Republican lawmakers are feeling a renewed sense of urgency to pass the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act before the U.S. Senate breaks for its August recess. The market-structure bill still needs at least seven Democratic votes to clear a 60-vote threshold.

XRP has collapsed more than 20% in June and 43% year-to-date, putting it on track for its second straight monthly loss.

Elon Musk’s social platform X has begun rolling out its X Money payments service to select Premium+ subscribers, offering up to $10 million in federal deposit insurance through a new cash sweep program.

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Sushiswap has integrated a stop-loss and take-profit protocol powered by Orbs Layer-3 technology, allowing traders to automate their risk management and profit-taking directly onchain while maintaining full custody of their assets.

Cryptorank data shows active crypto investors fell to 651 in Q2 2026, the lowest quarterly level since 2020. At the same time, M&A funding jumped to $7.23 billion, suggesting capital is shifting from broad venture participation to consolidation and larger strategic deals.

The European Union is weighing a uniform 1% tax on online gambling across all 27 member states – a proposal that has gained momentum in the bloc’s long-term budget talks, and the latest sign that Europe’s gambling crackdown is moving from national capitals to Brussels.

Speaking at VivaTech, Jeff Bezos argued that shifting heavy, polluting manufacturing off Earth and into space could free the planet to become a “garden planet.” The Blue Origin founder has tied the long-term idea to Gerard O’Neill’s 1970s space-colony concepts while also pointing to the $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund as his near-term climate bet, even as critics call the plan sci-fi.

Digital mining firm Gomining said it mined the first live Bitcoin block using the Stratum V2 protocol via the DMND mining pool.

The payments company announced on Tuesday native integration with Brazil’s fast payment network Pix, allowing users to purchase and spend USDT with Oobit’s platform. The action targets a market of over 170 million users part of the Pix network.

SBI Holdings is moving to buy Bitbank in a deal that could reshape Japan’s crypto exchange market. The planned takeover, involving regulatory review, would combine Bitbank with SBI VC Trade and potentially create the country’s largest crypto platform group by custody assets.

IBM on Thursday unveiled the world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, a research prototype at the 0.7 nanometer node that packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a chip the size of a fingernail.

Ripple and SBI launched RLUSD in Japan after regulatory approval, giving institutions and retail users access through SBI’s crypto exchange platform. The U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin has reached a $1.7 billion market capitalization.

Grayscale Investments said several leading revenue-generating crypto protocols are trading at relatively low valuation multiples. The firm added that a potential CLARITY Act vote in the coming weeks could support growth in on-chain finance and tokenized assets.

Coinbase’s Base mainnet went down for nearly two hours Thursday after a faulty block froze the chain’s sequencer and halted all new block production.