The Federal Reserve left its benchmark rate unchanged at 3.50%-3.75% on July 29, extending its pause for a sixth consecutive meeting as policymakers continue to assess persistent inflation.
During a July 29 panel discussion on digital assets, Morgan Stanley Global Head of Banks and Diversified Finance Research Betsy Graseck put the case bluntly.
MoonPay has launched PayBox, a payment vault that lets ChatGPT and Claude initiate crypto payments and blockchain transactions under limits set by the user.
The Ethereum Foundation has added security researcher pcaversaccio, known across the ecosystem as "pc," to its board for an initial one-year voluntary term. He joins President Aya Miyaguchi, co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Swiss counsel Patrick Storchenegger.
Zcash fell through the support cluster at $470 and $472 little after activating Ironwood, the network's most consequential upgrade in years, trading near $461 at the time of writing
Ethereum is trading near $1,913 after defending the 0.382 Fibonacci retracement around $1,870 and rebounding directly into the horizontal resistance.
HYPE traded near $54.9 on July 29, below both its 50-day and 100-day moving averages after losing the $57 area it had held through late June and mid-July.
Binance is facing two separate complaints about how quickly it helps investigators freeze cryptocurrency, one from US prosecutors and one, published today, from European agencies.
An artificial intelligence system developed by Anthropic has uncovered a mathematical weakness in HAWK, a post-quantum digital-signature candidate that had already survived two rounds of expert review.
Emirates has added Crypto.com Pay to its website and mobile app, allowing eligible customers in the United Arab Emirates to use cryptocurrency when booking flights.
The Bank of Russia published a package of draft regulations on July 27 setting out how a licensed domestic crypto market would operate. The proposals cover exchange rules, price reporting, digital ownership records and capital requirements for specialized custodians.
Morgan Stanley’s Ethereum and Solana exchange-traded products are now trading on NYSE Arca.



