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Founded in 2018, Cryptopolitan has grown from a popular blog into a trusted source of news and analysis for millions of readers worldwide. Over the years, we have expanded our coverage to include a wide range of topics, from market trends and technological innovations to regulatory changes and industry events.
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Backpack launches 24/7 U.S. Equities
Crypto wallet and exchange, Backpack, has launched 24/7 trading for international investors, allowing the buying and selling of real U.S. shares, starting with SpaceX (SPCX), Micron Technology (MU), and SanDisk (SNDK). Now traders outside the U.S. who previously had to wait for Wall Street’s opening bell, or settle for derivative products, can have American stocks...
Fri, Jul 10
Fed names a16z's Marc Andreessen to co-lead AI task force on jobs
Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), will help lead a new Federal Reserve task force focused on studying how artificial intelligence changes productivity and employment. The Federal Reserve has launched four other similar initiatives and announced Andreessen’s appointment on July 9. How is AI changing the workplace? The Federal...
Fri, Jul 10
Prediction markets are transforming into aggressive derivatives platforms
World, a Chainlink-powered prediction market launched in the Phantom wallet on Solana on July 1, said recently that it is moving to Robinhood Chain. The move shifts the project from Solana’s crypto-focused users to Robinhood’s roughly 28 million customers, prompting some users to accuse it of using Solana to gain attention before leaving. After more...
Fri, Jul 10
OKX, MetaMask back GenLayer's Internet Court launch
GenLayer Foundation and a cohort of crypto firms, including MetaMask, OKX, Matter Labs’ ZKsync and 0G Labs have backed the launch of Internet Court, an open standard that handles escrow funds and settles contract disputes for AI agents. What is Internet Court for AI agents? According to GenLayer, Internet Court is a standard to connect...
Fri, Jul 10
Empery Digital sells 1,400 Bitcoin, raising $87 million to fund AI pivot
Empery Digital (NASDAQ: EMPD) sold 1,400 Bitcoins from the stash it built throughout 2025 at an average of $62,200 a coin, raising about $87.1 million to invest in AI data centers and pay down debt. The Nasdaq-listed company started the sale in May and is now left holding 1,514 BTC. Why did Empery Digital sell...
Fri, Jul 10
Kalshi vs Polymarket 2026: Fees, Markets & US Legality
Two years ago the choice in the prediction market space was pretty straightforward. Polymarket was the crypto-native platform Americans weren’t meant to touch while Kalshi was the regulated US exchange that played by the book. Fast forward to today and there are multiple other prediction market platforms like Rothera, Predictdotfun, Opinion, Limitless etc that are...
Fri, Jul 10
Circle wins final OCC approval to launch national trust bank
Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL) has secured final approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national trust bank. The arrangement, which sent Circle’s CRCL stock up more than 14% in pre-market trading, will bring the USDC issuer under direct federal banking supervision for the first time. Is...
Fri, Jul 10
Meta rejects European Commission ruling on Facebook, Instagram addictive features
Meta has pushed back on what the European Commission recently said about a preliminary finding that showed that Instagram and Facebook broke EU law with features built to keep users scrolling. The finding, which was published on July 10 and looked into what the commission refers to as the “addictive design” of the two apps...
Fri, Jul 10
Japan's finance minister puts legalizing crypto ETFs on the roadmap
The Japanese government wants to make crypto ETFs legal and reclassify digital assets as financial products under new finance legislation. Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama made the announcement on Thursday. The new plan is expected to open regulated crypto exposure to ordinary Japanese brokerage customers. Katayama believes Japan needs a stronger legal framework and a...
Fri, Jul 10
Metaplanet green lights Bitcoin digital credit study with JPYC, Progmat
Metaplanet (TYO: 3350), Japan’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder, has started a joint study with three partners into Bitcoin-backed credit instruments. The Bitcoin treasury company made this known via its X account, releasing a “Notice of Commencement of a Joint Study in the Digital Credit Domain Utilizing $BTC, $JPYC, and Security Tokens.” The study groups Metaplanet...
Fri, Jul 10
Malaysia's Anwar to deploy PMX AI, an avatar trained on his own speeches
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is launching an AI avatar of himself called PMX AI that renews licenses, processes payments and answers questions in his voice. Anwar will become among the first sitting national leaders to hand over routine public jobs to an artificial likeness. Malaysia welcomes new AI Prime Minister In Malaysia’s quest to...
Fri, Jul 10
OpenAI and Google sell AI access to overseas units of Pentagon-blacklisted Chinese companies
Sam Altman’s OpenAI and Sundar Pichai’s Google have provided powerful AI products to overseas businesses controlled by Chinese corporations named on a US military watchlist. The customers include Singapore units connected to Alibaba (NYSE: BABA), Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU), and Tencent Holdings (HKEX: 0700; OTC: TCEHY). Washington claims these three companies have links with China’s armed...
Fri, Jul 10
Bitmine buys additional $36M worth of Ethereum amid persistent crash. Why is Tom Lee still doing this?
Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE American: BMNR) has spent about $35.92 million on another 20,500 ETH. The block trade took place around July 10, 2026, through Galaxy Digital (NASDAQ: GLXY), with Bitmine paying close to $1,752 for each token. The acquisition makes Bitmine’s Ethereum holdings close to 5.7 million Ether, whose current value is just shy...
Fri, Jul 10
Liquid staking survived with minimal outflows in Q2
Liquid staking remained near all-time highs, losing only 1.3% of staked ETH in Q2. ETH is also switching from exchange speculation to long-term confidence as some whales switch to staking.
Fri, Jul 10
North Carolina imposes 6% tax on CFTC-regulated prediction markets
North Carolina was the first state to codify the federal jurisdiction over prediction markets into its statutes, allowing Kalshi and Polymarket to operate legally as long as the two prediction market firms are registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). This is very important as it provides a model for all the trading platforms...
Fri, Jul 10
Russia lowers crypto reporting threshold to 60,000 rubles
Russia is preparing additional legislation allowing Rosfinmonitoring, the country’s financial-intelligence service, to have the power to control cryptocurrency transactions and acquire detailed personal information for transactions exceeding 60,000 rubles. This plan can be interpreted as a sign showing that one of the largest channels of digital payments created during the sanctions era is going under...
Fri, Jul 10
Analyst flags CodexField over suspected $85M rug pull
Blockchain analyst Specter flagged that CodexField may be engaging in a rug pull scheme. More than $85 million in user funds has been tracked through a series of wallets on several blockchains through this investigation. In a Tweet dated July 9, Specter mentions that in his investigation, he discovered CodexField’s deposit contract (0x9E6A75b546B65E7B9D34E2c9aB8Fe224B9aA52AA) along with...
Fri, Jul 10
CFTC vacancies slow CLARITY Act amid global crypto competition
A shortage of staff at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has stalled the Senate’s efforts regarding the Clarity Act, a delay the proponents fear could allow the rest of the world to dictate rules for the crypto industry worth about $2.2 trillion. In the case of crypto trading firms with a presence across different...
Fri, Jul 10
USDT on TRON Exceeds $90 Billion as TRON Leads USDT Transfer Volume with $4.2 Trillion YTD
Geneva, Switzerland, July 9, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), announced today that the total circulating supply of USDT on the TRON blockchain has exceeded $90 billion. The milestone further strengthens TRON’s position as a leading network for USDT...
Fri, Jul 10
New Hampshire council rejects $100 million Bitcoin-backed bond in 3-2 vote
New Hampshire’s Executive Council on July 8 cast a 3-2 vote to block a $100 million municipal bond that would have been secured by Bitcoin, ending a program promoted by Governor Kelly Ayotte and finance officials as the first initiative of its kind in the country. The vote halted the approach that the New Hampshire...
Fri, Jul 10
