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New analysis finds AI infrastructure contracts are becoming larger and more profitable, but investors now demand stronger execution before rewarding bitcoin mining stocks.

Bitcoin price action stayed compressed in an ongoing divergence from stocks and gold while US PMI data sparked fresh talk of “stagflation.”

Move-to-earn project Step App will wind down services by Aug. 21 after four years, while its FITFI token trades 99.9% below its all-time high.

Tokenized cows may have gone viral, but they’re just the latest in a long line of strange things to find a home onchain, from farts, to human skin and destroyed artworks

Blockchain.com secured a VASP custody license from the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, expanding its regulated crypto services in the region.

Tokenized real-world assets accounted for more than a third of Hyperliquid’s quarterly trading volume, generating 6.6% of the protocol’s $169 million quarterly revenue.

The self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning Network wallet disabled infrastructure after an incident and founder Evan Kaloudis said no customer funds were lost and no Lightning vulnerability was found.

While only 12 of 46 documented attempts resulted in payment, data leaks and attacks on relatives are widening the physical risks facing crypto holders.

Doubts emerge over the Bitcoin corporate treasury model as institutional BTC investment vehicles cut holdings.

Hackers behind the Coldcard exploit transferred millions in digital assets to cryptocurrency mixers, while most stolen funds remained traceable in attacker-controlled wallets.

Situational Awareness reportedly made a $400 million investment in an undisclosed company, days after the hedge fund nearly collapsed following July’s AI stock crash.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a crypto law establishing market rules for exchanges, custodians and investors, with core provisions taking effect in September 2026.

Tokenized real-world assets moved beyond issuance as RWA deposits more than tripled to $7.4 billion, while lending and trading activity expanded despite a broader industry slowdown.

JPYC said it plans to use the new capital to expand its financial and Web3 ecosystem and accelerate adoption of its yen-pegged token.

Nasdaq-listed PowerCompute refinanced $18 million of debt through a Bitcoin-backed facility carrying an initial interest rate of about 2%.

US-listed Bitcoin ETFs attracted $244.4 million on Wednesday, marking three consecutive inflow days for a combined $626 million.

Criminals are reportedly using fake websites and falsified documents to target customers searching for licensed crypto providers.

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook said she is “prepared to act” if inflation remains too high above the Fed’s target rate.

Eliza Labs founder Shaw Walters said the project transferred its remaining treasury to settle a tokenholder lawsuit and will continue building Eliza without an associated cryptocurrency.

The incident reportedly stemmed from a misconfigured testing environment, adding Meta to a growing list of AI firms whose models have escaped evaluation sandboxes.

Cash App and Square drove better-than-expected results, while the company said it expanded its use of AI across software engineering.

Mysten Labs’ co-founder Sam Blackshear said he is joining Anthropic as AI shifts the balance between attackers and defenders.

“There’s a lot of chaos right now in the ecosystem. We absolutely understand that many people are being bombarded with security issues right now,” said Bitcoin developer Calle.

The lawmaker reportedly sent a letter to the Commerce Secretary demanding answers about the administration’s treatment of the UAE following investments in the Trump family’s crypto company.

US lawmakers have only a few days to hold a vote on a crypto market structure bill before a recess begins that could push consideration into the 2026 election season or beyond.

The Journal’s editorial board rejects crypto competition and instead misinterprets Clarity, a pro-innovation, pro-competition, and pro-consumer bill, argues the Blockchain Association's Summer Mersinger.

Strong earnings from SanDisk and Western Digital were not enough to satisfy investors, raising questions about whether capital is beginning to rotate from AI winners into crypto.

The investment brings the company’s total raised to $106 million across seven funding rounds since November 2021.

The two largest cryptocurrencies are the only CoinDesk 20 members in positive territory as altcoins fall out of favor.

Federal prosecutors say Taj Tarsha misled backers and used investor funds for personal expenses.

Trump’s comments on jobs, inflation and a possible Strait of Hormuz deal have helped risk sentiment, but bitcoin’s next move depends on whether lower oil actually pulls Treasury yields and the dollar down.

A volunteer group running AI models against bitcoin codebases says it is averaging roughly one critical bug per hour per person, at about $10,000 a day in compute.

The S&P 500 just added roughly the entire crypto market's value this month. Bitcoin has barely moved, and the reasons go beyond the obvious.

Korea's Kospi fell 4.4% as the AI trade wobbled, and $101 billion of SpaceX stock becomes tradable Thursday.

CryptoQuant said large XRP spot orders point to "quiet accumulation" rather than a breakout, while ether’s price below realized value leaves holders underwater and gives it the strongest valuation case among BTC, ETH and XRP.

The memecoin that defined the chain's debut has recovered to an $86 million cap. Tokenized assets, the chain's stated purpose, sit at $27.6 million.

The Senate has not yet indicated if it will advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, and with its summer recess looming, here are the possible outcomes.

Binance alleged RedotPay poached customers from the crypto exchange in a lawsuit filed in Hong Kong.

The leading industry PAC, Fairshake, put $2 million into a Detroit Democratic primary but came up short, even as several PAC-backed candidates won elsewhere.

Cantor sees positive read-through for crypto custody providers, while FRNT says the breach could drive some investors toward bitcoin ETFs.

In a follow-up to his essay on sizing crypto risk, Lionsoul Global's Gregory Mall backtests bitcoin in a 60/40 across bull, bear and sideways regimes, showing how a straight bitcoin position, a large-cap basket and a trend-managed sleeve part ways and why the way you hold bitcoin can matter as much as how much you hold.

Bitcoin sales, what is now a $4 billion cash reserve, and a $975 million repurchase program, have supported STRC’s recovery.

Laser’s investment in ZIGChain is understood to be in the single-digit millions.

The more institutional crypto becomes, the more it prices on headlines. The edge now is reading the positioning data underneath, not reacting to the narrative on top.

The tokenized-assets firm appointed ex-Blockchain.com and Monashee executive as finance chief as it expands its onchain capital markets business.

The presentation at the annual Black Hat conference sheds new light on how OpenAI's models collaborated to launch the Hugging Face breach.

On-chain data shows big holders quietly buying XRP near $1, yet the daily chart is still trapped below a death cross.

SpaceX and Circle rank among the 10 largest positions in Ark's flagship innovation fund after the firm continued buying both companies following their second-quarter earnings.

The new Agent Wallet lets AI agents execute on-chain trades within user-defined limits as MetaMask expands its push into AI-powered crypto trading.

The $35 frames have polarized lenses, UV protection and no camera, microphone, battery or electronics of any kind.

Arc is a new layer-1 blockchain developed by USDC issuer Circle, designed specifically for stablecoin-native finance.

France's watchdog says fraudsters are impersonating its own staff to talk stranded customers into moving assets to fake websites.

It looks like Uniswap is playing to win with their zero-fee model, and the early data shows them already taking the top spot.

The blockchain analytics firm says home invasions are becoming more common, France has emerged as the leading hotspot, and some attackers are using increasingly sophisticated laundering techniques.

A volunteer group is pointing AI agents at Bitcoin project codebases and says 720 of the issues it has filed are high severity or critical.

Meta's new agent runs in your terminal, coordinates subagents, and survives crashes—but on the benchmarks that matter, it lags behind.

The release targets developers building autonomous apps and workflows on Cloudflare's edge—a clear bet on agent infrastructure.

A U.S. appeals court ruled Amazon is unlikely to prove Perplexity violated federal hacking law, marking the first appellate decision on whether AI agents can legally act on users' behalf online.

Eligible Visa Direct clients can now prefund accounts and send payouts in stablecoins, expanding Visa's latest push to bring blockchain-based payments into its global network.

Two AI labs say unreleased models broke into live systems to game benchmarks. Prosecuting a line of code is harder than it looks.

Prosecutors say the founder of NFT marketplace Few and Far promised investors their money would build a Web3 platform before diverting it to personal expenses.

Will Bitcoin breakout of its death cross? Can Zcash continue to make holders forget about that mid-June crash? Here’s what the charts say.

Circle's USDC distribution deal with Coinbase has been renewed on existing terms, and Arc's testnet has processed half a billion transactions.

Shaw Walters says Eliza's token is no more after a class-action settlement drained the project's remaining funds.

Anthropic's LLM and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol took "unsanctioned action" on the live internet, the UK's AI Security Institute said.

The last time he sold was in December 2022 with Bitcoin at $16,800. Will Jim's sales mark the bottom again?

The incentive to stake beyond half the supply would disappear at activation, with the yield cut phasing in over 18 months.

Eric Halem and his crew wore police vests to enter a Koreatown high-rise, then handcuffed a 17-year-old and took his hard drive.

Non-custodial Bitcoin swap provider Boltz says attackers are finding vulnerabilities faster than its team can fix them, forcing it to suspend swaps indefinitely.

Nicholas Charriere turned an hour of nonsense into a family website with named tracks. One reply calling him creepy got more likes than his post.

The ChatGPT maker released emails and text messages it says expose factual errors in Apple's lawsuit and undercut claims that former Apple employees brought confidential information to the company.

Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet says the Coldcard exploit underscores why certified hardware randomness matters—and why AI is reshaping wallet security.

The CNBC host announced the decision on air after interviewing IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, asking him whether quantum computers could eventually crack the cryptography protecting his coins.

Dozens of arrests tied to opposition against AI data centers underscore how local disputes over massive computing projects are growing into a national political movement.

A flaw in Coldcard wallets cost Bitcoin holders more than $100 million—and reopened an old fight about whether you can trust dice.

Validators are considering changes that would increase the amount of SOL permanently removed from circulation while reducing the rate of new token issuance.

The first Qwen Max model with public weights is free to download next week. Alibaba's own scorecard says the Americans still win on code.

The Brazil-based crypto asset manager will liquidate its U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF later this month, ending a fund that entered the market in 2024.

How a surge in NFT and memecoins on Robinhood have spilled in other intertwined tokens like PENGU.

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The RSI was at a deeply oversold level of 16 on the 4-hour timeframe, and Canton crypto might see a minor price bounce in the coming days.

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PEPE whale accumulation is accelerating after 4.54 trillion tokens left exchanges. Here's what it could mean for price.

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Solana is one of the highest-performing blockchains in the space. It is designed to solve scalability issues and is built on the PoH (Proof of History) consensus mechanism that allows up to 50,000 transactions per second. Solana’s architecture also gives users a chance to explore low-latency transactions and fees along with a variety of decentralized Continue reading "Best Solana APIs to look out for in August 2026"

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Coinbase is expanding beyond crypto in Britain with 24/5 access to US stocks. Here is how the service works and what UK investors should know.

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Hyperliquid revenue recovered in Q2, but it reversed the gains in Q3.

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Bitcoin whale buying remains strong. However, growing Binance inflows and renewed macro headwinds suggest the market may be approaching a turning point.

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The Bitcoin market is forming a bottom, but confirmation of a bullish trend shift was not yet at hand.

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Can UNI clear $4.20 before sellers drag it back toward nearby liquidity?

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Russia’s new crypto law opens regulated trading to retail investors and permits unrestricted cross-border settlements, while retaining its domestic payment ban.

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Bitcoin's two-month timeline collides with breakout signals.

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