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France’s regulator has said the platform still promoted illegal gambling and cited loss, identity-check and market-manipulation risks.

Your day-ahead look for July 23, 2026

BTC is rangebound between $64,000 and $66,800 after a 13% recovery from July’s lows, with macro markets offering little direction and WLFI the session’s surprise standout at +12%.

Alphabet beat on revenue but raised its AI spending forecast again, sending its stock lower after hours. For the chip complex bitcoin tracks, more spending is the bullish read.

BitMEX, co-founded by Arthur Hayes in 2014, redefined the global crypto market by introducing the 100x leverage perpetual swap.

The bank will begin testing tokenized Treasuries on a private blockchain by year-end and expand its settlement network to cover more international trading hours.

Korbit, South Korea’s first cryptocurrency exchange, has joined the Mirae Asset Group family, marking the first time a traditional Korean financial group’s affiliate has taken a controlling stake in a domestic crypto exchange.

The attacks hit Verus, B² Network and other cross-chain systems, showing how compromised keys, upgrade powers and validation checks can empty protocols without breaking the underlying cryptography.

Security firms said the attacker used enough hot-validator signatures to approve a 24.15 million USDC withdrawal, while Arbitrum said its native bridge was not affected.

XRP whales accumulate 2.8% more tokens over five weeks as small holders capitulate, sending the price back above $1.16.

Geopolitical risks, rising rates, and fresh regulatory setbacks send crypto lower as key Democrats demand stronger safeguards in the market structure bill.

Senator Cynthia Lummis, one of the lead negotiators on the bill, told CoinDesk she was “pleased” that the updated bill was ready for release.

Several of the Democrats most likely to vote for the crypto market structure bill said they had issues with the new draft published by Republicans earlier in the day.

The electric vehicle maker maintained its 11,509 BTC treasury through the second quarter as bitcoin declined 14%, alongside mixed earnings that beat revenue expectations but missed on profit.

Lawmakers have circulated text of the latest draft that will be pushed toward a Senate finish line, but they’re still debating a core government-ethics piece.

The company reported strong 2025 performance, with a $2.3 billion pre-tax profit, $6 billion in revenue, and over 75 million customers.

The commissioner said onchain vaults and lending strategies could resemble investment funds or advisers, depending on how they are structured.

Experts say Britain’s digital gilt pilot can unlock trapped liquidity in financial markets only if regulators approve an onchain stablecoin.

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short, Lionsoul Global’s Gregory Mall writes that the primary crypto allocation decision is size, not selection.

The cases add to more than $800 million that authorities say a dedicated federal scam task force has recovered.

Franklin Templeton’s Sandy Kaul and Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire argue that as autonomous AI agents start spending money on their own, blockchain networks will power the next big AI trade.

The prediction markets platform seeks to position itself as the primary source for election odds ahead of the midterm elections this year.

Charles Hoskinson says the exploit, which briefly sent NIGHT to an all-time low, underscores why the industry needs to move beyond legacy bridge infrastructure.

Your day-ahead look for July 22, 2026

The breach stemmed from a vulnerability in transaction signing software that enabled the derivation of private keys from blockchain transaction data.

BTC retreated from a one-month high as WTI crude topped $85 for the first time since June, reigniting inflation concerns and pushing investors toward gold, silver and the safety of bitcoin over altcoins.

Payward’s xStocks pushes beyond U.S. equities as competition to bring global stock markets onchain accelerates.

An attacker fed the lending system a fake, abnormally low bitcoin price, liquidated vaults that should have been safe, and pocketed the difference in a single transaction.

A two-day chip rebound stalled ahead of Alphabet’s earnings in a sign of whether the hundreds of billions going into AI is paying off. Bitcoin has tracked that trade all month.

OpenAI said the systems had their cyber guardrails lowered for an internal benchmark, but the incident shows how autonomous exploit chains could pose a deeper threat to smart contracts.