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Strategy unveiled a five-part Digital Credit Capital Framework on June 29, authorizing up to $1.25B in bitcoin sales, raising STRC dividends to 12%, and hard-coding a $2.55B cash r…
TRM Labs traced $3.84 billion from 60+ sanctioned Iranian entities through CoinEx since 2019, making it Iran's primary international crypto exit ramp by 2024. OFAC's June 2 sanctio…
A pseudonymous Bitcoin holder calling himself John Doe 33 filed a motion to dismiss the Noah Doe lawsuit on June 30, becoming the first actual owner to contest the claim over 39,06…
The DOE confirmed three advanced microreactors achieved criticality before July 4th, 2026, fulfilling EO 14301. Deployable Energy's Unity went from kickoff to critical in roughly 1…
The Bank for International Settlements released its 2026 Annual Economic Report on June 28, warning that an AI capex bust, opaque circular financing deals, and record sovereign deb…
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces struck eight sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tankers in the Sea of Azov overnight July 6-7, following two more strikes the previous night, as part…
SBI Crypto is shutting down its Bitcoin mining pool on July 31, 2026, giving miners less than 30 days to redirect roughly 20.9 EH/s. No reason was given. The outcome is a live test…
Sunrun, Tesla, and Renew Home announced a framework to aggregate more than 16 GW of home batteries and smart thermostats into a virtual power plant targeting AI data center demand.…
Strategy's Michael Saylor declared Bitcoin's four-year halving cycle dead, arguing institutional capital flows and bank credit now set price. The 2026 drawdown is already stress-te…
Metaplanet crossed 43,000 BTC on July 2 after a $170.7M Q2 buy, cementing its rank as the world's third-largest corporate Bitcoin treasury and demonstrating how its income-generati…
The White House confirmed on July 6 that structuring work on the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is ongoing. Crypto adviser Patrick Witt's promised 'big announcement' is now 10 weeks ove…
Cantor Equity Partners and BSTR Holdings terminated their original July 2025 merger agreement on July 8, 2026, dropping the $1.5 billion PIPE and postponing the shareholder vote wi…
Goldman Sachs featured Michael Saylor as the headline speaker at its London Digital Assets Conference, where he pitched Bitcoin-collateralized credit as a fundable institutional pr…
Bull Bitcoin petitioned France's Conseil d'État on February 24 to annul Decree No. 2025-1276, the French rule implementing DAC8's mandatory crypto identity and transaction reportin…
Iran's IRGC struck a cargo ship near Oman on June 25, pausing the UN's strait evacuation plan and breaking a week-old ceasefire. OFAC has designated the IRGC's toll-collecting enti…
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs logged 10 consecutive outflow sessions in May and 13 in June 2026, draining a combined ~$7.2B and flipping year-to-date flows negative for the first time sin…
CZ proposed a 6-to-12-month migration window before freezing Satoshi's estimated 1.1 million BTC. BIP-361 targets 1.7 million BTC in legacy addresses. The community is split three…
Nvidia and Valar Atomics ran Blackwell AI chips off the Ward 250 microreactor in Utah on July 1, claiming the first-ever small reactor to power a data center. The real story: AI ca…
Chainalysis data shows the economic weight of machine-to-machine payments has shifted decisively toward larger-value transfers on the x402 protocol. The demand for permissionless m…
Energy Secretary Chris Wright issued two emergency orders on June 30 under Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act, authorizing PJM to force AI data centers and large loads onto ba…
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