JPMorgan has lowered its earnings estimates for Circle and Coinbase, arguing that their revised USDC arrangement with Hyperliquid exposes a structural weakness in the stablecoin’s distribution model.
The American Bankers Association, Independent Community Bankers of America and 76 state banking associations are urging Senate leaders to revise the Clarity Act before final passage, warning that Section 404 could still let stablecoin rewards reproduce the economic effect of bank-deposit interest.
A solo Bitcoin miner using a compact Bitaxe device mined block 957,382 and received 3.13823506 BTC, worth approximately $200,590 at the time, after competing against industrial mining operations with a machine producing less than 1 TH/s.
U.S. government-linked wallets transferred approximately $297 million in seized Bitcoin and Ethereum to Coinbase Prime on July 13, creating a potential liquidation signal without providing public confirmation that either asset has been sold.
The US Senate returned to Washington on July 13 with roughly four calendar weeks before its summer recess and no final public version of the Clarity Act ready for a floor vote.
The UK has assembled 54 banks, asset managers, exchanges, market infrastructure providers, and digital-asset companies to develop live uses for blockchain across wholesale financial markets.
Strategy raised $466.7 million by selling 4,818,781 shares of its Class A common stock between July 6 and July 12.
Lawson, one of Japan’s largest convenience-store chains, will run a yen-denominated stablecoin payment pilot in August 2026 at its Takanawa Gateway City store in Tokyo.
Galaxy Digital CEO Michael Novogratz says crypto's tape has turned, with trading volumes up 20-30% month-over-month and the Robinhood Chain launch showing what happens when a broker with 15 million US customers walks into DeFi.
Thailand's central bank will require anyone depositing 5 million baht or more in cash to verify the source of the funds starting in the fourth quarter, extending a control net that already covers large withdrawals and now reaches into stablecoin flows and the gold market.
Bitcoin's most aggressive buyers of the bull market have gone quiet at exactly the prices where its oldest valuation model says accumulation historically happens, and the bid they abandoned is being picked up by whales while retail traders position for more downside.
Two of Bitcoin's most influential voices closed ranks against BIP-110, with Adam Back telling the proposal's supporters that “Bitcoin won't be joining” their fork and Michael Saylor warning that the real danger is the precedent, not the spam.



