Bitcoin fell for a second straight day, dropping 1.4% to trade just under $63,600. It hit a session low of $62,732 early Friday, trimming its market cap and dragging the aggregate crypto market capitalization down 1.8% to $2.26 trillion.

Polymarket traders lifted the odds of the CLARITY Act being signed into law this year to 35% on July 17, a sharp recovery from the market’s record low of 24% hit just four days earlier.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says USDT’s user base is growing by more than 30 million wallets per quarter, extending the stablecoin’s lead as its market capitalization hovers near record levels.

Crypto ETF demand split sharply on Thursday, July 16, as bitcoin products drew $79.15 million while ether funds lost $28.04 million. XRP and Solana ETFs also attracted fresh capital, while T. Rowe Price launched a multi-token fund with an unusually large HYPE allocation.

A whale wallet linked to venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) deposited 437,000 HYPE worth $28.38 million to exchanges over two days, as HYPE fell by nearly 11%.

Real estate mogul Grant Cardone said Cardone Capital added another 10.5 BTC from July property cash flow, bringing his total keep somewhere around 2,700 BTC.

Morgan Stanley’s E*Trade finished rolling out spot bitcoin, ether and solana trading to U.S. clients on July 16, undercutting rivals with a 50-basis-point fee as Wall Street’s crypto race accelerates.

SpaceX (Nasdaq: SPCX) fell 3.08% to close at $131.11 yesterday, its first finish below the $135 initial public offering (IPO) price since the rocket maker’s record June debut.

The measure, ordered by Federal Judge Marcelo Martinez, seeks to ascertain the identities of the owners of 25 wallets that moved the funds left after the launch of Libra, and the freezing of the funds in these wallets. At least 10 transactions passed through centralized exchanges, such as Binance, that exert KYC controls.

DeFi infrastructure firm Enso has identified a new class of malicious liquidity pools called “toxic pools.” Unlike traditional exploits that steal funds directly, these pools manipulate transaction simulations.

Senate Republicans planned to release the updated CLARITY Act text on July 17, immediately after a White House meeting with President Donald Trump, even as Senate Democrats warned they will not support the draft.

Programmer Stefan Thomas has just two password attempts left to unlock an IronKey USB drive holding the private keys to 7,002 Bitcoin he received in 2011 for making a “What is Bitcoin?” video. The device is designed to permanently lock and delete its contents after 10 wrong tries, and Thomas has already used eight, with the stash recently valued at about $777 million at around $111,000 per BTC.

HMRC will treat certain crypto lending and liquidity pool transactions as “no gain, no loss” from April 2027, deferring Capital Gains Tax until users make an economic disposal. The measure is expected to affect about 700,000 individuals and simplify tax reporting for DeFi users.

The company will provide access to USDC financial services through BEN, its regulated and licensed VASP, in compliance with national standards. The move is part of an expansion push across Latam, with a special focus on Argentina, where USDC is popular.

U.S.-listed bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) now hold an estimated 1.25 million bitcoin worth well over $100 billion, and few of the shareholders who own those funds have read the prospectus language that spells out what happens to that money if the fund’s sponsor or custodian collapses.