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A 21.7% month-over-month drop across every major exchange is rarely just noise. The July 2026 spot trading report from WuBlockchain puts combined volume at $429.0 billion across 14 platforms, down from $547.9 billion in June. Binance alone absorbed nearly half of that total, a reminder that liquidity concentrates fast when traders pull back. Binance notched $196.5 billion in spot trades, grabbing a 45.8% share. OKX followed at $41.6 billion and Bybit at $36.3 billion. Together, the top three exchanges captured 64.0% of all spot volume. The concentration is stark, but the real story is in the declines. Every single exchange…

Riot Platforms has secured up to $573 million of interim financing for the $9.1 billion>Bitcoin miner expects the project to start generating rent. Earlier this month, Riot disclosed that it had secured a 20-year lease for 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale, Texas, campus, describing the tenant only as a “leading frontier AI lab.” However, CNBC and other reports subsequently identified the customer as Anthropic, the developer of Claude. Riot has not publicly named the tenant. The first 96 MW is scheduled for delivery in December 2027, with the remaining 95 MW expected by June 2028. Riot…

Bitcoin price rebounded toward $63,900 on Aug. 3 after briefly falling near $62,300, but weak spot demand and fresh short-term holder losses continue to limit its recovery. Bitcoin price recovers from $62,300 According to data from crypto.news, Bitcoin ($BTC) price traded at $63,894 at the time of writing, up 0.51% for the day after moving between $62,300 and $63,993. The recovery followed a sharp decline toward $62,600 noted in Glassnode’s latest market report. According to the on-chain analytics firm, Bitcoin failed to hold its earlier move above $66,000 as weak spot demand and persistent net selling kept the market within…

Jiang Zhuoer, founder of $BTC.TOP and a recognized figure in China’s cryptocurrency mining sector, has shifted his previously bearish view on the crypto market after recent strong price rebounds. Jiang reported he is now about 90% confident that the broader bear market has ended, following Bitcoin’s rapid approach to $79,500 and Ethereum’s relative outperformance. Jiang Zhuoer adjusts strategy after market rally Jiang’s reversal comes after a series of trades that contradicted his earlier cycle-based predictions. Initially, he sold his Ethereum holdings at levels between $1,738 and $1,931 when he anticipated a further downturn. After witnessing renewed market strength, he bought…

By July 18, 2028, a stablecoin could still move freely across blockchains and yet disappear from the buy menu on an American exchange. Under the $GENIUS%20Section%203%20NPRM.pdf”>Treasury Department’s proposed $GENIUS Act rules, a digital asset service provider wouldn’t be able to offer or sell a payment stablecoin to someone in the United States from that date unless its issuer fits one of the law’s permitted categories. The proposal doesn’t ban an offshore token from circulating abroad or moving between private wallets; it just controls how regulated businesses distribute that token inside the US. For Tether’s $USDT, the biggest issue is therefore…

Senator Cynthia Lummis has accused banks of trying to sabotage one of the most consequential efforts at crypto regulation in years, claiming financial institutions are quietly demanding last-minute changes to the CLARITY Act before they will back it. The accusation lands at a delicate moment: the bill, formally known as the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, already stalled once this summer when the Senate broke for recess without a vote, and lawmakers are now eyeing a fresh attempt on September 15. For anyone watching how CLARITY Act crypto regulation takes shape in Washington, the fight over banks’ demands could decide…

Crypto.com is world’s 11th largest exchange, according to data source Coingecko. Stock tokenization push The launch lands in a fast-growing corner at the intersection of the crypto market and traditional assets. Tokenized stocks have reached about $2.49 billion in value, up roughly 600% over the past year, as exchanges and blockchain firms race to bring equities onchain. Citi estimated that tokenized securities could grow into a $5.5 trillion market by 2030, including $2.6 trillion in tokenized equities. Kraken, Bybit, Bitget and Robinhood are among the trading platforms that have rolled out tokenized equity products for investors outside the U.S. Meanwhile,…

10,000-coin allocation The Toronto-based firm will deploy a portion of the up to 10,000 bitcoins, worth about $628mn at current prices, that Bhutan’s King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck committed to GMC’s development in December 2025, drawn from national holdings. Bhutan’s sovereign wealth fund, Druk Holding & Investments (DHI), held approximately 13,000 bitcoins at its October 2024 peak, according to Arkham Intelligence. Arkham-labelled DHI wallets have since fallen by more than three-quarters from that peak, to about 3,100 $BTC ($197mn) as of mid-May 2026 – a drawdown Arkham interprets as sales, but which DHI has publicly denied. Even so, the Kingdom…

Fundstart’s Tom Lee is confident that rotation into $ETH has already started. The setup for this rotation has been nearly a decade in the making, according to Lee. Is $ETH going to $10K? According to Tom Lee, $ETH could easily reach $10,000 within the next one or two years. The extremely bullish take is based on this assumption that $ETH will be able to become the settlement layer of the future. At the same time, he is confident that a proper DAT will be able to outperform the underlying asset. Lee has argued that Ethereum remains significantly undervalued relative to…

South Korea’s virtual asset market is undergoing a significant transformation, moving from a retail-driven landscape to one increasingly shaped by institutional participation, according to Andrew Park, CEO of FactBlock and organizer of Korea Blockchain Week. Park’s remarks, reported by Bitcoin.com News, highlight a regulatory and legislative push that could redefine how digital assets are traded and managed in one of Asia’s most active crypto markets. Regulatory Momentum Toward Corporate Participation Park noted that South Korean financial authorities are actively considering allowing corporate virtual asset accounts for approximately 3,500 listed companies and professional investors. This move would mark a departure from…