The world’s largest stablecoin issuer pays roughly $2.9 billion a year in fees to blockchains it does not control. Its answer was to back two competing chains at once: Plasma, the $373 million DeFi-flavored bet, and Stable, the enterprise rail…
Tether funded both sides of its own chain war
SpaceX completed its 13th test flight on July 24, deploying 20 next-generation Starlink satellites and achieving its smoothest ocean splashdown yet. Despite the success, shares of the firm (Nasdaq: SPCX) barely budged, still trading roughly 15% below their June IPO price. A Mostly Clean Test, With One Failure SpaceX launched Starship atop its Super Heavy […]
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 Succeeds, but SPCX Stock Barely Moves, Still Trading at Just $115
New regulations for crypto trading, custody, and settlement in Russia take effect Sept. 1, with requirements for licensed intermediaries applying from July 2027.
Russia’s largest bank Sberbank plans crypto trading infrastructure by December
Traders on Polymarket and Kalshi are staking millions of dollars on where ethereum’s price lands before the end of 2026, with the market split almost evenly on whether the token hits $1,000 or $3,000 first. Ethereum traded near $1,860 on Saturday, July 25, down from a recent high above $1,950 reached earlier in the week. […]
Polymarket Bettors Give Ethereum Just a 17% Shot at Reaching $3,000 in 2026
The OCC denied the UK company’s application this week citing AML/CFT risks, despite approving similar charters for digital asset companies in the last year.
Wise expected to resubmit US charter application under GENIUS
The team behind decentralized exchange aggregator Odos said on July 23, 2026, that the company operating the platform is winding down and will end all services by July 30. Odos posted the announcement on its official X account. The statement said the app moves to read only mode on July 27, with every Odos service […]
DeFi Aggregator Odos Closes Doors, Leaves Users 5 Days to Move Locked Funds
Key Takeaways: Robinhood Chain made headlines for its achievement of becoming the fastest EVM based network to reach 100M+ transactions. Transacting around 147 million transactions over the initial 85 days, the network is charging ahead of its rivals. During similar public soft caps, Base, zkSync, BSC, Linea, and Mantle had much fewer transactions overall. User Score8.7
Robinhood Chain Rockets to 147M Transactions, Beating Base and BSC by Massive Margins
The group allegedly breached Central Bank systems, converted crypto to cash via Chinese brokers, and used small transfers to evade detection.
North Korea arrests hackers accused of laundering stolen funds from country's bank via crypto
Payment gateway Triple-A had more than $9.7 million drained from its hot wallets across six blockchains on July 24 and July 25, according to security alert service Peckshield. Onchain Investigator Flags the Breach First Onchain investigator Specter first reported the incident. According to a Peckshield alert published Saturday, wallets tied to Triple-A, a Singapore-based fiat-to-cr
Triple-A Hot Wallets Drained of $9.7 Million Across Six Chains: Here’s What Peckshield Found
Key Takeaways Small whales have returned to unrealized profit. Short-term holder market cap broke its 2024 low. Exchange netflow reached positive 5,044 BTC. Open interest rose as funding turned negative. Fresh spot demand remains the missing confirmation. The Rebound Repaired Cost Basis, Not Capital Formation The most constructive signal comes from wallets holding between 100 a
Bitcoin Whales Recover but Short-Term Holders Sink
When SpaceX went public, the only place most of the world could short it was Hyperliquid, where a perpetual future tracked the IPO of the decade tick for tick, and a whale ran a $14 million leveraged short no brokerage…
Wall Street’s newest short desk is a blockchain
A crypto whale received 557,902 HYPE tokens, worth $32.87 million, from institutional liquidity provider FalconX and immediately staked the entire amount on Hyperliquid. The move comes as HYPE trades well off its June peak. FalconX Transfer Lands Directly in Staking On-chain data flagged the transaction Saturday, tracing 557,902 HYPE tokens moving from FalconX, an institutional […]
Whale Stakes $32.87M in HYPE as Token Trades 25% Below Its June Peak
The wallet tied to the Trump team’s TRUMP token allocation moved another 10.84 million tokens, worth $16.91 million, toward custodian Bitgo on July 25, extending a pattern the team has repeated for months. Onchain Data Flags a Fresh Bitgo Transfer Blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain said the official Trump team allocation wallet sent 10.84 million TRUMP, […]
Trump Team Shifts $16.9M More in TRUMP Memecoin to Bitgo as Total Hits $172M in Five Months
The New York Stock Exchange’s parent just completed a $2 billion bet on Polymarket. Kalshi raised a billion at $22 billion while generating fee revenue most exchanges would envy. Seven bills in Congress want the whole category banned. Wall Street…