Governance
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.
Price Watch
Bitcoin sellers are tiring but weak demand leaves an 18% fall to $52,900 in play
Cooling holder losses support a higher low, but weak spot demand leaves Bitcoin below its first major recovery test near $69,000.
Enterprise
Citadel Securities backs two rival crypto exchanges with $600 million as both chase the same Wall Street prize
Crypto.com and Kraken are pursuing the same tokenized-market expansion, while only one has disclosed Citadel’s operational role.
