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Polymarket Bitcoin Markets Show Signs Of Manipulation

A joint study by Stanford University and Singapore Management University found evidence of settlement manipulation in Polymarket's five-minute Bitcoin prediction markets, with suspected manipulators earning an estimated $8.2 million.
Strategy Sees No Bitcoin Threat

Strategy President and CEO Phong Le says the company's balance sheet is secure at current Bitcoin prices, with debt concerns only arising if BTC falls to $8,000 to $10,000. The firm has also raised its cash reserves to $3 billion.
The fork nobody is mining

Bitcoin's BIP-110 soft fork hits its mandatory signaling window around August 7 with miner support at zero. Michael Saylor, Adam Back, and Jameson Lopp have all come out against it, and Bitcoin Core has not merged the implementation.
Japan just cut its crypto tax from 55% to 20%

Japan's parliament has passed landmark FIEA amendments reclassifying crypto as a financial instrument alongside stocks and bonds, paving the way for a 20% flat tax and regulated spot ETFs. Here is what the timeline actually looks like.
We asked two AIs where $XRP ends the year

Grok and Claude AI give diverging XRP price targets for year-end 2026, with both leaning on the CLARITY Act as a key catalyst. Here is what they said and what the data shows.
Tokenized real estate gets a live order book on BNB Chain

ASX Capital launches peer-to-peer trading of a tokenized Wisconsin industrial property on BNB Chain on July 17, with a 10:1 token airdrop and a live order book from day one.
Nobody is trading

On-chain data from Santiment and Glassnode shows crypto top-cap trading volumes at two-year lows and spot Bitcoin ETF volumes down 78% from peak, as market participation drains across the board.
Schiff picks a green day to call the top

Peter Schiff warned Bitcoin holders they will 'have a lot of regrets' just as BTC climbed nearly 4% on a soft June CPI print. His price map points to resistance at $65K, support at $58K, and a potential floor between $20K and $30K.
The White House is coming to the table on the one thing blocking CLARITY

Senior White House officials, including President Trump, are set to meet with senators over the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act's ethics provision, the last major obstacle blocking the crypto market structure bill from a Senate floor vote.
Britain says it'll beat the G7 to a blockchain bond

Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed at Mansion House that the UK will issue its Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT) on HSBC's Orion blockchain by early 2027, ahead of every other G7 nation. Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey also signalled the bond could be accepted as collateral in central bank market operations.


