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Luno Cuts 20% of Staff Amid Automation Push and Retail Trading Slump
July 30, 2026
Cryptocurrency exchange Luno, owned by Digital Currency Group, is cutting approximately 20% of its global workforce as of July 30, 2026 — its second major round of layoffs in three and a half years —...
Tillis and Gallego Reach New Ethics Compromise on Digital Asset Clarity Act
July 30, 2026
Senators Thom Tillis (Republican) and Ruben Gallego (Democrat) have indicated they have struck new common ground on a revised ethics approach for the US Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, according to...
Binance Launches Gold and Silver Options After Commodity Futures Hit $7.77B Daily Volume
July 29, 2026
Binance's gold perpetual futures hit a peak single-day volume of $7.77 billion while silver perpetuals reached $7.27 billion, and on July 29, 2026, the world's largest digital asset exchange by volum...
Citadel Calls Surprise Fed Rate Hike as Bitcoin Stalls Near $64,000
July 29, 2026
Citadel, one of the largest hedge funds in the U.S. managing $67 billion in assets,, is betting on a surprise 25-basis-point Federal Reserve rate hike on Wednesday July 30, 2026 — a call that puts th...
Bitcoin Hits $65,000 as U.S.-Iran Truce Sends Oil Down 5%
July 27, 2026
Bitcoin reclaimed the $65,000 level on July 27, 2026, rising approximately 1.2% over 24 hours as the United States and Iran paused military strikes against each other for a second consecutive day, ac...
SHIB's 36% Mystery Rally Puts Dogecoin Ecosystem in Focus
July 27, 2026
Shiba Inu surged 36% to approximately $0.0000057 on Sunday, July 26, 2026, adding roughly $1 billion in market value within a single day, according to CoinDesk reporter Shaurya Malwa — and notably, D...
North Korea Arrests Hackers Who Looted State Banks Via Crypto
July 26, 2026
North Korea's National Intelligence Agency arrested former military hackers on July 12, 2026, at a Pyongyang safe house, after officials detected discrepancies in foreign-currency payment approvals a...
Robinhood Chain Tokenized Stocks Hit $70M as RWA Trading Scales
July 25, 2026
Real-world assets on Robinhood Chain surged to approximately $70 million in market value by July 25, 2026 — a roughly fivefold increase in less than two weeks — as tokenized equities including GameSt...
World Network Raises $52.5M to Scale AI Identity Verification
July 25, 2026
Sam Altman's World Network secured $52.5 million in a new locked token sale on July 24, 2026, led by Pantera Capital alongside Bain Capital Crypto and Eightco Holdings, as the nonprofit World Foundat...
NFT Royalties Route a Share of Sales Back to Creators
July 24, 2026
NFT royalties are programmable payment rules embedded directly into smart contracts, automatically routing a percentage of every secondary sale back to the original creator — without requiring the cr...
Bitcoin's Correlation With the Nasdaq 100 Is Now a Market Fundamental
July 24, 2026
Crypto's reputation as an uncorrelated asset has taken a sustained beating over the past several years. Bitcoin and major altcoins have repeatedly moved in lockstep with the Nasdaq 100 during risk-of...
Bitcoin Holds Near $65,000 While $797B AI Selloff Bypasses Crypto
July 24, 2026
Bitcoin traded at approximately $65,400 in Asian morning hours on Friday, July 25, 2026, down less than 1% on the day while the Magnificent Seven megacap tech stocks shed $797 billion in market value...
Robinhood CEO's X Account Hacked to Promote Fake $VLAD Token
July 24, 2026
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev's X account was compromised on Thursday, July 23, 2026, and used to promote a fraudulent memecoin called Vladhood ($VLAD), falsely claiming the token was the "official Robinh...
Clarity Act Odds Fall to 38% as Oil and Yields Pressure Bitcoin
July 23, 2026
Bitcoin slipped to around $65,500 on Thursday as a triple-threat of rising oil prices, surging Treasury yields, and a fresh collapse in legislative confidence sent risk assets lower, according to Coi...
Why Most Solana NFT Collections Fail and Survivors Thrive
July 22, 2026
Solana 's NFT ecosystem processed hundreds of collection launches between 2021 and 2024, yet the overwhelming majority now trade at or near zero floor price — a pattern that Magic Eden's marketplace ...
Stablecoins Outpace Visa and Mastercard as Regulations Lag Behind
July 22, 2026
Stablecoins now settle more daily transaction volume than Visa and Mastercard combined, yet the legal frameworks governing their issuance, reserves, and redemption remain fragmented across jurisdicti...
Bitcoin Holds Near $66,300 as Japanese Yen Weakens
July 22, 2026
Bitcoin consolidated near $66,300 on July 22, 2026, holding a two-week high as the Japanese yen slid past 163 per dollar for the first time since 1986, according to CoinDesk reporter Shaurya Malwa. T...
Bitcoin Reaches Two-Week High Near $65,500 on Chip Stock Rebound
July 21, 2026
Bitcoin climbed to approximately $65,500 on Tuesday, July 21, a two-week high, as Bitcoin climbed to approximately $65,500 on Tuesday, July 21, a two-week high, as the semiconductor selloff that had ...
Bank of Korea Prepares for Live CBDC Pilot With Nine Banks in September
July 20, 2026
According to CoinDesk , The Bank of Korea will launch the second phase of its central bank digital currency pilot in September, expanding real-transaction testing to nine major commercial banks., exp...
Bitcoin ETFs Snap 8-Week Outflow Streak With $273M in Two Weeks
July 20, 2026
U.S.-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in just $273 million across two weeks ending July 17, 2026, according to CoinDesk , snapping an eight-week outflow streak that saw investors withdraw more than $8...
Crypto Executives Say Digital Natives May Never Need a Bank Account
July 19, 2026
Adrian Cachinero, co-founder of DeFi firm Steakhouse Financial, made a striking claim in a CoinDesk interview in London on July 18, 2026 : his 18-month-old daughter may never need to open a tradition...
Stripe and Swift Battle for Stablecoin Payment Infrastructure Control
July 18, 2026
Stripe's unsolicited $53 billion bid for PayPal , announced on July 17, 2026, landed the same week Swift revealed it was expanding a blockchain-based settlement network to more than 40 financial inst...
Leonidas Proposes DOG Mode Bitcoin Client to Counter BIP 110
July 17, 2026
Leonidas, co-founder of the Runestone project and one of the most prominent figures in Bitcoin 's Ordinals and Runes ecosystem, announced on Friday, July 17, 2026, an initiative to create an open-sou...
Tether Bets $20 Million on Argentine Neobank Ualá
July 16, 2026
Tether , the issuer of the world's largest stablecoin by circulation, Tether invested $20 million in Argentine neobank Ualá, with the investment reported on July 16, 2026. , taking an equity stake in...
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