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Bitcoin wobbled with US stocks as Iran deflated hopes on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz oil route, while analysis praised “exceptionally strong” institutional BTC inflows.

BlackRock Canada’s new IBQT fund combines global equity exposure with a 3% Bitcoin allocation through the firm’s Canadian iShares Bitcoin ETF.

Bitdeer mined 2,694 BTC in Q2, but ended the quarter holding just 150 BTC after liquidating its treasury earlier this year.

Strategy sold 1,690 Bitcoin to repurchase STRC shares as its US dollar reserve rose to $4.65 billion and its Bitcoin holdings fell to 840,447 BTC.

The LINK token may see a 25-fold increase to $200 by the end of 2030, as the growing real world asset market increases demand for the industry’s largest oracle services provider, according to Standard Chartered.

Bitcoin spiked to a new August high into Sunday’s weekly close as market participants turned their attention to the next US inflation reports.

Sweden’s H100 more than tripled its Bitcoin holdings to 3,506 BTC after completing an acquisition involving 2,455 BTC.

The UK’s FCA is reportedly preparing a regulatory framework for tokenized gold and how these products may be used as collateral assets in wholesale markets.

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 Red Team has now found 1,288 critical and high-level vulnerabilities in the Bitcoin ecosystem as of Saturday.

Australia’s financial watchdog has suspended Cryptolink’s registration for three months, adding to a crackdown that previously saw the Bitcoin ATM operator fined $56,340.

Bad actors with access to a cryptography-breaking quantum computer probably won’t try to announce it to the world by hacking Satoshi Nakamoto’s high-profile Bitcoin wallets, crypto executives say.

BIP-110 forks itself into oblivion with a “2-block chain” and CLARITY will finally get a Senate vote in September. The odds say that vote will be a No.

Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says the CLARITY Act is not merely a financial services bill, its a national security one.

The enforcing fork remains stuck at Bitcoin’s full mining difficulty as mandatory signaling proceeds with little hashpower support.

The rules, effective Jan. 1, 2027, cover transactions above $10,000 sent to overseas providers or self-custody wallets, along with other transfers flagged for review.

Foundation and Citadel21 reported drained Lightning nodes, but the total amount stolen and number of affected operators remain unknown.

The deployment milestone tests whether enforcing nodes can sustain the change amid limited miner signaling and discussion of a hard-fork fallback.

The spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds registered their third-strongest showing since October as institutional demand showed signs of renewed momentum.

The procedural move puts crypto market structure legislation back on track as lawmakers continue negotiations over ethics and stablecoin provisions.

Crypto is growing up thanks to trading in real world assets, and Bitcoin will never dip below $60K again, says Nansen founder founder Alex Svanevik.

IMF First Deputy Managing Director Dan Katz says users may favor digital dollars for their liquidity, network effects and cross-border acceptance.

Expedited discovery allows the exchange to seek account identities, balances and transaction histories from platforms with US operations.

The company will unwind an agreement with Crypto.com to create a multibillion-dollar CRO treasury and reportedly not integrate prediction markets onto Truth Social.

The US government sanctioned an individual and two crypto exchanges it said facilitated money laundering for a combined $5 million in digital assets linked to Iran.

Chairman Tom Lee said easing financial conditions could support crypto, even as the CLARITY Act failed to reach a Senate vote before the August recess.

The Solana vault splits income from Strategy’s preferred stock into a lower-risk senior token and a higher-risk junior token.

The company increased its USD reserve to $4.65 billion while reducing its bitcoin holdings to 840,447 BTC

Onchain forensics tie a single actor to an $8 million coordinated drain across TRON and Ethereum, with most funds routed through FixedFloat and the attack vector still unknown.

The FCA said it will 'have more to say on' their approach to tokenization, as it draws up rules to put assets on the blockchain.

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 10, 2026

BTC rose to $65,209 and Nasdaq 100 index futures gained 0.45% on reports that Iran may strike a deal with Oman to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Bitcoin’s BVIV volatility index hit the lowest level since 2025 as option demand collapsed. Still, overwriting surged and downside protection stayed pricey.

CME leveraged funds turn net long as weak futures yields undermine the once-popular basis trade.

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Aug. 10

Early BVNK investor Concentric shares a fascinating inside view on the stablecoin startup’s journey and the eventual Mastercard deal.

The trading firm is also introducing “Robinhood Cortex Digests for Crypto,” a generative AI-powered widget that analyses breaking news and other data.

The market rose even as the Senate left the crypto bill unpassed before its recess, with steady ETF inflows and a softer dollar doing more for prices than Washington.

Ocean, a bitcoin mining pool, had been backing BIP-110 by default. Simple Mining, a company that runs mining machines through Ocean, used software from the pool that lets individual miners choose for themselves and went the other way.

Every major except XRP is green on the week, with BTC, ether and BNB each up nearly 3% as global stocks trade near a record.

The token fell 5% last week while BTC, ETH and SOL climbed.

The crypto industry is angry and disappointed that the Senate is not holding a procedural vote on the Clarity Act this month, but that isn't the worst possible outcome.

Revenue has fallen four quarters running while open interest hit a record high. The gap is a fee-sharing program that hands half the platform's volume to outside builders.

Bitcoin ETFs recorded $853.54 million in net inflows last week, the strongest since mid-April, with BlackRock’s IBIT taking the bulk.

An industry-wide reckoning is weeding out unsustainable startups, leaving behind only the protocols with real cash flow and actual users.

A new report maps Brazil's push to bring its vast crypto market under formal supervision by October 30.

The price of Bitcoin is up on the seven-day chart, today bouncing to a high of $65,000. But bearish market pressure persists.

When the same mistake recurs across many users, it stops being client error and becomes product data, argues ChangeNOW's Pauline Shangett.

XRP is trading just above $1.00, still pinned under a death cross, as the legislative tailwind that lifted it in July loses steam.

The attacker moved funds across Tron and Ethereum before routing millions through crypto exchanges, while later wallet activity offers clues about how the breach occurred.

OpenAI says its next major model may be dangerous enough to write its own cyberweapons, and it's pulling back until the safeguards catch up.

Bitmine has reported 4.8% of the supply for five straight weeks, leaving its 'Alchemy of 5%' target roughly 230,000 tokens away.

And the ETH inflows were even bigger, when factoring in market cap.

All of the proceeds went into a $109 million STRC buyback, while the company sold six times as much again in its own stock.

Daily totals shrank as the week wore on, and analysts are split on whether the return of institutional money marks a genuine turn.

The bank has now set 2030 targets for Uniswap, Aave, Morpho and Chainlink, all resting on one 37x forecast for DeFi growth.

The exchange says it has recovered $48.4 million and frozen $30.5 million more, a fraction of what the Lazarus Group took in February 2025.

The breakaway chain drew just 2.53% of mining support, leaving its blocks hours apart and roughly 350 days from a difficulty adjustment while the main network powered ahead.

A volunteer security effort says it has scanned 150 Bitcoin repositories, disclosed more than a dozen vulnerabilities, and is building an open-source AI platform to automate software security reviews.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune filed the motion to proceed early Saturday, setting up a mid-September showdown.

“We want to show customers that we care about what they care about," Robinhood head of crypto Johann Kerbrat told Decrypt.

Truth Social's parent company is unwinding two major Crypto.com deals as new leadership shifts its focus to media, data licensing, and a planned merger with fusion energy company TAE.

The U.S. Treasury sanctioned two crypto exchanges it says laundered millions of dollars for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, naming a Georgia- and UAE-based operator and an Iran-based platform.

Bitcoin company BTCPay Server told users to install the latest version of the server and replace credentials that may have been exposed.

A leaked Flock presentation shows the surveillance firm pitching a plan to pull license-plate data from rideshare and delivery drivers.

XRP is taking the Clarity Act news harder than the rest of the crypto market. Here's why.

Microsoft said compromised websites are retrieving malicious instructions from the blockchain before tricking visitors into running them on Windows devices.

A soft July payrolls print pulled September rate-hike odds down. It gives investors in risk assets hope, but Bitcoin remains in bear territory.

Designed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom studio, the screenless gadget is slated for 2027 and will use cameras, lights and moving parts.

A Bitcoin address that had stayed silent for 15 years just sent its coins out for the first time.

Gold, Treasuries and the S&P 500 led the growth, in a year when spot volumes on decentralized exchanges fell by roughly 70%.

Unlike the recent breakouts at OpenAI and Anthropic, this involved a model anyone can download, running its default safeguards.

MetaMask's Agent Wallet lets AI agents trade crypto on their own. Plus, Bitcoin reclaims $65k despite the Clarity Act facing a new delay.

Liu Zhou told undercover agents the objective was to make other buyers lose money, according to the Justice Department.

Grayscale has ended its current Cardano ETF effort as ADA tests $0.20, but the SEC did not reject the proposed product.

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A whale bought 1.917 million KAITO worth $1.32 million from Coinbase, raising total purchases to 2.815 million KAITO worth $2.36 million.

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ICP’s high-volume breakout improves its short-term outlook, but network data shows that token burning still trails historical issuance.

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HYPE faces renewed selling pressure as whale deposits and positive exchange netflows increase available supply.

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The Bitcoin Cash price action has been constrained within a lower timeframe range over the past two weeks.

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ONDO’s team-linked Coinbase deposit tests persistent exchange outflows as $0.345 Fibonacci support faces pressure.

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Coinsbuy’s $7.9 million cross-chain exploit puts fund recovery and containment under scrutiny.

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The CRO crypto reaction has been brutally bearish. The price action and technical indicators highlighted overwhelming seller strength.

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SKYAI faces a crucial 50-day EMA test as buyers attempt to revive its bullish breakout.

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TUT may have rallied hard, but this is the moment for traders to pay closer attention.

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The CLARITY Act has become a flashpoint in Washington, stalled by political wrangling and industry pushback.

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