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Japan's yen struggles may accelerate corporate shifts to Bitcoin, highlighting a trend towards alternative assets amid currency instability. Japan vows coordination with US to combat weak yen, pushing corporations toward Bitcoin.
Crypto
After June's brutal slide from May, bitcoin miners finally caught a bit of breathing room. July mining revenue climbed by $38.93 million over June, offering a modest rebound, but not enough to erase the pressure many operators have been battling for months.
Japan could formally confirm joint currency action with Washington on Monday, and one official told Reuters the operation is still ongoing, turning the announcement into a live market event.
Japan moved fast. SBI VC Trade and Orient Corporation launched a crypto redemption feature on July 31, 2026, letting Orico credit card holders swap their accumulated Orico Points for Bitcoin, Ethereum, or XRP through the VCTRADE platform.
BNB Chain has announced it is taking legal steps against a former employee who allegedly used a wallet originally set up for an educational video to release a new memecoin without any company approval.
This week, the market put the A.I. narrative under the spotlight.
The original FET-backed notes are gone, while a separate $2 million secured note arrived in July.
The Coldcard security incident entered another chapter after a public bitcoin transaction offered laundering services to the thief behind one of the largest self-custody bitcoin thefts ever recorded, while users also reported emergency firmware updates leaving some hardware wallets unusable.
The US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on two Iranian companies central to what it describes as an illicit insurance program targeting commercial ships navigating the Strait of Hormuz.
Blockchain security firm CertiK has noted that on July 23, 2026, an attacker successfully targeted the Ethereum cross-chain bridge of the Verus Protocol, extracting roughly $7.44 million in assets that included ETH, tBTC, various stablecoins, and MKR.
The XRP Ledger is advancing toward its next core software release, xrpld version 3.3.0, expected in the coming week. This update will place five proposed amendments before network validators, expanding support for tokenized assets, institutional operations, privacy protections, and more flexible transaction handling.
CME is arguing that the contracts are commodity option swaps subject exclusively to the CFTC's oversight rather than the SEC's.
Elliptic has pointed out that A7A5 emerged as a specialized digital asset designed to help Russian firms navigate international restrictions.
Whale accumulation and improving technical signals place the $0.14 resistance zone under close scrutiny.
Bitcoin, altcoins risk a massive drop as rising yields point to a rate hike.
BitGo CEO Mike Belshe told Anthropic to hack his Bitcoin wallet. Then he posted the address in public.
Craig Wright, the Australian who long claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, resurfaced with a sharp critique of Bitcoin current governance.
The cryptocurrency market traded mixed early Sunday UTC, with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) edging lower while several large-cap altcoins posted gains, underscoring a tentative rotation in risk appetite even as derivatives activity surged. As of 3:08 p.m.
Coinkite, the company behind Coldcard, the hardware wallet affected by a vulnerability in its seed generation code, might face legal action from victims who have lost over $88 million in BTC over the last two days.
Cardano gains as Bitcoin weakness, policy delays, and on-chain stress pressure the broader cryptocurrency market.
