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.
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.
