Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

BitMEX settled 35 derivatives today, July 30, closing any remaining positions and canceling open orders as the exchange moved another step toward its September shutdown.BitMEX’s settlement log shows 33 contracts closing almost on the stroke of noon, at 12:00:05 UTC. EURUSD and USDCHF followed at 12:

Coinbase (COIN) stock heads into second-quarter earnings today after the close under a warning from one of its biggest backers.Citigroup still rates the stock a buy. Even so, it cut its Coinbase price target from $400 to $235 on July 24, a 41% reduction that landed days before the report.SponsoredSp

ARK Invest said Solana faces stronger competition in spot trading, derivatives, tokenized assets, prediction markets, and memecoins.Lorenzo Valente said Hyperliquid dominates derivatives, while Robinhood and Uniswap have gained ground in key trading markets.Despite mounting competition, ARK Invest s

According to ChainCatcher, data from Coinglass shows that if ETH falls below $1,825, the total liquidation value of long positions on major CEXs will reach $1.016 billion. Conversely, if ETH breaks above $2,013, the total liquidation value of short positions on major CEXs will reach $750 million.

Uniswap just torched 106,000 UNI tokens in a single day, making it the third largest burn event since the protocol flipped the switch on its deflationary mechanics.The burn was driven by the protocol’s relatively new fee collection and buyback system, which funnels revenue from trading activity into

TL;DRFortitude agreed to buy 9,000 Antminer Z15 Pro machines for $31.5 million, with shipments scheduled for October and November across seven U.S. mining sites.The order should add 7.56 GSol/s and raise disclosed Zcash mining capacity by 145%, potentially giving Fortitude more than half of current

When a hedge fund goes from zero to $45 billion in assets under management in under two years, the story has exactly two possible endings. On July 30, 2026, Situational Awareness LP found out which one it got.Citadel Securities paid $10 billion to acquire the public equity holdings of Situational Aw

Zeta Network Group just pulled off one of those deals that makes you do a double take. The Nasdaq-listed company announced a $10 million private placement on July 29, with one notable twist: the entire transaction will be settled in approximately 156.65 Solv-BTC tokens, a 1:1 Bitcoin-backed asset va

Gemini just made its prediction market trading data available to anyone with an internet connection. The exchange launched a public REST API endpoint on July 30 that serves up trade volume data organized by category, broken down by day or hour in UTC.The key word here is “public.” No authentication

Simile, an AI startup spun out of Stanford, has closed a $100 million Series A funding round led by Index Ventures. The round also drew backing from Bain Capital Ventures, Hanabi Capital, and a roster of AI luminaries including former Tesla AI chief Andrej Karpathy and Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li.

The Clarity Act, a key piece of U.S. crypto market-structure legislation, is encountering further resistance as two Republican senators, including a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee, have announced their opposition. The bill, which aims to divide oversight of digital assets between the

Two years ago crypto had exactly two US spot ETFs. Now Solana and XRP funds are live and taking money, BlackRock is running a staked Ethereum product, and Grayscale just filed to wrap Sam Altman’s iris-scanning token in a Nasdaq ticker. The altcoin ETF wave is here, and one feature separates the win

Canadian crypto participation is rising quickly, according to fresh research from the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC). The regulator’s latest survey suggests that the share of Canadians who own cryptocurrencies has climbed to 25% in 2026, up from 10% in 2023—an expansion that also coincides with

Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital firm that built its brand on crypto bets and Web3 conviction, is anchoring the IPO of a biotech company that has exactly zero blockchain references in its SEC filings. Braveheart Bio has filed to raise up to $318.8 million in an initial public offering on Nas

A data center developer is looking to borrow $15 billion, backed by Google’s guarantees, to build an AI campus and power plant in Texas for Anthropic. The project, developed by Nexus Data Centers, spans roughly 2,800 acres in Hubbard, Texas. The initial phase alone is expected to cost upwards of $5