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'Trump Trade' Has Bitcoin Eyeing $70,000 Even as Gold Hits New High
Bitcoin is surging as confidence in risky assets grows, driven by election bets on a pro-crypto Donald Trump win and ETF demand
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Cryptos See Risk After Oil Races Above $90
Brent’s war premium is back above $90, but Bitcoin isn’t flinching – tracking macro liquidity and rate expectations instead of missiles, exposing a growing gap between oil’s geopolitical sensitivity and crypto’s monetary tether.
Base's Blocked Buidling
A three-year build that circles back to square one: Base remains fully centralized despite repeated decentralization pledges, raising harder questions about whether Coinbase is operating a dressed-up money transmission system—and how long regulators will tolerate it.
Licensed to Shill: Retail Barely Touches Stablecoins – Treasury & Remittance Are the Real Adoption (Jeannie Lim, Xweave)
At Xweave, Jeannie Lim says her team moved $1 million for an e-commerce client in under three minutes, cutting settlement costs 30% against a Tier 2 bank's SWIFT rate.
Robinhood's Blockchain Expansion Signals Market Shift
Robinhood Chain's rapid growth estimates and the fundamental problem are accurate. Robinhood Chain has already outperformed Coinbase's Base network, which has been around for three years, by a significant margin in just under two weeks. According to data from the Token Terminal, on July 12, Coinbase
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Morph Launches Independent Layer 1 for Onchain Trading
The new chain splits Morph into two specialized networks, one for payments and stablecoins and another for high-throughput trading, with perpetual exchange PopDEX as its first announced user.
Vietnam Sets Fines Up to $3,800 for Unlicensed Crypto Trading Ahead of Regulated Market Launch
Decree No. 284/2026/ND-CP, signed by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Van Thang, takes effect September 1 and runs alongside Vietnam's five-year pilot program for a licensed digital asset market.
Alpaca Raises $135 Million Led by Peak XV to Build Out Agent-First Brokerage Infrastructure
The round brings Alpaca's total financing to $435 million and follows a $150 million Series D in January that valued the brokerage infrastructure provider at $1.15 billion.
SBI Holdings Completes Majority Acquisition of Singapore Crypto Exchange Coinhako
The deal, cleared by Singapore's central bank in mid-July, gives the Japanese financial group a regulated foothold and an established customer base in one of Asia's key crypto hubs.