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Kraken’s funded trading program adds round-the-clock exposure to the US equity benchmark as it builds out its multi-asset offering.

Crypto companies from including Coinbase, BitGo, Robinhood, Polygon and Pump.fun have announced workforce reductions this year, citing a variety of reasons, including shifting to AI and market forces.

Following the initial lawsuit, at least one of Kalshi’s event contracts was changed to list “Primary Source Agency” as the entity behind verifying flight cancellation data.

The Digital Pound Lab is testing a cross-border trade finance flow combining stablecoin payments with simulated digital pound settlement.

HashKey has become an authorized distributor for Anchorpoint’s HKDAP, expanding institutional access as Hong Kong’s regulated stablecoin market takes shape.

Bitcoin price action did not reflect relief in US CPI inflation numbers matching expectations amid a warning over $63,000 failing as support.

Kalshi launched access to its sports and crypto perpetual data feed through DoubleZero’s dedicated fiber network to bolster institutional data access.

Slovenia entered the EU’s MiCA stablecoin register through electronic money institution Dinaro, as the update also added two new CASPs.

Five years after El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender, the experiment has fallen short of its original promises for locals, but it’s been great for Bitcoin’s global profile.

Wintermute will reportedly invest $1 billion in AI infrastructure and high-frequency trading as part of its expansion into traditional finance.

Fidelity plans to add staking to its Ether fund, with 85% of rewards retained by FETH and quarterly cash distributions planned for investors.

Amid a $473 million legal dispute, RedotPay says it expects Binance to end its Singapore case, while Binance says its claims remain active.

Bitcoin miners showed a “concerning” trend of pivoting to AI amid a profit squeeze as transaction-fee income barely bounced from 10-year lows of 0.52% of revenue.

The Bitcoin Policy Institute and other industry participants urged AI companies to offer early access to their frontier models to aid Bitcoin and open-source developers in their cybersecurity efforts.

Suspected North Korean IT workers joined a fake crypto startup — without realizing their every move was being tracked to extract valuable intel.

Harmony is working with exchanges to freeze funds and is preparing a patch after claims that 2.8 billion unauthorized ONE hit trading platforms.

The order escalates a jurisdictional fight over whether states may treat federally regulated event contracts as illegal gambling.

Mining pools controlling most of Ravencoin’s hash rate are building a competing chain that could trigger a three-day reorganization.

Regulators allege Goliath promised crypto liquidity-pool returns but instead paid earlier investors and funded its founder’s luxury spending.

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

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

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.

After an August recess, lawmakers in the Senate will have just 36 days in session before the end of the year to pass the CLARITY Act.

The company has bought roughly 25 times more BTC than it has sold this year, despite recent sales that challenged its long-standing accumulation strategy.

The license allows ARP Digital to offer regulated digital asset and stablecoin conversions into UAE dirhams as it expands its Gulf presence beyond Bahrain.

Kalshi is looking to meet institutional demands by adding DoubleZero data to its order book.

USDCx will let users transact without publicly exposing balances, counterparties or transaction histories, while allowing selective disclosure for compliance.

In this week's Crypto Long & Short, LMAX Group's Jenna Wright argues that markets break down not from too little capital but from capital stuck in the wrong place, trapped by settlement cycles while risk reprices by the minute. She makes the case that stablecoins and tokenization are quietly becoming the plumbing that lets money move as fast as the risk it supports.

HashKey Exchange and OSL Group are now authorized distributors, enabling institutional and professional investors to mint and redeem HKDAP tokens.

If an institution qualifies to participate in America’s banking system, it should have a clear path to America’s payment system, argues Anchorage Digital's Rachel Anderika.

Both headline and core inflation matched economists’ expectations, while bitcoin held near $64,000 and Treasury yields declined.

The flight-tracking company voluntarily dismissed, without prejudice and without sharing a motive for its decision. However, the flight cancellation market never took off with Kalshi users.

Non-qualified investors face a 300,000-ruble (approx. $3,600) annual purchase limit per intermediary, while qualified investors have no cap.

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 12, 2026

Markets are quiet ahead of the July inflation print, with bitcoin little changed, oil near $90 and Harmony nursing a fresh exploit.

The BOE-led Digital Pound Lab will test trade-finance interoperability, in which exporters receive stablecoins while importers settle in a potential digital pound.

Booming AI demand sends CRWV up 16% and lifts IREN and CIFR as investors favor computing infrastructure over crypto.

The fund would keep 85% of gross staking rewards, with the remaining 15% going to service providers.

Public miners are an underappreciated source of supply hitting the market right at the margin.

Blockchain data shows the Japanese treasury firm moved the bitcoin between wallets it controls, not to an exchange, so the transfer isn't a sale despite its $1.4 billion paper loss.

The exchange is joining a tokenized stock market that has grown 600% in a year, though its products offer price exposure rather than share ownership.

Bitcoin and ether are stuck in a tight range ahead of the CPI. Here’s how savvy traders are positioning for the pivotal release.

Harmony said in Asian morning hours it is working with exchanges to freeze funds and preparing a software fix.

DOGE gained almost 3% to 7 cents and BNB 2% to $614, while bitcoin was the only major in the red on both the day and the week.

Casa CEO Nick Neuman says the mass Bitcoin migration after the $130M Coldcard exploit proves distributed self-custody is Bitcoin's immune system—not its vulnerability.

The flaws could let someone in a meeting take control of another participant’s device without the victim clicking anything.

The Boston asset manager's FETH would stake up to 100% of its ETH and distribute the rewards to holders as quarterly cash, pending SEC approval.

A flaw that went undetected during multiple audits allowed an attacker to create unbacked balances and withdraw XRP from the bridge’s reserves.

A fixed-rate crypto-backed loan lets you borrow against BTC, ETH, or SOL while keeping your coins. Here's how they work.

The tamest U.S. inflation print in months left crypto markets flat, with Bitcoin shrugging off the data hit. Here's why.

A malformed default route at a single hosting provider took almost 29% of staked SOL offline, against a 33% threshold.

The service gives trading firms access to Kalshi’s sports and crypto order books over DoubleZero’s fiber network.

The CFTC keeps going to bat for Kalshi while the ultimate prediction market court battle looms, with the fate of the sector in the balance.

The reduction matches the percentage shed by Coinbase in May, and follows shutdowns at BitMEX and BitMart.

The team is weighing a rollback, which would undo the attack along with every legitimate transaction made since.

Kalshi triggered the order, notifying the agency of a market emergency after New York moved to bar its contracts nationwide.

The former operating chief is starting a new venture following several departures across the ChatGPT developer’s leadership and safety teams.

The reward aims to recover Bitcoin stolen after attackers gained access to connected LND wallets.

Solana is holding its 50-day average after a pullback from August's $90 spike, but the death cross above it keeps pressure pointed down.

The agency has set an open meeting to consider moving forward with its Regulation Crypto proposal.

The newly reported incident is raising fresh concerns about autonomous AI after models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta exploited websites and online services.

Falling digital asset values battered the Truth Social parent’s balance sheet, contributing to about $361 million in crypto-related losses during the first half of 2026.

Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether clear the central bank's liquidity bar—everything else, including XRP, stays off-limits for retail.

Two mining pools controlling most of Ravencoin's hash power are already rebuilding the chain from before Friday's first bad block—here's what a forced rollback would undo.

The crypto-friendly trading platform is betting on US equities as regulators keep squeezing its token menu.

Chloé Bakalar joined from Meta last August and departed in July without any announcement, one of several safety exits in recent weeks.

The world's largest corporate Bitcoin holder has sold hundreds of millions of dollars in BTC since June as it changes how it funds dividends and manages its cash.

Supporters of the soft fork he championed split onto their own chain on Saturday, where it mined two blocks in eight hours and stopped.

Strategy dumped $108M in BTC at a loss and a whopping $650M of MSTR stock, and yet MSTR stock barely flinched. What gives?

Once its proceeds mix with scam money, exchanges struggle to separate proliferation finance from ordinary laundering, the paper warns.

Futures, perpetuals and options spanning crypto, commodities, equities and FX, limited to clients who qualify as professional investors.

The APPG has asked banks to explain their crypto policies, warning that access could be one of the single biggest barriers to growth.

Ethereum’s updated roadmap puts quantum resistance, privacy and AI-assisted formal verification at the center of the network’s technical ambitions.

AUSTRAC has suspended the registration of the operator running 96 of Australia's roughly 1,800 crypto ATMs, effective August 9.

A security firm says Atlassian's AI assistant will quietly ship your Jira tickets and Confluence docs to an attacker, using instructions buried in a file you'd swear was empty.

A Bitcoin address that sat untouched for more than 12 years just moved 26.96 BTC, worth about $1.75 million.

Banks financing the AI infrastructure boom are now weighing local public opposition alongside permits and costs.

Uniswap declined 10%, breaching the $3.9 support level to a three-week low of $3.4.

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PI surrendered an intraday surge after Pi Network’s Protocol v26 deadline, leaving traders watching $0.080 support and the $0.10 barrier.

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BTC faces heavy short positioning ahead of CPI. Could a BTC breakout trigger a major squeeze?

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Bittensor’s TAO is attracting leveraged positions near $200, while spot indicators continue to show limited conviction.

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SKYAI shows heavy signs of a sell-off, but will buyers step in?

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Market slipped to $2.16T despite the positive setup, and BTC is non-reactive as well.

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Whale activity and bullish positioning strengthen NEAR's case for a breakout toward $1.85.

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FETH may stake up to 100% of its Ethereum holdings after its amended SEC registration statement becomes effective.

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Worldcoin’s latest unlock increases WLD supply concerns as seller dominance challenges the developing price recovery.

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How whale positioning could help clear LIT's opposing forces at a key supply zone.

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Toobit, the award-winning global cryptocurrency exchange, today opens official registration for Toobit International Futures Tournament (TIFT) 2026, while outlining the complete mechanics for the 3,000,000 USDT prize pool event. Under the banner of “Overtake the ordinary,” the flagship racing-themed tournament runs from August 12 to September 9, 2026. Interested traders can head over to the Continue reading "Toobit Reveals TIFT 2026 Tracks and $3M Pool Prizes"

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