Robinhood deepened its onchain push with the launch of Robinhood Chain, while Metaplanet expanded its bitcoin treasury to 43,000 BTC. Grayscale then outlined two possible paths out of bitcoin’s bear market as key catalysts approach, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong tied crypto more directly to America’s debt and monetary problems. Metamask also entered the yield-and-payments …
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Android users are increasingly being targeted by malware that steals their payment card details through tap-to-pay technology. U.S. law enforcement is already making arrests and issuing warnings to banks about Android malware that steals data by tricking users into tapping their physical cards against their devices. Now, the cybersecurity firm D3Lab says a fresh wave …
President Trump is rejecting modest economic targets and insisting the U.S. can achieve explosive double-digit GDP growth instead of settling for 4%. In a new interview with CNBC, Trump challenges the idea that U.S. growth is capped at conventional levels. “There’s no reason we should stop at 4%. We should be at 12% and 13% …
Bitcoin price strength could “break” the entire downtrend if the reversal pattern completed, John Bollinger suggested in light of the BTC rebound. Bitcoin (BTC) is completing a “perfectly fractal” reversal pattern that a well-known analyst hopes could end the bear market. Key points: Read more Go to Source
A scammer posing as a bank representative has drained nearly $250,000 from a 71-year-old’s Chase bank account in a sophisticated phone scam that began with a fake fraud alert. The victim, who lives in New York, says he received a phone call claiming there was an unauthorized transaction on his bank card, reports the NBC-affiliated …
A city employee has fallen for a phone scam impersonating a bank representative, resulting in nearly $1.1 million being stolen from municipal bank accounts through unauthorized transfers. The incident occurred when the employee disclosed sensitive account information during the call, reports NBC Chicago. City officials say they became aware of the fraudulent payments shortly after …
Crypto was founded on a simple premise: people should be able to send, hold, and manage money without going through a bank. Fifteen years later, some of the industry’s most significant developments involve banks doing that, on blockchains, for their own institutional clients. JPMorgan now settles payments in its own deposit token on a public …
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Farside Investors’ new BIP-110 signaling alerts have put Bitcoin’s arbitrary-data dispute on a live deadline, giving exchanges, wallets, miners, pools, and node operators a concrete August window to plan around even while miner signaling remains low. A July 3 Farside post reported a new BIP-110 signaling block and listed 7 signaling blocks in the current …
Bitget launched US stock options this week and says no other major crypto exchange offers them. The product starts with the simplest version of options trading, where eligible users buy single call or put contracts, with more complex strategies planned as it matures. It sits alongside Bitget’s existing crypto markets, tokenized stocks, and contract-for-difference products …
Michael Saylor’s Strategy has calmed the immediate panic around its preferred-stock complex, but the company’s latest overhaul points to a more complicated phase for one of Bitcoin’s most visible corporate buyers. Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, announced a new capital-management framework this week after STRC, its flagship preferred stock, fell to a low of $71.25 …
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A request for the UK standards watchdog to examine Nigel Farage’s reported interactions with the Bank of England has turned the UK’s digital-pound fight into an access fight: who gets to shape public payment infrastructure while donations from a major crypto-linked backer face fresh scrutiny. A July 2 Guardian report said Labour MP Phil Brickell …
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) drew their largest daily inflow since May after a weaker-than-expected jobs report eased rate-hike concerns and helped the digital asset recover from a fresh bear-market low earlier in the week. The funds recorded $223 million in net inflows on Thursday, ending a 10-day stretch of withdrawals that had drained …
Bitcoin’s recovery above $60,000 is facing a fresh test from exchange-flow and derivatives data after large holders moved one of the year’s largest daily BTC inflows onto trading platforms during the latest selloff. Data from CryptoSlate showed that the flagship digital asset was trading at $61,528 at press time, after dropping below $58,000 earlier in …
Real-world asset tokenization has moved beyond the question of whether assets can be brought onchain. According to RWA Inc founder and CEO Kevin Yunai, the next challenge is turning those assets into liquid, compliant, and productive financial instruments. Tokenized Assets Must Become Tradable to Unlock Real Value The real-world asset ( RWA) sector has spent …
THEA has raised $8 million in strategic funding to expand its behavioral AI infrastructure and develop Thea Network. The project aims to create a trust-minimized settlement layer for AI services, using off-chain compute, Solana anchoring and zero-knowledge proofs. Maven 11 and Spartan Back THEA’s $8 Million Push Into AI Settlement Infrastructure THEA has closed an …
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