Section 20216 of the latest CLARITY draft states that a self-custodied digital asset cannot become abandoned, unclaimed, or forfeited. It also cannot become subject to adverse possession or finder's title solely because its owner has not moved it or otherwise shown continued interest. The language overrides state and local laws that treat years of wallet […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos26 Jul
Voluntary sales removed KULR’s collateral risk and Smarter Web’s near-term maturity and 7.7 million potential shares.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright26 Jul
Traders spent most of July with a pretty good explanation for why Bitcoin wouldn't move. A dense cluster of options contracts had the price boxed in, they argued, because the dealers who sold those contracts were buying every dip and selling every rally to keep their own books balanced. Clear the contracts away, and Bitcoin […]
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac26 Jul
Ten dairy cows in Paraná, Brazil, carried encrypted identities that Cowmed collars had built from each animal's health, behavior, and location data into B3 this week. Those identities turned the cows into collateral for nearly $20,000 in credit, and the record behind them aims to shrink the haircut lenders apply and stop lenders from pledging […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos26 Jul
Coinbase began offering US perpetual-style futures on its CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, starting with nano Bitcoin and Ethereum contracts that track spot prices, carry embedded leverage, and trade around the clock. This is a financial product that's responsible for most of the crypto leverage in the world, and it's now crossed into the US market. Aside […]
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac26 Jul
Bitcoin is trading near $64,500 this weekend, sitting between $65,000 resistance above and $62,500 support below, the two prices that will define its week. Bitcoin climbed as high as $66,990 on July 21, a one-month high, before slipping back under $65,000 and turning that former breakout line into overhead resistance. Trading volume over the past […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos26 Jul
Alpaca says it custodies more than $1.5 billion of shares backing tokenized equities, which, by public tracker measurements, would represent most of the market. With DTCC preparing to launch its own tokenization service in October and the SEC warning that third-party stock tokens can expose investors to additional ownership and intermediary risks, the numbers reveal […]
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac26 Jul
Chainlink drew more than $7 billion of token value onto its cross-chain infrastructure in the second quarter as institutional adoption accelerated, according to its second-quarter review. The migration came as crypto projects replaced older bridging systems and traditional-finance firms moved deeper into tokenized markets, expanding Chainlink’s role across both sides of the digital-asset economy. Chainlink […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo26 Jul
Bitcoin could lower mining difficulty by roughly 16% when its next adjustment arrives around July 26, handing the machines that remain online a considerably larger expected share of the network’s rewards while doing almost nothing to resolve the expensive power contracts, debt obligations and strategic pressures pushing some of the industry’s largest companies away from […]
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac26 Jul
Two Wall Street trading desks can hold economically similar exposure to Bitcoin and still pay materially different amounts to keep that exposure open. That's not because one desk made a better market call, but because the regulated products carrying the positions are inside collateral systems that don't always recognize them as parts of the same […]
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac26 Jul
Issuer, chain, custody, redemption, market and launch choices will determine whether Wallet becomes a native transaction route or a narrower integration.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright25 Jul
The European Union has sanctioned HTX, widening a Russia crackdown that has already affected counterparties beyond the exchange. The bloc placed Huobi Global S.A., the entity behind HTX, under a transaction ban in its 21st sanctions package adopted July 23. From Aug. 23, EU operators will be prohibited from transacting with the exchange, though the […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo25 Jul
President Donald Trump joked about seeking a fourth term as millions of dollars in his namesake meme coin moved toward exchanges. Trump used the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner to revive one of his longest-running political provocations, pulling out a red “Trump 2028” hat and declaring that he intended to run again. He joked: “I’m […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo25 Jul
Galaxy Digital said the Senate has four working days to save the CLARITY Act, as it cut passage odds to 30%. In a July 24 note to clients, the crypto investment firm lowered its estimate for CLARITY Act chances this year from 50%, saying lawmakers need a deal by July 30 to leave enough time […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo25 Jul
Bitcoin traded around $64,000 on July 25 after changing hands near $65,000 around the ECB’s July 23 decision as the central bank kept rates unchanged, its bond portfolios continued shrinking, and euro-area banks tightened access to business and housing credit. The ECB kept its three key interest rates unchanged, leaving the deposit facility rate at […]
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac25 Jul
Stablecoin supply has roughly doubled since January 2024, while entity-adjusted transaction volume has grown fourfold to fivefold, according to Coinbase Institutional, opening a wide gap between the amount of dollar liquidity held onchain and the volume of activity that liquidity supports. Market capitalization records the stock of stablecoins in circulation, which captures available liquidity, reserve […]
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac25 Jul
Ten once-prominent cryptocurrency networks now carry a combined market value of $12.06 billion, trading an average of 97.13% below their all-time highs. A recent report by Taurex noted that recovery needs across the group range from roughly 21.5x for Avalanche, the largest of the ten at $2.91 billion, to roughly 323x for Internet Computer, which […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos25 Jul
Bitcoin's daily correlation with the S&P 500 fell to 0.12 during the second quarter, down from 0.58 in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to a joint report from Coinbase Institutional and Glassnode covering data through June 30. Its correlation with the Nasdaq sat at 0.21 over the same window, and gold moved in the […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos25 Jul
About $31.69M in combined bridge losses and B²'s July 22 staking suspension reveal three distinct control failures.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright25 Jul
Strategy’s newly published metric shows Bitcoin could decline at a constant annual rate of 11.34% across the weighted duration of the company’s credit structure before its modeled coverage falls below 1.0x. The BTC Floor ARR stood at -11.34% at 3:35 p.m. BST on July 24, when Strategy’s dashboard showed a weighted credit duration of 5.79 […]
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright24 Jul