Ripple Swell 2026 is approaching this fall, bringing financial executives, developers and the XRP community to New York for an expanded conference examining the growing connection between traditional finance, XRP and blockchain-based markets. Why Ripple Swell 2026 Will Be Different As Ripple Swell 2026 moves closer, Ripple shared on July 10 that early bird pricing […]
Bitcoin has two forks on the calendar for 2026. Developer Paul Sztorc plans a deliberate hard fork called eCash, activating at block height 964,000, expected around August 21. Separately, a contested soft fork proposal called BIP-110 carries the chance of splitting the chain by accident during its August signaling window. Both events raise the same […]
Bitcoin is hovering below $64,000, but where it lands next is anyone’s wager. We asked a roster of artificial intelligence (AI) models to cut through the market noise and name their BTC price for Aug. 1. July has treated BTC somewhat more kindly than June. Yet bitcoin remains down more than 40% over the past […]
Patrick Shyu, the former Meta and Google engineer known online as Techlead, warns that quantum computing and decaying miner incentives are two undefused threats hanging over Bitcoin. A Warning Worth Heeding Shyu, who served as a tech lead at Google and later as a staff software engineer at Meta before building a YouTube audience of […]
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This week, the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) filed to intervene as a defendant on July 10 in a New York lawsuit seeking legal title to nearly 40,000 dormant bitcoin addresses, adding an institutional voice to a case that already pits plaintiffs’ counsel against a proposed amicus curiae. The filing lands in ABC Company, XYZ Company, […]
U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) attracted $90.44 million on July 10 while ether funds added $18.43 million, sealing the bitcoin products’ first weekly net inflow since May. Blackrock’s IBIT supplied $86.83 million of the day’s total. Green Indicators Reappear U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded $90.44 million in combined net inflows on Friday, July 10, […]
Apple filed a 41-page complaint against OpenAI in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on July 10, accusing the ChatGPT maker of a coordinated campaign to steal hardware trade secrets. OpenAI says it has “no interest in other companies’ trade secrets.” Two Tech Behemoths Collide The lawsuit, filed Friday in federal […]
Metaplanet Inc. is moving past simple bitcoin accumulation and into product design. The Tokyo-listed company, often called Asia’s Strategy, announced on July 10, 2026, that it will study bitcoin-backed digital credit products with three partners. The goal is to use bitcoin as collateral for tokenized instruments, including digital corporate bonds, settled through a yen stablecoin […]
The total cryptocurrency market capitalization has climbed $170 billion since July 1, reaching $2.28 trillion on July 11 as bitcoin changed hands above $64,100. Recovering ETF flows and improving sentiment are powering the rebound. Multiple Supporting Factors Converge The crypto market has added $170 billion in value since the start of the month. Aggregate capitalization […]