CRYPTO

Exactly one year ago today, on July 18, 2025, XRP printed its all-time high of $3.65, and the world could not stop Googling it. Worldwide XRP search interest hit a perfect score of 100 that same week, the euphoric peak of a rally years in the making.

Federal authorities have arrested a 21-year-old Florida man accused of participating in a scheme that allegedly used malware-infected video games to steal cryptocurrency from gamers.

On July 15, BlackRock's Larry Fink told CNBC that the brutal crypto selloff, which knocked Bitcoin from a $126,000 October 2025 record to the low $60,000.

Cantor Fitzgerald and Securitize are partnering to bring blockchain technology directly into the public offering process, marking another step in Wall Street's growing adoption of tokenized securities.

Dutch cryptocurrency platform Knaken has been declared bankrupt by a court in Rotterdam after prosecutors said approximately €7 million ($8.1 million) in customer funds could not be accounted for.

XRP popped to around $1.12, a roughly 2% gain, after Binance unveiled an $800,000 XRP reward campaign on July 15.

The United Kingdom is overhauling the way it taxes certain cryptocurrency transactions, becoming one of the first major economies to formally recognize that lending digital assets and participating in decentralized finance liquidity pools do not always represent a meaningful change in ownership.

President Donald Trump has renewed his push for comprehensive cryptocurrency legislation, urging the Senate to approve the CLARITY Act while dedicating the effort to the late Sen. Lindsey Graham.

Kraken is the latest tech company to place its bets on agentic artificial intelligence. The cryptocurrency exchange company announced that it plans to restructure its entire flagship app around agentic AI.

A group of five senior Senate Democrats is renewing the push for congressional hearings into President Donald Trump's cryptocurrency business interests.

They called it Operation Veil of Maya, after the philosophical idea of an illusion that hides reality. The cops were not being subtle.

Paul Grewal spent six years as Coinbase's chief legal officer, took the company public, and beat the SEC in a case that could have gutted the entire US crypto industry.

The move comes as crypto firms and traditional financial institutions compete to build regulated stablecoin infrastructure following clearer U.S. rules for digital assets.

The White House pushed back Thursday against claims that it has refused to nominate Democratic commissioners to key financial regulators, adding another dispute to the debate over U.S. cryptocurrency rules as the Senate prepares to return from recess.

ADA price added 14,783 new non-empty wallets in the days after its June 23 bottom, per on-chain firm Santiment, then ripped roughly 24% in a week, touching $0.199 on July 5 before settling near $0.181.

XRP just reclaimed the throne on Upbit, South Korea's largest crypto exchange, posting $52.33 million in 24-hour trading volume and blowing past Bitcoin at $42.14 million and Ethereum at $24.30 million on the same venue.

Bitcoin's long transaction history has left a large number of public keys visible, making it a central focus in the industry's security debate.

Mercado Bitcoin plans to use the funding to grow its payments, lending, tokenized investment products and international operations.

Publicly traded crypto treasury companies took sharply different approaches to managing their digital asset holdings last week, with one expanding its Ethereum position while another reduced its Bitcoin reserves to meet corporate financial obligations.

For its entire history, Solana's biggest decisions were made the way a startup makes them: by the founders, the core devs, and the Foundation. That changed on July 1.

A Reuters investigation found that President Trump's family made roughly $2.3 billion from four crypto ventures while putting up little to no capital.

XRP limped out of June down roughly 20%, starting the month near $1.30 and closing around $1.04, its weakest level since late 2024.

Strategy has updated its capital structure to include controlled bitcoin sales for dividend support, a shift that JPMorgan says introduces opposing supply-demand pressures across crypto markets.

President Donald Trump's latest financial disclosure shows his cryptocurrency ventures generated more than $1.4 billion in income during 2025, making digital assets the biggest contributor to his business earnings since returning to the White House.

Expectations for the bill to pass by the end of 2026 have fallen to 48%, down from 70% in mid-May, reflecting shifting sentiment around the timing of legislation and ongoing policy disagreements.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse dropped a figure on CNBC that XRP holders have been screenshotting all week

On Sunday, June 29, Michael Saylor posted Strategy's Bitcoin acquisition tracker to X with the caption "We're gonna need more charts,"

BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust, the product that turned "institutional demand" into a tidy bull-market slogan, just ran the slogan in reverse.

Bitcoin's slide toward $60,000 has drawn renewed attention from Wall Street strategists as ETF outflows and macro pressures reshape investor positioning across digital assets.