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The prediction markets platform seeks to position itself as the primary source for election odds ahead of the midterm elections this year.

Binance set multimonth records for net BTC outflows on Tuesday, adding to an emerging trend of positive inflows to the US spot Bitcoin ETFs. Bitcoin (BTC) buyers are showing “better absorption” at $65,000 after Binance saw its largest net outflow in nearly two years. Key points: New research from onchain analytics platform CryptoQuant released on Wednesday confirms that daily BTC withdrawals from the world’s biggest exchange are outpacing inflows. Read more

Plus, the BTC ETFs stay green. The Clarity Act hits a wall over who enforces the ethics rules. And Jack Mallers walks away from XXI Capital.

A security vulnerability in the Zilliqa Ledger app is enabling attackers to reconstruct private keys using publicly available onchain data. Layer-1 blockchain network Zilliqa warned that a vulnerability in the Zilliqa Ledger app could allow attackers to recover users’ private keys using publicly available onchain data. “The vulnerability causes signatures to be generated with predictably weakened ephemeral nonces, from which an attacker can recover the signer’s private key,” Zilliqa said in a Wednesday X post. Zilliqa said protective measures are in place to prevent further losses and that a coordinated remediation plan is being finalized. Users who signed at least five native Zilliqa transactions with a Ledger device are considered compromised and are advised to await further guidance before taking any action. Read more

Charles Hoskinson says the exploit, which briefly sent NIGHT to an all-time low, underscores why the industry needs to move beyond legacy bridge infrastructure.

Trump agrees to ethics language barring officials from issuing crypto, with DOJ as enforcer. What the Senate standoff means for BTC, ETH, and early-stage presales right now. The post Trump Says Yes to Crypto Ethics Rule, Puts DOJ as Enforcer appeared first on Cryptonews.

US prosecutors are seeking more than $25 million in cryptocurrency allegedly connected to international fraud and laundering networks. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed five civil forfeiture complaints seeking more than $25 million in crypto allegedly tied to international investment, romance and recovery scams targeting victims in Canada and the United States.  On Tuesday, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the US Secret Service’s Washington Field Office said that the assets were recovered through separate investigations by the Cyber Fraud Task Force. Investigators identified several laundering networks and confirmed thousands of victims worldwide who were misled into believing they were making legitimate digital asset investments.  The action highlights the growing scale of crypto-enabled romance and investment scams, which often combine social engineering with fraudulent trading platforms and layered wallet transfers to conceal stolen funds. Read more

Your day-ahead look for July 22, 2026

Large XRP holders have continued accumulating despite retail selling.

On July 28 and 29, the Federal Reserve meets to set its next rate decision, and traders will try to price the outcome through bonds, currencies, crypto and contracts that settle directly on what the central bank announces. Reuters polled 104 economists on July 21 and found every one of them expected the Fed to […] The post Easy money on Polymarket and Kalshi is disappearing as prop firms deploy AI agents appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The breach stemmed from a vulnerability in transaction signing software that enabled the derivation of private keys from blockchain transaction data.

The free, open source workspace runs on Nostr, gives AI agents their own cryptographic identities, and challenges Slack and GitHub.

The integration provides institutional clients with access to Kalshi’s event contracts and crypto perpetuals via Talos’ existing trading infrastructure. Institutional crypto trading platform Talos has integrated with Kalshi, allowing select clients to trade the prediction market operator’s event contracts and crypto perpetuals through the same infrastructure they already use for digital assets, eliminating the need for a separate connection. Talos will offer algorithmic order types including Iceberg, TWAP and POV, along with multi-leg execution for perp-to-perp and perp-to-spot spread trades. The company said institutional clients will also be able to execute block trades in Kalshi contracts through its request-for-quote platform using participating over-the-counter liquidity providers. Later this year, Talos plans to extend its dealer software to brokers and trading platforms, allowing them to offer Kalshi event contracts directly to customers where permitted. The company also plans to launch a unified predi...

Tom Lee says AI capital is rotating from chip stocks into Ethereum. ETH trades near $1,925 with $2,000 resistance in focus. Here's the technical setup and what breaks it. The post Ethereum Price Eyes $2,000 as AI Funds Shift From Chips to ETH, Says Tom Lee appeared first on Cryptonews.

Trading activity on South Korea’s five major crypto exchanges fell sharply as the KOSPI surged, signaling a shift in retail investors toward equities. South Korea’s major crypto exchanges have seen their trading activity fall sharply over the past year as the country’s stock market surged, suggesting retail speculative interest may be shifting toward equities, Cointelegraph analysis shows. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) benchmark more than doubled over the period, while volumes across the country’s largest won-based crypto platforms contracted. Cointelegraph reviewed CoinGecko’s historical 24-hour volume readings for Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit and Gopax, comparing seven-day periods in July 2025 and July 2026. Read more

BTC retreated from a one-month high as WTI crude topped $85 for the first time since June, reigniting inflation concerns and pushing investors toward gold, silver and the safety of bitcoin over altcoins.

Payward's xStocks pushes beyond U.S. equities as competition to bring global stock markets onchain accelerates.

Foundry USA asked its mining customers to signal their support for BIP-110, an actively debated proposal seeking to shrink the amount of data that can be stored in a Bitcoin transaction. Foundry USA began asking mining customers to vote on how the pool should signal on Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP-110), a soft fork proposing to shrink how much data can be stored in Bitcoin transactions to limit non-monetary transactions, such as Ordinals, on the Bitcoin network. The world’s largest mining pool by hashrate also released educational resources on the proposal and said that the voting window will close at Bitcoin block 961,632, or sometime in early August. Foundry’s mining clients can cast their votes by accessing a link received via email. Read more

A major exploit involving a bridge connected to the Cardano ecosystem sent Midnight’s NIGHT token to an all-time low on July 20 after an attacker drained roughly 515 million tokens from infrastructure operated by Wanchain. The tokens were removed from a Cardano-side lock address backing NIGHT bridged to BNB Chain, leaving only a fraction of […] The post 515M NIGHT bridge exploit rocks Cardano but ADA jumps 8% anyway after landmark hard fork appeared first on CryptoSlate.

[PRESS RELEASE – London, United Kingdom, July 22nd, 2026] Recognition in the Enterprise Fintech category reflects OpenPayd’s role in building the universal financial infrastructure for the digital economy OpenPayd, a leading provider of financial infrastructure, has been recognized among CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2026, earning a place in the Enterprise Fintech category. Following an […]