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Cointelegraph.com - 21:06 Jul 06, 2026
Bitcoin sold off as news of Strategy selling BTC shook investors’ nerve but the quick rebound suggests bulls remain ambitiously positioned. Key takeaways: Bitcoin price quickly recovered from the selloff to $61,300 that followed Strategy’s Bitcoin sale announcement. Despite the negative impact on traders' sentiment, the additional $216 million cash position eased concerns about the company's ability to pay dividends and cover its debt. Does the quick recovery suggest that Bitcoin bulls back in control? Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:55 Jul 06, 2026
The developers behind the memecoin project said they had informed law enforcement after the attack and were working to “recover funds and identify those responsible.” The decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) behind the Bonk (BONK) memecoin reported that an unknown entity had removed $20 million worth of the tokens in what it described as an attack using a “malicious governance proposal.” In a Monday X post, the Bonk project said that it had informed law enforcement after the $20 million attack and was working to “recover funds and identify those responsible.” According to BonkDAO, the parties had drained $20 million in tokens from the project’s treasury on the Solana blockchain. One of the dog-themed memecoins, along with tokens like Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB), BONK launched in December 2022, with its developers airdropping half of the token’s total supply. The price of BONK dropped about 7% over 24 hours amid reports of the attack, to about $0.05. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 19:29 Jul 06, 2026
The Luxembourg approval completes the company's MiCA licensing process, enabling it to provide regulated crypto-asset services across the European Economic Area. Ripple said it has received full authorization under the European Union's MiCA crypto framework after Luxembourg's financial regulator granted the company a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license. The authorization follows Ripple's preliminary approval in June and, together with the company's existing Electronic Money Institution license, allows the blockchain payments company to offer regulated crypto-asset services across the European Economic Area (EEA). Ripple said the approval makes it one of a small number of digital asset companies with full authorization under MiCA. The company now holds more than 75 regulatory licenses worldwide, including authorization from the United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority secured in January. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 17:27 Jul 06, 2026
Bitmine's big buy contrasts with crypto treasury peer Strategy, which reported selling millions of dollars worth of its Bitcoin holdings on Monday. Bitmine Immersion Technologies, holding one of the largest Ether (ETH) stockpiles as part of its treasury strategy, said Monday it added of $74 million worth of the second-biggest crypto by market cap, in contrast with Strategy, a major Bitcoin (BTC) holder, which offloaded coins to fund its dividend payments. Bitmine said that it held 5,742,237 ETH as of Sunday, marking an increase of 42,197 Ether since it reported on its holdings last week. The ETH holdings were reported when the token was valued at about $1,759, making its most recent buys worth about $74 million. The price of ETH has since increased to $1,792 apiece at the time of publication. Bitmine chair Tom Lee said optimism about the passage of the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act in the US was an “important milestone” that could allow “smart contract platforms like ethereum to benefit” among th... -
Cointelegraph.com - 17:08 Jul 06, 2026
The UN Development Programme said blockchain payment pilots in five countries cut costs, improved resilience and will now inform wider use across its humanitarian and development programs. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has signed a new agreement with the Stellar Development Foundation to expand the agency's use of blockchain-based payments after completing pilot projects in five countries, signaling a broader role for public blockchain infrastructure in its development programs. The agreement follows 16 months of research and pilot programs in Haiti, Syria, Kenya, Guatemala and The Gambia, with additional projects in Colombia and Papua New Guinea, the agency said Monday. According to UNDP, the next phase will establish the process for country offices to use blockchain payments across a wider range of programs. UNDP said the pilots produced measurable results. In Syria, a Cash for Work program that recorded payments onchain reduced distribution costs from 10% to 2%, while a pilot in Haiti con... -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:43 Jul 06, 2026
The Bitcoin miner signed a 20-year AI infrastructure lease with Anthropic and sold its majority stake in a separate AI data center joint venture. Bitcoin miner TeraWulf, moving deeper into AI infrastructure, signed a 20-year data center lease with Anthropic expected to generate about $19 billion in contract revenue. The company also announced Monday that it is selling a majority stake in a separate AI data center joint venture to reinvest in wholly owned projects. The company's shares rose about 12% in Monday morning trading following the announcement, extending a roughly 107% year-to-date gain, according to Yahoo Finance data at the time of writing. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:22 Jul 06, 2026
Bitcoin wiped out much of its latest gains thanks to a market reaction to Strategy's 3,600 BTC sell-off, but analysis eyed a potential buy announcement in the coming days. Bitcoin (BTC) saw flash volatility into Monday’s Wall Street open as markets reacted to tech company Strategy’s new BTC sales. Key points: Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:50 Jul 06, 2026
The FCA’s vision for agentic AI points toward a financial system where programmable money and tokenized assets could play a much larger role. The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a broad regulatory blueprint for retail financial services, warning that retail financial services are hurtling toward total automation driven by autonomous “agentic AI.” The landmark report, “AI and the future of retail financial services,” spearheaded by executive director Sheldon Mills, details a structural shift away from periodic, human-led decisions toward continuous, automated financial services that could increasingly rely on programmable financial infrastructure. “The central shift is from human-led, episodic financial activity towards services that are AI-enabled, continuous and delegated,” Mills wrote. In January, the FCA launched a review into the implications of advanced AI on consumers, retail financial markets and regulators. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:00 Jul 06, 2026
Crypto exploits rose 59% quarter-on-quarter to $807.5 million in Q2, due partly to the KelpDAO and Drift Protocol exploits, which came at the hands of North Korean hackers. Crypto losses fell 46.8% year-on-year to $1.32 billion in the first half of 2026, but crypto security firm CertiK says the drop is misleading, warning that attackers are becoming more sophisticated and destructive. Phishing drove the bulk of losses in the first quarter, totaling $508.2 million. Wallet compromises were the biggest attack vector in the second quarter, contributing to $807.5 million in losses, CertiK said in a report. More than 70% of the losses in Q2 came from the KelpDAO and Drift Protocol hacks, which are believed to have been carried out by North Korean state-sponsored hackers. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:59 Jul 06, 2026
Strategy sold $216 million in Bitcoin to fund its dividend payments, as wealth manager Bernstein maintained its year-end Bitcoin price target of $150,000. Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 3,588 Bitcoin (BTC) to fund preferred stock dividend payments and replenish its cash reserves. Strategy sold the Bitcoin for $216 million, reducing its total holdings to 843,775 Bitcoin, according to a Monday 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. This included 1,363 Bitcoin sold at an average price of $59,256 between last Monday and Tuesday, and 2,225 Bitcoin sold at an average price of $60,773 between Wednesday and Sunday. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:15 Jul 06, 2026
Belgium’s FSMA warned consumers about six crypto-asset service providers it added to a fraudulent CASP list days after the EU’s MiCA transitional period expired. Belgium’s financial markets regulator warned consumers against six crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) it said were operating in the country without authorization, days after the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) licensing deadline took effect. On Monday, the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) identified several CASPs active in Belgium without authorization under MiCA regulation. FSMA named Aurum Foundation, Bank Bit, Bithf Pro, Dxago, Global Dynamic Trade and ZeriaFunding. The regulator said it had added these entities to its list of fraudulent CASPs. The warning indicates that national regulators are beginning to apply the MiCA licensing perimeter following the EU’s transitional period, which ended on July 1. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:25 Jul 06, 2026
Bitcoin saw its highest levels in nearly two weeks at the weekly close, but bulls needed a push beyond $65,000 for real trend inflection, said the latest BTC price analysis. Bitcoin (BTC) starts the second week of June near two-week highs with traders keen to see bullish continuation. Key points: Bitcoin kept up pressure on short positions into the weekly close, hitting $63,960 — its highest levels since June 23, per data from TradingView. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:53 Jul 06, 2026
South Korea’s media and communications review body will hear from Polymarket before deciding whether to issue a corrective request against the prediction market platform. South Korea’s media and communications review body said it will hear from Polymarket before deciding whether to take corrective action against the prediction market platform. On Monday, the Broadcasting, Media and Communications Review Committee said it would allow Polymarket to submit its position before making a final decision on a corrective request regarding gambling concerns. “We decided to provide an opportunity for Polymarket to submit its opinion to thoroughly verify the legality of Polymarket and the way the service is operated,” the committee said, according to a machine translation of the press release. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:20 Jul 06, 2026
A Bitcoin address dormant for nearly 15 years moved $1.9 million in BTC as a New York lawsuit seeks ownership of thousands of inactive holdings. A dormant Bitcoin address transferred 30 BTC worth about $1.88 million for the first time in almost 15 years. Bitcoin address "1KV47" made its first outgoing transfer on Saturday since receiving 30 BTC in August 2011, blockchain data shared by Galaxy Research shows. The address is among 39,069 listed in a New York lawsuit filed by "Noah Doe" and two Wyoming-based companies seeking ownership of dormant Bitcoin holdings. The case could test how inactive cryptocurrency holdings are treated under the state's lost-property law. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 06:02 Jul 06, 2026
Before he was an MP, Nigel Farage was reportedly gifted staff, security and other benefits from George Cottrell, a convicted fraudster involved in a crypto casino. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage reportedly accepted gifts that he did not publicly disclose from a crypto entrepreneur convicted of fraud in the US, according to The Sunday Times. The news outlet reported on Saturday that Farage was gifted staff, security, transport and accommodation by George Cottrell, an aristocrat involved in an offshore crypto casino who has been a close adviser to Farage for more than 10 years. Farage said in a statement on Sunday that he “followed the rules” over the gifts from Cottrell, which he received before he was elected a member of parliament in July 2024, and called The Times’ report a “hit job.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 05:44 Jul 06, 2026
Stablecoins are maturing and are positioned for even greater reach as the market evolves, said crypto researcher Nick Ruck. Adjusted stablecoin transaction volume hit a record $1.79 trillion in June, up 63% from May’s $1.1 trillion, according to payments giant Visa. June’s record stablecoin transaction volume surpassed the previous record of $1.78 trillion in February, and is up 125% from the prior-year period, according to Visa’s Allium-powered stablecoin analytics dashboard. “June 2026 was another record month for stablecoin transaction volume, just ahead of February 2026,” said Zach Pandl, head of research at Grayscale, on Sunday. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 05:35 Jul 06, 2026
Thousands of crypto wallets across multiple blockchains could be vulnerable due to weak recovery phrase generation. Thousands of crypto wallets are at risk of being drained due to the use of weaker-than-intended recovery phrases, an exploit that Blockchain security research firm Coinspect has dubbed “Ill Bloom.” The wallets at risk span Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon, Rootstock, Tron and Solana, Coinspect said in a disclosure on Sunday, with the issue related to weak randomness — an insecure pseudorandom number generator — used during recovery phrase generation on certain software wallets. “If funds recently moved without your permission, this vulnerability may be why,” Coinspect said. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 03:30 Jul 06, 2026
“We need to think about new tools and a different way of working with the [AI] market in a more collaborative way,” says Nikhil Rathi, CEO of the UK’s finance watchdog. European regulators and central bankers have warned that rulemaking cannot keep pace with rapid advances in agentic artificial intelligence and have called for guardrails to protect the financial system. Bank of England deputy governor Sarah Breeden is one of several central bankers who have said that agentic AI could amplify volatility during bouts of market stress. Breeden questioned if guardrails are needed, “analogous to circuit breakers or kill switches that would limit or stop trading market-wide if faulty AI models cause market meltdown,” she said at the European Central Bank’s annual meeting in Sintra, Portugal, on Tuesday. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 03:12 Jul 06, 2026
Nansen analysis shows that just under half a million wallets profited on Donald Trump’s memecoin, while the large majority of buyers lost out. Nearly 1 million buyers of Official Trump (TRUMP), US President Donald Trump’s memecoin, have lost a collective $3.8 billion on the token as of the end of June, newly reported analysis shows. As of the end of last month, 988,905 TRUMP buyers, or around two out of every three buyers, have lost money on the memecoin, The New York Times reported on Saturday, citing a report by analytics firm Nansen. Those buyers lost a total of $3.81 billion, which includes those who have held on to the token at a loss. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 23:35 Jul 05, 2026
Japan's SBI Crypto shuts down 12th largest Bitcoin mining pool in the world, Russia gears up to launch digital ruble despite EU sanctions, and more: Asia Express. The Indian central bank reportedly urged lawmakers to keep banks insulated from crypto and private stablecoins while preserving room for regulated tokenization. According to a report by The Economic Times, RBI Deputy Governor Rohit Jain and Executive Director P. Vasudevan presented the central bank’s position to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance on Thursday. In a background note submitted to the panel, the RBI reportedly said prohibition remained a recognized policy option and recommended preventing the use of crypto in payments and settlements while restricting banking-sector exposure. Read more
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