Sony Bank received preliminary approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a US stablecoin issuance business, with $40 million in starting capital.

TL;DR: Hong Kong’s SFC ordered virtual asset trading platforms and online brokers to adopt phishing-resistant authentication within 12 months, banning OTPs through SMS, email or app-based logins. The standards point to passkeys, cryptographically verified registered devices and hardware security keys as stronger alternatives. The move follows rising phishing and social-engineering losses, including $306 million of […]

Hyundai Card said it completed an initial proof-of-concept for cross-border stablecoin remittances between Hyundai Motor America and Hyundai Motor Mexico, The Korea Herald reported July 9. The test used Tether’s USDT on Avalanche and involved payments infrastructure firm Axiym, making stablecoin settlement a treasury workflow rather than a lab-only experiment. In the test, Hyundai Motor […]

I’ve watched a lot of blockchain upgrades get announced with language that makes incremental improvements sound revolutionary. Most of the time, the reality doesn’t match the framing. But when I read through what Base is actually shipping with the B20 token standard as part of its Beryl mainnet upgrade, I found myself doing something I […]

Hyundai Motor America converted $20,000 into stablecoins and transferred them to Hyundai Motor Mexico, where they were exchanged back into U.S. dollars. Shaving Hours off Transaction Times Hyundai Card successfully tested stablecoin-based cross-border payments between Hyundai Motor Group subsidiaries in North America, slashing transaction times from hours to minutes, the card issuer recently disclosed. The […]

July 9th, 2026 – SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Kresus, the self-custody wallet designed to simplify digital asset ownership, today announced Kresus Inheritance. With millions of bitcoin already lost forever, Kresus’ new subscription service lets self-custody users securely pass on digital assets after death. This new service lets users create a secure succession plan for their cryptocurrency […]

A California man has been sentenced to prison for a nearly decade-long bank fraud scheme that defrauded seven financial institutions of nearly $39 million. Northridge resident Gary Topolewski submitted false commercial loan applications claiming funds would buy industrial earth-moving equipment and provide working capital for his companies, says the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Instead, […]

Bitcoin’s market appears to be in the later stages of a bear market, but the signals confirming a broader turnaround have not yet emerged. On-chain data shared by Glassnode shows the asset has recovered from $57,800 to nearly $63,000 over the past week, but it remains below both the True Market Mean of $76,600 and […]

Bitcoin demand has staged its strongest recovery of 2026 as futures traders return with heightened interest, which could potentially drive a price rally.

South Korea's Mirae Asset Group said Thursday that it received approval to acquire the country's major cryptocurrency exchange, Korbit.

Bitcoin traded near US$61,800 on July 8, roughly 51% below its October 2025 record above US$126,000. Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick says the cycle bottomed at about US$59,000 on June 5 and keeps a US$100,000 (AU$144,000) year-end target. Galaxy Research’s base case puts the low between US$40,000 and US$46,000 before the fourth quarter of 2026, and […]

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin’s New Debt Machine is Facing Its First Major Test Public companies kept stacking Bitcoin in June, but the month’s real story played out in a corner of the market that did not exist a couple of years ago: the preferred shares that treasury firms now use to fund their coin purchases.  A […]

Key Takeaways: In a Series C financing round, Gauntlet raised $125 million under the leadership of SBI Holdings. The funding will grow stablecoin infrastructure and new on-chain products. The transaction is a sign of institutional interest in regulated crypto solutions.  User Score 8.7 Follow us on Google News Institutional capital continues flowing into blockchain infrastructure […]

Hong Kong’s regulator has ordered crypto platforms and online brokers to meet newly issued phishing-resistant login requirements within the next 12 months.

Bitcoin traded near $62,743 on Thursday morning at 8 a.m. EDT, up 1.0% over the past 24 hours as the asset consolidated inside a $61,507 to $63,116 range. Short-term technical readings point to consolidation, while longer-term moving averages continue to signal a corrective phase across the one-hour, four-hour, and daily charts. Hourly Chart Shows Tight, […]

Labour Party legislators in the United Kingdom are preparing a parliamentary rebellion to permanently ban political donations in cryptocurrencies, according to The Guardian. MPs from the United Kingdom’s cross-party anti-corruption group are gathering support for four amendments to the Representation of the People Bill, including one that would replace the moratorium in place since March with a permanent ban enshrined in legislation. Liam Byrne, the […]

June was not kind to Cardano’s native token, whose price briefly crashed below $0.14, marking the lowest point since 2020. Fortunately for the bulls, the asset started July on the right foot, temporarily recovering to roughly $0.20, and is currently trading at around $0.17, representing a 14% increase over two weeks. It will be interesting […]

CashCat drives $560 million in trading volume on Robinhood Chain, Hyperliquid joins the Bitwise 10 Crypto Index, and a dormant Bitcoin wallet moves 40 BTC after 16 years.

A new study co-authored by Michigan Law Professor Vic Khanna illuminates the reasons individuals decide to invest in cryptocurrency, …

Bitcoin Magazine SpaceX Nasdaq-100 Entry Brings Bitcoin Exposure to Passive Index Investors Today (July 7, 2026) SpaceX formally joins the Nasdaq-100 Index. The inclusion comes just weeks after the company’s public debut and follows its disclosure of 18,712 BTC on the balance sheet. JPMorgan estimates that index rebalancing will drive approximately $4.3 billion in passive […]

Key Takeaways: The Secret Network has announced that it is planning to shift its SCRT token from the Cosmos to Arbitrum on Sept. 1, 2026. The team reportedly referred to the liabilities of falling liquidity within cosmos, weaker infrastructure and security threats driven by Artificial Intelligence. Native and staked SCRT will be eligible for migration, […]

Dealing with large post quantum signatures slowing down Bitcoin can be solved with bigger blocks, or aggregating signatures using STARK proofs.

XRP is flashing several warning signs as key market indicators continue to weaken. Market signals suggest deeper changes in momentum and liquidity. The full picture reveals why this moment could be important. Why Are XRP Traders Stepping Back From the Market? Cryptoquant shared two analyses on July 9 that point to continued selling pressure, with […]

Charles Hoskinson has accused Ethereum of adopting ideas pioneered by Cardano without acknowledgment. The Cardano co-founder made the claim following a proposal by Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter to bring native UTXOs to the network as a way of cutting long-term state storage for payment transactions. Ethereum Is Revisiting Cardano’s Work According to Hoskinson, Wahrstätter’s research […]

SpaceX has made its first Bitcoin transfer since late 2025 with just $88, sparking speculation that the company might be testing for a possible Bitcoin treasury move.

TL;DR Starting today, July 9, 2026, Kraken Pro fee tiers are based on the best of three measures: your spot trading volume, your futures trading volume, or your assets on platform (AOP). Whichever measure qualifies you for the highest tier is the one that applies, and that tier sets your rate on both spot and […]

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A Spotsylvania, Virginia, resident says hackers initiated an unauthorized wire transfer to steal nearly $10,000 from his retirement savings held at Wells Fargo. Jesse Combs, a longtime Wells Fargo customer, says he had never experienced a security issue with his account until May 29th, when he received an email notifying him that a $9,888 wire […]

EMURGO, a co-founding entity of Cardano and developer of the SecondFi wallet, announced this Wednesday its official withdrawal from the Pentad governance group. The confirmation was made through its official X account, noting that this strategic decision aims to exclusively concentrate all its human and technical resources on the recovery process of funds for users […]

July 2026 has arrived, and the cryptocurrency market is showing divergent trends across established large-cap tokens and new projects tied to artificial intelligence. For investors considering allocations in July 2026, large-cap assets such as XRP and Ethereum remain central to the discussion because of their market size and liquidity. At the same time, a project […]

The Gulf’s crypto ambitions are not slowing down. KuCoin’s partnership with a UAE crypto alliance adds another exchange-level move to a region that has spent the last few years trying to turn regulatory openness into institutional digital asset activity. The useful way to read this is not as a guaranteed price signal, but as a […]

Bitcoin Magazine Cantor SPAC and Adam Back’s Bitcoin Treasury Renegotiate Merger Terms, Vow New Structure Cantor Equity Partners I (Nasdaq: CEPO), a special purpose acquisition company backed by an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald, and BSTR Holdings said today that they will not complete their proposed bitcoin business combination on the terms set in their July […]