Around 31,000 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, July 3, with a notional value of roughly $1.9 billion. This event is much smaller than last week’s big end-of-quarter expiry, so there is unlikely to be any impact on spot markets. Crypto markets have been flat for most of this week but picked up on […]

Key Takeaways: Ondo launched the first third-party tokenized U.S. securities under the SEC’s custodial framework. Shares will be issued to the token holders in exchange for their token, which will entitle them to vote by proxy (through Broadridge). The tokenized securities market has rocketed up 13.6x in one year to $1.67 billion. User Score 8.7 […]

Crypto analyst Rekt Capital says Bitcoin (BTC) may not have reached its bear market bottom, arguing that historical market cycles suggest there could still be additional downside ahead. In a new YouTube video, the analyst says the current market shares similarities with Bitcoin’s 2022 bear market while also exhibiting characteristics seen during previous cycles. According […]

Sharplink co-CEO Joseph Chalom, a former Blackrock executive, has pushed back on claims that Ethereum has a “culture problem,” arguing its 900,000-plus validators and one million-plus developers give it a decentralization edge Solana cannot match. Chalom Rejects the ‘Culture Problem’ Narrative Joseph Chalom, co-chief executive of ether treasury firm Sharplink and former head of digital […]

The market remains pressured, despite the surge of volatility on certain assets like Hyperliquid and Synapse.

The central bank told the parliamentary standing committee on finance that countries like Qatar and China have already banned any cryptocurrency …

TL;DR: eToro led a $12.5 million strategic funding round for the Extended perpetual futures exchange. Jump Crypto participated in the investment round alongside the financial brokerage platform. eToro’s profits from the crypto sector stood at $13 million during the first quarter of 2026. The brokerage platform eToro successfully finalized a $12.5 million strategic funding round […]

TL;DR: Technical trader John Bollinger identified a fractal “W” pattern on Bitcoin charts on Thursday, July 2, 2026. The cryptocurrency trades at $61,556 after suffering a prolonged correction following its failed attempt to consolidate at $82,000 in May. Exchange-traded funds show persistent capital outflows amid widespread fears of potential interest rate hikes. John Bollinger, a […]

MergeStorm AI is betting that developers have a review problem, not a writing problem. AI has quietly rewired how developers write code. Copilot, Cursor, and a growing list of assistants can spit out hundreds of lines in the time it takes to grab coffee. Code gets written faster than ever. But somewhere along the way, […]

Cardano’s market chart has been quiet, but its codebase is still moving. Recent Cardano node releases from IntersectMBO show continued development work at a time when ADA has been stuck in a tight range and social sentiment has turned impatient. That split between price action and developer activity is familiar for Cardano. The project often […]

Strategy authorizes Bitcoin sales, Open USD takes on USDT and USDC, Fidelity defends Bitcoin security and crypto ramps up political spending for 2026.

This Friday, we examine Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Binance Coin, and Hyperliquid in greater detail. Ethereum (ETH) Ethereum managed to bounce off support at $1,500 and recovered last week’s losses. This is also why it closed the week with an impressive 10% rally, as buyers regained control of price action. To be confident in a sustained […]

First discovered in 1739, more than 100 Gallo-Roman dodecahedrons have since turned up, largely across the northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire. The hollow bronze pieces, built with 12 pentagonal faces and small spheres at each vertex, still have no agreed-upon purpose despite decades of research and dozens of competing theories. Archaeologists keep pulling the […]

Irish authorities have completed a third Bitcoin recovery linked to Clifton Collins, taking total seized assets to 1,500 BTC with Europol providing technical support. The case demonstrates how recovering illicit cryptocurrency depends not only on tracing blockchain activity but also on obtaining access to lost private keys. Around 4,500 BTC remains in nine untouched wallets, […]

Robinhood CEO says crypto’s next stage of development should centre on tokenising real-world assets with practical utility rather than speculative memecoins. Stock Tokens expands the firm’s tokenised equities offering with plans to support DeFi lending, collateral use and future access to private companies. Despite weaker crypto markets, Robinhood believes institutional adoption and blockchain-based financial infrastructure […]

Flagship cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) is approaching a critical technical junction near its long-term algorithmic floor.

Donald Trump made $1.4bn (approximately £1bn) from his cryptocurrency dealings in his first year back in office, in what his former White House …

While engaged in negotiations over ethics in a crypto market structure bill in Congress, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said she had “no involvement” in her son’s derivatives exchange, backed by at least one industry figure.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has made Kathleen M. Hutchinson the permanent director of its Office of International Affairs, giving the agency a steady hand for cross-border enforcement and regulatory coordination. The appointment is not a crypto rulemaking announcement by itself. Still, it matters for digital assets because crypto enforcement rarely stops at national […]

TL;DR: The network processed 743 million transactions during the second quarter of 2026, representing a 160% increase compared to the same period of the previous year. In May 2026, stablecoin transfer volume reached $79.25 billion across 198 million individual operations. The network’s native token, POL, is trading near $0.073, recording an approximate market capitalization of […]

Strategy officially announced its new Bitcoin monetization plan, through which they will be able to sell a portion of their 847,363 BTC holdings. Company executives reported that this measure aims to support preferred dividend payments and finance share buybacks. This announcement raised alarms on Wall Street. JPMorgan analysts, led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, warned that the […]

Bitcoin Magazine Bitget Bolsters Stock+ Platform With U.S. Stock Options Trading Crypto exchange Bitget has launched US stock options, allowing users to trade options on US-listed companies.  The company described itself in a note to Bitcoin Magazine as the world’s largest Universal Exchange and states that it is the only major crypto exchange offering US […]

Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) reportedly pulled another 500 bitcoin out of a decade-dormant wallet this week, bringing its 2026 recovery total from a single cannabis dealer’s stash to 1,500 BTC, worth more than $92 million at current prices. The bureau, working with Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre, has now accessed three of 12 wallets tied […]

XRP climbed roughly 5% over the past 24 hours, which helped the token reclaim the $1.10 level. Despite the short-term recovery, it remains down more than 50% compared with its value a year ago. Fresh on-chain data suggests the prolonged decline has pushed key holder metrics to historically extreme levels. Lower-Risk Buying Window According to […]

A simple human mistakes caused a lot of damages to one’s portfolio, stripping away generational wealth for some.

The US president's policies have benefited cryptocurrency investors, but his spokesperson denies a conflict of interest. More below.

Analysts are divided on Bitcoin’s next move, but there’s some hope at last. Meanwhile, SharpLink has resumed buying Ether after an eight-week pause, and other market news.

Crypto markets have had plenty to digest today, and this development adds another layer to the picture. Solana Hits Record $3.4 Billion in Real-World Asset (RWA) Expansion gives NewsBTC readers a clean angle on Solana at a point where the market is trying to separate durable signals from short-lived noise. According to the source material […]

Bitcoin Magazine Wavespace Launches MiCA-Compliant Self-Custodial Bitcoin Debit Card Powered by Lightning and NWC Wavespace, a Bitcoin neobank serving the Eurozone, has announced MiCA compliance of its ‘self-custodial’ debit card. The young fintech company is at the cutting edge of Bitcoin payments technology in Europe, with support for the Lightning Network, and auto DCA to […]

TL;DR: Paul Atkins, SEC chair, announced that the Trump administration’s mandate is to make the U.S. the world’s “crypto capital.” The SEC is abandoning the strategy of labeling digital assets as inherently “evil” to distinguish between illicit actors and legitimate technology. Nexo’s return to the U.S. market in February 2026, after three years of regulatory […]

TL;DR: Strategic migration: Lora Finance moves the deployment of its v2 protocol from MegaETH to the Solana network. Rising metrics: Solana’s infrastructure records an average of 1,100 transactions per second (TPS) and is nearing 7 million active addresses. Trading levels: The network’s token trades around $77, maintaining critical support in the $73 range. The decentralized […]

Blockchain investigator ZachXBT is raising fresh alarms about AscendEX, the centralized exchange formerly known as Bitmax, warning that user withdrawals remain frozen while deposits continue to be accepted, a combination that has historically preceded some of the most damaging exchange collapses in the industry’s recent history. AscendEX has not posted publicly on X in nine […]