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Cointelegraph.com - 17:32 Jul 29, 2025
Bitcoin prepares for an impulse move, and if the upside is taken, ETH, BNB, AVAX and PENGU could explode higher. Key points: Bitcoin is preparing for a range expansion in the next few days, and the trend favors the bulls. ETH, BNB, AVAX, and PENGU are looking set for a possible upside move. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:05 Jul 29, 2025
ETH continues to show strength with record open interest and high network activity as bulls expect an upside breakout soon. Key takeaways: Ether’s open interest has doubled since June 22 to a record high of $58 billion. High network activity and a record stablecoin supply signal strong demand. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:01 Jul 29, 2025
Backed by Cantor Fitzgerald, Tether and SoftBank, Twenty One Capital now holds over 43,500 BTC, surpassing early projections, according to Bloomberg. Cantor Fitzgerald-backed Twenty One Capital has significantly increased its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings, expanding its treasury beyond the amount announced at launch, highlighting the accelerating race to accumulate the digital asset. The Bitcoin treasury firm, which launched in April with a mission to amass the digital asset, has added approximately 5,800 BTC from stablecoin issuer Tether, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. By Bloomberg’s estimation, Twenty One Capital’s total Bitcoin holdings have now reached at least 43,500 BTC, roughly 1,500 BTC more than the company had initially projected. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:43 Jul 29, 2025
BTC price action turns weaker after the Wall Street open, with Bitcoin market participants bracing for lower levels despite bullish US macro data. Key points: Failure to reclaim $120,000 could spell trouble for Bitcoin bulls. Whales appear to be offloading at local highs, creating further hurdles to price upside. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:06 Jul 29, 2025
Bitcoin needs to regain momentum with higher trading volumes for BTC to clear the next big hurdle at $120,000 and reenter price discovery. Key takeaways: Bitcoin must take out resistance at $120,000 to trigger a rally to new all-time highs. Spot volume and trading activity must recover for BTC price to break out. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:00 Jul 29, 2025
The next frontier for crypto innovation is clear: Decentralized physical infrastructure networks need a tailored legal framework to unlock their full potential. It’s time for lawmakers to provide regulatory clarity for DePIN. Opinion by: Aaron Basi, head of product at IoTeX With the recent passage of the GENIUS Act, the United States has taken its first real step toward regulating crypto nationally. The bill focuses on stablecoins, establishing reserve rules, audits and authorized issuers. This is a milestone for the industry. If lawmakers want to support the next wave of innovation, they cannot stop here. One of the fastest-growing sectors, decentralized physical infrastructure networks, or DePINs, still lacks a legal framework . Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:00 Jul 29, 2025
Pyth Network has launched live, onchain price feeds for 85 major Hong Kong stocks, removing access barriers and enabling real-time financial data integration. Decentralized oracle network Pyth Network has begun publishing real-time, onchain prices for 85 of the most valuable stocks listed in Hong Kong, giving builders and traders worldwide direct access to one of Asia’s most important equity markets. The price feeds are sourced directly from institutional-grade venues and updated every 400 milliseconds across more than 100 blockchains, the project said in an announcement shared with Cointelegraph. “Whether you’re building trading strategies, structured products, tokenized portfolios, or simply want access to real-world stock prices from Asia’s financial gateway, these feeds bring Hong Kong’s equity market onchain openly, instantly, and permissionlessly,” the announcement said. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:35 Jul 29, 2025
Binance and WazirX face scrutiny as India investigates cross-border wallet flows and security risks. Globally, investigative agencies have been acting against illicit crypto funding. India’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU-IND) is investigating the global cryptocurrency exchange Binance and the Indian exchange WazirX, focusing on potential loopholes in cross-border digital asset transfers. The investigation is driven by concerns about unregulated wallet transactions linked to accounts from Pakistan. Authorities are particularly worried about activities near sensitive areas like Jammu and Kashmir, where such transfers could be used for illegal funding or money laundering. They are also investigating the funds sent from India to addresses located outside the country. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 Jul 29, 2025
A critical access control bug in SuperRare’s staking contract — easily detectable by unit tests or even ChatGPT — allowed an attacker to steal $731,000 in RARE tokens. NFT trading platform SuperRare suffered a $730,000 exploit on Monday due to a basic smart contract bug that experts say could have easily been prevented with standard testing practices. SuperRare’s (RARE) staking contract was exploited on Monday with around $731,000 worth of RARE tokens stolen, according to crypto cybersecurity firm Cyvers. The vulnerability stems from a function meant to allow only specific addresses to modify the Merkle root, a critical data structure that determines user staking balances. However, the logic was mistakenly written to allow any address to interact with the function. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 Jul 29, 2025
Legendary trader Peter Brandt says charts can’t accurately predict prices — and admits he sometimes trolls XRP and ETH bulls just for fun. Crypto traders who think they can make accurately price predictions are delusional, says veteran trader Peter Brandt. Anyone that looks at the charts and tries to tell you where anything is going is actually just kind of fooling themselves, the 79-year-old tells Magazine. There are a lot of people who will argue with me, of course, Brandt laughs. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:00 Jul 29, 2025
InternetX partners with D3’s Doma Protocol to tokenize 22 million domains, aiming to bring traditional web domains into the Web3 ecosystem. InternetX, a domain registrar under the IONOS hosting umbrella, plans to tokenize its entire portfolio of 22 million domains using D3’s Doma Protocol, potentially bringing traditional domains onchain. The Doma Protocol is a DNS-compliant blockchain platform designed for domain finance. Through this partnership, InternetX will enable customers and partners to convert traditional domains into blockchain-based tokens, potentially unlocking use cases such as crypto trading, fractional ownership and other Web3 applications. InternetX customers will also gain access to new Web3 distribution channels via Doma, with bridging capabilities to major blockchain networks including Solana, Coinbase’s Base and Avalanche. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:24 Jul 29, 2025
Google Gemini Flash 2.5 can streamline research, spot patterns, analyze sentiment and refine your crypto trading strategies. Just remember: AI assists, but you’re still the one making the call. Gemini serves as a powerful tool for research and idea generation, but should not be seen as a source of trading signals or personalized advice. While it effectively summarizes project fundamentals and compares assets, some responses, like Pi Coin’s delayed mainnet claim, highlight the risks of outdated or incomplete information. Using Gemini to reflect on past trades can help traders identify better timing and risk considerations, but market conditions evolve and human judgment remains essential Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:11 Jul 29, 2025
Corporations have accumulated 1% of all Ether since June, with Standard Chartered forecasting 10% ownership as institutional appetite for ETH continues to grow. Corporations are buying Ether at a faster pace than Bitcoin, signaling a shift in institutional interest toward the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency as it prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary, according to a new report from Standard Chartered shared with Cointelegraph. Corporate cryptocurrency treasury firms have bought up 1% of the total Ether (ETH) supply since the beginning of June, the bank said in a Tuesday research report. Over the same period, Ether-focused treasury firms have doubled the pace of investments compared to their Bitcoin (BTC)-focused counterparts, helping ETH outperform Bitcoin’s price action, the report said. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:00 Jul 29, 2025
Veda protocol has appointed former SEC senior counsel TuongVy Le as general counsel, weeks after securing $18 million in venture capital funding. Decentralized finance platform Veda has appointed a former US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) official to its ranks as it ramps up efforts to expand crosschain yield products aimed at institutional investors. TuongVy Le, who spent nearly six years at the SEC as chief counsel and senior adviser in the Enforcement Division and the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, has joined Veda as general counsel, the company announced Tuesday. During her SEC tenure, Le advised Congress on early drafts of digital asset legislation and served on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Global Markets Advisory Committee. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:46 Jul 29, 2025
China’s JD.com announced plans for a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin last summer and is now expected to be among the first issuers under HKMA’s stablecoin regime. China-based e-commerce giant JD.com has reportedly registered entities tied to a potential stablecoin rollout just days ahead of Hong Kong’s stablecoin regulations going into effect. JD.com, often referred to as China’s Amazon, has registered two potential stablecoin-linked entities, Jcoin and Joycoin, through its fintech subsidiary, JD Coinlink Technology, according to a report by Hong Kong news outlet Ming Pao on Tuesday. JD Coinlink is one of the official participants in the stablecoin issuer sandbox program by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), which launched last year. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:28 Jul 29, 2025
The HKMA completed stablecoin regulations set to take effect Aug. 1, warning no licenses have been issued and urging caution against hype and scams. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the special administrative region’s central banking authority, has finalized its regulatory framework for stablecoin issuers, releasing two sets of guidelines that will take effect on Aug. 1. On Tuesday, the HKMA released completed guidelines and consultation conclusions to clarify the upcoming rules. The documents addressed the supervision of licensed stablecoin issuers and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Terrorism Financing (CTF) rules for licensed stablecoin issuers. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:00 Jul 29, 2025
Declan Fox, global product lead for Linea, said there is no exact date for the token generation event yet, but details will be shared a week before. The Consensys-developed Linea network says it will become one of the first Ethereum layer-2 networks to commit to burning Ether as part of its network design, as it shared new details of its upcoming token generation event and airdrop. Linea announced new staking and burning mechanisms for its upcoming token launch in an effort to become more aligned with the layer-1 blockchain, which it hopes will make the network the “home for ETH capital,” according to a statement sent to Cointelegraph. The move comes amid growing concern that layer-2 networks have been leeching chain activity and fee income from the Ethereum mainnet. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 01:18 Jul 29, 2025
ETH price corrected at the weekly open, but futures data pinpoints the possibility of a breakout to $5,000. Key takeaways: ETH futures and options data show no signs of defensive positioning despite Ether's 7-month price high. Ether ETF inflows and corporate holdings signal growing conviction from institutional investors. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 00:52 Jul 29, 2025
Hedge fund manager Ray Dalio suggests investors put 15% into store-of-value assets amid America’s debt crisis. American billionaire and hedge fund manager Ray Dalio has recommended a 15% portfolio allocation into Bitcoin or gold to optimize for the “best return-to-risk ratio” in light of America’s crippling debt problem and currency devaluation. “[If] you were optimizing your portfolio for the best return-to-risk ratio, you would have about 15% of your money in gold or Bitcoin,” the founder of hedge fund firm Bridgewater Associates said during an appearance on the Master Investor podcast on Sunday. Dalio said he has “some Bitcoin, but not much,” and is still “strongly preferring gold to Bitcoin,” however. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:45 Jul 28, 2025
Interactive Brokers joins a number of traditional finance institutions who are considering entering the stablecoin space, including JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup. Trading company Interactive Brokers is planning to expand its crypto footprint with services that could include a proprietary stablecoin. The move, reported by Reuters on Monday, would allow traders to fund brokerage accounts using the company's fiat-pegged cryptocurrency. Interactive is also exploring adding support for asset transfers for commonly traded cryptocurrencies. Interactive Brokers is a brokerage firm that provides trading and investment services across global markets. The company recently reported over 3.8 million active accounts at the end of the second quarter of 2025, a 32% increase from a year ago. It has more than $664 billion in assets under management. Read more
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