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Clarity Act Enters a Make-or-Break Week as Senate Returns With Aug. 7 Clock Ticking

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act faces a decisive stretch as the U.S. Senate returns from recess on Monday with roughly 20 working days left before the Aug. 7 break. The coming days should bring “further clarity” on the bill’s status alongside fr...

Blackrock’s Tokenized Funds Hit $2.93B Onchain as Ethereum Leads With $1.1B

Blackrock now manages $2.93 billion in tokenized assets onchain, with Ethereum leading the pack ahead of Avalanche, Solana, and BNB Chain. A Multichain Footprint Anchored by BUIDL The bulk of Blackrock’s onchain assets sit in the Blackrock USD Instit...

Musk’s SpaceX and Starlink Hijacked as ‘SCATMAN’ Memecoin Rockets to $32M on Robinhood Chain

Attackers seized the official X accounts of SpaceXAI and Starlink on Sunday to promote a memecoin called Scam Altman (SCATMAN), which briefly touched a $32 million market cap on Robinhood Chain. Lookonchain noted the hacker minted 10 trillion tokens...

Bitcoin Drops Below 63$K as Trump Resumes Iran Strikes While Oil Jumps 4.5%

Bitcoin is trading around $63,000, down 2% over the last 24 hours, as the United States launched a third round of strikes on Iran and Tehran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed “until further notice.” Brent crude surged 4.5% as weekend futures tradi...

Cambridge Report Reveals Ethereum’s Energy Consumption Dropped 99.98% Post-Merge

The report stresses that “The Merge,” a foundational change in Ethereum’s consensus mechanism, reduced energy demand by 3.5 orders of magnitude, scaling down a network that required energy equivalent to a small nation-state like Iceland before the ne...

Cape Town Expands Crypto Fraud Fight as Police Seize Luxury Cars With Fake Plates

South African mayor recently joined the metro police in a targeted night operation to impound luxury vehicles driven by self-proclaimed cryptocurrency and forex “traders” operating with fake or missing registrations. Luxury Seizures and Social Media...

The US Government Owes $39 Trillion. Here’s Why That’s Bitcoin’s Best Argument Yet

U.S. gross national debt crossed $39 trillion in mid-March, and debt held by the public stood at over $31 trillion. With the Congressional Budget Office projecting a $1.9 trillion deficit in fiscal 2026 and public debt rising to $56 trillion by 2036,...

Combating Illicit Flows: Thailand Implements Strict New Checks on High-Volume Stablecoin Trades

The institution announced that this measure targets the country’s shadow economy, which accounted for nearly 41% of its GDP by 2015. The Bank of Thailand is already applying the proposed checks on large cash transactions and on gold bullion movements...

Bitcoin’s Lottery Jackpot: Solo Home Miner Wins $200,000 With a $150 Mining Device

A hobbyist running a single Bitaxe device just won Bitcoin’s biggest lottery. On July 9, 2026, at approximately 03:30 UTC, a solo miner using a palm-sized Bitaxe device mined block 957382 through Public Pool, claiming the full 3.1382 BTC block reward...

Ripple Almost Shut Down and Distributed XRP After SEC Lawsuit, CEO Reveals

Ripple nearly shut down after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued the company, with CEO Brad Garlinghouse considering whether to end operations, distribute XRP holdings to shareholders, and close the business. Ripple Considered Clo...

$8 Billion Bitcoin Attack Could Become Profitable Through Derivatives, Duke Professor Says

Campbell Harvey, a Duke University finance professor, says an attack on Bitcoin that once looked economically self-defeating may now be financially viable because deep derivatives markets could let an attacker profit from the resulting price collapse...

Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin Predictions: How BTC Could Become a Global Digital Capital Asset by 2036

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor says bitcoin could evolve into a global digital capital asset by 2036, becoming a foundation for reserve capital, institutional collateral, and high-value settlement while powering a new generation of financ...

Grayscale Places XRP at the Center of the Global Payments Narrative

I saw Grayscale posted that every asset has its narrative and put XRP with global payments, Bitcoin with digital money, and Ethereum with the world computer. A few other coins got their own tags too. The XRP Ledger was built to move value faster and...

‘110 Things More Dangerous’: Michael Saylor Slams Bitcoin’s Controversial Anti-Spam Fork

Saylor stressed that the real danger of this action is invalidating currently valid transactions, even as they pay mining fees. He has stressed that spam is not currently a problem for the Bitcoin network. Michael Saylor Labels BIP-110 As ‘Dangerous’...

Gold Prices Slide as Iran Tensions Erase Weak US Jobs Report Rally Gains

Gold fell 1.6% and silver dropped 4.3% this past week as a fragile U.S. jobs report and a fresh U.S.-Iran flare-up pulled precious metals in opposite directions within days of each other. Spot gold started the week near $4,175 an ounce. Futures pushe...

Bitcoin’s 14th Difficulty Reset Slashes Mining Pressure by 6.7 Trillion

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty fell 5% on July 11, dropping to 127.17 trillion in the network’s 14th adjustment of 2026 and pulling the metric closer to its low for the year. The adjustment landed at block height 957600. Difficulty moved from 133.87 tri...

Michael Saylor Reveals 5 Bitcoin Risks Investors Need to Watch

Michael Saylor outlined five risks facing bitcoin, arguing that the threats come not from bitcoin disappearing but from changes in financial structures, custody systems, regulation, and long-term network security. The Five Risks Saylor Says Could Sha...

Trump Warns of 1,000 Missiles Aimed at Iran as Bitcoin Holds Near $64,000

Bitcoin traded a hair above $64,000 on July 12 at 11:30 a.m. EDT, as President Donald Trump declared a fragile ceasefire with Iran finished, adding a new layer of uncertainty to a market still climbing out of one of its worst months on record. Trump...

Coinbase Fires Back at Senator Warren Over CLARITY Act Sanctions Warning

Coinbase’s chief policy officer pushed back against Senator Elizabeth Warren’s criticism of the CLARITY Act, arguing the crypto bill strengthens national security protections rather than creating sanctions risks. Coinbase Challenges Senator Warren’s...

Saylor’s Bitcoin Chart Returns After Strategy Sold BTC, but He Says Orange Dots Tell Only Part of the Story

Michael Saylor posted his signature orange-dot bitcoin chart after Strategy sold 3,588 BTC for $216 million, reigniting a familiar signal while casting fresh doubt over whether another buy is imminent or if the strategy itself is turning. The Orange...

A Winning Strategy: Buy High, Sell Low – Week in Review

This editorial is from this week’s edition of the newsletter Week in Review, sent to subscribers on Friday. Subscribe to the newsletter to get this weekly editorial the second it’s finished. The newsletter also includes the biggest stories of the wee...

Bitcoin Miners’ AI Rally Puts Insider Liquidity in the Spotlight

For a brief stretch this year, the market seemed willing to believe that every megawatt with a fence around it could become an AI factory. This article first appeared in Miner Weekly, a weekly newsletter by BlocksBridge Consulting, curating the lates...

Latam Insights: Inside Tether’s $20M Bet on Brazil, Operation Veil of Maya, and the Stablecoin Hold Dispute

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this edition, Tether backs Mercado Bitcoin with $10 million, Brazilian police attack an illegal crypto betting ring, and the 24-hour h...

Bitfufu Reports June 2026 Bitcoin Production and Hashrate Metrics

Of the 125 BTC produced in June, 70 BTC were generated through self-mining operations and 55 BTC through cloud mining services. Daily production averaged 4.2 BTC, down from 5.7 BTC in May. The company’s total power capacity under management also decr...

São Paulo Court Rules Against Coinbase in Landmark Case Over $100K Self-Custody Hack

The ruling, which went against Coinbase even though it did not control the user’s wallet, might establish a precedent for liabilities affecting companies providing self-custody tools, even if they are only involved as software providers. São Paulo St...

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