Tether backs Mercado Bitcoin with $20M to expand blockchain finance
Tether has invested $20 million in Mercado Bitcoin to support the Brazilian company’s expansion across tokenized assets, blockchain payments, lending, and on-chain capital markets. Summary Tether has invested $20 million in Mercado Bitcoin to expand tokenized assets, blockchain payments, lending, and capital markets. Mercado Bitcoin plans to use the funding to grow its payments infrastructure,…
EU Parliament targets DeFi and NFTs in post-MiCA crypto push
EU lawmakers have approved a policy position calling for a review of whether decentralized finance, staking, crypto lending, borrowing and NFTs should be brought more clearly under the European Union’s crypto rulebook after MiCA’s rollout. Summary EU lawmakers want the European Commission to review DeFi, staking, NFTs and crypto lending under MiCA. Parliament’s report does…
Galaxy turns Helios Bitcoin mine into AI hub for CoreWeave
Galaxy Digital has completed the first phase of power delivery at its Helios data center campus in West Texas. Summary Galaxy delivered 133 MW to CoreWeave, turning Helios into a revenue-generating AI data center campus. Phase II will add 260 MW as CoreWeave expands long-term AI and HPC capacity demand. Helios shows how former Bitcoin…
What is a governance attack? How BonkDAO lost $20M in a single vote
On July 6, 2026, someone spent about four million dollars buying BONK, used it to control almost a hundred percent of a seven-wallet vote, and legally walked off with twenty million from the DAO’s treasury. No code was hacked. The voting worked exactly as designed. Here is how governance attacks work, why they are getting…
Peter Schiff calls Strategy a Ponzi after $216M BTC sale
Peter Schiff has renewed his criticism of Strategy after the company sold part of its Bitcoin reserve to fund dividend payments. Summary Peter Schiff attacked Strategy’s new model after its $216 million Bitcoin sale for dividend payments. Strategy still holds 843,775 BTC and $2.55 billion in U.S. dollar reserves after selling. Bitcoin held near $63,369…
What are cross-chain bridges? Why they keep getting hacked
Blockchains cannot talk to each other on their own. Bridges are the software that moves value between them, and they have leaked more money to hackers than any other kind of crypto infrastructure, billions across a handful of catastrophic breaches. Here is how bridges actually work, the different trust models behind them, and why the…
Bitcoin price stalls below $64K as Fed hopes meet oil risks and bearish divergence
Bitcoin has held above $63,000 after last week’s macro-driven rebound, but traders are now weighing expectations of Federal Reserve rate cuts against rising geopolitical tensions and mounting technical resistance. Summary Bitcoin holds above $63K as traders await Fed minutes after a 10% macro-driven rebound. Technical indicators show strong support near $61K, but resistance remains firm…
Solana price prediction as tokenized assets drive network activity to record highs
Solana has extended its July rally after record on-chain activity, tokenized stock issuance, and steady ETF inflows revived bullish sentiment. Summary Solana climbed above $81 after tokenized stock issuance and record network activity boosted buying interest. Technical charts show bulls defending $80 support while traders watch $83 and $90 as the next resistance levels. Analysts…
What are liquid staking tokens? stETH and the depeg risk, explained
Staking locks your crypto and earns yield. Liquid staking hands you a tradeable receipt for that locked position, so the same capital can earn twice. It is one of DeFi’s largest markets, and it comes with a specific danger most guides skip: the receipt can trade below what it represents. Here is how liquid staking…
Strategy sells Bitcoin: The never-sell era is over
For six years, one rule anchored the most influential trade in crypto: Strategy buys Bitcoin and never sells it. On July 6 the company disclosed it sold 3,588 coins at a loss to pay dividends on the securities it issued to buy them. The amount is a rounding error. The direction changes everything, for Strategy…
