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Ethereum is struggling below $1,700 as the market faces a combination of apathy and uncertainty that has made sustained directional movement difficult to produce in either direction. The price is grinding — not breaking down aggressively but equally failing to generate the momentum needed to reclaim higher levels — and data from Arkham Intelligence has…

A wallet labelled by blockchain analytics platform Arkham as belonging to the U.S. government has transferred approximately 54.9 billion Shiba Inu [SHIB].  The tokens are worth around $235,000. This has renewed attention on crypto assets seized during the FTX and Alameda Research investigations. The movement was detected on-chain on July 15. While Arkham identified the…

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From a $63,000 Bitcoin price, Sam Altman’s ChatGPT AI is not thinking in percentages anymore, it predicts $180,000 to $250,000 BTC by the end of 2026. It’s a price prediction that treats the current price as little more than a starting line. The case leans hard on politics and plumbing rather than hype. A pro-crypto…

Visa announced the Visa Stablecoin Platform on July 16, a new enterprise offering designed to help financial institutions, fintechs, and payment providers come onchain without building their own infrastructure. The platform provides access to Open USD, a stablecoin introduced last week by Open Standard with over 140 institutions participating, alongside wallet infrastructure and integration with…

Japan’s Upper House committee has taken a significant step by approving a bill to legalize Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and lower cryptocurrency taxes to a flat 20%. This move marks a shift in Japan’s regulatory framework, reclassifying cryptocurrencies as financial instruments under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA). The bill’s passage in the Upper…