Odaily reported, citing monitoring by Bitcoin News, that Bitcoin supply held by long-term holders has reached an all-time high. The brief did not include additional figures, methodology, or a specific time range, and no further details were provided in the source item.

Hyperliquid said it is moving ahead with a broader push into prediction markets by expanding HIP-4, a change that would eventually let anyone deploy prediction market contracts on the platform. The company said the new setup will use standardized templates approved through validator voting, while existing prediction markets will remain validator-created until the new framework is fully opened. The rollout is set to begin on testnet before moving to mainnet. Under the proposed model, anyone creating a market will need to stake 500,000 HYPE, Hyperliquid’s native token, as collateral. That stake can be slashed if validators determine that a market is poorly defined, has major design flaws, or ends with an incorrect resolution. In exchange, market creators may receive as much as 50% of trading fee revenue. Hyperliquid said validator-created official markets will continue after permissionless deployment, but in much smaller numbers, with an ideal target of fewer than 10 such markets per year. The announcement came as prediction markets draw heavier competition from platforms including Polymarket and Kalshi, and after HYPE rose following the news.

Bettors on Polymarket pushed the implied odds of the crypto market structure bill known as the Clarity Act to 43% for passage this year, rebounding from a record low seen last week. The move followed unverified reports that Donald Trump had agreed to an ethics deal. Those reports had not been confirmed at the time of publication, and no bill text had surfaced. The item was reported by CoinDesk’s Shaurya Malwa and edited by Jamie Crawley, with the article published on July 21, 2026 and later updated the same day. The change reflects a shift in prediction market positioning rather than any confirmed legislative release.

A social video format built around the line “Preparing for my Netflix documentary” has gone viral across TikTok and Instagram Reels, turning mock documentary staging into one of July 2026’s most copied internet jokes. In these clips, creators sit in a chair, pretend to clip on a lavalier mic that is not even connected, glance off-camera like a documentary subject, and pair the scene with tense string music while describing a trivial or embarrassing life event as if it were a major revelation. BlockTempo reported that TikTok account @borderbandittx kicked off the trend on June 16, with one video reaching 3.8 million views in a month. A “group chat leak” version from @suckafreekells then climbed to 34 million views in two weeks, the highest figure cited in the report. The article also said @wassupa1ex posted a sidewalk-chair version on June 30 that hit 11.5 million views in two weeks, helping push the trend wider. Netflix itself acknowledged the meme on July 9 through an Instagram post showing an empty chair and a caption saying it was getting ready to sit down and watch all of these documentaries. The format, as described by BlockTempo, works because it copies the few seconds before a documentary interview begins rather than the interview itself.

JUST has published its Q2 2026 quarterly report, outlining key updates across protocol operations, treasury management, and ecosystem development over the past quarter. The report said JST’s fourth buyback-and-burn program has been completed, bringing the cumulative amount burned to 17.29% of the token’s total supply. It also said regular buyback burns in Q2 were carried out alongside a newly added USDJ stability fee burn program. According to the update, funding sources for buyback burns have continued to expand, a move the project said strengthens the long-term sustainability of the mechanism. The report added that business lines across the JUST ecosystem maintained steady growth during the quarter. JUST also said JustLend DAO will keep using quarterly reports to improve governance transparency and reinforce community trust.

Tether International said the board of 21 Capital has appointed Raphael Zagury as the company’s new chief executive officer. Zagury currently serves as CEO of the Elektron Energy team and is also a member of 21 Capital’s board. The leadership change will see current CEO Jack Mallers step down and focus full time on Strike. The companies said they are working through an orderly handover of responsibilities to maintain continuity during the transition. 21 Capital and Strike have also decided that Strike is better suited to operate as an independent business, and the two sides are no longer considering a merger. 21 Capital added that it plans to share more details on its strategy and direction in the coming months.

Buying clinical-stage weight-loss drugs has emerged as an unexpected crypto payments use case, according to a July 20 Bloomberg report cited by Foresight News. The report says the market, much of it tied to peptides sold as research chemicals, is running at a pace that would top $100 million a year. Many of the buyers are not crypto natives but ordinary consumers who learned how to buy and send Bitcoin only because sellers would not accept cards or bank transfers. Bloomberg described one such buyer, Zach, a 49-year-old marketing director in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, who opened a Coinbase account and bought Bitcoin for the first time to purchase 20 vials of retatrutide from a Chinese seller for $240. He had previously viewed Bitcoin as a speculative asset with no intrinsic value, but the price gap versus U.S. resellers made the transaction worth the risk in his view. Chainalysis said gray-market peptide sellers took in $32 million in crypto in the first quarter of 2026, up 700% year over year, while TRM Labs estimated $41.4 million of crypto inflows in 2025, up 20%. The report also notes that if U.S. regulators move to legalize domestic production of some peptides, the role crypto fills in this market could shrink.

A crypto whale known as “Set 10 Big Goals First” said this trading cycle is targeting $300 million in profit after building a position with 300 BTC, adding that realized profit has already reached $60 million. The trader contrasted that with the previous cycle, when a position opened with 150 BTC had aimed for $150 million in profit and at one point locked in as much as $120 million. According to the post, those gains were wiped out near the end after the trader misread the direction of a drop from $120,000, leaving only principal preserved and a small residual profit. The trader later said the experience led to stricter risk-control discipline and a clearer set of rules. Earlier that morning, the whale also shared a 4x leveraged long on Bitcoin entered at an average price of $63,827.06. The disclosed position size was about 2,358.05 BTC, or roughly $150 million. With BTC moving above $66,000, floating profit on that long could expand to about $5.15 million.