In major news today, Binance has reportedly launched an $800,000 XRP reward campaign running until August 14, 2026, distributing XRP to users who hold RLUSD, or Ripple’s USD-pegged stablecoin, in qualifying accounts. The Binance airdrop pushed XRP price to around $1.12, a roughly 2% gain on the day, as analysts flagged the campaign as a …
Pump.fun completed its first major insider token unlock on July 15, 2026, distributing 57.279 billion PUMP tokens valued at approximately $86.49M across 121 wallets, the largest single Solana token unlock of the month. The unlock ended a 12-month vesting cliff for team and existing investor allocations, meaning insiders could access tokens for the first time …
Microstrategy published its Bitcoin Banking Adoption Index on July 13, 2026, scoring 25 of the world’s largest banks on how deeply they have wired Bitcoin into their business. The headline number is 32%, meaning the biggest institutions on the planet are, by Strategy’s own measure, roughly one-third of the way toward full institutional Bitcoin adoption. …
XRP Ripple came within weeks of dissolving after the US Securities and Exchange Commission sued the company in 2020, CEO Brad Garlinghouse revealed in a KU Hustle podcast interview at the University of Kansas School of Business, published July 8. The disclosure reframes the entire SEC vs. Ripple legal battle not just as a courtroom …
In Bitcoin news today, the Brazilian Federal Police executed nine simultaneous search-and-seizure warrants on July 10, 2026, dismantling an illegal money laundering ring built on 87 shell companies, and the name they chose for the operation tells the whole story. Operation Veil of Maya takes its name from the philosophical concept of a veil that …
Growing crypto Regulation has been rumored to be behind the departures of top executives at Coinbase and Grayscale, two of crypto’s largest firms, with both seeing a top executive step down this week. Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal and Grayscale Chief Financial Officer Edward McGee announced their exits hours apart. Both are leaving on …
Ethereum researchers have published a paper proposing native UTXO (Unspent Transaction Output) support for the network’s execution layer, and Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson responded on X with a pointed claim: Cardano has been running this model for over a decade, and Ethereum is arriving late without acknowledgment. In a July 7 tweet, Hoskinson said: “It’s …
In Bitcoin news today, the BTC price is trading at $62,000 on Wednesday after failing to clear the $64,000 resistance level, with fresh US-Iran military exchanges delivering the immediate blow to risk appetite. The sell-off is not happening in a vacuum; it lands atop a shrinking stablecoin market, and institutional ETF flows are too thin …
Bitcoin is holding near $64,033, up 0.76% over the past 24 hours and roughly 6.3% higher on the week, a modest but meaningful recovery that has traders asking whether institutional money is finally returning in force. The answer, based on the flow data, is: cautiously yes. Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs, regulated investment vehicles that hold …
In crypto news today (July 7), Bitcoin has surged, sitting comfortably above $63,000 and up +0.7% in the past 24 hours. Liquidations have picked up, with over $532M in positions blown up since yesterday, and interestingly, the split is almost 50/50 between longs and shorts. Yesterday saw a second consecutive day of positive ETF flows …
