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The White House is urging Senate Democrats to pass a compromise version of the CLARITY Act, a U.S. crypto market structure bill, according to CoinDesk. The bill’s release was delayed for several days as talks focused on provisions restricting cryptocurrency business activities by senior government officials, including President Donald Trump. Trump’s side has made a partial concession on the ethics provision, but Democratic senators say they have not yet been briefed on the details of the agreement. The White House said the administration has made every effort to address Senate Democrats’ concerns.

Movement Labs, the developer of MOVE, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. CoinDesk described the filing as another setback for the cryptocurrency project, which has faced governance disputes, controversy over token market making and a failed strategic pivot over the past year. CoinDesk had previously reported that Movement Labs executives colluded with a market maker to dump $38 million worth of MOVE into the circulating market. Co-founder Rushi Manche then left the company in May last year, and the company overhauled its business strategy in June in an effort to navigate the crisis. The plan was to move away from competition in the Ethereum layer-two sector and focus on global payments, remittances and stablecoin payment services.

Cryptocurrency infrastructure platform Blockchain has added SUI to trading accounts, allowing users to trade the token.

Cryptocurrency investment firm Multicoin Capital unstaked 1.96 million HYPE, worth about $120 million, that had been spread across three addresses, according to Onchain Lens. The tokens had been staked about two months earlier.

Democratic Sen. Angela Alsobrooks said a White House proposal to have the U.S. Department of Justice enforce the ethics provisions of the CLARITY Act, a U.S. crypto market structure bill, was not a serious proposal and Alsobrooks would not support the bill if that were the only enforcement mechanism, according to Eleanor Terrett, host of Crypto in America. Terrett said Sen. Bernie Moreno, who has been working with the White House on an agreement over the ethics provisions, previously explained the current proposal would put the ethics clause under the federal DOJ rather than state attorneys general. Alsobrooks said negotiators would continue using the proposal as a starting point in an effort to reach an agreement that holds everyone accountable. Alsobrooks was one of two Democratic senators who voted in May at the Senate Banking Committee to advance the CLARITY Act to the full Senate for consideration. Alsobrooks has said continued support depends on the final bill including strong ethics provisions.

An anonymous address transferred 16 million ENA, worth about $1.37 million, from a Gnosis multisig wallet to Binance, according to Onchain Lens. Exchange deposits are typically seen as a sign of potential selling.

UK-based Bitcoin treasury company Satsuma Technology plans to sell all 668 BTC it holds, return the assets to shareholders and shut down its business, according to BitcoinTreasuries.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the U.S. Secret Service’s Washington Field Office said they seized more than $25 million in cryptocurrency through an international cyber-enabled financial fraud investigation. The seized assets were tied to a cryptocurrency investment scam targeting investors in the U.S. and Canada.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Clarity Act is nearing the final hurdle, according to Bloomberg.

The three major U.S. stock indices were not specified, but U.S. crypto-related stocks were trading higher today. Circle (CRCL) was up 7.28%, MARA Holdings (MARA) 6.56%, SharpLink (SBET) 2.52%, Robinhood (HOOD) 8.34%, Bullish (BLSH) 7.71%, Coinbase (COIN) 12.15%, and Strategy (MSTR) 4.65%.

Bipartisan talks are underway in the U.S. Congress over ethics provisions in the Clarity Act, a crypto market structure bill, Crypto in America host Eleanor Terrett said on X. Negotiators are also discussing DeFi-related provisions, but the main sticking point at this stage is the ethics language. A spokesperson for Sen. Cynthia Lummis said discussions with the White House last week went smoothly and that a draft of the ethics provisions, due to be released in the coming days, will reflect those productive talks.

U.S. President Donald Trump said the issue with Iran is not over.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran wants talks, but the United States is not interested.

Ninety-three percent of cryptocurrencies launched since 2024 with a market capitalization of more than $100 million are trading below their token generation event, or TGE, price, according to CryptoRank. Of 113 tokens launched between 2024 and 2026 that now have a market capitalization above $100 million, only eight, or 7.1%, are trading above their TGE price. The median return across all tokens stands at -95.7%. HYPE, ONDO, EVA and NIGHT were among the stronger performers, rising around 1,519%, 101.4%, 20.3% and 16.5%, respectively.

Bitget plans to enter the U.S. market regardless of whether the CLARITY Act, a U.S. crypto market structure bill, is passed, CEO Gracy Chen told The Block. Although Bitget had delayed a U.S. expansion since its early days, the company is now seeking licenses in the United States and plans to establish an independent U.S. entity.

Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, said Telegram plans to launch its largest-ever non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet in the Telegram ecosystem this summer, a move that would allow more than 1 billion users to send cryptocurrency instantly without fees.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said there is still a solid chance of reaching agreement on the CLARITY Act, though conditions could change quickly. According to Politico reporter Jordain Carney, Thune said the bill’s prospects depend on whether Democrats can provide enough votes to bring it to the floor, and discussions on that issue are still ongoing. Thune added that his outlook has shifted from optimism to pessimism and back to optimism, while stressing that the situation remains fluid and could change within an hour.

Web3 financial platform Uphold has launched fractional share trading for more than 4,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs. The service is available to U.S. users and will later be expanded to 24/7 trading, according to The Block.

Augustus, a startup pursuing the establishment of a federally chartered payment bank, has raised $180 million to expand its dollar payment infrastructure, CoinDesk reported. The funding round was led by Tiger Global Management and included Hummingbird Ventures, QED Investors, Nubank and Circle. The company plans to accelerate its buildout of payment infrastructure as stablecoins rapidly reshape the global financial landscape.

GRAM has risen by 4.04% in the past five minutes on the COINNESS market. Currently, GRAM is trading at $1.5.

Ondo Perps, the RWA perpetual futures platform of Ondo Finance (ONDO), said it will support the use of stock tokens as collateral. Users will be able to use stock tokens such as SPYon and QQQon as collateral to manage perpetual futures positions. This will allow investors to build new positions without depositing funds in stablecoins or selling existing holdings.

Bitcoin may have already bottomed, and it still remains possible for BTC to reach $100,000 this year, while a long-term target of $500,000 may be too low, Standard Chartered Head of Digital Assets Research Geoff Kendrick said, according to Cointelegraph.

Binance announced it will delist AERGO/USDT perpetual futures at 6:30 a.m. UTC on July 24.

Ethereum layer-two project Aztec (AZTEC) has launched its v5 alpha, enabling fully private transactions to be processed directly on users’ devices, The Block reported. The update was applied on-chain after governance approval from token holders, making end-to-end private transaction processing possible on smartphones and standard laptops. Average transaction costs fell around 50%, while block times shortened to six seconds from 14 seconds. Rollup proof verification costs also dropped about 40%, lowering average fees for private token transactions to under $0.05. Co-founder Zac Williamson said the system was designed to provide a privacy-preserving layer first for Ethereum (ETH) and, over the long term, for cryptocurrencies more broadly.

DEX Arcus has begun offering tokenized stocks and perpetual futures trading on Robinhood Chain, Cointelegraph reported. The move expands into derivatives after the platform opened a spot market when Robinhood Chain launched on July 1. Arcus said stock token trading will not be available in some regulated jurisdictions, including the U.S., Canada and the UK. Arcus was developed by dYdX Labs and is backed by Robinhood Crypto.