The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has charged Goliath Ventures Inc. and its CEO, Florida resident Christopher Delgado, with running a Ponzi scheme built on fraudulent solicitations for bitcoin and ether trading. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Roughly 1,600 customers contributed at least $397 million to […]

The biggest cryptocurrency news this week is not a token price, it is a jobs number. The US economy shed 23,000 positions in July against …

MoneyGram’s Ramps service now connects Solana wallets and applications to its global cash network, with Rift becoming the first wallet to integrate the service.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Monday it will hold an open meeting this Friday, August 14, to consider proposing new rules that would create a tailored offering path for certain crypto investment contracts. The announcement lands just days after the Senate pushed its next procedural vote on the CLARITY Act to mid-September, […]

Coinbase has launched futures, options, and perpetuals for professional clients in the United Kingdom, expanding its derivatives offering through its MiFID authorization. The rollout is not for UK retail users. Eligibility is limited to users classified as Professional Clients, which means they must meet criteria tied to trading activity, portfolio size, or relevant professional experience. […]

August 11th, 2026 – Milton, Georgia Businesses are increasingly looking for ways to offer more payment options without adding operational complexity. ForumPay, a crypto payment infrastructure company, enables merchants to accept crypto payments across online, in-store, and in-app channels, with instant conversion and next-day settlement. ForumPay has recently announced a new payment flow that it […]

Bitcoin Magazine Should Bitcoin Companies Build USD Reserves? Understanding The Truth Strategy’s U.S. dollar reserve has reached $4.65 billion, up from $3.75 billion two weeks earlier. It has also sold almost 7,000 BTC since late June 2026.  Many are wondering why a company built around accumulating Bitcoin would choose to hold billions of dollars in […]

Empery Digital sold 1,635 BTC for $102.2 million after the second quarter, cutting its bitcoin holdings to 1,279 BTC. With most of the remaining BTC pledged against debt and a potential $62.1 million property commitment ahead, the company’s liquidity flexibility has tightened. Empery Cuts Bitcoin Holdings to 1,279 BTC Empery Digital is drawing down its […]

TL;DR RippleX engineering chief J. Ayo Akinyele publicly urged Elon Musk to support RLUSD on X Money after testing the platform with a $25 transfer. Akinyele also suggested XRP could gain support if Musk opens X Money to crypto assets. The request comes as X Money expands its payment infrastructure, while Ripple builds RLUSD around […]

LF Wallet is betting you don’t have to choose between real self-custody and an app that actually feels usable day to day. Built as a non-custodial wallet, it’s designed to work less like a crypto tool and more like a debit card that happens to run on-chain. Backed by its own accelerator, its own token, […]

Bitcoin may’ve established its macro cycle bottom at $57,735 on the very first day of Q3, as quarterly Bollinger Bands reveal a floor overlooked by the market.

The biggest cryptocurrency news of August arrived on Saturday when Senate Majority Leader John Thune filed a cloture motion to advance the CLARITY …

The bank will test tokenized fixed-income securities and investment funds as part of an ANBIMA-led industry pilot.

Federal prosecutors have secured a conviction against a man involved in a widespread scam network that preyed on older adults and transferred millions of dollars to foreign locations. The schemes relied on building personal connections with victims before requesting cash for phony business opportunities, legal troubles and health costs, says the U.S. attorney for the […]

Prominent blockchain investigator ZachXBT identified Tiffany Milanovich as a US-based threat actor tied to at least $5 million in thefts through hardware wallet and centralized exchange support impersonation scams. He said Milanovich worked as a “caller” and posed as exchange or wallet support, convincing victims to give up access to their funds. ZachXBT said she […]

Bitcoin Magazine Regulators To Push Pro-Crypto Initiatives Following Clarity Act Delay  The long-awaited crypto Clarity Act has stalled and is due a September vote but regulators are ready to step in to advance crypto rules regardless, according to reports.  Bloomberg reported Tuesday that the Securities and Exchange Commission was preparing to roll out this week […]

Mysten Labs co-founder and chief cryptographer Kostas Chalkias says he has quietly leased a factory to mass-produce quantum-resistant hardware wallet cards for Sui, aiming to keep users safe from a threat that just cost bitcoin holders roughly $130 million. A Personal Mission Kostas “Kryptos” Chalkias, co-founder and chief cryptographer at Mysten Labs, the company behind […]

The US securities regulator scheduled a meeting this week with the potential to step up on digital asset policies without congressional action.

XRP open interest jumped $171 million in one hour as the price hovers at $1.01, splitting the market into two clear camps just ahead of tomorrow’s US CPI report.

TL;DR 20x leverage is now available on BTC/USD margin for eligible traders on Kraken Pro. Liquidation price, margin ratio, and take-profit/stop-loss tools work exactly as they did before. This update applies to BTC/USD margin only. It doesn’t extend to other pairs or to futures. Availability depends on your market. Check the Kraken Pro app to […]

Patrick Camuso, CPA, founder and managing director of Camuso CPA, joined Rising to break down the basics of cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and …

TL;DR Bitcoin futures carry reached 7.89% on August 7, exceeding the 4.19% two-year Treasury yield. US spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $865 million during the week, with BlackRock’s IBIT accounting for roughly 80% of inflows. The spread offers institutions another reason to consider Bitcoin-based strategies, although financing, margin requirements, and trading fees can reduce the final […]

Pi Network’s native token experienced a substantial resurgence over the past several days, but its run has been halted, and it has now dropped below the key support at $0.09. Meanwhile, the project’s vast community expects updates on the next protocol upgrade, which is supposed to be the second-to-last one. PI Tanks Again After a […]

Bitcoin Magazine BIP-110 Fork Stalls at Two Blocks as Bitcoin Miners Refuse to Follow The Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP)-110 appeared to stall at the weekend, when the nodes that support the proposal broke away from the main network and produced the chain split people had been warning about — a tiny, stalled one. The split […]

Arthur Hayes argues Washington and Tokyo are quietly coordinating to push the yen higher, a shift he says would flood markets with fresh dollar liquidity and become a powerful bullish catalyst for bitcoin. Three Ways to Strengthen the Yen Hayes, the BitMEX co-founder and macro commentator, laid out his thesis in an essay titled “Yen-quake,” […]

Patrick Witt says the Trump administration will keep negotiating with Democrats as the Senate prepares for a September CLARITY vote.

Strategy’s Bitcoin sales have funded repurchases of STRC preferred stock, while separate MSTR share sales have strengthened its dollar reserve. The latest disposal leaves Strategy with 840,447 BTC, with the coins sold at a lower price than the average cost of its overall holdings. The company retains substantial capacity for further preferred and common-stock repurchases […]

Four dormant 2014 Bitcoin wallets just awoke to move 114 BTC with up to 8,000% gains, but this rare post-Satoshi whale activity actually signals a potential market risk.

We’re thrilled to announce that DOS is available for trading on Kraken! Funding and trading DOS trading is live as of August 10, 2026. To add an asset to your Kraken account, navigate to Funding, select the asset you’re after, and hit ‘Deposit’.  Make sure to deposit your tokens into networks supported by Kraken. Deposits […]

Thredd's new partnership with stablecoin platform Cashi, announced Tuesday (Aug. 11), is important not because another cryptocurrency card is entering …

Americans are reportedly flocking to European destinations in record numbers. The U.S. Department of State issued over 27 million passports in fiscal 2025, marking the highest annual total ever recorded, reports The Wall Street Journal. This expansion is partly due to domestic wealth and broader passport access. Portugal hosted nearly five times more American visitors […]

The Pentagon’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI), previously designated US2QC, pursues a defined objective: to determine whether industry can build a fault-tolerant, practically useful quantum computer before 2033. The deadline introduces a direct urgency factor for the digital asset sector, whose security infrastructure rests on cryptographic schemes vulnerable to a quantum computer with sufficient logical qubits. […]