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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told his followers on X that his posts do not serve as an endorsement of any kind. Regardless, traders ignored his “warnings” with many pushing back. On July 20, Armstrong responded to the buzz around his social media activity, particularly his profile picture, and reiterated the disclaimer on his X bio. He acknowledged the response from the Base community, adding that responses like these only go to show how much people care. A profile picture worth tens of millions On July 16, Armstrong changed his profile picture on X from a CryptoPunk avatar to an art…

In brief Five men have been convicted of false imprisonment after ambushing two French crypto millionaires and holding them for 52 hours in a London flat. The victims, who did not testify, transferred $30,000 of a $150,000 demand. Prosecutors said the men’s lifestyles, much of it posted on social media, may have drawn the gang’s attention. Five men have been convicted over the blackmail and false imprisonment of two French cryptocurrency millionaires held for 52 hours in an East London flat last July, the Daily Mail reported. The victims, both in their 20s, were ambushed in Shadwell and driven to…

Coinbase has rolled out a new way to trade one of the world’s most watched commodities without ever touching a barrel of oil. The exchange launched perpetual futures tied to WTI and Brent crude, opening a fresh corner of its derivatives business to eligible traders outside the United States. The move, first detailed by Coinfomania, arrives as regulators and legacy exchanges fight over how these open-ended contracts should be treated under U.S. law, making this Coinbase oil futures launch as much a policy story as a product one. Key takeaways Coinbase has launched perpetual futures contracts for WTI and Brent…

A Quarter That Started Ugly and Turned Around Bitcoin entered the third quarter deep in a hole with the asset falling to its lowest level of 2026 during a brutal stretch in the spring (when it dropped more than 19% in a single week and over 26% across 30 days). The rout saw more than half of all circulating bitcoin sitting underwater at the low. Bitcoin.com News tracked the asset trading a full 50% below its October 2025 cycle high of $126,209 during that stretch, as bullish catalysts like exchange-traded fund (ETF) demand and institutional accumulation collided with bearish forces…

SpaceX (SPCX), Elon Musk’s space technology company, reported its first quarterly results as a public company on Tuesday, announcing second-quarter revenue of $7.8 billion. That figure topped Wall Street expectations of $6.9 billion, while narrowing its quarterly loss to to $541 million as growth accelerated across its launch, Starlink and AI businesses. The company reported a net loss of $541 million, an improvement from a $1.0 billion loss a year earlier, while adjusted EBITDA nearly tripled to $3.5 billion. Crypto investors were also watching for changes to SpaceX’s bitcoin BTC$64,089.16 holdings. The company reported $1.10 billion in digital assets at…

Bybit has expanded its European regulatory footprint after Bybit Payments GmbH, its Austrian subsidiary, secured an Electronic Money Institution license from Austria’s Financial Market Authority, enabling the company to offer regulated payment services alongside its crypto business, according to a Tuesday announcement. According to Georg Harer, legal and compliance head at Bybit EU and co-CEO of Bybit EU GmbH, Europe’s regulatory approach is setting a global example for the convergence of digital assets and financial services. He said the new EMI license complements Bybit EU’s MiCAR authorization. “The EMI license granted to Bybit Payments GmbH is an important milestone in…

Over three weeks, a Bitcoin address took in more than 6,494 $BTC and moved its full confirmed balance, with nearly all of the traced coins traveling through transactions that also paid a wallet historically attributed to Binance. The flow was worth roughly $423 million, placing a substantial block of $BTC within reach of exchange infrastructure. The ledger cannot identify a single owner, distinguish a customer deposit from Binance’s own wallet staging, or reveal trades executed inside the venue. Lookonchain surfaced the address early Sunday and described its owner as a mysterious whale that was possibly a miner. The transaction history…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Neutrl has suspended minting and redemptions for its NUSD synthetic dollar after unspecified circumstances affected protocol reserves, leaving the cause and scale of any potential impairment unclear. On Thursday, Neutrl said it had also paused other protocol functions on legal advice while it assesses the impact. The protocol did not identify the affected asset or counterparty, say whether reserves suffered a realized loss or provide a timeline for resuming operations. Structured-yield protocol Strata later said it paused minting, redemptions and related functions for contracts in its Neutrl market, which supports several NUSD-linked products. Strata said its…

Shares of CoreWeave CRWV climbed 8.77% to $93.28 in morning trading on Tuesday after the AI cloud infrastructure company announced its expansion into Indonesia and received a bullish analyst initiation that reinforced optimism around its long-term growth prospects. The move marked CoreWeave’s first data center presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The company said it will add three facilities in Indonesia with a combined 360 megawatts of contracted IT power, expanding its global infrastructure footprint to serve growing AI demand across Southeast Asia. The stock also benefited from a new analyst initiation by Piper Sandler, which began coverage with an Overweight…

Referring to Satoshi’s Bitcoin white paper, Dogecoin co-founder Billy Markus, who goes by “Shibetoshi Nakamoto” on X, pushes back on recent arguments about Dogecoin’s security with respect to its merge mining with Litecoin. The discussion was sparked by Dogecoin Foundation developer Paulo Vidal, who outlined several questions he believes deserve attention: first, is Dogecoin currently dependent on Litecoin for its security? Second, if Litecoin stopped operating tomorrow, what would happen to Dogecoin’s security? Third, are miners securing Litecoin alone, or are the additional rewards from Dogecoin and other AuxPoW networks a significant part of the incentive? Vidal pointed out that…