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Bitcoin Fights Back After the June Selloff The bounce follows a pullback that traders have been calling the June selloff, with bitcoin recovering off a low near $57,735 and pushing back toward the $61,000 mark. Trading volume over the past 24 hours reached $44.052 billion, and bitcoin’s market capitalization stood at $1.227 trillion. The recovery has been steady rather than sharp, with buyers stepping in at each dip rather than forcing a single violent move higher. Daily Chart Shows a Higher Low Taking Shape The daily chart shows bitcoin forming a higher low off the $57.7k area, a signal that…

Ring Protocol integrates Orbs-powered dLIMIT and dTWAP orders across Base, Ethereum, Arbitrum, and $BNB Chain. Ring Protocol, a multi-chain decentralized exchange has integrated Orbs-powered dLIMIT and dTWAP. The update brings decentralized limit and time-weighted average price orders to users across Base, Arbitrum, Ethereum, and $BNB Chain. The integration uses Orbs’ Layer 3 infrastructure to give traders more control over execution while keeping assets in self-custody and adding no extra cost for the advanced order features. Advanced orders reach Ring Protocol users The dLIMIT protocol lets traders set a target price for a buy or sell order. The trade executes only…

Mike Novogratz, CEO of Galaxy Digital and a prominent figure in the cryptocurrency market, recently made noteworthy comments regarding Ethereum and its co-founder, Vitalik Buterin. The renowned CEO stated that Ethereum founder Buterin deserved the “crypto hero” award, while also saying that declining activity was harming ETH. Speaking at a recent event, Mike Novogratz stated that Buterin’s vision and technical leadership played a decisive role in Ethereum’s current position, adding that Buterin’s influence on the industry is undeniable. However, Novogratz added that Buterin’s recent decline in activity has been detrimental to the Ethereum ecosystem. At this point, Novogrtaz argued that…

Ripple on Wednesday released the XRPL AI Starter Kit, a developer toolkit for building AI-agent payment applications on the $XRP Ledger, positioning XRPL and its $RLUSD stablecoin as settlement infrastructure for autonomous software. The company published a blog post announcing the launch alongside an official post from @RippleXDev. The launch arrives on the same day that Mastercard named Ripple as one of more than 30 launch partners in Agent Pay for Machines, its own agentic commerce network, placing XRPL at the blockchain settlement layer of a stack Mastercard anchors on card rails. Phase 1 The starter kit launches in phases.…

Robinhood Crypto recently announced that new assets, including Quant ($QNT), are now available for trading on Bitstamp. This announcement, made via Twitter, highlights a strategic expansion of trading options for users on the platform. For further details, refer to the original tweet from Robinhood Crypto here. Breaking It Down The broader crypto landscape is currently exhibiting mixed signals, with varying momentum across major assets. Robinhood’s decision to add Quant, alongside other assets like LayerZero and EigenCloud, reflects a growing interest in diversifying trading options. As traders assess these new listings, the potential for enhanced liquidity and trading volume becomes a…

Kazakhstan, one of the world’s largest Bitcoin mining hubs, approved a new framework for large-scale crypto mining that links access to electricity with contributions to a state-backed digital asset reserve. The government approved rules for strategic digital mining on July 18, Kazakhstan-based news outlet Zakon.kz reported Wednesday, citing Government Resolution No. 638 published in the PRG.kz legal database. The rules define strategic digital mining as a framework that gives miners access to electricity quotas at regulated tariffs in exchange for transferring part of their mined crypto assets to Astana Hub, a government-backed technology cluster. Kazakhstan ranked fifth globally by Bitcoin…

Renowned cryptocurrency analyst Benjamin Cowen, in his latest broadcast, provided a detailed analysis of Bitcoin’s ($BTC) price movements, macroeconomic factors, and the future of the market. Cowen stated that Bitcoin may have reached its summer low, but warned investors that some corrections are still on the horizon. Cowen pointed out similarities between Bitcoin’s price chart in 2026 and 2018. Reminding that both years are midterm election years, the analyst stated, “In early summer of 2018, the low we saw was around $5,700. In 2026, coincidentally, this figure is exactly ten times higher, at $57,000,” arguing that historical cycles repeat themselves.…

Flow Traders (Euronext: FLOW) will become the pilot partner of Lombard Finance for its new Bitcoin Onchain Credit Strategy. On-chain $BTC lending is still relatively small, and Lombard plans for an expansion with large-scale institutional platforms. Flow Traders, a leading trading firm, liquidity provider, and market maker, will be able to borrow stablecoins and access on-chain markets, which were previously difficult to access for institutional clients. Lombard Finance has taken steps to make on-chain lending smoother and more accessible, allowing institutions to post onchain collateral more efficiently. Lombard uses Chainlink’s CCIP interoperability tool, allowing cross-chain deposits of $BTC.b, moving collaterals…

Bitmine (BMNR), the largest Ethereum treasury firm, bought just 7,430 ether ($ETH) last week, dialing back its buying spree as it redirected capital to a stock buyback. The latest purchase, worth about $14 million at ether’s current price of $1,879, lifted BitMine’s holdings to 5,78 million $ETH, or roughly 4.8% of Ethereum’s circulating supply, according to a Monday company update. BMNR was 2.4% higher in pre-market trading. The purchase marks one of firm’s smallest weekly additions since launching its Ethereum treasury strategy in June 2025. By comparison, the firm bought more than 111,000 $ETH during one week in May and…

On a single day this June, roughly 42,000 new tokens flooded onto the Solana blockchain in just 24 hours — a figure that would have seemed implausible two years ago. The engine behind much of that surge is Pump.fun Solana token launches, the no-code token launchpad that has changed how crypto assets are created, traded, and, more often than not, abandoned. The scale is worth pausing on. That works out to nearly one new token every two seconds, running around the clock. Meanwhile, this was not a one-day spike. Pump.fun Solana token launches have been moving at that pace for…