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Ripple wins full MiCA licence as July 1 cliff splits EU market
Luxembourg's Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) upgraded Ripple's preliminary Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorisation to a full licence on July 6, 2026 — five days after the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) transitional period…
IBIT flips to $209M inflow as bitcoin ETF rebound gathers pace
BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) recorded roughly $209 million of net inflows on July 6, 2026 — its first meaningful positive session after an 11-day run of redemptions that drained about $2.2 billion from the…
Mt. Gox moves 47,228 BTC to Bitstamp as repayments speed up
Mt. Gox-linked wallets moved 47,228 BTC — roughly $3 billion at current prices — to Bitstamp-linked addresses on July 6, 2026, the defunct exchange's largest single repayment-bound transfer of the year, per Arkham Intelligence wallet…
XTB Institutional Debuts New Brand at iFX EXPO 2026
Key Facts XTB Institutional, formerly X Open Hub, used iFX EXPO International 2026 in Limassol to publicly debut its rebrand and reinforce its alignment with parent XTB Group. XTB Group's parent company, XTB S.A., is…
Why Brokerage Operations Are Getting More Complex in 2026
Key Facts Broker technology provider PLUGIT identifies five operational areas where complexity is intensifying for FX/CFD brokers in 2026. The five pressure points are real-time risk response, IB network visibility, copy trading concentration risk, bonus…
Lean Ethereum: Buterin maps 3-4 year rebuild to rival the Merge
Vitalik Buterin has committed Ethereum to its biggest engineering programme since the Merge — a three-to-four-year "Lean Ethereum" rebuild that would replace almost every major component of the protocol — and he announced it with…
Metaplanet hits 43,000 BTC with its book $1.4bn underwater
Metaplanet's climb to the world's third-largest corporate bitcoin treasury is being celebrated as proof the Strategy playbook travels — but the arithmetic underneath the milestone points the other way. The Tokyo-listed firm disclosed on July…
NEAR jumps 12% as Bitwise adds staking to spot ETF filing
NEAR (NEAR) climbed nearly 12% to about $2.04 on July 3, 2026 after Bitwise filed a second amendment to its spot NEAR exchange-traded fund (ETF) registration, adding staking as a secondary objective and naming NYSE…
Solana RWA value hits record $3.4bn as share nears 10.4%
Solana's (SOL) tokenised real-world asset (RWA) value hit an all-time high of $3.4 billion on July 2, 2026 — and the more telling number is the share: at 10.39% of the roughly $32 billion on-chain…
XRP ETFs extend inflows to a third month as bitcoin funds bleed
The headline number in crypto exchange-traded funds this month was a bleed: US spot bitcoin ETFs shed more than $4 billion in June 2026, their worst month on record. But the more useful signal for…