SpaceX completed its 13th test flight on July 24, deploying 20 next-generation Starlink satellites and achieving its smoothest ocean splashdown yet. Despite the success, shares of the firm (Nasdaq: SPCX) barely budged, still trading roughly 15% below their June IPO price.

Traders on Polymarket and Kalshi are staking millions of dollars on where ethereum’s price lands before the end of 2026, with the market split almost evenly on whether the token hits $1,000 or $3,000 first.

The team behind decentralized exchange aggregator Odos said on July 23, 2026, that the company operating the platform is winding down and will end all services by July 30.

Payment gateway Triple-A had more than $9.7 million drained from its hot wallets across six blockchains on July 24 and July 25, according to security alert service Peckshield.

A crypto whale received 557,902 HYPE tokens, worth $32.87 million, from institutional liquidity provider FalconX and immediately staked the entire amount on Hyperliquid. The move comes as HYPE trades well off its June peak.

The wallet tied to the Trump team’s TRUMP token allocation moved another 10.84 million tokens, worth $16.91 million, toward custodian Bitgo on July 25, extending a pattern the team has repeated for months.

Bitcoin currently trades near $63,800, oscillating around the $64,000 mark after touching a 24-hour low of $63,700. The choppy price action comes as the Crypto Fear & Greed Index sits at 27, still firmly in fear territory.

Every 2,016 blocks, i.e. roughly every two weeks, Bitcoin automatically resets how hard it is to mine a block, a self-correcting rule that swung from an 11.16% cut on Feb. 7, 2026 to a 14.7% hike just 12 days later, the network’s sharpest whipsaw since 2021.

The Crypto.com-affiliated exchange behind OG has sued Washington officials before the state takes enforcement action against its prediction markets. The complaint argues that federal commodities law protects OG from state gambling rules and cites Washington’s successful injunction against Kalshi as an imminent threat.

A pioneering transaction involving a cattle herd valued at nearly $24K allowed a Brazilian farm to use this value as collateral, tokenizing each cow using technology provided by Cowmed to monitor each animal’s health in real time, with each animal being classified as a receivable.

World Foundation raised $52.5 million in a strategic WLD token sale led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Eightco Holdings, Selini Capital, and Susquehanna Crypto.

Australian police are warning the public about transnational criminal networks using AI to construct sophisticated, end-to-end fake cryptocurrency investment ecosystems.

The Senate faces a narrowing window before its August recess to pass the CLARITY Act, while an ethics dispute threatens legislation establishing a comprehensive regulatory framework for U.S. digital asset markets.

Coinbase is allowing businesses to accept USDC payments directly from AI agents through Coinbase Business. The exchange is also expanding its agent trading tools and developer software as it bets that autonomous programs will become major participants in online commerce.

Fidelity, a financial giant overseeing $7.1 trillion in managed assets, has entered Washington’s intensifying crypto debate by urging senators to establish nationwide rules for digital asset markets.