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

Business / Finance · Crypto

Strategy added $35 million in bitcoin, $300 million in cash reserves last week

The boost to cash reserves is meant to reassure investors about dividend payments on the company's hard-hit preferred shares, STRC.

Business / Finance · Crypto

TradFi fund manager Baillie Gifford introduces Solana, Ethereum tokenized fund with BNY

Baillie Gifford Enhanced Yield Fund (BAGEY) is denominated in dollars, and gives eligible investors access to an actively managed, short-duration portfolio of public corporate bon…

Business / Finance · Crypto

Bitcoin ETF outflow pain eases just as another headwind gathers strength

Your day-ahead look for June 22, 2026

Business / Finance · Crypto

As bitcoin, altcoin prices gain, derivatives signal skepticism over a sustained rally

Analysts noted bitcoin is stuck between key support near $60,000 and resistance around $68,000, and a bearish chart pattern could send prices toward $54,000.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Bank of England backs down on strict stablecoin holding limits, sets $50 billion issuance cap

The U.K. central bank abandons retail holding limits for a 40-billion-pound aggregate cap and sweetens yield terms for token issuers ahead of a 2027 market launch.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Geopolitical relief meets the Warsh Fed: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting June 22.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Taiko halts its Ethereum layer-2 network after a bridge exploit, token dives

An attacker forged withdrawal proofs to drain about $1.7 million, the same type of flaw behind this year's biggest bridge hacks. Fast containment kept the damage small.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Bitcoin price may be headed to $54,000, says analyst who forecast October's all-time high

Doctor Profit, a widely followed crypto analyst, says bitcoin is forming a “bear flag” pattern.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Live markets: Bitcoin is stuck near $64,000 as ETF outflows reach a sixth week

Eased ETF selling and improving risk appetite are being offset by a firmer dollar and cautious institutional flows, leaving bitcoin range-bound, one analyst said.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Bitcoin developers want to fix the 'replace this transaction with a higher fee' button. Here's why

A helpful feature of speeding up transactions has become redundant and a "fingerprint" for tracking. Developers now want to do away with it.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Ethereum validators asked to fund projects with up to 10% of staking rewards under new proposal

A new governance proposal would let validators redirect part of their staking income toward ecosystem funding, raising questions about coordination, incentives and who gets to dec…

Business / Finance · Crypto

XRP briefly loses $1.14 support before buyers drive sharp rebound

Heavy selling pushed XRP to its lowest level of the weekend session, but strong buying quickly erased most of the decline and returned the token to its recent trading range.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Bitcoin holds near $64,000 as US-Iran talks progress but crypto sits out the rally

sian stocks and tech climbed as the US and Iran agreed a roadmap to a final peace deal, sending oil below $80. Crypto stayed soft, with bitcoin down 2% on the week and the memecoi…

Business / Finance · Crypto

Are perps swaps? A quick look at that CME suit: State of Crypto

CME Group sued the CFTC on Thursday, alleging that the agency was wrong in how it approved Kalshi's first U.S. perpetual futures product.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Ethereum's biggest 'sandwich' bot drained of $7.5 million in ironic exploit

Blockaid said an attacker tricked Jaredfromsubway.eth into approving fake trading routes, then used those approvals to drain WETH, USDC and USDT.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Bitcoin holds near $64,000 as a renewed Hormuz threat clouds US-Iran ceasefire talks

Crypto firmed over the weekend after Friday's sell-off, with bitcoin recovering toward $64,000. Permanent ceasefire talks open in Switzerland, but Iran's order to close the Strait…

Business / Finance · Crypto

AI is making crypto security cheaper, faster and harder to ignore

As AI-powered security tools become cheaper, faster and more widely available, researchers said they could reshape what the crypto industry considers reasonable due diligence befo…

Business / Finance · Crypto

How STRC lost its par: The timeline behind Strategy's preferred-stock meltdown

From a bond buyback and dwindling cash reserves to a bitcoin bear market, the sequence of events that turned STRC's par-value challenge into a marketwide debate.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Schwab to join prediction markets race with S&P 500 event-based options: WSJ

The planned offering would let customers bet on index moves as Coinbase and Robinhood expand in the sector.

Business / Finance · Crypto

GoMining challenges Jack Dorsey's Square with payments system designed around bitcoin

GoMining unveiled a software development kit and programmable access for its bitcoin payment protocol GoBTC Pay, allowing merchants to accept BTC for everyday purchases.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Franklin Templeton proposes new ETFs that turn corporate dividends into bitcoin

Your day-ahead look for June 19, 2026

Business / Finance · Crypto

Smart-contract and DeFi coins lead losses as bitcoin wilts for 4th straight day

Concerns about STRC, the dividend-paying preferred stock from Strategy continue to dominate market sentiment.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Digital credit market hit by huge selloff as Strive CEO blames leverage liquidations

Matt Cole says forced selling from leveraged investors pushed STRC and SATA sharply lower before both rebounded.

Business / Finance · Crypto

Microsoft found malware that hijacks crypto wallets and spreads through USB sticks

The software intercepts shortcut files and directs them to install a worm that harvests private keys from the Windows clipboard and inserts its own destination wallet addresses wh…