Gate Insights and Crypto Market Analysis

Citadel Securities invested $400 million in Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation, according to an announcement on Thursday. The funding will accelerate Crypto.com's expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives as blockchain technology disrupts traditional finance. This marks Crypto.com's

Dutch cryptocurrency platform Knaken has been declared bankrupt by a Rotterdam court after prosecutors said approximately €7 million ($8.1 million) in customer funds could not be accounted for. The ruling issued Thursday also placed Stichting Knaken Payments, the foundation established to

Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15—a 975-billion-parameter multimodal AI model with full weights available under an Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face. The company was founded by Mira Murati, former OpenAI CTO who left in September 2024. Inkling scores 74.1% on MCP Atlas—nearly 30

Arthur Hayes, founder of BitMEX, purchased 1,293 Ethereum approximately two hours ago, according to on-chain data platform Lookonchain. The transaction, valued at approximately $2.48 million at current market prices, was executed through a wallet address believed to belong to Hayes. Ethereum

Morgan Stanley's ETRADE platform launched spot cryptocurrency trading for Bitcoin, Ether, and Solana through Zero Hash partnership. The pilot began in May before expanding to eligible clients across 8.6 million households holding $1.56 trillion in client assets as of March 31. The service charges a

Ricardo Salinas anchored a $40 million raise for ORANGE JUICE on July 15, 2026. Lyn Alden announced the fundraise from the company's headquarters in Westport, Connecticut. The firm targets businesses generating $1 million to $10 million in annual cash flow and plans to hold acquisitions

The dollar-pegged stablecoin market reached approximately $316 billion in total capitalization by June 2026, with Tether USDT at $187 billion and Circle USDC at $75 billion controlling 83% of supply, according to DefiLlama on-chain data. The GENIUS Act, signed into law on July 18, 2025,

Gold prices fell to session lows on Thursday morning after the Philadelphia Federal Reserve's manufacturing business outlook survey for July rose to 41.4, far exceeding the expected reading of 13.0 and June's 10.3. The better-than-expected

The White House posted a nine-second video Wednesday promoting a physical Trump Coin, a $1 commemorative piece for America's 250th independence anniversary. The social media post caused brief confusion with the TRUMP memecoin, which shares the same name but is a separate Solana-based

President Donald Trump made 44 stock purchases across 21 companies within a week before posting about them on Truth Social, a review found. The posts mentioned those firms, their executives, or their products. One example involved Nvidia, where Trump purchased between $200,000 and $500,000 of stock

Gabriel Perez, President Donald Trump's teleprompter operator for about a decade, is in negotiations with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over allegations that he used insider knowledge to place bets on Kalshi about Trump's speeches, according to ABC News on Thursday. The alleged bets

Intel (INTC) shares dropped over 6% in midday trade on Thursday to a two-month low, despite announcing an expanded AI partnership with Google Cloud (GOOGL) and receiving a price target increase from Susquehanna. The stock's decline came amid broader weakness in technology shares, with the

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported on the 16th local time that US pending home sales for June declined 5.4% month-over-month and 0.3% year-over-year, significantly underperforming market expectations of a 0.5% monthly decline. The drop was attributed to mortgage rates reaching

Three men in the UK were sentenced to prison terms ranging from six years nine months to eleven years after orchestrating a cryptocurrency theft scheme that netted $5.4 million by impersonating police officers and creating fake police websites. Hamza Bashir, Kevin Nwamma, and Anthony Ikenwe

South Korea's Ministry of Economy and Finance and Financial Services Commission announced on the 16th that they will raise the basic deposit requirement for purchasing single-stock leveraged ETFs from 10 million won to 30 million won starting next month 5th. From next month 19th, investors must

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) announced on July 16 local time that the US Housing Market Index (HMI) fell 2 points to 34 in July, missing the market expectation of 35. The decline reflects persistent affordability challenges driven by high mortgage rates, expensive land, rising ma

T. Rowe Price, a legacy asset manager overseeing nearly $1.9 trillion in client assets, launched its first actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETF today. The T. Rowe Price Crypto ETF, trading under ticker TKNZ on NYSE Arca, entered the crypto exchange-traded fund market nearly nine months

SharonAI Holdings Inc. (SHAZ) announced Thursday it signed a $1.32 billion cloud computing service agreement with a global artificial intelligence lab, while shares tumbled nearly 7% amid a broader market pullback in chip stocks. B. Riley analyst Fedor Shabalin characterized

The US Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution on Wednesday declaring that former FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried should not receive executive clemency. The nonbinding resolution, S.Res. 772, was introduced by Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), chair and ranking me