Crypto Week Ahead outlines significant upcoming events in the cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors, alongside key macroeconomic occurrences that could impact digital asset markets.
This week, Washington D.C. will host pivotal events for the crypto industry, beginning with a House Financial Services subcommittee hearing focused on the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's oversight.
The comment period for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) proposed rules under the GENIUS Act, which aim to extend anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance to stablecoin issuers, will conclude on July 24.
Additionally, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will close its comment period for 24/7 trading and perpetual-style bitcoin futures on July 27. This follows the recent approval of the first regulated bitcoin perpetual on Kalshi. Notably, the GENIUS Act celebrated its first anniversary this month, with additional regulations still in development.
On the macroeconomic front, attention will be on the European Central Bank's interest rate decision scheduled for Thursday, with market expectations leaning towards maintaining the current rate.
Market participants will also keep an eye on geopolitical events and fluctuations in oil prices for insights into potential market movements.
Key Events to Monitor
(All times in ET)
- Crypto
- July 21, 10:00 a.m.: Hearing by the U.S. House Financial Services subcommittee titled “Oversight of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.”
- July 24: Deadline for OCC comments regarding the proposed GENIUS Act rules on AML/CFT and sanctions compliance.
- July 27: Closure of the CFTC comment period for proposals concerning 24/7 trading and perpetual futures contracts tied to spot bitcoin.
- Macro
- July 20, 8:30 a.m.: Canada’s CPI YoY for June (Previous: 3.2%); Core CPI YoY (Previous: 2.2%).
- July 22, 2:00 a.m.: U.K. CPI YoY for June (Previous: 2.8%); Core CPI YoY (Previous: 2.6%).
- July 23, 8:15 a.m.: Expected European Central Bank interest-rate decision at 2.4% (Previous: 2.4%), followed by a press conference at 8:45 a.m.
- July 23, 8:30 a.m.: U.S. Initial Jobless Claims for the week ending July 18 (Previous: 208K).
- July 23, 7:30 p.m.: Japan's CPI YoY for June (Previous: 1.5%); Core CPI YoY expected at 1.6% (Previous: 1.4%).
- July 24, 4:00 a.m.: Eurozone S&P Global Composite PMI Flash for July expected at 50.0 (Previous: 50).
- July 24, 9:45 a.m.: U.S. S&P Global Composite PMI Flash for July (Previous: 51.9).
- July 24, 9:45 a.m.: U.S. S&P Global Manufacturing PMI Flash for July (Previous: 53.9).
- July 24, 9:45 a.m.: U.S. S&P Global Services PMI Flash for July (Previous: 51.2).
- Earnings
- July 21: Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR), post-market, $0.61.
- July 22: CME Group (CME), pre-market, $2.99.
- July 22: Tesla (TSLA), post-market, $0.44.
- July 23: Nasdaq (NDAQ), pre-market, $0.95.
Token Events
- Governance Votes & Proposals
- ENS DAO is conducting a vote on an executable proposal to form a new security council for a two-year term, which would grant proposal-cancellation authority to the newly elected multisig and contract. Voting ends July 20.
- Lido DAO is voting on launching a permissionless community staking module and to adopt a case-by-case penalty framework for Curated Module v2 node operators. Voting ends July 20.
- Superfluid DAO is voting on the nominee selection phase for its security council election, allowing delegates to allocate votes among three candidates. Voting ends July 21.
- Compound DAO will vote on a proposal to update the cbBTC price feeds in its AERO, USDC, USDS and WETH markets on Base to utilize the new SVR price feeds. Voting ends July 21.
- Arbitrum DAO is voting to ratify changes to its security council election process, which includes extending member terms from one to two years. Voting ends on July 23.
- ZKsync DAO is voting on the ZIP-16 v31 protocol upgrade to implement Priority Mode and unify the shared codebase across ZKsync Era and ZKsync OS. Voting ends July 23.
- Unlocks
- July 20: LayerZero (ZRO) will unlock 4.6% of its circulating supply, valued at approximately $20.59 million.
- July 20: Starknet STRK$0.02816 will unlock 2.6% of its circulating supply, worth around $5 million.
- July 21: Avalanche (AVAX) will unlock 0.7% of its circulating supply, valued at $23.3 million.
- July 21: MORPHO$2.0018 is set to unlock 1.2% of its circulating supply, worth $24 million.
- July 23: Arbitrum (ARB) will unlock 1.4% of its circulating supply, valued at $12.3 million.
- July 24: WLD$0.3554 will unlock 1.5% of its circulating supply, worth $57.7 million.
- July 25: Humanity Protocol (H) will unlock 2.7% of its circulating supply, worth $15.6 million.
- July 26: Toncoin (TON) will unlock 0.9% of its circulating supply, valued at about $69.9 million.
- Token Launches
- No launches are scheduled.
Conferences
- July 20: Web3 Toronto Conference (Toronto)
- July 21-22: Blockchain Futurist Conference (Toronto)
- July 21-23: Mining Disrupt (Miami)
- July 24-26: ETHGlobal Lisbon 2026 (Lisbon)
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Gate Leads Spot Market Share Gains as CEX Volumes Rise for First Time in Five Months
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CEX trading volumes rose for the first time in five months in June, with spot climbing 15.3% to $1.11T and RWA perpetual volumes surging to a record $311B.
By CoinDesk ResearchJul 13, 2026CEX trading volumes rose for the first time in five months in June, with spot climbing 15.3% to $1.11T and RWA perpetual volumes surging to a record $311B.
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CEX trading volumes rose for the first time in five months in June, with spot climbing 15.3% to $1.11T and RWA perpetual volumes surging to a record $311B.
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