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Few Companies Spark More Debate Right Now Than Strategy Few topics have captivated the crypto community more today than Strategy, its massive bitcoin treasury, MSTR shares, and the company’s preferred stock, STRC. Mounting pressure on MSTR this year, coupled with STRC’s slide well below its $100 par value, has shaken investor confidence and fueled relentless debate across the market. Nearly everyone seems to have an opinion on the company, with the community sharply divided between supporters who remain convinced of its long-term strategy and critics who argue that Strategy and founder Michael Saylor’s high-stakes bet is destined to fail. Roche:…

In his latest publication, Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz put an end to the years-long debate around the history of the cryptocurrency’s creation, officially refuting rumors that Canadian programmer Ryan Fugger is the creator of the $XRP token. The reason for these speculations remains the RipplePay project, which Fugger launched in 2004 — five years before the appearance of Bitcoin. Because of the similar name, many people still mistakenly consider the Canadian programmer the “father” of $XRP. True history behind the $XRP Ledger architecture Schwartz restores the real chronology of events and explains that Fugger’s original 2004 project was an…

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called on Congress on Tuesday to pass the Clarity Act, highlighting blockchain’s potential to bring financial inclusion to the unbanked and underserved Cuomo Bats For Blockchain Technology During an interview with Fox Business, Cuomo argued that the adoption of blockchain technology could drastically reduce consumer costs by lessening reliance on traditional banking institutions “You don’t need the intermediaries. Literally, you could trade directly, and it can be a 24/7 market, and it can be a global market,” Cuomo was quoted as saying. He also highlighted how having a cryptocurrency wallet on your phone and…

Bybit has opened a dedicated account type that lets AI trading bots operate inside a walled-off space, separate from a client’s main funds. The crypto exchange is pitching the feature, which it calls the AI Subaccount, at developers and traders across the Middle East and North Africa. The launch lands in the middle of a fast-moving shift. Over the first half of 2026, at least ten retail brokers and platform vendors wired AI agents into live client accounts, according to a FM Intelligence study, most of them running on the same open plumbing. Bybit’s move pulls a crypto exchange into…

The Screws Tighten Onchain data shows that on June 26, 2026, at block height 955,584, Bitcoin’s difficulty rating rose 7.15% after the prior epoch’s 10.09% decline. The adjustment means discovering a block is now 7.15% more difficult than it was before block 955,584 and the 2,016 blocks that preceded it. The increase lifts the difficulty to 133.87 trillion. When Satoshi mined the genesis block, the network required a guess beginning with roughly eight leading zeros in hexadecimal to qualify as valid. Today, at a difficulty of 133.87 trillion, a valid hash needs about 22 leading zeros. Each additional leading zero…

The long-accepted “4-year cycle” theory in cryptocurrency markets is frequently questioned by investors during each bull or bear season. In its latest report, the popular analytics company The DeFi Report examines why Bitcoin persistently follows this 4-year timeline and why the market consistently misinterprets this cycle. One of the strongest points highlighted in the report was that ignoring market cycles consistently misleads investors. It noted that those who declared “This time it’s different because institutional capital has entered” during bull markets or “Bitcoin is dead, it was all a Ponzi scheme” during bear markets have been wrong four times in…

Ethereum is holding near a multi-year support line, but short-term weakness keeps the risk of a drop toward $1,460 alive. A strong rebound above $1,740 could shift momentum and reopen the path toward its $4,850 resistance zone. Ethereum Slips Below $1,740 as Bears Threaten a New Low Ethereum has fallen back below a key technical level after briefly recovering from its February lows, keeping the wider downtrend intact. $ETH/USDT 12-Hour Key-Level Chart. Source: CRYPTOWZRD (@cryptoWZRD_) on X The 12-hour chart shows $ETH trading near $1,670, below the horizontal resistance around $1,740. Price also failed to break the descending trendline, where…

Solmate Infrastructure has lost about 98% of its market value since ARK Invest and Abu Dhabi-based Pulsar Group backed a $300m financing tied to its Solana treasury plan. The Nasdaq-listed company, formerly Brera Holdings, traded near $4.72 on Friday after its sharp post-pivot selloff. The company had run a football holding business with stakes across Italy, North Macedonia, Mozambique and Mongolia. It changed course in 2025, raising capital to build a Solana treasury and crypto infrastructure business in the United Arab Emirates. As previously reported, Solmate launched with $300m to establish a Solana treasury in the UAE with backing from…

A post in the $XRP community has claimed $XRP was created in 1988, far ahead of Bitcoin. The post cited a U.S. patent filed by Ripple’s former Chief Technology Officer, David Schwartz, years before Bitcoin existed. However, former Ripple director Matt Hamilton and XRPL validator Vet rejected the claim. They said the patent has no connection to $XRP or blockchain technology. Patent Is Unrelated to $XRP The discussion began after X user “Crypto Dyl News” shared an image of U.S. Patent No. 5,025,369. The patent was originally filed in 1988 by David Schwartz for a distributed computer system. The post…

A group of US Senate Democrats is urging Senate Republican leaders to hold hearings into a reported $500 million deal between the Trump family’s crypto firm and Abu Dhabi royalty. In a letter on Tuesday, the Democrats told Republicans, who control the Senate, lead its committees and decide on hearings, that they should “immediately hold hearings” into the deal and have Trump administration officials testify about it under oath. The Wall Street Journal reported in January that an Abu Dhabi investment company backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates’ national security adviser, signed a deal…