July 1, 2026

Crypto

Crypto

Dogecoin grew up. Almost nobody noticed.

Six months ago, the first spot Dogecoin ETF started trading on a major US exchange. The flows have been tiny, the price has gone almost nowhere, and the whole experiment has played out in near-silence. That silence is the story. For an asset built on noise, behaving like a normal investment product is the most

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Catena Labs secures $30M Series A, files for bank charter to build financial rails for AI agents

Catena Labs, the startup founded by Circle co-founder Sean Neville, has closed a $30 million Series A funding round aimed at building regulated financial infrastructure specifically designed for AI agents. The round was led by Acrew Capital and a16z crypto. What Catena Labs is actually building The company is developing what it calls “governed infrastructure”

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What is the ‘Orange Standard’? The US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Explained

A bill now moving through Washington would make Bitcoin a formal US government reserve asset for the first time in history. Introduced on March 30, 2026, the Mined in America Act would direct the US Treasury to accumulate up to one million Bitcoin over 20 years This would mark a policy shift so significant that

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23% Rally or 30% Crash Comes Next?

Is BTC poised for a collapse to under $55,000? The primary cryptocurrency, which performed quite well towards the end of April and beginning of May, has tumbled by 5% over the past week, sparking fears that the bottom of the bear cycle has yet to be reached. One popular analyst believes that its eventual

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Bitcoin seizure reaches 1,000 BTC in Irish drug case

Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau and Europol have secured another 500 BTC tied to Clifton Collins, bringing recovered funds from the dormant wallet cluster to 1,000 BTC. Summary Bitcoin seizure grew after Ireland and Europol secured another 500 BTC from Clifton Collins-linked wallets. Arkham data shows 1,000 BTC have moved from the dormant entity since March

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Zama acquires TokenOps to bring encrypted token distributions to institutional issuers

Zama, the company that has spent years quietly building fully homomorphic encryption tools for blockchains, just bought TokenOps, a token distribution platform. The goal: let institutions run vesting schedules, airdrops, and payroll entirely encrypted, without giving up the transparency guarantees that make blockchains useful in the first place. Every time a project distributes tokens today,

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Crypto News Today (May 20): Bitcoin Struggling Below $80K, SOL & XRP ETFs Green as ETH and BTC ETFs Bleed

The crypto market is struggling during this midweek trading session in May 2020, 2026, with the Bitcoin price struggling to reclaim $78,000 after a $5,000 slump from $82,000 just last week. ETH USD is in a similar position, down -0.2% on the day but trading for $2,120, with analysts warning that a loss of $2,000

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China’s Buffett buys Circle in stablecoin stock surprise

Circle stock has drawn new attention after H&H International Investment, linked to Chinese investor Duan Yongping, disclosed a new position in the stablecoin issuer. Summary Duan Yongping’s H&H International bought 200,000 Circle shares, worth about $19.08 million in Q1. The Circle stake equals roughly 0.10% of a reported $20 billion 13F portfolio. Recent market coverage

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Meta begins 8,000 job cuts globally, starting with Singapore layoffs

Meta started sending layoff notices to employees in Singapore early Tuesday morning, kicking off a global workforce reduction of roughly 8,000 people. The emails arrived at 4 a.m. local time. The cuts represent about 10% of Meta’s total workforce and are expected to hit engineering and product teams hardest. Staff in the US and Europe

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Hyperliquid’s HYPE could still be mispriced, Bitwise says

Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan says Hyperliquid’s HYPE token remains undervalued, even after becoming one of 2026’s strongest large-cap crypto performers. Summary HYPE rose 77% this year as Bitwise argued investors still undervalue Hyperliquid’s wider market reach. Hougan said Hyperliquid’s $170 billion monthly volume shows demand beyond crypto perpetual futures markets. Bitwise will use

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