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Altcoin

Cardano Is the Only Top-20 Gainer on a Quiet Weekend Tape

Cardano was the lone top-20 name with a real gain on a thin Saturday session, sentiment stayed in extreme fear, and the day's two market digests disagreed on the bitcoin and ether marks.

· 18 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

A $2.5B Options Spread Bets on $72,000 by 31 July

Traders bought 20,000 $70,000 calls and sold 20,000 $72,000 calls on Deribit for the 31 July expiry, a $2.5B notional structure that settles two days after the Fed.

· 18 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Bitcoin ETFs Add $132.3M on a Fourth Straight Positive Day

US spot bitcoin ETFs drew a net $132.3 million on 17 July, a fourth straight positive session, with BlackRock's IBIT supplying more than the entire category total.

· 17 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Tether Faces a Two-Year Countdown to GENIUS Act Compliance

The GENIUS Act turns one this week, leaving Tether until July 2028 to move a reserve that CoinDesk puts at roughly a quarter non-compliant into cash and Treasuries.

· 17 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

France Orders ISPs to Block Polymarket

France's gambling regulator ordered providers to block Polymarket outright on 17 July, citing 578,751 French visits in June despite a 2024 payments ban.

· 17 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Firedancer v1.1.0 Reaches Testnet as the Agave 4.3 Branch Opens

Solana's independent validator client hit testnet at v1.1.0 on July 16, the same week Agave opened its 4.3 branch, the release set to carry Alpenglow.

· 16 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Visa Launches a Stablecoin Platform, Starting With Open USD

Visa opened a managed platform for institutions to mint, hold and move stablecoins into its settlement network, starting with the consortium token Open USD.

· 16 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Citadel Securities Takes a $400M Stake in Crypto.com at $20B

Citadel Securities is investing $400 million in Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation, the exchange's first institutional funding round in about a decade.

· 16 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Hits a Three-Week High as Shorts Get Squeezed

Bitcoin touched $65,200 and settled at $63,669.13, up 3%, as $357M of liquidations landed 81% on shorts — a reversal after weeks of long-side flushes.

· 15 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

Ostium Loses $23.75M After Its Price Feed Key Is Compromised

An attacker who controlled Ostium's price-oracle key traded against fake bitcoin prices and drained the protocol's liquidity vault. The contracts never broke.

· 15 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Japan's Diet Passes the FIEA Amendments on Crypto

Japan's upper house cleared the bill on 15 July, moving crypto from the Payment Services Act to the FIEA, with a flat 20% tax from January 2028.

· 15 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

A Cold June CPI Print Lifts Bitcoin Above $64,500

June CPI came in below forecast on every line, with core flat on the month. Bitcoin ran from about $62,600 to above $64,500 as July hike odds fell to 12%.

· 14 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read