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Bitcoin’s usual buyers turned sellers in H1 2026 as macro pressures mount, Binance Research
Binance Research’s new report titled “Half-year 2026: Macro & Bitcoin” has shed more light on how the cryptocurrency performed in the first half of the year. The report showed that Bitcoin declined by 32% year-to-date, and it is currently down by over 50% from its all-time high of $126,080, which it hit in October 2025....
Thu, Jul 30
3iQ to manage part of Bhutan's Gelephu Mindfulness City Bitcoin treasury
3iQ, the Toronto digital asset manager now owned by Japan’s Coincheck, has announced that it will manage a portion of the Bitcoin reserves behind Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC). 3iQ will be the special economic zone’s first named manager for the sovereign crypto it plans to build a financial hub on. Why is 3iQ managing...
Thu, Jul 30
Aave moves to wind down Scroll, zkSync and Aptos in reserve cull
Aave’s founder Stani Kulechov named Scroll, zkSync and Aptos among the smaller deployments that the project plans to fully retire in part of a sweeping proposal to deprecate another 50 low-adoption asset reserves in a governance push announced on Thursday. According to the governance forum filing drafted by risk provider LlamaRisk, the two-part plan is...
Thu, Jul 30
BitRiver CEO Igor Runets faces fraud charges in Russia
The founder and chief executive of the Russian Bitcoin mining giant BitRiver, Igor Runets, has been charged with large-scale fraud and remanded in custody. The crypto entrepreneur, who was detained earlier this year on tax evasion charges and initially placed under house arrest, has been moved to a detention facility. BitRiver CEO Runets is facing...
Thu, Jul 30
Binance.US to challenge Kalshi and Polymarket with new prediction market push
Binance.US is gearing up to take on prediction market leaders Kalshi and Polymarket. The American platform is seeking a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) license to launch its own prediction market. During a panel at Rare Evo in Las Vegas, the platform’s CEO, Stephen Gregory, confirmed that they plan to apply for a designated contract...
Thu, Jul 30
Ex-OpenAI researcher hedge fund bets against AI chip stocks
Situational Awareness, a hedge fund specializing in artificial intelligence that was established by Leopold Aschenbrenner, a previous employee of OpenAI, is seeking to get additional funding from investors as semiconductor and AI stocks plummeted. The timing is important because this hedge fund has the biggest disclosed bet against the companies causing the drop in the...
Thu, Jul 30
Gumi, SBI launch ¥3 billion crypto fund as Japan opens door to spot ETFs
gumi Inc., a Japanese gaming and blockchain company, has joined with a financial group, SBI, to launch SBI Crypto Fund I. It will begin operating on August 1, 2026. The fund is aiming for 3 billion yen, which makes up $18.3 million. It will employ methods such as staking, hedging, and portfolio rebalancing to manage...
Thu, Jul 30
Anthropic AI breaks HAWK-256 in 60 hours, raising Bitcoin concerns
An unreleased Anthropic AI model has broken a post-quantum signature scheme in about 60 hours, reopening a question Bitcoin developers have yet to answer: when should the network begin migrating to quantum-resistant cryptography? The finding poses no immediate threat to Bitcoin. HAWK-256 was never used by the network, and no existing wallets are affected. But...
Thu, Jul 30
Tokenized Equity Holders Hit Record 766K, Up 93% in 30 Days
The number of tokenized stock holders is now at 766,366 as per data from rwa.xyz. With each passing day, asset holders in this sector seem to be multiplying. That said, July in particular has seen explosive growth here. Over the past 30 days, tokenized stock holders have grown from around 396K to where it is...
Thu, Jul 30
Lazarus just moved $7.7M in Bitcoin after hackers stole $577M in 2026
A wallet cluster associated with North Korea’s Lazarus Group transferred 121.5 Bitcoins, worth around $7.74 million, roughly an hour before the blockchain tracker Lookonchain identified the transaction on Thursday. The amount is significant, given that transactions from wallets tied to Lazarus Group generally do not go unnoticed. The importance lies more in what this kind...
Thu, Jul 30
US puts AI at the center of its biosecurity and biomedical research plans
The United States government aims to utilize artificial intelligence as a key element for hastening biomedical research and safeguarding against biological threats using funds worth over $5 billion that the White House announced on July 22 as part of the nationwide plan on introducing AI to research. The authorities claimed that the funds would speed...
Thu, Jul 30
Samsung posts record profit as AI memory demand reshapes chip market
Samsung Electronics divulged on Thursday (July 30) that it earned KRW 89.5 trillion in operating profit in the second quarter, boosted mainly by memory chips used in AI data centers. Its consolidated revenue increased significantly to KRW 171.5 trillion, an increase of 28% on the previous quarter, per the company’s earnings report. The timing is...
Thu, Jul 30
Microsoft surges 8% as Meta tumbles 10% after sharply contrasting AI earnings
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) climbed 8% after Wednesday’s closing bell, while Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) sank 10%. Microsoft reported adjusted earnings of $4.74 per share in the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2026, exceeding LSEG’s $4.24 expectation. Sales totaled $90.01 billion, exceeding the $87.62 billion projection. Meanwhile, Meta earned $6.18 per share, less than the...
Thu, Jul 30
South Korea launches AIDC Alliance to build 18.4GW of AI data centers
South Korea’s government and 12 of its largest tech, power, and cooling companies have launched a public-private body called the AIDC Alliance. The aim of the group is to build 18.4 gigawatts of AI data centers and turn the country into an exporter of “intelligence tokens.” What is the AIDC Alliance? The Ministry of Science...
Wed, Jul 29
LIVE: Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady in Kevin Warsh second meeting as chair
The Federal Reserve is expected to hold rates steady in Kevin Warsh’s second meeting as chair, while Bitcoin remains stuck near $60,000 as analysts debate whether a lasting bottom is forming. The Dow rose 537 points as the Nasdaq slipped as semiconductor stocks sold off, with Micron and AMD both falling more than 8%. Oil...
Wed, Jul 29
Altura blames bank account freeze for delay in vault shutdown process
Altura has announced that the account holding the cash that is meant for the last round of payouts from its stablecoin vault has been temporarily restricted by the bank. The DeFi yield protocol wrote, “The situation is entirely outside of our control, and there is no further action we can take until we receive an...
Wed, Jul 29
How Andrew Tate's legal troubles could push CLARITY Act down Trump's priority list
With Democratic House Representative from Arizona, Yassamin Ansari beating a path to get Barron Trump to testify on ties with fellow crypto bros, Andrew and Tristan Tate, President Trump is expected to have as high a stake as the digital asset lobby in ensuring that the Republican Party comes out of the mid-term elections still...
Wed, Jul 29
Russia declares Telegram's Pavel Durov interntionally wanted over terrorism claims
Telegram founder Pavel Durov has been charged with facilitating Ukraine-instigated sabotage and terrorist activities in the Russian Federation. The tech entrepreneur, whose popular messenger is being targeted by Moscow’s censors, has been reportedly placed on an international wanted list. Russia issues arrest warrant for Pavel Durov Russian authorities are going after Pavel Durov over allegedly...
Wed, Jul 29
TRX Spot and Perpetuals Listing Launches on Backpack, Expanding Access to the TRON Ecosystem
Geneva, Switzerland, July 29, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), today announced the listing of TRX spot trading and perpetual contracts on Backpack Exchange. The listing expands market support and access to the native utility token of the TRON...
Wed, Jul 29
Coinbase and Robinhood battle for crypto’s next phase as earnings loom
Coinbase and Robinhood will announce their earnings for the second quarter of 2026 this week, and, in this regard, the results will say as much about the future of cryptocurrencies as about the two companies. Robinhood reports Wednesday after the closing bell, followed by Coinbase on Thursday. In combination, both firms signal one of the...
Wed, Jul 29
