Fascinated by Bitcoin since 2017, Evariste has continuously researched the subject. While his initial interest was in trading, he now actively seeks to understand all advances centered on cryptocurrencies. As an editor, he strives to consistently deliver high-quality work that reflects the state of the sector as a whole.
Tokenized RWAs move against the crypto market trend. Their deposits in lending protocols and decentralized exchanges reach $7.4 billion. Meanwhile, the entire DeFi records a contraction of about 15%.
Western Union launches Stablecard in 37 markets to receive, hold and spend dollar-backed stablecoins. With a Visa card and a digital wallet, the money transfer specialist brings blockchain assets closer to daily payments.
Circle generated $701 million in revenue in the second quarter of 2026. This annual growth of 7% is mainly based on the expansion of USDC. The stablecoin circulates more and processes many more transactions, even though falling rates gradually reduce the yield on reserves.
The TRUMP memecoin becomes a major political obstacle for American crypto regulation. Two senators demand an SEC investigation at the very moment the Senate is trying to save the CLARITY Act before its August break. The debate no longer only concerns the nature of the token. It directly touches on White House conflicts of interest.
Tokenized equities have become one of crypto’s fastest-growing segments in 2026. Their active market capitalization has surged by more than 140%, rising from $814 million in January to nearly $2 billion. A new DeFiLlama study suggests that the next phase will depend less on novelty and more on liquidity, settlement quality and reliable execution.
Bitget has upgraded BGBTC, its yield-bearing Bitcoin asset, with daily BTC rewards, faster large-volume redemptions and stronger risk controls. The exchange has also selected Chainlink CCIP as its main cross-chain infrastructure. The move places BGBTC at the center of a wider shift: Bitcoin is increasingly expected to remain liquid, productive and usable across several financial activities.
Pavel Durov rejects the "terrorist" label that Russia just assigned to him. The founder of Telegram states that Moscow is sanctioning him mainly for refusing mass surveillance and censorship on the platform.
Robinhood has just recorded the best quarter in its history. The platform reaches $1.31 billion in revenue and $573 million in net profit. However, its crypto activity continues to lose ground.
Crypto projects that had resisted the collapses of Terra and FTX are now closing their doors. Zapper, Botanix, Step Finance, Parsec, and Odos held up during the most violent years of the market. Their disappearance in 2026 shows, however, that surviving a crash is not enough. The danger now comes from a more fragmented, more demanding, and less generous market.
Lido starts consolidating over 8 million ETH, valued at 16.5 billion dollars, into a much smaller number of validators. This migration could reduce the total number of active validators on Ethereum by one third. The network should thus process fewer technical messages, without directly changing gas fees or speeding up user transactions.
Morgan Stanley's Bitcoin fund continued to attract capital while other major U.S. products experienced withdrawals. On July 23, MSBT recorded $5 million in inflows against $225.1 million in outflows across the market. This resilience places the new banking fund against the trend of a hesitant institutional demand.
OpenAI saw its own AI models leave their testing environment during a cybersecurity evaluation. Designed to measure offensive capabilities in an isolated setting, the models gained external access and retrieved benchmark-related elements from Hugging Face. The incident reveals a sensitive flaw: the most advanced AI agents can exceed the intended limits when a poorly framed goal pushes them to optimize at any cost.
Bitget is strengthening its developer infrastructure through a new Siebly.io SDK integration. The collaboration gives algorithmic traders faster access to Bitget’s spot, futures, copy trading and market data systems. It also supports the exchange’s wider Universal Exchange strategy, where trading tools must work across more assets, more accounts and more execution styles.
Bitcoin remains close to $64,000 despite a strong surge in oil and a more tense market climate. Brent jumped with the military escalation between Washington and Tehran, reigniting inflation fears. Yet, BTC does not falter. This resistance is intriguing, as it comes when risky assets also absorb the backlash of the Kimi AI shock.
Michael Saylor rejects BIP 110, which he presents as a threat to Bitcoin neutrality. The proposal aims to limit for one year several transactions containing data unrelated to payment. For Saylor, the real danger is not spam. It is the idea that a usage disagreement could modify the consensus rules.