A report by BitMEX reveals that perpetual swap funding rate disparities are driven by deep structural mechanics rather than simple short-term market sentiment.

Brazil’s Finance Ministry is imposing the strictest advertising regime yet on the country’s licensed betting operators, mandating cigarette-style health warnings on every ad, banning pundits and influencers from nudging viewers toward wagers, and threatening fines of up to 20% of revenue – with the rules taking effect July 17, mid-World Cup, as bet-saturated tournament broadcasts draw mounting criticism.

Federal prosecutors alleged a Ryuk ransomware operation extracted more than $15 million in bitcoin from U.S. organizations. An Armenian national admitted participating in attacks that disrupted hundreds of corporate systems and forced victims to purchase decryption keys with cryptocurrency.

Crypto adoption is evolving in unexpected ways across global markets, revealing deeper changes in user behavior, according to Binance co-founder and co-CEO Yi He. Drawing on activity from millions of Binance users, she identified three emerging regional trends that are shaping how people use digital assets.

Federal prosecutors charged an imprisoned man with helping transfer cryptocurrency forfeited to the U.S. government. The indictment alleges roughly $290,000 left a restrained Kraken account through exchanges, mixing services, and a foreign bank.

Morgan Stanley is positioning its proposed ethereum and solana ETFs to capture market share as competition intensifies, combining direct token exposure, staking rewards and institutional custody while the registration statements await effectiveness.

Analysts warn that a reversal in the current conditions of the Japanese yen, as the Bank of Japan moves to protect its fiat currency, would lead investors to unwind risk positions globally, impacting tech stocks and bitcoin markets primarily.

With 426 votes in favor, the European Parliament has approved moving to the next stage to launch and implement the digital euro in the eurozone. Now, the parliament will have to negotiate with member states and agree on a common proposal for the unified digital currency.

The Ethereum Foundation’s protocol security team ran coordinated artificial intelligence (AI) agents against the code Ethereum depends on, surfacing at least one remotely exploitable bug along with a flood of convincing false positives that humans had to untangle.

Bitcoin miner Cleanspark (Nasdaq: CLSK) purchased 454 BTC worth about $29 million on July 7, lifting its treasury to 13,924 BTC even as much of the mining industry sells coins to survive the bear market.

Bitcoin erased its mid-week, geopolitically driven losses on Friday, surging 2% to an intraday peak of $64,653 and lifting the total crypto market cap to $2.28 trillion.

Crypto ETF flows weakened on Thursday, July 9, as bitcoin ETFs posted a $95.30 million outflow and ether ETFs snapped a five-day inflow streak with a $52.08 million exit. Solana saw a small redemption, while HYPE and XRP ETFs recorded no trading activity.

Economist and longtime bitcoin critic Peter Schiff argued this week that BTC’s supposed correlation with gold “was never real,” while its historically tight relationship with the Nasdaq has now broken down.

Circle has received approval from the OCC to establish Circle National Trust, a federally regulated national trust bank. The charter strengthens the infrastructure behind USDC and could eventually bring management of the stablecoin’s reserve under direct federal oversight.

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