Shibarium – Shiba Inu’s layer-2 scaling solution – has finally shown signs of revival, perhaps sparking hopes among the SHIB Army that the price could respond to the momentum. Nonetheless, many other factors suggest that the self-proclaimed Dogecoin killer is not out of the woods yet and could experience an additional short-term decline. Mixed Signals, […]

BlackRock Canada’s new IBQT fund combines global equity exposure with a 3% Bitcoin allocation through the firm’s Canadian iShares Bitcoin ETF.

Bitcoin Magazine Blockstream Debuts Swaps, Allowing Bitcoiners to Move Between Lightning and Main Network With Ease  Bitcoin infrastructure company Blockstream has announced a new feature allowing users to make trustless swaps.  Dubbed Blockstream Swaps, the idea is that Bitcoiners will be able to quickly move between the main chain and Lightning network.  It comes after […]

Key Takeaways: Kimsuky was using Ollama, GPT4All and Msty, three local LLM environments. Crypto, financial and investment targets are being scammed using AI-generated documents. The group remains using LNK files, and PowerShell and GitHub based infrastructure. User Score 8.7 Follow us on Google News North Korea-linked hacking group Kimsuky is moving deeper into artificial intelligence, […]

Bitdeer reports Q2 2026 financial results, highlighting strong revenue growth while cost of revenue outpaced total sales, despite a significant sequential slowdown in expense growth. Top-Line Growth Bitdeer Technologies Group released unaudited financial results for the second quarter (Q2) of 2026, Aug. 10, demonstrating strong top-line revenue growth accompanied by persistent cost pressures. While the […]

The Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy (MSTR) sold 1,690 BTC worth $109 million in the past week, its second consecutive week of sales. Strategy sold 1,638 BTC worth $105 million the week before, and that sale was preceded by a three-week stretch when the firm didn’t buy or sell any Bitcoin. The recent sales materialized under […]

The Clarity Act is still alive, with Senate Republicans scheduling procedural action for when lawmakers return in September. Democrats remain at odds with Republicans over ethics restrictions, while some Republicans continue to raise concerns about stablecoins and community banks. A compressed three-week legislative window leaves little room for resolving the remaining disputes before attention turns […]

Zhou’s previous business ventures, including a failed flooring company and Caduceus, provide context for questions surrounding his ability to make the $100 million investment. Blockchain analysis connected separate WLFI purchases to wallets associated with Web3Port and Aqua 1, while the origin of the overall investment has not been established. WLFI says its compliance programme meets […]

The recent development represents a setback for Cardano’s ETF narrative, but ADA’s price reaction has been relatively contained.

… cryptocurrency option to a 401(k) plan's investment menu. The Trump Administration has indicated that everyday American investors want the …

Crypto is now experiencing a dot-com-style shakeout, with more than 100 projects reportedly shutting down, filing for bankruptcy, or disappearing in 2026, MoonPay President Keith Grossman warned on August 10. According to him, the slump is forcing crypto companies to ask themselves a fundamental question: Are they developing products that people actually need? Drawing Lessons […]

Bitcoin wobbled with US stocks as Iran deflated hopes on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz oil route, while analysis praised “exceptionally strong” institutional BTC inflows.

TL;DR Simple Mining rejected BIP-110 while using Ocean’s DATUM protocol, mining block 961,634 on Bitcoin’s main chain without signaling support for the proposal. BIP-110 support peaked near 2.6% of hashrate, far below its 55% target, and the minority branch produced only two blocks before stalling. Both chains inherited 127.48T difficulty, leaving the low-hashrate fork unable […]

Unlike most token pumps that come with a single obvious headline, an exchange listing, a partnership, or a Musk tweet, CGPT’s current surge doesn’t have one of those. Instead, it’s climbing on the back of something rarer in crypto: a project that’s actually been shipping, quarter after quarter, while most of the market wasn’t paying […]

Conversations in Berlin are taking place to decide whether Germany will support Joachim Nagel, the current president of the Bundesbank, in a potential bid for the Presidency of the ECB. Nagel, who would emerge as a dark horse, has a negative stance on bitcoin and crypto. Joachim Nagel’s Bid To Become ECB President Under Consideration […]

Strategy just sold another 1,690 Bitcoin for $108.6 million.

Guotai Haitong Securities offered on Friday to take its Hong Kong-listed arm private, valuing the unit at HK$28.6 billion (about $3.6 billion). The price is HK$3.00 a share in cash, a 44.2% premium to the last close before the stock was halted. Guotai Junan International, the target, owns the first Chinese state-backed brokerage that Hong […]

To address the economic challenges associated with renewable energy penetration, recent studies have explored the use of cryptocurrency mining as a …

Following a procedural delay in the US Senate, lawmakers are expected to address a major crypto market structure bill after they return from a month-long recess, which met with industry criticism.

Resolução BCB nº 584, approved on 6 August and published the next day, takes effect on 1 January 2027 and requires a 24-hour precautionary hold on certain outbound crypto transfers. The hold applies to transfers to self-custody wallets and to virtual asset firms abroad above a reported US$10,000 per client per day, with smaller transfers […]

The BIP-110-enforcing chain sat at block 961,633 against 961,802 on the main chain early on Monday, a gap of 169 blocks, according to bip110monitor.com and CNA’s own pulls from mempool.space and blockchain.info. That branch has mined two blocks in total, 961,632 and 961,633, and Ocean’s BIP-110 endpoint showed its most recent one about 26 hours […]

Large Bitcoin, Ether, and XRP holders continued accumulating during recent market weakness, analytics firm CryptoQuant said. The firm’s weekly report, Buying the Bear: A Signal of the Bear Market’s Final Stage, examined the recent accumulation by the largest wallets. It said the steady buying reflects behavior often seen during the closing phase of a bear […]

TL;DR: Coinsbuy suffered a drain of over $7.9 million distributed across wallets on Ethereum and TRON. The attacker began converting the stolen funds into Monero, a privacy cryptocurrency that makes on-chain tracing significantly more difficult. ChangeNOW managed to freeze a six-figure portion before the funds were moved, though the exact amount was not officially confirmed. […]

TL;DR Leveraged funds on CME have turned net long bitcoin futures after years of structural short positioning, signaling a rare shift toward directional bullish exposure. The annualized three-month bitcoin futures basis has fallen to about 3%, below the roughly 3.8% yield available on two-year U.S. Treasury notes. Some of the change may reflect basis trades […]

There’s a special kind of cruelty in a scam that borrows the name of Wasabi Wallet, a tool built entirely around protecting your privacy and your funds. This week, that’s exactly what happened. A fake version of Wasabi Wallet made it onto the Apple App Store, and at least one victim on X says it […]

Mark Esper, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, stresses the CLARITY Act would extend Patriot Act provisions to digital assets, modernizing the identification and special measures apparatus against foreign institutions to target threat actors such as North Korea and criminal organizations. Mark Esper: CLARITY Act ‘Not Merely a Financial Services Bill’ While the Digital Asset Market […]

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

Bitcoin eyes $72,900 as ETFs pour in $850 million, ex-Ripple exec teases a tokenless XRP-focused startup, and major BTC miner cashes out $1.63 billion for AI infrastructure.

Robinhood has launched crypto trading in the UK, allowing eligible customers to buy and sell more than 50 digital assets through its app. The service adds crypto trading to the same platform where UK customers can already access stocks and shares ISAs, equities, options and futures. It is provided through Bitstamp UK Ltd, which is […]

By 2034, the Cryptocurrency Mining Hardware Market is expected to reach a valuation of USD 5.17 Bn from 2.31 Bn in 2024, at a CAGR of 8.4%

Key Takeaways: Russia’s FSB closed down 9 crypto exchange points not registered in the country in the capital of Moscow. In the action, over twenty exchange workers were taken into custody. The platforms were allegedly used to transfer money that had been stolen via phone fraud overseas. User Score 8.7 Follow us on Google News […]

The previous business week ended with a bit of a surprise as the jobs report showed that the US economy had lost 23,000 jobs in July, compared to expectations for roughly 80,000 new positions. Previous months were revised sharply lower as well, solidifying the argument that the labor market is finally weakening. Although this was […]