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.
ARK Invest purchased 220,000 Circle (CRCL) shares for $13.9M on July 14, extending a July buying spree to 725,517 shares despite a 22% year-to-date decline.
Stripe and Advent International have jointly offered $60.50/share — over $53B — to acquire PayPal at a 28% premium. PYPL stock surged nearly 15% on the news.
A UK government-backed fraud review warns magistrates and judges lack the expertise to handle crypto money laundering and AI-enabled fraud cases as digital crime surges.
Japan's parliament passes law reclassifying Bitcoin, Ethereum and 103 other cryptocurrencies as financial products under the FIEA, introducing insider-trading rules by FY2027.
Kalshi is caught between a Michigan court demanding trade cancellations and a CFTC order blocking them — facing $120,000-per-day fines with no legal exit.
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says AGI is 'probably only a few short years away' and calls for a new U.S. federal body to test frontier AI models before public release.
US Treasury's OFAC sanctioned Iran-linked crypto wallets as Tether froze $344M in USDT. Bitcoin trades at $64,552 amid Extreme Fear as Middle East conflict escalates.
China's Supreme People's Procuratorate proposes treating crypto mixer and privacy coin use as presumptive evidence of money laundering, shifting burden to defendants.
Three Democratic senators have called the CLARITY Act 'corrupt,' threatening the bill's path to a Senate floor vote before August 10 and its 60-vote threshold.
Crypto market cap rebounds 3.11% to $2.31T and Bitcoin reclaims $64,788, but the Fear & Greed Index holds at 25 — Extreme Fear. ETH leads majors; Zcash surges 12%.
