
Bitcoin Slides Ahead of FOMC as CLARITY Act Stalls Again in the Senate
Bitcoin pulls back ahead of the Fed's July 28–29 meeting as the CLARITY Act's chances of Senate passage in 2026 fade further.
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ETH pushed above $1,820 on July 20, 2026 fueled by $105M in weekly spot ETF inflows. The move is a partial recovery from June’s drop from $1,988 to a $1,558 monthly close.

On July 16, 2026 an exploit against the CLS vault on Cascade XYZ drained approximately $1.34M USDC. The incident continues July’s pattern of smaller, targeted DeFi attacks.

Aave V4 launched on Avalanche in July 2026 with a $15 million incentive package aimed at seeding liquidity and expanding RWA borrowing on the network.

US spot XRP ETFs recorded their first weekly outflow in over two months on July 12, 2026. Combined AUM slipped below $1B to roughly $996M as institutional demand cooled.

The SEC added three crypto items to its 2026 Unified Regulatory Agenda: offerings (RIN 3235‑AN38), broker‑dealer capital and custody (AN48), and market‑structure amendments (AN49). NPRMs are targeted for July.

Sixteen months after Trump’s executive order, the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve remains a work in progress. Bloomberg reported on July 6, 2026 that Treasury and Commerce are competing to run it.

Fortune reported on July 6, 2026 that Strategy sold approximately $216M worth of BTC — the largest single Bitcoin sale in the firm’s history — days after Bitcoin retook $63,000.

June 2026 losses to crypto hacks reached $75.87 million across 40 incidents, per PeckShield data — a 7.13% decrease from May. Humanity Protocol accounted for $31M of the total.

June 2026 was the worst month on record for US spot Bitcoin ETFs, with net outflows reaching $4.40 billion. A single weekly print of −$2.7B around June 5 accounted for most of the damage.