Research
Bankruptcy
FTX begins $900M payout as creditors in 45 countries could lose their claims within 6 months
Only creditors who cleared the June 16 requirements and can onboard with BitGo, Kraken or Payoneer are on the July 31 clock.
Digital Asset Treasuries
Bitcoin treasury company discovers buying own stock adds 24% more BTC per share than buying Bitcoin
Across its first five buybacks, B HODL added 24% more gross Bitcoin per share for every pound spent than a direct BTC purchase would have.
Crime
Crypto investor charged with using 8 companies and new investor cash to keep an alleged $20M fraud alive
Prosecutors say eight entities were used as investor funds moved through financial institutions and crypto exchanges, with new money repaying earlier investors.
Analysis
Bitcoin gets $2.5B target for $72,000 by August as unknown trader bets big on Fed rally
Deribit data shows more than 20,000 calls open at each strike, while July touch odds stood at 14.5% and 4.1%.
Censorship
France blocked Polymarket after its transaction controls failed to stop 578,751 new French visitors
ANJ cited Similarweb estimates after operator-level controls were circumvented in practice while the platform's live odds remained visible.
Trading
Bitcoin whale dumps $122 million 40x long right before liquidation can strike
The Hyperliquid Bitcoin whale wipes out $61,605 liquidation risk, erasing the market’s clearest liquidation target.
Mining
Saylor joins Bitcoin’s BIP-110 fight as miners get one last chance to avoid forced signaling
The current period cannot reach the 55% threshold, leaving one full ordinary window before enforcing nodes require bit 4.
Outage
Ethereum bridge users have 24 hours to exit before chain shuts down after just 5 week warning
Powerloom claims and unstaking are already closed, leaving liquid balances one final bridge route to Ethereum before 6:00 AM UTC on July 21.
Payments
UK turns delayed wallet identification into a 14-year criminal risk for crypto firms
A crypto payment can clear in seconds then become a 14-year UK criminal risk when the wallet is tied to Iran’s IRGC.
ETF
Grayscale is setting up a quarterly cash showdown between Ethereum and Solana staking
Proposed trust changes would require no-less-than-quarterly cash distributions, creating a common cadence without fixing payout amounts or yield.
Wallets
MetaMask code was open to a North Korea-linked contractor for a month before Consensys halted releases
Consensys found no compromised assets or data, no malicious code deployment and no user impact, but contractor access controls face scrutiny.
Gaming
Crypto malware in 8 Steam games steals tokens after leaving trail to Uber Eats deliveries
Investigators reportedly followed Bitcoin-funded gift cards to Uber Eats deliveries, showing both sides of software-mediated wallet risk.