Crypto

After two years of silence from Thinking Machines Lab, Murati's debut model is out and on OpenRouter. The MCP score is genuinely impressive. The price-to-performance math is more complicated.

Ripple’s token is showing signs of stabilization after the sharp decline from higher levels, but the recovery remains limited by a series of resistance zones that continue to attract sellers. While buyers have defended the recent lows, the market still needs a clear structural breakout before a stronger upside move can be considered. Ripple Price […]

Coinbase began offering US perpetual-style futures on its CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, starting with nano Bitcoin and Ethereum contracts that track spot prices, carry embedded leverage, and trade around the clock. This is a financial product that's responsible for most of the crypto leverage in the world, and it's now crossed into the US market. Aside […] The post Multi-trillion-dollar offshore engine driving 90% of crypto trading arrives in America – and CME is suing to crush it appeared first on CryptoSlate.

After staging an impressive rebound from its local bottom, Ethereum is beginning to test increasingly important resistance levels. The coming sessions should provide more clarity on whether this recovery has enough momentum to continue. Ethereum Price Analysis: The Daily Chart The daily chart shows ETH holding above the previously broken descending trendline, confirming that the […]

Dormant BTC activity fell to its lowest level since Q3 2022, suggesting long-term holders have slowed distribution after heavy profit-taking. Dormant Bitcoin movement in the second quarter fell to its lowest level since the third quarter of 2022, according to data shared by Alex Thorn, Galaxy’s head of firmwide research. Coin days destroyed, a metric that gives greater weight to older coins, showed a similar decline. Thorn said the earlier spikes were driven by “OGs taking profit,” similar to the pattern seen during Bitcoin’s 2017 bull market, suggesting long-term holders have slowed selling after elevated distribution in 2024 and 2025. Read more

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission again issued an advisory that signals firms have been straying into cookie-cutter self-certification.

Bitcoin is trading near $64,500 this weekend, sitting between $65,000 resistance above and $62,500 support below, the two prices that will define its week. Bitcoin climbed as high as $66,990 on July 21, a one-month high, before slipping back under $65,000 and turning that former breakout line into overhead resistance. Trading volume over the past […] The post Bitcoin price has a $64.5k trap as Sunday’s close forces traders between a $68k relief rally or a drop to $60k appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The native token plummeted by roughly 60% after the announcement.

Alpaca says it custodies more than $1.5 billion of shares backing tokenized equities, which, by public tracker measurements, would represent most of the market. With DTCC preparing to launch its own tokenization service in October and the SEC warning that third-party stock tokens can expose investors to additional ownership and intermediary risks, the numbers reveal […] The post Crypto promised to eliminate stockbrokers, but 94% of its tokenized market now relies on an Alpaca appeared first on CryptoSlate.

We will also review the native token's price moves within the same timeframe.

Chainlink drew more than $7 billion of token value onto its cross-chain infrastructure in the second quarter as institutional adoption accelerated, according to its second-quarter review. The migration came as crypto projects replaced older bridging systems and traditional-finance firms moved deeper into tokenized markets, expanding Chainlink’s role across both sides of the digital-asset economy. Chainlink […] The post A $650 million wave of bridge hacks just triggered a $7 billion mass migration to Chainlink appeared first on CryptoSlate.

South Korea’s largest lender will use JPMorgan’s blockchain platform to support US dollar cross-border payments for import and export businesses across 10 countries. South Korea’s KB Kookmin Bank will launch a blockchain-based cross-border payment service for import and export businesses in August using JPMorgan’s Kinexys network, according to multiple local media reports. Kinexys, formerly known as Onyx, is JPMorgan’s blockchain platform for institutional payments, tokenization and digital assets. The service will initially support US dollar transfers across 10 countries, including the US, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Read more

Bitcoin price is trading around $64,500 to $66,000, and Grayscale just made a very bullish prediction that's splitting the trading community. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: Grayscale Believes The Bear Market is Over appeared first on Cryptonews.

As MiCA beds in and the U.K. finalizes its crypto framework, stringent regulation could spur mergers, acquisitions and closer ties with banks.

Did the company followed the current trend of reducing its BTC exposure?

Bitcoin could lower mining difficulty by roughly 16% when its next adjustment arrives around July 26, handing the machines that remain online a considerably larger expected share of the network’s rewards while doing almost nothing to resolve the expensive power contracts, debt obligations and strategic pressures pushing some of the industry’s largest companies away from […] The post Bitcoin is about to give miners a 16% lifeline, but $19 billion in AI deals is luring them away anyway appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Two Wall Street trading desks can hold economically similar exposure to Bitcoin and still pay materially different amounts to keep that exposure open. That's not because one desk made a better market call, but because the regulated products carrying the positions are inside collateral systems that don't always recognize them as parts of the same […] The post The $25 million Bitcoin glitch hiding inside Wall Street’s clearinghouses appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The rally has no announcement behind it, other dog tokens haven't matched it, and Korean venues are carrying the volume.

SHIB, VVV, and PEPE lead the way on Sunday in terms of substantial gains.

Crypto exchange BitMart said it will wind down operations after its BMX token plunged and users reported withdrawal delays, with platform operations set to end in January. [Update, 10:32 UTC, July 26: Adds former CEO Nenter Chow’s statement] BitMart will wind down its cryptocurrency exchange, ending all trading services on Aug. 26 before ceasing operations entirely on Jan. 31, 2027. “After a careful evaluation of the Company’s operating conditions, market environment, and future strategic direction, BitMart has made the difficult decision to commence an orderly wind-down of its trading platform operations,” it said in a Sunday notice. Read more