The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has published its guidance on the taxation of crypto assets to standardize compliance for an estimated 6 million local users.

Crypto exchange VALR is introducing perps, a new derivatives product offering over 200 cross-asset perpetual futures markets.

A wide-ranging product recap showed how Coinbase has advanced its “every asset, every market, one platform” strategy across trading, payments, artificial intelligence, stablecoins, and on-chain infrastructure.

Ripple joined America250’s Giving 4th campaign on July 4 with a pledge to match donations in XRP supporting the Call of Duty Endowment. The effort links Independence Day charitable giving with programs helping veterans move into civilian jobs.

Grayscale says Solana’s growing application ecosystem is driving major on-chain activity, with the network averaging more than 100 million daily transactions year-to-date and supporting more than 1,000 decentralized applications.

Central banks added a net 41 tonnes of gold to official reserves in May, World Gold Council data published July 2 shows, extending a buying wave that has averaged 1,000 tonnes a year over the past four years. A record 45% of reserve managers expect their own institutions to add more within the next 12 months.

Onchain investigator ZachXBT publicly corrected the official Ethereum X account on July 4, pointing out that privacy company Proton accepts only bitcoin, not ether, as a cryptocurrency payment option for its subscriptions.

The U.S. Treasury will accept philanthropic donations of publicly traded stock to fund Trump Accounts, Secretary Scott Bessent announced two days before the children’s savings program launched, with more than 6 million families already signed up.

President Donald Trump’s investment accounts made 327 previously undisclosed stock purchases worth as much as $12.8 million on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise tariff pause sent the S&P 500 up 9.5% in its eighth-best session in history, a new filing shows.

A renewed ethics fight over President Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency earnings has sharpened as U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand pushes to ban elected officials from profiting from digital assets they create or promote while in office.

Strategy’s CEO linked his family’s escape from Vietnam in 1978 to his belief that bitcoin can provide individuals with monetary freedom through transparent rules, property rights, and individual sovereignty.

Gold and silver posted their strongest weekly performance in more than a month after a disappointing U.S. jobs report forced traders to rethink Federal Reserve policy.

The Esports World Cup 2026 will bring the world’s largest competitive gaming festival to Paris with a $75 million prize pool, 25 tournaments, and a Club Championship race built to reward the deepest organizations in esports.

Zcash developers are closing in on a July 21 mainnet launch for Ironwood, a network upgrade built to let any node operator verify the coin’s circulating supply on day one.

A pseudonymous bitcoin holder has become the first named defendant to challenge New York’s closely watched lawsuit seeking ownership of roughly 3.8 million BTC, as another wallet named in the case moved 500 BTC on July 2, further undermining claims the coins were abandoned.