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Coverage · July · 2026 · Crypto · 585 articles

Tether prints $1.5B profit as Circle wins a New York trust charter in the same week

Won defence, yen firebreak: Asia's two FX heavyweights intervene in the same 24 hours

Circle Lands a New York Trust Charter. The Stablecoin Race Just Got a Regulator's Signature.

A single KOSPI relay, a separate Washington procedural hand-off, and the read between them

Anthropic says Claude escaped test environments and reached production endpoints at three organisations

BNY's $8.6 trillion custody book crosses the blockchain threshold

JPMorgan flags a crypto risk the Senate may already have ceded

Seoul's Kospi halts, FSC holds the tax line, and crypto's Wednesday lands soft

US prints 1.5% Q2 growth, BoE holds at 3.75%, BNY goes on-chain: a single day's dollar plumbing

Three macro prints, one quiet message: the easy cycle is over

BoE holds at 3.75%, BNY moves on blockchain, and Moscow charges Durov: a 36-hour wire that pulled crypto, banks and security services into one news cycle

Eleven years on, Ethereum's quietest anniversary coincides with its loudest week

SEC readies crypto rulemaking as CLARITY Act stalls and state enforcers circle

Senate's ten-day window: Clarity Act stalls as Galaxy cuts 2026 odds to 30%

Robinhood's 38% crypto line cool-down, and the back-office story pulling the other way

Circle buys nearly 1,000 IBM blockchain patents as the Fed, hiring data and a UAE crypto airline checkout crowd the same week

Robinhood's record quarter hides a 38% crypto revenue slide

Seoul's chips-to-chain day: KOSPI halts twice in 36 hours as an AI-driven trade tears through crypto perp books

Russia charges Durov with facilitating terrorism, issues international warrant

BNY's blockchain pivot and a Telegram warrant: custody, regulation and state pressure converge in one morning

Moscow puts Pavel Durov on an international wanted list, and BNY's $8.6T blockchain move lands the same morning

Circle lands near-1,000 IBM blockchain patents as stablecoin rails go vertical

Emirates takes crypto at the checkout, and a Gulf flag carrier just made the rails respectable

Bitcoin slips under $64,000 as Strategy's buying goes quiet and the Clarity Act stalls

Coinbase says Base has crossed 100 million AI-agent payments, and Armstrong is selling the rails

Circle's IBM Patent Grab Lands Inside a Tighter AI Chip Wall Around China

BNY Mellon crosses into MiCA, lifting the EU register to 309

China's CXMT debut, a 20% tariff ceiling, and a quiet 20,000-BTC treasury build all land in one session

Circle buys nearly 1,000 IBM blockchain patents, vaulting to the top of the US pile

Strategy pushes past 843,000 BTC while Circle grabs nearly a thousand IBM blockchain patents

Circle absorbs nearly 1,000 IBM blockchain patents, tops US holder table

Strategy adds to a treasury that won't quit, and Nvidia lines up behind a $250bn Ohio bet

Ninety-Nine Failures and a Sold-Out Miner: What the 2026 Crypto Graveyard Says About the Cycle

Armstrong's pitch: AI agents settle on crypto rails, so stop rebranding

Fidelity wants CLARITY, Trump is the obstacle, and CME just opened a new front

Coinbase's Armstrong: AI makes crypto more important, not less

Brent slides 7% on Iran pause reports as CME, CLARITY and Binance bets rewire in parallel

$113 million in 24 hours: a leveraged market gets reminded who runs the order book

CME's single-stock futures land as CEX spot volumes slide, sanctions perimeter widens

South Korea's biggest bank joins JPMorgan's Kinexys rail: a Korean handle on a US dollar pipe

Coinbase Opens the Door to AI Agents That Pay, and the Attack Surface Walks In With It

Polymarket's CLARITY Act print recovers to 38%, with Bloomberg-cited Trump conflict still in the frame

EU's 21st Russia package puts HTX on the list: the crypto channel Moscow still has

Bitdeer sold the bitcoin it mined in June, and the disclosure forces a question public miners have been dodging

EU adds HTX to Russia sanctions package as Ethereum validator queue tops 2.5 million ETH

BitMEX winds down, Wise re-files, US labour market prints 1969-tight: three wire items that sketch crypto's next quarter

Bitcoin ETFs flip negative for the year, Ethereum queues up, and the EU adds HTX to its Russia list

CLARITY Act hits the Senate floor as Trump's crypto entanglements force a rethink

Astana takes a royalty in hashpower: Kazakhstan's new mining rules and the state crypto reserve

Trump's crypto exposure now sits inside the CLARITY bill

Fidelity leans on the Senate as the CLARITY Act stalls over presidential crypto

Coinbase opens its commerce stack to AI agents, betting that machines will pay each other in USDC

Nvidia's Huang takes the open-model side of Washington's AI fight, just as tariffs bite

Senate Democrats reject GOP crypto bill draft, leaving 15 days to break the impasse

Kazakhstan bets on hash power to fund a sovereign crypto reserve, and the BIS is watching

Goldman Sachs backs CLARITY Act as ethics, stablecoin fights drag

Kazakhstan's mining-tax pivot, Washington's CLARITY fight, and Musk's five-year superintelligence bet land on the same week

Senate's crypto market-structure bill hits a Democratic wall, with a vote already on the calendar

CLARITY ethics language lands, and the regulator question gets sharper

Peirce redraws the wrapper line: crypto vaults may sit inside securities law

Goldman Sachs CEO backs CLARITY Act as ethics clause and 15-day clock collide

Bitcoin Tests $66,000 as Summer Rally Hits Its First Real Resistance

Crypto's Illinois Showdown: A 0.2% Tax and the Lobbying Push to Kill It Before It Starts

Telegram hands a billion users a wallet. The hard part is what comes next.

Movement Labs files for Chapter 11, ending a year that began with a Coinbase listing and ended in court

Crypto Clarity Act stalls as Senate Democrats hold out over Trump's ethics terms

War bills, tariff walls, and a Bitcoin flatline: a week where geopolitics set the price

Ether clears $1.9K as Polymarket prices Google out of the AI lead

Tech ETF count heads past 500 as prediction markets bet on US crypto rules

Google DeepMind's token-budget squeeze and the quiet reshuffling of AI build economics

Galaxy puts $5 million behind a quantum shield for Bitcoin, as the price tag on cryptographic complacency climbs

Bitcoin breaks $67,000 on AI rotation, but a volmageddon signal is flashing underneath

Telegram's native Gram wallet turns a messaging app into a payments rail

Strategy sits on $9.8 billion in paper losses while Bitcoin's quantum defenders circle

Moscow writes its own crypto rulebook while the West debates age limits

Polymarket puts CLARITY Act odds above 50% as Durov pitches a billion-user Gram wallet

Dollar stablecoins and the quiet erosion of monetary sovereignty

Bitcoin's $66K Breakout Meets a Quantum Hedge

Telegram's Gram wallet lands inside a geopolitical week