Bitcoin ‘Green July’ Starts With A Bang As US Jobs Data Sends BTC To $62,000

Bitcoin (BTC) passed $62,000 at Thursday’s Wall Street open as crypto reacted to weak US employment figures. Key points: US nonfarm payrolls data delivers a crypto market boost as job additions for June fall short. Investors eye an easing in the inflation outlook as optimism over BTC prices increases. Crypto begins its forecast “green July”…

Aave V3 Goes Live on Monad With $15M Incentive Plan

Decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Aave has deployed its V3 lending protocol on Monad, expanding the layer-1 blockchain’s lending ecosystem with support for 12 assets at launch.  On Thursday, Aave announced that the initial market supports USDT0, USDC, Aave’s GHO stablecoin, USDe, mUSD, AUSD, WETH, cbBTC, wstETH, weETH, syrupUSDC and sUSDe. It is also Aave’s first…

UK Payment Blueprint Outlines Tokenized Payments for ‘Multi-Money Ecosystem’

UK regulators are calling for tokenization and “new forms of digital money” to be part of the core infrastructure of the country’s future retail payment ecosystem. In a Thursday update to the government’s roadmap for modernizing retail payment systems, HM Treasury on behalf of the Payments Vision Delivery Committee said that including tokenization and digital…

SBI Crypto Shuts Down Bitcoin Mining Pool Operations

SBI Crypto, a cryptocurrency-focused division of Japanese financial conglomerate SBI, is shutting down its Bitcoin mining pool after a five-year run. The company announced Wednesday that it will end mining pool operations on July 31 and will stop accepting mining shares at the same time. It did not provide its rationale for closing the pool….

JPMorgan warns Strategy’s bitcoin (BTC) sales policy raises crypto market risk

Strategy has become one of the largest corporate holders and buyers of bitcoin, with 847,363 BTC on its balance sheet. Its aggressive accumulation strategy has made the company a major source of demand for the cryptocurrency, meaning any shift toward selling the digital asset, even occasionally, could influence market liquidity, price dynamics and investor sentiment…

The Biggest Blockchain Upgrades Coming in 2026

Most crypto investors still obsess over price charts. But in 2026, a growing share of attention is shifting back to improving the fundamentals of the protocols. Ethereum, Solana and Avalanche are preparing some of their largest protocol upgrades in years, while Coinbase’s Base network rolled out its Beryl hard fork last Friday in a bid…

Dubai Crypto Market Reaches 50 Licensed Firms Under VARA

The Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), Dubai’s crypto regulator, has granted its 50th virtual asset service provider (VASP) license. On Thursday, VARA said its latest approval went to tokenized assets platform Tribe Tokenisation FZE. The milestone provides one measure of the growth of Dubai’s crypto licensing regime, though license totals alone do not show how…

Bitcoin June Close Below 200 Week MA Above Realized Price

Bitcoin could face further downside pressure after ending June below its 200-week moving average but above its realized price, a combination that crypto analyst PlanB says suggests the market has yet to reach a bear market bottom. Bitcoin fell 20.5% in June to close the month at $58,526 — its worst monthly performance since June…

Ethereum Institutional wins backing from Standard Chartered and top Ethereum leaders

Its launch comes as Ethereum’s support ecosystem undergoes a broader evolution, following the debut of EthLabs and amid ongoing efforts by the Ethereum Foundation to respond to community criticism over transparency, communication and its role within the ecosystem by encouraging more independent organizations to take the lead on adoption and ecosystem growth. Vivek Raman, CEO…

Crypto ATM Bans, Restrictions Now in Effect in Tennessee and Georgia

Cryptocurrency ATMs are fast disappearing from the American landscape as kiosk operators in two US states face bans and restrictions as new laws go into effect. Crypto ATM laws passed by Tennessee and Georgia went into effect on Wednesday, imposing a complete ban in the former and requiring transaction limits and reporting in the latter….