Your group chat lights up on a Tuesday: “Binance is paying weekly BTC.” A link follows. It is Binance’s new BTC Yield, a covered-call wrapper that turns your Bitcoin into a ticker called BTCY and promises potential Friday distributions in BTC. Suddenly, passive income is the conversation again. The day before, you saw headlines about BlackRock listing a covered-call Bitcoin ETF on Nasdaq. Same idea, different wrapper. Spot BTC plus call options to skim premium. And like that, strategies that used to live in DeFi vaults and options chatrooms are now on the biggest exchange and the biggest asset manager’s…
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Nexo Card launches in Argentina with debit and credit modes for crypto users. Andres Ondarra will lead Nexo Argentina as General Manager from August 1. Buenos Aires is being positioned as Nexo’s regional hub for Latin America. Nexo has launched its crypto debit-and-credit card in Argentina, marking a deeper push into one of Latin America’s most active digital-asset markets and placing Buenos Aires at the centre of its regional expansion strategy. The launch comes alongside a leadership change, with Andres Ondarra appointed General Manager of Nexo Argentina. The company said the two developments mark the next stage of its growth…
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All news is rigorously fact-checked and reviewed by leading blockchain experts and seasoned industry insiders. The XRP Ledger’s v3.2.0 rollout has cleared a key validator milestone, with 31 of 35 validators on the default Unique Node List running the new software, but broader node adoption still lags. The gap matters because XRP-related infrastructure is expanding in Japan and Europe at the same time, putting more pressure on the network’s core software and amendment process to keep pace. Summary XRPL v3.2.0 is already running on about 89% of the default UNL validator set. Only about 43% of active nodes have upgraded,…
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds drew nearly $500 million across the last two trading sessions, giving traders their first clear fund-flow rebound in weeks even as several market gauges continued to show weak demand for the top digital asset.The US ETF products took in $221.72 million on July 2, ending a 10-session outflow streak that had pulled about $2.73 billion from the funds.Bitcoin ETFs Flow (Source: Axel Adler)After the US Independence Day holiday, the funds added another $265.69 million on July 6, marking their first back-to-back inflows since May.The ETF rebound gave Bitcoin one of its strongest near-term supports after…
Key takeaways Zcash (ZEC) climbed more than 4% after developers announced progress toward proving its new privacy system is free from undetectable counterfeiting vulnerabilities. Project Tachyon is close to completing a mathematical verification of Zcash’s upcoming Ironwood shielded pool. Zcash’s native token ZEC surged more than 4% on Wednesday after developers announced they are close to mathematically proving that the network’s next-generation privacy system is free from a critical class of counterfeiting vulnerabilities. The announcement restored investor confidence following last month’s disclosure of a security flaw in Zcash’s existing shielded transaction system, helping the privacy-focused cryptocurrency reclaim the $500 level…
UNI price is leading today’s altcoin rally after surging nearly 7%, breaking above a multi-month descending trendline that had capped its recovery for months. The recent rally has reignited bullish sentiment around Uniswap, with traders betting that improving momentum and renewed interest in DeFi could fuel a larger breakout. As bulls reclaim key resistance and weekly gains continue to build, the focus now shifts to one question: Can UNI sustain its breakout and rally toward the crucial $4.50 resistance next?Why Is UNI Price Up Today?The latest rally in UNI price comes as capital rotates back into the DeFi sector, with…
Whale transaction counts on Lighter and Mantle have jumped to levels not seen since early 2026, right as broader altcoin turbulence returns to the market. According to the Santiment update, LIT just recorded 86 transactions above $100,000 in a single day while MNT hit 37 large-size moves. Both figures mark the highest whale activity in six months for each network. The timing is hard to ignore. Altcoin volatility has picked up, and large wallets appear to be positioning ahead of retail that is still sorting through market noise. The LIT spike sits at the intersection of a few narratives that…
The crypto market witnessed another stark reminder of exchange-listed token fragility on Tuesday, as TAC — a project backed by TON Ventures and Hack VC — plummeted more than 90% in a 15-minute window, landing near $0.0063. The flash crash, detailed in a market update from WuBlockchain, wiped out the majority of the token’s value after its first year of trading on Binance Alpha and Binance Futures. TAC first listed on Binance’s Alpha launchpad and the exchange’s futures platform in July 2025, giving it an immediate liquidity advantage over many early-stage projects. The team is building an EVM-compatible layer-2 network…
New Hampshire is taking another big step toward using Bitcoin in public finance. On Wednesday, the state’s Governor and Executive Council will hold a public hearing . They will decide whether to approve a plan for up to $100 million in Bitcoin-backed bonds.If approved, the plan would move forward as one of the first municipal bond projects in the US linked to Bitcoin.What Is the Plan?The bonds would help finance private Bitcoin purchases through a company connected to Bitcoin miner CleanSpark. The state would not borrow the money itself. Instead, it would act as a middleman by issuing the bonds.…
