Guren “Bobby” Zhou, a UK businessman previously investigated for money laundering, purchased $100 million worth of tokens from the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial crypto project. The New York Times reports on Zhou’s background and the massive transaction through his firm Aqua 1. Two years earlier, Zhou was a failed hardwood flooring retailer in Britain […]

A major Colorado health provider faces a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging it shared sensitive patient search data with Meta through a common website tracking tool. Larimer County resident Patrick Miller filed the suit last week in U.S. District Court in Denver, reports Denver Post. The complaint claims UCHealth deployed Meta’s Pixel on its “Find a […]

Russian authorities disrupted nine foreign-coordinated cryptocurrency channels operating out of the Moscow City business district. Over 20 employees from unregistered crypto exchanges and several couriers were detained for their involvement in the laundering operation. Foreign Crypto Laundering Ring Dismantled Russian authorities recently dismantled a financial laundering ring operating out of the Moscow City business district, […]

Getting locked out of your own BitMart account is bad. Getting let back in only to watch your withdrawal get rejected on the spot is somehow worse. That’s the exact sequence users described over the past 48 hours, and it’s landed the exchange in the middle of a very public insolvency accusation it hasn’t fully […]

Ripple veteran and XRP Ledger architect David Schwartz has criticized Bitcoin Knots over its response to the failed BIP-110 fork attempt.

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 …

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 […]

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.

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. […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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,” […]

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 […]