Bitcoin price forecasts diverge as US-Iran war tensions fueled an ongoing oil and bond-market surge, while July Fed rate-hike odds neared 40%.

A Shanghai-based insurance-tech company trading below $1 wants to build a bitcoin treasury by taking BTC directly as payment for new shares.

BitMEX's shutdown marks the end of one of crypto's earliest derivatives exchanges as analysts point to rising regulatory costs, market concentration and the shift toward licensed trading venues.

The crypto asset manager thinks the four-year cycle is dead, suggesting Bitcoin's price will follow macro forces and the Fed's next move.

WASHINGTON, DC, July 23, 2026 ( GLOBE NEWSWIRE ) -- Alpha Compute Corp. ( Nasdaq: ALP ) , an AI infrastructure company specializing in GPU-as-a-Service and AI Confidential Computing, announced last week the launch of the Right2Compute Campaign on stage at CPAC London.

The investment marks Empery's latest push into AI infrastructure as the company shifts capital away from its Bitcoin treasury strategy.

Ether trades below its realized price while onchain indicators point to easing selling pressure and recovering demand, though a definitive cycle bottom has yet to emerge.

Nine of the biggest institutional names in Bitcoin formed a consortium to fund the developers working to keep the network secure-including from future quantum computers.

A consortium led by Strategy and BlackRock has pledged $15 million to secure the Bitcoin network from the threat of a quantum computing breakthrough.

BitMEX's BMEX token plunged about 90% after the exchange announced plans to shut down, ending nearly 12 years in business as its Bitcoin futures market share shrank.

Once-fragmented syndicates have fused into a single, tech-driven criminal economy that increasingly runs on crypto, the UNODC warns.

At least that's what Bitwise's CIO believes. Plus Republicans publish new Clarity Act draft, and the SEC Commissioner has a warning for DeFi.