Saturday · July 11, 2026 Vol. I · No. 191
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Crypto

Business / Finance · Crypto

Strategy's STRC slump prompts Terra comparisons that don't hold up, says analyst

Benchmark's Mark Palmer says the comparison misreads what STRC is — a dividend-paying share backed indirectly by bitcoin, not a peg waiting to break.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Bitcoin volatility looks cheap as $10 billion options settlement nears

Your day-ahead look for June 23, 2026

Business / Finance · Crypto

Crypto market drops as Nasdaq tech selloff spills into digital assets

Bitcoin lost 2.5% to $62,300 and ether fell more than 4% while $717 million in liquidations amplified losses across altcoins.

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Ripple targets EU, wins preliminary MiCA approval from Luxembourg financial regulator

The license will enable Ripple to offer its stablecoin payment systems to European companies and expand into broader crypto functions.

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Hut 8 to pay $2.35 million to settle investor suit over U.S. Bitcoin merger

The former bitcoin miner denied any wrongdoing related to its 2023 merger with U.S. Bitcoin Corp.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Bitcoin price has limited downside, likely near bottom, contrarian indicator suggests

The bitcoin price's long-term moving averages are set to flash a bearish signal soon. That's good news for the bulls.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Live updates: An 'altcoin season' signal flashed, but bitcoin's slide is what set it off

After nearly two years of declines, alts have run out of sellers and steadied, while bitcoin has dropped hard, sliding back toward $63,600.

Business / Finance · Crypto

XRP drifts toward $1.10 support as traders await break from three-week range

Weak volume and fading momentum kept XRP pinned near the bottom of its recent range, with the $1.05-$1.10 area emerging as the market's key line in the sand.

Business / Finance · Crypto

SpaceX’s $600 billion plunge erased nearly half of bitcoin’s market cap in three days.

The newly public company shed close to half of bitcoin's entire market value in three sessions after announcing its first bond sale. Bitcoin, absorbing the same backdrop, fell les…

Business / Finance · Crypto

Bitcoin slips toward $63,000 as a tech selloff drags risk assets lower

A rotation out of this year's best AI and chip stocks sank Asian markets, with South Korea's Kospi down 6%, and crypto fell with them. Bitcoin is down more than 3% on the week.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Trump signs orders to build a quantum computer and protect against the one that could break encryption

The White House issued twin executive orders to accelerate U.S. development of large-scale quantum computers while simultaneously hardening defenses against such machines.

Business / Finance · Crypto

U.S. Senate passes housing bill that carries four-year ban on a Fed CBDC

The idea of a U.S. central bank digital currency — though little more than a research topic at the Federal Reserve — may be getting formally blocked.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Securitize and tZERO clash over patents as race to bring Wall Street onchain heats up

tZERO and Securitize are squaring off over tokenization patents as the market attracts more of Wall Street's attention.

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Ric Edelman says crypto’s biggest growth story is happening off the price chart

Crypto prices remain under pressure, but Ric Edelman says institutional adoption and tokenization are accelerating behind the scenes.

Business / Finance · Crypto

21Shares co-founder warns tokenization hype is outrunning Wall Street reality

Tokenization can improve settlement and asset movement, but key pieces of financial infrastructure remain unprepared for institutional-scale adoption.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Strive says digital credit selloff was a liquidation event, not a credit crisis

A sharp selloff in digital credit products exposed growing pains in a young market, a Strive executive argues the underlying credit fundamentals remain intact.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Ether’s biggest corporate holders back new Ethereum research hub

Ethlabs was formed with support from SharpLink, Bitmine and Consensys CEO Joe Lubin as the network's development is expanding beyond the Ethereum Foundation.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Ethereum Foundation talent exodus sparks fresh debate over leadership

The Ethereum community is once again debating the future of the foundation after co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang announced she would step down.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Crypto's second U.S. lobbying front — tax policy — sees industry push on mining, staking

The crypto sector's leading U.S. advocacy groups asked the U.S. House's tax committee to advance a bill to clarify treatment of assets from mining and staking.

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Anchorage aims to bring banks onchain with new tokenized deposit platform

The crypto bank aims to help financial institutions offer round-the-clock payments and settlement without replacing their core systems.

Business / Finance · Crypto

MoneyGram joins Solana as validator amid stablecoin payment push

The remittances firm has become a validator on the Solana blockchain, helping process and secure transactions as it expands its stablecoin payments strategy.

Business / Finance · Crypto

OKX and NYSE partner to bridge tradfi and crypto markets in joint venture led by Andrew Cuomo

The goal is to enable OKX’s 120 million global users to access ICE futures and NYSE tokenized equities markets, the two U.S. companies announced.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Bitmine added $92 million of ETH, with Tom Lee continuing to believe in 'crypto spring'

The largest Ethereum treasury firm slowed its buying pace but remains on track to reach its goal of owning 5% of ETH supply.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Bitcoin mining network becoming more sensitive to price swings, JPMorgan says

A growing share of miners are operating near breakeven levels, making hashrate and mining difficulty increasingly responsive to bitcoin's price movements, the bank said.