Author: James Wilson
One DeFi user lost over $1.23 million after falling victim to a scam that utilizes Google Ads to promote fraudulent websites. Crypto scams are becoming increasingly rampant, and major platforms appear to be doing insufficiently to prevent them. On Monday, July 21, one DeFi user lost over $1.23 million in Uniswap NFTs after signing a malicious transaction on a phishing website. What is worse, scam sites like these are rampant on the Google Ads platform. https://twitter.com/realScamSniffer/status/1947198066907582590 According to Scam Sniffer, the user in question accessed a phishing website meant to look the same as the Uniswap platform. Once there, they…
StablecoinX, a newly formed company, is poised to become the first publicly traded firm to acquire Ethena and establish a treasury strategy. StablecoinX is a new business venture formed after the merger of special-purpose acquisition company TLGY Acquisition and StablecoinX Assets Inc. The merger will see StablecoinX listed on Nasdaq Global Market with the ticker symbol USDE. According to a press release on July 21, StablecoinX has secured $360 million in a capital raise that includes $60 million in Ethena (ENA) from the Ethena Foundation. TLGY and SC Assets also attracted capital commitments from top cryptocurrency venture capital firms, with those…
Solana’s recovery coincided with a similar increase in its DeFi TVL, which reached the highest level in six months. The latest crypto bull run boosted both Solana’s (SOL) price and DeFi ecosystem. On Monday, July 21, Solana’s total market cap once again crossed $100 billion, with SOL trading at $194.62 per coin. With a market cap hovering below $105 billion, this is the highest level this metric has reached since Jan. 25 this year. Solana’s DeFi total value locked in USD | Source: DeFiLama At the same time, the increase in Solana’s price also contributed to the rising value of…
Coinbase has launched perpetual futures trading in the U.S., with eligible users in the country set to access two futures contracts as of July 21. On Monday, the exchange said U.S. users can now trade perpetual derivatives via its Coinbase Financial Markets account, initially with access to nano Bitcoin Perpetual Futures (BTC-PERP) and nano Ether Perpetual Futures (ETH-PERP). The rollout of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission-regulated crypto perpetuals comes a few weeks after Coinbase announced plans to offer the product in the U.S. Customers looking to access the futures offering on Coinbase must have an account. This is where they…
Stocks climbed toward record highs on Monday as investors looked past tariff tensions and focused on upcoming tech earnings. The Dow rose 220 points (0.52%), while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq gained 0.58% and 0.75%, respectively. Traders are piling into tech shares ahead of key results from Alphabet and Tesla, both set to report on Wednesday. Optimism is high—but so are valuations, drawing warnings from economists who see signs of a growing AI-fueled bubble. Apollo’s chief economist, Torsten Slok, said valuations for top S&P 500 firms, such as Nvidia, Microsoft, and Apple, now exceed their peaks from the dot-com era.…
Sandbox is trading at a critical inflection point, showing signs of a potential trend reversal. If key resistance levels break, the price could accelerate toward the $0.60 region, driven by a classic double bottom formation. The Sandbox (SAND) is currently forming a textbook double bottom formation at the lower end of its long-term trading range. This bullish reversal pattern has the potential to mark the end of the previous downtrend and begin a new uptrend characterized by higher highs and higher lows. Price has reclaimed the point of control, which is the region with the highest traded volume, and is…
Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. Solana’s 17,100% surge in 2021 set the standard, and in 2025, coins like Little Pepe, Dogecoin, and Cardano are catching attention as the next big breakout contenders. In 2021, Solana gained attention after increasing its price by more than 17,100% in less than eight months. This rally demonstrated how quickly a cryptocurrency can gain value once it is backed by strong technology and community support. As 2025 progresses, several altcoins are emerging with similar growth potential. Investors are especially…
As mentioned in the previous XAUUSD weekly forecast, gold has trapped sellers and now likely shifted its momentum to buying. $3357 was the key pivot point, and gold has successfully broken it and is trading above it. The bias in gold for this week is buy, but it can change mid-week to buy as well. With that in mind, let’s discuss the key pivot levels for gold buying and selling in this XAUUSD weekly forecast from July 21st to July 25th, 2025. Key economic events of this week Some significant U.S. economic reports are scheduled for release this week that…
Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes is pushing a bold price target for ETH and challenging the crypto community to make it happen. In a July 21 X post, Hayes shared his vision of Ethereum (ETH) at $5,000, calling on the community to pump the asset’s price by the weekend. “Fam can we pump $ETH to $5k by Friday?” he wrote. The former CEO’s comments came shortly after ETH surged to an intraday high of $3,822, its strongest level since late 2024. Hayes’ tweet quickly sparked engagement. Tom Lee, Chairman of Bitmine Immersions, a mining company that recently shifted its treasury…
XRP price jumped on Monday, July 21, continuing a trend that started on June 22 when it bottomed at $1.9121. Ripple (XRP) jumped to $3.55, up by over 120% from its lowest point in April, and technicals point to more gains later this year. The token’s rally accelerated after Donald Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law on Friday. This law benefits XRP because Ripple Labs launched RLUSD stablecoin in December last year. RLUS meets all the rules set in the GENIUS Act and has continued to gain market share in the industry. Its market capitalization has jumped to over…