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%.
Bitcoin climbed to $64,591 after June CPI posted its biggest slowdown in six years, but a Fear & Greed Index of 22 and thin liquidity are limiting the rally.
The UK formally adopts a 'no gain, no loss' CGT treatment for crypto lending and DeFi liquidity pools, effective April 6, 2027, deferring tax until economic disposal.
EthSystems spun out of the Ethereum Foundation's Institutional Privacy Task Force on July 14, 2026, backed by Bitmine, SharpLink, and Joe Lubin to build confidential transaction infrastructure for banks.
A bad actor created ~2,500 phantom fee positions on Uniswap v4 token Prism, siphoning nearly 40% of protocol fees and triggering a 90%+ single-day price crash before the team redeployed.
Hyundai completed a live USDT treasury settlement pilot between the US and Mexico, making it one of the first major automakers to use stablecoin rails for cross-border corporate payments.
Stephen 'Cap' Newnham, Superteam UK lead, is running as an independent in the Clacton by-election against Nigel Farage on an onchain transparency and pension self-custody platform.
