Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) reportedly pulled another 500 bitcoin out of a decade-dormant wallet this week, bringing its 2026 recovery total from a single cannabis dealer’s stash to 1,500 BTC, worth more than $92 million at current prices.

First discovered in 1739, more than 100 Gallo-Roman dodecahedrons have since turned up, largely across the northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire. The hollow bronze pieces, built with 12 pentagonal faces and small spheres at each vertex, still have no agreed-upon purpose despite decades of research and dozens of competing theories.

Blockchain privacy firm Fhenix has acquired Sunscreen, an early-stage developer specializing in fully homomorphic encryption for Web3 applications.

Spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds experienced a record $4.5 billion in net outflows in June, marking the worst monthly withdrawal since their 2024 approval.

The Indian government has reportedly issued notices to Telegram and Signal over username features, warning they could enable impersonation and fraud, after taking similar action against WhatsApp.

Senator Cynthia Lummis said the CLARITY Act contains more than 16 illicit finance safeguards, pushing back against claims that the legislation would create loopholes for money laundering and sanctions evasion.

The Senate faces mounting pressure to act on the CLARITY Act before its August recess, and failure to advance it now could stall years of bipartisan work while leaving the crypto industry in regulatory limbo.

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has charged Usie Otukpa Osang with eight counts of fraud for his alleged role in a multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency scam.

Metaplanet purchased 2,823 bitcoin during Q2 2026 for $225 million at an average price of $78,872 per bitcoin. This grew its total treasury to 43,000 BTC, with an aggregate lifetime cost basis of $4.09 billion.

SBI Crypto is shutting down its bitcoin mining pool, closing out more than five years of operation on July 31, 2026.

Euroclear, one of the largest European clearinghouses, argues that the trial it faced in Russia, where courts ordered it to release nearly $232 billion in blocked assets, was unfair. Euroclear fears that some of its assets in international jurisdictions might be affected.

Bitcoin rebounded to a daily high of $62,137, marking a 3% 24-hour gain and establishing a bright start to July after bouncing off a recent low of $57,735.

Bitcoin core developer Jon Atack is telling users to hold off on transactions during the second week of August 2026, pointing to reorg risk tied to BIP-110’s activation window.

Ondo Finance tokenized U.S. securities for the first time inside existing regulatory boundaries, using Blackrock’s Ishares Core S&P 500 exchange-traded fund (ETF) and Micron stock as its opening deployment.

Anchorage Digital, the only federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, has integrated with Lido, the largest liquid staking protocol on Ethereum.