XRP price rose 3.45% to $1.10 during the reported session, following renewed strength across the cryptocurrency market.
The XRP token surged past $1.10 as buyers responded to the increasing stablecoin operations on the XRP Ledger. The supply of RLUSD has gradually migrated to XRPL, which has contributed to higher network usage and transaction demand expectations.
Meanwhile, legislators in the United States are working on another significant effort to promote digital asset market structure law. Senator Cynthia Lummis said revised CLARITY Act text could be introduced within days after nearly ten months of negotiations.
CLARITY Act Faces Crucial Senate Test Lummis said lawmakers are ready to move the proposal forward during four consecutive Senate working weeks. She would like the bill enacted prior to the start of the August 7 recess of the chamber.
Nevertheless, the ultimate floor schedule is determined by Senate Majority Leader John Thune. It is reported that the lawmakers might start discussing the bill next week, July 20.
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Senator Lummis (@SenLummis) says the Senate will introduce CLARITY Act text within days and wants it passed before the August 7 recess. “It’s time to land this plane,” she said on Fox Business, capping nearly 10 months of work. Floor action… pic.twitter.com/57k9UxU1Jc
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The measure faces growing resistance from Democratic Senators Chris Murphy, Jeff Merkley, and Chris Van Hollen. According to them, the current proposal is deficient in the form of powerful rules of ethics to deal with the senior government officials and cryptocurrency interests.
Their protests are partly related to the reported crypto income and business ties of President Donald Trump. The senators warned that they might be able to vote against the bill unless significant conflict protections are included.
Democratic support is critical to the eventual passage of the bill as it may require 60 votes in the Senate. Additional contention may paralyze the floor procedure or force additional deliberations prior to a vote of decisiveness.
XRP Price Prediction: Will Bulls Extend To $1.20 Soon? The MACD line has crossed its signal line, and the green histogram bars are still growing. The Chaikin Money Flow is 0.14, which validates positive capital inflows.
A confirmed four-hour close above $1.12 could push the XRP price outlook toward the $1.15 resistance level.
Tradingview A Breaking $1.15 can allow a greater climb into the larger target of $1.20. Nevertheless, the next rejection at around $1.12 might postpone the bullish continuation and prolong the consolidation.
The $1.07 level remains the main support during any pullback. The loss of this area might reveal $1.05 and weaken the existing recovery structure.
XRP ETF Market Stalls Daily While Total Inflows Hit $1.48B According to SoSoValue data, XRP ETF products showed no net inflows in terms of daily net inflows on July 14. But cumulative net inflows were still high at 1.48 billion in the listed funds. The total trading value was the amount of 13.47 million, and combined net assets were 1.01 billion.
Bitwise led cumulative inflows with $493.86 million, followed by Canary Capital at $466.97 million. Franklin Templeton was the second with $413.23 million and Grayscale had 131.46 million.
According to SoSoValue data, spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $181 million in net inflows yesterday (July 14, ET). Spot Ethereum ETFs saw $58.3385 million in net inflows, with none of the 10 ETFs recording net outflows. pic.twitter.com/AUMWhkHPD6
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Meanwhile, 21Shares showed cumulative net outflows of $20.06 million. The same session saw higher demands of crypto ETFs. Spot Bitcoin ETFs received inflows of $181 million and Ethereum funds received inflows of $58.34 million. None of the ten Ethereum ETFs reported daily net outflows.
Nonprofit Hire Heroes USA named the 25 recipients of a Ripple-funded grant program for veteran- and military spouse-owned businesses, distributing $250,000 as tensions with Iran escalate.
The announcement arrives while a renewed US naval blockade on Iranian ports pushes military affairs back into the spotlight.
Inside the Ripple-Funded Grant Program for VeteransThe “Ripple Effect: Certified Veteran Employer Grants Program” is a Hire Heroes USA initiative that pairs one-time funding with employer training for veteran- and military spouse-owned businesses. Ripple covered the cost through a donation in RLUSD, the stablecoin it issues.
Hire Heroes USA disclosed the 25 awardees on July 13, after a selection process that ran through the spring. Each business receives $10,000, a combined total of $250,000. The figure is small by corporate standards, though relevant for firms with limited access to credit.
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Proud to announce 25 recipients of the Ripple Effect: Certified Veteran Employer Grants — $250K invested in veteran- and military spouse-owned businesses through our partnership with @HireHeroesUSA.
Each recipient receives $10K + employer training + access to 20,000+… https://t.co/vo9t5ZkYSk
— Ripple (@Ripple) July 14, 2026 To qualify, companies had to be at least 51% owned by a US military veteran or military spouse and operate domestically. They must also plan to hire from the military community within 12 to 18 months, a condition the nonprofit says it will track over time. Recipients also gain access to employer resources and the organization’s pool of military-connected candidates.
The grants belong to Ripple’s philanthropic arm rather than its payments business. The company previously committed $25 million, mostly in RLUSD, to education nonprofits. Independent data on the employment impact of these donations is not yet available.
The launch coincides with a sharp escalation in the Middle East. The United States reimposed its blockade of Iranian ports in response to Iran’s attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz on July 14.
The measure revives a policy first enforced between April and June. American forces also launched a fourth consecutive night of strikes, while President Donald Trump threatened to hit bridges and power plants unless Iran returns to negotiations.
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🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Trump held a Situation Room meeting on a MASSIVE new offensive, warning: "Next week comes the power plants. Next week comes the bridges."
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— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) July 15, 2026 The conflict keeps veterans and military families at the center of public attention. More than 20 US Navy warships and hundreds of aircraft currently operate across the region, according to Central Command. The blockade had been lifted in mid-June under an interim peace deal that has now effectively unraveled.
Both stories will now develop on separate tracks. Hire Heroes USA plans to track the hiring commitments of the awarded businesses over the coming months, while Washington and Tehran face an increasingly uncertain path back to negotiations. Any future overlap between the two remains, for now, a matter of timing.
According to data from Farside Investors, on July 14, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a total net inflow of $181.1 million the previous day. Among them, BlackRock’s IBIT saw a net inflow of $138.9 million, Fidelity’s FBTC $21.1 million, Bitwise’s BITB $3.5 million, ARK’s ARKB $3.6 million, Morgan Stanley’s MSBT $7.4 million, and BTC ETFs $6.6 million; flows for the remaining products were largely flat. U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs posted a total net inflow of $58.3 million, all from BlackRock’s ETHA, with all other ETFs registering zero net inflows that day.
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When the guy who spent 20 years at BlackRock, including a stint running digital assets strategy, tells you he left to bet his career on Ethereum, it’s probably worth hearing him out.
Joe Chalom, now CEO of Sharplink (Nasdaq: SBET), has been making a pointed argument that Ethereum deserves a spot in corporate treasuries, not just as a speculative hold but as a yield-generating, programmable asset that outpaces Bitcoin on several practical dimensions. And he’s putting real capital behind it.
From BlackRock to Ethereum treasury company Chalom joined Sharplink in July 2025, leaving behind two decades at the world’s largest asset manager. In late June 2026, Sharplink raised $75 million through a registered direct offering specifically aimed at expanding its ETH holdings. The company stakes nearly all of its Ethereum, with roughly $200 million allocated toward liquid restaking strategies in early 2026.
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Sharplink’s institutional ownership surged from 6% to 47% between mid-2024 and March 31, 2026. That’s not retail hype. That’s Fidelity-level capital walking through the door. The company also counts Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin as its board chairman.
The bull case against Bitcoin Chalom’s core argument centers on utility. Bitcoin’s value proposition has crystallized around being digital gold, a store of value, a hedge against monetary debasement. Chalom contends that Ethereum does everything Bitcoin does while also powering a massive ecosystem of actual economic activity.
The numbers he cites are striking. Ethereum constitutes over 50% of all stablecoins in circulation. It accounts for more than half of real-world asset tokenization activity. And it dominates DeFi, the sector of crypto where protocols actually generate revenue by facilitating lending, trading, and other financial services.
Staking, restaking, and the yield advantage Bitcoin holders earn nothing for holding Bitcoin. Ethereum stakers earn rewards for helping validate transactions on the network. Sharplink has taken this a step further with liquid restaking, a more sophisticated strategy where staked ETH is simultaneously used to secure additional protocols. This creates layered yield without selling the underlying asset.
That said, Ethereum’s yield is not risk-free. Smart contract vulnerabilities, slashing penalties for misbehaving validators, and protocol-level changes can all impact returns. Liquid restaking adds another layer of complexity and smart contract risk on top of that.
What this means for investors Ethereum’s quantum resistance roadmap adds another layer to the long-term bull case. The network has a dedicated post-quantum security team working on migration processes projected around 2029, part of what’s been called the “Lean Ethereum” strategy.
Investors watching this space should track Sharplink’s ETH per share metric closely. If Chalom can consistently grow that number while the underlying asset appreciates, the Ethereum treasury model will speak for itself.
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Bitcoin and Ethereum price climbed after cooler-than-expected U.S. inflation data improved market sentiment. Just hours after, a Japan Bitcoin ETF bill cleared a major committee in the country’s Upper House, raising expectations that spot Bitcoin exchange traded funds could eventually reach Japanese investors. The combination of easing inflation and friendlier regulation gave crypto traders another reason to stay bullish.
Japan’s proposal would classify cryptocurrencies as financial instruments under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act while lowering crypto taxes to a flat 20%. If passed into law, the framework could allow spot Bitcoin ETFs to launch on the Tokyo Stock Exchange by 2027.
Elsewhere, South Korea advanced plans recognizing virtual assets within national asset rules, while policymakers in India, Europe, and the United States continued debating crypto regulation.
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Japan Bitcoin ETF Sparks Fresh Price OptimismThe Japan Bitcoin ETF proposal has quickly become the day’s biggest story. After years of cautious regulation, lawmakers are now considering a framework that brings digital assets closer to traditional financial markets. Lower taxes and the prospect of regulated investment products could attract both institutional and retail capital once the legislation clears the remaining stages.
🇯🇵BREAKING: Japan advances landmark bill to legalize Bitcoin ETFs.
Japan’s Upper House committee has approved legislation to reclassify bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as financial instruments, paving the way for spot crypto ETFs as early as 2027.
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— Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) July 15, 2026 Outside Japan, governments are moving at different speeds. India’s Finance Ministry is pushing regulators to strengthen oversight without appearing to endorse cryptocurrencies.
Meanwhile, a joint U.S.-U.K. task force called for greater stablecoin innovation, and banks continue to discuss amendments to the CLARITY Act before lawmakers meet later this week. Europe is also pressing ahead with its Digital Euro pilot.
Markets welcomed the shifting backdrop as Bitcoin price briefly touched above $65,000 before easing back toward the mid $64,000 range. Even so, the move marked a clear breakout from nearly two weeks of muted trading. Softer inflation figures encouraged investors to rotate back into risk assets after fears of additional Federal Reserve tightening faded.
Bitcoin ETF Flow, CoinglassInstitutional demand also improved. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $181 million in net inflows after heavy outflows, with BlackRock accounting for the largest share. On-chain data also points to continued accumulation by large holders, suggesting long-term investors remain confident despite recent volatility. Together, stronger ETF demand and the Japan Bitcoin ETF narrative helped keep the Bitcoin price supported.
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Ethereum Price Outpaces BTC as ETF Flows ImproveWhile Bitcoin grabbed the headlines, Ethereum quietly outperformed Bitcoin price. Ethereum recovered faster than Bitcoin and strengthened against BTC, signaling improving momentum after several weeks of weakness. Traders pointed to a healthier ETH/BTC ratio as evidence that buyers are becoming more confident.
ETH BTC Ratio, TradingViewFresh institutional flows reinforced that view. U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs posted about $58 million in net inflows, reversing the mixed trend seen earlier this month. Morgan Stanley also updated filings tied to proposed Ethereum and Solana ETFs, naming Coinbase as custodian and staking provider. Those developments added to growing confidence around regulated crypto investment products.
The Ethereum price continued pushing toward the $1,900 level after reclaiming important technical support. Analysts say maintaining momentum above recent breakout levels could open the door to another test of psychological resistance near $2,000. At the same time, steady ETF demand remains an important tailwind.
Looking ahead, traders will closely watch incoming U.S. economic data alongside political developments in Japan and Washington. The Japan Bitcoin ETF proposal still faces additional legislative steps, yet it already marks one of the strongest pro-crypto signals from a major economy this year. If institutional inflows continue and macro conditions remain favorable, both Bitcoin and Ethereum price could have room to extend their gains.
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Yesterday this column said the $60,000 to $64,000 box was the whole map and the CPI print had a timestamp. The data landed cool, and the box broke upward. Bitcoin trades at $64,740, every major is green, and XRP just walked back to the exact level it lost a week ago.
The Box Broke, and the Data Says Why Bitcoin trades at $64,740 as of July 15, 2026, per CoinGecko, up 3.3% in 24 hours and 4.4% on the week. Market cap: $1.299 trillion. Volume: $32.7 billion, expanding roughly 20% from yesterday’s $27.3 billion. Breakouts on rising volume are the kind you take seriously.
The catalyst was exactly the one this column timestamped. June consumer prices fell 0.4% on the month, the largest single-month decline since April 2020, bringing annual inflation down to 3.5% against expectations near 3.8%, with core flat on the month, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A market braced for a hot print got the opposite, rate-pressure fears eased, and risk assets exhaled all at once.
The caveat travels with the celebration: the June relief came mostly from falling energy prices, and renewed US-Iran tensions have already started pushing oil back up. One cool print is a reprieve, not a regime change. Yesterday’s box top at $64,000 is now the line that matters: hold above it and the breakout stands, slip back inside and this was a one-day headline pop.
Every Hook From Yesterday, Resolved Ethereum kept the crown. Up 5.2% on the day and 8.2% on the week at $1,879.49, ETH remains the strongest major, exactly the relative-strength signal this column flagged before the print.
XRP reclaimed $1.11. Up 3.8% to precisely the level our coverage mapped on July 7, lost on July 8, and watched compress toward $1.00 all week. The round trip is complete; the full story runs in today’s XRP report.
Solana bounced 3.3% to $77.59, though its week is still barely positive at 0.4%, the laggard among recovering majors.
And Hyperliquid retired the red flag. Yesterday’s spotlight said a move back above $67 would end the concern; HYPE gained 5.4% to $67.51 and did exactly that, though its week remains slightly red at minus 1.0%.
The Numbers That Matter Today BTC: $64,000, the old box top, is the new support; the breakout is valid above it. ETH: strongest major at $1,879, up 8.2% weekly. XRP: back at $1.11, the retest verdict pending. HYPE: concern retired above $67. The risk to all of it: oil and the ceasefire headlines, which can reprice the inflation story faster than any chart.
FAQ What is the Bitcoin price today? Bitcoin trades at $64,740 as of July 15, 2026, up 3.3% in 24 hours after June inflation data came in well below expectations.
Why is crypto up today? June CPI fell 0.4% on the month, the biggest decline since April 2020, easing rate-pressure fears. Bitcoin broke above its week-long $60,000 to $64,000 range on volume that expanded about 20% day over day.
Is the Bitcoin breakout confirmed? The move came on rising volume, which supports it, but confirmation needs price to hold above the old range top at $64,000. Renewed energy-price pressure from Middle East tensions is the main risk to the move.
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Japan’s House of Councillors passed an amendment to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, which officially recognizes cryptocurrencies as financial products rather than payment tools.
With this, the country is now planning to cut crypto taxes from 55% to 20% and open the door to Bitcoin ETFs.
Japan Moves Crypto Under Financial Product RulesJapan’s parliament has officially passed a landmark law amendment reclassifying cryptocurrencies as “financial assets.” Until now, cryptocurrencies have been mainly regulated under the Payment Services Act as a payment method.
Under the new law, Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and other cryptocurrencies will be classified as financial products under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA), bringing them closer to stocks and other investment assets.
The new law also clears the way for spot crypto ETFs in Japan.
Regulators are aiming to launch them on the Tokyo Stock Exchange by 2027 or 2028, while major firms like Nomura Holdings and SBI Holdings are already preparing crypto ETF products.
List of Changes Under the New LawThe new framework introduces several rules that already apply to traditional financial markets. These include,
Insider trading ban: Trading using non-public information will be strictly prohibited.Annual disclosures: Token issuers must publish annual operational and financial disclosures.Strict penalties: Violators face up to 10 years in prison or 10 million Japanese yen fines.Retail investment cap: High-risk tokens will have a 2 million Japanese yen retail investment limitBigger Fines and Lower Crypto TaxesThe new law also brings stricter rules for the crypto industry. However, the maximum jail term for running an illegal crypto business will increase from three years to 10 years.
And the maximum fine will also increase from 3 million yen to 10 million yen, approximately $18,500 to $61,600. The government says these changes will help make the crypto market safer and protect investors.
Along with the bill, lawmakers are planning to cut the tax on crypto profits from the current maximum of 55% to a flat 20%, the same tax rate used for stock investments.
Another planned change is a three-year loss carryforward. This means investors will be able to use their past trading losses to reduce taxes on future crypto profits. If approved, these tax changes are expected to start in 2028.
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Leading cryptocurrencies rallied alongside stocks on Tuesday following cooler-than-expected inflation numbers, despite elevated geopolitical tensions remaining in place.
Crypto Market RalliesBitcoin hit $65,000 for the first time in over three weeks, while Ethereum came close to reclaiming $1,900, amid a broader market rally.
Over $350 million was liquidated from the cryptocurrency market in the last 24 hours, with bearish short traders bearing the brunt of the losses, according to Coinglass data
Bitcoin’s open interest rose 2.09% over the last 24 hours. Interestingly, Binance derivatives traders, both retail and whale, drastically lowered their long exposure to the leading cryptocurrency.
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The global cryptocurrency market capitalization stood at $2.15 trillion, contracting 2.06% over the last 24 hours.
Stocks Rally On Soft Inflation PrintStocks bounced back on Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 9.63 points, or 0.02%, to end at 52,508.27. The S&P 500 advanced 0.38% to settle at 7,543.59, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite closed up 0.9% at 26,107.01.
The June Consumer Price Index came in cooler than expected, sharply lowering odds that the Federal Reserve would increase rates at its policy meeting later this month, according to the CME FedWatch tool.
In other news, the U.S. military carried out an “additional round of strikes” against Iran in response to alleged attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. also reimposed the naval blockade against Iranian ports.
Bitcoin To Break Out?Michaël van de Poppe, a widely followed cryptocurrency analyst and trader, identified a “strong bullish divergence on Bitcoin’s daily chart.
Van De Poppe stated that Bitcoin needs a decisive break above $65,000 to enter a key range, with the next upside target shifting toward the range high between $88,000 and $92,000.
On-chain analytics firm Santiment noted cryptocurrency chatter on social media nearing its lowest levels since the summer of 2024.
“The bullish case is simple: quiet crowd, low enthusiasm, and plenty of sidelined disbelief,” Santiment added. “When attention is this washed out, even a modest shift in demand can feel much bigger than the headline mood suggests.”
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The broader cryptocurrency market shows near-term recovery signals with a weaker-than-expected US Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for June, easing inflation risks. Bitcoin (BTC) price hovers above $64,000 on Wednesday, testing the breakout of its 50-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA) at $65,146, which capped its previous day’s 4% rebound.
Among top altcoins, Zcash (ZEC) and Pump.fun (PUMP) are leading the gains over the last 24 hours, emerging as top performers while the broader market risk-off sentiment eases.
Bitcoin tests 50-day EMA breakout rally amid easing inflation risksThe US CPI data for June fell to 3.5%, below expectations of 3.8%, marking its largest monthly drop since May 2020. As a result, the odds of the Federal Reserve (Fed) hiking rates at the next meeting on July 29 dropped to 8%, prompting the quick recovery in the crypto market.
Bitcoin edges below $65,000 on Wednesday as the 50-day EMA at $65,146 capped the 4% gains from the previous day. Still, BTC maintains a recovery tone in the near term, testing a breakout above its 50-day EMA at $65,146, while the overhead 200-day EMA at $75,222 reflects a broader-term bearish trend.
A potential daily close above $65,146 would be needed to ease downside pressure before the more significant barrier at the $70,000 round figure, followed by the 200-day EMA near $75,222.
Momentum shows some stabilization on the daily chart, with the Relative Strength Index (RSI) hovering around 54 with further room to the upside, while the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) rises with its signal line.
BTC/USDT daily price chart.On the downside, the key structural floor is the horizontal support zone at $60,000, where a deeper pullback could seek demand if sellers extend control from current levels.
Zcash and Pump.fun gain bullish momentumZcash trades above $550 on Wednesday, extending its advance above the 50-day EMA at $471 and the 200-day EMA at $389, which together reinforce a bullish near-term bias. The privacy coin also holds comfortably above the 78.6% Fibonacci retracement at $520, underscoring a well-supported structure.
Momentum aligns with this constructive backdrop, as the RSI at 62 is in positive territory without yet reaching overbought extremes, while the MACD stays firmly positive with its signal line, hinting at persistent buying pressure.
On the topside, immediate resistance emerges at the previous all-time high of $690, followed by the 127.2% Fibonacci extension level at $987.
ZEC/USDT daily price chart.On the downside, initial support is seen at the 78.6% retracement at $520, followed by the 50-day EMA at $471.
Pump.fun shows a short-term recovery, challenging its capped tone, with gains of around 7% above its 50-day EMA at $0.001547 at press time on Wednesday. Still, PUMP token's broader structure remains capped below a descending resistance trendline near $0.001725 and its 200-day EMA at $0.001919.
Price is testing the 50% retracement near $0.001610, measured from $0.002251 to $0.001151, and a decisive close could target the 200-day EMA at $0.001919, near the 78.6% Fibonacci retracement at $0.001950.
The RSI at 57 remains in constructive territory, signaling renewed buying pressure, while an uptick in the MACD above its signal line suggests a lagging recovery, hinting at modest bullish momentum that has yet to challenge the broader downtrend.
PUMP/USDT daily price chart.Looking down, immediate support is provided by the 50-day EMA at $0.001547, with further protection at the recent swing low zone anchored around $0.001151.
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A sharp drop in WBTC held on exchanges could be a positive sign for Bitcoin.
326 Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) tokens on Ethereum were withdrawn from exchanges in a single day. According to fresh data shared by Santiment, this is the largest net exchange outflow since early June.
This transfer of coins has reduced the amount of WBTC immediately available on trading platforms.
Exchange Outflow The latest outflows come as Bitcoin continues to trade through a “risk-heavy stretch.” Even as the crypto asset briefly climbed to $65,000 on Wednesday, market pressure from geopolitical tensions and ETF flow swings persists, Santiment stated in its findings. The large exchange withdrawals, however, could potentially serve as a positive signal for the broader crypto market recovery. The analytics platform added,
“Wrapped Bitcoin’s 6-week high exchange outflows provide more good news to crypto’s rebound “
Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) was launched in 2019 following a joint initiative by BitGo, Kyber Network, and Ren. It remains the largest tokenized version of Bitcoin, with a market capitalization of about $7.6 billion. Coinbase entered the space with cbBTC in 2024, which has grown to nearly $6 billion in market value. This space has become increasingly competitive in 2026.
Last month, stablecoin issuer Circle expanded the market by launching cirBTC on Ethereum.
Recovery Near? As for Bitcoin’s price, the crypto asset moved higher after the latest US inflation report came in cooler than expected. Consumer prices fell 0.4% in June, bringing annual inflation to 3.5%. Economists had expected a 0.2% monthly decline and a 3.8% annual rate.
Meanwhile, Bitfinex analysts said that the asset is approaching what has historically been the final stage of its typical bear market period. According to the report, the BTC often spends five to six months trading below the Short-Term Holder Realized Price before entering a broader recovery. With July being identified as the fifth month of the current cycle, analysts believe the market could be closing in on a significant rebound.
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You press send on a crypto transaction and nothing happens. The wallet says pending. The block explorer shows your transaction floating in limbo, unconfirmed, with no clear indication of when, or whether, it will land.
Most people meet the mempool for the first time in exactly this moment of mild panic, and most of the advice they find assumes they already know what a mempool is. This guide starts from zero.
The mempool, short for memory pool, is the waiting room where every blockchain transaction sits between the moment you broadcast it and the moment a miner or validator writes it into a block. It is one of the least glamorous components of a public blockchain and one of the most consequential. The mempool decides how much you pay in fees, how long you wait, and, on some networks, whether a trading bot gets to see your order before it executes and profit at your expense. Understanding it turns confirmation delays from a mystery into a readable market signal.
This guide explains what the mempool actually is, why blockchains need a waiting room at all, how transactions move through it step by step, how fee markets decide who gets confirmed first, why there is no single mempool but thousands of slightly different ones, what happens when the queue overflows, how the mempool became the hunting ground for extractive trading bots, why Solana took the radical step of removing the public mempool entirely, and what practical steps you can take when your own transaction gets stuck.
What a mempool actually is A mempool is a database of unconfirmed transactions that every full node on a blockchain network maintains in its working memory. When you sign a transaction in your wallet and hit send, the transaction does not travel to some central server for processing, because no such server exists. Instead, your wallet hands the signed transaction to a node, and that node begins spreading it to its peers, who spread it to their peers, until most of the network has a copy. Each node that receives the transaction runs a series of checks and, if the transaction passes, places it in its local mempool to wait.
The word itself is a contraction of memory and pool, and the memory part matters. Nodes keep the mempool in RAM instead of writing it to disk, because speed is the point. When a miner assembles a candidate block, it needs to sort thousands of pending transactions by fee and select the most profitable set in a fraction of a second. When a new block arrives from elsewhere on the network, a node can validate it faster if most of the block’s transactions are already sitting in its own mempool, checked and ready.
The mempool is a staging area, a buffer between the chaotic, continuous stream of user activity and the rigid, periodic heartbeat of block production.
Why blockchains need a waiting room A traditional payment processor confirms transactions the instant they arrive because a single company controls the ledger and can simply write the entry. A public blockchain has no such authority. Thousands of independent nodes must agree on a single history, and they reach that agreement in discrete steps, one block at a time. Between blocks, the network needs a shared, informal picture of what users want to happen next, and the mempool provides it.
The waiting period also does critical security work. Before a node admits a transaction to its mempool, it verifies that the digital signature is valid, that the sender actually controls the funds being spent, that the transaction is correctly formatted, and that the same coins are not being spent twice. This last check matters more than it sounds. It is entirely possible for two conflicting transactions, both spending the same coins, to enter the network at the same time from different points. Some nodes see one first, some see the other. Each node rejects whichever conflicting transaction arrives second, and the conflict is finally settled when a miner includes one of the two in a block. The mempool is where these races are held and resolved.
The mempool also functions as the network’s early warning system. A rapidly filling mempool signals a surge of demand, a panic, an airdrop claim window, or a fee spike before any of it shows up in confirmed blocks. Traders, miners, and wallet fee estimators all read the mempool the way meteorologists read pressure systems.
The life of a transaction, step by step Following a single transaction through the pipeline makes the mechanics concrete. First comes creation: your wallet constructs the transaction, specifying the amount, the recipient, and the fee you are willing to pay, and signs it with your private key. The signature proves ownership without revealing the key itself.
Second comes broadcast. The wallet sends the signed transaction to one or more nodes, which begin relaying it across the peer to peer network. Propagation to most of the network typically takes a few seconds, and nothing about this step requires trust in the first node, since every subsequent node re-validates the transaction independently before passing it along.
Third comes validation. Every node that receives the transaction independently checks it. Invalid transactions, bad signatures, insufficient funds, malformed data, are dropped on the spot and never reach a mempool.
Fourth comes the wait. The transaction now sits in thousands of mempools across the network, visible to anyone running a node or using a public mempool explorer. How long it waits depends almost entirely on the fee attached relative to everyone else’s fees.
Fifth comes selection. A miner on a proof of work chain, or a validator on a proof of stake chain, assembles a candidate block by picking pending transactions from its mempool, almost always sorting by fee density so the block earns the maximum reward.
Sixth comes confirmation. The block is mined or proposed, propagated, and accepted by the network. Every node removes the block’s transactions from its mempool, and your transaction is now part of the chain. Each additional block built on top adds another confirmation and makes reversal exponentially harder.
How the fee market decides who goes first Block space is scarce and demand fluctuates, so blockchains ration space by auction. On Bitcoin, fees are measured in satoshis per virtual byte, a unit of transaction data size, so a transaction’s fee rate depends on both what you pay and how much space the transaction occupies. On Ethereum, the fee is gas, with a base fee that the protocol burns and a priority tip that goes to the validator. In both systems the logic is identical: block producers are profit maximizers, so they fill blocks with the highest paying transactions first.
This means your position in the queue is not fixed. A transaction that looked competitively priced at noon can be hopelessly underpriced by evening if demand surges. Wallets estimate fees by reading the current mempool, looking at what pending transactions are offering and how full recent blocks have been, then suggesting a rate likely to confirm within your chosen time window. Those estimates are educated guesses, not guarantees, and they go stale quickly during volatile markets. A fee that clears in the next block during a quiet Sunday can leave you waiting hours during a liquidation cascade, because everyone else’s willingness to pay moved while yours stood still. The auction never closes, and it reprices continuously.
When you underpay, most networks offer escape hatches. Bitcoin supports replace by fee, which lets you rebroadcast the same transaction with a higher fee that supersedes the original. A related trick, child pays for parent, attaches a high fee follow up transaction that spends the stuck one’s output, giving miners an incentive to confirm both together. Ethereum wallets let you resubmit a transaction with the same nonce and a higher gas price, which replaces the pending version. Knowing these tools exist converts a stuck transaction from an emergency into an inconvenience.
There is no single mempool People say the mempool as if one canonical queue existed somewhere, but the reality is messier and more interesting. Every node maintains its own mempool, and no two are exactly identical. Transactions reach different nodes at different times, nodes apply slightly different acceptance policies, and each node manages its own memory limits. What we call the mempool is really the loose statistical overlap of thousands of private ones.
In practice the overlap is large, because most node operators run default settings. A typical Bitcoin node caps its mempool around 300 megabytes, keeps transactions for up to two weeks, and refuses anything paying less than a minimum relay fee of roughly one satoshi per virtual byte. When the pool exceeds its size cap, the node evicts the lowest fee transactions first and raises its minimum acceptance rate, which is why very cheap transactions can vanish entirely during congestion instead of merely waiting. Once evicted everywhere, a transaction is effectively cancelled, and the funds simply remain unspent in the sender’s wallet.
The distributed nature of the mempool has a subtle consequence: pending status is not a promise. A transaction shown as pending in an explorer exists only as a claim in some nodes’ memory. It can be evicted, replaced, or double spent until it lands in a block. Merchants who accept zero confirmation payments learn this lesson the hard way, and it is exactly the mechanism a 51% attack exploits at chain level, where an attacker rewrites recent blocks and dumps the reversed transactions back into the mempool as if they had never confirmed. The 2025 reorganization attacks on Monero pushed more than one hundred confirmed transactions back into the pending queue in exactly this way.
Policy, standardness, and why nodes reject valid transactions Consensus rules define what a blockchain will accept in a block. Mempool policy defines what an individual node will hold and relay, and the two are not the same thing. A transaction can be perfectly valid under consensus rules and still be refused by most mempools because it violates what Bitcoin developers call standardness: informal policy rules that filter dust outputs, oversized scripts, absurdly low fees, and exotic transaction shapes that could burden the network. Policy is a node level immune system, a first line of defense that keeps the shared queue usable.
This distinction produces real world confusion. A transaction rejected by public mempools can still be mined if it reaches a miner directly, which is why services exist that accept nonstandard transactions out of band and submit them straight to mining pools. It also means the mempool you observe through an explorer reflects that node’s policy, not some universal truth. Two explorers can disagree about whether your transaction is pending simply because their nodes apply different filters.
Policy also evolves faster than consensus. Nodes have tightened and loosened relay rules around data inscriptions, dust limits, and replacement behavior repeatedly over the years, each change reshaping what the pending queue looks like without touching consensus at all. For users the practical takeaway is simple: if a wallet warns that a transaction is nonstandard, the problem is usually the transaction’s construction, not the funds behind it.
The mempool also has a quieter institutional audience. Exchanges watch pending deposits to credit accounts faster, compliance teams screen incoming transactions before confirmation, and payment processors estimate risk on zero confirmation transfers by checking how well a transaction is propagating and whether any conflicting spend is circulating. A transaction that most of the network’s mempools agree on is far less likely to be double spent than one propagating poorly, and firms price that difference.
Congestion, spam, and what a full mempool feels like Mempool congestion is the network catching its breath. Demand exceeds block space, the queue grows, and the fee needed for timely confirmation climbs. Users experience it as expensive transactions and long waits. Bitcoin’s late 2017 mania, the DeFi summer of 2020, NFT minting waves, and the ordinals inscription craze of 2023 each produced mempool backlogs measured in days, with hundreds of thousands of transactions queued and fee rates multiplying overnight. During the worst stretches, low fee transactions waited more than a week, and node operators watched their mempools hit size limits and begin shedding the cheapest traffic.
Congestion can also be manufactured. Spam attacks flood the network with masses of low value transactions to clog the queue and degrade service for everyone else, a cheap form of denial of service. Networks defend themselves with the minimum relay fee, with eviction policies, and ultimately with economics, since sustained spam costs the attacker real money in fees. The 2017 spam attack on an Ethereum test network showed how effective flooding could be against a chain with weak fee pressure, and it pushed fee market design higher up the research agenda.
Congestion is also information. A swollen mempool alongside rising fees signals urgent demand, often around exchange runs, liquidation cascades, or major market moves. Sophisticated observers watch mempool depth the way bond traders watch yields, and several analytics firms sell exactly that feed.
The dark forest: MEV and the watchers in the pool The mempool’s defining feature, total transparency, is also its greatest vulnerability. Every pending transaction is public before it executes, which means anyone can read your intentions and act on them first. On smart contract chains this gave rise to an entire extractive industry built around maximal extractable value, or MEV, the profit available to whoever controls transaction ordering.
The canonical attack is the sandwich. A bot spots your large pending swap on a decentralized exchange, buys the same token first to push the price up, lets your trade execute at the worse price, then immediately sells for a profit carved directly out of your execution. Front running, back running, and liquidation sniping follow the same principle: see the pending transaction, position around it, capture the difference. One researcher famously described the public mempool as a dark forest, a place where anything visible gets hunted. Researchers estimate that MEV extraction on Ethereum alone has run into the billions of dollars since 2020.
The defense industry that grew in response is now substantial. Private transaction relays, such as Flashbots Protect, let users submit transactions directly to block builders, skipping the public mempool entirely so bots never see the order. Batch auction exchanges settle many trades at a single clearing price, removing the ordering advantage. Wallets increasingly route large trades through protected channels by default. None of this eliminates MEV, but it changes who can be hunted. The economics are straightforward: the value of hiding an order grows with its size, so large traders now treat mempool privacy the way traditional funds treat dark pools, as basic operational hygiene. Retail users moving small amounts face far less risk, but a single large swap through the public queue on a thin trading pair can pay a triple digit toll to a sandwich bot in a matter of seconds.
Solana’s answer: delete the mempool Solana made the most radical design choice of any major network: it has no public mempool at all. Instead of gossiping pending transactions across the whole network, Solana’s Gulf Stream protocol forwards transactions directly to the validator scheduled to produce the next block, called the leader. The leader schedule is known in advance, so wallets and nodes know exactly where to send traffic. Transactions go from user to leader with almost no public waiting period.
The design serves speed above all, and it removes the classic observation window that sandwich bots depend on, since pending transactions are never broadcast for public inspection. It did not eliminate MEV, which instead matured into a private auction economy where searchers pay tips through infrastructure such as Jito to have their transaction bundles placed favorably by leaders. The lesson generalizes: ordering has value on any blockchain, and removing the public queue changes where that value is captured, not whether it exists.
Other networks are converging on middle paths. Encrypted mempools hide transaction contents until ordering is locked. Proposer builder separation on Ethereum splits the job of choosing transactions from the job of proposing blocks, pushing MEV into a more transparent auction. The mempool of 2030 will likely look very different from the open bazaar of 2020. What will not change is the underlying constraint: some component of every blockchain has to hold transactions between creation and confirmation, and whoever can observe or influence that component holds power over everyone who cannot.
Reading the mempool yourself You do not need to run a node to watch the queue. Public mempool explorers visualize pending transactions, fee distributions, and projected confirmation times in real time, and they are the fastest way to answer the two questions every stuck user asks: how busy is the network, and what fee actually clears right now.
When your own transaction is stuck, the diagnosis is almost always the same: your fee is below the going rate. Your options, in rough order of preference, are to wait for congestion to ease, to bump the fee using replace by fee or a nonce replacement, to use child pays for parent where supported, or, on Bitcoin, simply to wait for eviction if the payment no longer matters. What you should not do is panic. The funds are not lost. An unconfirmed transaction either confirms or effectively ceases to exist, and in the latter case the coins never left your wallet.
It also helps to understand what explorers actually display. The fee histogram shows how much pending volume sits at each fee level, which tells you where the clearing price is right now. The projected blocks view shows which transactions would fill the next several blocks if they were produced immediately, which tells you how deep the queue runs ahead of you. And the purge line, on Bitcoin explorers, shows the fee rate below which nodes are actively evicting transactions, the effective floor of the market. Ten minutes spent learning these three readouts pays for itself the first time fees spike.
One final habit worth adopting: check the mempool before you transact, not after. Thirty seconds of looking at current fee rates saves both overpaying during quiet periods and underpaying during storms. The queue is public. Very few people bother to read it, which is exactly why the ones who do have an edge. It is the same reason a network upgrade that splits the chain, covered in our guide to hard forks and soft forks, always produces a flurry of mempool drama, as wallets and nodes on both sides of the split sort out which pending transactions belong where.
Frequently asked questions What is a mempool in simple terms? A mempool is the waiting room for blockchain transactions. After you send a transaction, it sits in the mempool, visible and pending, until a miner or validator includes it in a block. Every full node keeps its own copy of this queue in memory.
Why is my transaction stuck in the mempool? Almost always because the fee attached is lower than what other pending transactions are offering. Block producers pick the highest paying transactions first, so underpriced ones wait until demand falls or until they are evicted from the queue entirely.
Can a transaction in the mempool be cancelled? Sometimes. On Bitcoin, replace by fee lets you supersede a pending transaction with a new version, and a stuck transaction that gets evicted from all mempools is effectively cancelled. On Ethereum, you can replace a pending transaction by sending a new one with the same nonce and a higher fee.
Is there one mempool for the whole network? No. Every node maintains its own mempool, and the contents differ slightly between nodes based on timing, settings, and memory limits. The mempool people refer to is the rough overlap of thousands of independent queues.
How long can a transaction stay in the mempool? On Bitcoin, default node settings keep transactions for up to two weeks before dropping them, though eviction can happen sooner if the pool fills and the fee is low. Other networks have their own retention and eviction rules.
What is the connection between the mempool and MEV? Pending transactions in a public mempool are visible before they execute, so bots can read them and trade around them, extracting value through sandwich attacks and front running. This visibility is the raw material of most MEV on chains like Ethereum.
Does Solana have a mempool? Not a public one. Solana forwards transactions directly to the upcoming block leader instead of broadcasting them across the network, which removes the public waiting room. MEV on Solana instead flows through private bundle auctions run by infrastructure providers.
Are funds lost if a transaction never confirms? No. A transaction that never confirms is eventually dropped from mempools, and the coins simply remain in the sending wallet as if the transaction had never been made. Nothing is deducted until a transaction is included in a block.
This article is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial or investment advice. Network rules, fee mechanics, and default node policies change over time. Details are accurate as of July 14, 2026.
Morgan Stanley has filed an amended S-1 registration statement for its Ethereum and Solana ETFs. The filings indicate the Wall Street giant is moving closer to launching new crypto ETFs following its spot Bitcoin ETF debut this year, claims a Bloomberg ETF analyst.
Morgan Stanley Amends Ethereum ETF Filing with US SEC According to the latest SEC filing dated July 14, Morgan Stanley submitted 3rd amendment to its spot Ethereum ETF. The proposed ETF will list and trade on NYSE Arca under the ticker symbol MSSE.
The latest amendment includes an updated delegated sponsor, Coinase Prime, Coinbase custodial and trade finance agreements. The latest amendment indicates the Morgan Stanley Ethereum ETF could become effective soon.
Spot Ethereum ETF would levy a sponsor fee of 0.14%. Also, it plans to stake 50-80% of holdings via providers such as Figment, Galaxy Blockchain, and Coinbase Canada. Notably, staking services providers and custodians are to receive only a 5% of the staking rewards.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the delegated sponsor, said it will not receive or retain the remaining staking rewards, resulting in higher earnings for investors.
Moreover, The Bank of New York Mellon and Coinbase Custody will serve as custodians for the Morgan Stanley Etherumn ETF.
Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart said the “launch is likely getting pretty close” as Morgan Stanley updated the documents for both its Ethereum and Solana ETFs.
NEW: @MorganStanley has filed updated documents for both their Ethereum ETF and their Solana ETF. Tickers will be $MSSE and $MSOL. Fees will be 0.14%. Launch likely getting pretty close. solana:So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112 ethereum:native pic.twitter.com/0pGTi9stri
— James Seyffart (@JSeyff) July 14, 2026
Wall Street Giants Updates its Solana ETF Morgan Stanley also updated its S-1 registration statement for its spot Solana ETF, with similar agreements with service providers. The issuer proposed to list and trade Solana ETF on NYSE Arca under the ticker MSOL.
Morgan Stanley Solana ETF also revealed its 0.14% management fee. Also, the issuer plans to stake upto 100% of SOL holdings through Figment, Galaxy Blockchain, and Coinbase Canada.
While Wall Street institutions are integrating yield mechanics into exchange-traded products, retail investors can directly access yield by comparing the best crypto staking platforms available for self-custody or exchange-based staking.
The staking rewards distribution mechanism for staking service providers, custodians, and investors is the same as in the Morgan Stanley Ethereum ETF.
Cash custodians, crypto custodians, administrator, transfer agent, and marketing agent are similar to those of its Morgan Stanley Bitcoin ETF. The MSBT holds over $357 million in total assets, with BTC holdings worth over $379 million.
Across X, Reddit, and Telegram, crypto talk just fell to its second-lowest daily volume since October 2024. According to the Santiment update, this washout in social chatter arrives precisely as Bitcoin stalls near the mid-$60,000 range, creating a stark contrast between price and crowd energy. The data tracks a notable sentiment drain — right before the summer 2024 pump, similar silence was recorded.
The metric captures aggregated discussions across major social platforms. A drop this pronounced means fewer arguments, fewer meme posts, and fewer calls for directional bets. On the surface, that disinterest looks bearish. But historically, periods of retail exhaustion often clear the runway for stronger hands to build positions without triggering the kind of noise that scares off large buyers.
When Timelines Go Silent, Markets Often Shift Markets rarely bottom during lively chatter. Whales and institutions — the cohort Santiment’s data routinely monitors — tend to operate more freely when the crowd is bored. With fewer traders chasing every candle, bid walls and accumulation orders face thinner opposition. The current backdrop is notably different from the panic-driven selloffs of last year. Bitcoin isn’t crashing; it’s drifting sideways in a range that has worn out the speculative crowd.
The apathy is not without context. Macro uncertainty still simmers, and an ongoing tug‑of‑war in Washington over digital asset regulation — as banks lobby against a landmark crypto bill — continues to weigh on sentiment. ETF flow swings add another layer of caution. That cocktail of hesitancy has pushed many active traders to the sidelines, which is exactly what the social trend data now confirms.
Whales Are Not Waiting for a Cheerful Crowd Santiment’s take is straightforward: disinterest is one of crypto’s most underrated forms of FUD. When retail traders stop refreshing charts and stop flooding feeds, large buyers can accumulate with far less resistance. The last time social volume sat at these depths, Bitcoin rallied sharply shortly after. That historical echo doesn’t guarantee a repeat, but it does signal that the market is thinner than it appears, and even a modest shift in demand could carry outsized impact.
What makes this signal particularly interesting is the contrast between on-chain development and Timelines. While social chatter has evaporated, developer activity across chains like Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Polygon remains robust. Infrastructure work continues even when the crowd goes quiet. That split — calm socials, steady building — often precedes the kind of recovery that catches sidelined traders off guard.
The Santiment update doesn’t offer a price target. It simply notes that the current environment of low enthusiasm and quiet forums has a history of rewarding patient positioning. For now, the market watches for even a small spark — a shift in ETF flows or a regulatory breakthrough — that could look far larger than it actually is when nobody is paying attention.
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CASHCAT has been one of the biggest crypto stories of July. After becoming the flagship memecoin on Robinhood Chain, the token generated huge trading volumes and attracted traders looking for early-stage opportunities.
As often happens after a major rally, attention is now moving toward presale projects that have yet to reach the public market. Among those attracting discussion are MemeToro ($MT), Bitcoin Hyper, and Remittix, each targeting a different segment of the crypto industry.
CASHCAT’s Rally Has Shifted Attention to Presales CASHCAT showed how quickly a new blockchain can develop around a single memecoin.
Following the launch of Robinhood Chain, the token surged dramatically as community interest accelerated. Trading activity on the network climbed beyond $500 million within days, with memecoins becoming the chain’s dominant use case instead of tokenized stocks.
The rally also reinforced a familiar pattern.
When one memecoin produces outsized gains, many traders begin looking for projects that are still in their early fundraising stages rather than chasing assets that have already appreciated significantly.
That search has expanded beyond traditional memecoins to include AI-focused platforms, Bitcoin infrastructure projects, and payment networks.
Three Presales Receiving Attention Several presales are appearing regularly in discussions among early-stage crypto investors.
MemeToro ($MT) is building an AI-powered ecosystem on BNB Chain that combines automated memecoin creation, prediction markets, staking, and SocialFi products around one utility token. MemeToro is currently progressing through Stage 4 of its public presale. The project has now raised more than $77,000, while the current $MT price remains $0.00171. The next funding stage will increase the token price to $0.00190.
Bitcoin Hyper takes a different approach by focusing on Bitcoin infrastructure. The project aims to improve Bitcoin’s scalability while introducing smart contracts and decentralized finance features without changing Bitcoin’s base layer.
Remittix (RTX) is targeting international payments through its PayFi platform. The project has already launched crypto-to-fiat transfers across more than 30 countries, while its presale has raised more than $30 million ahead of exchange listings.
Each project targets a different area of the market, giving investors exposure to different blockchain themes rather than the same narrative.
MemeToro’s Launch Platform Takes a Different Approach Rather than launching a single memecoin, MemeToro ($MT) is building tools that allow users to create and manage future projects.
The platform standardizes the token launch process through automated smart contracts running on BNB Chain.
Successful launches automatically migrate into PancakeSwap liquidity pools once predefined targets are achieved, removing much of the manual work traditionally involved in launching new assets.
The platform also includes several built-in safeguards and creator tools:
Automatic PancakeSwap liquidity migration AI-powered market intelligence Anti-whale launch protections Anti-bot safeguards Creator rewards of up to 1.2% from trading volume Automated bonding curve deployment Alongside these launch features, the ecosystem maintains educational resources to help users understand blockchain products and launch mechanics before participating.
Investors Are Looking Beyond One Narrative CASHCAT has reminded the market how quickly memecoin narratives can create extraordinary trading activity, but it has also encouraged investors to search for projects that are still in their early stages. MemeToro ($MT), Bitcoin Hyper, and Remittix each represent different parts of today’s presale market, from AI-powered launch infrastructure and Bitcoin scalability to cross-border payments.
As the crypto market continues evolving, many investors are broadening their search beyond one trend and evaluating projects with different long-term objectives before public trading begins.
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The United States military has carried out strikes on multiple locations in and around Ahvaz, a city sitting at the heart of Iran’s Khuzestan province and, not coincidentally, at the center of the country’s oil production infrastructure. The strikes, confirmed by US Central Command, form part of a broader multi-wave operation that targeted approximately 140 Iranian military sites between July 10 and July 12, 2026.
Crypto markets noticed immediately. Bitcoin dropped roughly 2%, trading in the $62,000 to $63,800 range as the news filtered through. Ether fell to around $1,800. XRP followed the same direction.
What happened and why Ahvaz matters The targets in this round of strikes were consistent with what US Central Command had been hitting across Iran: air defense systems, missile launch sites, and naval assets. The naval component matters because Iran’s ability to threaten the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway through which a substantial portion of global oil supply passes, has been a persistent concern since this conflict began.
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Iranian officials from Khuzestan province acknowledged the strikes.
The current US-Iran conflict traces back to February 2026. Since then, the pattern has been familiar: strikes, a period of relative quiet, threats to regional shipping, then more strikes. The July 10 to July 12 operation appears to be the largest single escalation in that cycle, with 140 military locations hit across the country in a compressed timeframe.
Ahvaz had been identified in 2025 as a hub for large-scale crypto mining operations in Iran, including activity flagged as illicit. Iran has historically used crypto mining as a mechanism to convert subsidized electricity and sanctioned oil revenues into liquid, internationally transferable value.
How markets are reading the conflict Ether at $1,800 and Bitcoin in the low $60,000s reflects a market that is cautious rather than in freefall. Oil price shocks historically translate into broader inflation fears, which pressure central banks, which in turn affect the liquidity conditions that crypto valuations depend on heavily.
Iran’s mining sector has been a source of hashrate for global Bitcoin mining pools. Any significant degradation of Iran’s power infrastructure could affect the global hashrate distribution, a longer-term structural consideration for anyone with exposure to mining equities or hashrate-linked instruments.
What to watch from here The provincial acknowledgment of damage from Iranian officials suggests the strikes landed with meaningful effect on military infrastructure. Iran has previously responded with pressure on regional shipping and energy infrastructure rather than direct military retaliation against US forces.
Bitcoin’s behavior in the $62,000 to $63,800 range over the strike window gives a rough read on the market’s current risk tolerance. A break below that range on continued escalation news would signal that the risk-off rotation is deepening.
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China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate has published a set of recommendations that would reshape how the country investigates and prosecutes cryptocurrency-related money laundering, including a proposal to treat the use of mixers and privacy coins as evidence of criminal intent.
The article, released in the official Procuratorial Daily, was written by two prosecutors from Hunan Province’s Yuhu District and an associate law professor at Xiangtan University.
The authors argue that the decentralized, pseudonymous, and cross-border design of virtual currencies has outpaced China’s legal framework and created a three-part problem: defining the offense, gathering evidence, and recovering stolen assets.
At the center of the debate is a gap between statutes. China’s Anti-Money Laundering Law has dropped restrictions on which predicate offenses qualify, but Article 191 of the Criminal Law still limits money laundering charges to seven categories.
As a result, most crypto cases fall under Article 312, which covers concealing criminal proceeds, a charge the authors describe as a catch-all. They call for wider use of the money laundering statute and a “one case, two checks” principle that would require investigators to look for laundering indicators in every major criminal probe.
Burden shifts in China’s courts Three proposals stand out. The first, described as blockchain self-authentication, would treat on-chain records from public block explorers as reliable when hash values match, and would preliminarily establish their integrity.
The second would shift the burden of proof: once prosecutors submit a transaction-chain analysis report, the defense would need to disprove it.
The third would allow courts to presume laundering intent from conduct alone. Under that standard, the use of mixers or privacy coins, the sale of large holdings at off-market prices, or high-value transactions through anonymous wallets with no clear source would establish intent unless a defendant offered a reasonable rebuttal.
The authors also address evidence collection, noting that mixers, privacy coins, and decentralized exchanges allow multi-layered splitting and cross-chain transfers that traditional methods struggle to trace.
They propose adaptive rules for electronic data, tiered standards of proof, and clearer authorization for technical measures such as real-time monitoring and traffic analysis, with limits to protect personal information and cybersecurity.
Asset recovery presents a further obstacle. With crypto trading banned in China, authorities hold seized coins without a legal channel to liquidate them.
The paper recommends a national platform to store, value, and dispose of confiscated assets through compliant channels, along with an expert committee that would set values using on-chain data and international exchange prices.
It also urges bilateral and multilateral agreements and a blockchain-based “judicial cooperation chain” to trace and freeze funds moved abroad.
The recommendations carry no legal force, but they signal a possible direction for China’s courts. The proposals arrive as Chinese-language laundering networks processed $16.15 billion in 2025, about 20% of the global total, according to Chainalysis.
In 2024, Chinese prosecutors brought charges against more than 3,000 people in crypto-related laundering cases, a figure that underscores the scale of the challenge.
Micah Zimmerman
Micah first discovered Bitcoin in 2018 but remained a skeptic on the sidelines for too long. Since 2021, he has covered crypto and business and now works as a news reporter for Bitcoin Magazine, based in North Carolina.
A bipartisan group of US senators has introduced sweeping new sanctions legislation aimed at punishing entities that support Russia’s war machine in Ukraine. The bill, formally known as the Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026, carries an added layer of significance: it’s being framed as a tribute to the late Senator Lindsey Graham, who originally championed the effort before his death.
Graham first introduced the legislation as S.1241 back in April 2025. The fact that colleagues from both parties picked it up and pushed it across the finish line tells you something about where Washington’s head is on Russia policy right now.
What the bill actually does The core mechanism is straightforward. The legislation targets buyers of Russian oil and natural gas exports, expanding the US government’s toolkit for penalizing entities that keep revenue flowing into Moscow’s war chest.
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Key sponsors include Senators Jeanne Shaheen, Richard Blumenthal, and Roger Wicker, a cross-party lineup that’s become increasingly rare in Washington. Over 80 senators have previously backed earlier versions of this bill.
On July 10, 2026, the group reached an agreement with the Trump White House to advance the sanctions framework.
The bill is designed to address several specific scenarios: Russian government actions that undermine peace negotiations over Ukraine, new military invasions, and broader efforts to destabilize the Ukrainian government.
The crypto angle, or lack thereof There are zero references to cryptocurrency, digital assets, or blockchain technology anywhere in this bill or its surrounding discussions. For a piece of legislation focused on economic punishment, that’s a notable omission.
Why energy markets matter for crypto Even without a direct crypto provision, the bill’s energy focus creates second-order effects that digital asset investors should track. Stricter penalties on buyers of Russian energy exports could tighten global oil and gas markets, pushing prices higher and adding inflationary pressure to economies already navigating uncertain monetary policy.
There’s also the mining angle. Higher energy prices directly impact Bitcoin mining economics, particularly for operations in regions sensitive to global energy benchmarks.
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Canaan Inc, a Singapore-based Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer, has increased its Bitcoin holdings by 48 BTC, bringing its total to 1,915 BTC. This move comes as the company continues to manage its cryptocurrency portfolio amid financial pressures, including a recent Nasdaq compliance deadline to maintain its listing. Canaan’s Bitcoin treasury, which also includes 3,952 ETH, is valued at approximately $124 million. This accumulation is seen as a strategic decision by Canaan to bolster its digital asset holdings during a period of market fluctuations.
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The news has caught the attention of market participants who are assessing its implications for Bitcoin’s price trajectory. While the addition of 48 BTC may not be substantial on its own, it reflects a broader trend of institutional interest in Bitcoin. This action could influence sentiment in prediction markets, particularly those speculating on Bitcoin’s potential to reach significant price targets by the end of 2026 and within the month of July.
Key Takeaways Canaan Inc’s increased Bitcoin holdings appear to indicate institutional confidence in Bitcoin, consistent with YES outcomes for future price increases. Market sentiment may be influenced by Canaan’s strategic accumulation, suggesting support for Bitcoin reaching higher price targets in July. The broader impact of Canaan’s actions is moderate due to the source being a social media report, though it aligns with positive institutional trends. What to Watch Market participants will be watching for additional institutional movements in Bitcoin holdings, which could further impact sentiment and pricing in prediction markets. The upcoming weeks will be crucial as Canaan navigates its Nasdaq compliance and as Bitcoin markets respond to any significant regulatory or technological developments. Observers will also focus on how these dynamics influence expectations for Bitcoin reaching key price targets by the end of 2026 and throughout July.
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Canaan Inc., the company that builds the machines other people use to mine Bitcoin, has been quietly stacking its own pile. The NASDAQ-listed mining hardware manufacturer disclosed its June 2026 unaudited mining performance on July 14, revealing a net addition of 49 BTC to its corporate treasury.
That brings the company’s total Bitcoin stash to 1,915 BTC, valued at approximately $123.5 million. Alongside the 1,915 BTC, Canaan also holds 3,952 ETH.
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The numbers behind Canaan’s June mining haul Canaan’s self-mining operations produced 64 BTC during June 2026. The net addition of 49 BTC reflects the difference between gross mining output and what ends up staying on the balance sheet. Some of those Bitcoin came from customer payments for hardware sales, meaning the company is accepting BTC as payment and holding it rather than converting to fiat.
According to Bitcoin treasury trackers, Canaan now ranks approximately 33rd among public companies globally in terms of Bitcoin holdings.
A strategy that started paying off a year ago The company formally adopted its digital asset holding policy in July 2025, making an explicit corporate commitment to building long-term BTC reserves. At that point, the firm held roughly 1,484 BTC.
By the end of May 2026, the company held 1,867 BTC, meaning the June addition of 49 BTC net represents a steady monthly cadence of accumulation. From July 2025 to July 2026, the treasury has grown from 1,484 BTC to 1,915 BTC — an increase of about 431 BTC, or roughly 29%, in a single year.
As an ASIC chip designer and manufacturer, Canaan sits at the intersection of hardware production, self-mining operations, and treasury management. Unlike companies that issue debt or equity to fund BTC purchases, Canaan generates Bitcoin through its mining operations and receives it as payment from customers.
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Top participants on the Hyperliquid platform are currently holding significant long positions in bitcoin:native (BTC), surpassing the levels recorded during the cryptocurrency’s previous peak at approximately $83,000. This development indicates strong speculative demand for Bitcoin at its current price range of $62,600 to $62,800. The recent activity on Hyperliquid, a notable cryptocurrency exchange, reflects a record level of whale long positions, with the total whale exposure on the platform now at around $3.5 billion. This exposure slightly favors longs over shorts, contributing to the narrative of heightened sentiment consistent with YES outcome support among these top participants.
The current price of Bitcoin is down about 2-2.4% from the previous day but remains up approximately 6.3% for the month. Despite this, the broader market sentiment remains mixed, with some divergence among participants. One of the largest whales on Hyperliquid has notably increased their long positions, holding about $445 million in assets, including 2,500 BTC and 120,000 ETH, even after Bitcoin’s price temporarily dipped to $59,000. This aggressive positioning may suggest an expectation of further price increases or a strategic play to capitalize on potential market movements.
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Market participants on platforms like Polymarket appear to reflect this sentiment, with the probability of Hyperliquid reaching $100 by December 31, 2026, currently priced at 30% YES. This is a decrease from previous days, indicating some hesitation or recalibration amid the ongoing market dynamics.
Key Takeaways The current long positions on Hyperliquid exceed previous levels seen during Bitcoin’s peak, suggesting strong speculative demand. Bitcoin’s price has experienced a slight decline but remains significantly higher for the month, with mixed market sentiment. The probability of Hyperliquid reaching $100 by year-end has decreased, reflecting potential caution among market participants. What to Watch Observers should monitor Bitcoin’s price movements and market sentiment, as these will be key indicators of whether the current speculative demand will translate into sustained price increases. Additionally, any developments related to regulatory discussions or significant announcements from influential market participants could impact market dynamics. The ongoing activity on Hyperliquid and shifts in whale positioning will also be crucial in understanding broader market trends.
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Crypto presales continue to attract investors looking for projects before exchange listings. Unlike previous cycles, many 2026 presales now combine AI, DeFi, payments, or Bitcoin infrastructure alongside their fundraising campaigns.
While every presale carries risk, comparing each project’s utility, roadmap, and community can provide a clearer picture before investing.
1. MemeToro ($MT) MemeToro ($MT) is an AI-powered SocialFi project built on BNB Chain. Instead of launching a single memecoin, it provides infrastructure that helps users create, track, and participate in new blockchain projects.
Its AI agent monitors news, social media, and online discussions to identify emerging trends before supporting no-code token launches. Beyond launches, the platform plans to expand into prediction markets, staking, and SocialFi products.
Key highlights:
AI-assisted no-code token creation Prediction markets using $MT and USDC Up to 35% APR staking Coinsult-audited smart contracts Behavioral finance tools The project is currently in Stage 4, having raised more than $77,000. The current token price is $0.00171, increasing to $0.00190 in the next stage.
2. Bitcoin Hyper ($HYPER) Bitcoin Hyper focuses on expanding Bitcoin’s capabilities through Layer-2 infrastructure.
The project aims to introduce faster settlements, smart contracts, and decentralized finance applications while maintaining compatibility with Bitcoin’s security model.
Community interest has centered on its Bitcoin-focused roadmap rather than memecoin speculation, making it one of the more infrastructure-driven presales currently available.
3. Remittix ($RTX) Remittix is developing a PayFi platform that connects cryptocurrency with traditional banking.
The project has already launched crypto-to-fiat payment services across more than 30 countries while raising over $30.7 million during its presale.
It has also confirmed a minimum exchange listing price of $0.35, with additional products such as Remittix Markets planned after launch.
4. AlphaPepe ($ALPE) AlphaPepe combines memecoin branding with decentralized finance tools across Ethereum and BNB Chain.
Its ecosystem includes AlphaSwap, AlphaRank, and AlphaPalace, while multiple centralized exchange listings have already been announced.
The project has also introduced AI-enhanced swap functionality and continues expanding its multi-chain ecosystem beyond the presale itself.
5. Pepeto ($PEPETO) Pepeto focuses on cross-chain trading infrastructure supported by AI-assisted risk analysis.
The project completed a SolidProof audit before launching its presale and offers fee-free swaps, weekly token burns, and staking rewards for early participants.
Its ecosystem also includes PepetoAI, which evaluates trading risk throughout the investment process.
Buying Presale Tokens Safely Regardless of the project, investors should always complete a few checks before participating in a new crypto presale.
Verify the official website and smart contract. Read the project’s tokenomics and roadmap. Check whether the contracts have been independently audited. Understand vesting schedules before investing. Only use verified payment portals. For MemeToro, participation takes place through the official Stage 4 presale using BNB, ETH, USDT, USDC, or a bank card after connecting a compatible BNB Chain wallet.
How to Buy $MT Crypto Presale For MemeToro ($MT), participation takes place through the official presale portal.
Users connect a compatible wallet configured for BNB Chain, select a supported payment method including BNB, ETH, USDT, USDC, or a bank card, and complete the purchase through the verified smart contract.
As with every presale, investors should independently review the project’s documentation and assess whether its goals align with their own investment strategy.
Final Words The 2026 presale market has become more diverse than previous cycles. Projects such as Bitcoin Hyper focus on Bitcoin infrastructure, Remittix targets digital payments, AlphaPepe expands into DeFi, Pepeto develops cross-chain tools, and MemeToro ($MT) combines AI with SocialFi and blockchain automation.
While every presale carries risk, investors increasingly look beyond marketing narratives and evaluate whether a project offers practical products, transparent development, and a roadmap capable of supporting long-term ecosystem growth after fundraising ends.
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Maelstrom, the family office run by BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes, just handed its sixth Bitcoin Grant Program award to one of the network’s most quietly important builders. Tadge Dryja, best known as a co-creator of the Lightning Network, will use the funding to research how to harden Bitcoin against the looming threat of quantum computers.
What Dryja is actually working on The grant supports Dryja’s research into post-quantum cryptographic defenses for Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s current security relies on elliptic-curve cryptography, which works brilliantly against today’s computers. The concern, shared by a growing number of researchers, is that sufficiently powerful quantum machines could eventually break those protections.
Dryja has already been working on solutions. He’s developed a commit/reveal scheme he calls “Lifeboat,” designed to protect transactions from quantum attacks. He’s also proposed a mechanism called OP_CIV for post-quantum signature aggregation, which would let Bitcoin verify quantum-resistant signatures more efficiently.
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Dryja’s broader body of work includes Utreexo, a data structure that could dramatically reduce the storage requirements for running a Bitcoin full node.
Inside the Maelstrom Bitcoin Grant Program Maelstrom launched its Bitcoin Grant Program on July 17, 2024. The program offers grants between $50,000 and $150,000 for a 12-month period, paid out monthly in BTC, USDC, or USDT. The focus areas are resilience, scalability, censorship resistance, and privacy.
Dryja is the sixth recipient. A June 2026 annual report detailed the accomplishments of four prior grantees, whose work has spanned privacy-enhancing tools like Payjoin and Silent Payments, along with scalability improvements to Bitcoin Core.
Payjoin is a transaction method that makes blockchain analysis significantly harder by blending sender and receiver inputs. Silent Payments let users receive Bitcoin without reusing addresses, which is a privacy upgrade that sounds boring until you realize address reuse is one of the easiest ways to deanonymize someone on-chain.
The specific dollar amount of Dryja’s grant hasn’t been disclosed. But given the program’s stated range, we’re looking at something in the $50,000 to $150,000 neighborhood.
The quantum clock is ticking, kind of No quantum computer today can break Bitcoin’s cryptography. Current machines don’t have nearly enough stable qubits to run Shor’s algorithm against the elliptic curves Bitcoin uses. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has already standardized several post-quantum cryptographic algorithms for broader use, which creates a foundation that Bitcoin researchers can build on.
Dryja’s Lifeboat proposal doesn’t require Bitcoin to adopt entirely new signature schemes overnight. Instead, it creates an emergency mechanism that users could activate to protect their funds if quantum capabilities suddenly leapt forward.
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July's positive seasonality may drive Bitcoin's recovery, but macro factors like the June CPI and geopolitical tensions could constitute a hindrance.
This week’s Bitfinex Alpha report has revealed that bitcoin usually has a five-to-six-month bear market window where it trades below the Short-term Holder Realized Price. The fifth and sixth months mark the final phase of the period, after which the asset experiences a broader recovery.
July marks the fifth month in this bear phase window, and analysts believe BTC could witness a significant recovery. While there are positive dynamics that could drive the rebound in the coming weeks, market experts have also identified factors that could disrupt the recovery.
BTC Ends Five-Month Bear Window According to Bitfinex analysts, the positive seasonality of July may drive the recovery, but macro factors like the June U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) and geopolitical tensions in the Middle East could constitute a hindrance. So, the end of the five-to-six-month window is not enough to confirm a broader recovery for BTC; macro and demand dynamics need to align as well.
So far this month, BTC has absorbed record corporate selling and weathered the storms of renewed geopolitical pressure. Last week, the asset was hit from every direction; Strategy executed its largest sale ever, and the Fed faced continued divisions.
Despite the harsh environment, BTC managed to maintain its range within $61,300 and $64,700. The asset’s resilience was further supported by spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) breaking their outflow streak after nine weeks. These products recorded $197.4 million in net inflows for the first time in over two months.
Although the inflows into ETFs reflect recovering institutional demand, BTC still remains dependent on the macro environment, and July’s positive seasonality stays secondary.
ETFs Break Nine Weeks Outflow Streak From a more detailed perspective, analysts believe the ETF inflow pattern matters more than the total. The inflows appeared more on quieter days and receded when geopolitical tensions intensified. This indicated that institutional demand has not established a durable floor.
You may also like: Bitcoin Brace for US CPI Report as Fed Rate Fears Grow XRP and ETH Traders Turn Bullish as FOMO Surges to 5-Week High: Santiment South Korea Stock Crash Could Drag Bitcoin Below Key Support: Analyst With that in mind, one major indicator to watch is the 30-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) of ETF net inflows. This metric tracks the primary direction of institutional positioning and the persistent trend in market demand. The SMA signals that the monthly trend of ETF flows remains in a state of net contraction, with daily redemptions hitting $88.9 million.
The next moves of the SMA will depend on whether July’s seasonality is strong enough to override macro tensions in the coming weeks.
US Central Command has accused Iran of targeting commercial ships and launching missiles and drones toward Persian Gulf countries, marking a significant escalation in a waterway that handles roughly a third of the world’s seaborne oil trade.
Iran has reportedly begun demanding Bitcoin fees from vessels seeking passage approval through the strait, charging approximately $1 per barrel.
What’s happening in the strait CENTCOM executed at least three waves of precision strikes targeting Iranian military infrastructure in early-to-mid July 2026. The targets included Iranian air defenses, missile sites, coastal radar systems, and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps small boats stationed at key ports like Bushehr and Bandar Abbas.
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The strikes came in direct response to Iranian attacks on commercial vessels. Among the ships hit was the Cyprus-flagged container ship M/V GFS Galaxy, which sustained fire damage and had a crew member go missing. Iran also declared the Strait of Hormuz closed and launched retaliatory measures against US and allied positions in the region.
CENTCOM hit over 60 IRGC small boats and struck missile and drone infrastructure across multiple sites, including Bushehr, Chabahar, Jask, and Bandar Abbas.
The Bitcoin toll booth Iran has reportedly mandated Bitcoin fees for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, charging $1 per barrel as a transit toll payable in BTC. For a country under heavy international sanctions, the logic is straightforward: traditional banking rails are largely closed to Tehran, but Bitcoin transactions don’t require SWIFT access or correspondent banking relationships.
Iran has previously explored crypto mining as a revenue strategy, leveraging its subsidized electricity to run large-scale operations. Demanding Bitcoin as a maritime toll fee transforms a geopolitical chokepoint into a forced-adoption mechanism for cryptocurrency.
Markets shrug, and that might be the story Bitcoin traded at approximately $63,800 during the escalation, reflecting only minor daily fluctuations.
The Iran Bitcoin toll demand could trigger regulatory responses from Western governments. Treasury departments in the US and EU have been increasingly focused on crypto’s role in sanctions circumvention. A high-profile case of a nation-state using Bitcoin to monetize control of a shipping lane would give regulators exactly the ammunition they’ve been looking for to push stricter compliance requirements on exchanges and on-chain transaction monitoring.
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After a tumultuous first half of 2026, Bitcoin appears to be showing signs of a technical rebound, drawing attention from chart analysts who have been waiting for the asset to confirm support at a historic level. The cryptocurrency recently bounced off a trend line that has been closely watched by market observers for eight years.
Testing historical supportDave the Wave, a prominent Bitcoin technical analyst known for his use of the Logarithmic Growth Curve, published a monthly chart on TradingView that highlights Bitcoin’s recent price action. The current monthly candle shows Bitcoin trading near $64,443, representing an increase of roughly 10% for the month, after dipping to a 21-month low close to $57,750. This recent low coincided almost exactly with the lower green band of Dave’s growth curve.
Dave the Wave’s Logarithmic Growth Curve has served as a long-term Bitcoin price framework since 2018. The model maps the cryptocurrency’s price within a broad channel indicating strong but diminishing growth as the asset matures. The lower band of this channel, which the analyst refers to as the “buy zone”, has historically marked significant market bottoms. Previously, these bands identified major lows in March 2020 and November 2022, while the upper band has twice aligned with cycle peaks.
July 2026 marks the third time Bitcoin has returned to this critical support area. In a note to subscribers issued two weeks earlier, Dave the Wave noted that Bitcoin’s price was once again testing the lower curve, a pattern also observed ahead of the last two significant recoveries. The analyst compared the current retest—accompanied by a trading volume of 4.28 million—to the 2022 support test, which saw a heavier volume of 11.21 million. This softer volume aligns with the theory that Bitcoin’s overall volatility is decreasing as the market advances.
Mini dictionary: Dave the Wave, a pseudonymous technical analyst, has built a strong following among Bitcoin traders and investors for developing the Logarithmic Growth Curve—a model that attempts to forecast broad Bitcoin price cycles using log-scaled support and resistance bands drawn over multi-year charts.
Support TestDateVolume (million)First Support TestMarch 2020N/ASecond Support TestNovember 202211.21Third Support TestJuly 20264.28Comparisons with previous cyclesThe current decline represents a drawdown of approximately 50% from the all-time high of nearly $126,000 set in October 2025. While significant, this is notably less severe than the 75% to 90% corrections seen during prior bear markets. The return to structural support, combined with a positive double-digit monthly gain, suggests that buyers are defending the curve. According to Dave the Wave’s long-term projections, the model points towards potential price targets between $140,000 and $200,000 by the end of the decade. Over a longer time frame, he forecasts the possibility of Bitcoin reaching $500,000 to $1 million within ten years, although he anticipates diminishing returns as each cycle matures.
For proponents of this framework, the implication is that Bitcoin’s recent price action is testing established support, and the moderate volume may signal that most sellers have already exited the market rather than further capitulation occurring.
Cautious optimism among tradersDave the Wave cautions that his model does not guarantee outcomes. In late June, Bitcoin closed a full week below the 200-week moving average, a technical event that has historically only occurred during severe market downturns. He emphasizes that models are not infallible and that technical support levels only count if they hold through volatility. At last check, Bitcoin remained volatile, trading in the low $60,000 range, and the market has yet to decisively confirm the retest.
Despite these uncertainties, sentiment has shifted. After months of discussing further possible declines, traders are now debating the likelihood that Bitcoin has found a sustainable floor. A recent reversal—marked by a more than 10% monthly gain from the lower curve band—resembles previous market bottoms but does not ensure the trend has reversed for good.
No single indicator or model can guarantee that the bear market has ended. However, the presence of multiple bottoming signals, a shallower correction, and lighter trading volume lend cautious support to the argument that the worst may be over.
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Bitcoin’s price has been grinding through levels that several major institutions have publicly mapped as the potential cycle bottom. But the numbers land in two distinct clusters, and that dispersion is telling market participants something about the conviction behind each call. According to a summary of institutional assessments published by WuBlockchain, the aggregated review shows forecasts roughly grouping into a higher band of $50,000 to $60,000 and a lower band of $40,000 to $46,000, with some outliers below that.
The Higher Band: Floors Near $50K–$60K Standard Chartered indicated that $59,000 may have already marked the low. CryptoQuant, NYDIG, and Citi pointed to key levels around $53,000 to $54,000. These aren’t identical numbers, but they sit close enough to suggest that a cluster of sell-side and on-chain research shops sees a durable support zone forming in the mid-to-high $50Ks. That’s consistent with a market where large-scale institutional participation—and the regulatory framework around it—is still a moving target. The pending Senate vote on the most significant crypto bill in US history, which banking interests are now trying to derail, adds another layer of uncertainty to any floor estimate.
The Lower Band and the Stress Cases Galaxy Research placed its base-case bottom at $40,000 to $46,000. Bitfinex and 22V Research flagged the potential for a slide toward $40,000, but mostly under conditions of materially weaker demand or a breakdown of current support levels. 10x Research updated its model to a range of $46,628 to $50,732, which bridges the two clusters and highlights how model design itself can tilt forecasts. Forecasts that fall below $40,000 mostly reflect prolonged bear-market, recession, or severe stress scenarios, rather than base-case expectations. The wide gap between a $59K floor and a $40K base case isn’t just a matter of model preference—it can shape how options desks price risk and how leveraged traders position around these thresholds.
Why the Models Disagree The lack of a unified consensus isn’t just academic noise. It reflects genuine uncertainty about incoming capital flows, ETF dynamics, central bank policy, and the health of the broader tech-liquidity cycle. Some models weight on-chain cost basis data heavily, while others lean on macro correlations or options market structure. Industry figures outside of these institutions have offered an even wider spread, with some calling for bottoms well below $30,000. Price forecasts for other assets, like Filecoin’s recovery timeline, similarly show how far apart analyst models can sit when demand drivers are still in flux.
The practical upshot is that when specific catalysts hit—such as institutional staking partnerships—assets can decouple from macro gloom, as seen with SUI’s 18% surge earlier this year. That doesn’t invalidate bottom models, but it does remind traders that bottoms are often discovered through liquidity events, not spreadsheet outputs. In the background, the institutional push into real-world asset tokenization—crossing $20 billion on-chain—is creating new pathways for capital that could influence Bitcoin demand indirectly. Recent tokenization milestones show that traditional finance and crypto rails are blending, yet that doesn’t automatically flow into spot BTC bids. It does, however, keep institutional desks focused on the asset class, which can flatten sell-offs near widely cited support levels.
Meanwhile, development activity on major chains remains robust, as tracked in this week’s top blockchains by developer activity, a reminder that fundamentals don’t always move in lockstep with spot price. That disconnect between on-chain health and a bleak macro narrative is part of what makes bottom-calling so treacherous. The wide band of institutional estimates leaves the market without an obvious floor to defend. What traders watch next isn’t a single price level, but the interplay of ETF flows, regulatory news flow, and risk-asset correlations. Until those signals align, Bitcoin’s actual cycle low will remain a debated figure rather than a settled data point.
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The crypto market may not be out of the woods yet, but Funstrat’s Head of Digital Asset Strategy Sean Farrell believes the odds are slowly starting to favor digital assets over traditional markets. In a recent podcast, Farrell said macro conditions are still keeping Bitcoin and altcoins under pressure. However, he believes any sharp correction from here could become one of the best buying opportunities of the cycle.
Strategy Is No Longer the Biggest ConcernFarrell said fears surrounding Michael Saylor’s Strategy have eased significantly after the company raised more cash and reduced the immediate risk of a liquidity crunch.
That doesn’t mean the story is over. Strategy still carries around $2 billion in annual preferred dividend obligations, along with nearly $5 billion in bonds that can be put back to the company between 2027 and early 2028.
If Bitcoin remains stuck at current levels for years, those obligations could become a problem. But for now, Farrell believes the worst-case scenario has largely been avoided.
Why Bitcoin Has Been LaggingMany investors are frustrated that Bitcoin hasn’t matched the rally in U.S. stocks. Farrell says that’s actually normal.
Over the past year, company earnings have grown faster than global liquidity, making equities the preferred investment. In that environment, investors naturally chase productive assets rather than monetary assets like Bitcoin.
He expects that trend to change over the next three to six months as liquidity conditions improve. When that happens, crypto could once again attract fresh capital.
Ethereum Could Have the EdgeWhile Farrell remains bullish on Bitcoin, he argues that Ethereum may offer better upside over the next 12 to 18 months.
The launch of Robinhood’s Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain adds another long-term use case for the network. The platform isn’t generating meaningful revenue yet, but Farrell says the bigger story is the growing adoption of tokenized assets and corporate blockchains built on Ethereum.
He also said Ethereum currently looks like a “cleaner trade” because it doesn’t face the same potential selling overhang tied to Strategy’s Bitcoin holdings. On top of that, Ethereum developers are making faster progress on preparing the network for future quantum computing risks.
How Low can BTC Go? Despite the short-term uncertainty, Farrell says crypto’s risk-reward now looks more attractive than equities.
He remains cautious because of tight liquidity, elevated real yields, and uncertainty around Federal Reserve policy. Still, if Bitcoin drops into the low-$50,000 range, or even toward $48,000, he sees it as a rare opportunity rather than a reason to panic.
“If we get there,” Farrell said, “I’ll be backing up the truck.”
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The decline in social media chatter around Bitcoin and Ethereum is no longer a slow simmer—it has reached a silence not seen since 2020. According to the original report from analyst CryptoJack, the number of posts mentioning the two largest cryptocurrencies has steadily fallen from the peaks of 2021 and early 2022, and now rests at levels that precede the last major bull cycle. For a market that has long relied on retail enthusiasm to drive volumes, this quiet carries heavy implications.
Retail traders were the engine of the last crypto boom, pushing Bitcoin to nearly $69,000 and minting a generation of millionaires. The fading social media presence isn’t just lower tweet counts—it suggests that small investors have either exited completely or are unwilling to risk fresh capital. The economics of trading have shifted. With interest rates elevated and easy money receding, the speculative appetite that once fueled meme coins and DeFi degens has lost its oxygen.
But this quiet among retail traders coincides with a separate, louder trend: the institutional sprint into tokenized real-world assets. The tokenization sector has been on a tear. In the span of a single week, Bullish acquired Equiniti for $4.2 billion, Ondo Finance and JPMorgan settled the first live tokenized Treasury trade, and the total value of on-chain real-world assets broke through $20 billion. This is institutional capital moving into an asset class that promises not just returns, but compliance and yield—something Bitcoin’s volatility cannot match.
The pivot is not merely a capital reallocation. It signals a different market regime where assets are digitized for settlement efficiency rather than speculative buzz. Bitcoin and Ethereum, which were once the first stop for new entrants, now compete with a growing list of tokenized government bonds, private credit pools, and commodity-backed tokens that offer clearer cash flows. This is a market structure evolution that order books will reflect eventually.
When attention dries up Social media activity serves as a proxy for retail engagement. When post volumes drop, it often precedes a drying up of spot market liquidity. For Bitcoin and Ethereum, the correlation is historically strong: the 2020 lows in social mentions arrived just before the acceleration phase that defined the 2021 bull run. But analogies to that period ignore a crucial difference—the macro backdrop. Central banks are no longer injecting trillions, and the retail investor who entered in 2020 is now two years older, with depleted reserves and a different risk calculus.
Exchanges that depend on high-frequency retail flow are already reacting. Spot volumes have shrunk across major platforms, forcing them to cut fees or expand into tokenized securities. The shift toward tokenization and institutional custody is not just a trend; it’s a survival strategy for these intermediaries. The era of massive retail-led rallies may be on an extended hiatus, replaced by a more professional, but less explosive, market.
Institutions find a new playground While the crypto Twitter crowd goes quiet, traditional financial houses are committing significant resources to tokenized assets. The infrastructure is being built at a pace that suggests this is not a fad. The top blockchains by developer activity show that Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Polygon remain havens for builders, even if the noise around them has diminished. Developer activity tends to be a leading indicator: it rises before price manias, not during them. So while the social feeds look bleak, the code still thrives.
Another signal of the institutional shift came from Sui, which surged 18% in a single day in May. The Sui price jump was traced to institutional staking by a Nasdaq-listed firm and a new partnership with Paga, a fintech with $11 billion in payment flows. There were no viral memes, no celebrity endorsements—just corporate treasury moves that signaled confidence. That kind of price action is built on deals, not tweets.
The uncertain road ahead for Bitcoin and Ethereum The fall in social media mentions raises more questions than it answers. Have retail investors simply rotated into smaller, non-BTC tokens that offer higher volatility? On-chain data does not confirm a mass exit from crypto entirely, but rather a migration into assets with lower social media footprints. Or perhaps the exodus is genuine, and the next wave of buyers will be entirely different: pension funds, insurers, and sovereign wealth seeking tokenized bonds.
What is clear is that Bitcoin and Ethereum are losing their grip on the retail narrative. The narratives that once drove them—store of value, programmable money, internet cash—have lost novelty. Tokenized Treasury bonds, by contrast, offer a familiar story: yield. Until Bitcoin and Ethereum can reclaim that level of simple, tangible utility or a new catalyst emerges, their social media silence may become structural, not cyclical.
The market is not dead, but it is becoming quieter, more professional, and, for many small traders, less relevant. Whether that silence is the pause before a storm or the new normal depends on whether the infrastructure being built today can eventually onboard the next generation of users. For now, the loudest part of the market is the hum of institutional money settling in.
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Bitmine Immersion Technologies recorded $45.7 million in revenue from Ether staking and validation last quarter, following the launch of its institutional-grade Ethereum staking platform in March.
Staking revenue accounted for 98% of total revenue for the three months ended May 31, far outpacing the $624,000 from self-mining Bitcoin (BTC) and the $168,000 from consulting services, according to Bitmine’s latest 10-Q filing. On Monday, Bitmine said it had staked 85% of its ETH holdings, equating to around 4.9 million Ether (ETH).
“Bitmine has staked more ETH than other entities in the world. At scale (when Bitmine’s ETH is fully staked by MAVAN and its staking partners), the projected ETH staking reward is $284 million on an annualized basis,” said Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine.
The latest quarterly results show how Bitmine’s pivot to Ethereum has reshaped its revenue mix. A year ago, Bitmine recorded just $2 million in total revenue for the quarter ended May 31, 2025, primarily from machine leasing.
The results also reflect the March launch of MAVAN, an institutional-grade Ethereum staking platform that operates validator infrastructure for its own holdings and external clients.
MAVAN, short for “Made in America VAlidator Network,” followed the acquisition of Australia-based non-custodial validator operator Pier Two Holdings. It was originally developed to support Bitmine’s own Ethereum treasury; its scope expanded to serve institutional investors, custodians and ecosystem partners.
Lee calls Robinhood Chain a “breakaway success”On Monday, Lee highlighted the success of the newly launched Robinhood Chain, with dollar volumes exceeding $1 billion since its July 1 launch.
“Robinhood Chain now has more trading volume than any other decentralized exchange (DEX), demonstrating the outstanding utility and product market fit for Ethereum, which is the underlying chain,” he said.
“Robinhood Chain uses ETH as the native gas token. And transaction fees are denominated in ETH and the finality is settled on Ethereum. Robinhood’s 27 million users are paying crypto fees denominated in ETH. In other words, everyday users are starting to see ETH as money,” he added.
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Circle has again issued an additional 750 million USDC on Solana, bringing its total additional USDC issuance this year to over $69 billion.
According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, Circle has minted an additional 750 million USDC on the Solana network. Data shows that since 2026, Circle has cumulatively minted approximately 69.01 billion USDC on the Solana network.
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A crypto whale has amassed $75 million worth of USDC in recent weeks and begun participating in Hyperliquid’s CXMT bidding.
According to Mlm's monitoring, a whale address has accumulated approximately 75 million USDC tokens over the past several weeks. It had previously executed multiple test trades on Hyperliquid and has now begun participating in the bidding for CXMT assets.
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A South Korean investment-focused YouTuber was attacked with a knife by a viewer, allegedly triggered by huge losses from following the YouTuber's stock investment recommendations.
According to a report by The Chosun Ilbo, a stock investment-focused YouTuber in his 40s in Busan, South Korea was repeatedly stabbed with a knife by a man in his 20s. The suspect was a subscriber to the YouTube channel, the report noted. Some local media outlets added that the attack’s motive stemmed from the suspect incurring heavy investment losses after buying stocks recommended by the YouTuber, sparking resentment that led to the assault. The case is currently under further investigation.
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Analysis: The US and Iran are trapped in a war of attrition in the Strait of Hormuz, with both sides facing time pressure.
As tensions in the Strait of Hormuz continue to escalate, analysts believe the U.S. and Iran are entering a war of attrition centered on time, cost, and political endurance. Reports indicate Trump aims to resolve the conflict before the U.S. midterm elections to avoid further oil price hikes, while Iran is seeking to prolong time without triggering full-scale war by repeatedly threatening shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, in order to wear down the U.S.'s political and military patience. To date, the U.S. has reinstated blockades on Iranian ports and maritime shipping, and has been striking military targets that threaten navigation; Iran, in turn, continues to target Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes with missiles and drones, attempting to disrupt global energy transport. Analysts note that with both sides seeking to avoid full-scale escalation, this standoff is likely to evolve into a prolonged war of attrition.
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South Korean securities firms discuss raising minimum deposit requirements for chip stock leveraged ETFs.
The Korea Financial Investment Association (KFIA) announced that CEOs of 10 major South Korean asset management firms have discussed investor protection measures for individual stock leveraged ETFs, including raising minimum deposit requirements and staggering rebalancing trading times. Per the association’s statement, attendees agreed it is necessary to lift the minimum deposit threshold for investing in such leveraged products from the current 10 million won (US$6,714). They also emphasized the need to strengthen the market stabilizer function of liquidity providers. Citing data from the Korea Capital Market Institute, the KFIA noted that since the launch of related leveraged ETFs, daily stock trading volume required for rebalancing is estimated at between 700 billion won and 2.1 trillion won.
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Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 has completed the code auction for CXMT (Changxin Memory Technologies), with a final transaction price of 500 HYPE.
Hyperliquid HIP-3 has completed the auction of CXMT trading codes, with the final deal closing at 500 HYPE (approximately $32,600). The CXMT code corresponds to Chinese storage chip manufacturer Changxin Memory Technologies, and is expected to be listed on Hyperliquid’s IPOP market ahead of its IPO on July 27.
Chainlink price climbed 4.29% to $8.22 during the latest session as buyers returned across the broader cryptocurrency market. Over the last week, LINK has also risen by 7%, maintaining the short-term momentum at a positive trajectory.
The open interest rose 10% with the trader participation stronger with the price remaining above the key zone of $8.20. The broader crypto market gained 3.14% to approximately 2.21 trillion after a positive report on inflation in the United States.
Bitcoin price rose more than 3% to $64,600, while Ethereum jumped 5% to around $1,875. XRP price gained nearly 3% and traded close to $1.10 during the same period.
Traders are now watching June CPI and PPI releases for signs of easing inflation. Cooler data could support expectations for a more dovish Federal Reserve policy outlook ahead.
Chainlink Open Interest Jumps 10% as LINK Volume Surges The activity of the chainlink derivatives expanded as traders became more exposed to the LINK futures markets. Trading volume climbed 18.34% to $337.08 million during the latest reporting period. In the meantime, open interest increased 10% and stood at $431.32 million, indicating increased capital in outstanding contracts.
Source: Coinglass data The joint rise indicates that the market is growing its participation and traders are setting up in anticipation of a potential price change. Increased volume also means that there is increased short-term demand and liquidity across derivatives platforms.
Chainlink Price Eyes $10 After Bullish Break Above Rising Channel The LINK price rose to $8.31 as buyers drove the token out of its short-term upward channel.
The four-hour RSI was 65.62, and momentum was close to the overbought zone and not going beyond the 70 mark.
Meanwhile, the MACD line moved above the signal line, while the histogram returned to positive territory. These readings indicate that short-term momentum is still in the hands of buyers, though short-term pullbacks are still possible.
Source: Tradingview A continuous break on the upside that goes above $8.50 will clear the way to $9.00. Further strength may bring the psychological $10.00 target into focus as per the long-term LINK forecast. But then any failure to hold $8.00 may compromise the arrangement and reveal $7.70. The increasing channel is significant to the near-term trend of LINK.
Crypto presales remain one of the earliest ways to invest in new blockchain projects, but they also carry some of the highest risks. Every year, investors lose funds to fake websites, unaudited contracts, and projects that never deliver after raising capital.
As new crypto presales launch across Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin Layer-2s, and BNB Chain, understanding how to evaluate them has become just as important as finding the next opportunity.
What to Check Before Buying Any Crypto Presale A good presale starts with transparency rather than promises of large returns.
Before connecting a wallet or sending funds, investors should verify that they are using the project’s official website and smart contract. Scam websites often copy legitimate presales and trick buyers into sending crypto to fraudulent addresses.
Security audits are another important checkpoint. Independent reviews from firms such as Coinsult help identify potential vulnerabilities before a token reaches the public market.
Investors should also read the tokenomics carefully.
Questions worth asking include:
Is the smart contract independently audited? Are token allocations publicly available? Does the project explain vesting schedules? Are official social channels clearly linked? Is there a published roadmap beyond the presale? Are supported payment methods clearly listed? No checklist removes investment risk completely, but completing these basic checks helps avoid many common scams.
Why Presale Structure Matters Not every presale operates in the same way.
Some projects distribute tokens immediately after purchase, while others introduce vesting schedules that release allocations over several months. Some require whitelist registration or identity verification, while others allow direct wallet participation.
Payment options have also expanded.
Many new 2026 presales now support ETH, BNB, USDT, USDC, and even bank card purchases through integrated payment providers.
Investors should understand exactly when purchased tokens become claimable and whether additional steps are required after the fundraising campaign ends.
Reading the project’s documentation remains one of the simplest ways to avoid unexpected surprises later.
MemeToro Uses a Structured Presale Process MemeToro has built its public sale around a straightforward purchase process.
Participants begin by visiting the official presale website before connecting a compatible wallet configured for BNB Chain. Buyers can then complete their purchase using supported cryptocurrencies or a bank card before confirming the transaction through the smart contract.
The current fundraising campaign is in Stage 4, with more than $77,000 already raised. The present token price is $0.00171, while the next presale stage will increase the price to $0.00190.
Rather than introducing complicated purchase requirements, the process is designed to remain consistent regardless of the payment method selected.
Looking Beyond the Presale A secure purchase is only one part of evaluating a crypto project.
MemeToro is being developed as a broader Web3 ecosystem on BNB Chain, where the $MT token connects several planned products instead of existing only for fundraising.
The roadmap includes multiple utilities that extend beyond launch day. Some planned platform features include:
AI-assisted no-code memecoin creation SocialFi and behavioral finance tools Deflationary fee-burn mechanism The project also allocates the majority of its supply to public participants while preparing additional products that continue operating after exchange listings.
Although these features do not remove investment risk, they provide a clearer picture of how the platform intends to use the native token beyond the presale itself.
Safety Should Always Come Before Hype Crypto presales can offer early access to new blockchain projects, but they also require careful research. Verifying official websites, checking audit reports, understanding tokenomics, and reviewing the roadmap remain essential before making any investment decision.
MemeToro is one example of a project combining an audited presale process with a broader Web3 ecosystem, but like every early-stage crypto investment, it should be evaluated carefully alongside its documentation, development progress, and long-term goals before participating.
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Bitcoin reclaimed $64,000 on Tuesday after U.S. inflation fell 0.4% month over month, easing expectations for prolonged Federal Reserve tightening and lifting sentiment across risk assets.
Notable Statistics:
Coinglass data shows 86,420 traders were liquidated in the past 24 hours for $435.03 million. SoSoValue data shows net outflows of $424.7 million from spot Bitcoin ETFs on Monday. Spot Ethereum ETFs saw net outflows of $15.4 million. In the past 24 hours, top gainers include Binance Life, Lighter and Zcash. Notable Developments:
Trader Notes:
Industry expert Benjamin Cowen noted that Bitcoin’s current price action resembles 2018, with two consecutive green weeks followed by a pullback around CPI.
If the pattern repeats, BTC could rally into late July or early August before retracing those gains by September.
Trader KillaXBT argued that many investors risk missing the next cycle by waiting for ever-lower Bitcoin prices.
While a drop to $49,000 remains possible, he believes bearish expectations would likely keep shifting to $35,000, $25,000, or even $10,000, causing sidelined investors to miss a reversal.
The analyst views current levels as a long-term accumulation opportunity and encourages buying with a multi-year investment horizon.
Trader Jelle highlighted that Bitcoin has flashed a rare three-day bullish MACD crossover below the zero line, a technical signal that has historically preceded major rallies.
He said the indicator that suggests bearish momentum is fading and selling pressure may be nearing exhaustion.
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The market is holding its breath, not falling apart. Bitcoin sits just above $62,600 after a 0.8% daily dip, US inflation data lands today, and the one chart everyone should glance at is not BTC at all. It is Hyperliquid, down 10.3% on the week, the worst print in the entire top 10.
BTC Waits for the CPI Print Bitcoin trades at $62,617 as of July 14, 2026, per CoinGecko, down 0.8% over 24 hours and nearly flat, minus 0.7%, across the week. Market cap: $1.256 trillion. Volume: $27.3 billion.
The shape of the week matters more than the numbers. BTC absorbed the US and Iran escalation, a wave of long liquidations, and a slide toward $60,000, then stabilized in the low $62,000s ahead of today’s inflation report. Flat after that sequence is not weakness. It is a market that has already sold its fear and is waiting for a reason to do anything else.
The reason arrives today. A cool CPI print revives rat e-cut bets and risk appetite; a hot one sends BTC back to test the $60,000 round number it has been circling for a week. Until the data drops, the $60,000 to $64,000 box is the whole map, and this desk covered the top of that box last week. The box has not changed. The catalyst has a timestamp now.
ETH Stands Alone, XRP Leans on $1 One number stands out on the majors board: Ethereum is the only large cap green on the week, up 0.8% at $1,786. Everything else in the top 10 is red over seven days. When a single major diverges through a storm like this one, it is usually telling you where the next rotation starts, and ETH held that role through last week’s rally too. Watch whether it keeps the crown through the CPI reaction.
XRP is the opposite story. At $1.07, down 5.1% on the week, it keeps drifting toward the round $1.00 after breaking the $1.11 level our XRP coverage flagged as the line between a dip and a top. The break resolved bearish, and $1.00 is now the level the entire XRP conversation compresses into.
Solana slid to $75.05, down 7.7% weekly, still digesting both the macro storm and the BonkDAO drain we covered in this week’s BONK report. Dogecoin sits at $0.07212, and our July prediction page’s warning floor at $0.070 is now two cents of noise away.
HYPE Is the Red Flag of the Week Hyperliquid’s HYPE takes today’s second slot for the ugliest reason: minus 2.9% on the day, minus 10.3% on the week, the worst performance in the top 10, at $63.67 with a $14.2 billion cap. A token built on derivatives-exchange activity underperforming this badly during a volatility spike is counterintuitive; volatility is supposed to be its business. Either traders are pricing something specific, or the token simply carried the most froth into the storm. We have not verified a specific catalyst, and we will not invent one. The chart earns a spot on the watchlist either way: $60 is the round number below, and a bounce back above $67 would retire the concern.
[CHART: BTCUSD daily, July 14. Source: TradingView]
The Numbers That Matter Today BTC: the $60,000 to $64,000 box, CPI as the trigger. ETH: the only green major at $1,786. XRP: $1.00 in sight after losing $1.11. HYPE: worst of the top 10 at minus 10.3% weekly. Total market cap: roughly $2.16 trillion, red but orderly. The data decides the rest today.
FAQ What is the Bitcoin price today? Bitcoin trades at $62,617 as of July 14, 2026, down 0.8% in 24 hours, with a $1.256 trillion market cap ahead of today’s US inflation report.
Why is HYPE falling? HYPE is down 10.3% on the week, the worst in the top 10, at $63.67. No single confirmed catalyst is visible in the data; the move fits broad risk-off pressure hitting the frothiest large caps hardest.
Why is Ethereum up while everything else is down? ETH is the only top-10 major green over seven days, up 0.8% at $1,786, extending the relative strength it showed through last week’s rally and pullback.
This article is for information only and is not investment advice. Crypto assets are extremely volatile and you can lose your entire stake. Always do your own research.
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Despite negative factors such as the US-Iran geopolitical conflict and Strategy’s sell-off, Bitcoin, which had maintained the $62,000 support level, experienced a surge after US inflation data came in below expectations and approached $64,000.
However, this may not be a signal that the upward trend has reversed.
At this point, Wintermute analysts stated that Bitcoin has passed its worst period, but a trend reversal has not yet been confirmed.
In their latest weekly review, cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute analysts analyzed that despite negative factors such as the US-Iran geopolitical conflict and Strategy’s BTC sales, Bitcoin held onto the $62,000 support line, but a full recovery has not yet been confirmed.
Wintermute noted a significant development: an eight-week streak of outflows from spot BTC ETFs has finally turned into inflows. However, analysts caution that a single week of inflows should not yet be considered the start of a new uptrend.
According to Wintermute, two preconditions were expected for a market recovery and bottom formation: “A stable market structure that prevents chain reactions of liquidations amid bad news, and an improvement in spot ETF flows.” Both of these have now been met.
The fact that Strategy’s BTC sales had almost no effect on the market and that the $62,000 support level was maintained is also seen as a positive sign for a bottom formation.
Despite these criteria being met and the downtrend being broken, Wintermute argues that it’s necessary to wait before saying the market has entered a recovery phase.
He stated that there are important variables to watch to determine if the recovery is continuing and if the trend is changing. These are listed as “US CPI data and the subsequent stance of the Fed, whether BTC ETF inflows will continue, and the situation regarding the Strait of Hormuz.”
According to analysts, lower CPI, a more domineering Fed, sustainable ETF inflows, and progress on the Clarity Act could trigger a real recovery.
“So the current situation points to a market that has halted its decline but hasn’t yet begun to recover. The catalysts are the CPI data, the expected lack of continued ETF inflows, and the situation in the Strait of Hormuz until Monday’s oil opening.”
Wintermute concluded that Bitcoin appears to have halted its downward trend for now, but it’s too early to say a strong uptrend has begun. The market’s direction will become clearer in the coming days depending on upcoming macroeconomic data and whether investor interest continues.
*This is not investment advice.
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GnuVPN is a privacy VPN that does two things most rivals do not: it takes your money in crypto, and it gets you online where VPNs are blocked.
Pay in USDT (TRC20), Bitcoin, or Litecoin, and your subscription never has to touch a bank card. Connect through SoftEther, and your traffic slips past firewalls that shut other VPNs out. That combination is rare, and it is the reason GnuVPN stands apart from the household names.
A Google MASA Level 2 review on its Android app and an automatic kill switch round out the case.
Here is how it holds up.
What Is GnuVPN? A Protocol-First VPN Explained Table of Contents
What Is GnuVPN? A Protocol-First VPN ExplainedHow Can You Pay for GnuVPN With Crypto?What Protocols Does GnuVPN Use?Is GnuVPN Safe? Security and Privacy AnalysisServers, Speed and PlatformsDoes GnuVPN Work for Gaming?GnuVPN Pros and ConsWho Should Use GnuVPN?Verdict: Is GnuVPN Worth It?FAQCan I pay for GnuVPN anonymously with cryptocurrency?Does GnuVPN work in China or other countries with heavy censorship?Why pay for a VPN with USDT instead of Bitcoin?How many devices can I use with one GnuVPN subscription?Can I use GnuVPN on Huawei devices without Google services? GnuVPN is a privacy VPN that encrypts your connection, hides your IP address, and accepts cryptocurrency for payment. It is run by GNUAPP UNIPESSOAL LDA, a company registered in Portugal, which places it under GDPR, one of the stricter privacy regimes.
The service leans on protocol flexibility. It offers a wider spread of connection protocols than most rivals, with SoftEther as the headline feature, and it keeps payment private through crypto.
That focus shapes who it suits. GnuVPN works best for people who want private payment, need a connection that holds up on restrictive networks, or want strong protocol choice in one app.
Apps cover Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux, with support for up to five devices on one subscription. It is also one of the few VPNs on the Huawei AppGallery and Xiaomi GetApps, not just Google Play and the App Store. Here is the short version:
Feature Detail Operator GNUAPP UNIPESSOAL LDA (Portugal) Payments Crypto (USDT-TRC20, TRON, BTC, LTC), cards, PayPal Protocols SoftEther, AmneziaWG, WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2 Servers 55+ countries Devices 5 simultaneous Available on Google Play, App Store, Huawei AppGallery, Xiaomi GetApps Certification Google MASA Level 2 (Android app) How Can You Pay for GnuVPN With Crypto? Crypto payment is where GnuVPN pulls ahead of most rivals. Plenty of VPNs take Bitcoin and stop there. As a VPN that accepts crypto more broadly, GnuVPN takes USDT (TRC20), TRON, Bitcoin, and Litecoin, so you can pay with the coins you actually hold.
USDT (TRC20) is the standout. It settles fast and carries low fees, which makes paying for a VPN with USDT a practical option, not just a token gesture toward crypto users.
For anyone who would rather not tie a VPN to a bank card, that flexibility matters. It keeps your payment separate from your identity, and the site walks you through the process with step-by-step guides for paying through Binance.
GnuVPN pricing is simple, and the long plans bring the monthly cost down:
2-year: $2.79/month, billed as $66.99 upfront 1-year: $3.49/month, billed as $41.99 upfront 6-month: ~$4.50/month, billed as $26.99 upfront 1-month: $13.99, billed monthly GnuVPN also runs a referral program. Invite friends, and you earn 10% to 30% of what they spend as points, worth one cent each, which you can put toward renewals. Points transfer between accounts, and you do not need an active subscription to start earning.
GnuVPN checkout page for VPN subscriptions. Source: GnuVPN
What Protocols Does GnuVPN Use? GnuVPN offers five protocols, two of which almost no mainstream rival carries:
SoftEther: disguises VPN traffic as ordinary HTTPS, so firewalls watching for VPNs see routine web browsing. A SoftEther VPN gets through school, office, and national filters that block other protocols, and this is GnuVPN’s standout. AmneziaWG: a modified WireGuard that scrambles its traffic shape to dodge detection, keeping WireGuard’s speed while adding disguise. The lighter option when a network still needs some obfuscation. WireGuard: the fast, modern default for everyday browsing, streaming, and general use. OpenVPN: the long-trusted standard, valued for broad compatibility and reliability. IKEv2: the mobile-friendly choice that holds steady when you switch between Wi-Fi and data. Is GnuVPN Safe? Security and Privacy Analysis GnuVPN’s security holds up well for a service its size, and it has one credential most small VPNs lack. Its Android app carries Google’s MASA Level 2 certification, an independent security review by an authorised lab under Google’s App Defense Alliance.
MASA checks the app itself, including how it handles encryption, permissions, and data. It is a real, independent tick that most rivals never obtain.
On privacy, GnuVPN states that it does not collect browsing history, traffic content, or DNS queries, and does not keep connection logs such as assigned IP addresses or session times. Its Portuguese base places it under GDPR, which sets a high bar for how it handles user data.
The apps also ship with a kill switch. If the connection drops, it blocks internet traffic so your real IP does not leak while you reconnect.
User feedback backs this up. GnuVPN holds a 4.5-star rating across roughly 21,400 reviews on Google Play, which points to a stable experience for the bulk of its users.
Servers, Speed and Platforms GnuVPN runs servers in 55+ countries and adds new locations regularly, across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. The network is smaller than the household names, but it covers the major regions most users connect through.
Speed is solid on nearby servers, where WireGuard and AmneziaWG keep overhead low. As with any VPN, expect some drop on servers farther away, though everyday browsing and streaming hold up well.
Platform support is one of GnuVPN’s quiet strengths. It covers desktop and mobile, and reaches app stores that many rivals skip:
Desktop: Windows (including older versions), macOS, and Linux (Ubuntu and Debian) Mobile: iOS and Android App stores: Google Play, Apple App Store, Huawei AppGallery, and Xiaomi GetApps One subscription covers five devices at once, enough for most households to run phones, laptops, and a tablet together.
Does GnuVPN Work for Gaming? GnuVPN markets itself to gamers, and the honest picture is that it helps in specific ways and does not simply lower your ping. What it does well is protect and stabilise the connection around your play.
The clearest benefit is protection. A VPN hides your real IP address, which shields you from DDoS attacks during ranked play and online tournaments. For esports players, that alone can be reason enough.
It also helps you get around ISP throttling, and the server network lets you reach games and cloud gaming platforms in other regions, whether that is an earlier release, a different matchmaking pool, or a title tied to another country.
GnuVPN’s key features include low latency, multi-platform compatibility, global server coverage, and privacy-focused security. Source: GnuVPN
GnuVPN Pros and Cons Every VPN involves trade-offs. Here is where GnuVPN lands after testing its features, protocols, and pricing.
Pros
Crypto payments: USDT-TRC20, TRON, Bitcoin, and Litecoin, with Binance guides SoftEther and AmneziaWG: two obfuscation protocols almost no mainstream rival offers Google MASA Level 2: an independent security review of the Android app Automatic kill switch: blocks traffic if the connection drops, so your real IP never leaks Gaming protection: hides your IP against DDoS and helps bypass ISP throttling Wide platform reach: Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android On Huawei AppGallery and Xiaomi GetApps: available where most major VPNs are not GDPR coverage: a Portuguese base under one of the stricter privacy regimes Cons
Smaller server network than the household names, at 55+ countries Five device limit, where some rivals offer more SoftEther is strongest on Android, so protocol choice varies by platform Who Should Use GnuVPN? GnuVPN is not built to be all things to all people, and that focus makes it an easy call for some users.
It is a strong choice if you value private payment. If you would rather pay in USDT, TRON, Bitcoin, or Litecoin than hand over a card, few VPNs make that as easy.
It also suits anyone who connects through networks that block VPNs. Students on campus Wi-Fi, employees behind corporate firewalls, and travellers in filtered regions benefit directly from SoftEther and AmneziaWG. Gamers get real value too, through IP protection against DDoS and access to servers in other regions.
It is less of a fit if your main priority is a vast server network or a high device count. The household names still lead on raw scale. For the right user, though, GnuVPN offers something they do not: private payment and a connection that keeps working where others get blocked.
Verdict: Is GnuVPN Worth It? GnuVPN knows exactly what it is. It focuses on private payment and protocol flexibility, and it delivers both better than most services its size.
For crypto users, the appeal is direct: pay in USDT, TRON, Bitcoin, or Litecoin, keep your identity separate from your subscription, and get a MASA-reviewed app with a kill switch on top.
For anyone on a restrictive network, SoftEther and AmneziaWG are genuine tools, not marketing lines. At $2.79 per month, the package holds together well.
It will not suit everyone. If you want the largest server network or a high device count, the household names still lead. But for private payment, privacy on restrictive networks, and protected play, GnuVPN offers something genuinely its own.
FAQ Can I pay for GnuVPN anonymously with cryptocurrency? You can pay in USDT (TRC20), TRON, Bitcoin, or Litecoin, which keeps your subscription separate from a bank card or PayPal account. That adds a layer of separation between your identity and your VPN use. GnuVPN provides step-by-step guides for paying through Binance if you are new to crypto payments.
Does GnuVPN work in China or other countries with heavy censorship? SoftEther is built for exactly this. It disguises VPN traffic as ordinary HTTPS, which helps it get through national firewalls that block standard protocols. No VPN can promise permanent access, since filters change constantly, but GnuVPN’s obfuscation protocols give it a better chance than services relying on WireGuard or OpenVPN alone.
Why pay for a VPN with USDT instead of Bitcoin? USDT (TRC20) settles quickly and carries low transaction fees, which makes it practical for a recurring subscription. It is also a stablecoin, so its value does not swing between the moment you pay and the moment it clears. GnuVPN accepts both, so the choice is yours.
How many devices can I use with one GnuVPN subscription? One subscription covers five devices at the same time, across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. That is enough for most people to protect a laptop, a phone, and a tablet together, or to share a plan across a small household.
Can I use GnuVPN on Huawei devices without Google services? Yes. GnuVPN publishes directly to the Huawei AppGallery and Xiaomi GetApps, so you can install it on devices that lack Google Play. Most major VPNs skip these stores entirely, which makes GnuVPN a practical option for Huawei and Xiaomi users.
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CleanSpark, the Nasdaq-listed bitcoin miner, said on July 14 that it has signed a 20-year infrastructure lease with an unnamed high-investment-grade global technology company at its campus in Sandersville, Georgia.
The deal marks the firm’s largest step from pure bitcoin mining toward high-performance computing for hyperscale clients.
The lease covers data center infrastructure that will support 175 megawatts of critical IT load. CleanSpark expects the initial term to generate $6.6 billion in contracted revenue, a figure that would climb to $11.6 billion if the tenant exercises both extension options.
The company has recently announced that it would repurpose part of its electricity capacity and mining infrastructure to power AI data centers, aiming to diversify beyond bitcoin mining.
CleanSparks’ average annual net operating income from the agreement should reach $330 million. First deliveries are due in the fourth quarter of 2027.
In a further sign of the tenant’s appetite, the two sides executed a letter of intent and an exclusivity arrangement covering CleanSpark’s entire Texas portfolio, a base of up to 885 megawatts of secured and planned power capacity. Should that convert into firm contracts, CleanSpark’s transition into an infrastructure landlord for artificial-intelligence and cloud workloads would deepen.
CleanSpark holds 13,924 bitcoin The announcement lands as CleanSpark’s core mining business posts records. The company produced 614 bitcoin in early July and lifted its operational hashrate to 50 exahashes per second, a company high.
Treasury holdings rose to 13,924 bitcoin, one of the larger corporate stashes among public miners. Management has kept much of its mined bitcoin rather than sell into the market, a bet on the asset’s long-term price.
Wall Street has warmed to the compute pivot. Citizens began coverage with an Outperform rating and a $27 price target, citing the shift toward hyperscale compute capacity. Chardan lifted its target to $19 from $16 and kept a Buy rating. Both notes framed the Sandersville lease as proof that CleanSpark can monetize its power and land assets beyond mining, where margins swing with bitcoin’s price and network difficulty.
Investor reaction has been mixed. Shares of CleanSpark gained more than 20% in pre-market on the news but have since dropped to 9% gains on the day.
The Georgia lease offers somewhat of a hedge. Contracted rent from a creditworthy tenant provides a revenue stream that does not rise and fall with hash prices, while the company keeps its mining fleet and bitcoin treasury intact.
The next test is execution: bringing 175 megawatts online before the close of 2027 and turning the Texas letter of intent into signed leases.
Micah Zimmerman
Micah first discovered Bitcoin in 2018 but remained a skeptic on the sidelines for too long. Since 2021, he has covered crypto and business and now works as a news reporter for Bitcoin Magazine, based in North Carolina.
CleanSpark just locked in one of the most lucrative deals in Bitcoin mining history, and it has almost nothing to do with Bitcoin. The company announced a 20-year triple-net lease agreement for its data center in Sandersville, Georgia, with a high-investment-grade global technology firm. The projected revenue: $6.6 billion over the initial term, with an extension pathway that could push the total to $11.6 billion.
Inside the deal The lease covers a critical IT load of 175 megawatts at CleanSpark’s Sandersville campus, designed to support AI and high-performance computing workloads. First deliveries from the facility are scheduled for Q4 2027.
CleanSpark projects an average annual net operating income of approximately $330 million from this single lease, at what the company describes as nearly 100% profit margin.
The tenant’s identity remains undisclosed, though CleanSpark characterized the partner as a “high-investment-grade global technology firm.”
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Beyond Sandersville, the agreement includes a letter of intent granting exclusivity rights to CleanSpark’s Texas portfolio. That portfolio spans 718 acres across its Sealy and Brazoria campuses, encompassing up to 885 megawatts of power capacity. If that LOI converts to a binding agreement, the total revenue potential climbs toward that $11.6 billion figure.
Construction costs are estimated at $10 to $12 million per megawatt. CleanSpark controls over 1.8 gigawatts of total power capacity across its operations.
Why Bitcoin miners are becoming AI landlords CEO Matt Schultz framed the deal as validation of CleanSpark’s strategic focus on land and power management, describing it as a “transformative development” that exemplifies the company’s second-mover advantage in digital infrastructure.
Core Scientific’s deal with CoreWeave, announced in 2024, was one of the first major Bitcoin-miner-to-AI conversions that grabbed headlines. CleanSpark’s $6.6 billion headline figure, with the potential to nearly double, represents a significant escalation in the scale of these agreements.
What this means for investors CleanSpark’s stock surged approximately 10% following the announcement. In a NNN lease, the tenant covers property taxes, insurance, and maintenance costs on top of rent, meaning the $330 million NOI projection is relatively insulated from cost inflation.
At the estimated $10 to $12 million per megawatt, the Sandersville buildout alone could cost between $1.75 billion and $2.1 billion.
The company currently controls over 1.8 gigawatts of power, so 175 megawatts represents less than 10% of its total capacity. If the Texas LOI converts and another 885 megawatts shifts toward AI hosting, the company’s identity as a Bitcoin miner becomes increasingly nominal.
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