Nadia Rahman is CoinScoop's Markets Editor. She covers Bitcoin, macro liquidity and the spot-ETF complex, and previously reported on rates and FX for a global newswire.
France's ANJ escalated its Polymarket crackdown on July 16, 2026, ordering ISPs to geoblock the prediction market after a November 2024 payments ban proved ineffective.
FTX Recovery Trust sets July 31 for its $900M fifth creditor distribution, pushing total announced payouts past $9.7B with eligible claimants recovering 105%+ of claims.
Consensys, the Ethereum company behind MetaMask, unknowingly hired a North Korean developer via a third-party staffing vendor — the latest crypto firm caught in Pyongyang's IT worker scheme.
CASHCAT collapsed 75% from its peak after Hyperliquid listed perpetual futures on July 11, triggering a 60% perp wick and mass liquidations of leveraged longs.
Galaxy Digital has secured a 15-year naming rights deal for Texas Tech's football stadium — crypto's most ambitious college sports sponsorship yet.
OKX launches the first unified tokenized US stock market with a shared order book covering 40+ stocks and ETFs, trading 24/7 against USDT — US and EU users barred.
Crypto market cap holds at $2.27T with near-zero 24h change as BTC dominance hits 56.4%, Fear & Greed sinks to 25, and Zcash surges 9% with no clear catalyst.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 — a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model — rattled chip stocks Friday, echoing the January 2025 DeepSeek selloff that wiped $1 trillion in a day.
SBI Holdings completes its majority acquisition of Singapore's Coinhako after MAS approval, making the crypto exchange a consolidated subsidiary in its Asia digital asset push.
Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers pleaded guilty in a UK court to the 2024 Transport for London hack and a $115M ransomware campaign tied to Scattered Spider.
