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Americans are on pace to lose more money on legal gambling this year than at any point in the country’s history.A new analysis by economics writer Joseph Politano projects that the total will exceed a quarter trillion dollars in 2026. Losses have climbed 67% since the start of COVID-19 and another 8% over the past year alone, outpacing any growth recorded between 2000 and 2020.That figure counts only sportsbooks and casinos, and it excludes the money moving through prediction markets, crypto trading, and stock options, each of which now channels billions of dollars a year into activity that, economically speaking, looks…

Riot Platforms’ reported 500 BTC movement to NYDIG Custody gives the market a live signal for how public miners may use coin treasuries as AI and data-center costs rise.PANews reported the July 3 transfer, citing on-chain monitoring data, and valued the movement at roughly $30.7 million. The available record supports a custody movement, but it does not show an executed sale or sale proceeds.That distinction makes the signal useful. Riot has already disclosed Bitcoin sales, restricted collateral, negative operating cash flow, and data-center expansion plans, so another large custody movement now lands as a capital-allocation marker rather than routine wallet…

Crypto was founded on a simple premise: people should be able to send, hold, and manage money without going through a bank. Fifteen years later, some of the industry’s most significant developments involve banks doing that, on blockchains, for their own institutional clients.JPMorgan now settles payments in its own deposit token on a public blockchain. BlackRock’s tokenized Treasury fund holds roughly $2.4 billion in assets, with two more products of the same kind already filed with the SEC. Visa and Mastercard let card issuers settle their daily obligations in stablecoins rather than wire transfers.The industry that set out to disintermediate…

Farside Investors’ new BIP-110 signaling alerts have put Bitcoin’s arbitrary-data dispute on a live deadline, giving exchanges, wallets, miners, pools, and node operators a concrete August window to plan around even while miner signaling remains low.A July 3 Farside post reported a new BIP-110 signaling block and listed 7 signaling blocks in the current period. Farside’s Q&A says its X account will post automatically each time a BIP-110 signaling block is produced.Miner support remains minimal. BGeometrics’ daily API, retrieved July 3 and current through July 2, shows 38 BIP-110 signaling blocks out of 9,066 total blocks since May 1, or…

Bitget launched US stock options this week and says no other major crypto exchange offers them. The product starts with the simplest version of options trading, where eligible users buy single call or put contracts, with more complex strategies planned as it matures.It sits alongside Bitget’s existing crypto markets, tokenized stocks, and contract-for-difference products in gold, forex, and indices.The launch follows a record stretch in the options market itself. US listed options volume reached 15.2 billion contracts in 2025, up 26% from the prior year and the sixth straight annual record, with roughly 61 million contracts changing hands daily, according…

Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina said technological preparations for the digital ruble are complete ahead of its September 1, 2026 nationwide rollout. All 12 systemically important banks and large retailers must accept the central bank digital currency by the deadline, under a July 2025 State Duma mandate. Two independent surveys found weak public appetite, with only about one in ten working Russians willing to take their full salary in digital rubles. Russia is set to switch on nationwide use of its digital ruble on September 1, after Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina declared the central bank digital currency…

Aave deployed its V3 lending protocol on Monad on July 2 with 12 supported assets, including USDT0, USDC, and its own GHO stablecoin. The Monad Foundation committed US$15 million in incentives over the first 12 months, plus a pledge to acquire and hold 10 million GHO for more than six months. Risk assessor LlamaRisk backed the rollout but flagged that Monad’s activity has cooled since launch and that liquidity remains concentrated in established protocols. Aave has brought its V3 lending markets to Monad in a deployment that pairs a 12-asset launch lineup with its native GHO stablecoin and a multimillion-dollar…

Michael Saylor’s Strategy has calmed the immediate panic around its preferred-stock complex, but the company’s latest overhaul points to a more complicated phase for one of Bitcoin’s most visible corporate buyers.Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, announced a new capital-management framework this week after STRC, its flagship preferred stock, fell to a low of $71.25 on June 26.The preferred security was designed to trade near its $100 stated amount, making the selloff a sharp test of investor confidence in the company’s financing model.The pressure forced a familiar question back into the market: whether Strategy could keep funding a growing dividend bill…

A request for the UK standards watchdog to examine Nigel Farage’s reported interactions with the Bank of England has turned the UK’s digital-pound fight into an access fight: who gets to shape public payment infrastructure while donations from a major crypto-linked backer face fresh scrutiny.A July 2 Guardian report said Labour MP Phil Brickell asked the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards to investigate Farage’s reported interactions with the Bank. The request followed the Guardian’s earlier reporting that Farage told a crypto event he had challenged Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey over the central bank’s digital-pound work.No finding of wrongdoing has…

US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) drew their largest daily inflow since May after a weaker-than-expected jobs report eased rate-hike concerns and helped the digital asset recover from a fresh bear-market low earlier in the week.The funds recorded $223 million in net inflows on Thursday, ending a 10-day stretch of withdrawals that had drained $2.73 billion from the products, according to SoSoValue data.The reversal came as Bitcoin briefly climbed back above $62,000 after falling below $58,000 earlier in the week, its lowest level in 21 months.The return of ETF demand gave Bitcoin a measure of relief after weeks of pressure…