… cryptocurrency kiosks are being used to scam Texans. Garrett Bohlmann … cryptocurrency cryptocurrency scam Dominic Anthony Walsh Doris …

Ethereum Foundation AI Agent Research Shows Where Smart Contracts May Be Heading Next is the kind of crypto story that looks simple at headline level but becomes more useful once you place it inside the wider market backdrop. The important point is not that AI agents will suddenly take over Ethereum tomorrow; it is that […]

State representative Keith Ammon said the New Hampshire executive council’s vote against Bitcoin-backed bonds was “short-sighted,” urging the body to reconsider the measure.

Bitcoin Magazine Metaplanet Announces Joint Study to Bring Bitcoin-Backed Digital Credit to Japan Metaplanet wants to turn its bitcoin pile into a credit market. On Friday, Japan’s largest corporate bitcoin holder said it has opened a joint study with three partners to build tokenized credit products backed by bitcoin, a step that pushes the company […]

Key Takeaways: In a six-week operation with Singapore Police, Coinbase prevented the loss of over $4.2 million through fake mobile apps. Advanced blockchain analytics identified and protected more than 145 suspected victims of scams. The operation underscores the growing partnership between crypto exchanges and law enforcement agencies in their fight against fraud. User Score 8.7 […]

A Florida man has lost his entire life savings of $251,300 after falling for a convincing phone call from someone posing as a Wells Fargo fraud representative, according to a report. The victim, Randall Kahn, received a call in early January claiming irregular activity on his accounts that required immediate action, reports NBC 6 South […]

Circle has received approval from the OCC to establish Circle National Trust, a federally regulated national trust bank. The charter strengthens the infrastructure behind USDC and could eventually bring management of the stablecoin’s reserve under direct federal oversight. Jeremy Allaire Hails OCC Charter as Circle Expands USDC Circle Internet Group has received approval from the […]

ZCash adding back some meat on its bones after the duplication catastrophe in the past.

The cryptocurrency market is now worth more than $2.23 trillion. Yet, Bitcoin has lost more than half its value since prices hit their peak in …

TL;DR: 1,760 daily active addresses were registered by the stablecoin ecosystem, marking its highest metric in four years. 713 new digital wallets created per day were added to the network infrastructure during this liquidity surge. 27 European Union member states make up the territory where this asset holds legal backing under an official license. The […]

I’ve been following the AI model race closely enough to know that the announcements have started blurring together. Every few weeks another lab drops something described as frontier-defining, the benchmarks circulate for a day, the comparisons get posted, and then the next release arrives before anyone has finished processing the previous one. It has started […]

Bitcoin-backed preferred shares STRC and SATA posted their highest combined monthly trading volume on record in June, surpassing $10 billion amid a BTC sell-off that pushed both below their $100 par value. According to data from BitcoinTreasuries.net (BTN), Strategy’s STRC generated $8.7 billion in trading volume last month, while Strive’s SATA recorded $1.5 billion, and […]

Bitcoin Tests $59,000 as Traders Look For A Cleaner Rebound After Supply Pressure is the kind of crypto story that looks simple at headline level but becomes more useful once you place it inside the wider market backdrop. Bitcoin’s rebound attempt is really a test of market depth after several weeks dominated by government wallets, […]

Donald Trump confirmed on social media that he would not sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which includes a ban on a US CBDC until the end of 2030, setting the stage for the bill to become law on Saturday.

A major billion-dollar bank is disclosing a significant data breach impacting U.S. customers’ private and confidential information, according to a filing with a state government. TD reported the incident to regulators in mid-June 2026 after discovering an employee had unauthorized access to customer records between January 7th and January 30th of 2026, says a filing […]

A bank fraud conspiracy in New York has led to the indictment of thirteen individuals for stealing more than $1 million in checks from the mail. The scheme centered on intercepting checks through a corrupt postal employee who was bribed, says the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York. Checks were then […]

Bitcoin Magazine Circle (CRCL) Wins Final OCC Approval for National Trust Bank Circle Internet Group secured final approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today, to establish a national trust bank, a milestone that sent the stablecoin issuer’s shares higher and deepened its ties to the federal banking system. The regulator […]

Key Takeaways: Swift has enabled its ledger, and 17 major banks are looking forward to testing out cross-border payments tokenized. The platform allows for direct 24/7 transfers between the money and the tokenized deposits, and preserve the same banking compliance and settlement processes. The move is among the stiffest challenges by traditional finance to the […]

Economist and longtime bitcoin critic Peter Schiff argued this week that BTC’s supposed correlation with gold “was never real,” while its historically tight relationship with the Nasdaq has now broken down. Schiff Continues With His Anti-Bitcoin Narrative The latest salvo was highlighted on X by numerous analysts, summarizing Schiff’s argument that bitcoin cannot claim to […]

Zapper CEO Seb Audet announced on July 8 that the platform will wind down, with its website, mobile apps and APIs closing on Aug. 3. The dashboard peaked at 2 million monthly active users and processed more than US$13 billion (AU$18.72 billion) in transactions, according to company figures. Zapper follows DeFi lender Radiant Capital, which […]

CertiK’s Hack3d report recorded more than US$1.31 billion lost across 344 incidents in the first half of 2026, about 28% higher than a year earlier once the Bybit hack is excluded. Code vulnerabilities produced 204 incidents, the highest count of any attack vector, with hackers increasingly targeting legacy contracts more than a year old, according […]

Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama announced that the government is on track to legalize cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

Within ten days in late June, four licensed crypto exchanges rolled out overlapping customer acquisition campaigns targeting users in the European Economic Area. Transfer bonuses, cashback offers and a €1 million prize draw all arrived ahead of MiCA’s 1 July transitional deadline. On 1 July, national grandfathering for exchanges without a Crypto-Asset Service Provider licence […]

Corporate finance executives continue to separate stablecoins from the broader cryptocurrency market. … Yet only 13% report using stablecoins today, …

Five senators called for committee hearings to investigate US President Donald Trump’s policies potentially being influenced by crypto funding from United Arab Emirates-linked and other entities.

[PRESS RELEASE – Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 10th, 2026] NOWPayment believes the crypto industry has accepted unnecessary costs for too long – and that businesses no longer have to. For years, paying blockchain fees has been treated as the price of sending crypto. According to Kate Lifshits, CEO of NOWPayments, it’s time to challenge that assumption. […]

Europe’s stablecoin rulebook is becoming much more real. ESMA’s finalized MiCA guidelines add another layer of detail to how stablecoin issuers and service providers are expected to operate inside the bloc, especially where non-euro-denominated tokens are concerned. That matters because stablecoins are no longer a side issue in crypto regulation. They are one of the […]

TL;DR: The new draft law reduces the mandatory notification threshold to Rosfinmonitoring from 100,000 to 60,000 rubles for digital asset depositories and exchanges. Transactions linked to foreign trade will be subject to mandatory reporting starting from a limit set at 1,000,000 rubles. The proposed legislation establishes restrictions that limit banks’ direct exposure to cryptocurrencies to […]

Bitcoin Magazine U.S. Representatives Urge Senate to Vote on CLARITY Act in July, Address Ethics Concerns Rep. French Hill wants a deadline.  One year after the House passed the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act, the Arkansas Republican who chairs the House Financial Services Committee used a Fox Business interview with anchor Maria Bartiromo to press […]

Key Takeaways: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has issued its final approval of a national trust bank founded by Circle. Circle can hold its stablecoins on the Federal Reserve’s books from now on. In the Federal Charter, the provision is added to the legal regulation of stablecoins, which puts the stablecoin […]

Crypto ETF flows weakened on Thursday, July 9, as bitcoin ETFs posted a $95.30 million outflow and ether ETFs snapped a five-day inflow streak with a $52.08 million exit. Solana saw a small redemption, while HYPE and XRP ETFs recorded no trading activity. Japan Weighs Crypto ETFs as Bitcoin and Ether Funds Return to Outflows […]

The redesigned app will use AI to recommend trades and tailor investing tools around users’ financial goals as Kraken expands into broader financial services.