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The developers behind the memecoin project said they had informed law enforcement after the attack and were working to “recover funds and identify those responsible.”

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The Luxembourg approval completes the company's MiCA licensing process, enabling it to provide regulated crypto-asset services across the European Economic Area.

Bitmine's big buy contrasts with crypto treasury peer Strategy, which reported selling millions of dollars worth of its Bitcoin holdings on Monday.

The UN Development Programme said blockchain payment pilots in five countries cut costs, improved resilience and will now inform wider use across its humanitarian and development programs.

The Bitcoin miner signed a 20-year AI infrastructure lease with Anthropic and sold its majority stake in a separate AI data center joint venture.

Bitcoin wiped out much of its latest gains thanks to a market reaction to Strategy's 3,600 BTC sell-off, but analysis eyed a potential buy announcement in the coming days.

The FCA’s vision for agentic AI points toward a financial system where programmable money and tokenized assets could play a much larger role.

Crypto exploits rose 59% quarter-on-quarter to $807.5 million in Q2, due partly to the KelpDAO and Drift Protocol exploits, which came at the hands of North Korean hackers.

Strategy sold $216 million in Bitcoin to fund its dividend payments, as wealth manager Bernstein maintained its year-end Bitcoin price target of $150,000.

Belgium’s FSMA warned consumers about six crypto-asset service providers it added to a fraudulent CASP list days after the EU’s MiCA transitional period expired.

Bitcoin saw its highest levels in nearly two weeks at the weekly close, but bulls needed a push beyond $65,000 for real trend inflection, said the latest BTC price analysis.

South Korea’s media and communications review body will hear from Polymarket before deciding whether to issue a corrective request against the prediction market platform.

A Bitcoin address dormant for nearly 15 years moved $1.9 million in BTC as a New York lawsuit seeks ownership of thousands of inactive holdings.

Before he was an MP, Nigel Farage was reportedly gifted staff, security and other benefits from George Cottrell, a convicted fraudster involved in a crypto casino.

Stablecoins are maturing and are positioned for even greater reach as the market evolves, said crypto researcher Nick Ruck.

Thousands of crypto wallets across multiple blockchains could be vulnerable due to weak recovery phrase generation.

“We need to think about new tools and a different way of working with the [AI] market in a more collaborative way,” says Nikhil Rathi, CEO of the UK’s finance watchdog.

Nansen analysis shows that just under half a million wallets profited on Donald Trump’s memecoin, while the large majority of buyers lost out.

Japan's SBI Crypto shuts down 12th largest Bitcoin mining pool in the world, Russia gears up to launch digital ruble despite EU sanctions, and more: Asia Express.

Bitcoin reached its highest levels in nearly a fortnight over the weekend, but BTC price action faced an "absolutely terrible" Monday track record.

South Africa’s tax authority proposed draft guidance clarifying how crypto assets are taxed under existing income and capital gains tax rules, seeking public input until Aug. 31.

Binance recorded $1.23 billion in weekly net outflows, up 207% from the previous week, as Ethereum withdrawals surged to a three-year high.

Part of the Ethereum Foundation’s plan to make Ethereum more private and scalable is to introduce a new virtual machine, with leanISA and RISC-V among the top candidates.

Moonbeam didn’t provide a timeline for when it would launch the AI agent platform but told GLMR holders to bridge their tokens from the Polkadot parachain to Base before July 31.

The protocol’s SUMR token fell by over 18% after the incident.

Bringing Strategy's preferred shares back to $100 is key to restarting Strategy's capital engine, the bank said, with repeated management actions expected to support both preferred and common shareholders.

The second-largest digital asset treasury increased its buying pace, while Strategy sold a chunk of its bitcoin holdings.

The company sold 3,588 bitcoin last week to replenish its dollar reserves for dividends on its preferred stock.

Services will integrate into "Sberbank Online" and "SberInvestments" once the "On Digital Currency and Digital Rights" bill takes effect in September.

The largest IPO ever enters the Nasdaq 100. Previous additions like Palantir and Strategy saw volatility after the index inclusion rather than the start of new rallies.

Your day-ahead look for July 6, 2026

BTC holds at $62,800 after last week's brush with $58,000, while LIT surges 50% and the Altcoin Season indicator hits its highest reading in three months.

A reading that negative means investors would have been better off in risk-free assets like 10-year U.S. Treasuries.

The approval means Ripple is now fully MiCA-compliant for payments, financial institutions, corporates and businesses across all 30 European Economic Area countries.

CEO Brian Armstrong investigated, and the firm said it made updates to prevent future AI-generated inaccuracies.

Your look at what's coming in the week starting July 6.

A revised roadmap details how the multi-year overhaul would replace nearly every major part of Ethereum's protocol, with quantum resistance and privacy moving up the priority list. It lands as ether rallies more than 12% in the past seven days.

Strategy raised $216 milliion with the sale of 3,588 bitcoin last week, sending prices lower earlier on Monday.

Veteran trader Peter Brandt said gold is going to gain substantially on bitcoin.

Heavy volume pushed XRP through resistance, but sellers met the move near $1.16 and left traders watching whether former resistance can now hold as support.

A stalling rebound in AI and chip stocks and a stronger dollar kept the mood cautious as the second half gets underway.

All parties are still optimistic that Clarity can happen before the midterms, but time is really starting to run out.

U.S.-linked wallets traded $571 million in political contracts over the past year, more than any other country, even though the platform legally cannot serve them. The money leans toward the foreign-conflict markets U.S. venues do not list.

Financial institutions are racing to become the secure gateways for stablecoins as digital asset volume is projected to explode by 2030.

Yield Guild Games is shutting down its YGG Play division and games like LOL Land, blaming the crypto market downturn and other factors.

Coinbase said it updated its systems after an AI-generated alert incorrectly reported the outcome of the Norway-Brazil match before kickoff.

Joi AI's search for 10 paid "masturbation consultants" drew more than 150,000 applicants. Here's what happened.

TeraWulf's 20-year lease deal with Anthropic is expected to generate $19 billion in revenue—and major Bitcoin mining stocks are surging.

BitMine continued its relentless accumulation of Ethereum while Bitcoin's biggest treasury firm parted ways with more of its holdings.

Nearly every core piece of the protocol will be rebuilt over three to four years, with quantum safety and privacy moved front and center.

The Bitcoin treasury giant sold $216 million worth of Bitcoin to cover preferred payouts, as an $8.3 billion quarterly loss piled up.

The ETF flows finally flip. Trump defends his billion-dollar crypto payday. And a rare set of signals says a bottom may be forming.

The crackdown on overseas cash comes after billionaire Tether investor and Reform donor Christopher Harborne registered to vote in the UK.

A new Mac infostealer dubbed PamStealer impersonates the open-source Maccy clipboard manager to steal passwords and more.

Bitcoin bounced back above $60,000 this week, but increased volatility might be on the way as crypto deposits to exchanges spike.

Andy Konwinski used Anthropic's Fable 5 debacle as exhibit A in the case against letting a handful of private labs govern who gets to do AI research.

ChangeNOW CSO Pauline Shangett digs into the infrastructure underpinning the exchange’s simple, streamlined frontend.

Did Claude Fable 5 get dumber? Two benchmarks, two wildly different conclusions—and one routing layer that explains the whole mess.

After President Trump disclosed over $1 billion in crypto-related earnings, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is calling for a meme coin ban.

Developers say security testing has uncovered no new serious bugs as Zcash's Ironwood upgrade moves toward testnet activation.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy says he's down millions on Bitcoin, but he's intent on holding this time—even if it falls to zero.

Experts warn quantum computers could someday forge Bitcoin’s digital signatures, allowing unauthorized transactions.

Israeli prosecutors charged a 21-year-old American man with spying for Iran while studying at a seminary in Jerusalem.

A Labour MP says the Reform leader pressed the Bank of England on policy that could enrich his biggest donor, a major Tether investor.

Thursday's inflows ended a run that drained $2.7 billion, but analysts warn one green day isn't necessarily a trend reversal.

Sam Altman is pitching a 5% equity stake in OpenAI for the U.S. government—and reportedly wants every major AI company to do the same.

Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina said major banks and retailers are on track to begin accepting the digital ruble by September 1.

More than 130 Tron wallets connected with a Central Asian ISIS affiliate were sanctioned by the U.S. government, with funds frozen by Tether.

Researchers say a new jailbreak technique tricked AI models into treating attacker-written text as their own reasoning, bypassing safety guardrails and exposing a deeper security flaw.

BlackRock-backed tokenization firm Securitize now has shares trading on the New York Stock Exchange—or via Solana and Avalanche.

SBI Crypto, the subsidiary of the Japanese financial giant, is the latest firm to shutter its Bitcoin mining endeavor.

Bitcoin continued rising after hitting a 21-month-low earlier this week, topping $62,000 and leading a broader crypto market rebound.

FBI Director Kash Patel failed to disclose a significant purchase of stock in Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy from last November.

Standard Chartered is the first Global Systemically Important Bank authorized to let institutions mint and redeem Circle's USDC.

The Japanese firm's 43,000-BTC stack now sits well below its cost basis, and it has leaned on debt over equity to keep buying.

The market liked it with HOOD shares jumping 8% and their crypto perp dex partner up even more. Plus crypto's latest unicorn is crowned.

The teenager allegedly helped to breach a luxury jeweler and demand $8 million in crypto, as part of a crew tied to $100 million in ransoms.

An increase in Ethereum inflows to exchange-affiliated addresses signaled a potential wave of selling for the leading altcoin.

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MiCA is changing Europe's crypto landscape, with liquidity and users gradually shifting toward licensed exchanges.

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BUILDon rally gains strength, but selling pressure is on the rise.

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Strategy has executed its first disclosed Bitcoin sale under its newly adopted Digital Credit Capital Framework, while maintaining more than 843,000 BTC on its balance sheet.

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Ripple has completed its MiCA licensing process after receiving full CASP authorization in Luxembourg.

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Solana's memecoin edge could be the catalyst that sets SOL apart from the broader market.

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Two opposing sides of crypto were highlighted, with Solana experiencing positive momentum and Bitcoin experiencing market stress, but hope remains.

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Will the latest disclosure allegations overshadow Farage's crypto advocacy?

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Africa Blockchain Festival (ABF), Africa’s premier blockchain and digital economy conference, has announced AMBCrypto as an official media partner for ABF2026. ABF2026 takes place October 15-17, 2026, at the Sarit Expo Center, Nairobi, Kenya, under the theme “Capital, Code, and Continuity: Building Africa’s Permanent Digital Economy.“ The festival targets 3,000+ registered conference delegates across Days 1 and Continue reading "Africa Blockchain Festival 2026 names AMBCrypto as official media partner"

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PUMP surged 9% to a monthly high of $0.00169 as demand recovered.

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Bitcoin shows rare miner capitulation signals as extreme pessimism raises the possibility of a long-term market bottom.

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