Steve Muchoki
Will Politics Decide the Future of Crypto Laws Instead of Policy?
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act’s (CLARITY Act) path to a Senate floor is stalled after a recent President Donald J. Trump’s meeting with Republican (GOP) senators failed to resolve...
Andy Burnham Set to Become UK Prime Minister: What’s in it for Crypto?
Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester and a former United Kingdom (UK) cabinet minister, is set to succeed Keir Starmer as the UK Prime Minister following Starmer’s resignation. Burnham...
Kenya President’s Website Breached as Hackers Demand 5 BTC Ransom
The official website of the Kenyan President William Kipchirchir Samoei Arap Ruto has been hacked, and its homepage defaced with a message targeting the President and demanding a ransom in...
Meta and Anthropic in Talks Over Up to $10 Billion AI Compute Deal
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META), and Anthropic PBC are in preliminary discussions for a massive data center lease deal that could be worth up to $10 billion over two years....
Indonesia’s Copyright Rewrite Puts Google and AI Platforms on Notice
Indonesia is preparing a sweeping rewrite of its copyright law that would expand liability for digital platforms, including Google and AI companies. The draft legislation mandates compensation for content aggregation,...
SBI Buys Coinhako Majority Stake as Crypto Exchange Acquisitions Surge
SBI Holdings, Inc. has obtained approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for a capital injection into and purchase of shares from existing shareholders of Holdbuild Pte. Ltd. (Coinhako),...
U.S. Senate Unanimously Opposes Clemency for Sam Bankman-Fried
On July 15, 2026, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution stating that Samuel Bankman-Fried (SBF) should receive no executive clemency, including a pardon or commutation. The resolution reaffirmed the...
El Senado de EE. UU. se opone unánimemente a la clemencia para Sam Bankman-Fried
El 15 de julio de 2026, el Senado de EE. UU. aprobó por unanimidad una resolución que establece que Samuel Bankman-Fried (SBF) no debe recibir ninguna clemencia ejecutiva, incluyendo indulto...
DeltaDeFi Announces Operational Pause Due to Insufficient Funding
On July 15, 2026, Cardano-based decentralized exchange (DEX) DeltaDeFi announced an immediate operational pause due to insufficient funding. Development and active maintenance will be suspended while the DeltaDeFi team explores...
Is Congress Ignoring Digital Assets and the Clarity Act?
The Digital Asset Market Structure Clarity Act (CLARITY Act) is facing renewed scrutiny as delays after its House passage raise questions over Congress’s commitment to digital asset regulation. Senator Cynthia...
Trade.xyz Launches Pre-IPO Bets on Chinese Chipmaker CXMT
Trade.xyz has launched Pre-Initial Public Offering (Pre-IPO) bets through a perpetual futures contract on the Hyperliquid blockchain tied to the expected share price of memory-chip maker ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc....
Ripple Joins x402 Foundation to Advance AI Agentic Payments
Ripple Labs has joined the newly launched x402 Foundation as a Premier Member. Announced by the Linux Foundation, the x402 Foundation will steward the x402 protocol, an open standard for...
Binance to Delist Four Spot Trading Pairs on July 17, 2026
Binance Exchange has announced the removal of four spot trading pairs, GLM/BTC, KNC/BTC, ONT/BTC, and XAI/USDC, effective July 17, 2026. The exchange said the decision follows routine reviews that identified...
Webull Secures MiCA Approval as EU Tackles Post-Regulation Gaps
Webull Securities (Europe) B.V. has secured authorisation under Europe’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation from the Dutch regulator. The authorization is among the first major approvals issued after the...
Wall Street Wants Kevin Warsh’s Economic Outlook, Not Rate Guidance
On July 13, 2026, Wall Street urged Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh to share clearer U.S. economy views after moving away from traditional forward guidance on interest rates and shortening...
Revolut Adds AI to Its Crypto Exchange as Agentic Trading Grows
Revolut has connected its standalone cryptocurrency exchange, Revolut X, to third-party artificial intelligence (AI) assistants, allowing users to analyze markets, monitor portfolios, set alerts, backtest strategies, and execute trades through...
TeraWulf Seeks $3.5B in Debt to Expand Its Kentucky AI Data Center
Bitcoin miner TeraWulf Inc. (NASDAQ: WULF) is pursuing $3.5 billion in debt financing led by Morgan Stanley to expand its Anthropic-leased artificial intelligence (AI) data center campus in Kentucky. The...
Nick Ducoff Explains Why Solana is Leading Institutional Adoption
On July 9, 2026, Nick Ducoff, head of institutional growth at the Solana foundation, explained why the blockchain is leading institutional adoption. Ducoff said that seven out of twenty nine...
Elon Musk Claims Grok 4.5 Is Closing In on Anthropic’s AI Performance
Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI, formerly known as xAI, unveiled its new artificial intelligence (AI) model, Grok 4.5. Musk has claimed the new model is approaching Anthropic’s flagship AI systems’ capabilities level...
Europe’s ESMA Launches CSA to Increase Crypto Compliance
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is launching a Common Supervisory Action (CSA) focused on the digital operational resilience of Crypto Asset Service Providers (CASPs), with particular attention to...
Ethereum Outperforms Bitcoin as Bitmine Buys 40,000 ETH
Ethereum (ETH) has continued to outperform Bitcoin (BTC) as institutional accumulation accelerated, with Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BMNR) purchasing another 40,000 ETH. Supporting the bullish outlook, crypto analyst Michaël...
Polymarket and CEO Shayne Coplan Sued Over Strategy Bitcoin Sale
Polymarket and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Shayne Coplan are facing a lawsuit over the settlement of a prediction market on whether Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) sold Bitcoin (BTC) before May 31,...
Shiba Inu Completes Short-Term Golden Cross: Is $SHIB Ready to Rally?
Shiba Inu (SHIB) has completed a short-term golden cross on its 2-hour (2H) chart after the 50-period moving average (MA50) crossed above the 200-period moving average (MA200), signaling a potential...
Germany Targets Crypto Tax Exemption in 2027 Federal Budget
Germany’s 2027 federal budget draft includes cryptocurrency taxation reforms among its fiscal consolidation measures, targeting the current one year holding rule that allows tax free gains on digital assets. If...
