BITCOIN

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.

Zodia Custody CEO Julian Sawyer on the Standard Chartered deal, why stablecoins are just "tokenized money," and how crypto disappears into everyday banking.

On June 5, Bitcoin printed $59,100, its lowest level of 2026, and in a single 24-hour window 351,233 traders were liquidated.

On June 4, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes announced he had sold his entire HYPE and NEAR positions. The size of the trade isn't the story. The timing is.

Bitcoin dropped 5.5% to $61,322 in early Singapore trading on June 4, its weakest level since February 6, before clawing back to around $64,200 by the afternoon.

Strategy sold 32 bitcoin between May 26 and May 31, hauling in about $2.5 million at an average of $77,135 a coin, disclosed in a June 1 8-K filing.

The crypto market is deep in a correction, and the sentiment data reflects it. Fear gauges have plunged toward levels historically associated with capitulation selling.

For the first time in its history, the World Economic Forum at Davos gave stablecoins and tokenization their own dedicated panel sessions.Not side events. Not hallway conversations. Main stage.

Zcash Has Rallied More Than 1,200% in 2026. Its Winklevoss-Backed Advisor Calls That "Background Noise."