Keyrock acquires BlockFills trading assets to expand institutional crypto business
The deal adds institutional trading clients, derivatives expertise and regulatory licenses as Keyrock looks to deepen its presence in crypto capital markets.
- The BlockScore: 65
‘We’re going to get it done’: Crypto bill faces what could be final test over Trump conflicts of interest
Optimism is brewing to get a crypto bill passed, with some variations on timing as onlookers wait to see how ethics will shake out.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Bitcoin $107K buyers providing ‘early signals’ of 2026 bear-market bottom: Glassnode
Bitcoin realized losses appeared to be copying a reversal structure that marked previous bear-market bottoms, with $69,000 a new BTC price battleground.
- The BlockScore: 60
Lummis, Gallego secure unanimous Senate approval opposing Sam Bankman-Fried clemency
The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a resolution opposing a presidential pardon or commutation for convicted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
US Senate unanimously adopts resolution opposing clemency for SBF
The Senate approved a resolution opposing clemency for former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried as prediction markets put the odds of a Trump pardon by July 31 below 1%.
- The BlockScore: 60
Jeff Booth, Lyn Alden-backed ORANGE JUICE raises $40 million to launch permanent capital firm with bitcoin treasury strategy
ORANGE JUICE raised $40 million to acquire businesses, pursue a bitcoin treasury strategy, and implement a permanent capital ownership model.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Tokenized stocks market cap gains to record $2.3B
The market capitalization of tokenized stocks rose to a record $2.3 billion, as investors sought exposure to the growing list of tokenized equity products launched by cryptocurrency exchanges.
- The BlockScore: 60
Polygon Labs announces second round of layoffs in 2026 as firm looks to finalize Coinme acquisition
"Two rounds of changes in one year is a lot to ask of a team, and I understand it is hard to manage," Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron said.
- The BlockScore: 60
SBI extends onchain finance push with Ondo deal to tokenize Japanese stocks
Japan's SBI Holdings will use JPYSC for settlement and collateral while distributing Ondo products through its network.
- The BlockScore: 60
Multicoin Capital makes first Hyperliquid ecosystem investment in Trasia, an Asia-focused trading platform
Built on Hyperliquid, Trasia was co-founded by former Multicoin Capital partner Mable Jiang and aims to serve Asian traders.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Bitcoin price dips on US stocks sell-off as Micron losses pass 30%
Bitcoin fell 1.5% from local highs amid a reversal in US stocks as markets moved from bullish US inflation cues to retail profit-taking.
- The BlockScore: 60
JPMorgan says bitcoin outlook sees ‘encouraging sign’ as Strategy boosts cash reserves
Strategy's larger cash reserves and improving institutional demand in bitcoin futures are "encouraging signs" for bitcoin, JPMorgan said.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Bitcoin outlook improves amid 6% weekly gain: Can BTC bulls push higher?
Bitcoin buyers have returned to spot, futures and ETF markets but geopolitical headwinds could quickly unravel the progress of the past two weeks.
- CoinDeskScore: 55
Ledger wants AI agents to manage crypto without holding your keys
AI agents can read wallet balances and analyze portfolios but requires every sensitive action to be approved on a Ledger hardware device before it can be executed.
- CryptoSlateScore: 55
SEC filing shows viral $71 million XRP ETF claims are out by 1,000x
Investment manager Brookstone Capital Management reported 12,380 shares of Volatility Shares' XRP ETF with a fair value of $71,059 in its June 30 quarter-end holdings disclosure. Yet, social media is spreading a narrative of a massive $71 million position. Brookstone's June 30 information table file...
- DecryptScore: 50
US Senate Unanimously Opposes Sam Bankman-Fried Pardon
The nonbinding resolution said the disgraced FTX founder should 'under no circumstances' receive clemency.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Galaxy targets institutional stablecoin yield with new DeFi vaults
The crypto financial services firm launched Galaxy Curator, a Morpho-based platform that gives Fireblocks' 2,400 institutional clients access to onchain yield strategies.
- The BlockScore: 50
Tether invests $20 million in Ualá as the fintech firm reaches $3.2 billion valuation
Tether invested $20 million in Argentine neobank Ualá, joining a $197 million funding round that valued the fintech at $3.2 billion.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Gambling on random Pokémon cards: Onchain gagcha hits record high as crypto sinks
Users spent a record $324 million on onchain gacha in June, even as Bitcoin hit a 21-month low. The thrill of scoring a top Pokemon card from a random pack is becoming big business
- CryptoSlateScore: 50
Crypto equities gained 23% while crypto tokens fell 36% this year – Is value shifting?
Bitwise reported that publicly traded crypto companies gained 23% in the first half of 2026, while crypto assets fell 36%, creating a 59-percentage-point gap. Equities could be pricing in a recovery that sits above where the tokens currently trade, or they could also be capturing revenue crypto adop...
- CoinDeskScore: 50
The Clarity Act is the most important consumer protection effort in years
Consumers should not have to wait for another crisis to get the protections they deserve, argues Summer Mersinger, CEO of the Blockchain Association.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Trump teleprompter operator made $100K betting on Kalshi markets tied to speeches: ABC
According to ABC News, federal regulators are investigating whether the longtime White House staffer used nonpublic information to profit from event contracts tied to President Donald Trump’s speeches.
- CointelegraphScore: 45
Robinhood Chain memecoin launchpad Vlad.fun halts after ‘internal integrity’ issue
Vlad.fun suspended its platform after discovering a “serious internal integrity issue” involving members of its team, without disclosing the nature of the alleged misconduct.
- CoinDeskScore: 45
Rebooting the internet: inside the open-source project to let AI programs pay each other
The newly-convened x402 Foundation is a neutral space where competitors and payment methods can work together to create an open standard for AI agentic commerce.
- The BlockScore: 45
Dune research finds 85% of concentrated DeFi liquidity is underutilized, with $150M in annual fees foregone
Dune research commissioned by 1inch finds 85% of concentrated DeFi liquidity underutilized, with $150M in annual fees forgone.
- DecryptScore: 40
Mira Murati Drops Her First AI Model After Leaving OpenAI—And It's Fully Open Source
Mira Murati's Inkling won't dethrone the best Chinese open-weights models, but it gives Western developers something they haven't yet had.
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Hyperion DeFi to deploy 500K HYPE for Hyperliquid HIP-3 markets
The deal gives Hyperion an equity stake in Skew and a share of listing-service revenue as it expands the utility of its HYPE treasury assets.
- The BlockScore: 40
Volvo Group tests proprietary cryptocurrency for supplier transactions in blockchain push
Volvo Group's proprietary cryptocurrency project remains in the ideation stage and is not yet industrialized.
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Autonomous AI agent economy faces infrastructure gaps: Visa, Artemis
Visa and Artemis found that infrastructure bottlenecks are preventing broader commercial adoption of the autonomous AI agent economy.
- CointelegraphScore: 40
ARK pushes back against a16z’s ‘TradFi wants blockchain, not DeFi’ claim
ARK Invest’s director of research disputed a16z crypto’s thesis that traditional finance will adopt permissioned blockchain infrastructure instead of decentralized finance, saying institutions will increasingly rely on DeFi rails.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Bitcoin’s old coins have gone quiet and $69,000 could reveal whether the new holders crack
Bitcoin aged one year or more moved on-chain in extraordinary volume during 2024 and 2025, according to Galaxy Research charts shared by analyst Alex Thorn. So far in 2026, the total is less than half of 2025's figure, marking a sharp slowdown after two years of near-record movement among older coin...
- The BlockScore: 40
Keyrock closes deal for BlockFills’ institutional trading and brokerage assets
The Brussels-based firm was earlier selected as the buyer for $3.25 million in BlockFills’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy process.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
You may hate MiCA, but the truth is more complicated than both sides admit
The following is a guest post and guest post from Yuliya Barabash, Founder and Managing Partner at SBSB Fintech Lawyers. MiCA may make Europe safer, but it also risks making it smaller. In its effort to impose order on crypto, the EU is building a regulatory framework that many early-stage startups ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Bitcoin must climb 92% to rescue last year’s $120K buyers and the escape routes begin at $72K
A $1,000 Bitcoin purchase made when Bitcoin crossed $120,000 this time last year is now worth $520. That leaves investors with a 47.98% loss and requires a 92.2% rebound to be made whole before fees. CryptoSlate's Bitcoin market data shows a price of $64,073 as of press time. The July 2025milestone ...
- The BlockScore: 40
MegaETH sunsets Mega Mafia accelerator program, noting ‘most’ of its successful apps left
MegaETH did not take equity or governance positions in the approximately 20 projects incubated in the Mega Mafia.
- CointelegraphScore: 30
Base’s social bet left it trailing in prediction markets and perps: Pollak
Base creator Jesse Pollak is stepping back from leadership of the Base App after admitting he was “definitively wrong” to bet on social experiences driving crypto adoption.
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Live updates: ZachXBT calls hardware wallets complete garbage; BTC steady near $65,000
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT came down heavily on hardware wallets. BTC traded steady near $65,000 after South Korea's rate hike.
- CryptoSlateScore: 30
Is using an old iPhone safer than a crypto hardware wallet? ZachXBT thinks so
ZachXBT recently argued that a dedicated iPhone offers better security than a hardware wallet, a line of reasoning that already splits crypto's security community. Both devices are fundamentally signing devices, and the real vulnerability crypto has spent a decade building around lives in what a val...
- CryptoSlateScore: 30
This Bitcoin-backed company is betting retiring founders will swap private stock for their life’s work
Roughly 2.9 million American businesses are owned by people 55 or older, supporting 32.1 million workers and generating $6.5 trillion in annual revenue, according to research from Project Equity and Harvard Business School. Only about 20% to 30% of businesses that go up for sale find a buyer at all,...
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Crypto for Advisors: Strengthening defenses against AI fraud
Strengthening defenses against AI fraud
- CointelegraphScore: 30
Ethics in crypto market structure ‘really not our concern,’ says Blockchain Association CEO
A former CFTC commissioner urged lawmakers not to “kill all the hard work that we put in the rest of the bill” by making ethics a make-or-break issue on crypto market structure.
- The BlockScore: 30
Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator accused of using insider knowledge to place bets on Kalshi: ABC News
President Trump's teleprompter is under scrutiny following a report alleging that he used insider knowledge to place bets on Kalshi.
- CryptoSlateScore: 30
Steak ‘n Shake credits Bitcoin for company growth – But is PR value now worth more than people actually using BTC?
Steak' n Shake says US same-store sales jumped about 16% in July and wants Bitcoin to share the credit. However, one figure remains conspicuously absent: how many customers actually used it. So, is the PR attached to Bitcoin now worth more than the chain itself? In a July 10 post, the burger chain s...
- CoinDeskScore: 20
The most popular bitcoin call option has slipped by $10,000
Your day-ahead look for July 18, 2026
- DecryptScore: 20
XRP Can't Keep Up as Bitcoin Takes a Breather: Analysis
The post-CPI rally gave XRP a nudge. The coin barely moved. Now the chart is filling in the picture.
- CointelegraphScore: 20
1inch co-founder says he was fired, announces new venture
Anton Bukov said that he no longer took an active role at 1inch and had been “fired” in 2025 after pushing for changes to the company’s management and operations.
- DecryptScore: 20
Leaks Reveal Suno Fed Thousands of Hours of Deezer, YouTube and Pond5 Data Into Its AI
Source code leaked reveals how substantial portions of Suno’s training library were assembled.