Morning Edition · Friday, July 24, 2026
Crypto
Nine Financial and Crypto Firms Form a Bitcoin Security Consortium to Fund Quantum-Resistance Work
The members pledged a combined 15 million dollars over three years, and Galaxy Digital alone committed up to 5 million dollars in developer grants.
Crypto
Coinbase Opens Business Accounts to Dollar-Stablecoin Payments From AI Agents
The rollout uses the exchange's x402 protocol and arrives as Franklin Templeton calls autonomous agents crypto's likely core use case.
Crypto
Clarity Act Expected to Miss Its Window as Goldman Splits From Wall Street to Back It
Senate Majority Leader John Thune says the crypto market-structure bill will likely not pass before the August recess, even as Goldman Sachs chief David Solomon endorsed it and Senator Elizabeth Warren said it cannot pass.
Crypto
DeFi Loses Roughly 35 Million Dollars in July to Oracle and Governance Attacks as an Executive's Account Is Hijacked
Oracle-key and price-feed manipulation took funds from Ostium and Bonzo Lend, a governance vote stole from BonkDAO, and Robinhood chief Vlad Tenev's account was used to promote a fake token.
Crypto
Uniswap Adds Permissioned Pools to Trade Tokenized Securities On-Chain
The framework, built with Superstate, Securitize and Dowgo, enforces compliance rules so regulated funds can trade on the exchange, as researchers warn instant settlement of illiquid assets carries its own risk.
Crypto
Ethereum Researchers Argue Coordination Design, Not Speed, Is Crypto's Last Bottleneck
Two widely circulated posts contend that execution and data availability are effectively solved, leaving incentive and market-microstructure design as the field's binding constraint.
Crypto
Privacy Chains Reframe Confidential Execution as a Prerequisite for Institutional Use
Aztec's Alpha V5 release and Miden's Guardian and practical-privacy pitch both argue that programmable confidentiality, not anonymity, is what serious on-chain activity requires.
Geopolitics
European Union Targets 14 Crypto Platforms and 94 Banks in New Russia Sanctions Package
The bloc's 21st package reaches crypto service providers based in Georgia, Panama and beyond, extending sanctions enforcement onto blockchain networks.
Crypto
Smarter Web Company Sells 178 Bitcoin to Retire Debt Early, Yet Bitcoin Per Share Falls
The London-listed treasury firm cleared an 11.7 million dollar convertible facility and canceled 7.7 million potential shares, but its holding of Bitcoin per share still declined.
Geopolitics
Kazakhstan Plans a National Crypto Reserve Funded by State Bitcoin Miners
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's two-step plan would channel mining output into a sovereign strategic reserve.
Crypto
BitMEX to Shut Down After More Than 11 Years, Giving Users Two Months to Withdraw
The derivatives exchange will halt services on September 23, with reduce-only trading from August 26 and possible forced closes before then.
Macro
Bitcoin Holds Near 65,000 Dollars as New Trump Tariffs Hit 60 Countries and AI Stocks Sell Off
The duties of 10 to 12.5 percent cover more than 99 percent of United States trade, while an 800 billion dollar selloff in artificial-intelligence shares left crypto prices little changed.