A Rotterdam court declared Dutch crypto exchange Knaken bankrupt after prosecutors uncovered a €7M customer fund shortfall affecting roughly 30,000 users. A trustee now controls remaining assets.
Circle secured an OCC federal trust bank charter on July 10, giving USDC federal oversight — as Standard Chartered warns stablecoins could drain $500B from US deposits by 2028.
Stellar's XLM forms a golden cross as DTCC plans a 2027 tokenized-securities integration and Tradable targets $1B in private credit on-chain — but Extreme Fear looms.
OKX Europe has launched a one-way USDT-to-USDC conversion tool for EEA users, offering an 8% yield incentive as a July 2026 MiCA enforcement deadline approaches.
Senator Warren presses Trump to release 2026 crypto earnings by July 23 — nearly a year early — as the Senate nears a vote on the CLARITY Act crypto regulation bill.
Ocean Mining VP Jason Hughes says BIP-110 is heading for failure at block 961632, with miner hashrate signaling under 1% and node support at just 7–15%.
Kaspersky has identified a two-component malware framework using TookPS to steal crypto seed phrases and OkoSpyware to surveil Chromium browsers via trojanized GitHub apps.
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.
A Swedish Bitcoin treasury company couldn't sell nearly half its preferred shares despite a 10% annual yield, raising questions about the Bitcoin treasury model.
