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The community wonders what is behind this sudden Sunday price pump. Pi Network’s native token has stolen the show in the cryptocurrency markets with a massive price surge that drove it to a weekly high of roughly $0.10. This is rather unexpected given the asset’s latest price performance, which included dumping to several consecutive all-time lows. The question is whether this is a profound recovery or another dead-cat bounce. PI Pumps Hard on Sunday CryptoPotato has repeatedly reported over the past week or so the adverse price developments around Pi Network’s PI token. The asset broke below the key $0.10…

Joerg Hiller Jul 19, 2026 14:15 On July 19, Iran reported executing two anti-government protestors, adding political-pressure risk that can shift expectations for any “effective ceasefire” timeline. Polymarket sees US-Iran ceasefire by Aug 31 at 48.5% after Iran news Iran Political-Pressure Headline Nudges Polymarket “Effective Ceasefire by Aug 31” Odds Lower Polymarket’s ladder market on a “US x Iran effective ceasefire by… (2 week pause)” is leaning slightly against an August 31 ceasefire, with the leading strike at 48.5% Yes (51.5% No) on $1,099,713 in volume. The pricing dip follows fresh Iran-related headlines, offering a clean look at how traders…

Michael Saylor doesn’t want Bitcoin touching BIP 110. The Strategy chairman came out hard against the proposal, warning it could quietly erode what he sees as Bitcoin’s most valuable trait — its neutrality. BIP 110, for those who haven’t been following the debate closely, would restrict transactions that carry data unrelated to payments. The idea is to cut down on what a chunk of the community calls “spam.” Proponents say the network gets clogged with non-payment data that has no business living on a monetary rail. They’ve pushed for a one-year limit on those transactions, framing it as a temporary,…

Derivatives account for the vast majority of crypto trading volumes, but options remain a relatively small corner of the market, dominated by a handful of established venues including Deribit, CME Group and Binance. New entrants are increasingly betting that broader adoption of options will follow the institutionalization of digital assets.The move is the latest step in Kraken’s transformation from a crypto exchange into a broader financial platform offering trading, payments and other digital asset services.Growing the market, not just market shareRather than focusing solely on taking market share from incumbent venues, Theodorou believes the larger opportunity is expanding the addressable…

Will bitcoin be under fire if the Fed hikes the rates next week? With the latest Consumer Price Index data for June already out, all economic eyes have now turned to the United States Federal Reserve and the upcoming FOMC meeting scheduled for the end of July. Although inflation has cooled, there are still those pushing for an interest rate hike during the next meeting. The question is: what could happen to BTC and its price stagnation if that’s the case? Big Macro Test Ahead? The odds declined over the past week or so after the June inflation data showed…

San Francisco, CA, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire Crowdsourced Hedge Fund Completes Third Open-Market Purchase as Contributor Network and Assets Continue to Grow Numerai, the decentralized hedge fund powered by crowdsourced machine learning, today announced the completion of a third strategic purchase of Numeraire (NMR), acquiring an additional $1.2 million of the token from the open market. The purchase brings Numerai’s total NMR buybacks to $3.2 million within one year. The buyback reflects Numerai’s continued investment in the staking system that aligns thousands of independent data scientists toward improving the firm’s Stake-Weighted Meta Model, the machine learning model that powers Numerai’s…

London, United Kingdom, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire ether.fi, the leading onchain neobank for digital asset management, has selected Nexus Mutual to provide crypto’s largest-ever ETH Slashing Cover. The cover protects ether.fi‘s validators against up to 15,000 ETH worth of slashing penalties. As ether.fi continues to see rapid adoption from both retail and institutional audiences, securing industry-leading protection against slashing risk for ether.fi users is critical. Over the last year, ether.fi has been systematically strengthening their stack across infrastructure, risk management, operational security and real-time defense systems.  Since ether.fi operates one of the largest validator sets on Ethereum, slashing is a…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has listed five Ondo tokenized stock trading pairs on its spot market in collaboration with Ondo Finance. The five companies span a supply chain that runs from semiconductor and precision component manufacturing to industrial cooling and power infrastructure supporting AI data centers, allowing users to trade these U.S. stocks using USDT on MEXC around the clock, with instant settlement and no traditional brokerage account required. The trading pairs include tokenized shares of STMicroelectronics N.V. (STMON/USDT), Fabrinet (FNON/USDT), Trane Technologies (TTON/USDT), Amphenol (APHON/USDT) and Quanta Services (PWRON/USDT).…

Dubai, UAE, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, today released its Q1 2026 BTC spot execution analysis, showing that its Rapid Price Improvement (RPI) mechanism consistently delivered lower trading slippage than comparable execution measurements across major cryptocurrency exchanges. As digital asset markets continue to mature, execution quality has emerged as an increasingly important measure of market performance alongside trading fees and quoted liquidity. Bybit’s latest analysis demonstrates that improvements in market structure can materially reduce trading costs for both retail and institutional participants. Across simulated BTC/USDT spot trades ranging from US$10,000 to US$1…

Willemstad, Curaçao, July 17th, 2026, PlayNewswire Cryptocurrency has become one of the fastest-growing categories within prediction markets, as traders and investors increasingly look beyond price charts to speculate on major industry milestones. Reflecting this trend, international betting brand 1win has expanded its Markets product with a series of new cryptocurrency prediction markets covering some of the sector’s most closely watched digital assets. The new crypto-themed forecasts on 1win Markets allow users to speculate on topics, including “Crypto-related forecasts are becoming a natural extension of prediction markets, giving users another way to engage with some of the biggest narratives in the…