Bitcoin recovered from an intraday low of $62,216 to reach nearly $64,000, eventually settling between $63,680 to $63,929. Initial price declines were triggered by Strategy completing its sale of 1,638 bitcoins to fund preferred dividend payments and stock repurchases. Strategy Liquidation Weighs on Early Sentiment Bitcoin nearly tapped $64,000 on Monday as the cryptocurrency looked …
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A key architect of the Trump administration’s digital asset agenda is leaving the Treasury Department as Congress struggles to advance landmark crypto legislation. Tyler Williams, a senior US Treasury official overseeing digital asset policy and a key adviser to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, has left the department, according to a Monday report by Punchbowl News. …
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Hackers siphoned a record $1.1 billion from cryptocurrency protocols in 212 onchain exploits during the first half of the year, according to a new report. North Korea-linked groups account for $609 million or 55% of those losses, reports the blockchain security firm Blockaid. Ethereum and Solana protocols suffered the heaviest network-level hits at approximately $332 …
A new digital verification platform aims to reduce forged certificates by allowing employers and universities to authenticate academic records onchain. Kenya has launched a blockchain-based system for verifying academic credentials through the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC), placing more than 30 million records on the Avalanche network in an effort to combat certificate fraud and …
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The asset manager introduced two blockchain-based money market funds designed to qualify as stablecoin reserve assets under the US GENIUS Act. BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has launched two tokenized money market products designed to serve as reserve assets for stablecoins, marking another step in bringing regulated financial products onto blockchain infrastructure. The first …
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Simulating transfers using safety tools inside crypto wallets can show a small gain even when the final transaction sends the user’s deposit to an attacker, according to a July 30 arXiv preprint that links the technique to 5,742 victim addresses and about $3.48 million in historical losses. The authors used SimGuard, a contract-bytecode detector, to …
Trump Media & Technology Group moved 2,628 BTC on Aug. 2, bringing the sum of two recently reported Bitcoin movements to within 3.43 BTC of the portion of its March holdings not identified as convertible-note collateral. The near-match puts the latest wallet activity at the center of a question about what remains of Trump Media’s …
Solana raised the maximum computation allowed per block from 60 million to 100 million compute units on July 29, a 66.7% jump that gives unrelated transactions more room without changing the separate cap governing its busiest accounts. Compute units, or CUs, measure computational work performed by transactions. The block limit caps the aggregate CUs a …
Coinbase expects to move Coinbase International Exchange institutional accounts, balances, and positions to Deribit on Sept. 9, a planned cutover that would cancel open orders, settle positions at market prices, and recreate them on Deribit. The change applies to International Exchange institutional clients, not the retail migration path for Coinbase app and website users. Related …
Kraken will begin automatically liquidating seven delisted tokens today, Aug. 3 after closing withdrawals for affected clients. Any PLANCK, AIR, MICHI, FLY, ANLOG, TERM or STRD left on the exchange is due to be sold during a five-day window that runs through Aug. 7, according to Kraken’s published schedule. This is a disposal of residual …
Most people don’t realize that an air-gapped Bitcoin wallet can keep a private key away from the internet for years and still be vulnerable from the moment its seed was created. Coldcard’s newly disclosed random-number bug highlights the trap well. An affected wallet could hand you a perfectly ordinary 12- or 24-word recovery phrase, then …
The CLARITY Act enters the Senate’s final scheduled week before the August recess. Monday’s floor schedule opens with H.R. 6500, a government funding vehicle, and CLARITY has yet to appear on the schedule. Negotiators are still working through disputes over government ethics and stablecoin rewards, and prediction markets price the odds of the bill becoming …
Ether ETFs attracted $27.42 million in the week ended July 31, securing a fourth consecutive week of inflows. Bitcoin funds lost $61.53 million, while XRP and solana gained ground and HYPE recorded another week of redemptions. A $233 Million Rally Fades by Friday The week began with a trickle, surged into a flood and …
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Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget announced this week that it will stop serving customers in Japan, setting a Dec. 31, 2026, deadline after which any open trading positions will be closed automatically. The company disclosed the phased shutdown in official notices posted Aug. 2, 2026. As of Aug. 3, Japanese residents can no longer open new accounts …
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Geneva, Switzerland, August 3, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), served as a Premier Support Sponsor of the Blockchain Application Stanford Summit (BASS), held July 30 at Stanford University as part of the Science of Blockchain Conference (SBC) 2026. …
