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Bitcoin dropped to about US$62,530 on Friday, roughly 2.6% below where it started the day, before recovering to end the session near US$64,110. The Nasdaq Composite closed down 1.40% after falling as much as 2.44% intraday, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index has lost 7.8% across three sessions. Brent crude settled at US$88.10 a barrel, up about 16% on the week, as US strikes on Iran ran into a seventh consecutive night. Bitcoin (BTC) fell to about US$62,530 (AU$89,418) on Friday, its weakest level in three days, as US forces struck Iran for a seventh consecutive night and a selloff in…

The UK’s designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps took effect on July 17, creating a new criminal exposure for UK-linked people and businesses that receive or retain value supplied by or on behalf of the group.Under the designation instrument, the IRGC became one of the first three bodies added to Schedule 6A of the National Security Act 2023.The new section 17C offense can carry as much as 14 years in prison when a person obtains, accepts or retains a qualifying material benefit and knows, or in light of other matters known to them ought reasonably to know, that it…

Grayscale wants to turn staking rewards from its Ethereum and Solana funds into cash payouts at least once a quarter, starting around Aug. 7. That would give investors a straightforward way to compare what each fund actually delivers.In July 17 SEC filings for the Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF and Grayscale Solana Staking ETF, the asset manager said it intends to amend both trust agreements. If executed, each trust would convert the ETH or SOL received as staking rewards into cash at least quarterly, and promptly distribute the proceeds after expenses not covered by the sponsor. Related ReadingGrayscale enables staking in…

A contractor brought in through a third-party provider worked on MetaMask code from March 9 until Consensys cut off access in April. Consensys later described the person as linked to North Korea.Consensys said its investigation found no misappropriation of assets or data, no malicious code deployment and no impact to user safety or security. General counsel Matt Corva said the company identified the threat quickly, terminated access, launched a comprehensive investigation and notified law enforcement.Drop Site reported that an internal April alert ordered all product releases suspended pending the investigation and told staff not to interact with the consultant. Corva…

For two decades, the American investor essentially got a free insurance policy. When equities fell, Treasuries rallied, and the loss on one side of the portfolio was partly covered by the gain on the other. That relationship became so reliable that an entire industry built products on it, and an entire generation of allocators started treating it as a given.However, it stopped working around 2020, and it hasn’t really worked since.UBS now puts the two-month rolling correlation between the S&P 500 and the 10-year Treasury yield at -0.69, the lowest reading since 1996.That means stocks and bonds are moving together…

The FBI is seeking potential victims who downloaded eight games named in its Steam malware investigation, a case that shows crypto custody can fail before a wallet ever opens.In a separate federal complaint reported by Local 10, agents allege an eight-game campaign infected about 8,000 devices, gained unauthorized access to roughly 80 crypto wallets, and stole at least $220,000.Local 10 reported that agents arrested 21-year-old Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins on July 14 and accused him of financing and procuring malware and helping market the infected games. The complaint describes the venue only as a “popular digital distribution software company.” Wilkins…

Bitcoin’s first recovery test sits near $69,000. Its lower on-chain stress boundary sits much farther down, near $52,900.CryptoSlate’s Bitcoin market data shows BTC at $64,672. Reaching the recent-buyer cost basis near $69,000 requires a gain of about 6.69%, while a decline to Glassnode’s displayed realized price of $52,891.91 would represent an 18.22% decline.Those levels define a two-sided test. A spot-driven reclaim of the recent-buyer basis would strengthen the case that Bitcoin has formed a higher low. Continued weakness below it would leave the lower realized-price boundary exposed if selling pressure accelerates again.The bottoming data has improved since early July. Long-term-holder…

There’s a question buried in this week’s US economic data that sounds simple but is surprisingly hard to answer: when Americans spend more money, does that mean they’re buying more, or just paying more for the same stuff?Those are completely different things, and it’s important to tell them apart. If people are buying more, then the economy is genuinely strong. But if they’re just paying higher prices for the same amount of goods, then the economy is actually weakening, while looking healthy only on the surface.And the two big reports that landed this week each have a blind spot that…

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told analysts in April that the roughly $1.8 trillion private credit market doesn’t pose a systemic risk. “You have to have very large losses in private credit before, at least it looks like, banks are going to get hit,” he said.He made that comment the same week executives at Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo used nearly identical language to describe their own exposures as “comfortable.”But a Reuters analysis of 53 publicly traded business development companies found that 28 had swung into the red during the first quarter of 2026. Average profit collapsed from…

Bitcoin traded near $62,900 on Friday afternoon, down roughly 38% from its October 2025 all-time high, as Brent crude settled above $85 and the Strait of Hormuz remained effectively closed to normal commercial traffic.By early Saturday, it had recovered to around $63,900, then traded flat throughout the EU morning.The disputed waterway normally carries 20.9 million barrels of oil per day, about one-fifth of global petroleum consumption, but tanker crossings have collapsed to near-record lows after the United States reimposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports and Tehran responded with missile strikes on Gulf state infrastructure.Oil futures, Treasury markets, and US…