Darknet Mastermind Signals Cooperation as $44M BTC Case Advances
Tomáš Jiříkovský, a primary defendant in a major Czech cryptocurrency-laundering investigation, has signaled for the first time that he may...
Month: August 2026
Did Anyone Claim California’s $1.5 Million? The Deadline Just Passed and the Answer Is Ugly
A $1,532,761 Powerball prize from the Feb. 21, 2026 drawing was sold at Varso Gas in Escondido, and the 180-day...
29,120 Addresses Investigated in Global Crypto Intelligence Sprint
Operation Lighthouse investigated 29,120 cryptocurrency addresses and digital identifiers while generating 14,300 investigative leads. The Chainalysis-led sprint also surfaced more...
Nebraskans Set to Vote on Betting Markets With Kalshi Looming
Nebraska’s Secretary of State certified two online sports wagering petitions on Aug. 21, sending both to the Nov. 3 general...
Treasury Targets Iran Crypto Sector and $100M Oil Payment Network
The Treasury has opened Iran’s digital asset sector to broader sanctions while targeting a broker accused of processing over $100...
US-Iran Ceasefire Rumors Swirl as Global Markets Remain Unfazed
While U.S. equities closed the day in green, gold held $4,665 per ounce and bitcoin’s price fluctuated between $78,750 to...
Cardano has days to close two huge voting gaps before governance hits a 3-seat bottleneck
Cardano’s vote to seat four elected Constitutional Committee members is now in its final week, and both voter groups remain...
Bitcoin’s 7 million coin quantum problem just reached the US Treasury
The US Treasury has formally brought digital assets into the financial sector’s preparations for quantum computing threats. On Aug. 24,...
Traders start losing control of open positions as BitMEX begins its staged shutdown
As the BitMEX closure approaches, the derivatives exchange will enter reduce-only mode at 04:00 UTC on Aug. 26. Traders will...
Strive bought 1,110 Bitcoin, but shareholders gained less than 2% real BTC yield
Bitcoin treasury company Strive added 1,110 Bitcoin in a week, but the benefit to common shareholders was much smaller than...
Nasdaq-listed crypto treasury avoids cash drain by pushing millions in defaulted SPAC debt onto future equity
Nasdaq-listed StablecoinX's debt restructuring covers $6.879 million of defaulted former-SPAC notes with about $344,000 in cash and two warrant tranches...
How Ethereum’s new 2,048 ETH staking rule could lock up user rewards longer than expected
Ethereum is considering a change that would let compounding validators set how much ETH should remain on a validator before...
Take-Two branded SEC filings push GTA VI Solana currency linked to memecoin trading
Two public-comment PDFs on a US Securities and Exchange Commission docket describe a proposed Grand Theft Auto VI currency called...
Ripple’s RLUSD Market Cap Crosses $2B, Nearly $1B on XRP Ledger
Ripple USD has crossed $2 billion in market capitalization less than two years after its launch. Nearly $1 billion of...
Bitwise Creates 3 Tokenized Stock Portfolios With Coinbase and Glider
Bitwise has launched Automated Token Portfolios, a new product that lets eligible non-U.S. investors hold and automatically manage baskets of...