China now accounts for 38% of global fintech patent filings after a 10-fold jump in a decade, overtaking the US, per a Nikkei report. The rails race is on.

An attacker bought $4M of BONK, pushed a malicious proposal through BonkDAO's token-weighted vote, and drained $20M from the treasury. The vote was valid.

Richard Heathcote, Tether's ex-CIO, is working with PJT Partners to sell part of his 1.26% stake. At the $500B valuation Tether floated, that slice is worth billions.

Oobit users can now send Litecoin straight to a bank account with no stablecoin or fiat conversion step first. Fees and country coverage are not yet published.

The White House says the US is working to structure its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Bloomberg reports two departments are fighting over who gets to run it.

Strategy sold 3,588 BTC for $216M to fund preferred dividends, its first large-scale sale ever. Holdings drop to 843,775 BTC as the math trap tightens.

WSJ says Strategy is caught in a math trap: 847,363 BTC underwater, mNAV near 0.80, and a $1.2B annual preferred dividend bill. The flywheel has reversed.

South Korea's Supreme Court proposed Civil Execution Rules for seizing and liquidating crypto, letting courts convert illiquid tokens to Bitcoin from October 2026.

Ripple received its EU CASP license from Luxembourg's CSSF on July 6, making it fully MiCA-compliant and able to passport crypto services across the EEA.

Coinspect discloses Ill Bloom, a weak-randomness flaw in seed phrase generation across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron and more. $5M drained since May 27. How to check.