Cryptocurrency News & Market Updates
FOMC meets July 28–29 as stablecoin rulemaking deadline lands
TL;DR
The GENIUS Act’s stablecoin rulemaking deadline lands July 18, when six federal agencies must finalize capital, reserve, and licensing rules for USDC and USAT issuers.
Tesla reports Q2 2026 earnings after market close on July 22, with any Bitcoin treasury commentary drawing incidental crypto-market attention.
The FOMC delivers its next rate decision on July 28–29, the second meeting chaired by Kevin Warsh, with the federal funds rate holding at 3.50%–3.75% for four straight meetings.
Deribit runs its routine weekly BTC and ETH options expiries on July 17 and July 24, ahead of the larger monthly expiry on July 31.
In between, Tesla reports Q2 earnings and Deribit runs its usual weekly options expiries. None of this amounts to an unusually dense week by historical standards, but each event carries its own reason for traders to pay attention.
Jul 15, 2026 • 4 min read
BIP-110 and Bitcoin’s High Bar for Consensus Change
Bitcoin’s temporary soft-fork proposal, BIP-110, has struggled to attract broad support, but its significance extends beyond whether it is ultimately implemented. Supporters see the proposal as a principled defence of Bitcoin’s monetary purity against growing non-payment data use, while critics see a risky intervention that could threaten chain continuity, neutrality and economic coordination. For institutions, the episode reinforces a central part of Bitcoin’s adoption case: its governance may be slow and contested, but its resistance to rushed or narrow rule changes is what helps preserve confidence in the network.
Jul 10, 2026 • 7 min read
