Crypto — July 2026

Coinkite warns Coldcard Mk3 users after 594 BTC theft

Nearly 600 Bitcoin vanished from hardware wallets in minutes, and Coinkite is telling Coldcard Mk3 owners without a passphrase to move funds now.

Senators near deal on ethics rules for Trump's crypto

A tougher ethics section aimed at the president's own crypto ventures could unstick the stalled Clarity Act.

Morgan Stanley launches cheapest Ethereum, Solana ETFs

The new funds charge just 0.14% and pass all staking rewards straight to investors.

NY AG warns Clarity Act would gut fraud powers

Letitia James told Congress the crypto market bill would strip New York's power to prosecute fraud, as the Senate delays a vote anyway.

Russia's Sberbank to launch crypto trading by December

Sberbank plans a crypto exchange and digital wallet by December 1, as Russia's new law opens crypto to foreign trade but caps ordinary investors tightly.

Trump made $1.4B on crypto. Investors didn't.

Bitcoin has fallen almost 50% since October, and nearly a million buyers of Trump's own memecoin have lost a combined $3.8 billion.

Poolin, once Bitcoin's top mining pool, goes bankrupt

Poolin filed for bankruptcy owing $173 million, including $163.7 million frozen since 2022 that belongs to 11,700 wallet users.

BitMEX shuts down after 11 years in crypto trading

BitMEX, which invented the 100x-leverage perpetual swap, will close on September 23, ending an 11-year run in crypto derivatives.

Senate crypto bill would bar Trump from issuing crypto

A new Clarity Act draft bans the president and other top officials from selling crypto until 2029, but some Democrats say it still isn't enough.

White House offers ethics deal to unlock crypto bill vote

A deal on federal ethics rules could break the Clarity Act's stalemate and force the first real Senate vote on crypto regulation.

Bitcoin miner Hut 8 rents its Texas campus to AI for $9.8B

The 15-year lease fills the site with an AI customer instead of Bitcoin rigs.

Bitcoin ETFs added $273M back — a fraction of what left

After weeks of heavy selling, Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $273 million over two weeks — barely a dent against the billions that recently flowed out.

Michael Saylor rejects BIP-110, and a rival Bitcoin client appears

A plan to limit junk data in Bitcoin transactions drew opposition from Saylor and Adam Back — and now software built to defeat it has been proposed.

A $1.9 trillion firm launched the first nine-coin crypto fund

T. Rowe Price now actively manages a basket of nine coins — a sign Wall Street treats crypto as a real asset class.