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Galaxy Digital said the Senate has four working days to save the CLARITY Act, as it cut passage odds to 30%.In a July 24 note to clients, the crypto investment firm lowered its estimate for CLARITY Act chances this year from 50%, saying lawmakers need a deal by July 30 to leave enough time for floor proceedings before the August recess.Alex Thorn, Galaxy Digital’s head of research, said:“[CLARITY Act] is a strong bill that improves regulation, protects investors, promotes innovation, grows USA the time for incremental negotiations is over. we need a last-ditch effort.”The warning came just two days after…
Bitcoin traded around $64,000 on July 25 after changing hands near $65,000 around the ECB’s July 23 decision as the central bank kept rates unchanged, its bond portfolios continued shrinking, and euro-area banks tightened access to business and housing credit.The ECB kept its three key interest rates unchanged, leaving the deposit facility rate at 2.25%, the main refinancing rate at 2.40% and the marginal lending facility rate at 2.65%, while the balance-sheet and bank-credit channels continued moving in a restrictive direction.Official monthly data shows that the ECB’s asset purchase program and pandemic emergency purchase program portfolios declined by a combined…
Stablecoin supply has roughly doubled since January 2024, while entity-adjusted transaction volume has grown fourfold to fivefold, according to Coinbase Institutional, opening a wide gap between the amount of dollar liquidity held onchain and the volume of activity that liquidity supports.Market capitalization records the stock of stablecoins in circulation, which captures available liquidity, reserve demand, and issuer scale. Transaction throughput, on the other hand, records how intensively those tokens move through exchanges, payment systems, treasury accounts, and settlement workflows.A system holding $500 billion that moves infrequently offers greater capacity than one holding $250 billion, but the smaller system can support…
Ten once-prominent cryptocurrency networks now carry a combined market value of $12.06 billion, trading an average of 97.13% below their all-time highs.A recent report by Taurex noted that recovery needs across the group range from roughly 21.5x for Avalanche, the largest of the ten at $2.91 billion, to roughly 323x for Internet Computer, which sits furthest from its peak at 99.7% below.Blockchains fund security, developer grants and network growth through token issuance, validator rewards and treasury spending, models that work best when prices climb, and newly minted tokens still carry real dollar value.At this scale of drawdown, the same issuance…
Bitcoin’s daily correlation with the S&P 500 fell to 0.12 during the second quarter, down from 0.58 in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to a joint report from Coinbase Institutional and Glassnode covering data through June 30.Its correlation with the Nasdaq sat at 0.21 over the same window, and gold moved in the opposite direction. Bitcoin’s correlation with the metal climbed to 0.57, and its correlation with silver reached 0.63.That reversal separates Bitcoin from the AI-driven equity trade that carried much of crypto’s price action over the past two years, arriving as the Federal Reserve meets July 28-29, Microsoft…
AFX and the Verus-Ethereum bridge suffered about $31.69 million in combined losses within hours of each other, while B² Network separately suspended token staking after unauthorized access to a contract upgrade authority.Blockaid said it detected the AFX exploit at about 21:30 UTC on July 22. An Arbitrum transaction recorded 24.15 million USDC leaving the bridge operated by AFX, a decentralized trading protocol on Arbitrum.AFX suspended its USDC custody bridge and said the incident was isolated from its trading infrastructure, mainnet, and the Arbitrum network. The affected component was a third-party bridge, not Arbitrum’s native bridge.In preliminary findings published July 24,…
Coinbase Business rolled out three tools on its first anniversary: Agent Checkout for merchants, Coinbase for Agents for automated trading, and a software kit for developers. Payments settle in USDC over x402, an open standard that revives the dormant HTTP 402 code so an AI agent can pay for a web resource without an account or subscription. The unit has signed about 5,000 customers and processed roughly US$1 billion in combined payments and trading volume since June 2025. Coinbase Business marked its first anniversary on Thursday by launching tools that let companies accept payments directly from autonomous AI agents, settling…
Strategy’s newly published metric shows Bitcoin could decline at a constant annual rate of 11.34% across the weighted duration of the company’s credit structure before its modeled coverage falls below 1.0x.The BTC Floor ARR stood at -11.34% at 3:35 p.m. BST on July 24, when Strategy’s dashboard showed a weighted credit duration of 5.79 years.The figure models a multiyear return path using Strategy’s current Bitcoin reserve, net debt, preferred stock and annual financing obligations. The metric does not establish a fixed Bitcoin-price trigger, covenant threshold or immediate liquidation event.Strategy defines BTC Floor ARR as the lowest constant Bitcoin annual rate…
FBI used Google cookies, 500 food orders and a Monero seed phrase to identify Steam malware funder
A 15-page federal criminal complaint details how investigators combined a Bitcoin trail with Google cookies, phone records, and more than 500 Uber Eats deliveries to identify Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins as the alleged financier and marketer of a Steam malware campaign. A later search uncovered a Monero seed phrase tied to roughly $382,000 in cumulative transaction activity.Federal agents arrested Wilkins, 21, in Florida on July 14. The complaint, entered the following day, charges him with one count of conspiracy to obtain information by computer for private financial gain.The allegations concern the same eight-game campaign CryptoSlate reported on July 19. The…
The lawsuit was filed the day BitMEX announced its shutdown. Lawsuit alleges excess Bitcoin collateral was retained. Plaintiffs claim losses totalling 622.66 BTC. BitMEX is facing fresh legal trouble after a class-action lawsuit accused the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange of deliberately engineering customer liquidations to take possession of traders’ Bitcoin collateral. The lawsuit was filed on the same day the company announced plans to shut down its operations, placing renewed attention on allegations surrounding its liquidation system and trading practices. The case, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, seeks to recover hundreds of bitcoins…