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.

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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.

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Central Bank of Brazil recently sent a notification to several financial institutions about the possible misuse of purpose structures to import crypto into Brazil and act as intermediaries. This was enough to send stablecoin prices up by 2%, as actors worried about liquidity channels. Central Bank of Brazil’s Interpretation Gave Rise to a Temporary […]

XRP price surge triggers a massive market squeeze, leaving short sellers just 20% away from the ultimate max pain liquidation level just above $1.3.

Pi Network rarely stays out of the spotlight, as the Core Team consistently rolls out ecosystem upgrades and major announcements. Yet despite the steady stream of updates, the project’s native token has continued to slide, recently tumbling to a fresh all-time low. The Latest Developments Pi Network’s community has been desperately waiting for a potential […]

Bitcoin bulls may make a run on $70,000 after weak US jobs data eased rate hike fears and capital looks to rotate into BTC and gold.

SARS has published a draft guide for the taxation of crypto assets in South Africa for public comment.

The headline number is useful, but the real story is what it says about positioning. U.S. Public Firm K Wave Media Liquidates Entire 88 BTC Portfolio to Repay Debt gives NewsBTC readers a clean angle on Bitcoin at a point where the market is trying to separate durable signals from short-lived noise. According to the […]

July 2nd, 2026 – Dubai, United Arab Emirates class=”ql-align-justify”>Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has officially launched the Bybit Card in Peru, marking a significant step in bridging the country’s growing digital asset ecosystem with the practicalities of everyday spending. Over 3 million users globally use the Bybit Card to pay at […]

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Exchange Inflows Spike to 49,000 BTC in a Day, Signaling More Volatility is Coming: Report CryptoQuant’s weekly report, “Incoming Volatility?”, makes a clean, data-backed case that something is about to break. Bitcoin exchange inflows spiked to roughly 49,000 BTC on June 30 — an extreme reading seen only four other times in […]

Centralized crypto lending loan books fell 6% in Q1 2026 to $23.3 billion, marking the sector’s first quarterly contraction since Q3 2024. Tether remains dominant, but Maple, Nexo and Coinbase gained share as Galaxy and Ledn saw the steepest pullbacks. CeFi Crypto Lending Falls 6% as Maple, Nexo and Coinbase Gain Market Share Centralized finance […]

Securitize has issued tokenized versions of its shares on Solana and Avalanche, marking the first time a newly public company has done so on its debut.

Every few weeks there’s a new acronym making the rounds ie. CO-STAR, CRISP, CREATE, PREP, each one promising to be the missing piece that finally makes an LLM do what you actually meant. I got tired of guessing. Too much of my week was going into rewriting prompts, cleaning up hallucinated details, and going back […]

TL;DR: The Korea Exchange modified listing rules on July 2, 2026, to subject firms that change their main business within five years of their IPO to a formal delisting review process. Data from the Financial Supervisory Service indicate that 79.1% of the companies that used the tech-exception process between 2022 and 2024 failed to meet […]

Highly speculative “fast money” has abandoned both Bitcoin and precious metals in a massive capital rotation toward semiconductors.

Standard Chartered has become the first global systematically important bank (G-SIB) to let institutional clients mint and redeem USDC directly through its banking platform, the lender has said. The service removes the need for eligible clients to open separate accounts with Circle, the issuer of USDC, giving them a single onboarding process for both traditional […]

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This is not just another ticker-level move. It points to a deeper shift in how capital, infrastructure, or regulation is moving through crypto. XRP Price Faces Stubborn $1.07 Barrier After Repeated June Rejections gives NewsBTC readers a clean angle on XRP Price at a point where the market is trying to separate durable signals from […]