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Bitcoin ETFs post a fifth straight day of inflows in a first since April

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Bitcoin ETFs post a fifth straight day of inflows in a first since April

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs took in about $227 million on July 20, a fifth consecutive day of net inflows for the first time since late April, per SoSoValue data. Ether ETFs added about $38 million, led by BlackRock’s ETHA.

The five-day run has pulled in roughly $727 million, the most sustained stretch of buying since the record outflows of June. Total bitcoin ETF assets have climbed back to about $79 billion from a July low near $75 billion. BlackRock’s ETHA drove the ether side with about $34 million.

Bitcoin has held its range near $63,000 as last week’s chip-driven selloff paused, and the return of the ETF bid is the piece that had been missing through a quarter of mostly outflows.

The test is what it holds through. The Fed meets July 28 and 29, and Big Tech earnings land this week, with Alphabet, Tesla and Intel reporting the numbers that will show whether AI spending, the trade bitcoin has moved with all month, is still climbing.

Ripple-linked token up 4% as traders watch breakout toward $1.35

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Ripple-linked token up 4% as traders watch breakout toward $1.35

• Volume increased during the breakout attempt, with CoinGecko showing 24-hour trading volume of about $1.27 billion.

• XRP held above the $1.08-$1.10 area through the session, keeping the short-term recovery structure intact.

Technical Analysis

• The key short-term level is $1.13. A sustained break above it would confirm the triangle breakout watched by traders and bring $1.35 into focus.

• The hourly structure has tightened into a symmetrical triangle, with price compressing between lower highs and higher lows before the latest push higher.

• The daily chart remains more cautious. XRP is still trading inside a descending channel, with the 100-day and 200-day moving averages above price and sloping lower.

• The $1.24-$1.28 area remains the bigger resistance zone because it lines up with the channel’s upper boundary and major moving averages.

• Support remains strongest around $1.02-$1.06, where buyers have repeatedly stepped in over recent weeks.

What traders should watch

• $1.13 is the immediate breakout level. Holding above it would strengthen the short-term bullish setup.

• $1.14 is the next nearby level after marking the top of the latest 24-hour range.

• $1.24-$1.28 is the major resistance zone that XRP needs to clear before the daily chart turns meaningfully stronger.

• $1.02-$1.06 remains the key demand zone. Losing it would expose $0.88-$0.92.

Bitget Ranks No. 2 Globally in TradFi Perpetual Trading, Recording Nearly $70B in Q2 TokenInsight Report Finds

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Bitget Ranks No. 2 Globally in TradFi Perpetual Trading, Recording Nearly $70B in Q2 TokenInsight Report Finds

Global, July 21, 2026— Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has emerged as one of the leading venues for TradFi trading products, generating nearly $70 billion in TradFi perpetual trading volume in Q2 2026, according to the TokenInsight Q2 2026 Crypto Exchange Report. The report cements Bitget’s growing presence in the rapidly expanding TradFi segment, where crypto exchanges are increasingly connecting digital asset infrastructure with global financial markets.

The report found that TradFi perpetuals became one of the fastest-growing segments across crypto exchanges during Q2, with monthly trading volume increasing from $52 billion in January to $268 billion in June. Equity perpetuals became the main growth driver during the quarter as exchanges expanded into tokenized stocks, IPO products, and other real-world assets. TokenInsight noted that TradFi perpetuals have evolved from an emerging product category into a strategically important area of competition for exchanges.

Bitget’s growth in TradFi markets follows a series of product launches under its Universal Exchange strategy, including IPO Prime and Stocks 2.0, which were highlighted by TokenInsight among the industry’s notable Q2 developments. The report also found that TradFi perpetuals accounted for 8.61% of Bitget’s total derivatives volume, the second-highest penetration rate among major centralized exchanges.

During the quarter, Bitget maintained a top-three position across both commodity and equity perpetual markets, while recording nearly $70 billion in TradFi perpetual trading volume. The exchange also expanded its broader derivatives position, with futures open interest market share increasing from 7.81% in Q1 to 8.58% in Q2, marking one of the strongest gains among major exchanges tracked by TokenInsight.

“The data points to a market that is starting to catch up with the vision behind our Universal Exchange,” said Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget. “UEX is built around the belief that investors don’t want separate platforms for crypto and traditional finance, they want frictionless access to opportunities across both. The trading volumes we’re seeing today reinforces that this is where the market is heading.”

The findings come as the broader exchange industry shifts toward multi-asset trading. While total crypto exchange volume declined modestly to $16.5 trillion in Q2, spot activity recovered from $3.3 trillion to $4.5 trillion as market participants responded to renewed volatility and Bitcoin’s repeated tests of the $60,000 support level.

Bitget’s Universal Exchange ecosystem brings together crypto, tokenized equities, commodities, and other global assets through a unified trading experience. As TradFi and crypto markets continue to converge, Bitget continues expanding the infrastructure needed to support increasingly diverse trading activity.

Read TokenInsight’s Q2 2026 Crypto Exchange Report here.

About Bitget

Bitget is the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to over 2M crypto tokens, 500+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals such as gold. The ecosystem is committed to helping users trade smarter with its AI agent, which co-pilots trade execution. Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships such as MotoGP™. Aligned with its global impact strategy, Bitget has joined hands with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads in the tokenized TradFi market, providing the industry’s lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions worldwide.

Risk Warning: Digital asset prices are subject to fluctuation and may experience significant volatility. Investors are advised to only allocate funds they can afford to lose. The value of any investment may be impacted, and there is a possibility that financial objectives may not be met, nor the principal investment recovered. Independent financial advice should always be sought, and personal financial experience and standing carefully considered. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. Bitget accepts no liability for any potential losses incurred. Nothing contained herein should be construed as financial advice. For further information, please refer to our Terms of Use.

Source: Bitget

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Capital B Plans 10-for-1 Reverse Stock Split For September

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Capital B Plans 10-for-1 Reverse Stock Split For September

Capital B, the Paris-listed bitcoin treasury company once known as The Blockchain Group, will combine every 10 existing shares into one new share beginning September 8, according to a regulatory filing the company published Monday.

The consolidation reduces the number of outstanding shares from 300,650,632 to 30,065,063. Each new share will carry a par value of €0.80, up from €0.08 for the existing stock. The company framed the transaction as a “purely technical exchange” that leaves the aggregate value of each shareholder’s holdings unchanged, save for the treatment of fractional entitlements.

Capital B said the move aims to “support the company’s institutional development and to open the company’s shares to a broader universe of investors.” 

Many institutional funds operate under internal rules that bar them from holding stocks below a set price, and some exchanges impose minimum-price thresholds for continued listing. A higher quoted price per share removes one barrier to that participation.

Capital B shares trade near €0.48 on Euronext Growth Paris and have declined about 40% since the start of the year, per Google Finance data. Should the company’s market value hold, each consolidated share would open near €4.80.

Key dates for Capital B shareholders

The reverse split period runs from August 6 through September 7. Shareholders who hold a number of shares divisible by 10 will see their positions converted with no action required. 

Those holding leftover shares can buy or sell stock before the deadline to reach a round multiple of 10. For investors who do not, financial intermediaries will sell the shares tied to fractional entitlements and distribute the cash proceeds, with payments set to begin September 14.

September 7 marks the final trading day for the existing shares. The consolidated shares start trading the following day under a new ISIN, the code exchanges use to identify a security. The company has set September 9 as the record date and September 10 for settlement and delivery.

Capital B will also pause conversions of certain convertible bonds and exercises of share warrants from August 17 through September 10. After the split, the company will adjust conversion prices and warrant ratios to reflect the reduced share count, multiplying bond conversion prices by 10 while dividing warrant ratios and unvested free shares by 10.

Treasury strategy stays central

The share restructuring does not add bitcoin to the balance sheet or raise new capital on its own. It changes the number and nominal value of shares through a technical consolidation, a step the company tied to its goal of reaching a wider investor base.

Capital B’s bitcoin holdings

Capital B holds 3,139 BTC, a figure that ranks it as the second-largest listed corporate bitcoin holder in Europe, according to BitcoinTreasuries.net. Germany’s Bitcoin Group SE sits ahead of it with 3,605 BTC, the data shows. Capital B, which describes itself as Europe’s first bitcoin treasury company, built much of that position through fundraising rounds during the first half of 2026. 

In May, it acquired 192 BTC for €13 million after completing three capital raises.

The company has moved to widen its access to capital. In June, shareholders approved authority for as much as €5 billion in capital increases and €100 billion in credit instruments, resolutions that drew more than 95% support from votes cast. Those approvals give the board financing capacity for future purchases.

Capital B measures progress through bitcoin held per fully diluted share rather than total reserves alone, a framework common among bitcoin treasury companies. The firm has also said it is developing a bitcoin-backed credit product for the European market, though it has not set a launch date.

Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Shares Jump On $9.8 Billion AI Data Center Deal

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Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Shares Jump On $9.8 Billion AI Data Center Deal

Bitcoin miner Hut 8’s shares rose Monday after the Toronto Stock Exchange- and Nasdaq-listed firm said it had signed a second 15-year lease worth $9.8 billion for its AI data center. 

Hut 8 shares peaked as high as $106 a pop before dropping to around $101. They closed Monday up over 10%. 

The deal will see the Toronto-based firm’s Beacon Point campus in Texas data center cover 352 megawatts of IT capacity. The tenant using the data center’s will have its capacity doubled to 704 MW.

Hut 8 added that the campus has a base-term contract value of $19.6 billion over 15 years, rising to as much as $50.2 billion if renewal options are exercised.

Asher Genoot, CEO of Hut 8, said: “The real test of our power-first approach is what our partners are willing to commit against it. Our tenant at Beacon Point chose to double its footprint at the site, the strongest validation an asset can receive.”

Hut 8 last year signed a deal with American Data Centers Inc., a company backed by President Donald Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Jr., to contribute its Bitcoin mining equipment and help debut their American Bitcoin mining firm. 

AI pivot

Hut 8 is one of a number of top publicly listed miners that have started directing resources to providing the infrastructure for high-powered computing.

The company in December secured a Google-backed partnership with Anthropic and Fluidstack to build up to 2.3 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in the U.S.

A number of Bitcoin miners have already gone all-in on the industry as minting the biggest digital coin by market cap becomes harder and demand for AI compute surges. 

As the price Bitcoin has dipped, it has become harder for Bitcoin miners to make ends meet. 

Nasdaq-listed Bitfarms last year announced that it would wind down mining operations to focus on high-performance computing.

Instead of dropping mining operations completely, a number of Bitcoin miners have instead marketed themselves as “compute” or “digital infrastructure” companies while switching between minting digital coins and providing compute for AI — depending on which is more profitable.

Top miners Terawulf, IREN, and Cipher Mining all last year signed multi-year HPC contracts with Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft.

Both the crypto mining and HPC industries require huge amounts of energy and data centers — but the move isn’t always easy: AI data centres require more expertise than Bitcoin mining.

Celsius Co-Founders Leon, Goldstein to Pay FTC Over $6M

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Celsius Co-Founders Leon, Goldstein to Pay FTC Over $6M

Celsius co-founders Shlomi Daniel Leon and Hanoch “Nuke” Goldstein have been ordered to pay over $6 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges alleging they misrepresented the safety of the Celsius platform before the company collapsed. 

Goldstein, Celsius’ former chief technology officer, was ordered to pay $2.014 million under an order signed Monday by US District Judge Denise Cote. Leon, the firm’s former chief strategy officer, was ordered to pay $4.1 million under a separate order entered on June 29. 

The settlements extend the fallout from the 2022 collapse of Celsius beyond its former CEO Alex Mashinsky. The crypto lending platform, which held $25 billion in assets at its peak, owed its users $4.7 billion when it filed for bankruptcy in July 2022. 

The order also bars Leon from marketing or selling products or services that can be used to deposit, exchange, invest or withdraw assets, the FTC said in a statement Monday. 

“Similarly, Goldstein has agreed to a ban on marketing or selling retail products or services that can be used to buy, sell, deposit, withdraw, distribute or trade cryptocurrency.”

Related: Celsius’ Mashinsky gets permanent trading ban in CFTC settlement

FTC allegations against Celsius co-founders 

The FTC alleged that Celsius falsely told customers it held sufficient reserves to meet withdrawal demands, maintained a $750 million insurance policy covering customer deposits and did not issue unsecured loans. 

“The FTC, however, alleged that the promises were false and that its top executives continued to claim that customers’ deposits were safe days before the company filed for bankruptcy,” it said. 

Mashinsky settles FTC case for $10 million

In April, Mashinsky agreed to an FTC settlement that permanently bars him from promoting asset-related products and required him to pay $10 million as part of a broader, partially suspended $4.72 billion judgment. 

The $2.014 million and $4.1 million payments from Goldstein and Leon, respectively, will also be credited against the $4.72 billion judgment. The judgments reflect the consumer harm alleged by the FTC. 

Separately, Mashinsky was sentenced to 12 years in prison in May 2025 after pleading guilty to commodities and securities fraud charges, with prosecutors saying he misled Celsius customers about the company’s profitability, investment risks and the safety of customer funds. 

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Moonshot AI IPO push follows Kimi, Alibaba AI releases that shook bitcoin

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Moonshot AI IPO push follows Kimi, Alibaba AI releases that shook bitcoin

K3 forms the bedrock of why the listing looks different than it would have a month ago. The open-weight model outscored every rival – except Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 – on certain parameters, and topped a widely watched coding benchmark outright, triggering a semiconductor selloff on Friday that dragged crypto down with it.

Moonshot is not moving alone, however. China’s Alibaba said Sunday its Qwen3.8 model is going open-weight, a 2.4 trillion-parameter system the company claims trails only Fable 5 among frontier models. A preview version, Qwen3.8-Max, is already live across Alibaba’s developer tools.

Open weights let anyone run a model without paying its maker, which pressures the pricing power of American providers that charge by the token.

A parameter is one of the internal dials a model adjusts during training to get better at predicting text. Modern models have billions or trillions of them, and the count is the rough, imperfect shorthand the industry uses for raw size.

Bitcoin has traded as a proxy for the AI capital cycle all month, and its miners have rebuilt themselves into AI data-center landlords whose leases depend on demand for compute holding up.

The next read comes this week, when Alphabet, Tesla and Intel report earnings that will show whether AI capital spending is still climbing, and whether the miners betting on it keep their footing.

White House Crypto Adviser Stays on as CLARITY Nears Senate Vote

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White House Crypto Adviser Stays on as CLARITY Nears Senate Vote

The White House’s top crypto adviser Patrick Witt said he will no longer take a leave of absence at the end of the month for military training, allowing him to remain at the White House to help advance the CLARITY Act in the Senate.

“Last week, it was reported that I was set to leave for mandatory training as part of my service in the Georgia Army National Guard, right before Clarity hits the Senate floor,” Witt said in an X post on Monday. 

“While I remain committed to fulfilling my service obligation, I am grateful to report that my training has been deferred, and that I will be able to see this effort through to the end,” he added. 

Source: Patrick Witt

The CLARITY Act, which would create the first comprehensive US regulatory framework for the crypto market, faces a make-or-break deadline to pass the Senate before the Aug. 8 recess. Witt is the White House’s lead negotiator on the legislation. 

Witt, who has served as the executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets since August, had been expected to report for Judge Advocate General (JAG) training with the Georgia Army National Guard on July 27. The training will qualify him to serve as a legal officer in the Guard. 

Related: Democrats added certain consumer protection rules to CLARITY: Coinbase exec

According to a report from Crypto In America on Tuesday, Witt had already deferred his mandatory military training in April to remain at the White House to work on CLARITY Act negotiations, which stretched on longer than expected. This is the second time Witt has deferred his training.

Harry Jung to leave White House Crypto Council

Witt staying at the White House comes as Harry Jung, the Deputy Director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, announced he will leave his post. 

“In two weeks, I will leave government service with immense gratitude,” said Jung in a post to X on Monday. “These past two years transformed America’s position on crypto. I’m proud of all we accomplished.” 

Jung was originally slated to take over Witt’s responsibilities in the crypto council while he was on military leave, according to Crypto In America. 

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Bitcoin rises to one-month high of $65,700 before pulling back with stocks

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Bitcoin rises to one-month high of $65,700 before pulling back with stocks

Up more than 1% at its best levels on Monday, the Nasdaq steadily lost ground throughout the afternoon hours, closing roughly unchanged for the day.

The S&P 500 fell 0.15%, and the DJIA dropped 0.6%.

The rally began early in the morning as oil dipped by about $3 per barrel to below $80 on a report that Iran was seeking to renew ceasefire talks.

That report failed to have legs, though, with WTI crude rising back to about one-month highs of $82.50.

Alongside, the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield gained five basis points to 4.59%, with short-term rate traders ratcheting up July Fed rate hike odds to 16% and September rate hike odds to 63%, according to CME FedWatch.

The risk selloff dented bitcoin’s tepid rally to a new one-month high of $65,700, the price falling back to $65,000 as stocks closed for the day.

Bitcoin Holds $65K Amid Tech Sell-Off. Cautious Bulls Eye $70K Rally.

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Bitcoin Holds $65K Amid Tech Sell-Off. Cautious Bulls Eye $70K Rally.

Key takeaways:

  • Bitcoin futures and options show whales still prefer hedging downside risks as socio-economic risks mount.
  • Rising Treasury yields and declines in AI stocks fuel risk aversion, yet BTC’s strength signals continued decoupling.

Bitcoin (BTC) showed relative strength over the past week, despite failing to break above $65,500. More importantly, the cryptocurrency has decoupled from traditional markets as investors took profits in memory-chip makers amid fears of excessive valuations in the artificial intelligence sector. Still, judging by Bitcoin’s derivative metrics, top traders are not particularly confident about a rally toward $70,000.

Bitcoin perpetual futures annualized funding rate. Source: Laevitas

The Bitcoin perpetual futures annualized funding rate stood at a neutral 8% mark on Monday, flat from one week prior. Excessive demand for bullish leverage drives the indicator above the 12% level, which last occurred on July 10. It is unclear if Bitcoin traders’ lack of optimism is somewhat related to contagion fears from the sell-off in tech stocks or the war in Iran.

Nasdaq-100 futures (left) vs. Bitcoin/USD (right). Source: TradingView

The tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 Index dropped below 28,800 on Friday for the first time in five weeks, while Bitcoin displayed strength over the weekend and eventually broke above $65,000 on Monday. Strategy announced a successful raise of $263 million in cash by selling common stock during the prior week, easing concerns of potential Bitcoin sell pressure.

Investors became extremely anxious about Strategy’s $1.76 billion annual dividend payout to its preferred perpetual equity shareholders, in addition to the $2.6 billion of convertible debt maturing in 2028 and 2029. By raising cash reserves to a comfortable $3.22 billion, the company hopes to eliminate the uncertainty caused by unrealized Bitcoin losses held in its balance sheet.

Bitcoin 30-day options delta skew (put-call) at Deribit. Source: Laevitas

The Bitcoin 30-day options delta skew stood at 13% on Monday, meaning puts (sell) traded at a premium relative to calls (buy). Under neutral conditions, the indicator should range from -6% to +6%. Despite the modest improvement from the prior week’s 19% delta skew, whales and market makers remain reluctant to hold downside price exposure.

Bitcoin’s resilience amid AI stocks weakness and increased risk aversion

The sell-off in AI-related stocks has also caused investors to act more risk-averse. The sharp declines in the shares of IBM, SanDisk, Oracle, ARM, SpaceX and Intel coincided with a rally in 5-year US Treasury yields. Traders demanded higher returns to hold government bonds, indicating they anticipate further expansionary monetary measures due to the ongoing fiscal debt issue.

Gold/USD (left) vs. US 5-year Treasury yield (right): Source: TradingView

The US 5-year Treasury yield surged to 4.33% on Monday, up from 4.22% two weeks prior. Curiously, gold prices have been in a downtrend since mid-May, suggesting that no asset class has been immune to the deteriorating global economic growth outlook and ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.

On Monday, US President Trump vowed to retaliate against Iran for a missile strike that killed US soldiers in Jordan, putting risk assets on high alert. Bitcoin’s jump to $65,500 strengthens the case for further decoupling from traditional finance markets amid signs of monetary base expansion. Despite a lack of bullishness in BTC derivatives markets, a rally toward $70,000 could be ignited by weak corporate earnings, especially in the AI sector.

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