Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

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

An Israeli semiconductor company most people have never heard of just pulled in over $300 million in fresh funding. Xsight Labs, a fabless chipmaker building networking silicon for AI data centers, closed the round at a valuation between $2.5 billion and $2.8 billion post-money.The bet behind the ch

Crypto NewsBitcoin (BTC) retail flow at Robinhood weakened during the second quarter, with crypto transaction revenue declining 38% from the prior year to $100 million, the company’s investor-relations disclosure showed. The figure placed digital-asset trading behind both equities, which generated $

For a company that built its entire identity around relentless Bitcoin accumulation, five weeks of radio silence is practically an eternity.Strategy, the firm formerly known as MicroStrategy and still very much led by Bitcoin evangelist Michael Saylor, hasn’t added a single satoshi to its treasury s

Samsung Electronics just told the world what data center operators, AI developers, and crypto miners have been dreading: the memory chip crunch isn’t going anywhere. During its Q2 2026 earnings call on July 30, the South Korean giant projected that the global memory chip shortage will actually worse

Japan’s reported XRP Ledger adoption places enterprise blockchain infrastructure within established banking operations and settlement systems.A scheduled XRPL network upgrade accompanies reports linking major Japanese banks with distributed ledger technology adoption.Banking integration and protocol

Stacks has activated PoX-5, a network hardfork that the project frames as the operational groundwork for Bitcoin staking. The upgrade is now live on mainnet, and the Stacks PoX-5 activation shifts the focus toward how the network will let participants earn rewards tied to Bitcoin.TLDR KEYPOINTSPoX-5

In the U.S., the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index showed a limited decline in June, but inflation remained above the Fed’s 2% target. The strong recovery in consumer spending in the second quarter indicated that the U.S. economy remains resilient despite high interest rates and ri

Australia’s eSafety regulator has launched legal action against Telegram over alleged failures to remove pro-terror content. The agency seeks a potential A$54.6 million penalty after a year-long investigation into Telegram’s safety practices. Officials allege the messaging service faile.