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EPIK founder Mando said he personally bought back 350 million of the project’s 1 billion total token supply and burned 150 million tokens. Mando added that 8.1 million tokens were deposited into the liquidity pool. Mando also said claims that Mando received 50% of the tokens through an airdrop were false, stressing that Mando had personally purchased tokens worth millions of dollars over the past three years.

South Korean exchange Upbit announced it will temporarily suspend deposits and withdrawals for 25 digital assets from 11:00 a.m. UTC on July 31 to 9:00 p.m. UTC on July 31. The affected assets are BTC, XRP, ETH, SOL, DOGE, XLM, SHIB, ETC, ONDO, LINK, NEAR, AVAX, STX, ENS, ATOM, SAND, WLD, ARB, PEPE, DOT, CTC, AXS, ENA, CRO and APT. Upbit also said applications for ETH, ATOM, CRO and SOL staking will be suspended. The exchange said the service disruption is part of a monthly balance inspection to review the custody and management status of users' deposited assets.

August through October has historically been the weakest stretch of the year for U.S. stocks, with safe-haven assets such as gold, the U.S. dollar and U.S. Treasurys tending to outperform during that period, according to Bank of America head of technical strategy Paul Ciana. Ciana said the S&P 500’s average return from August to October since 1928 was -0.02%, essentially flat, and its average drawdown of 7.35% was the largest among any three-month period. He added that this does not signal the end of the long-term uptrend, while November through January has traditionally been a strong period, with average gains of 3.54%.

According to an updated registration dataset from the European Securities and Markets Authority, cryptocurrency asset service providers including BNY Mellon’s Belgian unit and BitPay have newly secured formal EU licenses under the Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation. The addition brings the total number of officially licensed CASPs in the EU to 309.

Binance announced it will delist several margin trading pairs at 6:00 a.m. UTC on July 30. The pairs slated for removal are A/USDC, HIVE/USDC, ILV/USDC, NEWT/USDC and MOVE/USDC in cross margin, and A/USDC, HIVE/USDC, NEWT/USDC and MOVE/USDC in isolated margin.

Spot CVD is an order book analysis chart for the BTC/USDT spot trading pair. The upper section shows the Volume Heatmap, while the lower section shows cumulative volume delta, or CVD. - The Volume Heatmap tracks trading volume at each price level. The background color becomes brighter when the price stays in a specific range for an extended period or moves sharply. Brighter areas may act as support or resistance. - The cumulative volume delta indicator reflects buy and sell orders by order size. As buy orders increase, the line in the corresponding color moves higher. The yellow line represents $100 to $1,000 orders, while the brown line represents large orders of $1 million to $10 million.

Bitcoin mining difficulty has fallen to 126.2T in 2026 from the end of last year, and if that trend holds through year-end, it would mark the first year-over-year decline on record, well-known Bitcoin market analyst PlanB said on X. According to data PlanB shared, year-end mining difficulty had risen every year since 2009, reaching 148.3T at the end of 2025, before falling to 126.2T this year.

Thirty-one new vulnerabilities have been found at major service providers supporting "x402," an HTTP-based cryptocurrency payment standard, CryptoSlate reported. The study covered 15 companies accounting for 99% of all transactions and found that every provider violated payment verification and settlement rules. The vulnerabilities fell into four categories: unauthorized use, asset theft, denial of service, and gas fee abuse. Researchers also confirmed two cases of unauthorized use, described as "Free shopping," that exploited a gap allowing services to be provided before settlement was completed. Major providers including Coinbase and PayAI acknowledged the vulnerabilities and began remediation work. The researchers urged merchants not to rely only on pre-verification and instead provide services only after final settlement is confirmed or adopt explicit rollback logic.

A shakeout appears to be underway in the centralized crypto exchange sector after BitMart and BitMEX announced business shutdowns in quick succession, BeInCrypto reported. The outlet said BitMart began winding down operations on July 26, three days after BitMEX announced its withdrawal, and the number of exchanges shutting down in July rose to three including AscendEX. Industry watchers see the prolonged bear market, a decline in retail altcoin investors, shrinking futures trading volume, tighter regulation and high operating costs as factors driving closures among small and mid-sized exchanges. The market may later be reorganized around regulation-compliant exchanges and institutional capital, while raising concerns that power could become concentrated in a small number of venues. BeInCrypto added that the latest closures do not necessarily signal a market bottom, with macroeconomics, liquidity, regulation and investment demand still remaining key variables for the next upcycle.

Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich said Strategy’s Bitcoin acquisition strategy has not changed in its fundamental structure or logic. Gerovich said that when a software company with a market capitalization of about $1 billion added $250 million worth of Bitcoin to its balance sheet in August 2020, most people saw it as a one-off event. When the stock later rose 10-fold, he said, it was praised as a visionary move, and when it later fell nearly 90%, it was dismissed as a failed experiment. Despite those repeated swings in market judgment, Gerovich said Strategy has continued increasing its Bitcoin holdings and now owns 843,775 BTC worth more than $50 billion.

When tokens and equity coexist, most of a company’s real cash earnings ultimately accrue to equity holders, meaning token market capitalizations should generally be smaller and market expectations should remain restrained, analyst Ceteris said at a Delphi Digital roundtable, according to Wu Blockchain. Ceteris added the problem is that many projects exploit the ambiguity between the two structures to push token valuations far above appropriate levels. Yan Liberman, co-founder of Delphi Digital, added token structures can be useful when markets are strong, but they can quickly unravel once business conditions deteriorate or shareholders try to cash out.

Tiger Research, an Asia-based Web3 research and consulting firm, said in a report that competition over AI agent wallets is aimed less at immediate profits and more at securing an early lead in the future AI payments market. Tiger Research said AI would need dedicated wallets capable of repeatedly processing micropayments and automatically transferring funds based on preset conditions if it is to purchase goods and information on behalf of people. The firm analyzed that major crypto companies including Coinbase and Binance are developing wallets for AI use, and Coinbase’s revenue could expand to about seven times its current level if AI agent adoption takes off in earnest. It added that accumulated payment records in such wallets could be used to assess the profitability of AI agents and expand into financial services such as lending. Still, the firm noted that payment errors by AI, differences in regulations across countries and companies, and unclear legal liability remain major challenges.

South Korean exchange Bithumb announced it will begin supporting Geodnet (GEOD) trading at 10:00 a.m. UTC today, delayed by one hour from the previously scheduled 9:00 a.m. UTC start.

Two anonymous whale addresses swapped 35.85 million DAI for 18,030 ETH, effectively buying the tokens at an average price of $1,988, according to EmberCN.

The Binance app is no longer available for download on the Google Play Store in some parts of Europe, Cointelegraph reported. The report attributed the change to Binance’s failure to secure a license under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets framework, or MiCA. Binance withdrew its MiCA license application in Greece in late June and halted services for new EU customers as of July 1.

If BTC falls below $64,554, about $272.35 million in long positions could be liquidated across major centralized exchanges, according to CoinGlass data. If BTC breaks above $65,865, about $184.30 million in short positions could be liquidated.

U.S. investors are depositing stablecoins back into crypto exchanges, according to CryptoQuant. It said stablecoin flows at exchanges had remained in net outflow for more than two months after turning negative on May 11, but recently shifted back to net inflows. CryptoQuant added that inflows to exchanges generally increase buying power and tend to align with upward price trends, with the USDC net inflow indicator signaling the market is turning more positive.

An anonymous whale address beginning with 0x3652 bought 9,046.17 ETH worth $17.8 million at an average price of $1,968 over the past 50 minutes and then transferred the tokens to another address beginning with 0xdbf, according to ai_9684xtpa.

German crypto asset manager DDA (Deutsche Digital Assets) said Bitcoin’s governance structure is one reason advances in quantum computing could pose a threat to the network. DDA said financial institutions such as JPMorgan could shift to quantum-resistant cryptography through board approval and budget execution alone, while Bitcoin would require consensus among participants worldwide. DDA added decentralized networks may adopt quantum-resistant cryptography more slowly than traditional financial institutions, and said this reflects not so much a weakness in Bitcoin as a need to take its governance process seriously.

Lorenzo Protocol's BANK, newly listed on South Korean exchange Bithumb's won market, has seen sharp volatility. Based on Binance's USDT spot trading pair, BANK climbed to as high as $0.595 at around 6:17 a.m. UTC today, but has since given back most of those gains and was trading near $0.41. BANK traded around $0.04 on July 13.

Bitcoin has entered an undervalued zone, but the capitulation typically seen at cycle bottoms has yet to emerge, on-chain analyst Axel Adler Jr said on X. Adler said the MVRV Z-score, a metric used to assess oversold and overbought conditions, fell to 0.42, around four times lower than its historical average of 1.7, but remained above zero. BTC’s seven-day realized profit and loss turned positive from negative, indicating on-chain selling pressure has eased. He said the market has entered a stabilization phase while undervalued, but clear bottom signals and the demand needed to drive a fresh upswing are still lacking.

The following are the 24-hour long/short ratios for BTC perpetual futures on the world’s three largest crypto futures exchanges by open interest: Overall: 51.16% long, 48.84% short - Binance: 51.6% long, 48.4% short - OKX: 51.86% long, 48.14% short - Bybit: 53.38% long, 46.62% short

The following shows estimated liquidation volumes and position ratios for major crypto perpetual futures over the past 24 hours: - BTC: $44.25 million liquidated (93.12% shorts) - ETH: $114.23 million liquidated (94% shorts) - SPAC: $1.96 million liquidated (93.08% longs)

Two of the seven chart masters affiliated with CoinNess projected a decline in Bitcoin’s price direction this week, while five forecast a rise. The highest target price was $70,000 and the lowest was $60,000. Vote through the link for the outlook and target price that most closely matches your view. We will give coffee coupons to 100 selected participants through a drawing.

Robinhood Chain, Robinhood’s Arbitrum-based layer-2 network, has become the top blockchain for real-world asset token holders just one month after launch, CryptoPotato reported, citing data from RWA.xyz. The chain currently has 330,000 RWA token holders and $24.12 million in assets deposited on the platform. It also supports trading in around 1,900 tokenized assets, with monthly trading volume standing at about $750 million. CryptoPotato said Robinhood Chain has been showing rapid early growth through meme coins and stablecoin payments.