Crypto for Thursday, July 16, 2026

• Citadel Securities invests $400M in Crypto.com at $20B valuation
• Polygon CEO announces job cuts amid Coinme acquisition
• Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Rejects Calls for a New AI Regulatory Body
• Leaks Reveal Suno Fed Thousands of Hours of Deezer, YouTube and Pond5 Data Into Its AI
• Trump teleprompter operator made $100K betting on Kalshi markets tied to speeches: ABC
• Steak ‘n Shake credits Bitcoin for company growth – But is PR value now worth more than people actually using BTC?
• Bitcoin outlook improves amid 6% weekly gain: Can BTC bulls push higher?
• 1inch co-founder says he was fired, announces new venture
• Morgan Stanley Launches Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana Trading on E*Trade
• Crypto Gambler Lost $1.5 Million After Argentina Beat England in the World Cup: Details
• Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI Just Revealed This Shocking Bitcoin Price Prediction for the End Of 2026
• Injective files for SEC transfer agent registration to bring securities ownership records onchain
• Japan passes the crypto law traders wanted but its 20% tax could still wait until 2028
• Bitcoin Q-Day Recovery Proposal Aims to Let Users Prove Ownership After Quantum Attack
• BitPay secures Dutch licensing under MiCA, plans to expand stablecoin payments
• $1.9 trillion asset manager T. Rowe Price bets on active management with first multi-token crypto ETF
• CRO Surges as Crypto.com Secures $400M in Citadel Securities-Led Funding
• Forget Bitcoin Bottom: Analyst Says These Altcoins Could Move First
• Mira Murati Drops Her First AI Model After Leaving OpenAI—And It's Fully Open Source
• How prices from the future fooled a crypto oracle into paying out up to $24 million
• Citadel Securities invests $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing exchange at $20 billion
• Visa Unveils Stablecoin Platform for Banks and Fintech Companies
• Bitcoin treasury troubles reach London as company votes to sell its entire BTC stack and delist
• Ethereum Price Analysis: Is $2K Next for ETH After Reclaiming Key Support?
• Bitcoin price dips on US stocks sell-off as Micron losses pass 30%
• XRP Can't Keep Up as Bitcoin Takes a Breather: Analysis
• Ethics in crypto market structure ‘really not our concern,’ says Blockchain Association CEO
• Stripe’s $53 billion PayPal bid is a high-stakes play to own the future of digital payments
• Morgan Stanley’s E*TRADE launches spot crypto trading through Zero Hash
• Tradable’s $1B Stellar deal adds to institutional tokenization boom
• Visa backs Open USD with new stablecoin platform as Circle faces fresh competition
• Bitcoin must climb 92% to rescue last year’s $120K buyers and the escape routes begin at $72K
• Dormant Bitcoin Whale Moves $383 Million After More Than 8 Years
• SEC filing shows viral $71 million XRP ETF claims are out by 1,000x
• You may hate MiCA, but the truth is more complicated than both sides admit
• Keyrock acquires BlockFills trading assets to expand institutional crypto business
• The Clarity Act is the most important consumer protection effort in years
• Robinhood tackled Coinbase head-on then immediately inherited Base’s biggest problem
• Crypto for Advisors: Strengthening defenses against AI fraud
• The $65.5K Rejection: What Top Analysts Are Saying About Bitcoin’s Next Move
• Elon Musk Grok AI Predicts Incredible Netflix Stock Price by Next 30 Days
• Crypto brokerage firm Alpaca raises $135 million for tokenized stock infrastructure
• Crypto equities gained 23% while crypto tokens fell 36% this year – Is value shifting?
• ‘The Worst Is Still Ahead’ for ETH: Analyst Predicts Another Ethereum Crash
• Alpaca raises $135M to fund tokenized agent-first infrastructure
• Gambling on random Pokémon cards: Onchain gagcha hits record high as crypto sinks
• Prediction markets defy crypto downturn with record Q2 volume: CoinGecko
• Google Gemini AI Predicts XRP Price Will Surprise Everyone in the Next 60 Days
• MoonPay buys Glide to bolster crypto deposits infrastructure
• Ledger wants AI agents to manage crypto without holding your keys
• Jesse Pollak Leaves Base Leadership After Failed Social Strategy
• Bitunix Exchange Launches Visa Debit Card for Daily Purchases and Earning
• This Bitcoin-backed company is betting retiring founders will swap private stock for their life’s work
• Tokenized stocks market cap gains to record $2.3B
• Bitcoin’s old coins have gone quiet and $69,000 could reveal whether the new holders crack
• FATF urges faster crypto AML enforcement as stablecoin crime increases
• Morning Minute: Base Hands Its App Over to Cobie
• Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC Retraces as Iran Attacks America
• Galaxy targets institutional stablecoin yield with new DeFi vaults
• ARK pushes back against a16z’s ‘TradFi wants blockchain, not DeFi’ claim
• The most popular bitcoin call option has slipped by $10,000
• Rebooting the internet: inside the open-source project to let AI programs pay each other
• Is using an old iPhone safer than a crypto hardware wallet? ZachXBT thinks so
• Is (Ripple) XRP Finally Ready to Break Out? Here Are 3 Reasons Why
• Feds Arrest Florida Man Over Video Game Malware That Stole $220K in Crypto
• Bitcoin News: Phong Le Sets $8K–$10K as Strategy’s Debt Risk Threshold for Bitcoin
• Ripple XRP ETF Inflows Near Zero as Institutional Demand and On-Chain Activity Fall Together
• Bitcoin pulls back to $64,000 after hitting monthly high as bears take control
• Autonomous AI agent economy faces infrastructure gaps: Visa, Artemis
• Dogecoin, Elon Musk, and SpaceX: Can DOGE Run Again?
• Tether invests $20 million in Argentine neobank Ualá as it expands Latin America push
• U.S. adds four Iran central bank crypto wallets to sanctions, Tether freezes $131 million of contents
• Bitcoin Slips Down to $64K, Ethereum Pulls Back From Six-Week Peak: Market Watch
• Ethereum Price Prediction: BlackRock Drives ETH Ahead of BTC in ETF Inflows
• BlackRock earned $82M while its crypto funds erased $30B – now it wants inside your wallet
• US Senate unanimously adopts resolution opposing clemency for SBF
• Crypto News, July 16: All Eyes on Tomorrow’s Clarity Act Hearing as Bitcoin and Ethereum Hold Key Price Levels
• Don’t Obsess Over Bitcoin’s Bottom as $38K Low Comes Into Focus: Analyst
• US Senate Unanimously Opposes Sam Bankman-Fried Pardon
• Ethereum is flashing a $478 million buy signal but top traders still expect it to fail
• Tether invests $20M into Argentine neobank Ualá
• Bitcoin $107K buyers providing ‘early signals’ of 2026 bear-market bottom: Glassnode
• Clarity Act Stalls on Ethics Rules Curbing Trump’s Business Interests
• Robinhood Chain memecoin launchpad Vlad.fun halts after ‘internal integrity’ issue
• Hyperion DeFi to deploy 500K HYPE for Hyperliquid HIP-3 markets
• Live updates: Bitcoin slips back to $64,000 after Korea rate hike, ahead of U.S. data
• Arthur Hayes Buys ETH Above $1,900 Weeks After Selling at $1,700
• U.S. Senate unanimously opposes clemency for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried
• Pi Network Team Reveals New Update Deadline Amid PI Price Turmoil
• A bitcoin wallet dormant since the 2017 peak just moved $383 million
• Ethereum Tops $1,900 in a Six-Week High, Where to Next For ETH?
• Ether outruns bitcoin as ETF money returns, almost all of from BlackRock's fund
• Trump to meet with senators over CLARITY Act on Thursday: Politico
• Two groups of bitcoin Investors sell on the rise as U.S. inflation lifts prices to nearly $65,000
• Crypto Social Activity Just Hit a Multi-Month Low: Why That Could Be Bullish for Bitcoin
• Base’s social bet left it trailing in prediction markets and perps: Pollak