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Google Play Store has resumed support for OKX app downloads, according to the community. The OKX app had not appeared in Play Store search results since July 24.

Cryptocurrency treasury firms including DAT are increasingly pivoting to artificial intelligence businesses to offset weak stock performance, but investor interest remains muted, Bloomberg reported. Many of the companies are abandoning their existing business models and moving into AI infrastructure such as data centers as sharp declines in crypto prices have pushed their share prices below the net asset value of their holdings. Since those business shifts, K Wave Media shares have fallen 71%, while Lixte Biotechnology and Alphatone Capital have each dropped 33% after announcing AI pivots. Bloomberg contrasted that with data center-related companies, which have ranked among the top performers in the S&P 500 this year amid large-scale investment from Alphabet, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic. Industry observers expect more companies to shift into AI-adjacent sectors, while some also view the crypto treasury business model as effectively having reached the end of its life.

Bitmine (BMNR) said it bought an additional 9,946 ETH over the past week. The company added that it is staking 4,917,189 ETH, or about 85% of its total ETH holdings, and estimated its annualized staking yield at $254 million. Bitmine said it holds 5,787,414 ETH, or 4.8% of supply, along with 208 BTC, a $180 million stake in Beast Industries, a $61 million stake in 8co Holdings, and $268 million in cash and marketable securities.

Pakistan’s central bank has conducted an internal pilot program for a central bank digital currency, CGTN reported.

Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, said it acquired IBM’s blockchain patent portfolio. The deal covers about 680 patent families and more than 1,000 assets globally, spanning foundational blockchain technology, financial and enterprise infrastructure, and security technology. With the acquisition, Circle became the largest holder of blockchain patents in the U.S. Circle shares rose nearly 3% in premarket trading following the news.

Tether announced that its gold-backed digital asset XAUT has received Shariah compliance certification from Amanah Advisors. The certification recognizes XAUT as an asset aligned with Islamic finance principles, opening potential use cases across Islamic finance for digital gold products, long-term wealth preservation and trade finance collateral. XAUT tokenizes ownership of physical gold stored in Swiss vaults and is structured around underlying bullion while excluding interest, leverage and speculative derivatives.

Strive said it bought an additional 79 BTC worth about $5.2 million. The company currently holds a total of 20,000 BTC.

Strategy said it made no BTC purchases or sales last week.

Bitcoin options traders have sharply reduced downside hedges ahead of the Federal Reserve’s rate decision at the end of July, CoinDesk reported. According to Glassnode, the put-to-call open interest ratio fell to 0.52 from 0.76 in late June, indicating a heavier weighting toward call options tied to bullish expectations. Large traders have been actively accumulating $70,000 call options. The one-week 25-delta skew has dropped to around 4%, lowering the cost of short-term downside protection, while three- to six-month skews remain at 11% to 12%, indicating continued hedging against longer-term uncertainty. One-week implied volatility, at 34.3%, stands below the six-month tenor’s 40.8%, suggesting the market expects a relatively calm Fed announcement. Even so, analysts noted volatility could rise sharply if the Fed’s policy decision deviates from expectations, as defensive positioning has thinned.

Two newly created wallets withdrew 6,765 BTC worth $441 million from Binance about 40 minutes ago, suggesting a purchase, according to Lookonchain monitoring.

Hyperliquid is set to unstake 6.93 million HYPE over the next seven days, worth about $415.2 million, according to Onchain Lens. The unstaking volume scheduled for July 30 is projected to reach 3.3 million HYPE, or about $197.53 million, which would mark the largest daily amount on record.

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted net inflows for a third straight week for the first time since early May, but institutional demand still has not matched bull-market levels, CoinDesk reported. According to SoSoValue data, net inflows totaled $33.79 million last week, though about $225.2 million and $240.1 million flowed out on July 23 and July 24, respectively, leaving weekly inflows well below the prior two weeks' totals of $197 million and $75.67 million. Crypto analytics firm BRN assessed that the market has recovered in July after large net outflows in May and June, but institutional investors remain cautious.

Zcash plans to activate the Ironwood network upgrade at block height 3,428,143 on July 28. The upgrade will introduce a new shielded pool with quantum-recoverable notes and a turnstile mechanism designed to strengthen ZEC supply verification following concerns over a forgery vulnerability in the existing Orchard pool.

Prince Group founder Chen Zhi, 38, who was identified as a key figure behind large-scale online scam compounds in Cambodia, has been formally arrested about six months after being extradited to China, JoongAng Ilbo reported. China’s Ministry of Public Security said it worked with Cambodian authorities in Phnom Penh on Jan. 7 to extradite Chen to China, where Chen now faces allegations including fraud, operating illegal gambling venues and illegal business operations. Separately, U.S. prosecutors indicted Chen last year on charges including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, and seized about $15 billion worth of Bitcoin, or roughly 22.8 trillion won, during the investigation.

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.