US spot Ether exchange-traded funds continued to outperform their Bitcoin counterparts during the week ended July 24, extending a notable institutional rotation that has increasingly favored Ethereum over the industry’s largest cryptocurrency. According to weekly flow data, spot Ether ETFs attracted approximately $103.9 million in net inflows, more than triple the $33.8 million added to
Why Is Binance Expanding Into Metals Options? Binance has launched options tied to gold and silver, extending its push into traditional financial markets after perpetual futures on the two metals generated billions of dollars in daily trading volume. The contracts went live on Wednesday through Nest Exchange Limited, Binance’s regulated exchange entity in the Abu
What Is Samsung SDS Planning With Dunamu? Samsung SDS is exploring stablecoin infrastructure, digital asset systems and artificial intelligence-based payment models with Dunamu, the operator of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit. CEO Lee Jun-hee said during the company’s second-quarter earnings call on Thursday that the two companies are discussing several areas of potential cooperation. The
US spot Bitcoin ETFs (exchange-traded funds) pulled in roughly $205 million in net inflows in July, the smallest monthly total on record since the products launched in January 2024, according to SoSoValue data, with two trading days left in the month. The figure is being framed as a recovery, and in the narrowest sense it
US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins has said the agency is prepared to issue cryptocurrency regulations even if Congress fails to pass the CLARITY Act, underscoring the SEC’s intention to use its existing statutory authority to provide greater certainty for the digital asset industry. Speaking about the agency’s regulatory agenda, Atkins said the
Robinhood Chain has quickly emerged as one of the fastest-growing blockchain networks of 2026, but its early success has come from an unexpected source. Rather than tokenized stocks—the product it was specifically designed to support—the network’s activity has been driven overwhelmingly by memecoin speculation. Robinhood officially launched the Ethereum layer-2 network on July 1 as
BitMine Immersion Technologies has disclosed that its combined cryptocurrency holdings, cash reserves and strategic investments have reached approximately $11.8 billion, a figure that is now nearly equal to the company’s entire market capitalization. The update highlights the extraordinary transformation of BitMine from a relatively small crypto mining business into one of the world’s largest publicly
Cardano’s native token, ADA, experiences renewed market traction, pushing toward critical resistance zones as broader macroeconomic and ecosystem developments unfold. ADA investment products extend an impressive streak to 16 consecutive months of net inflows, signalling persistent professional allocation. Protocol 11 integration and anticipation around the Ouroboros Leios upgrade fuel structural optimism for the network’s throughput
The Nairobi Securities Exchange has signed a memorandum of understanding with Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin, to explore tokenizing securities, building blockchain-based market infrastructure, and potentially using USDT as a settlement layer on the exchange. The MoU, signed on 28 July, moves a stablecoin issuer toward the plumbing of a national capital
The stablecoin market recorded its largest monthly contraction since the collapse of the Terra-Luna ecosystem in 2022, with total market capitalization falling by approximately $7.7 billion in June as risk appetite weakened across the cryptocurrency sector. According to CoinDesk Data, the decline reduced the total stablecoin market to roughly $312 billion by the end of