Stephen “Cap” Newnham, who leads the Solana community group Superteam UK, said he will run as an independent candidate in the Aug. 13 parliamentary by-election in Clacton against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.On Tuesday, Newnham outlined five campaign pledges, including…

A wide swath of the US banking industry is urging Senate leaders to amend the stablecoin yield provisions of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY) now under consideration. The American Bankers Association (ABA), the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA)…

Fears that artificial intelligence would trigger a wave of catastrophic decentralized finance (DeFi) hacks in what was coined as a “hackpocalypse” have not materialized, according to Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi.While the incident count grew to a record high, the…

Nigerian businesses maintained a positive outlook in June 2026 despite persistent macroeconomic challenges, with high taxes, interest rates and insecurity remaining their biggest operational concerns, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The findings are contained in the June…

Bitcoin (BTC) should repeat history and put in a bear-market bottom when a classic indicator hits zero, a trader says.Key points:Bitcoin classic two-month stochastic RSI signals are valid this bear market, Max Crypto believes.The bear market will be over once…

South Korea plans to conduct a 2027 pilot linking tokenized government bonds to its institutional central bank digital currency (CBDC) infrastructure, moving sovereign debt tokenization from a proposal to an official government timeline. On Tuesday, the government unveiled its 2026 Economic…

Patrick Witt, the White House’s pointman on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, is taking a leave of absence at the end of July for several months of military training, Crypto In America reported.Witt, who has served as the executive…

Nigeria and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China have signed a bilateral agreement to eliminate double taxation and strengthen economic cooperation between both jurisdictions. The agreement, signed virtually on Monday, is aimed at preventing the double taxation of…

The US government moved nearly $300 million in seized Bitcoin and Ether to Coinbase Prime on Monday, renewing speculation that the assets could be sold. Data from Arkham shows 3,940 Bitcoin (BTC) (worth $243.95 million) and 30,014 Ether (ETH) (worth $53.09…

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act has secured its second public endorsement from a major US law enforcement organization, coming just weeks before what many see as a make-or-break legislative deadline before the Senate’s August recess.In a July 10 statement,…

Interpol operation exposes $122M crypto wallet tied to romance scam launderingA crypto wallet linked to a suspected romance-scam money launderer processed more than $122.5 million in 10 months, according to Interpol.Interpol said that Thai authorities arrested two suspects and uncovered a…

Reed Smith, a global law firm with over 30 offices across North America, Europe and Asia, has launched an automated compliance platform designed to help crypto companies navigate the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation as the bloc enters…

Tokyo-based SBI VC Trade will begin accepting applications Thursday for a Japanese yen-denominated stablecoin lending service offering an initial annualized rate of 3% on JPYSC lent for 12 weeks.Customers will lend JPYSC to the SBI Holdings subsidiary from Thursday and…

Bitcoin (BTC) starts the new week with a bump as traders brace for more macro volatility.Key points:Bitcoin gets knocked back toward $62,000, but a trader is already eyeing the end of the bear market by September.A new BTC price “death…

A wallet last active when Bitcoin was trading near $6,500 transferred $188 million of its holdings in recent days, its first onchain movement in seven years.With the biggest cryptocurrency now trading at around $64,000 apiece, the whale transferred 2,931 Bitcoin…