Not one federal agency tasked with writing stablecoin rules under the GENIUS Act hit the July 18 one-year deadline. They have proposals — but no final rules — and the clock to January 2027 keeps ticking.

Malware buried in eight Steam games drained roughly $220,000 in crypto — and federal agents unraveled the whole thing by tracing gift-card-funded Uber Eats deliveries.

Consensys quietly halted MetaMask releases after finding that a contractor with ties to North Korea spent roughly a month inside its systems — and its core wallet code.

A Rotterdam court declared unlicensed Dutch exchange Knaken bankrupt after prosecutors said roughly €7 million ($8.1M) in customer funds can't be accounted for — leaving 30,000 users waiting on a court-appointed trustee.

Bank of America named Sonali Theisen head of a new global digital assets platform in a Friday memo — the clearest sign yet that the second-largest U.S. bank is building crypto into its markets machine.

Galaxy Digital will rename Jones AT&T Stadium as Galaxy Stadium starting this fall — a reported $70M+, 15-year bet that plants a crypto flag in the heart of West Texas.

ECB board member Piero Cipollone warned in Rome that stablecoin adoption could erode banks' retail deposit base — and pitched the digital euro as Europe's structural answer.

FTX's Recovery Trust is sending roughly $900 million to creditors on July 31 in its fifth distribution, pushing convenience-class claimants to a cumulative 120% recovery.

A federal grand jury indicted Benjamin Paul Wiener, founder of Benaiah Holdings, on 29 counts including wire fraud and money laundering over an alleged $20 million Ponzi-style crypto scheme. He pleaded not guilty, with trial set for September 15.

Bybit, the world's second-largest crypto exchange, has officially launched Bybit Indonesia after acquiring a majority stake in local player NOBI — putting an OJK-regulated foothold in a market of 21 million registered crypto users.

Citadel Securities just wrote a $400 million check to Crypto.com, Stripe is bidding $53 billion for PayPal, and Visa launched a stablecoin platform — all in one day. Plus prices, the Clarity Act, and what's coming next week.

Polygon Labs laid off staff for the second time this year as CEO Marc Boiron pushes to finish the $250 million Coinme acquisition and rebuild the company as a payments business targeting profitability in 2027.

Steak 'n Shake credits its Bitcoin payment rollout for another double-digit sales month — but without disclosing how many customers actually pay in BTC, skeptics say the PR may be doing the heavy lifting.

The CFTC is probing whether the White House staffer who ran Trump's teleprompter used advance knowledge of speeches to win over $100,000 on Kalshi's word-mention markets.

Citadel Securities has invested $400 million in Crypto.com, valuing the exchange at $20 billion — the market maker's second major crypto exchange bet in under a year.

Newly created wallets pulled roughly 50,000 ETH off exchanges in under 48 hours while the ETH/BTC ratio climbed 6% on the week — the kind of quiet accumulation that tends to show up before capital rotates down the risk curve.

Summer.fi is winding down operations after the July 6 exploit of its Lazy Summer Protocol drained $6.04 million and wiped out the capital the team needed to rebuild. The app stays live until August 31.

President Trump will meet senators Thursday to hash out the ethics provisions blocking the CLARITY Act, with Senate leadership racing to pass crypto's biggest bill before the August recess.

Base creator Jesse Pollak is stepping back from the Base app, handing the reins to Cobie after admitting his social-and-creator-coin strategy 'disintegrated completely.' The chain is pivoting hard to trading, stablecoin payments, and AI agents.

Japan's upper house reclassifies crypto as financial instruments — Bitcoin ETFs by 2027 and a 20% flat tax on deck — while cooling US inflation sends BTC to a three-week high above $65,000.