Circle Acquires IBM Blockchain Patent Portfolio, Becomes U.S. Patent Leader
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Cross River to enable P2P payments, banking services for X Money
The banking-as-a-service provider will power X Money’s peer-to-peer payments, FDIC-insured accounts and Visa debit cards as the platform expands its financial services.
Crypto’s favorite $90 trillion trading product is coming to Wall Street, but big banks are taking it slow
Perpetual futures have spent years as one of crypto’s most popular trading products, especially for investors outside the United States. Now that the contracts are entering regulated American markets, Wall Street is try…
Microsoft Says MDASH Beats Claude Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol in Cybersecurity Test
Microsoft has released its first dedicated cybersecurity model named MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and plugged it into MDASH, a vulnerability-hunting system that it says beats Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol while cos…
Fanatics Buys CFTC-Registered Exchange in Prediction Markets Land Grab
Fanatics is buying its way deeper into prediction markets, striking a deal to acquire a federally regulated exchange and clearinghouse from brokerage giant BGC Group as sports-betting heavyweights race to stake out grou…
ZRO Price Breaks Over 10% Despite $1.13M Binance Deposit From LayerZero-Linked Wallet
LayerZero-linked wallet transferred 1.2 million ZRO to Binance, extending a month-long pattern of exchange deposits.
How a Phishing Email Drained 400,000 XRP From One Holder’s Wallet
An XRP holder lost 400,000 tokens overnight after falling for a phishing email disguised as a routine hardware wallet update, according to an account shared by crypto adviser George Kaltekis.
Circle Buys IBM Blockchain Patent Estate—And Becomes America's Biggest Holder
Circle—the company behind USDC (the digital dollar used by millions worldwide for payments, savings, and international transfers)—just bought the blockchain patent library IBM spent more than a decade building. The deal…
Nvidia, Microsoft and IBM Launch Open Secure AI Alliance to Strengthen AI Cybersecurity
A consortium of technology companies including Nvidia, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Cloudflare, Hugging Face, Salesforce and Palantir has launched the Open Secure AI Alliance, an industry initiative to develop open-source too…
Strategy sells MSTR shares, buys back $25M in STRC preferred stock
Strategy raised $544.5 million through MSTR stock sales as it repurchased $25 million of STRC shares and expanded its US dollar reserve to $3.75 billion.
Thailand's SEC alleges Bitkub concealed cyberattack that led to $50 million hack
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleged that cryptocurrency exchange Bitkub and two former directors concealed a cyberattack that led to the theft of around 1.7 billion baht ($50 million), according …
Strategy Stock Boosts USD Reserve by $525 Million, Keeps 843,775 BTC
Strategy has increased its USD Reserve by $525 million, raising total cash reserves to $3.75 billion and extending dividend coverage to 2.1 years. As of July 26, 2026, the company held 843,775 BTC in its Bitcoin Reserve…
Strategy Adds $525M to Cash Reserve, Skips Bitcoin Buy for Fifth Week
Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy went a fifth straight week without buying Bitcoin, adding $525 million to its cash reserve instead and lifting the balance to $3.75 billion.
Digital asset trading platform Uphold cuts 17% of global headcount as crypto winter bites
Crypto trading platform Uphold said it cut roughly 17% of its global workforce as it reallocates resources toward its fast-growing enterprise business.
Zcash News: Ironwood Upgrade to Launch With New Shielded Pool on July 28
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SpaceX Stock (SPCX) Price Could Rebound After 50% Drop
SpaceX stock has fallen nearly 50% from its June 16 high after a strong post-IPO rally, driven by profit-taking, valuation concerns, and upcoming lockup expirations. Despite the decline, TipRanks top-rated analyst Mike …
What are perps, anyway? Everything you need to know about crypto’s hottest trading instrument
Perpetual swaps, also called perpetual futures or “perps” for short, are the dominant trading instrument in the crypto market, processing an estimated $40 to 50 trillion a year in volume. They dwarf spot trading, and th…
Ethereum Price Is Suddenly Heating Up: Here’s What’s Driving It
Ethereum Price rebounded toward the key $2,000 resistance as institutional buying gathered pace.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong criticizes crypto startups that rebrand to AI
Brian Armstrong, CEO of crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN), pushed back against the growing trend of crypto companies abandoning blockchain technology to rebrand as artificial intelligence firms.
Nvidia forms 37-member AI security alliance without OpenAI, Anthropic or Google
American chipmaker Nvidia and 36 other major technology companies launched an alliance on Monday to build open-source security tools for AI systems, citing an incident this month in which closed AI models obstructed a c…
Bitmine Nears Goal of Controlling 5% of Ethereum Supply With $11.8 Billion Treasury
Crypto treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies said Sunday it has increased its Ethereum holdings to 5.79 million ETH, bringing its combined crypto holdings, cash, marketable securities, and strategic investments t…
US Stock Market This Week
Investors are watching two major events this week: the Federal Reserve’s July 29 policy decision and earnings from Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, and Qualcomm. The Fed is expected to keep interest rates unchanged at 3.…
Rate path still divides investors: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week
Attention turns once more to the US Federal Reserve this week, with the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), chaired by Kevin Warsh, set to announce its latest interest rate decision on Wednesday, July 29.
Binance disappears from Google Play in certain EU countries
Binance’s Android app is unavailable on Google Play in some EU markets amid scrutiny over MiCA compliance.