Crypto Pulse

Overview The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is advancing a set of rules that could reshape American trading infrastructure by letting non-security crypto assets, tokenized securities, and traditional stocks trade side by side on a single regulated platform. The market is watching closely because this is not about the compliance status of one token; it is about whether the institutional wall between Wall Street and crypto is about to come down. According to The Crypto Times, SEC Chair Pa

Overview India's central bank has again pushed the regulatory balance toward a policy leaning towards prohibition, and this time a warning from the tax department has put the market on alert: trading through offshore exchanges is hard to track. That means even though India has yet to adopt any formal policy to ban or regulate the asset class, the preference among key agencies points clearly toward tighter curbs. For one of the world's largest retail crypto markets, that intent alone is enough to

Overview As Alphabet prepares to report its second-quarter 2026 results, the market's focus has moved past whether the company can turn a profit and toward whether its enormous artificial intelligence spending can generate a matching return. According to Alphabet's first-quarter report, revenue grew 22% year over year to $109.9 billion and cloud revenue expanded 63%, yet free cash flow over the same period came under clear pressure from aggressive infrastructure investment. The Q2 report will be

Overview As the second half of 2026 opens, crypto investors keep returning to the same question: is the money that might have flowed into Bitcoin being pulled into artificial intelligence once again. The question is not emotional guesswork; it rests on hard flow data. According to figures cited by AMBCrypto, U.S. gold and Bitcoin ETFs have seen a combined roughly $12 billion in net outflows since April, while U.S. semiconductor ETFs have drawn more than $20 billion in net inflows. Capital has no

Overview The Federal Reserve releases the minutes of its June meeting at 2:00 p.m. ET on July 8, and crypto markets are unusually tense because the document has to answer the single most pressing question right now: inside a committee that has turned inflation-first, how committed is the faction pushing for a rate hike this year. According to GoldSilver's rundown of the week's macro calendar, the June meeting left officials almost evenly split on whether to raise rates in 2026, and the minutes w

OverviewThe Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation reached full enforcement across all 27 EU member states on July 1, 2026, when the transitional grandfathering window closed with no extension. ESMA confirmed the hard cutoff on April 17, 2026, and reaffirmed it publicly on June 23: any entity providing crypto-asset services to EU clients without a MiCA license is now in breach of EU law and must cease operations.Tether's USDT; the largest dollar stablecoin globally, with a market value around $184

OverviewRoughly 141.2 million H tokens left Humanity Protocol's Ethereum contracts on June 8, 2026. Another 200 million were minted from nothing on BNB Smart Chain. Total damage across both chains: about $36 million. The token fell 89% inside a day, from a June 2 high near $0.84 to roughly $0.08.None of it required breaking a smart contract. The zero-knowledge proof layer and the biometric verification layer both held exactly as designed; the failure point was a compromised laptop holding the pr

OverviewOn June 30, 2026, a consortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies from Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, American Express, BlackRock, BNY, Standard Chartered, Coinbase, Google, Shopify, Ripple, and Solana among them announced Open USD (OUSD), a dollar stablecoin whose reserve earnings and governance are structured to flow to the businesses that adopt it rather than to a single issuer. The same session, shares of Circle Internet Group (CRCL), the company behind USDC, fell 17.55%

Ethereum Institutional has officially launched with backing from Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin and two major ETH holders, BitMine and SharpLink. The nonprofit organization aims to serve as a bridge between the Ethereum ecosystem and global financial institutions through research, education, standards development, and strategic partnerships.As digital assets continue gaining acceptance among traditional financial institutions, the emergence of Ethereum Institutional is seen as a strategic initiat

Vitalik Buterin has outlined the most important priorities for Ethereum’s next phase of development, focusing on three key pillars: quantum resistance, network scalability, and enhanced user privacy. This roadmap has been informally referred to by some community members as Lean Ethereum, reflecting efforts to build a version of Ethereum that is simpler, more efficient, and better suited for the future of digital finance.The proposed changes are considered by many to be as significant as The Merg