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In contrast, ARB and SKY are today’s top performers, gaining around 9% each. Bitcoin’s relatively minor volatility sessions continued in the past 24 hours as the asset dipped below $62,000 again before it rebounded by over a grand, only to be halted again. Most larger-cap alts have remained sluggish on a daily scale, with ETH fighting for $1,750, while XRP is battling the $1.10 level. BTC Challenges $63K Following the painful start of the month when BTC slipped below $58,000 for the first time in almost two years, the cryptocurrency tried to stage a notable recovery that drove it to…

Coinbase has received a UK MiFID investment services license, paving the way for the company to expand its product suite beyond crypto into equities and derivatives. The announcement was made by Coinbase on July 7, after CB Payments, Ltd was recorded as “Authorised” by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) starting July 6, 2026.This move marks Coinbase UK’s largest expansion of its product suite to date, while bringing the company closer to its ambition of building an “everything exchange” in regulated markets.Coinbase Secures UK Investment Services Approval Coinbase stated that the new license marks Coinbase UK’s largest expansion to date in terms…

Blockchain security experts are urging crypto protocols to reaudit their smart contracts as AI tooling is making it easier for hackers to identify vulnerabilities more quickly than ever before. “Our data argues for continuous review rather than a one-time audit,” TRM Labs head of policy Ari Redbord told Cointelegraph, adding that “attack techniques are moving faster than a single audit from launch day can account for.”“An audit built for last year’s attack patterns leaves a protocol exposed to this year’s as bad actors are changing up.”CertiK reported Monday that hackers stole another $1.32 billion in the first half of 2026 and…

SK Hynix’s $28 billion United States share sale drew orders for more than seven times the available shares. A person familiar with the matter told Reuters. The demand emerged the same week South Korea’s KOSPI briefly slid into a technical bear market. Steep losses in SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics shares dragged the index down. Institutional Money Bets Big Despite the Swings The order book drew interest from global long-only funds, sovereign wealth funds, and Asia-focused institutional investors. Demand held steady throughout the week’s volatility. Baillie Gifford, Coatue Management, and Situational Awareness Partners indicated interest for as much as $7…

US Democratic Senator Ron Wyden has urged Senate leaders to ensure that crypto developer protections stay in the crypto market structure legislation that lawmakers are looking to pass ahead of the midterms.Wyden told Senate Minority Leader John Thune and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer to preserve a section of the CLARITY Act known as the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA), according to a letter shared by Crypto in America podcast co-founder Eleanor Terrett on Wednesday.“Developers who make and release software that allows people to manage their own digital assets — and, critically, where the developer does not control user assets…

Elon Musk called Grok 4.5 an Opus-class model that runs faster and costs less. An independent, agentic benchmark now provides real backing for that claim. On Artificial Analysis’s AutomationBench-AA, Grok 4.5 ranked first with a 51.4% score while costing $0.34 per task. It beat both Claude Fable 5 (48.6%) and Claude Opus 4.8 (48.5%). AutomationBench-AA Score of AI Models. Source: Artificial Analysis An Independent Check on Elon Musk’s Claim SpaceXAI took Grok 4.5 public this week, built on its 1.5 trillion-parameter V9 foundation. Musk’s pitch rested on early internal evaluations. AutomationBench-AA changes that. Artificial Analysis runs the benchmark independently and…

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs lost a net $85 million on Wednesday, ending a three-day inflow run that had pulled in roughly $509 million, per SoSoValue data. Ether ETFs took in about $70 million the same day, a fifth straight session of inflows.The bitcoin outflow was broad. BlackRock’s IBIT shed roughly $59 million, Grayscale’s GBTC lost nearly $64 million, and Fidelity’s FBTC gave up about $15 million. Grayscale’s mini BTC fund was the only one in the green at nearly $53 million. Total bitcoin ETF assets fell to about $75 billion.Ether’s flows came from a narrower base but kept pointing the…

Victoria, Seychelles, July 8th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, will add nine Ondo tokenized stock and ETF trading pairs to its spot market, the latest expansion of ongoing collaboration with Ondo Finance. The new pairs cover companies across the data center, semiconductor and power supply chains linked to growing AI infrastructure demand, expanding the range of tokenized U.S. equities available to users and providing on-chain exposure to a sector at the center of the current AI infrastructure buildout. The pairs include tokenized stocks and ETFs tracking Bloom Energy (BEON/USDT), Astera Labs (ALABON/USDT), Credo Technology (CRDOON/USDT),…

Zug, Switzerland, July 7th, 2026, Chainwire Premium virtual assets pioneer BTCS (Middle East) Ltd. is now fully authorized by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of ADGM, enabling regulated institutional services across the UAE. Building on its position as Switzerland’s leading crypto financial services provider, Bitcoin Suisse is further accelerating its international expansion. Bitcoin Suisse Group’s subsidiary, BTCS (Middle East) Ltd. (“BTCS ME”) has received Financial Services Permission (FSP) from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of ADGM, the international financial centre of Abu Dhabi, marking another significant step toward the Group’s international growth strategy becoming a leading global wealth…

Bitmine owns 4.8% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 95% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 12 months Bitmine was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index on June 26, 2026 Bitmine’s Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP Bitmine has 4,879,157 staked ETH, representing $8.8 billion at $1,800 per ETH. MAVAN (Made in America VAlidator Network) is a premier Ethereum staking destination for BMNR and institutional investors Bitmine owns $71 million of Eightco (NASDAQ: ORBS), now one of the only publicly listed equities in…