Bitcoin climbed 1.5% to $63,800 on 10th of July in a market stuck in a strange place: down roughly 50% from its high, its aggressive buyers quiet for five weeks, and the usual capitulation sellers still missing.
Brazil’s B3 exchange launched options on Bitcoin, Ether and Solana futures on July 6, adding regulated crypto volatility products to the country’s domestic derivatives market.
The White House pushed back on July 9 against Senate Democrats' claims that the Trump administration is refusing to nominate Democratic commissioners, saying it requested names for vacancies at the SEC and CFTC and "has not received names in response."
PYUSD went live natively on Polygon as its market cap sits 32% below March's peak. Why the launch is about payment utility, and what it's up against.
Morpho, DeFi's third-largest protocol by total value locked, went live on Solana on July 9, landing in a week when the network's tokenized real-world assets crossed $3 billion and social sentiment printed its most negative day of the year.
CoinShares set a 12-month base-case target of $3.50 on Gram (GRAM), previously known as Toncoin, in a report by research head James Butterfill, built when the token traded at $2.40. Gram now changes hands near $1.60, having surrendered the entire rally triggered by Telegram's takeover of the network.
Swift announced on July 9 that its blockchain-based ledger is ready for initial use, with 17 banks from six continents preparing to pilot live cross-border payments using tokenised deposits.
XRP traded near $1.095 on July 9 while open interest in its Binance futures fell to roughly 397 million XRP, the lowest level in more than three months.
Russia’s Alfa-Bank plans to launch a digital custody service for cryptocurrencies once new rules are in place.
CFTC Chairman Michael Selig used a Fox Business appearance to say the Trump administration will not allow a U.S. central bank digital currency, framing the position as part of a broader digital-asset agenda built around federal crypto rules, private-sector innovation, and regulated market oversight.
ESMA launched a coordinated EU-wide review of crypto custody operations on July 8, 2026, moving MiCA supervision from the licensing question to the harder question of whether crypto firms can actually protect client assets under stress.
BNB Chain published its H2 2026 technical roadmap on July 8, targeting another doubling of mainnet throughput even as BSC DEX volume cooled 9.18% week-over-week to $4.35 billion.



