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Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said he will hold bitcoin all the way down to zero after buying near $100,000.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

A7A5 claims crypto data providers understate its trading activity, while blockchain analytics firms say the ruble-backed token’s volumes have fallen sharply this year.

The president reported at least $1.4 billion in crypto income for 2025. He told CNBC he did nothing illegal and was not aware of the extent of his holdings. Critics say he is profiting from the office while his administration writes the industry’s rules.

U.S. institutional demand had its worst month ever in June. Large holders absorbed the selling, marking a divergence that has shown up near past cycle bottoms.

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Crypto ended the week in a more buoyant state after weak U.S. jobs data reduced the chances of a Fed interest-rate increase and Uniswap gained on a link-up with Robinhood.

After dominating markets in 2026, AI-tied memory and semiconductor stocks are losing momentum, raising the question whether capital will shift back into bitcoin.

Tokenization could make finance faster and cheaper. It also makes it more vulnerable to sudden shocks, the International Monetary Fund said.

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Europe head Gillian Lynch said Binance met Greece’s licensing requirements and that the company remains committed to the EU, despite withdrawing its MiCA application days before the July 1 deadline.

Spot ETFs had their strongest inflow day in two months, driven by funds other than BlackRock’s IBIT.

Buyers defended a higher low and pushed XRP toward near-term resistance, though the move still needs a clean break above $1.10 to confirm momentum.

Bearish traders lost $281 million in liquidations over 24 hours, nearly double the longs, as bitcoin pushed to its strongest level in two weeks. Ether is up almost 10% on the week and solana nearly 19% while a rebound in tech stocks eased the pressure from the AI trade.

The newly-public company’s shares are the largest issuer-sponsored tokenized stock at launch, aiming to make a point against rival third-party stock token issuers.

The broker plans to bring perpetual futures into Zengo wallet and expand DeFi products to its core platform as rivals like Robinhood expand onchain offerings.

Bitwise said STRC’s volatility reflects a late-cycle leverage unwind, with institutions poised to replace Strategy as bitcoin’s biggest buyer.

ISIS-K allegedly used its media wing to solicit donations via Tron, Monero, and Bitcoin, highlighting stablecoin issuers’ growing role in sanctions enforcement.

Miners must redirect their hashrate before the July 31 cutoff, as the pool will stop accepting contributions after that date.

Broadridge and transfer agent Oasis Pro underpin a new structure that keeps tokenized securities within existing U.S. market rules, based on the SEC’s third-party custodial model.