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Bitcoin climbed nearly 8% and Ether gained about 18% over 24 hours as roughly $1.4 billion in short positions were liquidated and the U.S. Treasury doubled its bond buybacks.
An attacker chained six flaws to credit a pool with tens of millions of unfunded CACAO tokens, draining real assets and forcing MAYAChain to halt its network.
A Washington state judge ruled that many of Kalshi's event contracts likely amount to illegal gambling, granting a preliminary injunction against the operator.
Citi plans to launch Bitcoin custody for institutional clients this year, while Israel's Bank Leumi partners with Galaxy Digital to offer crypto trading.
The company sold common stock to fund STRC dividends and buybacks and to lift its dollar reserve, leaving its Bitcoin holdings unchanged.
Chainalysis is contesting a sole-source ICE contract given to rival TRM Labs, escalating competition between the two leading blockchain forensics firms.
Austria's Financial Market Authority penalised Bitpanda for white paper and marketing breaches under the EU's MiCA rules, the country's first published final penalty.
Binance provided Russian investigators with data on a user accused of sending crypto to Ukrainian forces, despite leaving the Russian market in 2023.
The crypto wallet provider said an authorization flaw exposed customer order information, though funds, private keys and seed phrases were not affected.
Tokenized equities reached 1.31 million holders in the past month, with monthly transfer volume rising 179% to $23.13 billion, according to RWA.xyz data.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has cleared three more virtual asset firms for its Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Programme, bringing the total to 12 since July.
JPMorgan Chase reportedly cut banking ties with prediction-market platform Polymarket in October 2025, though it retains other links to the firm.
An attacker tricked the Coreum XRPL bridge into crediting fake deposits, withdrawing nearly 200,000 XRP over about 97 minutes on August 9.
President Bola Tinubu has signed an executive order creating a Virtual Asset Council to align oversight across Nigeria's financial, revenue and security agencies.
President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation creating Russia's first full legal framework for cryptocurrencies, with central-bank licensing of exchanges and a continued ban on domestic crypto payments.
AUSTRAC has ordered Cryptolink's 96 crypto ATMs offline for three months after the operator failed to meet anti-money laundering reporting rules.
The breakaway chain drew only 2.53% of mining support, leaving its blocks hours apart while the main Bitcoin network continued at full difficulty.
Developers of the open-source payment processor issued an urgent warning after attackers gained credential access to Lightning wallets and moved merchant funds.
A US federal court granted expedited discovery and an asset freeze in Bybit's civil case against North Korea over a February 2025 hack that stole roughly $1.5 billion in crypto.
Russia's FSB closed nine unregistered exchanges and detained more than 20 people, while separately the US Treasury sanctioned two Iran-linked crypto platforms.
Brazil-based Hashdex will liquidate its DEFI Bitcoin ETF, which held about $14.7 million in assets, ending trading on Aug. 17, 2026.
The Nigeria Revenue Service has published its first framework for taxing cryptocurrencies and virtual asset service providers, setting compliance rules for users, exchanges and P2P platforms.
Only 150 unique firms joined crypto funding rounds in July 2026, the weakest monthly turnout since November 2020, according to CryptoRank data.
Researchers now estimate 1,082.65 BTC was drained from nearly 1,200 Coldcard wallets in a 41-minute sweep traced to a 2021 firmware flaw.
A Bank of Italy study of USDC transfers across corridors including South Africa found fiat conversion and payment infrastructure, not blockchain fees, drive remittance costs.
A Chainalysis report says the 2026 FIFA World Cup generated more than $20 billion in blockchain prediction market volume and $24 million in digital collectible transactions.
A Wintermute report says institutional traders reached a record 72% of crypto trading volume in Q2 2026, up from 68% in Q1, reshaping market dynamics.
The world's largest corporate bitcoin holder booked a quarterly net loss driven by an unrealized markdown on its holdings, while continuing to expand its stack.
Robinhood reported record second-quarter revenue and profit, with strong equities, options and subscription results offsetting a sharp decline in crypto transaction revenue.
Quidax expands B2B stablecoin corridors while Onafriq partners with Privy, part of a wider shift by African crypto companies toward institutional settlement services.
