Onchain, in court: What happened in crypto legal news this week
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A case tied to defunct crypto exchange FTX moves forward, a soldier seeks to dismiss over a Polymarket bet and a former congressman was ordered to pay $35,000 for manipulative trading.

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Crypto Activity Rebounded in July, but Fresh Liquidity Remained Scarce
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TL;DR Crypto activity recovered in July, with DeFi lending, DEX volumes, and perpetual futures showing renewed market participation. DeFi loans increased 7.2% to $22.2B, while total value locked across decentralized finance surpassed $74.9B during the month. Liquidity remained limited, as stablecoin supply declined 0.6% and institutional inflows continued showing cautious behavior. Crypto activity recovered in […]

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Monad Just Hit $831 Million TVL All-Time High After Phantom Ends Platform Support
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Monad just posted a genuine all-time high in total value locked, the kind of number that usually gets celebrated across every crypto news outlet without much scrutiny. At almost the exact same time, one of the industry’s most widely used wallets announced it’s dropping support for that same network entirely. I don’t think that’s a […]

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'Nothing Is 100%,' Binance's CZ Reacts as $70 Million Coldcard Exploit Stirs Panic
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Binance’s CZ has encouraged crypto users to stay vigilant and maintain precautions in holding crypto assets, explaining to them that nothing guarantees 100% safety.

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Crypto ATMs are here to stay despite their scam risks. How should NZ regulate them? | RNZ
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Rather, they're cryptocurrency ATMs. Increasingly, they have come to represent one of New Zealand's trickiest anti-money laundering challenges.

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PI Surges 5% Despite Market Slump After Important Pi Network Reminder
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The cryptocurrency market is back in the red after bitcoin’s rejection on Friday and a subsequent drop to a multi-week low, but, as usual, there are some exceptions. Pi Network’s native token is among those, which might sound surprising given its recent calamity. Nevertheless, PI is up by 5% daily after an important reminder was […]

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CleanCore’s $800M AI Contract Shows Dogecoin Treasury Firms Are Changing Shape
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CleanCore Solutions has signed a 10-year colocation agreement with Cerebras Systems valued at $800 million, and the story is not just that a small public company has moved into AI infrastructure. It is that a company previously known in crypto circles for its Dogecoin treasury has now made a much larger corporate pivot. According to […]

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Coldcard Wallet Flaw Exposes Years of Bitcoin Seeds After $70M in BTC Stolen
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Bitcoin Magazine Coldcard Wallet Flaw Exposes Years of Bitcoin Seeds After $70M in BTC Stolen The popular Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard product, made by Coinkite, is at risk following a $70 million hack. Coinkite on Thursday admitted that its Coldcard Mk3 model was affected following the hack and advised users to move their funds. Then, […]

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US Treasury yields rise as TIPS challenge the inflation narrative
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TIPS data points to rising real yields, not inflation, a dynamic that weighs on non-yielding assets like Bitcoin.

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Trump Weighs Ethics Counteroffer as CLARITY Act Nears August Deadline
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President Donald Trump is weighing a bipartisan ethics counteroffer for the CLARITY Act as Senate negotiators race to finalize crypto conflict-of-interest rules before the chamber’s August first week recess. A Counteroffer Reaches the White House Crypto policy journalist Eleanor Terrett reported on August 1 that Trump is weighing a bipartisan ethics counteroffer as the Digital […]

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BlackRock Extends Bitcoin Buy With Another $183 Million
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BlackRock has made another Bitcoin purchase after taking a temporary pause on its frequent buying activity as ETF demand appears to be returning.

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New Minnesota Banning <b>Cryptocurrency</b> Kiosks is Now in Effect – KROC-AM News
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A new state law that prohibits Cryptocurrency kiosks in Minnesota is now in effect. · The machines allowed users to instantaneously convert cash into …

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BNB Holds Support as ONDO Gains After Network Launch; BlockDAG Reports Activity and Token Sale Window
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Crypto markets rarely move in a simple way, and this week’s action across three projects shows that clearly. Trading close to $565, Binance Coin is trying to defend the $563 support area, with buyers watching $571 as the next key level before a stronger move can begin. At the same time, Ondo Finance introduced Ondo […]

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Market update: BlockDAG, XRP, Hyperliquid, and Zcash in focus
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Overview of BlockDAG, XRP, Hyperliquid, and Zcash, including project-reported updates such as a claimed 7,000 transactions-per-second mainnet and early-stage token offering details reported by the project. The crypto market is sending mixed signals this week, and market participants are assessing opportunities. XRP remains below key moving averages. Hyperliquid has moved under an important support line. […]

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Bitcoin Fear Reaches Record High as Coldcard Exploit Shakes Confidence in Self-Custody
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Although Bitcoin has gone through countless phases of massive fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD), the current crisis around Coldcard has triggered the worst wave of fear ever recorded on crypto social media channels. So far, BTC has been able to weather the storm in terms of price moves to a large extent, even though it […]

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Uniswap Fee Switch Activation Puts UNI Burn Mechanics Back In Focus
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Uniswap governance has activated a protocol fee switch on v4 liquidity pools, pushing protocol revenue higher and directing collected fees toward UNI buy-and-burn mechanics rather than direct distributions to tokenholders. The validated notes point to Uniswap Governance Proposal 100 passing with about 46.6 million votes in favor and roughly 1.27 million opposed. The mechanism collects […]

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Bybit adds tokenized Nvidia, Apple, Tesla stocks as loan collateral
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Eligible retail and institutional users can use tokenized shares of Nvidia, Apple, Tesla and three other US companies across Bybit’s trading and lending products.

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COLDCARD SECURITY RISK: IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED
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Bitcoin Magazine COLDCARD SECURITY RISK: IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED First, yes, that is a very clickbait title and completely unusual. This is a real security issue. Here is the official announcement from Coinkite themselves posted yesterday, please read and verify the genuineness of the issue there. TLDR: Coldcard MK2, MK3, MK4, MK5 and Q are being […]

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Bitcoin (BTC) Drop Forces Strategy Into $8,220,000,000 Quarterly Loss While Cash Reserves Grow
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Bitcoin’s (BTC) price decline forces Michael Saylor’s Strategy into an $8.22 billion net loss for the second quarter. The loss stems mainly from an $8.32 billion unrealized hit on its Bitcoin trove as the flagship cryptocurrency fell during the period, says Strategy. The company expanded its holdings to 843,775 BTC by late July with an […]

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345,000 Americans Warned Following CareCloud AWS Breach, Sensitive Personal, Financial and Medical Records at Risk
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A major healthcare technology firm has started sending notifications to hundreds of thousands of patients about the theft of their medical records and personal details. The New Jersey company CareCloud, which supports patient records for more than 45,000 providers nationwide, confirmed unauthorized access to one of its electronic health record databases hosted on Amazon Web […]

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Was AI Responsible for Finding the Coldcard Security Flaw?
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A five-year-old Coldcard software flaw may have allowed an attacker to reconstruct private keys and sweep more than 1,100 bitcoin, prompting the wallet’s maker to blame the discovery partly on artificial intelligence (AI). A Coordinated Sweep Empties Hundreds of Wallets The incident became public after roughly 594 BTC, valued near $38 million at the time, […]

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Bitcoin's Worst Month Is About to Start, Price History Predicts
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Bitcoin ends July up 10% but faces an imminent August crash as historic tendencies predict a harsh reality check.

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OVERSIGHT AND INVESTIGATION—Banking Committee members warn Clarity Act would …
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… his family's cryptocurrency ventures. Calling for "massive loopholes" to be closed, the minority staff of the Senate B…

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Bitcoin ETFs end July in the green despite late-month selling
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Spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $172.4 million in July inflows but remained $5.3 billion negative year to date after heavy withdrawals in May and June.

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Analyst Blasts Strategy After CEO Signals New Priority Beyond Bitcoin
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It was precisely six years ago when a rather unknown company in the cryptocurrency industry at the time made a revolutionary change to its asset reserve strategy and adopted Bitcoin. The entity in question, called MicroStrategy back then, started to accumulate BTC en masse and only accelerated its purchases after the 2024 presidential elections in […]

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ENS Labs Scales Back Treasury Proposal After Delegate Pushback
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ENS Labs has revised a governance proposal after delegate criticism over treasury control, choosing to keep the DAO’s primary operational wallet custody in place rather than moving broader control to the Foundation. According to the validated notes, the revised plan scraps the more contentious transfer of the DAO’s operational wallet, which includes ETH and stablecoins. […]

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Oregon Caregiver Indicted on Felony Charges for Neglecting Elderly Medicaid Recipients and Submitting Fraudulent Bills
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An Oregon caregiver faces multiple felony charges after authorities allege she neglected two elderly and disabled Medicaid recipients while billing the state for services never delivered. Officials say the woman withheld necessary physical care from the individuals between August and December 2025 and submitted false claims that resulted in theft of more than $10,000 from […]

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Claude AI User Conversations Surface Publicly via Google Searches
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Hundreds of private Claude user conversations that were never intended to be shared temporarily showed up in Google search results. The exposed chats included highly unusual prompts that users intended to keep confidential, reports Attack of the Fanboy. The incident was not caused by a cyberattack or a security breach. Instead, the exposure stemmed from […]

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Hong Kong Warns of Suspected Crypto Scam After Investors Lose $127 Million
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TL;DR Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission warned that Fun Coffee may be a suspicious crypto investment scheme after reported losses exceeded $127 million. Around 4,000 investors claim funds disappeared after the platform blocked withdrawals and several company locations became inactive. Hong Kong Police received 115 complaints and transferred the investigation to the Commercial Crime […]

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US Closes in on Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Bitcoin Insurance Policy, Sanctions Companies
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Bitcoin Magazine US Closes in on Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Bitcoin Insurance Policy, Sanctions Companies Iran has been dodging sanctions by accepting pay in Bitcoin from ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, according to a Friday announcement from the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. The OFAC sanctioned the companies tied to the […]

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Coldcard Exploit Fuels Market Fear as 2 Bitcoin Forks Loom Ahead
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Bitcoin slipped below $63,000 this week as a major hardware wallet security incident rattled confidence just as traders are preparing for two separate August events that could influence sentiment across the network. The world’s largest cryptocurrency traded between roughly $62,300 and $63,100 during early Saturday trading sessions after briefly pushing above $65,000 a day earlier. […]

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Coldcard Bitcoin loss estimate rises to $70M after Galaxy analysis
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Galaxy Research identified 1,196 addresses that lost 1,082.65 Bitcoin in a 41-minute window, expanding the estimated scope of the Coldcard wallet incident.

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