The second-largest cryptocurrency has been severely damaged by the prolonged bear market, closing Q2 firmly in the red. Even more striking is that this marks the third consecutive quarter of losses for ETH – something unseen in the asset’s history and a clear signal of how persistent the current downturn has become. Analysts speculate that…

Bitcoin Magazine AI’s Bitcoin Moment: Why the Open-Source Fight Looks Like Crypto Back in 2014 A new installment of Chain of Thought, the Brownstone Research newsletter written by Ben Lilly, argues that the battle over open-source artificial intelligence is following the same path Bitcoin walked a decade ago, and that investors who recognize the pattern…

Bitcoin Magazine Moody’s Flags Quantum Threat to Bitcoin and Digital Assets After Trump Orders A pair of executive orders signed by President Trump on June 22 has pushed the quantum computing question from the research lab into the boardrooms of crypto exchanges, custodians and stablecoin issuers.  In a June 24 sector comment, Moody’s Ratings warned…

Crypto exchange balances saw a notable withdrawal wave heading into July 1, with USDC and Bitcoin leading approximately $850 million in net outflows from centralized platforms. The move adds another layer to a market already watching liquidity, ETF flows, and investor positioning closely. TL;DR Centralized exchanges reportedly saw around $850 million in net withdrawals over…

Bitcoin Magazine Preferred Stock Is Becoming Bitcoin Treasury Firms’ Financing Tool of Choice: Report A new class of Wall Street securities has grown from an experiment into a multibillion-dollar market in under two years, and a June 2026 research report from BitcoinTreasuries.net argues the expansion has just begun. The report, produced in partnership with the…

US spot Bitcoin ETFs ended June with the kind of flow number that forces the market to pay attention. According to flow data tracked by Farside Investors, the group recorded roughly $4.5 billion in net outflows across the month, making it the weakest monthly showing since the products began trading in January 2024. TL;DR US…

Bitcoin’s US demand signal is still struggling to recover, with the Coinbase Premium Index reportedly sitting in negative territory for eight straight weeks. The run began on May 6, 2026, and now marks the longest continuous negative stretch for the metric in more than a year. TL;DR The Coinbase Premium Index has reportedly been negative…

Bitcoin Magazine Standard Chartered and LMAX Group Execute First Live Digital Asset Prime Brokerage Trades Standard Chartered has executed its first digital asset prime brokerage trades with LMAX Group, a milestone in the build-out of institutional market infrastructure for crypto.  With this move, the bank became one of the first Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs)…

US President Donald Trump’s latest federal financial disclosure has put crypto back in the political and business spotlight, with the filing reportedly showing at least $1.4 billion in cryptocurrency-related income for the 2025 calendar year. The disclosure was filed on June 30, 2026, through the US Office of Government Ethics. TL;DR Trump’s 2025 disclosure reportedly…

Bitcoin Magazine Citi Slashes Bitcoin Target to $82,000 as ETF Money Heads for the Exits Citigroup took a red pen to its crypto forecasts on Tuesday, cutting its 12-month price targets for bitcoin after the ETF flows that carried the market higher went into reverse. The bank now sees bitcoin at $82,000 a year out,…

Solana has received another major injection of stablecoin liquidity after Circle reportedly minted an additional $1 billion in USDC on the network around July 1. The move adds to a year that has already seen unusually large gross USDC issuance on Solana, a chain where stablecoins have become central to swaps, leverage, payments, and on-chain…

US spot Bitcoin ETFs continued to see money leaving the funds on June 30, as investors pulled out $223 million – for the last nine days in a row. In total, the ETFs saw $4.51 billion exit during June, their biggest monthly outflows since launching in January 2024. Tim Sun, Senior Researcher at HashKey Group,…

Ondo Finance has expanded its tokenized asset push by integrating more than 430 tokenized stocks and ETFs with Uniswap across Ethereum and BNB Chain. The move gives eligible users a decentralized route to trade tokenized representations of major traditional assets, but the access restrictions are just as important as the headline number. TL;DR Ondo has…

Bitcoin Magazine Trump-Backed American Bitcoin (ABTC) Sets Reverse Split for July 2 American Bitcoin Corp. (Nasdaq: ABTC), a Bitcoin accumulation platform focused on the buildout of America’s Bitcoin infrastructure backbone, has set the effective time of its 1-for-15 reverse stock split for 5:00 p.m. on July 2, 2026.  The board fixed the ratio after shareholders…

Bitcoin Magazine SEC’s Peirce Sees Clarity Act Passing This Summer as Crypto Rules Take Shape America’s top securities regulators marked the nation’s 250th anniversary with a common theme: open markets, broader investor access, and a clear legal framework for digital assets. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, in an interview on the Searching for Mana podcast, said…

Ethereum is sending two very different signals at the same time. On the price chart, ETH remains under pressure near the $1,500 area. On-chain, however, staking deposits on the Beacon Chain continue to push toward record levels, removing more ETH from liquid circulation and tightening the pool of easily available supply. TL;DR ETH price remains…

[PRESS RELEASE – Dubai, UAE, July 1st, 2026] BNB Chain, one of the largest blockchain ecosystems worldwide, today announced the launch of BNB Agent Studio, a new platform that creates a category of AI agents that survive infrastructure failure, accept payments, and can be provably owned and transferred: deployed from a simple prompt in ~15 minutes.…

Bitcoin Magazine Taiwan Passes Crucial Crypto Law With Licensing Rules, Stablecoin Framework Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan approved the Virtual Asset Service Act in its third reading on Tuesday, the island’s first comprehensive framework for the crypto sector. Lawmakers sent the bill to President Lai Ching-te, who is expected to sign it into law within ten days.…

Ripple remains one of the most discussed subjects in the crypto space as the company continues to advance its ecosystem and participate in major initiatives. However, XRP has faced heavy pressure in the extended bear market, struggling to maintain momentum and hold above the $1 psychological barrier. Joining the Giants Several hours ago, Ripple announced…

Cardano activity is showing signs of recovery after EMURGO addressed user concerns tied to Yoroi wallet syncing and connection lag. The issue was a client-side wallet problem, not a protocol exploit, and there has been no indication that user funds were lost or that the Cardano network itself was compromised. TL;DR EMURGO patched Yoroi wallet…

Bitcoin’s battle around the $60K region is entering a decisive phase after sellers are forcing a breakdown below this major support area. With momentum still favoring the sellers, traders are now watching whether demand can prevent a deeper correction toward the mid-$50K region. Bitcoin Price Analysis: The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, BTC has…

[PRESS RELEASE – St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda, July 1st, 2026] XBTFX has announced the launch of its MCP Server and Skills Hub, expanding its developer ecosystem following the introduction of its REST and WebSocket Trading API. The new infrastructure enables compatible software agents, coding assistants, and automation frameworks to connect with eligible live XBTFX…

A new Bitcoin improvement discussion is putting one of the network’s most divisive questions back in the spotlight: what should Bitcoin block space be used for? BIP-110, a proposal under developer discussion, aims to limit transaction types to payments and peer-to-peer transfers, a move that could affect inscription-heavy activity such as Ordinals and Runes. TL;DR…

Ripple has joined the OpenUSD (OUSD) consortium as a launch integration partner, placing itself inside a stablecoin initiative backed by more than 140 companies across payments, banking, fintech, and crypto. However, according to crypto analyst WrathofKahneman, there’s a catch: OpenUSD will be launching on Solana, Stellar, Base, and Polygon, but not on the XRP Ledger,…