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The ONDO price has spent months frustrating impatient traders, but the latest ecosystem upgrade is giving the market something more tangible than speculation. The official launch of Ondo Perps introduces tokenized Real-World Assets (RWAs) as collateral for trading equity perpetuals with up to 20x leverage, backed by a $3 million rewards campaign and a $150,000 USDC launch-week incentive pool.That’s a meaningful expansion of utility. The bigger question, though, is whether traders are ready to price it in.Ondo Perps Brings Fresh UtilityThe new platform marks the first time users can utilize tokenized RWAs as collateral for equity perpetual trading on the…

Tether said Tuesday it will invest $20 million in a strategic growth financing round for Mercado Bitcoin, a move that deepens the stablecoin issuer’s push into Latin America’s fast-growing market for blockchain-based financial services. Tether, the largest company in the digital asset industry and the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, framed the deal as part of a broader strategy of backing platforms that pair regulatory licensing with market scale.  Mercado Bitcoin, founded in São Paulo in 2013, has grown from a cryptocurrency exchange into what it describes as a full-stack on-chain financial services platform. The company now serves 4.5 million…

More than 16 months after President Donald Trump signed the executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, the initiative remains stalled, with two federal departments locked in an unresolved dispute over which one has the legal authority to manage it.A Turf War Over $20 Billion in BitcoinThe Trump administration’s plan to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve has been complicated by two government departments vying to run it, alongside questions about which has the legal authority to do so. Trump ordered the reserve to be created last year as part of his promise to turn America into the “crypto capital of…

Comcast just pulled the pin on a classic event trade: break the company in two, let the pieces find cleaner multiples, and see if shareholders finally get paid for assets that were swimming in a conglomerate discount.If you’re wondering whether the NBCUniversal spin-off can actually unlock value for CMCSA holders, this walkthrough cuts through the noise. We’ll map the mechanics, what the market is likely to price, where it can go wrong, and how event-driven investors typically navigate these breakups.Timing matters here. The playbook changes around key dates, when-issued trading, and index reshuffles. Get the sequence right and you avoid…

All news is rigorously fact-checked and reviewed by leading blockchain experts and seasoned industry insiders. Second quarter of the crypto market tells one story from opposite ends: prices held where they started while everything underneath, market breadth, exchange volumes, on-chain revenue, and new listings, fell to multi-year lows, with June offering the first tentative sign the worst may be passing. Summary 82.1% of top 100 coins fell in June. Spot volume hit $3.0T, weakest since 2024. Bitcoin dominance held near 56% all quarter. New token listings dropped to a two-year low. The Same Story, Measured Two Ways Headline prices in…

A governance exploit has cost the BonkDAO treasury an estimated $20 million, after an attacker spent roughly $4.4 million acquiring enough BONK tokens to push through a malicious proposal that automatically transferred the funds to a wallet under their control.The incident, which unfolded over the course of a week and culminated early Monday, has reignited debate over whether onchain governance — long pitched as a transparent, community-driven alternative to centralized control — is fundamentally vulnerable to anyone willing to pay for a temporary majority.How the Attack UnfoldedThe scheme began on June 30, when an anonymous wallet submitted a proposal titled…

Will XRP break out this time, after almost a year stuck in a downward slide? That is also the question behind this fresh round of XRP price prediction talk making the rounds right now, and it is not going away anytime soon. XRP has gained more than 9% over the past week, and it is trading near $1.12 at the time of writing, after bottoming out at $1.01 a few weeks back. That bounce alone has brought the breakout chances conversation back to life, and the XRP price target being floated by some analysts runs anywhere from $4 all the…

Ted Hisokawa Jul 07, 2026 12:58 BNB Agent Studio now enables seamless AI agent access to CoinMarketCap data using Binance Pay’s x402 protocol. Here’s what it means for developers. Developers building AI agents on BNB Agent Studio can now integrate CoinMarketCap (CMC) data with just a few clicks. This new feature, live as of July 7, leverages Binance Pay’s B402 protocol, allowing agents to seamlessly access and pay for CMC’s data without the need for separate API keys or custom payment setups. The integration includes four key endpoints at launch: DEX Search, Quotes…

Key TakeawaysOn June 30, the Energy Department issued emergency orders to the PJM grid to prevent blackouts.High power prices forced Bitcoin miners to curtail operations, cutting global hashrate.Investors are tracking PJM grid data and hashrate trends ahead of a mid-July heat wave from July 14–19. High Prices Trigger Miner Curtailments A record-setting heat dome that recently blanketed the eastern United States and forced the U.S. Department of Energy to issue emergency orders put the heat on bitcoin miners operating within or drawing power from the regions affected by the directive. The department’s directive authorized the PJM Interconnection to deploy additional…

Pepe (PEPE) is experiencing quite a price rebound after months of struggle. The frog-themed memecoin has rallied by 1.2% in the last 24 hours and 15.8% in the last week, according to CoinGecko statistics. While the rally has brought some relief to investors, the coin is still down by 73% over the last year. Let’s discuss what’s pushing PEPE’s rally, and if its price can continue surging.Source: CoinGeckoWhat’s Behind PEPE’s Price Rally?Source: Watcher.GuruPEPE’s latest price upswing could be due to a general memecoin rush. PEPE rivals, Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB), have also seen a slight price reversal. PEPE’s…