Your day-ahead look for July 13, 2026

Crypto's weekend gains gave way to a Monday selloff as Middle East tensions resurfaced, South Korea's Kospi lost 9.2% and $253 million in leveraged positions were wiped out.

Structural change can create lasting opportunities, but explosive rallies in semiconductors, metals and bitcoin show how quickly strong narratives can become speculative excess.

Your look at what's coming in the week starting July 13.

The liquidations were minor, running at about a sixth of what the market saw at its worst over the past 30 days, per CoinGlass.

Gold, oil, stocks and bonds all moved sharply on the fourth round of U.S. strikes on Iran, but bitcoin is little-changed.

Several sources told CoinDesk that a new draft of the Clarity Act may drop this week, but challenges remain.

The market shrank by $7.7 billion in June alone, the largest dollar amount since May 2022's Terra-Luna crash, but stablecoins will likely resume their long-term growth, one analyst said.

The group's Dir. of Global Macro Jurien Timmer calls it an accumulation zone but notes the lack of a catalyst to bounce yet.

The U.S. hit Iran for the third time this week and Tehran has reportedly closed the Strait of Hormuz again.

Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse says he and co-founder Chris Larsen considered winding the company down and handing its XRP to shareholders before deciding to fight the 2020 lawsuit.

The BIP 110 proposal would cap arbitrary data on Bitcoin for a year, but Saylor, Adam Back and others say turning a spam dispute into a consensus fight could create a bigger risk than the spam itself.

Bonzo Lend lost approximately $9.05 million after an attacker exploited a verification flaw in a third-party Supra oracle contract on the Hedera network.

Funding constraints and investor caution, not regulation, are delaying crypto IPOs, according to Cohen & Company Capital Markets' Christian Lopez.

Several recent regulatory steps indicate the UK might finally stop dragging its feet when it comes to crypto, argues Wirex CEO Chet Shah.

It's a sign of the times as the troubled company swaps its bitcoin treasury ambitions for AI data centers.

The Ethereum Foundation pointed coordinated AI agents at the software its validators run and got a remotely triggerable crash out of it. It also got a pile of confident, well-written findings that were not bugs at all.

Analysts predict a rally to $300,000 or more by 2029. But key data suggests the era of moonshots may be over.

Alex Schultz says stablecoins are assumed inside Meta. The harder problem is getting the rest of the world there.

Despite President Donald Trump's refusal to sign Congress' bipartisan housing bill, it's set to go into effect at midnight, and its temporary CBDC ban along with it.