Kraken is leading MiCA-regulated crypto exchanges in spot liquidity, perpetual liquidity and market coverage, according to DefiLlama data, strengthening its position as one of the main beneficiaries of Europe’s new digital asset licensing regime. The dashboard showed Kraken with $399.71 million in spot liquidity and $206.90 million in perpetual liquidity, placing it first among MiCA-regulated
Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI has officially launched Grok 4.5, its latest artificial intelligence model, positioning the system as the company’s most capable offering for coding, agentic workflows and advanced knowledge work. The company said Grok 4.5 is its “smartest model” to date and is built for technical tasks including software engineering, data science, research, finance and
Crypto ETF flows turned negative on Wednesday, July 8, as U.S. spot Bitcoin funds recorded $84.9 million of net outflows, reversing the modest inflow seen a day earlier and showing that institutional demand remained uneven after the Independence Day holiday break. According to Farside Investors, Bitcoin ETFs lost $84.9 million on July 8, while Ether
AI Financial Corporation, the Nasdaq-listed company formerly known as ALT5 Sigma, is in talks to sell its core payments business for up to $15 million, marking a sharp reversal for a firm tied to the Trump family-linked crypto project World Liberty Financial. Perpetuals.com said it has signed a non-binding term sheet to explore the potential
Nexo has launched its crypto debit-and-credit card in Argentina, giving local users a new way to spend digital assets directly or borrow against crypto holdings without selling them. The rollout brings the Nexo Card to one of Latin America’s most active crypto markets and comes alongside the appointment of former Binance executive Andres Ondarra as
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to propose sweeping crypto rule changes as soon as this month, setting up the agency’s first major crypto-specific rulemaking push under Chair Paul Atkins. The proposals are expected to cover a broad range of market participants, including crypto startups, token issuers, exchanges, alternative trading systems and broker-dealers.
Lido price and broader liquid staking market surged after major infrastructure breakthroughs The cryptocurrency market witnessed significant liquid staking momentum on July 8, 2026, as digital assets decoupled from Bitcoin’s minor retracement The decentralized finance (DeFi) market experienced a powerful burst of momentum on July 8, 2026, as Lido DAO (LDO) surged by a staggering
Strategy has sold Bitcoin again, and the reason matters more than the size of the sale. According to Talos research, Strategy sold 3,588 BTC between June 29 and July 5 to pay preferred share dividends and rebuild its U.S. dollar reserves. The sale represents only 0.42% of Strategy’s total Bitcoin holdings, but it marks only
Why Did Payward Sue Mazars? Payward, the parent company of Kraken, has secured a $22 million arbitration award against Mazars USA after the auditor abruptly abandoned a nearly completed audit of the crypto exchange during the height of Operation Choke Point 2.0. The company is now asking the Delaware Court of Chancery to enter final
Why Is BNB Chain Building Another Layer 1? BNB Chain is building a new Layer 1 blockchain designed for agentic trading, targeting a faster execution environment for automated strategies, onchain trading systems, and applications that need lower latency than the existing BNB stack can provide. The new chain will run alongside BNB Smart Chain, opBNB,