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The US state of New Hampshire has passed a law allowing residents to independently store cryptocurrency and prohibiting government restrictions on digital asset transactions. The law also protects mining, staking, and the operation of blockchain nodes. A separate court system may be established to resolve crypto disputes.

A solo miner using a Bitaxe device mined block #957,382 on the Bitcoin network via the Public Pool service. The reward was 3.1382 BTC (~$200,000).
The user's hardware operated for approximately eight hours with an average hashrate of less than 1 TH/s. With this power, the chance of finding a block is approximately once every 18,000 years. This is the second known instance of a single Bitaxe device finding a solo block.

Ripple faced demise after an SEC lawsuit in 2020. CEO Brad Garlinghouse stated that the company was seriously considering shutting down its business and distributing its XRP holdings among shareholders.
Ultimately, Ripple decided to fight the lawsuit. The litigation lasted over four years and cost approximately $150 million, but the company saved its business and hundreds of jobs.

Analysts note that Bitcoin's performance over the past four months and historical parallels suggest a high probability of continued upward movement in the near future.

The Protocol Security team at the Ethereum Foundation has launched several specialized agents against critical components. One of the discovered bugs has already been disclosed as CVE-2026-34219.
The EF emphasized that AI has not replaced human researchers: more time is now spent on verifying which of these hypotheses are actually vulnerabilities rather than on generating hypotheses.

SWIFT announced the launch of a new blockchain registry, in which 17 major banks will participate in a pilot project for tokenized deposits.

StarkWare co-founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson stated that the fixed supply cap of 21 million coins for the first cryptocurrency is pointless. He called for abandoning the current model and moving to an annual issuance rate of 4%.

The DIPI indicator, which tracks stressed BTC inflows to exchanges, is signaling a possible correction, CryptoQuant reports. Such surges typically occur during periods of maximum market pressure, as seen in 2018 and 2022.

Ripple has received a crypto asset service provider (CASP) license from the Luxembourg financial regulator. The company is now fully compliant with the European MiCA requirements.
According to the company's announcement, this step paves the way for the launch of regulated crypto payment products in all 30 countries of the European Economic Area.

Almost half of Bitcoin's total supply is currently in the red, and most of these coins are held by long-term holders. This group is suffering losses but is not selling their assets, Bifinex experts noted.

TRON developers have implemented support for post-quantum digital signatures on the Nile testnet. The first algorithm activated was FN-DSA-512, and the release also added support for ML-DSA-44. The update is positioned as a defense against potential future attacks on ECDSA cryptography. TRON founder Justin Sun did not specify a timeline for the feature's mainnet rollout.

The Zcash blockchain development team warned of a possible delay in the Ironwood upgrade activation, as some crypto exchanges, pools, and wallets may not be able to implement the changes by the end of July.
The ecosystem is currently preparing for two major changes: Ironwood itself and the deprecation of the old zcashd validator and node software in favor of the Z3 stack.

Donald Trump is reportedly planning to issue 250 pardons for the 250th anniversary of the United States. Rumors are circulating in cryptocurrency circles that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried may be among those pardoned. Amid these rumors, the price of the FTT token temporarily rose by 25%, but soon fell again.

In the second quarter, Bitcoin prices fell by 14.1%, while Ethereum fell by 25.3%. Both leading digital assets by market capitalization have suffered losses over the past three periods. However, Ethereum's declines have been consistently deeper.

In June, investors withdrew $4.06 billion from BTC ETFs.
This marked the largest monthly outflow since the launch of these products in January 2024, surpassing the previous record of $3.56 billion set in February 2025.

The Bank for International Settlements has stated that current stablecoins, such as USDT and USDC, cannot be considered fully-fledged money. This is because they do not provide guaranteed exchange at par between different issuers and blockchains.
Regulators believe that such stablecoins are more like dollar ETFs, which, if the market rises, could increase dollarization and create risks for weaker currencies.

The volume of Bitcoin holdings in unrealized losses has reached an all-time high.
Previously, this figure's rise signaled the approach of a market bottom.

Bitcoin's current 53% decline from its all-time high is the smallest bear market of all time, Cointelegraph reports. Typically, declines reach 77-93%, although current levels are already significant enough to significantly reduce the value of most altcoins.

BTC is repeating the patterns of past bear markets.
Bitcoin's seasonality suggests that 2026 will resemble periods when the market experienced prolonged declines after breaking key levels. History suggests several more months of weakness may lie ahead.

Crypto exchanges are switching to RWA assets.
Large altcoins are becoming a separate category, while interest in smaller altcoins is declining. Meanwhile, the popularity of RWA assets is steadily growing.