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
MARA Holdings Chief Executive Fred Thiel says electricity used to support artificial intelligence data centers can generate far more revenue than the same power consumed by Bitcoin mining, highlighting the economic pressure pushing miners toward high-performance computing. Thiel said AI facilities produce significantly more revenue per unit of electricity than Bitcoin mines. The comparison is
Two numbers in CoinGecko’s newly published Q2 2026 Crypto Industry Report appear to tell completely different stories about USDC. On one hand, Circle’s stablecoin captured an all-time high 12.5% share of total cryptocurrency trading volume during the quarter, surpassing its previous record of 11% set in the fourth quarter of 2023. On the other, USDC
Bitcoin slipped toward $63,000 on Tuesday, handing back most of its late-July rally as the market derisked ahead of the Federal Reserve’s decision on Wednesday. At press time, BTC is trading around $63,458, down about 0.4% on the day and 2.7% on the week, with the Crypto Fear & Greed Index sitting at 29, squarely
What Would ASEAN Crypto Passporting Change? Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has backed a regional passporting system that would allow cryptocurrency companies licensed in one ASEAN country to enter other member states through a simplified approval process. Speaking Tuesday during the “One ASEAN, One Digital Economy” fireside chat at the ASEAN Tech Summit Manila 2026,