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Bitcoin Just Rebounded Above $63,000. One Analyst Says the Next Real Rally Needs $1 Trillion More

July 6, 2026 5 mins read

Bitcoin closed out a losing first half of 2026, its worst start to a year since 2022. Then it bounced. Twice in one week, it pushed back above $63,000. The rebound is real. But the numbers underneath it, from CryptoQuant’s own founder, suggest the easy gains are behind bitcoin for good, and the next big move needs a kind of institutional capital that hasn’t shown up yet. What Actually Happened

America’s Biggest Crypto Law Was Supposed to Be Signed on Its 250th Birthday. It Wasn’t

July 6, 2026 5 mins read

The White House wanted the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act signed into law on July 4, 2026. That date came and went. No ceremony. No signature. The bill is stuck at Calendar No. 423 in the Senate, and the reason has less to do with crypto policy than with one president’s own $1.4 billion in crypto income. Here’s exactly where things stand, and why the next three weeks decide the

Bitcoin Rallied to $66,000 on the Iran Deal. Here Is the Part Nobody Is Talking About

June 20, 2026 5 mins read

A US-Iran peace framework sent Bitcoin above $66,000 on June 15, 2026. Brent crude fell 4%. Asian equities jumped 5%. It looked like the trade everyone had been waiting for. Standard Chartered called $60,000 the cycle low. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the same thing publicly. But the Fear and Greed Index sat at 20. Over $4.8 billion exited Bitcoin ETFs in the preceding five weeks. And analysts who have

VARA Just Changed the Rules for Every Crypto Firm in Dubai. Here Is What the New AML Crackdown Actually Requires

June 20, 2026 5 mins read

On June 12, 2026, Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority published new anti-money laundering guidance that applies to every licensed crypto firm in the emirate. Quarterly risk reviews. Real-time FATF blacklist screening. Senior management held personally accountable for compliance failures. And a pointed warning about AI-related risks that most of the industry has been ignoring. If you hold a VARA licence or are thinking about one, this is what changed. What

BNB Chain Launches $36,000 Hackathon to Advance on-chain AI Trading Agents (3 Jun)

June 3, 2026 2 mins read

BNB Chain is announcing the launch of BNB Hack: AI Trading Agents, a three-week hackathon inviting developers worldwide to build AI-powered trading agents on BNB Chain, in partnership with CoinMarketCap (CMC) and Trust Wallet. The competition carries a $36,000 prize pool and is open for registration today. The hackathon addresses a growing gap in crypto markets: while trading opportunities move at machine speed, most individual users lack the tools to process

Charms Raises $1.5M Pre-Seed to Bring the AI Character Economy Onchain

May 13, 2026 4 mins read

Charms.ai lets anyone create AI characters with soul, reasoning memory, ownership, and an onchain economy that grows around them. Charms Interactive, Inc., the company building the economy for AI characters, today announced the launch of Charms.ai and a $1.5M pre-seed round to bring its platform to creators, fans, traders, early believers, and communities. Charms.ai is a consumer app where anyone can create AI characters with soul, personality, reasoning memory, voice, visual identity, and an

North Korea Just Robbed DeFi for $577 Million in 18 Days and Nobody Saw It Coming

May 5, 2026 6 mins read

April 2026 was the worst month for crypto security in over a year. Two attacks. Two protocols. One state-sponsored hacking group has now stolen more than $6 billion from the industry since 2017. The numbers are stark. Crypto hack losses totalled over $630 million in April 2026, the highest monthly figure since February 2025. Security firms CertiK, PeckShield, and DeFiLlama all confirmed figures in that range, with individual estimates varying

HashKey Group Announces Strategic Partnership with ANAP Holdings to Expand Bitcoin Treasury and Institutional Asset Management in Japan

April 23, 2026 3 mins read

HashKey Group, a subsidiary of HashKey Holdings Limited(3887.HK), today announced that it has reached an agreement in principle to establish a strategic partnership with ANAP Holdings Inc. (TSE: 3189), a Tokyo-listed company and one of Japan’s leading publicly listed Bitcoin treasury companies. The parties expect to formally execute agreements by the end of April 2026. HashKey Japan’s Lending Service is an institutional-grade wealth management offering in Japan, built on HashKey

Mixin Launches U-Margined Perpetual Contracts, Bringing Derivatives Trading Into Chat

April 20, 2026 3 mins read

Privacy-focused crypto wallet Mixin today announced the launch of its U-margined perpetual contracts (USDT-margined derivatives). Unlike traditional exchanges, Mixin is taking a different approach: bringing derivatives trading out of isolated matching engines and into a messaging environment. Users can open leveraged positions of up to 200x directly within the app, while also sharing positions, discussing strategies, and copying trades inside private communities. Trading, social interaction, and asset management are integrated into a single

Bybit Expands CEX’s First Retail-Accessible AI Trading Competition With Over 360K in Prizes

March 7, 2026 3 mins read

Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has officially extended the AI vs. Human: 1-on-1 Trading Showdown to retail traders, bringing head-to-head matches with advanced artificial intelligence models to Bybit users. The three-week event starts from now until March 27, featuring competitive matchups against ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi, with a total prize pool of 362,388 USDT.   The Showdown has been the first of its kind among CEX

0x Launches Cross-Chain API Beta to Power Agentic Swaps Across Blockchains

February 27, 2026 3 mins read

0x, a leading decentralized exchange (DEX) infrastructure provider, today announced the launch of its Cross-Chain API to private beta, a developer solution that helps applications execute token swaps across 15+ blockchains through a single integration. The Cross-Chain API is designed to support programmatic trading and automated systems that need reliable cross-chain execution across EVM networks and Solana. “Developers building automated trading and treasury workflows need cross-chain execution that’s fast, predictable,

Unicity Labs Raises $3M to Scale Autonomous Agentic Marketplaces

February 20, 2026 4 mins read

Unicity Labs, a protocol development company building the agentic autonomous internet, has successfully raised $3 million in seed funding. The round was led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Tawasal, a Middle East-based communications super app, and Outlier Ventures, a leading Web3 early-stage investor. The timely raise comes as AI agents (software entities that can independently discover services, negotiate terms, and execute transactions) evolve from conceptual tools into economic actors. The