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US authorities froze over $130 million, while renewed strikes and a naval blockade intensified regional tensions. The United States has frozen more than $130 million in crypto assets linked to Iran as hostilities in the Middle East continue to intensify. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent took to X to confirm that the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned multiple crypto wallets tied to the Central Bank of Iran. Escalating Hostilities Bessent said the action is part of the Treasury’s broader effort to disrupt and degrade Iran’s illicit financial activities. He added, “We will continue to aggressively follow…

Coinbase’s Jesse Pollak said he is stepping back from leading the Base app after acknowledging that his bet on an onchain social economy failed to drive crypto adoption as he had expected.The Base creator said he had spent the last two years betting that builders and onchain-native social experiences, including Farcaster, Zora, mini apps and creator coins, would fuel crypto’s next growth wave. But in a post on X on Wednesday, he said while developers did spur adoption through products like stablecoins, prediction markets and perpetual futures, social applications “disintegrated completely.” “I was definitively wrong,” Pollak wrote, adding that Base’s…

Researchers at Stanford University and Singapore Management University found that Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin prediction markets create incentives for traders to manipulate spot prices around settlement, allowing sophisticated participants to profit at the expense of retail traders.The study examined contracts in which traders bet on whether Bitcoin’s price would end above or below a predetermined level after five minutes. Because the contracts settle using Chainlink price feeds based on Bitcoin’s price at the end of each trading window, traders have an incentive to influence the spot market immediately before settlement.Analyzing trading activity before and after Polymarket introduced the contracts in July…

The market has had plenty to digest this week, so not every headline deserves the same treatment. This one does, because kraken pro api program expansion targets developers implementing third-party algorithmic client desks. That gives it a clearer place in the NewsBTC/Bitcoinist daily coverage map. For more details, visit the official Kraken platform. TL;DR Kraken Pro Launches API Partner Program Supporting Specialized Integrations is the main story for Kraken today.Kraken Pro API program expansion targets developers implementing third-party algorithmic client desks.The cleaner read is to focus on what Kraken actually shows, not to overstate what the update proves. Why The…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, July 15, 2026 — MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, stood out for its RWA and TradFi products in CoinGecko’s newly released TradFi on Crypto Exchanges Report 2026. The report shows that MEXC listed 358 RWA Spot and TradFi Perpetual Futures in total between January 2025 and May 2026, leading all exchanges tracked. Over the same period, its TradFi Perpetual Futures trading volume reached $323.86 billion, the second highest in the report, and its average monthly market share climbed to 22.8% in the first five months of 2026. MEXC Ranks First in 358 RWA and TradFi…

London, United Kingdom, July 15th, 2026, Chainwire CT3 today announced the transition of its decentralized storage infrastructure to a dedicated Storage Contracts model designed to support continued platform growth, improve infrastructure scalability, and expand storage capacity as demand increases. The transition follows rapid growth across the CT3 ecosystem, with more than 180,000 unique users having used the platform and more than 500,000 uploads completed. Each upload is linked to an NFT access key, allowing platform activity and network usage to be independently verified on-chain. Continued growth in demand for ct-3.cloud services has increased pressure on the existing infrastructure. Processing all…

British Virgin Islands, Road Town, July 14, 2026  — TxFlow L1, the Layer 1 blockchain powering a multi-application onchain financial ecosystem built around its TIP Liquidity Standards, today announced its second Channel: Probly, the first prediction-market application built on TxFlow Improvement Protocol 3 (TIP3). Following TxFlow DEX—the blockchain’s first application and a central limit order book (CLOB) decentralized exchange for perpetual trading, Probly expands the TxFlow L1 ecosystem into real-time prediction markets. At launch, the platform offers 172 live markets covering more than 7,000 events, including continuously rolling markets with durations as short as five minutes, backed by fully onchain…

Founded by the team behind the Ethereum Foundation’s Institutional Privacy Task Force, EthSystems is building privacy and compliance technology for Ethereum Key backers include Bitmine, Sharplink and Joe Lubin NEW YORK, July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — EthSystems, an engineering and research company (the “Company”), today announced its public launch with anchor funding from Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BMNR), Sharplink, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBET), Joe Lubin and other ecosystem supporters. The Company is building privacy technology that lets banks, asset managers and other regulated institutions execute financial transactions on Ethereum at scale, without exposing sensitive information like trade details or client…

Victoria, Seychelles, June 26th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, releases its observations on equity-related futures trading activity around Micron’s (MU) earnings report. Micron posted quarterly revenue of approximately $41.4 billion, significantly exceeding market expectations. Following the earnings release, capital concentrated into AI memory and storage, with notable increases in trading activity across related instruments. Micron was the most-traded stock and equity index futures instrument on MEXC, with trading volume up approximately 142% from the previous day. SanDisk, SK hynix, and DRAM ETF also recorded volume increases of approximately 83%, 28%, and 35%, respectively. Together, these…

Victoria, Seychelles, July 14th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, today released its Ecosystem & Growth Report for the second quarter of 2026. In Q1, users mostly bought gold and other hedges against macro risk. In Q2, their attention turned to AI projects and US stocks, and MEXC spent the quarter building products for exactly that demand. Users can now back a company before its IPO, trade stock futures on it, hold tokenized shares, and buy real US stocks and ETFs, all inside one MEXC account. Every piece of that path launched or grew during the…