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Bitcoin traded near $64,000 on Sunday after recovering part of Friday’s sell-off, but the rebound has not yet changed the wider range. According to crypto.news market data, Bitcoin traded around $64,008, up 0.87% over 24 hours. The page showed a 24-hour range between $63,188 and $64,462, with daily volume above $16.6 billion. Bitcoin’s seven-day move stayed slightly negative, showing that the weekend bounce only repaired part of the damage. The move kept traders focused on the $62,000 support area. A clear break below that zone could weaken short-term sentiment, while a move above $67,000 would give bulls a stronger relief…

Tokenized equities are moving from pilot programs into live trading, but the market infrastructure that makes equities coherent — corporate actions, entitlements, reference data and settlement — isn’t built for assets that trade continuously across multiple venues. Earlier this year, Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange received SEC approval to list tokenized versions of Russell 1000 stocks and major index ETFs, and DTCC has now begun limited production trades with a full commercial launch targeted for October. More than 50 firms participated in the trial, underscoring that the technology is ready — but the systems behind public markets may…

$XRP advocate Bill Morgan has suggested that the role envisioned for $XRP within Ripple’s ecosystem is evolving. His comments followed the launch of Ripple USD ($RLUSD) on the $XRP Ledger EVM Sidechain. Specifically, Morgan responded to an announcement from RippleX that $RLUSD is now live on the XRPL EVM Sidechain. The move marks another step in the stablecoin’s multichain expansion strategy. According to RippleX, the integration allows developers to build with familiar Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) tools while remaining connected to the $XRP Ledger. The company said $RLUSD’s growing adoption across smart contract ecosystems reflects rising demand for regulated stablecoins…

Why Two Miners Can ‘Win’ at Once Bitcoin mining is a race with no referee watching the finish line in real time. A new block has to physically propagate (i.e. hop from node to node) across a global network before every participant agrees on what the current tip of the chain is. That trip takes seconds, sometimes longer on a congested connection. If a second miner finds a valid block of their own before the first block has finished spreading to them, they build on the version they last saw (usually the previous block) and broadcast their own competing block.…

Safe smart accounts processed nearly 130 million transactions in the second quarter, the highest quarterly total in the protocol’s history and a 5.7% increase from Q1, the Safe Ecosystem Foundation said in its Q2 2026 report published Wednesday. The record quarter came against a weaker market, a sign that smart account usage is compounding independently of price. Total Safe accounts reached 63.4 million, up 20% year over year, and monthly active accounts climbed through the quarter to 2.73 million in June. April was the busiest month ever recorded, with 55.4 million transactions. Transfer volume hit $39.3 billion in the quarter,…

Blockstream CEO Adam Back said concerns over Strategy’s small Bitcoin sale are overblown, framing the move as normal treasury management rather than a warning sign for the company’s Bitcoin plan. Speaking in a Bloomberg interview shared on YouTube, Back addressed questions about Strategy selling 32 $BTC to help pay preferred stock dividends. He said the sale showed the firm could meet obligations while keeping Bitcoin at the center of its balance sheet. Back frames sale as balance sheet use Back argued that the market should not treat the 32 $BTC sale as a bearish signal. In his view, Strategy used…

“When we reached out to like 10 banks or payment companies asking if we can do crypto debit cards, all of them said no, you cannot. It’s not possible,” Pavel Matveev said on the On The Margin podcast, recalling 2015. “And crypto is only for buying drugs and weapons.” “A lot of companies, a lot of founders, maybe they gave up a bit too early,” Matveev said. “And we just kept going and kept trying.” One company eventually said yes, and in 2015 Wirex shipped one of the first crypto debit cards, a prepaid card you could load with Bitcoin…

A growing number of governments now view crypto mining as an industry worth attracting rather than taxing away. The competitive logic behind this is that structured fee models on mining revenues generate consistent income, above-market electricity tariffs recover infrastructure costs, and the broader economic activity, construction, employment, and foreign investment flows into regions that often have limited industrial development otherwise. The most recent government to enter this competition is Uzbekistan. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a resolution establishing the Besqala Mining Valley across Karakalpakstan. Miners inside the zone pay zero corporate income tax, zero property tax, zero land tax, and zero…

Morpho, the DeFi lending protocol with about $7.6 billion in total value locked, will complete a full deployment on HashKey’s HSK Chain and become the network’s official onchain credit partner, HSK Chain said in a post on X on Tuesday. The deal gives Morpho its first anchor in Hong Kong, one of the few jurisdictions running a licensed regime for virtual asset trading, and gives HashKey, the licensed Hong Kong crypto group behind the chain, a battle-tested credit engine to build regulated lending products on. The two said they will develop onchain credit products for institutional and retail users, explore…

Optimism around U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio-led ceasefire talks lifted risk sentiment across crypto markets. The talks followed a reported agreement between the U.S. and Iran on a 60-day ceasefire framework. Both sides retained the option to extend it through mutual agreement. Amid the development, the total crypto market cap increased by roughly $39 billion, up 1.37%, and stabilized near $2.19 trillion. Bitcoin [BTC] reclaimed the $64,000 level at press time. Ethereum [ETH] also showed signs of recovery and traded around $1,723. However, average daily trading volume remained below normal levels at $52 billion to $55 billion. That suggested…