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Bank Leumi customers will be able to buy, hold and sell three major cryptocurrencies directly through the bank’s investment app beginning in early 2027.

A $116 million Bitcoin wallet exploit puts self-custody under scrutiny as ETF inflows rebound, Strategy eyes more BTC and miners chase billions in AI deals.

Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.

Bitcoin falls further toward new August lows, ignoring positive US inflation trends while US stocks continue to circle all-time highs.

Morgan Stanley’s reported IBIT holdings rose to 16.5 million shares in Q2, while Ether ETF positions and several crypto-linked stocks also increased.

JPMorgan reported a 25% increase in its Bitcoin ETF position and more than quadrupled its Ether ETF position in the second quarter.

Binance said it will stop processing transactions for involving 11 crypto platforms, including HTX, which was recently listed in the EU’s sanctions package targeting Russia.

Solana’s proposed fee overhaul would make resource-heavy transactions more expensive while cutting costs for simpler activity, and it increases the amount of SOL burned.

Credit card and staking revenue drove Gemini’s services growth in Q2 as exchange revenue fell 38% and trading volume dropped by two-thirds.

Shinhan Asset Management and Plume will test a tokenized fund using a Korean won-denominated ultra-short-term bond fund as its underlying asset.

Bitcoin futures open interest on Binance fell alongside BTC price as analysis published on CryptoQuant flagged mounting pressure on leveraged longs.

RedotPay’s US IPO has reportedly been delayed as it seeks regulatory approvals, while the company says it secured a US money transmitter license.

JPMorgan Chase reportedly cut banking ties with Polymarket in October 2025 over regulatory concerns but remains open to an underwriting role if the platform goes public.

Crypto acceptance was just 0.2% online and remained below 1% at physical points of sale, while mobile payments gained ground.

The SEC canceled a meeting on proposed crypto offering rules after the Senate left for recess without voting on the CLARITY Act.

BA Labs had previously classified a proposed NUSD integration as higher risk because of its counterparty, operational and liquidity exposure.

Figure expects consumer loan marketplace volume to range from $4.8 billion to $5.2 billion in the third quarter.

Advances in compact proofs have erased Poseidon’s previous performance advantage, according to researcher Justin Drake.

The city’s complaint over gambling laws and deceptive trade practices included Robinhood, Webull and Coinbase as partners with prediction market platform Kalshi.

KPMG’s audit covered Tether’s 2025 financial statements and found its reserves exceeded liabilities by $6.8 billion.

More than a year after being indicted on fraud charges related to his activities at crypto company Delio, Jeong Sang-ho faces prison time in South Korea.

The CFTC will hold a meeting for its Innovation Advisory Committee on Aug. 20 to address regulation related to crypto assets, artificial intelligence and prediction markets.

The Blockchain Association argues the Fed should not have broad discretion to deny eligible state-chartered banks direct access to its payment system.

Standard Chartered said Robinhood’s Uniswap integration could solve a key challenge for new blockchains while accelerating UNI token burns.

AI and HPC are reshaping mining economics as operators repurpose power and data centers, while a smaller group of miners continues to expand Bitcoin capacity.

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The token’s sale has been pushed back due to the Iran war disrupting travel in the region.

Spot bitcoin ETFs saw back-to-back outflows for the first time since late July as the largest cryptocurrency wiped out last week's gains and altcoins struggled to find direction.

A spokesperson for the stablecoin payments company declined to comment on any IPO plans.

WTI crude tops $82 a barrel, adding inflation pressure and weighing on risk assets as bond yields rise.

Top cryptocurrencies nurse losses as regulatory picture sours. ETF flows and traditional markets offer little support.

A new consultation targets "non-operating companies" broadly. Two familiar names still land on the deletion list.

According to Financial Times, JPMorgan ended its banking relationship with Polymarket in late 2025 over regulatory concerns.

The SEC was ready to release at least some part of the innovation exemption alongside its now-canceled open meeting for "Reg Crypto" on Friday.

The first major crypto rule to be proposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will have to wait a bit longer after a sudden postponement.

KPMG U.S. examined Tether's books and even counted its gold bars as the $180 billion USDT issuer said it completed its long-promised financial audit.

The thesis is that high yields on long-term U.S. Treasuries make non-yielding assets like bitcoin less attractive.

The incident marks the first time Trezor customers' shipping addresses were exposed.

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The institutional crypto liquidity provider is bringing on the former Schroders Wealth Management Asia chairman as it targets family offices and asset managers across the region.

The prediction-market platform raised $1 billion at a $22 billion valuation in May and is now discussing a new round that could nearly double that figure.

The online bank cut full-year revenue and profit forecasts after first-half crypto trading levels slumped.

A South Korean court sentenced the head of centralized finance (CeFi) lender Delio to 15 years in prison for embezzling digital assets from more than 1,100 customers.

The tokenization-focused lender posted $226 million in quarterly revenue as blockchain loan marketplace volume jumped to $4.3 billion.

Bullish's second-quarter loss of $280 million was mostly attributable to a $244.6 million markdown on the company’s bitcoin holdings.

Bank Leumi's 2022 attempt died at the Bank of Israel. A softer regulatory line and Galaxy's custody stack now give it another shot in early 2027.

Bitcoin miner Hyperscale sold most of its Bitcoin but said it plans to rebuild its holdings through mining and future purchases.

Malware planted during a bogus coding assessment harvested a session token, bypassing multi-factor authentication to reach a code repository.

The country's first strategy of its kind also brings stricter due diligence for firms dealing with overseas crypto companies.

It seems Tether passed, putting an end to the longest-running open criticism of the leading stablecoin company.

No replacement date has been set for the meeting, which was cancelled due to an “unforeseen scheduling issue.”

A King County judge gave the exchange until August 19 to stop offering sports, election and politics wagers in the state.

Bitcoin Red Team member Calle said Chinese models, including Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, are finding bugs across Bitcoin’s open-source software.

In a new red-team study, Claude models deployed self-replicating malware against each other—and the transcripts explain why.

6th Man Ventures co-founder Mike Dudas says Solana’s infrastructure could carry crypto’s next wave.

Anthropic is weaving an invisible, machine-readable watermark into every word its newest Claude models write—and it hasn't said how.

Google's model is live and built for cheap agents; OpenAI's is quicker but locked behind a waitlist.

Tether said KPMG gave its 2025 financial statements a clean opinion, a milestone for the company after years of questions about the reserves backing USDT.

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Tuesday that lets vetted U.S. companies carry out offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal networks. Here's what the program actually authorizes.

The Blockchain Association is urging the Supreme Court to take up Custodia’s case, saying that broad Fed power over “master accounts” could be used to push crypto firms out of the banking system.

More than 40 bitcoin and crypto firms asked the biggest AI labs this week to let independent security researchers use their strongest models before public release.

The company's CEO said a 5,014 BTC transfer was a custody move, not a sale, as the Tokyo-listed Bitcoin treasury company rolls out a fixed-rate debt program.

Lawmakers targeted the deposits that scammers rely on, with the machines still able to sell crypto for dollars or swap one coin for another.

An FCA employee bought crypto from a UK IP address using a driving license as ID, according to the regulator's claim.

The Ethereum staking platform is adding asset trading, fiat accounts, and borrowing through Aave as it pushes into crypto banking.

The hardware wallet manufacturer says its devices and backups are untouched, but the leak hands attackers valuable customer data.

The Derive integration gives XRP holders a way to hedge or speculate without depositing their tokens with a centralized exchange.

The new framework could be announced as soon as Friday, in what could be the biggest development for crypto this year.

Twitch's chief product officer says he does not know whether content had already been used for training before the setting appeared.

A botched search of the platform's server host cost prosecutors the bulk of their case, cutting it from 2,800 alleged victims to about 1,100.

A Kansas City security researcher ran 31 million tests to teach a model how to paint camouflage for the algorithm age.

Researchers found every major AI provider encrypts reasoning tokens with a single global key—and exploited it to decode 315,320 hidden thinking blocks from public logs, recovering passwords and live API keys along the way.

The April preview got benchmarked to death and landed 18 points behind Anthropic’s flagship. DeepSeek’s own numbers for the finished model tell a very different story.

The AI agent can navigate workplace software and coordinate with other bots, raising questions about security and control.

The cash-and-equity deal for the options-income specialist folds in NEOS's roughly $1 billion Bitcoin covered-call fund, giving Goldman instant scale in a crypto ETF niche it had only just entered on paper.

The high cumulative long leverage below the current market prices means one thing for ONDO in the near-term.

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Why are early investors dumping their first claim of LAB tokens so hard?

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Improvement in UTXOs in profit and increased coin movement would signal more robust onchain conditions.

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Tether has reduced T-bills reserve assets to 75%, with BTC and gold now accounting for about 13% of the backing

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The liquidation heatmap offered a route for a potential HBAR price bounce, but low demand will cap the extent of any short-term gains.

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Gemini's card business overtook exchange trading in Q2 revenue, even as credit losses, fraud costs and rewards spending increased.

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How were users duped into losing their money by the fraudulent Hyperliquid website?

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The local demand zone at $0.590 could be important for the Aster crypto price action in the coming days.

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Are whales and institutions preparing for XRP bull rally?

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Cumberland linked wallet offloaded 2.5 million UNI worth $8.73 million.

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Binance has introduced staged transfer restrictions covering 16 crypto platforms linked to recent sanctions against Iran and Russia.

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