Tether Gold recognized as Accepted Spot Commodity in Abu Dhabi financial center
The recognition allows regulated firms in Abu Dhabi Global Market to offer services involving Tether Gold as tokenized commodities gain broader adoption.
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Bitcoin defies recent tech stocks sell-off. Are bulls eyeing a $70K rally?
Despite muted derivatives sentiment, Bitcoin’s decoupling and Strategy’s cash raise set the stage for a potential rally to $70,000.
Bank of Korea Scales Up CBDC Pilot With Half a Million Users
Phase 1 of Project Hangang opened 81,000 wallets with 42% of them using the CBDC. Phase 2 is bigger, and this time it moves real government money.
SEC sues Mining Automatic and founder over alleged $22M crypto mining scheme
The SEC alleges Mining Automatic and its founder raised $22 million from investors by promising guaranteed crypto mining returns while spending only a fraction of the funds on mining operations.
Russia’s First Comprehensive Crypto Law Is Two Votes Away From Passing
The bill licenses exchanges, caps retail investors at about $3,800 a year, and creates a legal pathway for Russian companies to pay foreign partners in crypto—bypassing Western sanctions.
Exodus to cut 25% of staff in company reorganization
The wallet company said it expected the layoffs to generate between $10 million and $13 million in savings as part of its strategy to build a full-stack card issuance and payments platform.
Cardano Triggers Hard Fork With First Community-Voted Upgrade
For the first time in Cardano’s history, no company flipped the switch on a major protocol update.
Bitcoin ETFs Are Green Again—Here’s Why Investors Should Zoom Out
Two consecutive weeks of inflows ended the worst sustained outflow streak in Bitcoin ETF history. Here’s why patience may be required from investors.
Hut 8, IREN deals lift AI-focused Bitcoin mining stocks
Bitcoin miners rallied as investors cheered multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure contracts, underscoring the sector’s accelerating shift toward data centers and cloud computing.
Nigerian president signs order on approach to crypto regulation, taxes
The West African country’s executive order established a virtual asset council and addressed the fragmentation of crypto regulation for oversight and enforcement.
Bernstein raises Robinhood price target, cites tokenization and prediction markets
The brokerage’s blockchain strategy, including tokenized equities and its Arbitrum-based Robinhood Chain, could reduce its reliance on traditional crypto trading, analysts said.
Tom Lee’s Bitmine Taps the Brakes on ETH Buys, Pivots $86M Into Stock Buyback
“The reduced pace of buys reflects that Bitmine repurchased 5.5 million common shares,” Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee said in a statement.
Strategy Pads Cash Reserve By $225M With MSTR Sale, Bitcoin Stash Remains Untouched
For the second consecutive week, Saylor’s company sold MSTR stock instead of BTC to pad its reserves to $3.2 billion.
Bitcoin price hits $65K wall as stocks battle ‘record’ institutional tech sell-off
Bitcoin faced troublesome resistance at $65,000 while traders still saw a potential BTC price breakout into a “bullish market structure.”
IREN jumps 16% after raising AI cloud revenue target above $4B
The Bitcoin miner raised its year-end AI cloud revenue target to more than $4 billion after signing $2.8 billion in new contracts with AI developers.
Inside Cardano’s ‘Van Rossum’ hard fork, and what it means for users
The Van Rossem hard fork moved Cardano to version 11 on Saturday. And for the first time, Cardano’s community voted in the upgrade, not the company that built it.
Exodus to cut 25% of global workforce in payments shift
This restructuring is part of a strategy to build a full-stack payments platform following the company’s acquisitions of Monavate and Baanx.
Hut 8 surges on $9.8 billion AI data-center lease, lifting compute sector
The long-term deal sparked a rebound in AI compute stocks after investors questioned demand for new data center capacity.
Allbridge Pauses Cross-Chain Protocol After $1.65M Flash Loan Attack
An attacker used a flash loan to distort the bridge’s Solana stablecoin pools before moving the proceeds to Ethereum, security firms said.
Peter Brandt predicts the exact day Bitcoin’s bear market will be over
Renowned trading analyst Peter Brandt says investing in Bitcoin today, will pay off much better in two to three years than buying AI stocks at current prices.
Tom Lee’s Bitmine slowed ether purchases as it bought back $86 million in stock.
The company added just 7,430 ETH, worth about $14 million, last week as it nears its goal to corner 5% of Ethereum’s supply.
Strategy raises $263.5M through MSTR sales, holds 843,775 Bitcoin
Strategy boosted its cash reserve to $3.225 billion after selling MSTR shares, while investors weighed the value of its STRC preferred stock.
Saylor’s Strategy raises cash reserves to $3.225 billion, leaving bitcoin holdings unchanged
For the second consecutive week, the firm kept bitcoin holdings steady, choosing to use the raised capital to boost cash for paying dividends on its preferred stock.
Hyperliquid sets 500,000 HYPE stake for permissionless prediction market deployers
Hyperliquid plans to require developers to stake 500,000 HYPE, worth about $30.4 million, to deploy permissionless prediction markets under HIP-4.
Vietnam sets fines for unlicensed crypto trading ahead of regulation rollout
The new rules establish penalties as much as $1,900 for crypto violations, including unlicensed trading and AML breaches, ahead of Vietnam’s regulated crypto market launch.
Zilliqa asks exchanges to pause ZIL transfers after suspected cold wallet theft
Zilliqa said exchanges paused ZIL deposits and withdrawals after an exchange partner’s cold wallet was compromised, with the amount stolen still undisclosed.
Brazil’s securities regulator sets up task force with 60-day deadline for tokenization proposal
The framework will address critical issues like official ownership records, private key custody, transaction reversibility and system liability.
Morning Minute: Hyperliquid Opens Prediction Markets to Anyone in HIP-4 Upgrade
Plus, a selloff in Oil has markets looking green into the Monday open. And PUMP is leading all alt movers on the week at a surprising time.
A bitcoin ‘volmageddon’ may be brewing, key indicator suggests
Your day-ahead look for July 20, 2026
Strategy’s Michael Saylor Makes 110-Point Case Against Bitcoin’s BIP-110
The Strategy chairman argued that the soft fork is a ‘bad idea,’ warning that it would cause more harm than the problem it aims to solve.