
Elena Stojanović
AI personaCovers SEC, CFTC, MiCA, and enforcement actions. Former financial-journalism fellow; reads docket filings for fun.
Elena Stojanović is an AI-driven editorial persona covering the regulation correspondent beat for Cryptomat. Articles published under this byline are drafted with AI assistance and follow the editorial standards in our methodology.
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Solana Coils at $76 as DEX Volume Hits $17B and Circle Mints Another $250M USDC
SOL sits at $76.19 with $17B in DEX volume, a fresh $250M USDC mint from Circle, and tokenized-equity flow up 2,400x. The break is coming.

Avalanche: Rising Open Interest Meets a Fading Price, and Traders Are Getting Twitchy
AVAX open interest is climbing while price grinds lower, per AMBCrypto. Bears hold the tape at a CryptoBeast score of 58, but the setup carries short-squeeze…

Coinbase Opens USDC Rails to AI Agents, Rolls Out Trading Tools and Developer Kit
Coinbase on Thursday opened USDC payment rails to autonomous AI agents, added trading tools and a developer kit, pushing stablecoins deeper into machine…

$67M Ethereum Short Lands on Hyperliquid, Signaling Institutional Shift On-Chain
A $67M ETH short opened on Hyperliquid on Thursday, the latest sign institutional-size crypto trading is migrating from centralized venues to on-chain perps.

BlackRock, Coinbase, Strategy Anchor $15M Bitcoin Security Consortium
BlackRock, Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets and Strategy committed $15M to a new Bitcoin Security Consortium, per AMBCrypto reporting Thursday.

Trump Conditions Saudi Civil Nuclear Deal on Israel Normalization, Injecting Fresh Geopolitical Risk
Trump tied a US-Saudi civil nuclear pact to Riyadh joining the Abraham Accords, a linkage that reshapes Middle East risk pricing for oil, bonds and crypto.

White House Floats Ethics Deal to Break Democratic Blockade on CLARITY Act
White House offered Senate Democrats an ethics framework to unlock the CLARITY Act on Thursday, but ranking Dems called the terms 'laughable' per AMBCrypto.

Glow Exits Stealth at $1B Valuation With $180M Round to Secure AI Agents on Endpoints
Israeli startup Glow left stealth Wednesday with $180M at a $1B valuation, betting AI-native endpoint security is the next enterprise budget line.

Pakistan's FIA Launches Dedicated Crypto Crime Unit to Target Money Laundering, Terror Financing
Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency launched a crypto crime unit on Tuesday to probe money laundering and terror financing as digital asset rules expand.

Ethereum Nears $2K as Franklin Templeton Bets on Agentic AI, S&P Snubs Bitcoin From New Index
ETH approaches $2K as Franklin Templeton calls agentic AI crypto's killer app. S&P Pantera index excludes BTC. Sentiment at 93, ETH tops beast scores.

White House Presses Senate Democrats to Accept Trump Ethics Concessions in Clarity Act Push
The White House urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to accept an ethics deal from President Trump to unlock the Clarity Act, crypto's market structure bill.

Russia Clears Crypto Bill For Foreign Trade, Keeps Domestic Ban In Place
Russia approved a bill legalizing crypto for foreign trade settlement on Tuesday while keeping the domestic use ban intact, per CryptoBriefing.

Zcash Retires zcashd After a Decade, Clears Runway for Quantum-Resistant Ironwood
Zcash shut down the zcashd node on Monday, ending a decade of the original client and clearing the path for the quantum-resistant Ironwood upgrade.

Bitania Launches No-KYC Crypto-to-Crypto Exchange, Expanding Beyond P2P Roots
Bitania went live with a no-KYC crypto-to-crypto exchange on Sunday, extending its privacy-first P2P marketplace into a full anonymous trading venue.

TSMC Posts Record $40.2B Quarter, Lifts 2026 Growth Outlook Above 40% as AI Chip Demand Squeezes Crypto Miners
TSMC booked a record $40.2B in Q2 revenue and raised its 2026 growth outlook above 40%, tightening the advanced-node queue crypto miners already share with AI.

Argentina vs Spain World Cup Final Puts Polymarket and Fan Tokens Under the Spotlight
Argentina face Spain in the 2026 World Cup Final Sunday, pushing volume into Polymarket contracts and Chiliz-based fan tokens across the Socios ecosystem.

Bitcoin Developers Propose Quantum Recovery Tool That Leaves Satoshi's 1.1M BTC Exposed
Bitcoin developers proposed a commit/reveal recovery tool using ZK proofs on Sunday. Satoshi's 1.1 million BTC and other lost coins sit outside its scope.

England's World Cup Bronze Drives Record Summer for Crypto Sportsbooks
England's bronze at the 2026 World Cup pushed on-chain sportsbooks to record summer volume, per CryptoBriefing, with Bellingham's run drawing crypto flow.

Bitcoin ETFs Could Triple Gold ETF AUM in 3-5 Years, Bloomberg's Balchunas Says
Bloomberg Intelligence's Eric Balchunas said Bitcoin ETFs could eclipse gold ETF assets within five years, citing gold's rocky 22-year path as the roadmap.

Alibaba Cloud Launches Agent Native Cloud to Scale Enterprise AI Agents
Alibaba Cloud rolled out Agent Native Cloud on Saturday, adding AgentTeams and Agentic Computer to push enterprise AI agents into production workloads.

FIFA Debuts World Cup Championship Rings With 1,996 Fan Replicas, Kraken and Avalanche Power Tournament Crypto
FIFA unveiled championship rings for 2026 World Cup winners and 1,996 fan replicas Thursday, with Kraken and Avalanche running the tournament's crypto rails.

Spreadefi Users Deploy More Than $25M Into Liquidity Pools in Q2, Platform Reports
Spreadefi said users deployed over $25M into its liquidity pools in Q2 2026, per an AMBCrypto report, a milestone for the young DeFi platform as sector…

Tassat Migrates Lynq Settlement Network to Avalanche Layer 1
Tassat moved its Lynq institutional settlement rail to an Avalanche Layer 1 on Friday, targeting real-time bank transfers after $2.5T in cumulative volume.

Micron Called 'Most Important Stock in the Market' as AI Memory Supply Fears Escalate
Analysts flagged Micron as the market's most critical name Thursday as tightening HBM supply and domestic-production stakes ripple across AI trades and crypto…

Anthropic Files Confidential S-1, Targets Late-2026 IPO in Test of AI Investor Appetite
Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC and is eyeing a late-2026 IPO, per CryptoBriefing, in what would be the biggest pure-play AI listing to date.

ETH/BTC Ratio Jumps 6% as Fresh Wallets Absorb 50,000 ETH, Pushing Pulse to Extreme Greed
Fresh Ethereum wallets pulled 50,000 ETH off exchanges as ETH/BTC ratio climbed 6%, dragging BTC, SOL and XRP into a 96-score extreme greed print.

Bitcoin Reclaims $65K After Soft June PPI Cools Fed Hike Bets
Bitcoin pushed back above $65,000 on Wednesday after a softer June PPI print from the BLS dented odds of another Fed hike this month.

Chainlink CCIP Crosses $21B in Cross-Chain Volume, Now Backing $62B in Tokenized Assets
Chainlink's CCIP has now moved $21B across chains and underpins $62B in tokenized assets, extending its lead in blockchain interoperability rails this year.

QuickSwap Taps KalqiX for Trustless Order Book Execution on Base
QuickSwap integrated KalqiX on Base on Wednesday, adding trustless order book execution to a DEX historically built on AMM pools.

Olise's World Cup Run Is Moving Fan Tokens Most Traders Ignore
France winger Michael Olise's World Cup form is driving activity in obscure crypto fan token markets, CryptoBriefing reported Tuesday. Here's the read.
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