JCB and Circle will explore using USDC for cross-border payments and merchant transactions as Japan ramps up efforts to bring stablecoins into everyday commerce.
Long-term holders are quietly transferring supply to a new generation of buyers, but looming Federal Reserve rate hikes could still trigger the capitulation markets have been waiting for.
Bitcoin consolidated after Monday’s selloff as Donald Trump threatened more Iran strikes, gold extended its slide and a KOSPI index meltdown sent South Korean crypto volumes soaring.
Social media chatter turned most bullish on XRP in five weeks even as the token fell, a setup that has historically favored sellers.
Trump reinstated the Hormuz blockade, sending oil higher and rate-hike bets up, reversing the peace trade that helped bitcoin recover in early July. Today’s inflation print is the next test.
Coins from the Farace and BTC-e seizures moved through fresh wallets before landing on the exchange, despite president Donald Trump’s previous no-sell reserve order.
Solo Bitcoin mining has surged, with 24 blocks found in the past 12 months, a 41% increase year over year.
Major cryptocurrencies have dropped by 2% or more in 24 hours as traders boosted bets of a July Fed rate hike.
Binance.US is betting ultra-low fees, new regulated products and deeper liquidity will help it regain customers after two years of regulatory setbacks.
Institutional adoption of crypto is accelerating even as digital asset prices fail to reflect the industry’s strongest fundamentals in years, Seth Ginns said.
TeraWulf says its $19 billion AI hosting agreement with Anthropic underscores its transformation from a Bitcoin miner into an AI infrastructure company.
Discussion among Democrats have fixed on the president’s personal gains when hashing out the crypto market structure bill’s ethics provision.
Japanese investment bank Mizuho reiterated its neutral rating on Circle, saying OCC approval for a national trust bank doesn’t address slowing USDC growth or rising competition.
Analysts point to bitcoin’s resilience amid fresh U.S.-Iran escalation and renewed spot ETF inflows as the clearest signs yet that the marginal seller has stepped away.
Strategy now has more than 20 months of coverage for preferred-stock dividends and debt interest.
Robinhood Chain has pulled in $135 million of value and 800,000 addresses since July 1. Almost none of it is doing what the chain was built for.
Crypto usage has spiked in the country, with transaction volumes hitting $430 million in the year after the central bank removed restrictions in mid-2024.
A Treasury-backed report targets putting repo, gilts and funds onchain within two years, and warms to permissionless networks that firms like Ripple have been building on.
The company expanded its ETH treasury while Chairman Tom Lee pointed to Robinhood Chain’s rapid growth on Ethereum.
The Securities Transfer Association, an industry group for transfer agents, said company-authorized tokenization should receive preferential treatment under future rules.
Robinhood’s new blockchain quickly became a top-five network by DEX volume, signaling strong early demand for its tokenized asset platform, the broker said.
The company raised the fresh cash via sales of common stock; its USD Reserve now stands at $3 billion.
The SBI Solana Global joint venture now includes the Solana Foundation, the Swiss organization that oversees the layer-1 network.
The 54 firm-strong group, which is backed by the City of London Corporation, will spend the next year working on live tokenisation use cases across UK financial markets.
Your day-ahead look for July 13, 2026
Crypto’s weekend gains gave way to a Monday selloff as Middle East tensions resurfaced, South Korea’s Kospi lost 9.2% and $253 million in leveraged positions were wiped out.
Structural change can create lasting opportunities, but explosive rallies in semiconductors, metals and bitcoin show how quickly strong narratives can become speculative excess.
Your look at what’s coming in the week starting July 13.
The liquidations were minor, running at about a sixth of what the market saw at its worst over the past 30 days, per CoinGlass.
