CMC Crypto News

Hyperliquid plans to let anyone deploy outcome markets under HIP-4, with validators voting on templates and deployers staking 500K HYPE to participate.

Japanese logistics firm AZ-COM Maruwa plans to pay 2,300 contractors via JPYC, Japan's 1st registered yen stablecoin, in a deal that may include a $6.16M investment.

Bernstein lifted Robinhood's price target to $160, forecasting prediction markets will beat crypto revenue in Q2 2026. Rothera hit 3.5B contracts in its first month live.

Strategy sold 2.7M MSTR shares for $263.5M last week, skipping BTC purchases while its 843,775 BTC position carries ~$9B in unrealized losses at current prices.

Bitmine holds 5.78M ETH worth ~$10.8B, with staking generating $45.7M in Q1 2026 revenue. The company also bought back 5.5M shares under its $4B repurchase program.

The US CLARITY Act nears a critical Senate deadline with Democratic support still hinging on unresolved ethics provisions restricting presidential crypto profits.

MegaETH ended its 2-year Mega Mafia accelerator after most of the ~20 teams it supported left to build on rival chains, signaling a full pivot to first-party apps.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $368M in net inflows from July 14-16, flipping July's cumulative flows back to positive after $6.9B in outflows across May and June.

T. Rowe Price has launched TKNZ, an actively managed spot crypto ETF holding Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, XRP, SOL, and HYPE, with a 0.75% fee through May 2027.

MoonPay acquired crypto deposit infrastructure startup Glide, founded by ex-Robinhood Wallet engineers, in its 6th acquisition of 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Tether has invested $20M in Argentine neobank Ualá as part of a $197M funding round led by Allianz X, pushing the fintech's post-money valuation to $3.2B.

Ledger launched Agent Stack, an open-source toolkit allowing AI agents to interact with crypto wallets while requiring human approval on hardware for every transaction.

The US Senate passed a unanimous resolution blocking clemency for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, as prediction markets price a Trump pardon below 1% by July 31.

: A Visa and Artemis report says stablecoins will power machine-native micropayments in the AI agentic economy, while card rails remain suited for consumer-scale purchases.

: Nasdaq-listed Hyperion DeFi has agreed to deploy 500K staked HYPE worth ~$33.6M to Skew Technologies to seed institutional perps markets on Hyperliquid's HIP-3.

Strategy CEO Phong Le says the company remains a long-term BTC buyer and sees no balance sheet risk unless Bitcoin falls to $8K-$10K, per a Bloomberg TV interview.

Trump will meet Republican senators and White House staff at 2:30 pm ET on Thursday to resolve the CLARITY Act's ethics provision before the Senate's August recess deadline.

Revolut has received in-principle approval from Dubai's VARA to offer crypto broker-dealer, exchange, and investment services in the UAE via its app and Revolut X.