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BNY is launching a blockchain-based transfer agency platform as the bank expands its digital asset infrastructure and moves core financial records onchain.

Crypto’s fundamentals have never been stronger, yet degens keep chasing hot new narratives. Behavioral finance may explain why get rich quick stories continue to beat substance.

The service is limited to eligible UAE residents and bookings are priced and settled in dirhams.

Russia’s FSB says Telegram founder Pavel Durov faces a terrorism-related charge and an international arrest warrant, while a separate French case remains open.

A CoinGecko study points to rising demand for tokenized equities and commodities on centralized exchanges, with perpetual futures driving most of the market’s trading activity.

Hungary removed mandatory third-party checks for crypto conversions as CoinCash received authorization to provide digital asset services under MiCA.

Gabriel Perez, who was accused of profiting from Kalshi bets tied to President Donald Trump’s speeches, is no longer employed by the federal government.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded four straight sessions of outflows totaling $526 million as Bitcoin faced renewed selling pressure after failing to hold $65,000.

Industry participants said stablecoins offer the biggest near-term benefits for cross-border payments, while domestic UK retail adoption is likely to remain limited.

Trade.xyz said its oracle worked as designed but will reimburse eligible traders after an external SK Hynix price print caused the contract’s mark price to fall nearly 19%.

Hayden Adams said critics misunderstood Uniswap’s newly approved v4 protocol fees, rejecting claims the change reduces liquidity providers’ earnings.

The FSC reportedly plans a government-backed digital asset bill covering stablecoins and exchanges, while opposition lawmakers seek to scrap a 22% crypto tax due in 2027.

The Bitcoin miner and AI infrastructure company closed at $62.90, giving it a market capitalization of about $2.8 billion after its direct listing.

The agreement covers tokenized securities, blockchain-based market infrastructure and the potential use of USDT as a settlement layer.

Zcash researchers published more than 2,700 machine-checked theorems designed to rule out undetectable counterfeiting bugs in Ironwood.

RL1 began operations as a member-owned blockchain cooperative backed by 10 European financial institutions, including ABN AMRO, DekaBank and Natixis CIB.

Myanmar lawmakers approved an anti-online scam bill whose draft proposes prison terms of 10 years to life for crypto scams and operating scam centers.

Visa said it is investing across the stablecoin stack, highlighting OpenUSD, tokenized deposits and AI-powered commerce during the company’s third-quarter earnings call.

The new exchange-traded products track Ether and Solana, offer staking rewards and follow the firm’s Bitcoin fund launched earlier this year.

The proposed cryptographic scheme aims to protect existing Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana wallets from future quantum attacks without requiring users to move funds or change wallet addresses.

The crypto-focused companies announced separate acquisitions as demand for power-intensive AI and digital infrastructure continues to grow.

Bitcoin and crypto dropped as contagion from a major Asia stock-market correction spreads to the US at the Wall Street open.

Eligible US users can request IPO allocations, while customers in more than 110 countries gain access to tokenized Jersey Mike’s shares backed 1:1 by the underlying stock.

Core Scientific reported strong second-quarter revenue growth as AI colocation became its largest business, though a non-cash accounting charge resulted in a $1.15 billion net loss.

In this week's Crypto Long & Short, Immunefi's Mitchell Amador writes that most of 2026's stolen crypto is leaving through keys, signers and governance, not contract bugs, and explains why “we were audited” was never the same as “we are safe.”

pcaversaccio (known as "pc"), is a prominent security researcher in the Ethereum ecosystem. His addition brings the foundation's board to four members.

"We were a scrappy startup," Delo said of BitMEX back in 2016, when it launched the first perpetual future. "We thought, ‘Just get it out there. If it was any good, the market would show us.’"

Roughly 5% of the funds in the retired Orchard pool have gone through the turnstile. The rest sit in a pool that can no longer take deposits.

As perpetuals enter regulated markets, critics warn they import systemic risk. But the risk comes from venue design — leverage limits, margin rules, index construction, and default handling — not the contract itself, argues Chris Tyrer, President of Bullish Exchange.

The world’s largest custodian will keep its existing system while adding a digital ownership record for tokenized funds.

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BTC added 0.75% before the Federal Reserve's rate decision. Inflation at 4.1% keeps an increase firmly on the table even as oil prices ease.

The crypto exchange unveils commodity options following strong uptake for gold and silver perps.

The bitcoin miner reached a market valuation of roughly $2.8 billion based on its 44.9 million shares outstanding.

The charges could result in life imprisonment, escalating an investigation that has already led to over 100 million rubles in fines for the platform this year.

Perps are a trojan horse to bring all of traditional finance onchain, argues Brian Smith, president of the Jito Foundation.

The formerly popular names in AI infrastructure continued their sharp selloff on Wednesday.

The mark price fell 19% on a single pre-market trade in Korea. The company says its oracle worked exactly as designed.

Citadel's macro team says Wednesday's hike isn't about the data. It's about Warsh's best shot at making a surprise actually count before the market stops being surprised.

SK Hynix fell 17% after profit rose 557% and still missed estimates. Bitcoin is up 1%, and the Fed decides rates today.

Coinbase Canada's new CEO, Eric Richmond, says permanent rules, rather than temporary exemptions, are needed as the company pushes to expand into derivatives, tokenized assets and decentralized finance.

Traders are divided on whether the Fed will hike rates, but analysts said crypto may be less exposed than AI-driven tech stocks.

The new network powers Ondo's recently-launched perpetual futures platform and will eventually support trading across onchain financial assets.

DRW CEO Don Wilson says perpetual futures aren't inherently risky crypto gambling tools, and it’s time traditional markets and regulators start embracing them.

OpenAI quietly updated its breach disclosure to confirm its agent accessed four external services beyond Hugging Face. Only one has been named so far.

Passed by the House a year ago, the bill cleared Senate Banking in May and still awaits a floor vote.

Plus markets are mixed ahead of FOMC; new Wall St. giants are backing the Clarity Act; and Zcash officially launched its Ironwood upgrade

The figure is seven times that of the $11.4 billion in reported losses, a rate drawn from a 2017 survey on how rarely fraud is reported.

The suit claims Apple ranked a fake Sparrow Wallet app and put it in curated crypto collections alongside legitimate ones.

Durov has previously called Russia’s criminal case against him "a sad spectacle of a state afraid of its own people."

The odds that a ceasefire lasts at least 14 consecutive days dropped by 10% today on Polymarket, and traders on Myriad believe peace talks won't happen until next month.

Apple’s supposedly inadequate AI spending suddenly looks less like falling behind and more like avoiding a very expensive bill.

Anthropic’s locked model found a new attack on a post-quantum signature scheme headed for U.S. federal standardization.

The arrest of a Kansas teacher at a public hearing highlights growing resistance to AI data centers across the United States.

The Strategy chairman's latest thread extends his war far beyond BIP-110: now covenants, larger blocks, and any base-layer change are all the same "constitutional offense."

The Wall Street giant has launched spot Ethereum and Solana exchange-traded products, expanding its digital asset strategy.

The Senate kicked the can, the Fed has traders on edge, and XRP's charts are running out of support zones to fall back on.

The long-awaited network upgrade retires Zcash's vulnerable Orchard shielded pool and introduces new safeguards to protect the cryptocurrency's supply.

The dev told Claude Opus 5 to be "utterly perfect" and left the rest up to the model—the results turned out to be utterly perfect, for an AI model.

A week after OpenAI disclosed a frontier AI sandbox escape, researchers found Anthropic's Claude Cowork could break out of its own virtual machine.

The Bitcoin bounce looked promising. The charts now say it wasn't.

Plus crypto broadly falls following memory stock slide, Coinbase leans into memes with new feature, and the Fomo app sets a new ATH.

The shared liquidity layer opens to all users on 13 chains, letting one wallet balance stand behind several positions at once.

The Digital Currency Group-owned Zcash miner brought its first greenfield site online as it looks to lower mining costs and advance plans to become a public company.

Scam operations across the region drove up to $114 billion in losses in 2025, according to United Nations estimates.

The suit sidesteps the fight over AI training data, alleging the comic sits in a paywalled template catalogue, searchable by name.

The order turns on whether each contract counts as a swap under federal law, and the judge found that not every one does.

The SpaceX founder says artificial intelligence is advancing too quickly to stop and is urging leading AI companies to coordinate on safety before releasing their most powerful models.

Money is moving on a September bet for OpenAI’s next major model on both Polymarket and Myriad prediction markets.

A searchable database built from New York City's public property assessment records has drawn backlash from critics who say it creates privacy and security risks.

Prediction market traders have pushed the odds of a July Fed rate hike to 27% on both Polymarket and Myriad, rising double digits in the last 24 hours.

A newly detailed report says SparkKitty malware scanned photos on infected iPhones and Android devices for cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases after infiltrating Apple's App Store and Google Play.

The deal for BGC's Water Street Labs and CX Clearinghouse lets Fanatics list and settle its own event contracts, echoing DraftKings and FanDuel as sports-betting giants scramble for a foothold in the sector.

Microsoft says its new cyber model lets more than 100 AI agents find software flaws at half the cost of its current best MDASH configuration.

A missing line of code meant "share with a link" and "searchable by anyone" were the same thing—and someone already saved 11,241 of those messages to GitHub.

More than 40 technology companies and organizations have allied to develop open-source AI security tools and standards for cyber defense.

Samuel Tunick allegedly triggered a GrapheneOS duress password during a warrantless airport search. Federal prosecutors call it destruction of property. His lawyers call it a digital right.

Multicoin Capital was still dumping HYPE after unstaking $59M worth of tokens.

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Rising market sell order volume and declining Open Interest pointed toward defensive positioning from crypto traders.

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Long liquidations, leveraged short orders and upcoming token unlocks amplified ZRO's price decline.

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Sellers took control after Russian authorities escalated their case against Telegram's founder.

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Unibase rallied 25% as Open Interest surged and negative netflows supported a fresh breakout attempt.

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Coinbase users are entering a new reporting cycle. For the 2025 tax year, the exchange began issuing Form 1099-DA for reportable crypto sales and exchanges. Coinbase sends the form to the IRS and makes a copy available to the customer. That sounds like the end of the tax calculation. It is not. The form tells Continue reading "What Coinbase sends to the IRS, and what users still have to fix"

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Bitcoin mining difficulty has undergone several notable downward adjustments in recent months. Such declines usually indicate that hashrate has left the network. For miners that remain online, this can improve theoretical output per unit of computing power. At an industry level, however, it also suggests that older machines, high-cost sites, and financially constrained operators are Continue reading "Bitcoin Mining Pools in 2026: What Matters More as Difficulty Retreats?"

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Solana's largest accumulation zone faces a critical test amid weakening price structure.

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Are these liquidations a warning for crypto?

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Audiera surged 18% to a local high of $3.65 driven by renewed whale demand.

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ONDO faces rising exchange-bound supply as over 8 million tokens reach Coinbase.

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