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Cointelegraph.com - 12:48 Jul 26, 2025
Japan’s slow and risk-averse approval system, not taxes, is the real barrier driving Web3 startups and liquidity offshore, says WeFi CEO Maksym Sakharov. Japan’s regulatory bottlenecks, not taxes, are the real reason crypto innovation is leaving the country, according to Maksym Sakharov, co-founder and CEO of decentralized onchain bank WeFi. Sakharov told Cointelegraph that even if the proposed 20% flat tax on crypto gains is implemented, Japan’s “slow, prescriptive, and risk‑averse” approval culture will continue to push startups and liquidity offshore. “The 55% progressive tax is painful and very visible, but it’s not the core blocker anymore,” he said. “The FSA/JVCEA pre‑approval model and the absence of a truly dynamic sandbox are what keep builders and liquidity offshore.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:45 Jul 26, 2025
A $1-million Bitcoin would upend global finance, reshaping wealth, inflation, energy markets and the very role of fiat currencies. Bitcoin has already achieved major highs that very few thought possible. The ink on the current drivers of its all-time high is still wet. One of the major catalysts was the introduction of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in early 2024, such as BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF. By mid-2025, US Bitcoin ETFs had amassed $14.8 billion in net inflows, with BlackRock’s ETF alone raising over $1.3 billion in just two days. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:07 Jul 26, 2025
Tyler Winklevoss claims JPMorgan paused Gemini's onboarding after he criticized the bank’s data access fees, calling the move anti-competitive. Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss has accused JPMorgan Chase of halting the crypto exchange’s onboarding process in response to his public criticism of the bank’s new data access policy. In a Friday post on X, Winklevoss claimed JPMorgan retaliated after he called out the banking giant’s new move as anti-competitive behavior that could harm fintech and crypto firms. “My tweet from last week struck a nerve. This week, JPMorgan told us that because of it they were pausing their re-onboarding of Gemini as a customer after they off-boarded us during Operation ChokePoint 2.0,” the Gemini boss wrote. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 07:13 Jul 26, 2025
BlackRock's ETHA leads with $440 million as Ether ETFs stretch their inflow streak to 16 days, pushing total net assets to $20.66 billion. Spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted another strong session on Friday, drawing $452.72 million in net inflows and extending their inflow streak to 16 consecutive trading days, according to data from SoSoValue. BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust (ETHA) once again dominated the charts, pulling in $440.10 million in daily net inflows. The fund now commands $10.69 billion in assets, the largest share among US Ether (ETH) ETFs. Bitwise’s ETHW followed at a distant second with $9.95 million, while Fidelity’s FETH added $7.30 million. Grayscale’s ETHE, however, continued to see redemptions, losing $23.49 million on the day and pushing its cumulative outflow to $4.29 billion, by far the largest net loss among all Ether ETF products. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 06:08 Jul 26, 2025
Ether's recent surge in social media dominance signals the potential risk for a price correction, according to Santiment. Ether’s recent price rally may be due for a cooldown, as a surge in social media mentions — reaching levels of “extreme euphoria” — points to the potential for a near term correction, according to sentiment platform Santiment. However, other indicators suggest Ether’s (ETH) rally may still have room to run, which has gained more than 50% over the past 30 days. “Social metrics are flashing warning signs. Since early May, Ethereum's price ratio against Bitcoin has surged by an incredible 70%,” Santiment said in a report on Friday. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 03:35 Jul 26, 2025
The Ripple executive says he felt really bad about the situation and "it wasn’t the authentic interaction with celebrities" that he was aiming for. Ripple’s chief technology officer David Schwartz confessed that he once faked fan questions for Black Sabbath and filtered the responses of recently deceased rock legend Ozzy Osbourne during what was meant to be an authentic Q&A with fans — an experience he now regrets. “I cheated,” Swartz said in an X post on Thursday. “To me personally, it was a failure, but to everyone else it was a success,” recalling his time at WebMaster when, as an employee, he was assigned to deliver responses to fan questions for Osbourne — who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 76 — and the other members of Black Sabbath using the company’s ConferenceRoom software. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:06 Jul 25, 2025
Changes to El Salvador's Bitcoin laws under the IMF agreement put the benefits of BTC even further out of reach for the average resident. El Salvador’s Bitcoin (BTC) reserve has had limited impact on the broader population, and the country’s loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may further complicate its Bitcoin strategy, according to Quentin Ehrenmann, general manager at My First Bitcoin, a non-governmental organization (NGO) focused on Bitcoin adoption. Ehrenmann told Reuters that repealing the Bitcoin legal tender laws under the IMF agreement has created a vacuum in public BTC education or state-led adoption initiatives. In a translated statement, he told the news outlet: The Central American country also agreed not to purchase any new BTC under the agreement, a detail that was confirmed in a recent IMF report, which contradicted claims by El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office that the country is accumulating BTC daily. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:45 Jul 25, 2025
Ether is showing renewed strength as tight supply, rising demand, and bullish technicals align, pushing ETH toward a possible $9,000 target. Key takeaways: ETH gained 50% in two weeks, and Elliott Wave models are pointing to a possible $9,000 top by early 2026. Onchain fundamentals are strong: 28% of ETH is staked, exchange balances are at their lowest since 2016, and new buyer inflows are accelerating. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:36 Jul 25, 2025
An early Bitcoin investor has sold 80,000 BTC through Galaxy Digital, marking one of the largest crypto transactions ever, in a trading session marked by higher volatility. An early Bitcoin (BTC) investor has sold 80,000 BTC through Galaxy Digital, in what the digital asset company described as one of the largest notional transactions in crypto history, though details regarding the date and execution price were not disclosed. Galaxy Digital’s disclosure of the sale first appeared on PR Newswire late Friday, followed by a post on the company’s official blog about 30 minutes later. Cointelegraph reached out to Galaxy Digital for further details on the transaction, and although the company declined to comment further, they did confirm the authenticity of the press release. Galaxy did not reveal the client’s identity but stated that the “transaction was part of the investor’s broader real estate planning strategy.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:42 Jul 25, 2025
Bitcoin traders turn cautious as BTC trades near a critical support level, but outright panic is absent in derivatives markets. Key takeaways: Bitcoin options and futures data suggest traders are neutral despite a 7% drop from the peak. Stablecoin demand in China remains steady, showing marginal fear in crypto markets. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:33 Jul 25, 2025
New data shows stolen crypto is laundered within minutes, often before hacks are even disclosed. A new report from Swiss blockchain analytics company Global Ledger reveals that over $3.01 billion was stolen across 119 crypto hacks in the first half of 2025, surpassing the total for all of 2024. Even more alarming is a trend beyond the rising volume: speed. The report analyzed onchain data tied to each exploit, and tracked how quickly attackers moved funds through mixers, bridges and centralized exchanges. By mapping the time between the initial incident and the final laundering endpoint, researchers found that laundering now happens in minutes, often before a hack is even disclosed. According to the report, laundering was fully completed before the breach became public in nearly 23% of cases. In many others, the stolen funds were already in motion when victims realized what had happened. In such cases, by the time a hack is reported, it may be too late. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:00 Jul 25, 2025
Hive Digital Technologies, the first publicly traded Bitcoin miner, marks a major milestone at Nasdaq as it accelerates its HPC expansion. Hive Digital Technologies (HIVE) has many firsts in the crypto industry. It was the first publicly traded Bitcoin miner in 2017 and one of the earliest to make a decisive pivot into high-performance computing (HPC) in 2022. Now, Hive is back in the spotlight, ringing the closing bell at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange as it eyes a $100 million annual run rate for its HPC business by next year. Cointelegraph received an exclusive invitation to the Nasdaq event, where we sat down with Executive Chairman Frank Holmes and CEO Aydin Kilic. The two discussed the mining industry’s escalating “scramble for electricity and land,” Bitcoin’s (BTC) evolving role as a reserve asset, and the challenges of still being viewed as a Bitcoin proxy stock in 2025. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 19:45 Jul 25, 2025
Data shows the market still favors ETH even after Bitcoin’s sharp sell-off to $115,000. Key takeaways: Ether’s bullish structure remains intact even as the broader crypto market shows weakness. Over 540,000 ETH have been accumulated by new whale wallets since July 9. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 19:27 Jul 25, 2025
The investor warned against fraudulent paper claims made on hard assets, but ETF analysts told Cointelegraph that the fear is unfounded. Investor and financial educator Robert Kiyosaki warned of the potential danger from holding paper Bitcoin (BTC) and precious metals through instruments such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Kiyosaki said that although ETFs make certain asset classes more accessible to investors and lower the barrier to entry, the investor does not physically hold the underlying asset. He wrote on Friday: In May, he told investors to ditch “fake money” for bearer assets like BTC, gold and silver to counteract the effects of inflation and the decline of the US dollar. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:43 Jul 25, 2025
Dragonfly Capital’s early investment in Tornado Cash could expose the firm to potential legal action from the DOJ. Dragonfly Capital could be the target of federal charges stemming from its early investment in Tornado Cash developer PepperSec, Inc., but the venture firm says it is prepared to “vigorously defend” itself if prosecutors pursue the case. In a Friday social media post, Dragonfly Capital managing partner Haseeb Qureshi defended the firm’s early backing of Tornado Cash — an open-source protocol that allows users to obscure blockchain transactions — dating back to August 2020. “We made this investment because we believe in the importance of open-source privacy-preserving technology,” said Qureshi, adding that the company had consulted outside legal counsel before investing and was assured Tornado Cash was compliant. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:30 Jul 25, 2025
Bitcoin is at risk of losing the $115,000 support, raising the chance that the recently started altcoin season could abruptly end. Key points: Bitcoin has pulled back into the $115,000 to $110,530 support zone, where buyers are expected to mount a strong defense. ETH has been holding near the overhead resistance as investors pour money into the spot ETH ETFs. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:29 Jul 25, 2025
Reporting from the New York courtroom suggested that the Tornado Cash developer could wrap up his defense in a few days, but whether he would take the stand was still unclear. Defense attorneys representing Tornado Cash co-founder and developer Roman Storm will reportedly rest their case sometime next week, sending the matter to the jury. According to reporting from Inner City Press on Friday, Judge Katherine Failla said she expected to hear closing statements from prosecutors and Storm’s legal team on Tuesday or Wednesday. The timeline gives the Tornado Cash co-founder roughly five days to present his defense in court. Whether Storm intends to take the stand in his own defense was unclear as of Friday. Before his trial started, the Tornado Cash co-founder gave an interview in which he said he “may or may not” testify. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:00 Jul 25, 2025
The passage of the GENIUS Act is bringing renewed investor interest to Ether and Ethereum-native yield-generating opportunities. Institutional interest in cryptocurrencies was piqued after “Crypto Week” in the US saw the passage of the industry’s key stablecoin bill, the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins, or GENIUS Act. Signed into law by US President Donald Trump on July 18, the GENIUS Act bans yield-bearing stablecoins in the world’s largest economy, which may increase the demand for Ether (ETH) and Ethereum-based yield-generating decentralized finance protocols, according to industry watchers. Signaling growing demand for the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, a group of crypto researchers and public market experts announced the launch of the largest yield-bearing Ether fund for institutional investors, called Ether Machine. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 17:30 Jul 25, 2025
XRP price fell by 10% as whales sold and wider market liquidations spread to the altcoin. Key takeaways: XRP’s liquidation was the third-largest long liquidation on Binance this year. XRP’s higher time frame trend remains bullish, as bulls aim to defend the $2.95–$3.00 support zone. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 17:28 Jul 25, 2025
Goldman Sachs and BNY Mellon’s tokenization push aims to keep money market funds competitive as the US accelerates stablecoin adoption, according to a JPMorgan strategist. The tokenization of money market funds marks a significant step in preserving the appeal of “cash as an asset,” especially as the growing adoption of stablecoins threatens to erode the attractiveness of traditional fund offerings, according to JPMorgan strategist Teresa Ho. Commenting on recent initiatives by Goldman Sachs and Bank of New York Mellon to tokenize shares of money market funds, Ho noted that such services will help maintain the competitiveness of these funds while unlocking new use cases, such as margin collateral. This development is particularly timely given the recent passage of the US GENIUS Act, a comprehensive stablecoin bill expected to accelerate the usage of digital dollars by integrating the speed and predictability of blockchain technology into the traditional banking system. Read more
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