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BTC price action returned to $64,000 on low US CPI inflation but traders stayed wary of rejection at key resistance.Bitcoin (BTC) spiked past $64,000 into Tuesday’s Wall Street open as US inflation saw a surprise sudden downturn.Key points:Read more

Hyperliquid’s deal with Circle and Coinbase creates a « prisoner’s dilemma » that puts pressure on earnings from the dollar-pegged stablecoin.

Bitcoin Magazine Strategy (MSTR) Raises $467 Million in Cash, Leaves Stash of 843,775 Bitcoin Untouched Strategy (MSTR) raised $467 million through stock sales to boost its cash reserve to $3 billion while leaving its 843,775 BTC holdings unchanged for a second straight week. This post Strategy (MSTR) Raises $467 Million in Cash, Leaves Stash of 843,775 Bitcoin Untouched first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

The federal derivatives regulator, which oversees trading at Kalshi, argued it was inappropriate for Michigan to « bully » the firm into reversing trades.

Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.Today in crypto, the UK will defer capital gains tax on certain cryptocurrency lending and liquidity pool transactions from 2027 under new “no gain, no loss” rules. Elsewhere, the European Central Bank selected 36 payment providers to help test the digital euro ahead of its planned rollout and the CLARITY Act secured a second endorsement from a major US law enforcement organization as lawmakers race to advance the crypto market structure bill before the Senate’s August recess.The United Kingdom will defer capital gains tax on certain cryptocurrency lending and liquidity pool transactions from April 6, 2027, under new rules that treat qualifying disposals on a “no gain, no loss” basis until the assets are ultimately sold.HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) announced that qualifying crypto…

“US Treasury is committed to disrupting and degrading Iran’s illicit financial activities, including its abuse of digital assets,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed the US government ordered the freezing of more than $130 million in cryptocurrency held in wallets linked to Iran on Tuesday, as hostilities ramped up in the Middle East. Earlier on Tuesday, blockchain investigator Specter pointed to onchain data showing Tether froze four Tron wallets holding $131 million worth of USDt (USDT). Bessent confirmed on X that the wallets were tied to the Central Bank of Iran. “US Treasury is committed to disrupting and degrading Iran’s illicit financial activities, including its abuse of digital assets,” Bessent said Tuesday. “We will continue to aggressively follow the money and deny the Iranian regime access to the proceeds of its illicit revenue schemes.”Read more

Institutions can now stake Tron’s native token directly from Anchorage’s custody platform as the company expands support for one of the largest USDT settlement networks.Digital asset custodian Anchorage Digital has added native TRX staking for institutional clients, expanding its support for the Tron blockchain as demand for regulated access to staking services grows.The launch expands Anchorage’s support for Tron after introducing institutional custody for TRX, the network’s native token, earlier this year. Clients can now stake TRX directly from the company’s custody platform or Porto self-custody wallet, allowing them to earn protocol rewards for helping secure the blockchain without moving assets outside their existing custody environment.Anchorage said the expansion reflects growing institutional interest in the Tron ecosystem, one of the largest networks for USDt (USDT) settlement. According to the company, Tron processed roughly $2 trillion in USDT transfers during the first quarter of 2026 while averaging 10.9 million daily transactions…

The joint roadmap aims to reduce regulatory friction for tokenized assets while strengthening ties between the world’s two largest financial centers.

A solo Bitcoin miner secured a $200,000 block reward with a budget mining rig, pushing payouts to hobby-level miners to $4.7 million for the past year.A solo Bitcoin miner hit the jackpot and validated a solo block with a single Bitaxe mining rig, marking a rare win that beat massive statistical odds.The retail Bitcoin miner secured a 3.125 Bitcoin (BTC) block reward, currently worth about $200,000, on Friday at block number 957382, according to blockchain data from mempool.space. The miner was using a single Bitaxe mining rig, according to the BTC mining pool Public Pool. The Bitaxe was a budget, lower-power Bitcoin miner that costs less than $200 and has a hashrate of about 1 terahash per second (TH/s), which is a tiny fraction of the global Bitcoin network.Read more

Shunyet Jan, Binance’s head of spot trading and derivatives, said the exchange is focusing more on payments and financial services than on trading alone as it drives the next phase of its expansion.

Bitcoin Magazine ‘Don’t Let China Win’: President Trump Presses Senate on Clarity Act in Final Stretch President Trump urged the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act before the August recess as lawmakers face a narrowing window and unresolved political hurdles. This post ‘Don’t Let China Win’: President Trump Presses Senate on Clarity Act in Final Stretch first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

The two governments issued recommendations on the treatment of digital assets as the US prepares to implement a 2025 law on payment stablecoins.The US Department of the Treasury and HM Treasury released a set of recommendations as part of the Transatlantic Taskforce for the Markets of the Future, which included stablecoin activity and tokenized finance.In a joint statement on Tuesday, the two treasury entities issued four recommendations focused on digital assets as part of bilateral cooperation between the two countries on financial markets. The task force recommended that authorities consider a private-sector-led group focused on “testing of cross-border use cases for tokenized assets” and that financial agencies in the US and the Bank of England identify shared approaches on the regulation of tokenized assets. On stablecoins, the US and UK released a joint statement aimed at regulatory alignment and establishing a “dynamic stablecoin market across borders.” Read more

The Japanese investment bank said Open USD’s yield pass-through model could pressure Circle’s margins by shifting more reserve income to distributors.

Your day-ahead look for July 14, 2026

Superteam UK lead Stephen “Cap” Newnham is taking on Nigel Farage in the Clacton by-election with pledges on pension reform and onchain transparency.Stephen “Cap” Newnham, who leads the Solana community group Superteam UK, said he will run as an independent candidate in the Aug. 13 parliamentary by-election in Clacton against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.On Tuesday, Newnham outlined five campaign pledges, including support for local entrepreneurs, digital and artificial intelligence education, financial literacy in schools and onchain political transparency. He announced his intention to stand as an independent candidate on July 9.Newnham’s fourth pledge, “You should own your pension,” argues that existing structures like self-invested personal pensions and small self-administered schemes allow savers to choose where their assets are held. He also pledged full transparency, with donations and meetings published in plain English and onchain. Read more

Backed by Dragonfly, FirstMark and Coinbase Ventures, the startup is expanding software that helps businesses integrate stablecoins into treasury and payment workflows.Stablecoin treasury platform Velocity has raised $38 million in a Series A funding round to expand infrastructure that helps enterprises and financial institutions use stablecoins for cross-border settlement and treasury operations.The funding round was led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, with participation from Activant Capital, Capital One Ventures, QED Investors, Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute Ventures and Ripple. Velocity said it plans to use the capital to expand its banking and payments network, develop new products and strengthen its regulatory capabilities.Founded in 2025, Velocity develops software that connects stablecoin networks with banking, custody, compliance and settlement systems. The company targets enterprise finance teams, payment providers, fintech firms and financial institutions using stablecoins for cross-border payments and treasury operations.Read more

OpenAI’s ChatGPT now displays Kalshi’s World Cup prediction market odds in search results, marking the AI firm’s first reported deal with a prediction market platform.Sam Altman’s OpenAI is bringing prediction market data to ChatGPT, giving World Cup fans a new way to track match predictions.OpenAI has started displaying Kalshi’s prediction market odds for FIFA World Cup matches in ChatGPT search results, according to a report by The New York Times.The integration had not been publicly announced at the time of publication. Kalshi declined to comment to Cointelegraph, while OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Read more

The companies will explore using USDC for JCB’s cross-border treasury operations and merchant payments in Japan as regulated stablecoin adoption gains momentum. Japan’s largest domestic payment network, JCB, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Circle to explore using USDC for cross-border payments and merchant transactions.Under the memorandum, the companies will initially explore using USDC for JCB’s internal cross-border fund transfers through a proof of concept, while also evaluating stablecoin payments at merchants in Japan for international visitors. The companies said they will also assess technologies that support interoperability across multiple blockchain networks.The agreement builds on a separate initiative JCB launched in January with Digital Garage and Resona Holdings to test stablecoin payments at physical stores in Japan. That project focuses on identifying technical and operational challenges to bringing stablecoin payments to domestic merchants.Read more

Prediction markets just topped $50 billion in monthly volume, capping off the first month of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Bitcoin Magazine Bitwise Sees a Bottom in Bitcoin’s Worst Vibes Yet: ‘Darkest Before the Dawn’  Bitwise says Bitcoin’s brutal nine-month downturn masks a stronger-than-ever foundation, arguing institutional adoption, corporate buying, and improving market infrastructure position the industry for a rebound despite record ETF outflows and weak sentiment. This post Bitwise Sees a Bottom in Bitcoin’s Worst Vibes Yet: ‘Darkest Before the Dawn’  first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

Social media chatter turned most bullish on XRP in five weeks even as the token fell, a setup that has historically favored sellers.

Ethereum staking generated 98% of Bitmine’s revenue last quarter as the company’s pivot from Bitcoin mining gained momentum following its March validator launch.Bitmine Immersion Technologies recorded $45.7 million in revenue from Ether staking and validation last quarter, following the launch of its institutional-grade Ethereum staking platform in March. Staking revenue accounted for 98% of total revenue for the three months ended May 31, far outpacing the $624,000 from self-mining Bitcoin (BTC) and the $168,000 from consulting services, according to Bitmine’s latest 10-Q filing. On Monday, Bitmine said it had staked 85% of its ETH holdings, equating to around 4.9 million Ether (ETH). “Bitmine has staked more ETH than other entities in the world. At scale (when Bitmine’s ETH is fully staked by MAVAN and its staking partners), the projected ETH staking reward is $284 million on an annualized basis,” said Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine. Read more

Fidelity International’s Giselle Lai argues that the most compelling long-term use case for tokenized funds is balance-sheet management for large, global institutions, not 24/7 liquidity.

The Bitcoin miner’s Georgia agreement with an undisclosed investment-grade technology company expands its footprint in AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. Shares of CleanSpark surged as much as 22% on Tuesday after the Bitcoin miner announced a 20-year data center lease in Georgia, reflecting its ongoing expansion into digital infrastructure beyond cryptocurrency mining.CleanSpark said it signed a 20-year triple-net lease with an undisclosed investment-grade global technology company for a 175-megawatt data center at its Sandersville, Georgia, campus. The company estimates the deal will generate approximately $6.6 billion in contracted revenue over the initial term, increasing to $11.6 billion if the tenant exercises two five-year extension options.Under the agreement, the tenant will install computing infrastructure at the site, with phased deliveries expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2027.Read more

Total value stolen and median hack size are declining compared to 2025, signaling that the AI hacking apocalypse was a false alarm, argued Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi.Fears that artificial intelligence would trigger a wave of catastrophic decentralized finance (DeFi) hacks in what was coined as a “hackpocalypse” have not materialized, according to Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi.While the incident count grew to a record high, the median size of hacks has dipped below $500,000 this year, down from over $2 million in 2025. Qureshi argued that this shows malicious actors using AI are targeting “small protocols and abandonware” while larger DeFi protocols have fortified themselves against AI’s threat.Excluding outlier months with large incidents, such as the Bybit hack in February 2025 along with the Drift Protocol and KelpDAO exploits in April of this year, 2026 has still seen less value hacked per month than the previous year, said Qureshi.Read more

Coinbase’s Rob Witoff said the company is leaning more on AI to help with execution, but still needs high-agency humans for judgment and strategy. Artificial intelligence now helps write more than 95% of Coinbase’s code, offering new insight into the crypto exchange’s AI strategy following its decision to cut 14% of its workforce earlier this year. Coinbase cut 700 staff in May. In an email to employees, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said AI has “dramatically” changed the pace of work and there was a need to “return to the speed and focus of our startup founding, with AI at our core.” “Effectively, 100% of our employees are using AI on a daily basis here,” Coinbase’s head of platform, Rob Witoff, told Cointelegraph. “And close to 100% of our code, probably somewhere between 95% and 100%, is written by or with LLMs today.”Read more

Senate Majority Leader John Thune reportedly said the chamber will consider a vote on the crypto market structure bill before Aug. 10, though it’s unclear whether it has enough Democratic support to pass.The US Senate is expected to vote soon on a comprehensive bill to establish market structure rules for digital assets, backed by Republican lawmakers, while some Democrats continue to push for ethics provisions.In a Tuesday press conference, Senators Chris Murphy, Jeff Merkley, and Chris Van Hollen spoke alongside representatives for Americans for Financial Reform and Indivisible and Hollywood actor Ben McKenzie in opposition to the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act. The lawmakers said that the bill did not address what they called “[Donald] Trump’s crypto corruption,” referring to the US President’s ties to the industry through his memecoin, his family’s World Liberty Financial company and other businesses and investments.“There is no reason to pass a new regulatory…

Bitcoin Magazine CleanSpark Signs $6.6 Billion Data Center Lease as Bitcoin Miner Pivots to Compute CleanSpark, the Nasdaq-listed bitcoin miner, said on July 14 that it has signed a 20-year infrastructure lease with an unnamed high-investment-grade global technology company at its campus in Sandersville, Georgia.  The deal marks the firm’s largest step from pure bitcoin mining toward high-performance computing for hyperscale clients. The lease covers data center infrastructure that will […] This post CleanSpark Signs $6.6 Billion Data Center Lease as Bitcoin Miner Pivots to Compute first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Jumps Above $64,000 as Cooler-Than-Expected Inflation Strengthens the Case for Rate Cuts Bitcoin price climbed above $64,000 after cooler-than-expected June inflation boosted expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts, though sticky core inflation and rising oil prices continue to cloud the outlook. This post Bitcoin Price Jumps Above $64,000 as Cooler-Than-Expected Inflation Strengthens the Case for Rate Cuts first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

Bitcoin Magazine Strive (ASST) Adds 18 Bitcoin, Pushing Treasury to 19,900 BTC Strive (ASST) purchased 18 bitcoin for about $1.2 million last week, increasing its treasury to 19,900 BTC while maintaining $154.1 million in cash as it continues integrating its bitcoin-focused treasury strategy. This post Strive (ASST) Adds 18 Bitcoin, Pushing Treasury to 19,900 BTC first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

The bill, as currently drafted, has the power to stop sanctions evasion at scale, argues Ari Redbord, global head of policy at TRM Labs.

ABA and state banking associations published a joint letter calling for more detail on the CLARITY Act’s stablecoin yield provisions, ahead of the bill’s House hearing on Friday.A wide swath of the US banking industry is urging Senate leaders to amend the stablecoin yield provisions of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY) now under consideration. The American Bankers Association (ABA), the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) and 76 other state banking associations sent a joint letter to Senate leaders that claimed that the current language on stablecoin interest, yield and rewards is too ambiguous and argued that new amendments need to prevent payment stablecoins from acting as deposit substitutes rather than pure transaction tools.The joint letter, which showed support for the broader bill, said the ABA is concerned that ambiguities within the bill “could encourage stablecoin arrangements to effectively function as substitutes for deposits, despite Congress’ longstanding and clearly…

Wikipedia observes guidelines on crypto coverage that date back many years and may now be outdated, according to the report.

Humanity Protocol’s founder said they will refocus on operational security, as malicious actors are switching from smart contract vulnerabilities to exploiting human behavior. Humanity Protocol will refocus its cybersecurity efforts on operational security following a June $36 million exploit that was traced back to a compromised employee laptop, according to the founder of the decentralized identity company, Terence Kwok.In an interview with Cointelegraph, Kwok said that the exploit stemmed from last year’s mainnet launch, when several production keys were inadvertently backed up onto the laptop that was compromised, including admin hot wallet keys and a quorum of multisig owner keys across both chains.  He said:The exploit and Humanity Protocol’s action highlight an increase in cryptocurrency hackers refocusing their attacks on staff-level vulnerabilities and operational shortcomings, rather than exploiting smart contract code.Read more

Bitcoin Magazine China’s Prosecutors Move to Treat Crypto Mixers as Evidence of Money Laundering China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate published proposals that would make it easier to prosecute crypto-related money laundering, including treating the use of mixers and privacy coins as presumptive evidence of laundering intent. This post China’s Prosecutors Move to Treat Crypto Mixers as Evidence of Money Laundering first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

The pilot will test a beta version of the digital euro for online, offline, in-store, and e-commerce payments with ECB and central bank staff as users.

Certain Democrats are taking an increasingly rigorous stand against the crypto market structure bill, which needs a significant number from their party to pass.

Bitcoin consolidated after Monday’s selloff as Donald Trump threatened more Iran strikes, gold extended its slide and a KOSPI index meltdown sent South Korean crypto volumes soaring.

The European Central Bank will beta test a digital euro with 36 providers, including Revolut, after the project drew more than 50 applications.The European Central Bank is moving the digital euro from planning into testing, with dozens of payment companies joining the next stage of the project.The ECB selected 36 payment service providers (PSPs) to participate in a digital euro pilot, according to an official announcement published Tuesday.The list of selected PSPs includes fintechs Stripe and Revolut alongside traditional banks including Deutsche Bank, UniCredit and BPCE. Revolut has recently adjusted some cryptocurrency services for EU users by phasing out support for Tether USDt.Read more

Bitcoin Magazine UK Adopts ‘No Gain, No Loss’ Tax Treatment for Crypto Lending and Liquidity Pools The UK will introduce a « no gain, no loss » tax treatment for qualifying crypto lending and DeFi liquidity pool transactions from April 6, 2027, deferring Capital Gains Tax until users make an economic disposal of their cryptocurrency. This post UK Adopts ‘No Gain, No Loss’ Tax Treatment for Crypto Lending and Liquidity Pools first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

This morning’s report could go a long way toward determining whether the Federal Reserve raises interest rates at its late-July meeting.

MicroStrategy blew up during the dot-com era, before Michael Saylor transformed it into the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder. Did he learn his lesson?In March 2000, Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor watched more than $6 billion disappear from his fortune in a single day.MicroStrategy’s shares had plummeted more than 60%, thrusting the thirty-five year old software entrepreneur into the center of the dot-com crash. The company later settled civil fraud charges with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over its accounting practices without admitting or denying wrongdoing. MicroStrategy did not cause the dot-com bubble to burst, but the saga was one of the era’s high-profile corporate blowups and the company became a symbol of the periods excesses and risks. Read more

Bitcoin Magazine The Bitcoin Softfork That Tried to Police “Junk Data” — And Why It’s Already Failing Bitcoin’s real power is that anyone willing to pay fees can write to the ledger. BIP-110’s backers want to change that for data-heavy transactions. The backlash reveals what’s truly at stake. This post The Bitcoin Softfork That Tried to Police “Junk Data” — And Why It’s Already Failing first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Brandon Black.

Bitcoin Magazine White House Crypto Chief Patrick Witt to Begin Military Leave as Clarity Act Nears Senate Deadline White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt will begin military leave later this month as the Senate enters a critical final stretch to pass the Clarity Act before the August recess. This post White House Crypto Chief Patrick Witt to Begin Military Leave as Clarity Act Nears Senate Deadline first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

The change in tax policy, expected to effect about 700,000 people in the UK, is tied to the disposal of crypto in lending and liquidity pools.The UK’s tax authority plans to treat “certain disposals” related to cryptocurrency lending and liquidity pools as transactions that would effectively defer the country’s capital gains requirements.In a Monday announcement, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) said that starting on April 6, 2027, it would adopt a “no gain, no loss” approach to disposals involving crypto loans and liquidity pools. According to the tax authority, this measure would defer capital gains tax on digital assets “until an economic disposal.” “This measure will support fairness in the tax system,” said the UK tax authority. “It aligns the tax treatment more closely with the economics of these arrangements by ensuring that gains and losses are generally recognized only when the participant makes an economic disposal of the cryptoassets.”Read more

The spinout comes amid one of the biggest organizational shakeups at the Ethereum Foundation in years.

Long-term holders are quietly transferring supply to a new generation of buyers, but looming Federal Reserve rate hikes could still trigger the capitulation markets have been waiting for.

Mark Palmer said Hut 8’s Beacon Point project transforms the company into an AI infrastructure platform with a long growth runway.

BIP-110 sought to limit non-financial data on Bitcoin’s blockchain but instead reignited debates over censorship and decentralization.

JCB and Circle will explore using USDC for cross-border payments and merchant transactions as Japan ramps up efforts to bring stablecoins into everyday commerce.