The US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve already exists as an executive-order framework for retaining government-held Bitcoin. ARMA would seek to codify it in law and potentially extend it into an active accumulation strategy — with major implications for Bitcoin’s supply dynamics, reserve-asset status and the next phase of sovereign adoption. The US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR)

In crypto news today (July 31), Bitcoin climbed -0.4% overnight and is sitting just below $64,000 following a turbulent week that saw the Fed freeze interest rates on Wednesday, although SEC Chair Paul Atkins hinted at hikes to come, which has caused a slight weakening of crypto assets and stocks alike. However, Bitcoin ETF flows

Holders of Strategy’s (MSTR) high-yielding preferred stock STRC will not see a dividend increase in August. Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, Strategy is maintaining the current 12% dividend on the shares. STRC investors may have been expecting as much as a 50-basis-point hike in the dividend as Strategy has customarily raised the payout anytime

Iran has been dodging sanctions by accepting pay in Bitcoin from ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, according to a Friday announcement from the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. The OFAC sanctioned the companies tied to the Iranian regime accused of doing so. Ships have barely been passing through the strategic Strait

North American listed miners are responding to challenging post-halving economics by pivoting toward AI infrastructure — but not uniformly, and not without risk. The shift is splitting the sector into different kinds of companies. Bitcoin, meanwhile, looks likely to absorb the change largely as designed. One of the biggest stories of 2026 so far has

Eole Inc., listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market under ticker 2334, has become the first Japanese public company to formally hold HYPE, the native token of the Hyperliquid DeFi protocol, disclosing the purchase through Japan’s TDnet (Tokyo Stock Exchange’s official corporate disclosure system) on July 28, 2026. The initial buy of 1,078.25469311 HYPE

Trading volume for tokenized stocks and ETFs surged 288% to a record $11.3 billion in July, though most of the increase came from a single Binance-linked token. Binance bStocks accounted for $9.41 billion, or 83.3% of the total, according to CoinDesk Data’s latest Stablecoins & Tokenized Assets report. A bStocks token, QQQB, tracking Invesco’s QQQ

Over a thousand bitcoins are believed to have been stolen so far in a hack that started to be discussed on social media in the afternoon of July 30th. Coinkite, one of the most reputable hardware wallet manufacturers, was revealed to have a critical bug in the way it generated secure private keys for its

BTC is under pressure.  After repeated rejections from the $80K to $83K region, price has now broken lower and is testing below $78K, right around the monthly open. At the same time, institutional demand is weakening, ETF flows have flipped negative, and macro conditions are shifting risk-off. When structure starts to shift, professional traders no

Bitcoin was trading near $64,650 on July 30, pinned inside the $60,000–$65,000 range it has occupied for months, while JPMorgan analyst Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou delivered a pointed verdict in a fresh client note: declining odds of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act) becoming law this year are a direct headwind for the entire crypto