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Senate Democrats want an investigation into Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele’s use of crypto. The popular leader finds it hilarious.

The price of Bitcoin spiked to a new record price above $112,000 on Coinbase, continuing this year’s trend of fresh peaks.

Major NFT and token trading platform OpenSea will increase its mobile focus after acquiring the team behind crypto portfolio app Rally.

John Kennedy (R-LA) and other senators raised concerns about crypto market structure legislation during a Senate hearing Wednesday.

GMX has offered the attacker a 10% “white-hat” bounty after some $40 million worth of assets were swiped from the crypto protocol.

Grok’s Nazi-sympathizing responses sparked backlash this week, but the fix reveals how a single prompt instruction can shape an AI’s entire political worldview.

ETH leads crypto majors higher, BTC dominance falls. US House taking steps for US to be crypto capital. Sharplink to buy $20m ETH, stock pops 12%. GameSquare raises $8m to buy ETH, stock +60%. Bit Digital stock keeps pumping on ETH pivot. BioSig, StreamEx to tokenise commodities on SOL. Phantom intros perps powered by Hyperliquid. … Read more

The crypto market remains rangebound as President Trump again revisits tariff negotiations with U.S. trading partners. 

Jibreel Pratt used encrypted tools to send Bitcoin he thought would support ISIS, but undercover agents were already tracking his moves.

Judge Failla said mentioning the Van Loon ruling would confuse jurors, outweighing its limited value in Roman Storm’s upcoming trial.

ETH leads crypto majors higher, BTC dominance falls. US House taking steps for US to be crypto capital. Sharplink to buy $20m ETH, stock pops 12%. GameSquare raises $8m to buy ETH, stock +60%. Bit Digital stock keeps pumping on ETH pivot. BioSig, StreamEx to tokenise commodities on SOL. Phantom intros perps powered by Hyperliquid. … Read more

Ripple’s CEO said the tie-up with BNY Mellon represents how regulatory headwinds are no longer a reality for the firm.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino has stepped down from Elon Musk’s social media platform, one day after AI chatbot Grok pivoted to antisemitism.

Bitcoin’s bullish momentum fades as new buyers decline, but long-term holders reach 15-year highs while BTC dominance surges to 65%, says ARK Invest.

Solana meme coin machine Pump.fun appears to be gearing up for a token sale on Saturday, following two major exchanges leaking the date.

The duo allegedly used lavish Dubai events and luxury displays to lure investors into a bogus forex scheme that collapsed in 2023.

With 221 machines nationwide, New Zealand joins countries reining in crypto kiosks over rising financial crime concerns.

Companies and recruiters are warning that North Korea is hiring Europeans as fronts for job interviews, and the problem is only getting worse.

Rogue AI hallucinations by Grok have given rise to new crypto memes as well as associated tokens on Solana and Ethereum.

The creator of Ethereum NFT collection Goblintown thinks there’s a better way to launch meme coins—and it just did so with GOB on Solana.

Discontent over the market’s resolution has reignited scrutiny of UMA’s dispute system and the influence of large Polymarket stakeholders.

Grok maker xAI quietly updated its chatbot to assume all media is biased, relying on X, a platform known for misinformation.

The latest xAI model promises specialized coding capabilities, benchmark-beating reasoning, and something GPT-5 doesn’t have: availability.

The flexibility of Arbitrum’s tech stack should make the layer-2 network a go-to for game developers, Offchain Labs CEO Steven Goldfeder said.

Scammers appear to be targeting a Bitcoin address holding $8.7 billion in BTC—stolen from the Mt. Gox exchange—with a phishing attempt.

After ChatGPT falsely claimed that a feature existed at a music tabs website, Soundslice built it to meet user demand.

With a prediction market deadline fast approaching, traders on Myriad are split as momentum wanes and resistance looms just above the $109K price mark for Bitcoin.

Fractional Uprising’s team has shifted gears after its token plummeted, hoping to draw in degens with AI-generated nudity and crypto gambling.

The “Ethereum treasury firm” is buying the second biggest digital coin to help shareholders get better value for money.

Crypto dips on tariff letters, then recovers. ETH outperforms, altcoins weak after PumpFun news. PumpFun plans $600m token sale, $4b valuation. Trump admin to publish crypto report on July 22. US government deposits $218k ETH to Coinbase. Robinhood speaking to US on tokenised shares. Truth Social files for Blue Chip crypto ETF. US drops appeal … Read more