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Robinhood Chain has pulled in $135 million of value and 800,000 addresses since July 1. Almost none of it is doing what the chain was built for.

Bitcoin bulls faced an uphill struggle to preserve $62,000 as stocks opened down on Strait of Hormuz rhetoric between the US and Iran. Bitcoin (BTC) fell further into Monday’s Wall Street open as markets reacted to the US-Iran escalation. Key points: Read more

Crypto usage has spiked in the country, with transaction volumes hitting $430 million in the year after the central bank removed restrictions in mid-2024.

Binance posted an 80% monthly jump in futures volume in June 2026, outpacing rivals OKX and Bybit as CEX spot markets fell to a two-year low. The post Binance Futures Surge 80% in June as Spot Markets Hit Two-Year Low appeared first on Cryptonews.

Adjusted stablecoin transaction volume reached a record $1.79 trillion in June, according to Visa Onchain Analytics, up 63% from May's $1.10 trillion and 125% higher than a year earlier. Across the same four weeks, the total pool of stablecoins in circulation shrank by $7.7 billion, the largest monthly dollar decline since the TerraUSD collapse in […] The post Stablecoins are moving more money while crypto’s cash pile gets smaller appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Cardano trades near $0.1616, retesting the 20-day EMA after Iran-triggered volatility. Kraken's $1B stake pool registration and 233 weekly GitHub commits signal quiet institutional confidence. Key support at $0.155, resistance at $0.19–$0.20. Full technical breakdown inside. The post Iran Just Struck 5 Countries, and Cardano Dropped to $0.16: But Kraken Quietly Staked $1B appeared first on Cryptonews.

Strategy went another week without buying Bitcoin, focusing instead on lifting its cash reserves to $3 billion via common stock proceeds.

A Treasury-backed report targets putting repo, gilts and funds onchain within two years, and warms to permissionless networks that firms like Ripple have been building on.

After the SEC fight, Ripple bounced back with new deals, acquisitions, tokenization efforts, and XRP ETFs.

The company expanded its ETH treasury while Chairman Tom Lee pointed to Robinhood Chain's rapid growth on Ethereum.

Data analytics flagged stablecoin transfers meant to evade scrutiny, the central bank says, handing the findings to the securities regulator.

The Securities Transfer Association, an industry group for transfer agents, said company-authorized tokenization should receive preferential treatment under future rules.

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Coinbase’s venture capital arm leads 2026 crypto investing even as funding withered and unique investors shied away amid the bear market. Coinbase Ventures, the corporate venture capital (VC) arm of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, led the ranks of crypto-focused VC's with 30 deals in the first half of 2026. Runner-up Animoca Brands completed 19 investments, while Silicon Valley VC a16z logged 18 deals and stablecoin giant Tether completed 15, according to data aggregator CryptoRank.  In the past 12 months Coinbase Ventures completed a peer-best 75 deals, followed by Animoca Brands with 40, YZi Labs (previously Binance Labs) with 39, GSR with 31 and a16z with 30. Read more

Tether is already the world's largest stablecoin issuer, with approximately $141 billion in direct and indirect exposure to US Treasuries. It reported $15 billion in revenue in 2025 and $1.04 billion in net profit for the first quarter of 2026, mostly from that yield alone, making it one of the more unusual companies in global […] The post Tether’s $20 billion mountain of gold – equal to a national reserve – to be used for lending appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Strategy boosted its US dollar reserve to $3 billion after selling $466.7 million in MSTR shares, while keeping its 843,775 Bitcoin holdings unchanged. Strategy, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, raised fresh capital by selling MSTR shares through its at-the-market (ATM) offering last week while leaving its BTC treasury unchanged. Strategy sold 4.8 million shares of its Class A common stock for $466.7 million between July 6 and July 12, according to a Monday 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.  The company did not buy or sell any Bitcoin during the period and reported holdings of 843,775 BTC at an average purchase price of $75,476 per BTC.  Read more

Senate Democrats won't back the CLARITY Act without ethics language the White House refuses — leaving passage odds near 50-50 before the August recess. The post Ethics Standoff Clouds CLARITY Act Path as July Vote Window Narrows appeared first on Cryptonews.

President Trump declaration that the US would "probably" take control of the Strait of Hormuz landed on crypto like a macro grenade. The post Trump Says the US will Control Hormuz, Crypto at His Mercy appeared first on Cryptonews.

Robinhood's new blockchain quickly became a top-five network by DEX volume, signaling strong early demand for its tokenized asset platform, the broker said.

Lee outlined the breakaway success of the Robinhood Chain L2 mainnet launch, built on Arbitrum.