NEAR and Zcash both jumped more than 20%, but for very different reasons: NEAR on a $70 million Confidential Intents milestone and incentive snapshot, Zcash on governance support for faster blocks and unchanged issuance. It’s a reminder that not every crypto rally is just macro smoke and mirrors.
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The CLARITY Act is stuck, but Washington is still grinding forward on crypto: the SEC says it will keep acting on its own, the House advanced a digital asset tax bill, and a Bitcoin reserve proposal would lock up US-held BTC for 20 years. Messy, but movement.
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South Korea is treating Polymarket users like gamblers, not crypto pioneers. Police say 26 people were booked in a $12.7 million probe, with on-chain data helping trace them despite the platform’s non-custodial setup.
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Crypto VC cooled in Q1, but didn’t collapse: Galaxy says startups raised about $4 billion across 355 deals, with capital flowing mostly to later-stage U.S. companies and revenue-driven sectors like exchanges, lending, and trading. The easy-money fantasy is over; disciplined funding isn’t.
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South Korean retail investors lost about $250 million in the first half of 2026 to a wave of stock-tip chatroom scams built on fake authority, bogus apps, and promised returns. Regulators are cracking down, but the same old fraud playbook keeps finding new victims.
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India and Singapore have moved tokenization out of the lab and into live financial rails: India is piloting tokenized corporate bonds with digital rupee settlement, while Singapore’s biggest banks tested tokenized deposit transfers for interbank payments. Real plumbing, real money, real questions about scale.
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House Financial Services advanced a bill to put the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve into law, tighten Treasury custody, and make long-term liquidation much harder. It’s a real step toward federal BTC legitimacy — but the Senate, the paperwork, and the “budget-neutral” math still have to survive Washington’s sludge.
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Celsius’s bankruptcy estate is suing BitMEX-linked entities to recover 6,360.17 BTC, alleging the exchange kept excess value from March 2020 liquidations instead of returning it to customers. BitMEX denies nothing here yet, but the claim adds fresh heat to a very ugly leverage-era fight.
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Bitcoin’s push toward $80,000 fizzled as bearish momentum, Fed pressure, and fresh regulatory uncertainty knocked BTC back toward $76,236. Key support now sits near $75,000, with traders watching whether bulls can reclaim short-term trend levels or slip further.
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Dogecoin is sliding as Bitcoin weakens, ETF outflows hit risk appetite, and political gridlock adds more drag to meme coin sentiment. Whales are buying, but traders still want proof — and for now, DOGE’s bounce looks shaky, not legendary.
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