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Bitcoin falls to $62.8k as US-Iran tensions batter risk Investing.com-- Bitcoin fell on Monday, remaining under pressure as renewed hostilities between the U.S. and Iran kept markets largely averse towards speculative, non-yielding assets like cryptocurrencies. The world’s largest crypto fell 1.8% to $62,853.4 by 00:26 ET (04:26 GMT).  Broader crypto prices also fell on Monday, extending losses from over the weekend and remaining close to their weakest levels for the year.  Get more price insights and technical analysis on Bitcoin by subscribing to InvestingPro Bitcoin, crypto pressured by US-Iran tensions  Bitcoin was hit by heightened risk-aversion after the U.S. and Iran traded a fresh round of attacks over the weekend, and...

Nationwide Crypto Betting Crackdown Rocks Brazil: Inside Operation Veil of Maya Nationwide Crypto Betting Crackdown Rocks Brazil: Inside Operation Veil of Maya Prediction markets in Brazil have been caught in the same net. In April 2026, the SPA banned unlicensed prediction markets – platforms that let users bet on the outcome of real-world events. The SPA ruled that they "simply reproduce the essential elements of fixed quota bets" and therefore require a license to operate legally. That decision carries direct implications for any retail investor using or considering prediction market platforms with Brazilian user bases. The enforcement tempo is striking. Just five days before Veil of Maya, on July 5, 2026, the Brazilian Federal...

We Asked 4 AI Models if Saylor's Strategy (MSTR) Survives if Bitcoin Price Falls to $50K We Asked 4 AI Models if Saylor's Strategy (MSTR) Survives if Bitcoin Price Falls to $50K Grok also concluded that bankruptcy would remain unlikely because the company's liabilities would still represent only a fraction of total assets, even after Bitcoin fell to $50,000. Claude described the scenario as a "serious stress test" rather than an existential crisis. The Real Risk Isn't Bitcoin — It Is Losing Access to Capital Markets While all four models dismissed immediate solvency concerns, they agreed that the greatest threat to Strategy would come from a very different source: its ability to continue raising capital. Strategy's Bitcoin...

Senate’s August Deadline Puts CLARITY Act on a Knife-Edge Senate’s August Deadline Puts CLARITY Act on a Knife-Edge Both Thune and Scott have been coordinating the July push. Stalled US crypto legislation has already been cited by market analysts as a drag on price forecasts; Citi flagged the legislative uncertainty as a factor in its revised Bitcoin and Ether outlooks, making a clean Senate passage consequential well beyond Capitol Hill. The Road After the Senate Even a successful vote on the Senate floor does not end the process. The House passed its own version of the CLARITY Act in July 2025 by a 294-134 margin, but House Republicans have been slowed by internal infighting for weeks. Before the bill can reach President Trump's...

SEC could start writing crypto rules before the Senate votes on CLARITY SEC Could Start Writing Crypto Rules Before the Senate Votes on CLARITY The entry says those rules could include exemptions and safe harbors designed to clarify the regulatory framework, provide greater market certainty, facilitate capital formation, and protect investors. That would put token issuers and projects seeking registration, exemption, or disclosure paths near the front of the agency's process. It would also move one of the industry's longest-running disputes into a formal rulemaking channel after years in which crypto firms argued that the SEC relied too heavily on enforcement actions. This is also the most legally sensitive of the three July...

Bitcoin Has Two Ticking Time Bombs, Ex-Meta and Google Engineer Warns Bitcoin Has Two Ticking Time Bombs, Ex-Meta and Google Engineer Warns Not everyone shares the panic, though. Several academics recently concluded that attacking Bitcoin's mining process would require "the energy of a star." The industry has mounted a broad security race to quantum-proof the chain. Concrete proposals are already emerging. BIP-361 is a three-phase soft fork that would eventually freeze coins, skipping migration to quantum-safe addresses. Also, Starkware's chief product officer published a scheme for quantum-safe transactions built from existing rules. Shyu's own exit was as much about leverage as protocol design. He admitted using excessive...

Bitcoin holds above $63,000 as Iran tensions rise, BIP-110 debate intensifies Investing.com -- Bitcoin traded above the $63,000 mark over the weekend, showing resilience despite a fresh escalation in the Iran conflict, renewed debate over Bitcoin’s blockchain rules, and growing momentum behind U.S. digital asset legislation. The world’s largest cryptocurrency was trading down 0.42% at $63,984.1 as of 04:56 ET (08:56 GMT) after the U.S. carried out a third round of strikes on Iranian military targets and Tehran again declared the Strait of Hormuz closed.  Bitcoin was little changed on the day even as geopolitical tensions threatened global energy supplies.  Unlike previous Middle East flare-ups, crypto markets showed little sign of...

Cathie Wood-led ARK Invest Buys Coinbase, Trails Only SpaceX Among Friday's Top Buys Cathie Wood-led ARK Invest Buys Coinbase, Trails Only SpaceX Among Friday's Top Buys ARK Invest, led by Cathie Wood, made a significant purchase in Coinbase, now positioned just behind SpaceX among their top acquisitions on Friday. The investment highlights ARK Invest's continued interest in the cryptocurrency space and its associated technologies. Coinbase is a major player in the digital currency market, providing a platform for trading multiple cryptocurrencies. This move reflects confidence in the cryptocurrency sector's growth potential. This article has been published on yahoo.com via Yahoo News...

SWIFT’s Blockchain Ledger Fires at Tether and Circle, But Will It Halt BRICS Payment Push? SWIFT’s Blockchain Ledger Fires at Tether and Circle, But Will It Halt BRICS Payment Push? By contrast, public stablecoins settle in under three minutes at a fraction of a percent. BRICS Alternatives Face Fresh Competition The rollout also comes as BRICS nations continue developing alternative cross-border payment infrastructure aimed at reducing reliance on Western financial systems. Projects, including BRICS Pay and the proposed BRICS Bridge settlement network, have been built to deliver cross-border payments in local currencies while reducing dependence on US dollar-based infrastructure. The economic footprint of these initiatives has...

Bitcoin Treasury Firm Empery Digital Dumps Nearly Half of BTC Holdings for $87 Million Bitcoin Treasury Firm Empery Digital Dumps Nearly Half of BTC Holdings for $87 Million Empery Digital (EMPD) stock has ticked up about 2% on the day so far Friday, per data from Yahoo Finance, recently trading at $3.87. Shares are up more than 14% in the last month, but down about 15% so far this year. This article has been published in decrypt.co via Yahoo News. https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/bitcoin-treasury-firm-empery-digital-185446284.html

Ethics Deadlock Threatens Senate Crypto Bill Despite July Vote Target Ethics Deadlock Threatens Senate Crypto Bill Despite July Vote Target The BRCA would ensure crypto developers are not treated as money transmitters under federal regulations if they are not handling customer assets, a top priority for the DeFi sector, which has made preserving those protections a core demand throughout the Clarity negotiations. Wyden's letter does not resolve the ethics standoff, but it narrows the Democratic objection list somewhat. It also signals that at least some Democrats see enough in the bill's market structure framework to engage constructively rather than simply walk away. The Calendar Is Running Out The Senate has three remaining...

Strategy Bitcoin Sales 'Mostly Noise,' Standard Chartered Says, Holding $100K BTC Call Bitcoin changed hands around $64,440 on Friday, up 3.8% on the week but down 42% over the past year and about 49% below its October 2025 record of $126,080, per CoinGecko data. What the Market Thinks Traders are doubtful Strategy's buying spree will resume at full tilt. A market on Myriad, a prediction platform owned by Decrypt's parent company Dastan, puts the chance of the company holding more than 1 million BTC before 2027 at around 13%. Strategy holds 843,775 today, more than 4% of all the Bitcoin that will ever exist. This article has been published in yahoo.com via Yahoo News...

Coinbase CLO and Grayscale CFO Both Exit as Crypto Regulation Era Begins McGee also supported Grayscale's confidential IPO filing in 2025, which the firm has since paused. Kathryn Masci and Daniel Plourde, both senior finance executives, will serve as interim co-chief financial officers. Masci also joins the board of managers and becomes principal financial and accounting officer. What the Senior Coinbase and Grayscale Exits Signal Both departures land as Washington moves toward clearer crypto regulation rules. The GENIUS Act became law in July 2025, while the CLARITY Act still awaits a full Senate vote. Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming said in a Wednesday post on X that the CLARITY Act may be the last chance to get...

Bitcoin stays above $64,000 as U.S. crypto policy advances, adoption grows Investing.com -- Bitcoin rebounded above $64,000 after falling to around $61,000 earlier in the week, as investors weighed fresh U.S. regulatory developments, growing institutional adoption and expectations that the cryptocurrency’s next bull market could deliver steadier, rather than explosive, gains. The world’s leading cryptocurrency was trading at $64,262.2 as of 05:30 ET (09:30 GMT). A major policy development came as a four-year ban on a U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC) was set to take effect under a housing bill automatically becoming law after President Donald Trump declined to sign or veto it.  The restriction prevents the Federal Reserve...

Kraken Reportedly Targets Retail Traders With Agentic Trading Ahead Of Highly Anticipated IPO Kraken Reportedly Targets Retail Traders With Agentic Trading Ahead Of Highly Anticipated IPO Coinbase and Gemini, the two rivals that beat Kraken to agentic trading, are both already public. COIN's stock edged 0.5% higher in afternoon trade on Friday. On Stocktwits, retail sentiment around the company improved to 'neutral' from 'bullish' territory over the past day. Meanwhile, GEMI's stock gained over 1% in afternoon trade despite getting a price target cut from Morgan Stanely. The firm reduced its outlook on Gemini to $5.50 from $6, and kept an 'Equal Weight' rating on the shares amid its broader sector revision ahead of second quarter...

NOWPayments CEO Kate Lifshits Says Businesses Should Stop Paying for Crypto Payouts Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 10th, 2026, Chainwire NOWPayment believes the crypto industry has accepted unnecessary costs for too long – and that businesses no longer have to. For years, paying blockchain fees has been treated as the price of sending crypto. Crypto Payouts Have Become Unnecessarily Expensive Most businesses still operate payout infrastructure designed around blockchain wallets. That means collecting wallet addresses, validating networks, recovering failed transactions, paying blockchain fees, and handling recipient support. At scale, these problems become one of the largest hidden operational costs for affiliate platforms...

Bitcoin outlook hinges on clarity around Strategy’s new approach: analyst Investing.com -- Standard Chartered told investors in a note on Friday that uncertainty around Strategy's evolving approach to its Bitcoin holdings is creating near-term noise for the cryptocurrency, but maintained its end-2026 Bitcoin price forecast of $100,000, arguing that clearer communication from the company should soon remove the overhang. Analyst Geoff Kendrick said Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy and the largest corporate Bitcoin holder with 843,775 coins representing more than 4% of the total 21 million that will ever exist, "appears to be pivoting from its 'never sell Bitcoin' mantra to a more complex approach." The pivot has been driven by...

TrueDAO Raises $10 million in Strategic Funding to Accelerate AI-Powered Financial Infrastructure New York, USA, July 10th, 2026, Chainwire TrueDAO announced today the completion of a $10 million strategic funding round. The round was led by Brevan Howard Digital, with participation from Zee Prime Capital and Jump Capital. The proceeds will primarily fund core AI protocol development, AI-driven risk control, security audits, global compliance efforts, and the expansion of ecosystem partnerships. The journey to this milestone began a year ago when the TrueDAO team set out to build a decentralized financial infrastructure driven by smart contracts, on-chain reserves, dynamic adjustment mechanisms, and community governance. The...

New Memecoin CASHCAT Put Robinhood Chain Ahead of Hyperliquid in DEX Volume New Memecoin CASHCAT Put Robinhood Chain Ahead of Hyperliquid in DEX Volume Trading volumes have already begun stabilizing below the July 8 peak, according to the primary source. That is expected behavior after a memecoin-driven spike – the question is what the floor looks like once CASHCAT volatility normalizes. The lending TVL figure suggests at least some portion of the user base arrived with yield-seeking intent rather than pure speculation, which gives Robinhood Chain a non-trivial base to build from. For context on the scale of what Robinhood Chain briefly displaced: Hyperliquid had accumulated $330.8 billion in combined spot and perpetual trading...

SWIFT's Blockchain Ledger Goes Live With HSBC, Citi and 15 Other Banks: Threat to XRP, XLM Cross-Border Plays? SWIFT's Blockchain Ledger Goes Live With HSBC, Citi and 15 Other Banks: Threat to XRP, XLM Cross-Border Plays? Versan Aljarrah, founder of BlackSwanCapitalist.io, argued on X that XRP isn't replacing SWIFT so much as becoming the liquidity bridge inside it, pointing to the same bank overlap. Ripple has separately built distribution well beyond the token itself, holding more than 75 regulatory licenses, counting over 300 financial institutions on its network, and gaining NSCC clearing access through Ripple Prime, which is part of DTCC's Tokenized Securities working group launching its pilot this month. SWIFT's own routing...