BITCOIN

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.

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

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.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs just posted their best stretch in 11 weeks, stringing together seven straight inflow sessions worth nearly $1 billion through July 22.

Tesla booked a $112 million after-tax loss on its Bitcoin in the second quarter and sold exactly zero coins. Its 11,509 BTC sat untouched while Bitcoin slid roughly 14%.

Affordability remains a challenge for many buyers, but lowering costs is not just a matter of adjusting rates. Another path is to expand market-based solutions that improve access without relying on public funding.

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.

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.

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

Ben Schiller has been in journalism since 1997 and in crypto for a decade, which makes him one of the few people who watched the dot-com bubble inflate and pop before he ever heard the word blockchain.

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.

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.

The world's largest cryptocurrency initially tumbled toward the $60,000 mark after Strategy, the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, disclosed it had sold an additional $216 million worth of the digital asset. However, it rebounded after Trump touted it.

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.

Payward has launched legal proceedings seeking recovery of digital assets and trading gains it says were improperly taken from its institutional derivatives account.

BlackRock, the single largest holder of Bitcoin on the planet through its IBIT ETF, offloaded more than 1,000 BTC in one Thursday session.

Ethereum is trading near $1,770, down about 1% on the day, and it's going almost nowhere on purpose. The whole market is holding its breath for June 17, the first FOMC decision led by new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh.

On June 15, Cardano reached the most consequential single day of its Voltaire governance era, with the Van Rossem hard fork hitting its mainnet go/no-go decision point.

Coinbase has launched a new AI‑driven trading and payments tool that lets autonomous software assistants execute cryptocurrency trades, manage portfolios, and make payments on behalf of users.