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BTCPay told users running LND to update immediately or take servers offline after attackers stole credentials that can control Lightning wallets and move funds.

IMF first deputy managing director Dan Katz says users may favor digital dollars for their liquidity, network effects and cross-border acceptance.

Expedited discovery allows the exchange to seek account identities, balances and transaction histories from platforms with US operations.

A new XRPL amendment proposal would let institutions encrypt token balances and transfer amounts while still giving issuers, auditors and regulators selective access.

If a minority chain appears this weekend, buyers could replay signed fork-coin sales on bitcoin itself, making doing nothing the safest move until the chains can be separated.

The president’s company will unwind an agreement with Crypto.com to create a multibillion-dollar CRO treasury and reportedly not integrate prediction markets onto Truth Social.

The Truth Social parent company is refocusing on media and its pending merger with a fusion energy firm, as the digital asset treasury boom has lost its steam.

Truth Social's parent company is unwinding two major Crypto.com deals as new leadership shifts its focus to media, data licensing, and a planned merger with fusion energy company TAE.

This ends plans Trump Media, Crypto.com and Yorkville Acquisition Corp. had to turn Yorkville into a CRO treasury company.

The U.S. Treasury sanctioned two crypto exchanges it says laundered millions of dollars for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, naming a Georgia- and UAE-based operator and an Iran-based platform.

Mateen purchased more than 306,000 shares across two days following the company's quarterly earnings, lifting his stake to more than 492,000 shares.

The US government sanctioned an individual and two crypto exchanges it said facilitated money laundering for a combined $5 million in digital assets linked to Iran.

Bitcoin company BTCPay Server told users to install the latest version of the server and replace credentials that may have been exposed.

The U.S. Treasury Department traced more than $3 million in transfers between Shelbit and IRGC-linked wallets.

The "Tapered Issuance Burn" proposal would phase in a rising burn of consensus rewards to limit the amount of ETH staked.

A leaked Flock presentation shows the surveillance firm pitching a plan to pull license-plate data from rideshare and delivery drivers.

The Treasury's OFAC targeted Shelbit and Aban Tether as Washington continues its effort to cut Tehran's access to crypto and foreign currency.

Some prediction market platforms received a warning from the CFTC to refrain using American-style gambling odds, according to Bloomberg.

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The rollout gives X Layer users access to Circle-issued USDC and crosschain transfers as the stablecoin expands across major blockchain ecosystems.

XRP is taking the Clarity Act news harder than the rest of the crypto market. Here's why.

As the chairman of the Reform UK calls for an investigation into a FTX-linked political donation, the party’s leader prepares to face voters amid his own crypto-related scandal.

Makers of the open source bitcoin payment processor BTCPay urged users to update their servers to version 2.4.2.

Potential buyers, including Exodus, passed on BitMEX amid concerns over founder ownership and its shrinking business, according to a source familiar.

Microsoft said compromised websites are retrieving malicious instructions from the blockchain before tricking visitors into running them on Windows devices.

The exchange has secured a preliminary injunction freezing stolen assets.

A soft July payrolls print pulled September rate-hike odds down. It gives investors in risk assets hope, but Bitcoin remains in bear territory.

Designed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom studio, the screenless gadget is slated for 2027 and will use cameras, lights and moving parts.

Crypto at risk of becoming "canary in a coal mine" when it comes to demonstrating how AI could impact cybersecurity.

A Bitcoin address that had stayed silent for 15 years just sent its coins out for the first time.

Bitcoin hit month-to-date highs above $65,000 as risk-assets gained on low US nonfarm payrolls data.

The OKX executive says Democrats have little incentive to hand Republicans a crypto victory before the midterms.

After months of public warnings from onchain analysts, the prediction market is moving to time-weighted prices to make artificial price pushes too costly.

Crypto business is converging with banking as stablecoin reserves, tokenized funds, Treasury income and balance sheet management become key profit drivers.

When FTX collapsed, the parts of it bound by law survived. Mainstream finance is now converging with digital assets, and the law built to protect it the same way is the one the Senate did not pass this week, argues Bullish's Randi Abernethy…

The FSB said at least 20 individuals were arrested in connection with a ring that scammed an undetermined number of Russian citizens.

Bitcoin topped $65,000 after U.S. payrolls fell 23,000 in July versus an 80,000 forecast, pushing traders to price out a September Fed rate hike.

Ethereum’s proposed EIP-8363 staking overhaul aims to reduce issuance, but critics say it could hurt DeFi, decentralization and institutional adoption.

Gold, Treasuries and the S&P 500 led the growth, in a year when spot volumes on decentralized exchanges fell by roughly 70%.

Dice entropy may become the new gold standard after the Coldcard hack

Unlike the recent breakouts at OpenAI and Anthropic, this involved a model anyone can download, running its default safeguards.

The chances of a Federal Reserve rate hike at its next meeting in September have slipped below 50% in the aftermath of the report.

Russia has shut down nine unregistered crypto exchanges in Moscow, with the FSB alleging they helped move scam proceeds abroad through Ukrainian call centers.

Perpetual futures trading volume on crypto exchanges fell to its lowest level in 31 months, while perpetual trading on decentralized platforms neared a one-year low.

MetaMask's Agent Wallet lets AI agents trade crypto on their own. Plus, Bitcoin reclaims $65k despite the Clarity Act facing a new delay.

With the U.S. crypto bill missing a crucial window before the Senate hangs its closed-for-summer sign, the alternatives are getting more attention.

Bernstein rates CleanSpark Outperform at $24 on AI lease progress, while keeping MARA at $17 as it awaits its first commercial AI contract.

BIP-110 has attracted only a sliver of miner support, yet its user-activated design means the proposal continues toward its activation date and (most likely) beyond.

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Binance saw a record divergence between daily spot and futures trading volumes, with the latter reaching nearly $58 billion.

Liu Zhou told undercover agents the objective was to make other buyers lose money, according to the Justice Department.

Brent crude has meanwhile moved to over $83 a barrel after Yemen’s Iran-linked Houthis attacked Saudi Arabia, further escalating tensions in the Middle East.

Senate Majority Leader Thune says the bill will be queued up when lawmakers return, leaving weeks to find 60 votes before midterms take over.

CleanSpark’s shares fell 5.5% on Thursday after the Bitcoin miner reported $138 million in quarterly revenue, narrowly missing Wall Street’s consensus estimate.

Roughly 200,000 bitcoin have moved from long-term holder wallets in the past week, suggesting a possible shift in custody rather than conventional selling

Stripe-owned Bridge has entered the EU MiCA register following Luxembourg approval, joining regulated providers under the bloc’s crypto framework.

"Coinbase's averments are, in a word, applesauce," U.S. District Judge Shalina Kumar wrote in Thursday's ruling.

Industry figures warned that continued legislative limbo could slow institutional adoption, revive regulation by enforcement and push innovation offshore.

The crypto market maker can now trade US stocks and options and support ETFs as crypto moves closer to traditional markets.

The move separates ordinary Ethereum staking from higher-risk restaking exposure as a new proposal to cap validator rewards divides the staking sector.

The Coldcard exploit, which caused more than $100 million in losses, helped push July crypto thefts to $247 million, making it the second-worst month of 2026.

The U.S. lost 23,000 in July, the first such loss since February. Expectations had been for a gain of 80,000 jobs.

Bitcoin whales accumulate $1.2 billion in BTC while spot ETFs pull in $754 million this week.

Japanese authorities called for address registration, customer-specific limits and stronger authentication as part of a broader push to curb misuse of exchange accounts.

The latest bipartisan ethics proposal would reportedly require Trump to divest crypto businesses while allowing him to defer capital gains taxes on those sales.

The 50 BTC remained in the receiving address Friday, but that wallet has previously sent funds to FalconX-labeled deposits, leaving open whether the old stash is being reorganized or moved closer to a trading venue.

Bitcoin's chart is quietly tracing out a bullish setup technical analysts watch closely. But it isn't confirmed, and one key level will decide if it plays out.

Bitcoin, ether showed slight losses while Ripple-linked XRP fell 5.5% on the week, the worst of the majors, as the Senate left Washington without taking up the market structure bill.

Block's stock fell 6.15% on Thursday as the company posted rising operating expenses in Q2, despite cutting 40% of its workforce in February.

Crypto exchange Bitget has signed an agreement with Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority to pursue a regulated local presence.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune confirmed with The Block, saying: 'We're getting that queued up first thing when we come back.'

Senate Majority Leader John Thune confirmed that the chamber was “punting” the vote until September.

Bitcoin miner MARA posted its highest quarterly Bitcoin production in over a year, but was overshadowed by a 28% decline in the average price of Bitcoin.

Sui said users can adopt quantum-safe keys without creating a new recovery phrase or changing wallet addresses.

Wintermute said the registration allows the firm to position itself for the growth of tokenized securities in the US.

President Trump is reviewing ethics language in a bid to pass cryptocurrency legislation — which could result in a personal tax benefit.

The financial regulator subscribed to a global flight database covering more than a billion tickets to monitor activity.

Wintermute USA is a New York-based subsidiary that has registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC and FINRA.

The Defend American Jobs and Protect Progress PACs reported spending more than $1.5 million on media for four House and Senate races ahead of Aug. 18 primary elections.

MARA's net loss widened to $611.3 million, or $1.60 per diluted share, while CleanSpark’s was $239.8 million, or $0.89 per basic share.

Tokyo has asked Washington to stop meme-posting Mario, Pokémon, and Naruto without permission in a clash between meme-heavy statecraft and strict IP norms.

The company says a configuration error by an outside testing partner gave one of its Muse Spark models internet access during a cybersecurity evaluation.

Democratic lawmakers say wildfire event contracts create risks of arson, insider trading, and disaster profiteering as they urge federal regulators to step in.

After Nathan Allman's death was announced in May, Ondo Finance said that Ian De Bode would take over as CEO.

Base is seeing growing demand across tokenization and payments, and Pollack called blockchain launches from Robinhood and Stripe "validation."

The new law creates a licensed, central bank-supervised market for trading digital assets, yet crypto remains barred from everyday payments.

The presentation at the annual Black Hat conference sheds new light on how OpenAI's models collaborated to launch the Hugging Face breach.

A week-long streak of inflows into US spot Bitcoin ETFs has coincided with the Coldcard wallet exploit, fueling debate over whether some investors are shifting away from self-custody.

On-chain data shows big holders quietly buying XRP near $1, yet the daily chart is still trapped below a death cross.

Vangrid contributors are currently paid bounties, Brighton said, noting that a token is planned for later this year.

Deposits of tokenized RWAs into lending platforms and DEXs more than tripled from Q2 2025 to Q2 2026, from $2.3 billion to $7.4 billion.

SpaceX and Circle rank among the 10 largest positions in Ark's flagship innovation fund after the firm continued buying both companies following their second-quarter earnings.

Three circuit judges disputed the former FTX CEO’s claims that the defunct crypto exchange’s investors could have been made whole and wouldn’t have experienced any losses.

The South Carolina lawmaker who heads the Senate Banking Committee said that the majority leader still had time to put the crypto bill on the agenda despite the narrow voting window.

New analysis finds AI infrastructure contracts are becoming larger and more profitable, but investors now demand stronger execution before rewarding bitcoin mining stocks.

The new Agent Wallet lets AI agents execute on-chain trades within user-defined limits as MetaMask expands its push into AI-powered crypto trading.

Bitcoin price action stayed compressed in an ongoing divergence from stocks and gold while US PMI data sparked fresh talk of “stagflation.”

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"Whether Hyperliquid eventually surpasses in market cap other tokens such as Solana and XRP remains to be seen," analysts said.

Arc is a new layer-1 blockchain developed by USDC issuer Circle, designed specifically for stablecoin-native finance.

France's watchdog says fraudsters are impersonating its own staff to talk stranded customers into moving assets to fake websites.

It looks like Uniswap is playing to win with their zero-fee model, and the early data shows them already taking the top spot.

The blockchain analytics firm says home invasions are becoming more common, France has emerged as the leading hotspot, and some attackers are using increasingly sophisticated laundering techniques.

A volunteer group is pointing AI agents at Bitcoin project codebases and says 720 of the issues it has filed are high severity or critical.

Meta's new agent runs in your terminal, coordinates subagents, and survives crashes—but on the benchmarks that matter, it lags behind.

The release targets developers building autonomous apps and workflows on Cloudflare's edge—a clear bet on agent infrastructure.

A U.S. appeals court ruled Amazon is unlikely to prove Perplexity violated federal hacking law, marking the first appellate decision on whether AI agents can legally act on users' behalf online.

Eligible Visa Direct clients can now prefund accounts and send payouts in stablecoins, expanding Visa's latest push to bring blockchain-based payments into its global network.

Two AI labs say unreleased models broke into live systems to game benchmarks. Prosecuting a line of code is harder than it looks.

Prosecutors say the founder of NFT marketplace Few and Far promised investors their money would build a Web3 platform before diverting it to personal expenses.

Will Bitcoin breakout of its death cross? Can Zcash continue to make holders forget about that mid-June crash? Here’s what the charts say.