CRYPTO

Bitcoin surged and ether rallied as President Donald Trump urged Congress to pass the Clarity Act.

Bitcoin is showing several signs that have appeared toward the later stages of previous market declines, according to VanEck.

On August 18, Ripple announced that Jeonbuk Bank had become the first regional bank in South Korea to deploy Ripple Payments for cross-border remittances, the company's third Korean institutional deal of 2026.

Bitcoin volatility has fallen to historically low levels, but Fundstrat says similar periods in the past have been followed by moves of around 30% in either direction within 60 days.

Binance says it fully exited Russia in 2023, but documents show the crypto giant later provided Russian investigators with detailed information about a customer who donated to Ukrainian-linked causes.

The Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted preliminary approval to World Liberty Trust Company to establish a bank charter.

Cardano has spent a year bleeding from nearly $1 to $0.18, a 95% fall from its all-time high. Now Microsoft's Copilot AI has run the numbers and come back with a forecast that reads like a dare: a base case of $0.65 by the end of 2026, with a bull range of $0.80 to $1.20.

Investors are watching whether the pullback deepens toward the $60,000 level.

Crypto's recovery masks a deeper shakeout as capital leaves weaker projects and regulated financial giants gain influence.

XRP trades near $1.02 on August 14, and this week it did something it hadn't done all year: it printed a 52-week low of $0.9923, briefly losing the $1 line that held through every panic since 2024.

The Wall Street bank is buying NEOS Investments, adding $30 billion in assets and an established lineup of options-based income ETFs to its growing asset management business.

Bitcoin mining profitability 2026 is not only a question of ASIC price, hashprice, or pool selection.

The growing interest in on-chain finance is reflected in various industry reports, including those from Big Four accounting firms, fintech companies, and payment service providers.

Traditional finance generally relies on banks, brokers, custodians, and other intermediaries to process transactions and safeguard assets.

The launch gives Hong Kong a regulated, locally denominated stablecoin as policymakers seek to build a digital-asset market that is less dependent on dollar-backed tokens.

The SEC is preparing to vote on its first major crypto rulemaking initiative, potentially creating clearer rules for companies raising money through certain digital asset offerings.

The House passed a stopgap funding bill 220-205 on July 21, shoving the government's spending deadline from September 30 to December 4 and conveniently clear of the midterms.

Scroll crypto Twitter this week and you'll see it in all caps: the UK Treasury has "crowned" Ripple, "government-level integration" is here, and even Manchester mayor Andy Burnham is supposedly backing XRP.

Strategy sold nearly $109 million worth of Bitcoin and more than $650 million of its own shares last week as Michael Saylor's company continues a major shift toward managing its increasingly complex capital structure.

The U.S. Senate has delayed a vote on the CLARITY Act until September, complicating efforts to pass landmark cryptocurrency market structure legislation before the end of the year.

Bitcoin trades near $64,800 on August 7, and Michael Saylor picked this exact moment to reaffirm the most audacious goal in corporate finance: making Strategy the largest company on Earth by market capitalization.

Hyperliquid's HYPE token trades around $55 on August 7, up roughly 5% on the day but a long way below the $76.81 all-time high it printed back in June.

Bitcoin traded above $64,000 on Thursday after recovering from an early-week pullback, while investors turned their attention to a $101 billion SpaceX share unlock, declining AI-related stocks and upcoming earnings from SoftBank.

Bitcoin's famous 500-day rule is signaling another potential buying opportunity later this year, but market experts say the rise of spot ETFs and institutional investors could weaken a strategy that worked across previous halving cycles.

Two Democratic senators want the SEC to investigate whether Donald Trump's memecoin was used for fraud or unjust enrichment, even as the agency maintains that ordinary memecoins generally fall outside federal securities laws.

The CLARITY Act, the most sweeping crypto regulation Congress has ever advanced, is stuck on the Senate floor. The obstacle isn't Republicans.

Strategy continued adjusting its capital structure last week by selling more Bitcoin, raising nearly $291 million through common stock sales and repurchasing STRC preferred shares while keeping its dividend rate unchanged.

Elon Musk sat down with The Economist at his Texas Gigafactory in late July and made a claim that lands like a wrecking ball on Bitcoin's entire investment thesis.

South Korea is once again preparing to tax cryptocurrency profits, setting up another political battle over investor protection, overseas trading and the future of digital asset regulation.