Crypto

Having nearly tripled in price from the April lows, the stock received a number of modest price target hikes, but no ratings upgrades.

OP trades at $0.71, testing resistance after 8% jump. Open interest climbs as traders watch for $2.10 breakout.

Former OpenSea employee Nathaniel Chastain has successfully appealed his conviction for wire fraud and money laundering. A US federal appeals court has overturned the conviction of Nathaniel Chastain, a former OpenSea manager found guilty of wire fraud and money laundering for using insider information to trade non-fungible tokens (NFTs). In a Thursday decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the jury was improperly instructed and could have convicted Chastain for unethical conduct rather than misappropriating a traditional property interest, a requirement under federal fraud statutes. “Chastain argues that the district court erred by instructing the jury that it could find him guilty of defrauding OpenSea of its property if he misappropriated an intangible interest unconnected to traditional property rights. He maintains that this error affected the jury’s decision. We agree,” the court decisions reads. Read more

Why is Meta allegedly pirating porn? Math suggests AI agents won’t take everyone’s jobs, AIs secretly trained to love owls, and more: AI Eye. A new lawsuit claims Meta has been secretly pirating porn for years from torrent sites using virtual private clouds in order to train its AI models. Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media, which own porn sites attracting 25 million monthly visitors, have sued Facebooks parent company for almost $359 million for allegedly infringing on the copyright of 2,396 adult films that Meta is said to have downloaded since 2018. The allegations are similar to the lawsuit brought by well-known authors against Meta that claimed the tech giant pirated 81.7 terabytes of books only this case is much more interesting because its about porn. Strike 3 Holdings told the court it offers rare long cuts of natural, human-centric imagery showing parts of the body not found in regular videos and said it is concerned Meta will train its AIs to eventually create identical content for little to no...

Visa's platform now supports four stablecoins across four blockchains, including Ethereum and Solana.

Naoris has launched a $120,000 bounty incentivising researchers to break key cryptographic algorithms underpinning Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana. Naoris, a cybersecurity firm focused on safeguarding digital assets from quantum computing threats, is offering bounties to anyone who can break the encryption algorithms that secure major blockchain networks. In an announcement shared with Cointelegraph on Thursday, Naoris said it has set a bounty of $120,000 — equivalent to approximately one Bitcoin (BTC) — for successfully compromising key cryptographic algorithms used in the crypto industry. The largest bounty, $50,000, is for anyone who can break secp256k1, the cryptographic standard that underpins Bitcoin, Ethereum and many other protocols. A $30,000 reward is available for breaking Ed25519, which is used by Solana, as well as encrypted messaging services like Signal and WhatsApp. Read more

Bitcoin’s explosive July rally pushed its market cap to $2.4 trillion, overtaking Amazon, silver and Alphabet, cementing its place among the world’s five most valuable assets. On July 14, 2025, Bitcoin crossed a historic threshold. Its price surged past $122,600, pushing its market capitalization to approximately $2.4 trillion — surpassing Amazon’s estimated $2.3 trillion.  With that, Bitcoin officially joined the ranks of the top five most valuable assets on Earth. Read more

Blockchain infrastructure firm Alchemy has released a punchy upgrade with its new Cortex Engine.

Crypto analyst Edward says ether could surge to $15K–$16K this cycle, citing bullish technical patterns, ETF inflows and rising institutional demand.

[PRESS RELEASE – Dubai, UAE, 31st July 2025, Chainwire] Pepeto is currently conducting its presale, having raised over $5.77 million and attracted more than 100,000 community members to date. Distinct from meme coins that primarily rely on viral momentum, Pepeto is outlining an ecosystem that includes planned infrastructure such as PepetoSwap, a zero-fee exchange, and […]

AllUnity’s EURAU stablecoin launches as euro-denominated stablecoins account for just 0.2% of the stablecoin market despite surging 60% since late 2024. EURAU, a new euro stablecoin venture backed by Deutsche Bank’s DWS, Flow Traders and Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy, has debuted on the Ethereum blockchain. AllUnity — a company backed and formed by the three entities — announced the launch of EURAU on Thursday, making the regulated stablecoin publicly available on the last day of July. The new stablecoin is regulated by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and is compliant with the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). Read more

The decentralized finance platform targets fintechs bridging fiat settlement gaps with short-term stablecoin credit.

Altcoins are seeing heavy trading, with their futures volume spiking to multi-month highs, while BTC lags with a declining market dominance.

The newly formed company's ETH holdings have overtaken those of the Ethereum Foundation, which maintains the blockchain.

A Deloitte survey shows 99% of CFOs at billion-dollar firms expect to adopt crypto long term, with nearly a quarter planning integration within two years. Cryptocurrency is becoming a financial planning priority, with 99% of chief financial officers at billion-dollar firms expecting to use it for business in the long term, according to Deloitte’s Q2 2025 survey of CFOs. The survey, conducted among 200 CFOs at companies with over $1 billion in revenue, revealed that 23% expect their treasury departments to use crypto for investments or payments within the next two years. This figure climbs to almost 40% among CFOs at firms with revenue of more than $10 billion. Despite the momentum, finance chiefs remain cautious. Concerns about price volatility top the list, with 43% of respondents citing it as a primary barrier to adopting non-stable cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH). Read more

As blockchain interoperability matures, this episode of the Clear Crypto Podcast unpacks how solutions like Hyperlane are reshaping crypto infrastructure and enhancing security. Blockchain interoperability was once seen as a distant technical challenge and aspiration for the decentralized world. However, this challenge may become virtually invisible to users within the next two years. On the latest episode of the Clear Crypto Podcast, hosts Nathan Jeffay and Gareth Jenkinson speak with Jon Kol, co-founder of interoperability project Hyperlane, about the rapid evolution of blockchain infrastructure and how emerging solutions are solving long-standing communication issues between blockchains like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana. According to Kol, seamless interoperability similar to Web2 platforms, where users remain unaware of underlying hosting environments, will soon become the standard in Web3. Read more

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Aptos (APT) was also among the top performers, rising 5% from Wednesday.

BTC bulls need to overcome the 161.8% Fib extension, the so-called golden ratio.

By running proofs in parallel, GOAT Network claims the testnet can resolve transactions in under three seconds.