Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and other major financial institutions are imposing strict new bans on employee participation in prediction markets. These measures aim to mitigate risks of insider trading and conflicts of interest, as regulators and internal compliance teams heighten scrutiny over the use of confidential data on platforms like Polymarket.
Borrowers in Japan can now access yen liquidity without liquidating their crypto holdings, as Tokyo-based CRYL introduces a new lending service accepting Bitcoin as sole collateral. The program, which debuted July 9, targets individuals, sole traders, and corporate clients seeking capital for business expansion, property acquisition, or personal expenses.
With eyes on a major pivot from Bitcoin mining to high-performance computing, TeraWulf is preparing a $3.5 billion debt raise to bankroll a massive AI facility in Kentucky. The campus, set to serve a 20-year lease for Anthropic, marks a high-stakes transition for the infrastructure operator.
Revolut has integrated its standalone exchange, Revolut X, with third-party AI platforms, enabling users to manage portfolios and prepare trades via natural-language prompts. While the move streamlines market analysis and order creation, the company maintains a strict requirement for human verification before any transaction is executed on the platform.
By a narrow 3-2 vote, the New Hampshire Executive Council blocked a proposal to issue $100 million in Bitcoin-backed revenue bonds. The decision halts a plan that would have utilized $160 million in cryptocurrency collateral to finance operations for a private borrower connected to the Bitcoin miner CleanSpark.
Metaplanet has launched a joint study with stablecoin issuer JPYC and tokenization firm Progmat to evaluate the feasibility of Bitcoin-backed digital credit. The initiative, dubbed Project Nova, aims to transform the company's massive Bitcoin treasury into collateral for regulated corporate bonds and other blockchain-based financial instruments.
A sharp reversal in market sentiment has pushed Ethereum back toward $1,800, as cooling geopolitical tensions and a cascade of forced liquidations in derivatives markets encourage traders to rotate back into high-risk assets following a dip to $1,505 earlier this week.
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted final approval for Circle Internet Group to establish a national trust bank, marking a significant regulatory milestone for the issuer of the USDC stablecoin as it seeks to integrate blockchain infrastructure into the traditional American financial system.
With $1.75 billion in Bitcoin and Ethereum options contracts expiring on July 10, institutional investors are signaling a cautious outlook. The expiry, characterized by a heavy demand for downside protection and a $62,000 maximum pain point for Bitcoin, suggests limited confidence in a sustained rally for the digital asset market.
Rossen G. Iossifov, a Bulgarian national currently serving a federal prison sentence, stands accused of siphoning $290,000 in cryptocurrency that had already been ordered forfeited to the U.S. government. Prosecutors allege he orchestrated the illicit transfers from behind bars, utilizing complex mixing services to obscure the movement of assets.
The Ethereum Foundation has shuttered its Protocol Support team, marking a definitive end to the group that spent five years coordinating network upgrades and developer fellowships. This move follows a broader organizational restructuring that saw the nonprofit eliminate 54 positions, roughly 20% of its total workforce.
European lawmakers have approved a temporary framework allowing tech companies to voluntarily scan private communications for child sexual abuse material until 2028, while simultaneously securing a critical exemption for services protected by end-to-end encryption following a contentious July 9 vote.
Tom Zschach, the former Chief Innovation Officer at SWIFT, has dismissed persistent online speculation suggesting the global financial messaging network intends to integrate the XRP token. Zschach’s intervention follows a wave of unsubstantiated social media reports claiming that SWIFT was pivoting toward the public cryptocurrency for its cross-border settlement infrastructure.
The cryptocurrency market has endured three consecutive quarters of negative returns, a slide not seen since the 2022 bear market. According to a Bitwise review, the Bitwise 10 Large Cap Crypto Index dropped 15.4% in the second quarter of 2026, as spot Bitcoin ETFs suffered their worst outflows since inception.
Institutional investors in Hong Kong have participated in the first blockchain-based issuance of a digitally native structured product by HSBC. The pilot, which utilized U.S. dollar-denominated notes, marks a shift toward leveraging distributed ledger technology to streamline the lifecycle of complex financial instruments from issuance to settlement.
Goldman Sachs has officially restricted staff from trading prediction market contracts linked to elections, macroeconomic data, and geopolitical events. The move places the investment bank at the forefront of corporate efforts to mitigate insider trading risks as regulators intensify scrutiny of platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi.
North Carolina has become the first U.S. state to explicitly validate the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s authority over prediction markets, carving out a distinct regulatory path. Under Senate Bill 257, signed by Governor Josh Stein, federally registered platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket gain legal standing to operate starting January 2027.
Robinhood’s new Arbitrum-based layer-2 network has drawn over $70 million in bridged Ether just seven days after its July 1 launch. This rapid influx highlights the brokerage’s push to position its AI-native blockchain as a central hub for tokenized finance, leveraging Ethereum as its primary settlement and gas layer.
A critical network upgrade arrives July 28 at block height 3,428,143, following a one-week delay. The Ironwood protocol change aims to force an accounting check on all funds exiting the Orchard shielded pool, effectively testing whether a previously disclosed "infinity" vulnerability resulted in the creation of counterfeit ZEC.
A compromised developer account allowed attackers to inject malicious code into the @injectivelabs/sdk-ts npm package, turning a standard software update into a gateway for harvesting private keys and seed phrases. Security researchers warn that the breach, which spread across 17 related packages, remains a significant threat to affected applications.
Polymarket has initiated a bid to introduce margin trading for American users, submitting three registration applications to the National Futures Association on July 3. The move marks a significant push into regulated territory, even as the prediction market faces mounting legal and regulatory pressure regarding its domestic operations.
The Hyperliquid Policy Center and wallet provider Phantom are challenging the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to overhaul its oversight of onchain trading. Their joint proposal argues that legacy regulations designed for centralized intermediaries—where brokers and clearinghouses hold customer assets—fail to account for the self-custody nature of decentralized financial infrastructure.
The resignation of Nigel Farage amid investigations into multimillion-pound gifts has prompted UK Labour lawmakers to seek a permanent prohibition on cryptocurrency donations to political parties. The proposed amendments aim to tighten financial safeguards following scrutiny over undisclosed support provided by figures linked to the digital asset industry.
Paul Grewal will vacate his post as Coinbase’s chief legal officer on July 31, stepping into an advisory role just days before the U.S. Senate resumes deliberation on the CLARITY Act. His departure marks a significant leadership shift as the exchange faces a critical juncture in federal digital asset regulation.
A 14.1% surge in Bitdeer Technologies shares followed the announcement of a $36 million manufacturing facility in Sparks, Nevada. The project, secured with state tax incentives, marks a strategic pivot for the Singapore-based firm to bring the production of its proprietary SEALMINER rigs onto domestic soil by late 2026.
Bitcoin climbed above $63,000 on Thursday, marking a 2% gain as cooling oil prices and declining U.S. Treasury yields reinvigorated appetite for risk assets. The recovery follows a period of heightened geopolitical anxiety, though lingering market sentiment remains gripped by caution despite the improved technical outlook.
The Ethereum Foundation has found that the primary obstacle in AI-driven security research is not identifying potential flaws, but verifying them. Recent experiments reveal that the time required to confirm genuine vulnerabilities significantly outweighs the speed at which AI agents generate them, leaving a massive backlog of unverified reports.
With the August recess looming on August 7, Senate negotiators are racing to consolidate the CLARITY Act into a single draft by next week. The bill, intended to define regulatory authority between the SEC and CFTC, currently faces a precarious path as it struggles to secure the necessary 60-vote threshold.
OpenAI has launched the GPT-5.6 model family, headlined by the flagship Sol, which utilizes a four-agent reasoning architecture to manage complex coding and scientific tasks. The rollout arrives as the industry prepares for a surge in competition, with Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI scheduled to debut Grok 4.5 this Thursday.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has effectively blocked CME Group’s attempt to launch 24/7 crude oil futures, citing unresolved legal and market concerns. The regulator halted the exchange's self-certified filing, demanding a deeper examination of how continuous trading fits within existing U.S. market safeguards.
