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81 itemsJuly 20, 2026
- DecryptScore: 90
Allbridge Pauses Cross-Chain Protocol After $1.65M Flash Loan Attack
An attacker used a flash loan to distort the bridge's Solana stablecoin pools before moving the proceeds to Ethereum, security firms said.
- DecryptScore: 90
Russia's First Comprehensive Crypto Law Is Two Votes Away From Passing
The bill licenses exchanges, caps retail investors at about $3,800 a year, and creates a legal pathway for Russian companies to pay foreign partners in crypto—bypassing Western sanctions.
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Strategy raises $263.5M through MSTR sales, holds 843,775 Bitcoin
Strategy boosted its cash reserve to $3.225 billion after selling MSTR shares, while investors weighed the value of its STRC preferred stock.
- The BlockScore: 85
Strategy sells $263.5 million in MSTR shares, buys no bitcoin as USD reserve tops $3.2 billion
Strategy's total holdings account for around 4% of the 21 million bitcoin supply cap — worth roughly $54.7 billion.
- The BlockScore: 85
Bitmine expands Ethereum treasury to 5.78 million ETH, repurchases 5.5 million shares
Bitmine expanded its ether treasury to 5.78 million ETH and repurchased 5.5 million shares under its $4 billion buyback program.
- The BlockScore: 85
Hut 8 fully commercializes 1 GW Texas AI campus with second $9.8B lease as IREN signs $2.8B in contracts; shares climb double digits
Hut 8 and IREN shares climb on fresh AI data center deals worth billions as the bitcoin-to-AI pivot continues to accelerate.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Crypto investor charged with using 8 companies and new investor cash to keep an alleged $20M fraud alive
Federal prosecutors say Sioux Falls crypto investor Benjamin Paul Wiener used eight entities in an alleged fraud and money-laundering scheme, then moved investor funds through financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges to conceal their location, source, ownership, and control. The governmen...
- CointelegraphScore: 85
SEC sues Mining Automatic and founder over alleged $22M crypto mining scheme
The SEC alleges Mining Automatic and its founder raised $22 million from investors by promising guaranteed crypto mining returns while spending only a fraction of the funds on mining operations.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
FTX begins $900M payout as creditors in 45 countries could lose their claims within 6 months
FTX has about $900 million lined up for July 31, but the payout only reaches creditors who cleared the June 16 checks and completed onboarding with an available provider. FTX announced that holders of allowed claims in Classes 5A, 5B, 6A, 6B and 7 who met those conditions should receive funds from B...
- CointelegraphScore: 80
Zilliqa asks exchanges to pause ZIL transfers after suspected cold wallet theft
Zilliqa said exchanges paused ZIL deposits and withdrawals after an exchange partner’s cold wallet was compromised, with the amount stolen still undisclosed.
- CoinDeskScore: 80
Saylor's Strategy raises cash reserves to $3.225 billion, leaving bitcoin holdings unchanged
For the second consecutive week, the firm kept bitcoin holdings steady, choosing to use the raised capital to boost cash for paying dividends on its preferred stock.
- CryptoSlateScore: 80
Bitcoin gets $2.5B target for $72,000 by August as unknown trader bets big on Fed rally
Deribit’s July 31 options board shows more than 20,000 Bitcoin call contracts open at both the $70,000 and $72,000 strikes. The two strikes represent the largest call concentrations for that expiry, with roughly 27,000 contracts at $70,000 and 21,000 at $72,000, according to the exchange's data as o...
- CointelegraphScore: 80
Nigerian president signs order on approach to crypto regulation, taxes
The West African country’s executive order established a virtual asset council and addressed the fragmentation of crypto regulation for oversight and enforcement.
- The BlockScore: 80
Grayscale could take Worldcoin to Wall Street after ETF filing with the SEC
The first exchange-traded fund tied to Worldcoin could soon be headed to U.S. markets, as Grayscale files for a Worldcoin ETF.
- CoinDeskScore: 80
Cross-chain protocol Allbridge halts after $1.65 million flash loan exploit
The attacker used a $1.12 million flash loan from Kamino to manipulate pool ratios, enabling them to withdraw assets at favorable rates before bridging funds.
- CointelegraphScore: 80
Russia’s parliament to hold final readings on crypto bill Tuesday
Russia’s State Duma is set to consider the crypto regulation bill in second and third readings, with rules for investors and cross-border payments included.
- CoinDeskScore: 80
Bank of Korea prepares for live CBDC transactions with 9 banks in September
Major banking heavyweights join a massive blockchain network test that will allow retail consumers to trade tokenized won freely across commercial lines.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin whale dumps $122 million 40x long right before liquidation can strike
A public Hyperliquid wallet valued at about $107 million on July 19 fully exited its 40x Bitcoin long on July 20 after briefly expanding to 1,897 BTC. Lookonchain had reported a 1,660 BTC position with a listed liquidation price near $63,123. Hyperliquid's public account data show the wallet added a...
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Hut 8 surges on $9.8 billion AI data-center lease, lifting compute sector
The long-term deal sparked a rebound in AI compute stocks after investors questioned demand for new data center capacity.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
France blocked Polymarket after its transaction controls failed to stop 578,751 new French visitors
France's gambling regulator ordered internet service providers to block access to Polymarket, the crypto prediction-market platform, escalating beyond a transaction geofence that it said had been circumvented in practice. The Autorité nationale des jeux published the order on July 17, arguing that P...
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Bitmine grows treasury to 5.78M ETH as Ether outpaces Bitcoin
The Ethereum treasury firm added 7,430 ETH over the past week, bringing its holdings to nearly 5% of the network’s circulating supply.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Bitcoin defies recent tech stocks sell-off. Are bulls eyeing a $70K rally?
Despite muted derivatives sentiment, Bitcoin’s decoupling and Strategy’s cash raise set the stage for a potential rally to $70,000.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Allbridge pauses cross-chain bridge after $1.65M exploit
The attacker allegedly used a flash loan and rapid swaps to manipulate the bridge’s stablecoin exchange rate.
- The BlockScore: 75
Allbridge Core pauses protocol after $1.65 million flash loan exploit: onchain analysts
Security firms PeckShield and CertiK flagged that the attacker has bridged the stolen funds from Solana to Ethereum.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Cardano activates van Rossem hard fork, paving way for Leios
The upgrade reduces smart contract execution costs while laying the groundwork for Ouroboros Leios, a major scalability upgrade expected later this year.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
South Korea eyes September launch for second phase of CBDC pilot: Report
The Bank of Korea’s CBDC pilot will add two regional banks, new payment features and tests of government subsidy payments using tokenized bank deposits
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin ETF inflows return, but $2.3 billion stablecoin liquidity drain leaves $57,000 exposed
Bitcoin's return to positive exchange-traded fund flows is colliding with a deeper contraction in crypto-market liquidity, leaving its recovery vulnerable as oil prices climb and geopolitical tensions disrupt one of the world’s most important energy corridors. Data from CryptoSlate shows that the re...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Saylor joins Bitcoin’s BIP-110 fight as miners get one last chance to avoid forced signaling
Michael Saylor has entered Bitcoin's BIP-110 fight with a 110-point case against a temporary soft fork that would restrict certain arbitrary-data and script uses. His intervention lands while live monitoring shows 0.89% signaling and the current difficulty period is already mathematically unable to ...
- DecryptScore: 75
Strategy's Michael Saylor Makes 110-Point Case Against Bitcoin's BIP-110
The Strategy chairman argued that the soft fork is a 'bad idea,' warning that it would cause more harm than the problem it aims to solve.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Vietnam sets fines for unlicensed crypto trading ahead of regulation rollout
The new rules establish penalties as much as $1,900 for crypto violations, including unlicensed trading and AML breaches, ahead of Vietnam’s regulated crypto market launch.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Hyperliquid challenges Polymarket with $32 million opening for prediction-market builders
Hyperliquid plans to allow external operators to create prediction markets on its blockchain, widening its challenge to Polymarket while requiring prospective deployers to put nearly $32 million of its native token at risk. The proposed HIP-4 upgrade would require each deployer to stake 500,000 HYPE...
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Inside Cardano's 'Van Rossum' hard fork, and what it means for users
The Van Rossem hard fork moved Cardano to version 11 on Saturday. And for the first time, Cardano's community voted in the upgrade, not the company that built it.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
IREN jumps 16% after raising AI cloud revenue target above $4B
The Bitcoin miner raised its year-end AI cloud revenue target to more than $4 billion after signing $2.8 billion in new contracts with AI developers.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Hut 8, IREN deals lift AI-focused Bitcoin mining stocks
Bitcoin miners rallied as investors cheered multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure contracts, underscoring the sector’s accelerating shift toward data centers and cloud computing.
- DecryptScore: 70
Cardano Triggers Hard Fork With First Community-Voted Upgrade
For the first time in Cardano's history, no company flipped the switch on a major protocol update.
- The BlockScore: 70
Vietnam sets new crypto trading fines on par with drunk-driving penalties
Domestic investors who trade crypto without going through a licensed service provider face fines of roughly $1,140 to $1,900.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Democrats added certain consumer protection rules to CLARITY: Coinbase exec
Coinbase vice chair Ryan VanGrack said that Democratic lawmakers had added provisions on customer protection to a digital asset market structure bill under consideration in the US Senate.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Ethereum bridge users have 24 hours to exit before chain shuts down after just 5 week warning
Powerloom, a blockchain network built for decentralized data infrastructure, is scheduled to halt permanently at 6:00 AM UTC on July 21. Users with POWER or other transferable assets still held on the network have under 24 hours to move them to Ethereum as of press time. Currently, Powerloom's offic...
- CointelegraphScore: 70
South Korea probed 40 cases of crypto manipulation over 2 years
Financial Services Commission Chair Lee Eog-won posted the figures on the second anniversary of the enactment of the Virtual Asset User Protection Act.
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Live markets: Oil bounce and lingering AI selloff pushes bitcoin under $64,000
War drives oil up, the Kimi selloff drags chips down, and bitcoin sits between them.
- CoinDeskScore: 65
Brazil’s securities regulator sets up task force with 60-day deadline for tokenization proposal
The framework will address critical issues like official ownership records, private key custody, transaction reversibility and system liability.
- CointelegraphScore: 65
Bernstein raises Robinhood price target, cites tokenization and prediction markets
The brokerage’s blockchain strategy, including tokenized equities and its Arbitrum-based Robinhood Chain, could reduce its reliance on traditional crypto trading, analysts said.
- DecryptScore: 65
Bank of Korea Scales Up CBDC Pilot With Half a Million Users
Phase 1 of Project Hangang opened 81,000 wallets with 42% of them using the CBDC. Phase 2 is bigger, and this time it moves real government money.
- CoinDeskScore: 65
Amazon Japan supplier AZ-Com Maruwa to adopt yen stablecoin JPYC for payments
The Japanese logistics firm plans to pay 2,300 partners, including truck drivers, using JPYC in Japan’s first large-scale corporate stablecoin rollout.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Hyperliquid sets 500,000 HYPE stake for permissionless prediction market deployers
Hyperliquid plans to require developers to stake 500,000 HYPE, worth about $30.4 million, to deploy permissionless prediction markets under HIP-4.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Tom Lee's Bitmine slowed ether purchases as it bought back $86 million in stock.
The company added just 7,430 ETH, worth about $14 million, last week as it nears its goal to corner 5% of Ethereum's supply.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Exodus to cut 25% of global workforce in payments shift
This restructuring is part of a strategy to build a full-stack payments platform following the company's acquisitions of Monavate and Baanx.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Bitcoin price hits $65K wall as stocks battle ‘record’ institutional tech sell-off
Bitcoin faced troublesome resistance at $65,000 while traders still saw a potential BTC price breakout into a “bullish market structure.”
- DecryptScore: 60
Tom Lee's Bitmine Taps the Brakes on ETH Buys, Pivots $86M Into Stock Buyback
"The reduced pace of buys reflects that Bitmine repurchased 5.5 million common shares," Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee said in a statement.
- The BlockScore: 60
Former NY Governor Cuomo joins OKX board, touts 24/7 tokenized trading
Andrew Cuomo said OKX could help bring round-the-clock trading and more international capital into U.S. markets.
- The BlockScore: 60
AI-assisted hacking is outpacing traditional code reviews, NEAR co-founder says
NEAR co-founder Polosukhin called formal verification a necessary shift for securing blockchain code from AI hacking.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Bitcoin treasury company discovers buying own stock adds 24% more BTC per share than buying Bitcoin
When a Bitcoin treasury trades for less than the Bitcoin it holds, the cheapest way to increase gross Bitcoin exposure per share may be to buy back its own stock. UK-listed B HODL Plc tested that inversion during its first week of repurchases. It paid about £37,985 before fees to retire 823,400 shar...
- The BlockScore: 60
Trump’s crypto ethics stance leaves Clarity Act negotiations in limbo
A meeting last week to discuss an ethics provision to address President Trump's vast crypto wealth has become something of a black box.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Tether Gold recognized as Accepted Spot Commodity in Abu Dhabi financial center
The recognition allows regulated firms in Abu Dhabi Global Market to offer services involving Tether Gold as tokenized commodities gain broader adoption.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Will the US get CLARITY this week? Bitcoin’s new $80K target: Hodler’s Digest, July 19
The fate of the CLARITY Act hinges on Trump’s ethics, so the odds aren’t looking great. Prediction market volumes hit new highs, and more news.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Bitcoin ETFs see new money again, but inflows remain ‘peanuts’ relative to the recent exodus
Bitcoin ETFs have attracted $273 million in new inflows in two weeks, but the total is barely enough to cover a single "slow" week of recent selling.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Moonshot AI IPO push follows Kimi, Alibaba AI releases that shook bitcoin
Days after Kimi K3 rattled chip stocks, Moonshot is moving toward a Hong Kong listing at a $30 billion-plus valuation while Alibaba's Qwen goes open-weight.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Bitcoin ETF inflows extend to second week, but recovery lacks momentum
US spot Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak to two weeks with $75.7 million in net inflows, but analysts said demand remains insufficient to fuel a sustained uptrend.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Grayscale plans regular cash payouts from ETH, SOL staking rewards
Grayscale plans to establish regular cash distributions from staking rewards generated by its Ether and Solana exchange-traded products.
- The BlockScore: 55
Bernstein lifts Robinhood target to $160, sees prediction markets revenue overtaking crypto
Bernstein raised its Robinhood price target to $160, citing prediction markets, Rothera, and Robinhood Chain as key revenue drivers.
- DecryptScore: 55
Strategy Pads Cash Reserve By $225M With MSTR Sale, Bitcoin Stash Remains Untouched
For the second consecutive week, Saylor's company sold MSTR stock instead of BTC to pad its reserves to $3.2 billion.
- DecryptScore: 55
Bitcoin ETFs Are Green Again—Here’s Why Investors Should Zoom Out
Two consecutive weeks of inflows ended the worst sustained outflow streak in Bitcoin ETF history. Here's why patience may be required from investors.
- The BlockScore: 50
Benchmark backs Exodus after 25% workforce cut, says stablecoin pivot is being overlooked
Late Friday afternoon, Exodus said it expects the restructuring to generate $10 million to $13 million in annualized cost savings.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Exodus to cut 25% of staff in company reorganization
The wallet company said it expected the layoffs to generate between $10 million and $13 million in savings as part of its strategy to build a full-stack card issuance and payments platform.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
U.S. regulatory developments and earnings, ECB rate decision: Crypto Week Ahead
Your look at what's coming in the week starting July 20.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Trader maintains $67K BTC price target: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin preserved a key long-term trend line as support for a third week as US-Iran war tensions delivered new five-week highs in oil prices.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Crypto institutions look beyond audits as trust signals falter: Hacken
Institutional due diligence is shifting toward continuous monitoring, signer controls and incident readiness after operational failures accounted for most crypto losses.
- CointelegraphScore: 45
Japanese logistics company eyes JPYC stablecoin to pay drivers
The planned rollout would let thousands of transportation contractors receive digital yen payments more frequently and quickly.
- The BlockScore: 45
Hyperliquid’s HIP-4 to support permissionless deployment for outcome markets
HIP-4 deployers must stake 500,000 HYPE tokens and can take up to 50% fees on their validator-aligned markets.
- CoinDeskScore: 45
Crypto market slips even as equities advance. Pump surges on social-media chatter
With a Fear and Greed index pointing solidly at "fear," crypto prices drifted lower even as stock index futures rose. PUMP's 20% surge was the only real headline in an otherwise quiet session.
- The BlockScore: 40
Kalshi, Polymarket open interest falls 20% as World Cup frenzy winds down
Sports accounted for 80% of both Kalshi and Polymarket's total volumes throughout the weekslong World Cup tournament.
- The BlockScore: 40
TD Cowen cuts Smarter Web Company price target 36% on revised bitcoin outlook
TD Cowen cut Smarter Web's price target to £0.64 while maintaining a Buy rating, citing revised bitcoin forecasts and treasury assumptions.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Hyperliquid plans to add decentralized prediction markets in upgrade to HIP-4
Permissionless prediction markets will become available first on testnet and later on mainnet, Hyperliquid said.
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Capital B approves 10-for-1 reverse stock split to broaden investor base
Europe’s second-biggest Bitcoin treasury company said the September reverse stock split should attract more institutional investors to the French company.
- CointelegraphScore: 30
Peter Brandt predicts the exact day Bitcoin’s bear market will be over
Renowned trading analyst Peter Brandt says investing in Bitcoin today, will pay off much better in two to three years than buying AI stocks at current prices.
- The BlockScore: 30
Japanese logistics firm turns to JPYC stablecoin to fight labor shortages: report
By offering contractors faster payments with stablecoins, the firm seeks to attract more business partners, according to Nikkei.
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Bitcoin flat near $64,000 as oil hits a one-month high and Kimi AI selloff lingers
Brent jumped almost 4% on escalating U.S.-Iran strikes, while Asian chip stocks stayed under pressure from Friday's Chinese AI shock.
- The BlockScore: 30
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin ‘vibe-codes’ anonymous billboard demo with onchain moderation on Aztec
Vitalik Buterin "vibe-coded" an anonymous billboard demo on Aztec with onchain moderation, a censor role, and a local LLM flagging daemon.
- The BlockScore: 20
Stablecoins vs Traditional Banking
A stablecoin is a cryptocurrency pegged to a reference asset, such as the U.S. dollar or Euro. Like a bank, stablecoin issuers hold onto vast amounts of deposits, as they take cash in return for issuing their coin onchain. This makes them similar in some ways to a traditional bank, but the two diffe...
- DecryptScore: 20
Morning Minute: Hyperliquid Opens Prediction Markets to Anyone in HIP-4 Upgrade
Plus, a selloff in Oil has markets looking green into the Monday open. And PUMP is leading all alt movers on the week at a surprising time.
- CoinDeskScore: 10
A bitcoin 'volmageddon' may be brewing, key indicator suggests
Your day-ahead look for July 20, 2026