France’s 2-0 semifinal defeat to Spain eliminated one of the most heavily backed teams on U.S. sportsbooks, wiping out major outright and player-prop liabilities. The result also closed France’s positions across multibillion-dollar World Cup prediction markets, although exchanges do not profit from an upset in the same way as traditional bookmakers.

Crypto ETF flows stayed constructive on Wednesday, July 15, as bitcoin ETFs added $107.80 million and ether ETFs brought in $53.83 million, with no outflows recorded across either group.

Zano is preparing to replace its hybrid proof-of-work and proof-of-stake system with Zenith, a privacy-preserving pure proof-of-stake protocol promising 15-second blocks, faster confirmations, and lower token issuance.

Crypto.com secured a $400 million strategic investment from Citadel Securities, valuing the digital asset platform at $20 billion and opening its first institutional funding round in ten years.

ONDO, the native token of DeFi platform Ondo Finance, jumped 15% to $0.393, pushing its weekly gains past 20% and driving its market cap to nearly $1.87 billion.

A White House teleprompter operator who has worked behind the scenes of Donald Trump’s biggest speeches since 2016 is now the subject of a federal investigation into whether he used advance knowledge of the president’s remarks to win more than $100,000 on a prediction market, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke to ABC News.

After briefly crossing $65,000 following positive U.S. producer price index data, bitcoin fell back to around $64,200, dragging its market cap back under $1.3 trillion.

A group of bitcoin investors led by Jeff Booth, Lyn Alden, and Ricardo Salinas raised $40 million to launch a permanent capital company called ORANGE JUICE that buys small businesses and puts a portion of their profits into bitcoin.

The White House posted a nine-second video promoting a new $1 “Trump Coin” on Wednesday, briefly rattling the market for the TRUMP memecoin, where nearly 989,000 wallets remain underwater.

The U.S. Senate unanimously approved S.Res. 772, a bipartisan resolution opposing any presidential pardon or commutation for former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, reinforcing Senate support for financial accountability as his clemency petition remains pending.

Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz says the SEC effectively treated XRP as a security despite acknowledging the crypto token was not inherently one, challenging a former SEC attorney’s interpretation of the Ripple case.

Bitcoin traded between $63,800 to $64,094 on July 16, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. EDT, holding within a $63,880 to $65,501 range after pulling back from recent highs. Technical charts across multiple timeframes show a mixed picture, with short-term momentum weakening even as the broader structure remains constructive.

A small group of traders extracted $8.2 million from Polymarket’s five-minute bitcoin contracts by pushing the spot price on Binance just before settlement, researchers from Stanford University and Singapore Management University found.

Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad said the Clarity Act delivers “a dramatic advance in consumer protection and market integrity,” as the Senate targets floor action on the crypto market structure bill the week of July 20.

Bitcoin could sink to a cycle low of $38,000 to $39,000 by October if the current drawdown matches the depth of 2022’s bear market, NYDIG said in its second-quarter review.