The UK Government is moving to amend provisions regarding cryptocurrency donations in elections, as recommended in April by the Rycroft review. While the document recommended a moratorium on these donations, a new proposal would ban them entirely, including donations “made from the proceeds generated by crypto-assets.” UK Government to Deal With Political Cryptocurrency Donations The …
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The transaction, which the institution claims is the first of its kind in Latam, pioneers institutional investment in blockchain-based investment instruments and opens the door to expanding these activities, fostering the creation of standards and infrastructure to support them. Banco do Brasil Pioneers Institutional Investment in Blockchain-Based Note Latam has been open to digital assets …
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Hungary’s new government has ordered a report on how to terminate the authority that oversees gambling, tobacco, and concessions, six weeks after that authority extended a casino license to 2061 without a public tender. On Wednesday, the prime minister said legislation is coming and the body “served private interests.” The authority says it will cooperate. …
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The Dutch central bank is shifting dozens of tonnes of its gold reserves to London from the US and Canada to improve tradability and crisis readiness. De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) says the operation moved about 86 tonnes between March and August 2026 through a combination of sales and physical transfers. The bank sold roughly 59 …
Traders betting against Bitcoin are getting liquidated as BTC’s price pushes through $81,000. CoinGlass shows $544.85 million in leveraged crypto bets closed out in the last 24 hours, says CoinGlass. Most of that is shorts. Long liquidations hit $88.42 million, with short liquidations at $456.44 million. Bitcoin’s rally coincides with a sharp decline in the …
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US Bitcoin ETFs drew $730.9 million on Thursday as Bitcoin reclaimed $80,000, though CryptoQuant flagged weak fresh demand and a key $83,000 test. US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) notched their biggest inflows in nearly eight months as BTC reclaimed $80,000. Bitcoin ETFs recorded $730.9 million in net inflows on Thursday, the largest daily haul …
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TLDR An Ethereum whale sold 167,855 ETH worth about $408 million over five days, fully exiting the position. Ethereum traded above $2,500, gaining about 4.3% in 24 hours despite the large whale sale. Invesco ETF clients have recorded no net ETH selling since March 19, 2026, while accumulating roughly $167 million. Abraxas Capital bought 16,554 …
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Monad, an EVM-compatible blockchain, activated its MonadTen revision on mainnet at 14:30 UTC on Sept. 2. The MIP-8 upgrade changes how the network charges contracts for reading storage, replacing slot-by-slot warming with groups of 128 consecutive slots. Monad’s mainnet block 101672712 measured 8,100 gas to read slot 0, 100 gas to read slot 1 on …
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Blockchain data company Bitquery published a census on Sept. 2 of four ways text appears in Bitcoin, scanning 965,135 blocks and revealing that the same words can impose very different costs on nodes. Its study counted 13,062 OP_RETURN taunt transactions that added no spendable state, against 96,231 fake-address text outputs that remain in the unspent …
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Bitcoin flagged by blockchain data provider Bitquery as linked to the 2026 Coldcard hardware-wallet theft crossed into Ethereum this week after a tracked 20.5 BTC stash began moving. The route shifted the case from a largely parked stash to an active cross-chain trail. The Sept. 2 activity began when 20.49703196 BTC left an address that …
Remixpoint sold all of its Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and Dogecoin holdings, leaving Bitcoin as its only cryptocurrency asset. The Japanese company generated ¥878.8 million, or about $5.5 million, from the Sept. 1 sales and booked a net gain of about ¥117.8 million, or roughly $737,000, according to a regulatory filing. Remixpoint sold 901.45 ETH, 13,920 …
The Bank for International Settlements released a working paper on Sept. 2 describing a prototype for checking the authenticity of official statistics. The system turns a statistical file into a cryptographic fingerprint, anchors a summary of those fingerprints on XRP Ledger, and lets a recipient compare the file with the public record. The result creates …
The Aug. 28 Solana fee vote on SGP-0003 produced an unusual result: a majority of participating stake supported the reform, yet the proposal failed. The outcome offers the clearest evidence so far that co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko can shape the network’s economic agenda while validators and stakers retain formal authority over a mandate. SGP-0003 finalized with …
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In an interview with journalist Karen Weise, Bill Gates argued that Silicon Valley is deploying AI too quickly for today’s regulatory frameworks to handle, warning of job displacement and even AI-enabled biological attacks. He’s calling for an international oversight body modeled on the International Atomic Energy Agency, along with a “token tax” on compute and …
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Korea Gold Exchange Digital Asset partners with Flowra to explore using a gold-backed digital asset as collateral to secure solana tokens for network validators. Capitalizing on Onchain Real-World Assets Solana blockchain infrastructure firm Flowra has signed a memorandum of understanding with Korea Gold Exchange Digital Asset. (KorDA) to explore using gold-backed digital assets as collateral …
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