Strategy raised the dividend on its flagship preferred stock to 12% in late June, but the security is still changing hands well below the $100 price the company says it wants investors to see.

Bitcoin rebounded to test the $63,000 threshold, recovering from a 3% drop to under $61,500. Recovery came despite growing military tensions and exchanges of fire between U.S. and Iranian forces.

British airline Jet2 reported a $536 million balance sheet windfall for the fiscal year ending March 31, defying broader industry panic over Middle East geopolitical instability.

This week, Strategy founder and bitcoin bull Michael Saylor turned to X to argue that Bitcoin has “no spam problem,” pointing to persistently low network fees as evidence for his position. Saylor’s remarks arrive amid an increasingly heated debate within the Bitcoin community over BIP-110, a proposed soft fork designed to limit non-monetary data recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain.

XRP is flashing several warning signs as key market indicators continue to weaken. Market signals suggest deeper changes in momentum and liquidity. The full picture reveals why this moment could be important.

Bitcoin traded near $62,743 on Thursday morning at 8 a.m. EDT, up 1.0% over the past 24 hours as the asset consolidated inside a $61,507 to $63,116 range. Short-term technical readings point to consolidation, while longer-term moving averages continue to signal a corrective phase across the one-hour, four-hour, and daily charts.

Crypto ETF flows split sharply on Wed., July 8, as bitcoin ETFs returned to outflows with an $84.9 million exit. Ether ETFs remained the clear bright spot, drawing $70.5 million for a fifth straight day of inflows, while HYPE stayed positive and both solana and XRP funds moved lower.

$MSTR just sold 3,588 BTC and many are calling it the top. But this only represents 0.42% of their total Bitcoin holdings, while the remaining stack is still worth about 179% of the company’s market cap. Panic selling or smart capital management?

Moneygram has deployed an active Solana validator node and joined the Solana Developer Platform. Rather than an immediate integration with its retail remittance engine, this serves as an infrastructure staging ground to master public-node challenges before exposing its core settlement ledger.

A fast-growing Solana-based crypto platform is advertising a New York director of legal affairs role paying $1 million to $5 million a year, even as the market remains weak and Bitcoin is down about 50% since October. The company launched in 2024, says it processes more than $300 million in daily transactions, and is facing lawsuits including a New York class action accusing it of operating a Ponzi scheme.

Payward, Kraken’s parent company, has asked the Delaware Court of Chancery to enter final judgment against Mazars USA after winning a $22 million arbitration award. Co-CEO Arjun Sethi framed the case as part of a broader fight over debanking, regulatory pressure and the need for clear U.S. crypto market rules.

As the Esports World Cup opens in Paris with the largest prize pool in the sport’s history, France’s national gambling authority has reminded fans that wagering on any of it is illegal. No licensed operator may take an esports bet in the country, and every site that offers one is unlawful – a stance the regulator is restating after the world’s biggest esports event fell into its lap.

Flexa has expanded its regulated payments platform across Europe, allowing merchants, institutions, and developers throughout the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) to accept crypto payments and process payouts. The expansion adds 37 countries and territories with euro settlement through SEPA.

A federal court has allowed Tennessee’s ban on cryptocurrency ATMs to take effect while a constitutional lawsuit continues, giving the state an early legal win in its anti-fraud push.

Coinbase said it has obtained UK authorization to provide investment services, allowing the crypto exchange to offer equities and derivatives alongside crypto through a single platform and login.