Crypto

Japan passes the crypto law traders wanted but its 20% tax could still wait until 2028

Japan’s House of Councilors approved Cabinet Bill 57 by majority vote on July 15, completing Diet passage of legislation that will move regulated crypto activity into the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. The legal framework is now in place, but traders may still wait until 2027 or 2028 for the new market rules and 20% […]

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How prices from the future fooled a crypto oracle into paying out up to $24 million

Ostium, an on-chain perpetuals trading platform, said a five-minute security incident caused losses from its public liquidity vault. Security firms estimated the exploit at up to $24 million. Co-founder Kaledora Kiernan-Linn confirmed that the issue ran from 14:18 to 14:23 UTC on July 15 and affected the public Ostium Liquidity Provider (OLP) vault. She said

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Bitcoin treasury troubles reach London as company votes to sell its entire BTC stack and delist

Satsuma Technology passed its final proxy deadline today for its proposal to sell its entire Bitcoin treasury and cancel its London Stock Exchange listing, This leaves the upcoming July 20 general meeting as the next decision point. Approval of both resolutions would start a process to sell all its Bitcoin, return net cash and cancel

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Bitcoin must climb 92% to rescue last year’s $120K buyers and the escape routes begin at $72K

A $1,000 Bitcoin purchase made when Bitcoin crossed $120,000 this time last year is now worth $520. That leaves investors with a 47.98% loss and requires a 92.2% rebound to be made whole before fees. CryptoSlate’s Bitcoin market data shows a price of $64,073 as of press time. The July 2025milestone marked its first move

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Robinhood tackled Coinbase head-on then immediately inherited Base’s biggest problem

Coinbase is reshaping its Ethereum layer-2 network, Base, around trading, payments and tokenized assets as Robinhood’s new blockchain rapidly gains users and liquidity in many of the same markets. On July 15, Base creator Jesse Pollak acknowledged that the network’s earlier emphasis on social products had allowed it to lose ground in several of crypto’s

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Crypto equities gained 23% while crypto tokens fell 36% this year – Is value shifting?

Bitwise reported that publicly traded crypto companies gained 23% in the first half of 2026, while crypto assets fell 36%, creating a 59-percentage-point gap. Equities could be pricing in a recovery that sits above where the tokens currently trade, or they could also be capturing revenue crypto adoption generates for companies through fees, yield, and services

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This Bitcoin-backed company is betting retiring founders will swap private stock for their life’s work

Roughly 2.9 million American businesses are owned by people 55 or older, supporting 32.1 million workers and generating $6.5 trillion in annual revenue, according to research from Project Equity and Harvard Business School. Only about 20% to 30% of businesses that go up for sale find a buyer at all, per the Exit Planning Institute.

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Bitcoin’s old coins have gone quiet and $69,000 could reveal whether the new holders crack

Bitcoin aged one year or more moved on-chain in extraordinary volume during 2024 and 2025, according to Galaxy Research charts shared by analyst Alex Thorn. So far in 2026, the total is less than half of 2025’s figure, marking a sharp slowdown after two years of near-record movement among older coins. Thorn reads the slowdown

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Is using an old iPhone safer than a crypto hardware wallet? ZachXBT thinks so

ZachXBT recently argued that a dedicated iPhone offers better security than a hardware wallet, a line of reasoning that already splits crypto’s security community. Both devices are fundamentally signing devices, and the real vulnerability crypto has spent a decade building around lives in what a valid signature gets to do once it exists. Hardware wallets

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BlackRock earned $82M while its crypto funds erased $30B – now it wants inside your wallet

BlackRock generated $82 million in revenue from its digital-asset products during the first half of 2026, even as falling Bitcoin and Ethereum prices erased nearly $30 billion from the assets supporting the business. The world’s largest asset manager recorded $42 million in digital-asset base fees and securities-lending revenue in the first quarter, followed by $40

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