CLARITY Act Could Help CFTC Deal with Prediction Markets: Lawyer

Lawmakers in the US House Committee on Agriculture’s Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development held a hearing on how the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) could address oversight of prediction market companies, including discussions of pending crypto market structure legislation. In a Tuesday hearing on “Examining Customer Protections and Market Integrity in…

CoinShares debuts Bitcoin mining ETF in Europe entrance

The UCITS ETF, CoinShares’ first in Europe, began trading on Deutsche Börse Xetra, tracking a rules-based index of publicly listed BTC miners. Source link

Morpho Launches Fixed-Rate Lending Protocol on Base

Lending protocol Morpho has launched Morpho Midnight on Base, adding fixed-rate, fixed-term loans to its onchain credit network alongside the variable-rate markets offered through Morpho Blue.  In an announcement sent to Cointelegraph, Morpho said the offer-driven protocol lets lenders and borrowers propose their own interest rates, maturities and other loan terms instead of relying on…

More MiCA-Licensed Crypto Firms Could Leave EU Market: Gate Europe CEO

Crypto companies already licensed under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) could still exit the market as compliance costs mount, according to Gate Europe’s CEO. Giovanni Cunti told Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction on Monday that stricter regulatory requirements have made it increasingly difficult for new entrants to compete and that some licensed firms could…

Bitcoin Joins Stocks Ignoring Macro Pressures To Eye $67,000

Bitcoin (BTC) built on gains at Tuesday’s Wall Street open as crypto echoed resilient US stock markets. Key points: BTC price action approached $67,000 despite new geopolitical and macroeconomic pressures. Neither the US-Iran war nor proposed international trade tariffs were able to disrupt risk-asset upside. Bitcoin needed a reclaim of its 21-week simple moving average…

Claude’s Fable 5 just solved an 87-year-old math problem, and it matters for bitcoin

But the larger pull is simpler: AI is where the speculative money and investors’ attention are now going. The capital that once chased crypto is now chasing compute, chips and model builders, and every leap in what these systems can do widens that appeal. Each result like Fable’s finding of the Jacobian conjecture strengthens the…

MEXC Launches Bittensor TAO Staking with Yuma Integration

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UK Inquiry Probes Banking Barriers Facing Crypto Firms

[Update: July 21, 2026, 10:30 AM UTC: Added comments from Yuriy Brisov, a partner at London-based consultancy firm Digital & Analogue Partners.] A United Kingdom parliamentary group has launched an inquiry into whether crypto businesses and consumers face barriers to banking services, including account access and restrictions on crypto-related transactions. On Monday, the Crypto and…

Bitcoin Trader Sees Up To 6% Gains ‘Very Quickly’ If $68,000 Is Hit

Bitcoin (BTC) passed one-month highs on Tuesday as price action defied the odds to top $66,000. Key points: Bitcoin broke through resistance to hit $66,000 for the first time in more than a month. Traders see as much as 6% BTC price gains if further nearby upside targets are reached. Month-end derivatives positioning underscores crypto…

Base’s 1:1-backed tokenized equities launch ‘imminent,’ Pollak says

The Coinbase-backed Ethereum layer-2 is preparing to expand its financial offerings as it pivots away from its earlier social-first strategy. Source link