Crypto Pulse

Key TakeawaysBitmine Immersion (BMNR) received another 40,000 ETH worth about $71.6 million from FalconX and Kraken on July 8, 2026, according to onchain data tracked by Lookonchain.The transfer follows an officially disclosed purchase of 42,197 ETH last week and pushes the largest Ethereum treasury company closer to its target of owning 5% of all ETH.As of its July 5 update, Bitmine held 5.74 million ETH, about 4.8% of circulating supply, with total crypto and cash holdings near $11.1 billion a

Key TakeawaysThe Federal Reserve released the minutes of its June 16 to 17 meeting on July 8 at 2:00 p.m. ET, the last detailed look at the committee's thinking before the July 28 to 29 FOMC meeting.The Fed held rates at 3.50% to 3.75% in June, but the updated dot plot turned hawkish: 9 of 18 officials now project at least one rate hike before the end of 2026, and the median year end projection rose to 3.8% from 3.4% in March.The minutes carry unusual weight because new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh wit

Overview Robinhood spent a year paving the way for its own blockchain, pitching tokenized US stocks as the serious narrative, yet the first asset to truly break out on the new chain is a cartoon cat called CASHCAT. The market is watching closely because the token surged within 24 hours and vaulted past a $100 million market cap, becoming the first real test of whether Robinhood Chain can achieve a cold start on community momentum. According to KuCoin, citing GMGN monitoring, CASHCAT's market cap

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