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SEC Chicago Appointment Adds To The Agency’s Enforcement Bench During A Busy Crypto Cycle
SEC personnel announcements are easy to ignore until enforcement priorities start showing up in the market. The agency’s Chicago Regional Office appointment matters because regional offices are part of the enforcement maBitcoinist
Thu, Jul 9
Bitget Wallet TON Push Shows The Web3 Front Door Is Moving Toward Messaging Apps
The wallet race is no longer just about who supports the most chains. It is about who becomes the easiest front door for ordinary users. Bitget Wallet’s TON-related push sits right in that shift, especially as Telegram-lBitcoinist
Thu, Jul 9
Uniswap Fee Switch Talk Shows DeFi Governance Is Still Searching For Sustainable Revenue
Uniswap has always been one of DeFi’s clearest product successes, but the fee-switch debate shows why product success and token value are not always the same thing. The protocol can process enormous volume, yet governancBitcoinist
Thu, Jul 9
Kraken Margin Pair Expansion Gives Active Traders More Fiat-Based Liquidity Routes
Kraken’s latest margin pair expansion is not just a product-menu update. It is part of a broader fight among exchanges to keep active traders inside their ecosystems by offering deeper liquidity, more direct fiat routes,Bitcoinist
Thu, Jul 9
SK Hynix is preparing a major US listing that could raise about $28 billion
South Korean semiconductor company SK Hynix (KRX: 000660) will list itself on Nasdaq via an offering which may hit almost $28 billion, making SK Hynix close to one of the largest-ever initial public offerings in the market. SK Hynix plans to sell 177.9 million American depositary receipts, while investor subscriptions for the IPO have already...Cryptopolitan
Thu, Jul 9
Trump Bitcoin Reserve Talk Needs More Than A Wallet Dashboard To Become Policy
Bitcoin reserve talk has a way of moving faster than the policy process behind it. That is especially true when Donald Trump, public wallet dashboards, and campaign-era crypto speculation all land in the same conversatioBitcoinist
Thu, Jul 9
Grok 4.5 undercuts Claude Opus on price but trails it at the top
SpaceXAI recently released a new version of its AI chatbot called Grok 4.5. This is a coding-focused model that Elon Musk pitched as an “Opus-class” rival to Anthropic’s Claude at a fraction of the cost. Considering the rising cost of AI usage, engineering teams are now prioritizing price per completed task over peak intelligence. Does...Cryptopolitan
Thu, Jul 9
Meta enters AI for developers race with new Muse Spark model
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 on Thursday and made it open to US developers through a new Meta Model API, creating direct competition with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. The model is available immediately in Thinking mode inside the Meta AI app and on the Meta AI website. Developers who want to plug it into their...Cryptopolitan
Thu, Jul 9
Micron plans $250B+ in U.S. chip investment through 2035, creating 90,000+ jobs
Chipmakers are racing to meet soaring demand driven by the AI boom, reshaping manufacturing, prices, and investment plans. Micron Technology said it will invest more than $250 billion in its US operations by 2035 to expand memory chip production. The investment, up from the $200 billion announced last year, reflects strong AI demand and President...Cryptopolitan
Thu, Jul 9
China's daily AI token use jumped 1,000x in two years
China’s use of artificial intelligence has surged faster than expected, with daily AI token usage rising more than 1,000-fold in just over two years. The growth is also expanding into Western markets. According to China’s National Bureau of Statistics, daily AI token usage increased from 100 billion at the start of 2024 to 100 trillion...Cryptopolitan
Thu, Jul 9
Eco Powers Programmable Cross-Chain Stablecoin Liquidity with TRON Integration
San Francisco, California, July 9, 2026 — Eco, a leading provider of programmable cross-chain stablecoin liquidity, today integrates the TRON network. Through this integration, TRON becomes part of Eco’s unified stablecoin network, allowing users to deposit stablecoins directly into TRON applications in seconds. As one of the world’s leading blockchains for stablecoin payments, TRON processed...Cryptopolitan
Thu, Jul 9
Aave Price Forecast: AAVE eyes $100 after Stable Vaults launch
Aave (AAVE) edges higher above $90.00 at the time of writing on Thursday, amid broader price stabilization in the crypto market. The company has announced Stable Vaults, a platform that allows businesses to integrate fixed-rate stablecoin yield, mildly lifting sentiment in the ecosystem.
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Thu, Jul 9
EU Parliament fails to block Chat Control, extending message scanning to 2028
The European Parliament has failed to stop platforms from scanning private messages for child abuse material until 2028 after a motion to reject the rules fell short of the 361 votes required. The EU’s Chat Control message-scanning regime will continue despite the fact that most lawmakers who cast a ballot want the rules gone. No...Cryptopolitan
Thu, Jul 9
BNB Chain Gas-Free Stablecoin Transfers Target Crypto’s Everyday Payment Problem
Stablecoins are useful, but crypto still has a simple payment problem: users do not want to think about gas. BNB Chain’s push toward gas-free stablecoin transfers is aimed directly at that friction point, especially forNewsBTC
Thu, Jul 9
Circle Brings Native EURC To Base As MiCA Gives Euro Stablecoins A Clearer Lane
Circle’s EURC launch on Base is a small but important stablecoin infrastructure move. It brings a native euro-denominated token to one of the most watched Ethereum layer-2 networks at a time when European regulation is bNewsBTC
Thu, Jul 9
Meta eyes September AI chip production date in broader AI push
Meta appears set to start the assembly line for its own in-house chip production by September of this year. News of the AI chip code-named Iris first broke after Reuters reported having reviewed an internal company memo on Thursday. The same report claimed that it only took six weeks to declare the design bug-free as...Cryptopolitan
Thu, Jul 9
Tether’s $25 Million Telecom Bet Extends Its Push Beyond Stablecoins
Tether is again making it clear that it does not want to be viewed only as a stablecoin issuer. Its $25 million investment in telecom infrastructure pushes the company deeper into the world of physical networks, decentraNewsBTC
Thu, Jul 9
INTERPOL disrupts $293M fraud ring in Operation First Light 2026 campaign
INTERPOL revealed in a statement that was shared on Thursday, July 9, that a four-month operation spanning 97 countries and territories arrested 5,811 people and froze $293 million in illicit money. This sweep also reached some crypto holders as the investigators traced romance-scam profits laundered through cross-chain token swaps. The operation, called First Light 2026,...Cryptopolitan
Thu, Jul 9
US Marshals Coinbase Prime Deal Puts Federal Crypto Custody In The Spotlight
Coinbase Prime has picked up one of the more interesting institutional custody signals in crypto: a deal with the US Marshals Service. The agreement puts federal seized-asset management back into focus at exactly the momNewsBTC
Thu, Jul 9
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