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Retail investors can apply to buy the 1 billion yen bond without a securities account and receive perks through Toyota’s payment app.

Eligible US users can fund MoonPay crypto purchases with Cash App balances as the payments firm expands beyond its core onramp business.

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Eligible EEA users can trade conventional US shares alongside more than 700 tokenized xStocks through Kraken’s European entity.

Bitcoin derivatives markets created a short squeeze that took BTC price action 3% higher on Monday.

The newly authorized lenders will begin offering e-CNY services after completing operational and technical preparations.

The Korea Media and Communications Commission said Polymarket’s structure and operations amount to illegal gambling despite its noncustodial design and smart contracts.

BitBox recommended all users update to firmware version 9.26.5 and said it had received no reports of exploitation or fund losses.

Developers have been urged to test on Plataberget before Glamsterdam’s new gas model reaches Ethereum’s other testnets and mainnet.

Ripple is bringing its cross-border payments platform to Jeonbuk Bank, but key details including its launch status and settlement asset remain undisclosed.

Prosecutors allege Edward Zimbardi collected crypto from thousands of investors, lost over $34 million on currency trades and spent at least $10 million personally.

Binance’s bStocks are the second largest tokenized stock issuer just two months after launch, and BitMart’s internal feud erupts into the spotlight ahead of its closure

The US financial regulator gave conditional approval for World Liberty Financial’s charter bid as ten Democrats signed onto a bill to “prevent corruption in banking applications.“

Binance’s UK arm has been barred from offering regulated activities in the country since June 2021, but the company will reportedly move to secure licensing under new crypto rules.

The regulatory review could shape an emerging market that lets companies and investors trade and hedge the cost of increasingly scarce AI computing power.

The stablecoin bill signed into law last year is scheduled to go into effect in January 2027, potentially without finalized regulations from US government agencies.

Bitcoin price strength saw BTC/USD pass $64,000 on 2% daily gains as gold pushed higher while US stocks wobbled on fresh US-Iran rhetoric.

Tom Lee’s Ethereum treasury company keeps buying the second-biggest crypto through the downturn, while more than 5 million staked ETH is projected to generate $287 million in annual rewards.

Proceeds funded STRC dividends and repurchases, while $149.1 million was added to Strategy’s US dollar reserve, which reached $4.8 billion.

Harmony said selectively restoring transactions could create inconsistent chain state, as Ravencoin faces a separate rollback dispute after an exploit.

Bitcoin confirmed a weekly candle close below its 200-week moving average, copying the 2022 bear-market as traders warn of further BTC price downside next.

Reuters reported that Binance supplied transaction records and identity documents later used in a terrorism-financing case against Yuri Belenkiy.

The FMA said Bitpanda breached MiCA rules on crypto white papers and marketing communications, with the decision now final.

BitMart’s Chinese-language X account demanded an Aug. 19 repayment plan, while Sheldon Xia called its claims of blocked withdrawals and non-payment of salaries “fabricated rumors.”

Greenlane recorded a $19.1 million noncash valuation loss as BERA’s price fell nearly 76% year to date.

The deal involves Metaplanet contributing 2,100 bitcoin and $2.5 million in cash, valuing the initial investment at $134.6 million.

Following institutional trials, the HKD-pegged asset is being put to work to capture part of Hong Kong's $49 billion trade corridor with the United Arab Emirates

The Wall Street bank plans to let clients hold bitcoin alongside traditional assets through its new Custody+ platform.

Inflated valuations and weak business models are driving crypto’s shakeout, Global Settlement Network CEO Ryan Kirkley says.

Eligible Cash App users will be able to use their balances to purchase digital assets offered by MoonPay, which include ether, solana and stablecoin USDT.

Visa’s request for product (RFP) talks about the need to support a range of stablecoins.

Sending ETH to a brand-new address will cost more than sending to an existing one, and software built around a flat fee will get the sum wrong.

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Regulators rejected Polymarket's defense regarding its P2P nature, arguing the platform manages market rules and facilitates crypto-based gambling activity.

BTC has dropped 0.6% since midnight UTC as Nasdaq 100 futures slip 1.1%, with the FOMC's July meeting minutes and a White House crypto summit both due Wednesday.

BTC outperformed Wall Street on Monday, breaking its recent pattern of lagging behind U.S. stocks.

The U.S. 30-year Treasury yield hit its highest since 2007 and Brent crude topped $91 as the Iran conflict escalates, pressuring stocks. Bitcoin is holding its range, for now.

Bulls are stacking longs, liquidity is thinning and one key level could trigger large liquidations.

Jeonbuk Bank will use Ripple’s 24/7 cross-border payment service for business remittances, but it is unknown whether the flows will use XRP or Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin.

The program came three months before investor unlocks begin, with MON trading below its public-sale price and most of the token supply still outside circulation.

Miners have cut their computing power by a fifth over three quarters to make room for AI, and Venice's token jumped 10% after the company said it crossed $100 million in annualised revenue.

Payward will use Anthropic’s cybersecurity model to hunt vulnerabilities and share open-source findings.

Strategy is prioritizing STRC, cash reserves, and its credit business over stock buybacks, Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said Monday.

Sheldon Lee said a Chinese-language X account making the claims was hacked. Users want wallets, assets and liabilities disclosed.

The protocol pioneered decentralized finance lending, but assets locked have tumbled from a peak five years ago. Now it's looking to attract institutions after retail traders lost interest.

The Tokyo-listed firm will seed gaming media company Super League—to be renamed Superplanet and trade as SUPA—with 2,100 BTC.

The address received 8.54 BTC in June 2011 when the coin traded around $14 and stayed silent for 15 years before moving roughly $538,000 in a single transaction.

Plus, Ethereum researchers are prioritizing privacy; Robinhood is rolling out agentic trading; and Ansem debuts his own launchpad.

The bid protest, filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, challenges ICE's sole-source award for blockchain forensic tools, pitting the two biggest names in crypto tracing against each other.

Austria's Financial Market Authority fined the Vienna-based exchange 70,000 euros for procedural and disclosure breaches, an early marker of how EU regulators intend to enforce the bloc's new crypto rulebook.

Payward is joining Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s program for giving vetted organizations access to its powerful cybersecurity AI.

Elon Musk’s AI firm says the state’s first-of-its-kind nudification ban violates the First Amendment. Minnesota says it regulates a tool, not speech.

Traders across Polymarket, Kalshi, and Myriad are leaning the same way: no change at the September meeting.

Exchanges and other crypto platforms would face new restrictions on selling stablecoins to US customers beginning in 2027.

OpenAI President Greg Brockman's new essay cites his company's own hack of Hugging Face to push urgent AI-powered defense.

XRP is clinging to the dollar price line it's defended since Trump's 2024 win. But both the daily and weekly charts are now flashing red.

The native token of Solana's Pump.fun is up 8%, and the pattern bulls have been waiting for is starting to form on the daily chart.

A proposed package would let privacy pools pay their own transaction fees without relying on intermediaries.

The securities regulator cited an "unforeseen scheduling issue," but sources point to a legal threat from Wall Street trade group SIFMA and an administration waiting to see whether the Clarity Act passes in September.

Stripe just bought the layer that decides which AI model answers your prompt—and it was already collecting the money for it.

The firm says it's 96% of the way to owning 5% of Ethereum's total supply, according to Chairman Tom Lee.

The Dutch cyber agency says attackers exploited an authentication flaw in macOS Screen Sharing to gain root access and plant Monero miners, with public proof-of-concept code now circulating.

The meeting comes while progress on the Clarity Act has been delayed and the SEC's latest rulemaking postponed.

The Bitcoin treasury firm halted BTC sales after three weeks, with equity issuance covering dividends, a STRC buyback and the dollar reserve.

Bitdefender says fake downloads of the newly released blockbuster are already spreading Lumma Stealer, malware that scrapes crypto wallets, passwords and browser sessions from infected machines.

The macro fund raised its iShares Bitcoin Trust stake 18.9% to 688,529 shares worth $22.9 million in Q2, while sharply cutting its call options—a shift from leveraged bets toward direct spot exposure.

The trustee says Knaken bought the coins in its own name, leaving customers with a euro claim against a company that has collapsed.

A flaw in an order-tracking plug-in of bitcoin wallet provider SafePal exposed names, addresses and phone numbers of nearly 40,000 customers.

Three weeks after a Flash release that couldn't produce a working file, Google's budget tier zero-shots a playable game. It still can't reason, and a free 27B model still writes better.

A California bill is awaiting an Assembly vote to "place guardrails" around AI chatbots and prevent them from acting as therapists.

Apple is pairing its in-house model with Alibaba’s Qwen as it prepares to bring Apple Intelligence to Chinese iPhones.

The filing would turn raw footage into labeled clips of who did what, without anyone opting in.

The proposed World Liberty Trust Company would take over issuance of the USD1 stablecoin from BitGo.

A hacker is reportedly selling personal and financial records tied to more than 678,000 taxpayers and businesses in France.

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A 15-year Bitcoin wallet moved 8.54 BTC, yet the long-term dormant supply continues growing as miners restructure their holdings.

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Harmony chose a network rollback after forged ONE spread through exchanges, bridges and liquidity pools, making a targeted cleanup impractical.

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Could changing these rules reduce fragmentation and trading costs for the current and the upcoming U.S. markets?

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Low volatility has often preceded much bigger price swings.

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SOL whale accumulation and dominant long positioning strengthened demand as buyers targeted the $78.03 resistance.

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XRP whale transfers surged as exchange withdrawals deepened, adding fresh attention to how large holders are positioning near $1.

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Ethereum whale accumulation and staking tightened supply as spot buyers maintained dominance near key resistance.

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