Blackrock reported record second-quarter results on Wednesday, with revenue climbing 31% year over year to $7.1 billion as the firm’s chairman and chief executive officer, Larry Fink, detailed new steps toward tokenizing money market funds and expanding the company’s digital asset business.

Fueled by positive economic data, bitcoin added to its July 14 gains on Wednesday to breach $65,000, hitting an intraday peak of $65,518 and driving its market cap past $1.3 trillion.

Crypto ETF flows turned positive on Tuesday, July 14, as bitcoin funds drew $181.08 million and ether ETFs added $58.34 million. Altcoin ETFs were unusually quiet, with XRP, solana and HYPE products seeing no trading activity.

India’s stock market took its steepest single-day hit in months this week, then clawed back the losses within days, while the country’s payment system, chip industry, and crypto rules kept moving forward underneath the volatility. The country has stood among the most resilient economies across the vast majority of the world’s leading economic powers amid the conflict in the Middle East.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies Inc. generated $45.7 million from ethereum staking during the third quarter of fiscal year 2026, marking a fundamental shift in the firm’s corporate operating model.

Bitcoin broke above $65,000 on Wednesday morning at 8:30 a.m. EDT, after a softer-than-expected U.S. producer price report lifted stock futures, crypto, and gold, even as Middle East supply fears kept oil prices near multi-year highs.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the entire U.S. gold stockpile at Fort Knox and other federal vaults remains present and accounted for, pushing back on years of public doubt about America’s bullion reserves.

Coinbase Head of Platform Rob Witoff says 95% to 100% of the exchange’s code is now written by or with artificial intelligence (AI), with agents doing the work of roughly 1,200 employees. The figure has more than doubled from 40% in February.

Top traders on Hyperliquid are running some of the most aggressive bitcoin long positioning ever recorded by Glassnode, exceeding levels seen during the last run toward $83,000.

Economist Peter Schiff admitted he regrets not buying bitcoin early but predicted the next wave of regret will belong to holders who fail to sell above $60,000. The warning landed as bitcoin reclaimed $65,000 earlier today.

Payments processor Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have offered to buy Paypal for more than $53 billion, a 28% premium to Tuesday’s close. A deal would unite two of the most aggressive stablecoin players in fintech.

Morgan Stanley has filed fresh amendments to its spot ether and solana exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications, naming Coinbase as custodian and staking facilitator. The updates mark the banking giant’s third round of revisions since its January debut filings.

Taiwanese legislator Dr. Ko Ju-chun says there is “roughly an 80% chance” Taiwan

Bitcoin climbed to $65,000 on Wednesday, reclaiming the level for the first time since renewed U.S.–Iran hostilities knocked the price below $62,000 earlier this week. The move caps a two-week recovery from a late-June low near $58,000.

Bitcoin has traded at a discount on Coinbase versus Binance for 50 straight days, with the Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index still negative as of July 7-8, the longest streak on record. The latest reading of -0.0742% shows BTC slightly cheaper on the U.S. exchange, a sign of weaker American demand that has coincided with roughly eight weeks of spot Bitcoin ETF outflows and no sustained inflow run yet for BlackRock’s IBIT.