VerifiedX and BitGo have signed a non-binding MOU to bring qualified institutional custody to vBTC.b, a canonical Bitcoin asset deployed on Coinbase's Base L2.
Stanford researchers found a small group of traders extracted $8.2M from Polymarket's five-minute Bitcoin contracts over two months, distorting BTC's spot price.
The US and UK Treasuries jointly recommend full 1:1 liquid-asset backing for stablecoins via the Transatlantic Taskforce — a major regulatory alignment signal, though non-binding.
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.
Velocity closes a $38M Series A led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, with Coinbase Ventures joining, to build enterprise stablecoin treasury and payments infrastructure.
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.
