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The remittance giant is rolling out Stablecard across 37 markets, targeting cross-border payments and consumers seeking US dollar-denominated savings in volatile economies.

Gold and US stocks stole the limelight on Wednesday as Bitcoin failed to gain significantly beyond $64,000.

Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP whales increased balances during market weakness, as CryptoQuant said large holders are absorbing supply ahead of a possible bottom.

The Coldcard entropy flaw caused a crisis of confidence in hardware wallets. Here’s the details you need to know before you entrust Ledger, Trezor or Foundation with your Bitcoin.

Galaxy Digital reported an $85 million net loss driven by falling digital asset prices and $8.7 billion in revenue that missed Wall Street estimates.

Mastercard and Borderless are exploring ways to bring more trust into cross-border stablecoin transfers through the payment processing giant’s Crypto Credential framework.

Binance-linked companies sued RedotPay, accusing it of diverting more than 470,000 Binance Card users under a commercial deal and seeking nearly $473 million in damages.

Stablecoin issuer Circle reported $701 million in Q2 revenue, missing Wall Street estimates of about $713 million.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs drew $382 million in two-day inflows, with Galaxy’s Bitcoin ETF returning to gains as the Coldcard incident renewed custody concerns.

The rating recognizes the fund’s ability to maintain a stable net asset value, while S&P separately reaffirmed USDT among the lowest-rated stablecoins under its existing assessment framework.

Glassnode confirmed that its aggregate BTC price cycle tool was in its coldest phase since the collapse of FTX in late 2022.

JPMorgan’s Kinexys platform will tokenize select BlackRock money market fund shares denominated in pounds, euros and US dollars.

The a16z-backed studio will open-source Pirate Nation assets, while an independent foundation continues supporting the PIRATE token.

Forgd’s ratings draw on data from more than 500 token projects and 35 market-making firms, but do not solely reflect trading performance.

The completed tie-up combines Boerse Stuttgart Digital’s custody business with Tradias’ trading operations under a joint management team.

ESMA’s latest MiCA update brings the number of authorized CASPs to 321 and adds three entities to its non-compliant register.

Taiwan’s regulator plans to apply the Travel Rule to domestic VASP transfers from October before extending it to overseas platforms by the end of 2027.

The defendants allegedly traveled from Missouri to Connecticut to kidnap a Bitcoin holder and force him to transfer cryptocurrency before abandoning the plan.

Cloudflare introduced programmable Wallets for AI agents and said payment features using stablecoins will launch in a future update.

Hayes likened the debt-fueled AI infrastructure boom to the 2008 credit bubble, but evidence suggests financial strain is uneven across Big Tech.

Matt Hougan argues that regulatory guidance from the SEC and CFTC would keep the industry moving even if Congress fails to pass landmark market structure legislation this year.

Bybit’s Austrian payments subsidiary gained regulatory approval to develop card, merchant, open-banking and person-to-person payment services.

EIP-8363 is a newly published draft proposal that would cut net consensus-layer rewards as the Ethereum staking ratio heads toward 50%.

In a July 8 meeting, US and UK regulators highlighted the implementation of the GENIUS Act, payment modernization and cross-border cooperation, reinforcing a shared framework for digital asset oversight.

The custody giant is expanding beyond safekeeping by adding staking services, allowing eligible institutional clients to earn yield on proof-of-stake assets.

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.

Helios produced data-center revenue for the first time with Phase I expected to generate about $80 million quarterly from Q3.

Eliza Labs founder Shaw Walters said the ELIZAOS foundation is closing and that holders should sell, ending the token that replaced AI16Z after a lawsuit, a rebrand and a 97% crash.

The company reported no BTC sales in the second quarter, but shares fell before the open as investors focused on capital spending, free cash flow pressure and a looming insider lockup expiry.

The funds bring Yellow Card’s total financing to more than $120 million since being founded 10 years ago.

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Shares initially jumped 10% but later fell 3% in pre-market trading as the stablecoin issuer revealed institutional adoption for its layer 1 blockchain Arc but missed on revenue.

Derivatives data show subdued activity in bitcoin and ether but aggressive positioning in select altcoins.

The attack exposed a five-year-old firmware flaw. The industry’s rapid response is accelerating the adoption of collaborative multisig security.

The so-called ‘500-day rule’ says buying BTC roughly 500 days before a bitcoin halving and selling it about 500 days after would have produced profits in prior cycles.

Maelstrom co-founder Arthur Hayes says overleveraged AI data-center spending will eventually crack, forcing government bailouts and money printing that become the next major bitcoin catalyst.

For 14 years, one ratio moved only in bitcoin's favor. Now it has decisively turned the other way and bulls may not like what it means.

The EIP-8361 draft proposal calls for burning a rising share of validator rewards as the staking ratio climbs.

A wallet holding $36 million in stolen bitcoin has become an unlikely public message board, as hack victims and opportunists pay to leave permanent notes for the thief.

BTC held near $64,000 as MSCI's world index set another peak and Brent fell toward a Hormuz deal. Ether is the only major down on the week.

Elon Musk's space company posted its first earnings as a public company ahead of a major insider share unlock.

Executives at Coinbase, Visa and Mastercard said they plan to support multiple stablecoins, suggesting Open USD is another payments rail rather than a direct replacement for USDC.

Samsung seeks to turn 800 million Galaxy phones into wallets for digital assets and blockchain payments, backed by a deeper play in crypto infrastructure.

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.

A Milan start-up says it found a full-takeover flaw in macOS using ChatGPT, then hit Apple's new submission cap before it could file it.

Strategy sold $104M in Bitcoin last week to help prop up STRC, a financial product they created to… help them buy more Bitcoin.

Europe's largest cash management platform is now issuing tokens on Ethereum, in a launch restricted to professional investors.

Fake "coordinated hardware audit" emails are steering holders to a cloned Coldcard site that installs remote-access software.

Two of the five were also convicted of conspiracy to blackmail, in a case police won without either victim testifying.

Scientists are using OnlyFans to help fund decades of marmot research, while unofficial memecoins inspired by the project have emerged on Solana.

Prosecutors say the former counterintelligence supervisor stole cryptocurrency from wallets tied to FBI investigations before asking ChatGPT how to invest the money and relocate to Europe.

Air-gapped wallets keep private keys completely offline, reducing exposure to hackers—but they're not immune from threats.

BlackRock launched a tokenized money market fund for stablecoin reserves that uses Solana alongside Ethereum.

Flare's FXRP has been approved as collateral in a $280 million RLUSD lending vault, allowing XRP holders to tap Ethereum's lending markets.

Authoritarian oppression, corporate treasuries and “wrench attacks” make up the privacy case in a new report from ChangeNOW and CoinRabbit.

CKPool's developer put the winner's hashrate at a “wildly variable” peak of 100 PH, noting that it was probably rented.

The Hut 8 subsidiary increased its Bitcoin holdings by 14% in the second quarter even as Bitcoin’s price fell.

The crypto treasury company says it added another 10,399 ETH last week, bringing its holdings to nearly 5.8 million ETH as it pushes toward its goal of owning 5% of Ethereum's circulating supply.

Self-custody is under attack, and it's becoming increasingly clear that AI is one of crypto's leading threats.

Robinhood plans to list a $200 million venture fund focused on Y Combinator companies, offering access through an indirect and fee-heavy structure.

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ONDO faced aggressive selling pressure in both the spot and derivatives markets, CryptoQuant data showed.

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Critics believe the proposal will be net negative for the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem.

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Since mid-July, Bitcoin Cash has only been able to bounce high enough to test local supply zones before sliding lower.

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USDC activity surged during Circle’s second quarter, but falling reserve returns limited revenue growth and overshadowed its return to profit.

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LDO prices drop as Ethereum's staking proposal revives concerns while traders increase leveraged exposure.

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Bitcoin’s setup is getting crowded, but macro strength and ETF demand could turn this weakness into a major Q3 rally.

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Hyperliquid is strengthening its long-term outlook through buybacks, ecosystem upgrades, and growing protocol utility.

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Pump.fun's buybacks, whale accumulation, and rising Open Interest strengthened PUMP's rally toward key resistance.

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South Korea seeks crypto market infrastructure framework by the end of the year.

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Bitcoin ETF inflows are strengthening as capital rotates back into BTC. Can it finally break its historically bearish August trend?

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