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Aligned published the terms of its ALIGN airdrop on Tuesday, 20 months after registration for the drop closed. The company did not say when the token launches. Every figure in the post is pegged to a token generation event that Aligned has not set a date for. The ALIGN contract on Ethereum records 26 holders and no transfers. CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap both carry preview pages with no price. And sale.alignedlayer.com, the site Aligned built for the public auction it announced in April, now displays one line: “THE SALE HAS BEEN CANCELED.” Ten Thousand Token Line The Genesis Drop covers 8.74%…

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has advanced its framework for locally listed spot Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) from proposed principles to draft regulations while revising its approach to foreign digital asset custodians. The regulator said Monday it is seeking feedback on two consultation papers. One contains draft regulations for Thai crypto ETFs, while the other proposes principles governing the qualifications of foreign digital asset custodians engaged by mutual and private funds investing in digital assets. During the initial stage, asset managers could establish passive ETFs tracking Bitcoin (BTC) or Ether (ETH), the only two eligible crypto assets.…

Centralized crypto exchanges lost 31.2% of their spot crypto trading volume in July, falling to $727 billion and marking the lowest monthly total since October 2023. Decentralized exchanges also lost volume, but only 9.82%, settling at $176 billion. That gap pushed DEXs to a record 19.5% share of combined spot volume. Where the CEX collapse concentrated BlockBeats’ July crypto trading-platform ranking shows spot volume on major CEXs fell 35.5% month over month, while perpetual futures volume fell a smaller 19.6%. The gap suggests spot was the weakest part of centralized crypto trading, while demand for leveraged trading proved relatively more…

Rejections at $65,500 Resistance Drag Prices Lower Bitcoin showed its volatility again on Monday, experiencing two sharp price swings even as tensions in the Middle East eased. After barely holding above $64,600 late Sunday, the cryptocurrency jumped to a session high of $65,500 as markets reacted to reports of a pause in fighting between U.S. and Iranian forces. Despite pulling back to just over $65,000 shortly afterwards, bitcoin held ground through most of early Sunday morning. By 2:15 a.m. EDT, it reclaimed $65,500, only for an ensuing sell-off to push it under $65,000 nearly six hours later. A third attempt…

Key takeaways – Kalshi’s valuation went from $11 billion in December 2025 to $22 billion in March 2026, and it is reportedly now in talks for a $40 billion round that could close this quarter. – Polymarket was valued near $8 billion when Intercontinental Exchange committed $2 billion to it last October. It is now fielding a round that could price it above $20 billion. – Kalshi has told investors it is exploring an IPO for late 2026 or early 2027, complicated by state lawsuits alleging it runs an illegal gambling operation. – Bernstein analysts think the bigger story is…

Canary Capital has filed an S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch a spot $TRX exchange-traded fund (ETF), the company announced via a post on X. The proposed fund, which would trade under the ticker TRXS, aims to track the price of Tron’s native cryptocurrency, $TRX, directly, rather than through futures contracts. The filing marks another step in the asset manager’s aggressive push into crypto ETFs, following its earlier applications for spot Litecoin and $XRP funds. If approved, the $TRX ETF would be the first of its kind in the U.S., offering investors regulated…

The US Treasury has expanded its Iran sanctions framework to cover the country’s digital asset sector, citing more than $100 million in crypto payments allegedly used to facilitate Iranian oil sales. On Monday, the Treasury said the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued sectoral sanctions determinations covering digital assets, technology, gold, aviation and shipping. The agency also sanctioned nearly 60 entities, individuals and vessels across nuclear, missile, cyber and oil networks. The digital asset determination allows OFAC to sanction foreign individuals and companies that operate in or provide services supporting Iran’s digital asset sector. The Treasury said Iran increasingly…

Crypto trading is gaining sudden recognition in India. Google searches indicate that Indian traders are looking beyond Bitcoin prices, with “crypto trading” searches rising alongside interest in platforms such as Binance and Delta Exchange. This signals that more Indians are exploring ways and places in which they can trade digital assets. Interestingly, searches for “is crypto trading legal in India” are also growing. This is indicative of the fact that Indians are increasingly becoming eager to know more about the regulatory norms of crypto. Before putting their money into the market, they want to understand the rules. This shows that…

At the time of writing at 8:40 a.m. Eastern time on July 27, the chain tip stood at block 959842. Roughly 1,790 blocks remain before block 961632, the point where nodes running BIP-110 software begin rejecting blocks that do not signal version bit 4. At Bitcoin’s average ten-minute pace, that height should arrive on or around Aug. 9, 2026. BIP-110, formally called the Reduced Data Temporary Softfork, proposes limiting the size of certain data fields used in Bitcoin transactions. The rules primarily target Ordinals-style inscriptions, oversized OP_RETURN payloads, and similar> BIP-110 signaling barely registered, hovering below 1% during some periods.…

ADI Chain’s job is to turn those deals into blockchain tokens and handle payments using stablecoins (digital tokens pegged 1-to-1 to real currencies like the UAE dirham or the U.S. dollar), so money moves instantly without a traditional bank wire. For now, this is aimed at “qualified institutional participants,” or large, vetted investors, not everyday retail buyers. Shipfinex CEO Capt. Vikas Pandey said the partnership would let the company “create a regulated digital route into this market, with every instrument tied to a real vessel, its economics and its legal structure.” No maritime asset tokens have been issued yet and…