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

Bitcoin Magazine “We Need Clarity,” Says Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Ex-governor of New York and Democrat Andrew Cuomo has said lawmakers need to hurry up and get the “highly political” Clarity Act over the line.  Cuomo, who is also the director of crypto exchange OKX, said that Democrats and Republicans were mainly locking […]

Key Takeaways: On September 16th, Circle will go-live with the initial validators, such as BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, DTCC and Standard Chartered, on the public mainnet of Arc. Before its public launch, Arc already had over 100 institutional and ecosystem builders working on developing on Arc.  Arc integrates both institutional-level infrastructure and an open blockchain for […]

A Louisiana man has been sentenced to four years in federal prison after orchestrating a wide-ranging bank fraud and mail theft scheme that targeted financial institutions and their customers. Marvell Trevenski Jackson Jr., 26, of Baton Rouge, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and theft of mail, says the United States Attorney’s Office […]

TL;DR Saylor says ChatGPT helped Strategy design a new financial instrument that unlocked roughly $15 billion in capital during 2025 after convertible financing neared limits. STRK reportedly bridges debt and equity, despite early resistance from lawyers and investment bankers who had never encountered a comparable structure before. Saylor argues bitcoin provides digital capital while AI […]

Sometimes an executive resignation isn’t the headline, especially when Nikita Bier, the man who spent the last 13 months rebuilding X from the inside out, announced he was stepping back from the top product job this week. That’s when the real story shifted to the replies. Within hours, one of crypto’s most followed on-chain investigators […]

Grayscale added BNB to its Smart Contract Fund during its second-quarter review, giving the token a larger weighting than ether and solana. The asset manager also reduced exposure to Uniswap and NEAR across two other diversified crypto products. Grayscale Uses Q2 Review to Reweight 3 Crypto Funds Grayscale Investments has added BNB to its Smart […]

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

Crypto analyst Ali Martinez said on August 6 that Ethereum’s recent move above a major MVRV pricing level could open the way toward a $3,000 target. The market watcher’s view is based on historical on-chain patterns that have previously appeared before major ETH recoveries, though resistance levels remain ahead. Ethereum Reclaims MVRV Level as Analysts […]

As a $116 million Coldcard flaw shatters self-custody trust, Bitcoin ETFs absorb $620 million in Wall Street inflows.

TL;DR Phone callbacks are now verified too. When a Kraken Support agent calls you back on a standard phone line, we flag it as verified in real time; you will see a confirmed banner right in the app, not just for calls made through the app itself. A one-time code proves who you’re talking to. […]

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

JPYC Inc., the company operating Japan’s first fully regulated yen-pegged stablecoin, has extended its Series B funding round, pushing total investment to roughly 6 billion yen, or about $38 million. Logistics Giant Backs Japan’s Yen Stablecoin Bet The latest check, according to JPYC’s capital raise announcement, includes about 1 billion yen, or $6.3 million, from […]

The disclosure made by Kraken Security Labs in February 2023 exposed a physical vulnerability in the Coldcard Mk4 that enables seed extraction without knowing the PIN. The finding reignited a technical discussion that the crypto sector tends to avoid: no hardware wallet is immune to a physical attack with sufficient resources. The documented exploit does not represent a […]

Asset manager Grayscale Investments announced the restructuring of its investment products, granting BNB a dominant 30.6% stake in its Grayscale Smart Contract Fund. With this move, Binance’s native token surpassed established assets such as Ethereum (29.47%) and Solana (29.15%) in weighting, becoming the portfolio’s largest position after selling part of its previous holdings to fund […]

Six months ago, the scariest thing about AI fraud was a convincing phishing email. Today, it’s a phone call from your boss that sounds exactly like your boss, down to the pauses and the verbal tics, except your boss never made that call. This week alone delivered two separate stories that, put together, paint a […]

The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange will conduct a major scheduled upgrade on Saturday that will pause certain trading activities. The second major statement from the firm outlined the delisting of numerous trading pairs, one even against BTC. An Upgrade and Delistings Binance revealed that it will temporarily halt US stock trading on the platform on […]

XRP sees first outflow in multiple weeks as its price continues to plunge deeper, causing both retail and institutional investors to exercise caution.

TL;DR During the worst moments of the largest volume spike our platform had ever seen (in July 2025), about 11% of requests to our platform failed. That was unacceptable. We now run at an error rate of 0.111%, while carrying more than ten times the load. We set a standard for load testing: the platform […]

Thunderpick focuses heavily on cryptocurrency transactions while combining casino games with sportsbook betting. Among today's crypto gambling sites, …

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

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Treasury Firm Strategy Pledges $250 a Year to Employee Trump Accounts Bitcoin treasury company Strategy has said it will contribute to Trump Accounts for the children of its U.S. employees, becoming the latest major public company to layer corporate money on top of the federal savings program. The Tysons Corner, Virginia-based company […]

New York, August 5, 2026 — MoonPay, the global financial technology company powering the movement of value across fiat and digital assets, today announced the integration of the TRON network with MoonPay’s Trade infrastructure, enabling users to complete transactions on TRON without holding TRX to pay network fees. The TRON network is governed by TRON […]

US President Trump is prioritizing negotiations with Iran over any large-scale military operation but notes that an attack is still in the cards. Trump said the US is making preparations for what would have been the “biggest attack since World War II,” which is now on hold following direct outreach from Iranian representatives, reports Türkiye […]

A well-known German Bitcoin developer has revealed that fears over self-custody security kept him from buying more BTC.

TL;DR MON staking is live as of August 4, 2026, with two tiers: Bonded Staking (up to 12% APY) and Auto Earn (up to 6% APY) Bonded Staking carries the highest headline rate, with a standard unbonding period when you unstake Auto Earn activates automatically on eligible balances, no setup required Available now globally, with […]

The biggest cryptocurrency news this week hit hard when a hardware wallet exploit drained funds across thousands of addresses, dragging social …

TL;DR The Kite Foundation detected and managed to contain an attack on its native token on the Ethereum mainnet; no loss of funds was reported. The token is currently trading around $0.104, reflecting a drop of more than 67% from its all-time high of $0.3212 recorded on March 6. This incident adds to a series […]

PEPE recorded a net exchange outflow of 4.54 trillion tokens in a single day, which was the meme coin’s largest daily outflow from exchanges since November 14, 2024. Fewer tokens on exchanges mean less immediate selling pressure. Exchange Exodus According to the latest findings by Santiment, PEPE has traded mostly sideways over the past two […]

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.

Bitcoin Magazine Circuit, DaLand Give Credit Unions a Direct Path to Bitcoin Credit unions now have a production-ready path to offer Bitcoin and other digital asset services without relying on outside platforms after DaLand CUSO and Circuit, an 80-member credit union collaborative, announced that Circuit’s Digital Asset Initiative has moved into implementation. The program grants […]