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Digital assets beyond the price chart: protocols and upgrades, stablecoins and the money layer, exploits and their root causes, and the regulation shaping where the industry can operate.
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Bitcoin Trades Near $63,000 as a Coinbase AI Blunder Tests Trust in Automated Finance
Digital assets weaken and sentiment turns fearful while gold holds firm, sharpening the contrast between the two kinds of hard money.
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Bitcoin Recovers Toward $62,000 as Rate-Hike Fears Ease
The largest cryptocurrency recovered from a recent low as softer United States data revived hopes for looser Federal Reserve policy, though investors remain cautious.
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IMF warns that tokenizing finance brings speed but also new fragility
Putting traditional assets on blockchain networks could make markets faster and cheaper while leaving them more exposed to sudden shocks, the fund said.
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Bitcoin Holds Above 60,000 Dollars as the Yen Jumps and Regulators Weigh Stablecoins
A sudden move in the Japanese currency on intervention fears coincides with debate over whether dollar-linked tokens should count as money.
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UK Moves to Loosen Stablecoin Rules, Diverging From the EU
British regulators proposed lower capital requirements for stablecoin issuers, setting them below the stricter framework adopted across the European Union.
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United States Regulator Wins 5.5 Million Dollar Judgment Over Alleged Crypto Scam
The Securities and Exchange Commission secured a default judgment against an operation that prosecutors say diverted user money to overseas bank accounts.
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Bitcoin Slips Below 60,000 Dollars as Hard Assets Retreat With a Firmer Dollar
Gold has eased to about 4,070 dollars an ounce after a weaker month, and bitcoin trades near 59,500 dollars as hawkish Federal Reserve signals lift the dollar.
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Ether Treasury Firm Resumes Buying as Crypto Falls With Risk Assets
SharpLink received ether for the first time in eight months even as bitcoin fell toward 59,000 dollars, showing how corporate crypto treasuries concentrate exposure to the market cycle.
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Europe's Crypto Market Faces a Reckoning as MiCA Rules Take Full Effect July 1
A large majority of registered firms have not secured the license needed to keep serving European clients, and the regulator has ordered the unlicensed to leave.
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Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Settles Investor Suit Over United States Merger for 2.35 Million Dollars
The former miner denied wrongdoing related to its 2023 combination with U.S. Bitcoin Corp as the digital-asset industry faces more legal scrutiny.
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Bridge Hack Halts Taiko Network as Bitcoin Trades Near Multi-Month Lows
An attacker drained about 1.7 million dollars from an Ethereum layer-2 bridge, the same flaw behind several major crypto thefts this year, as digital-asset sentiment cooled.
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Bitcoin Holds Near $63,600 as Fund Inflows and Institutional Buying Persist
The largest cryptocurrency rose slightly over 24 hours, with steady exchange-traded fund demand cited as the main reason.
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Bitcoin-Backed 'Digital Credit' Tokens Plunge, Then Rebound
The chief executive of Strive blamed forced selling by leveraged investors rather than any deterioration in credit quality.
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Crypto Markets Brace for a Fed Decision and a Middle East Ceasefire
Digital assets face a week shaped by the US central bank's rate decision and by the prospect of calmer energy markets.
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Tokenized US Treasuries Pass 14 Billion Dollars as Wall Street and Crypto Converge
On-chain government debt has grown rapidly even as centralized exchange trading volumes fall, pointing to where institutional demand is moving.
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Bitcoin Holds a Technical Level That Ether and Solana Cannot
Capital is concentrating in the largest cryptocurrency even as major alternatives struggle, lifting bitcoin's share of total digital-asset value.
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Japan's Three Largest Banks Plan a Joint Stablecoin by March
MUFG, SMBC and Mizuho will form a council to prepare a shared yen-linked digital token, a rare collaboration among rivals.
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Bitcoin Steadies Near $63,000 as a Caution Signal Flashes
The largest cryptocurrency recovers from a recent drop while a measure of stablecoin dominance points to defensive positioning.
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A Caution Signal in Stablecoins as Bitcoin Steadies Near $64,000
A technical shift in Tether's market share indicates defensive positioning, even as bitcoin recovers from last week's lows.