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Bitcoin Whale Wakes After Seven Years
A dormant Bitcoin wallet moved 2,931 BTC worth $188 million on July 13, its first onchain activity in seven years. Arkham data confirmed the transfer as $BTC traded near $64,000, representing a near tenfold gain from the whale's original entry price.
Chinese prosecutors float treating mixer use as laundering intent
A research article in China's Supreme People's Procuratorate newspaper proposes that using privacy coins or crypto mixers should count as evidence of money laundering intent, putting Beijing at odds with a recent US Treasury report that acknowledged the legitimate uses of the same tools.
Japan's new PM keeps the country's WEB3 bet
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi used her WebX 2026 address to reaffirm government support for Web3 and startups, pointing to Japan's existing startup package and a ¥10 trillion investment goal for 2027.
Chainlink holders hit a record while the price lags
Chainlink just crossed 900,000 non-empty LINK wallets on Ethereum, an all-time high, while the price sits near local lows around $7.80. On-chain analytics firm Santiment reads the divergence as quiet accumulation.
The House takes CLARITY to Wall Street
The House Financial Services Committee brings its CLARITY Act field hearing to Federal Hall in New York, titled 'How the CLARITY Act Unlocks Innovation,' as supporters push Senate Democrats for the votes needed to pass the landmark crypto market structure bill.
A two-week-old chain is out-trading Ethereum
Robinhood Chain (@RobinhoodCrypto) posted $808 million in 24-hour DEX volume just two weeks after launching, ranking third across all chains behind Solana and BNB Chain and ahead of Ethereum, driven largely by memecoins rather than the tokenized stocks it was built for.
UK pulls Ripple and Wall Street into a plan to tokenize repo and gilts
HM Treasury's 54-firm Wholesale Digital Markets Taskforce, backed by Ripple, BlackRock, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, targets a live tokenized repo trial by spring 2027 and a £33 billion annual economic boost by 2035.
Strategy puts bank Bitcoin adoption at 32%
Strategy has published a Bitcoin Banking Adoption Index grading the world's largest banks on their Bitcoin engagement. Fidelity leads at 71%, while Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and Citi cluster in the low 40s. The overall score stands at 32%.
SBI puts a 3% yield on Japan's yen stablecoin
SBI Group is offering a 3% annual yield on its JPYSC yen stablecoin through a 12-week fixed-term lending service opening July 16, as Japan's biggest financial names race to build utility around regulated digital yen assets.
CZ torches the memes riding his name
Binance founder CZ burned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of unsolicited BNB Chain memecoins, calling it a routine wallet cleanup rather than any market signal.
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