Larry Fink Comes out as Bullish, CFTC Intervenes With Kalshi, and More – Week in Review
This week’s crypto storylines mixed balance-sheet stress, regulation, venture hindsight, geopolitics, and macro sentiment. Michael…
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World Cup Betting Frenzy: $5.5B Wagers Back Spain to Crush Argentina
Two prediction market platforms are pricing the same outcome for Sunday’s World Cup final, with…
Bitcoin Faces $65,500 Wall as Daily Chart Volume Cools After Mid-July Rebound
Bitcoin trades near $64,000 on July 18, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. EDT, holding inside a…
Why Crypto Tokenization Fails—and the One Mistake Institutions Keep Making
Traditional wealth management is constrained by slow, expensive, siloed legacy settlement layers that rely on…
Fhenix Upgrades Sedona With Confidential FHE to Keep Balances Hidden From AI Agents
Self-custodial trading platform Sedona has partnered with Fhenix to integrate confidential fully homomorphic encryption infrastructure…
SBI Holdings Acquires Coinhako Majority Stake, Deepens its Asia Crypto Footprint
SBI Holdings has acquired a majority stake in Singapore-based crypto exchange Coinhako after securing regulatory…
‘Useless Plastic’: NSPK CEO Declares the End of Visa and Mastercard in Russia
Dmitry Dubynin, CEO of the National Payment Card System (NSPK), stressed that cards issued by…
Ripple Commits $250,000 to 25 Veteran-Owned Businesses Through Hire Heroes USA
Ripple has committed $250,000 in RLUSD-funded grants to 25 veteran- and military spouse-owned businesses through…
T. Rowe Price Launches Active Spot Crypto ETF With BTC, ETH, XRP Among Top Holdings
T. Rowe Price, which manages $1.89 trillion in client assets, has launched TKNZ, an actively…
Underdog Files First 7 Sports Contracts for Its Own Prediction Exchange
Underdog has filed the first seven sports event-contract templates for UDX, the federally regulated exchange…
Nigerian President Tinubu Signs Executive Order to Regulate Country’s Crypto Sector
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has signed an executive order on virtual assets to address a…
$1.38 Billion in One Month: How Venezuela’s Binance P2P Market Now Rivals Its Oil Exports
According to Econalitica, an economic consulting firm, Binance P2P volumes reached nearly 1.38 billion USDT…
Bitcoin Traders Pull BTC Below $63K as Middle East Tensions Trigger Fresh Risk-Off Selling
Bitcoin fell for a second straight day, dropping 1.4% to trade just under $63,600. It…
Tether’s USDT Is Adding Over 30 Million Wallets Every Quarter, CEO Paolo Ardoino Says
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says USDT’s user base is growing by more than 30 million…
Investors Push $79M Into Bitcoin ETFs as Ether Funds Lose $28M
Crypto ETF demand split sharply on Thursday, July 16, as bitcoin products drew $79.15 million…