Gate Insights and Crypto Market Analysis

Bitcoin custody firm Onramp published a research report in July 2026 arguing that investors should buy spot bitcoin rather than paper claims as the asset trades at about half its late-2025 high. The report, titled 'Back to Basics,' identifies a market divergence: bitcoin sits at roughly 50% of its p

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh told the House Financial Services Committee on July 14 that the central bank will decline to rescue the cryptocurrency industry in a crisis. The statement came during his first semiannual monetary policy testimony

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Fox News on Tuesday that the United States froze a crypto wallet linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps worth $130 million, part of a campaign to track the assets of Iran's supreme leader around the world. Bessent framed the Treasury work as on

Strategy sold approximately $263.5 million worth of MSTR shares between July 13 and July 19 and made no bitcoin purchases during that period, according to an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. The bitcoin treasury company reported the sale of 2,732,318 MSTR shares, wit

A Stanford and Singapore Management University study found that 821 traders extracted $8.2 million from retail bettors on Polymarket's five-minute Bitcoin binary contracts, which launched on February 12, 2026. The paper "Settlement Manipulation in Prediction Markets" by David Dai, Ruizhe Jia, and

Bitcoin underperformed risk-on assets in 2026, with NYDIG reporting the cryptocurrency could drop to $38,000 by October based on historical cycle patterns. The asset traded at $64,809, down nearly 30% year-to-date and approximately 50% below its October all-time high of $126,080. NYDIG attributed th

SBI Holdings completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Coinhako, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency platform, after securing approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The transaction closed July 16 through SBI's subsidiary SBI Ventures Asset Pte. Ltd., which injected capital

Foundry Digital, the world's leading Bitcoin mining pool operator based in Rochester, New York, announced Friday it will allow mining clients to vote on BIP-110 using their hashrate to signal support or opposition to the proposal. The voting mechanism aims to give miners a voice in network

The Fed will release its July interest rate decision at 12:00 a.m. Beijing time on July 30. This was widely seen by the market as a “transitional meeting”—a policy window between the June pause and the expected action in September. However, a series of events over the past three weeks has completely changed the tone of the meeting. As of July 27, the CME FedWatch tool shows that the market is pricing a 68.5% probability that rates will be kept unchanged in July, while the probability of a 25 bps

The Senate passed a resolution on Wednesday stating that Sam Bankman-Fried should receive no executive clemency under any circumstances, rebuking the FTX founder's request for President Donald Trump to commute or pardon his 25-year sentence. The measure, S. Res. 772, cleared by unanimous consent

An attacker compromised owner-level privileges on the WEMIX$ stablecoin smart contract on July 26, minting 5.23 million WEMIX$ tokens worth approximately $6.25 million before the breach was detected. The exploit targeted privileged contract access rather than user wallets, allowing the attacker to m

Bitcoin inflow data from Binance reveals a sharp divergence between whale and retail investor behavior over the past 30 days, according to on-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant. Whale Bitcoin inflows to Binance collapsed 44.3% from a mid-June peak to $3.9 billion, while retail investor inflows

Bitcoin price jumped over $65,500 on Wednesday following US inflation data showing producer prices fell in June. The Producer Price Index excluding food and energy declined 0.3% in June according to Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, posting its biggest drop in 14 months. Bitcoin was recently

Galaxy Digital launched a Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative today, committing up to $5 million in developer grants to protect the network against quantum computers. The program addresses a gap between rapid quantum computing advancement and Bitcoin's early-stage engagement with post-quantum

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse publicly called for Congress to advance the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act on July 22, endorsing a message from Ripple Chief Legal Officer Stu Alderoty with the statement: "Perfect can't be the enemy of good. Let's get this done!" The push comes as the bill sits in

Bitcoin miners are currently earning 80% of their previous year's average according to the latest Puell Multiple data, marking a recovery from a few weeks ago when the metric dropped to 0.53. Despite reduced profitability following the halving event that cut block rewards in half, Bitcoin's

DS Investment Securities downgraded its target price for Doosan Fuel Cell stocks from 56,000 won to 47,000 won on July 27, citing delays in overseas order inflows beyond initial expectations while maintaining a 'Buy' rating. Analyst Ahn Joo-won attributed the revision to slower-than-anticipated

CoinRabbit integrated Bitrefill's marketplace into its platform, allowing users to purchase digital products using crypto-backed loan funds without selling their holdings. The integration addresses two challenges crypto holders face: losing long-term asset exposure and triggering taxable events

BitMart began winding down on Sunday, three days after BitMEX confirmed its own exit, while AscendEX closed on July 1, bringing the total number of exchange closures this month to three. Both BitMart and BitMEX cited market conditions and strategy as reasons for winding down, while AscendEX