After Coldcard Was Hacked, $15 Billion in Bitcoin Moved to Safety
Casa CEO Nick Neuman says the mass Bitcoin migration after the $130M Coldcard exploit proves distributed self-custody is Bitcoin's immune system—not its vulnerability.
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SimpleSwap Review 2026: Is SimpleSwap Legit and Safe?
SimpleSwap is a self-custodial multi-source swap aggregator that handles the complexity of wallet-to-wallet crypto exchanges. Instead of comparing rates across multiple exchanges or building swap routes manually, you ge…
Bitwise cuts 14% of staff while still expecting growth
Crypto companies from including Coinbase, BitGo, Robinhood, Polygon and Pump.fun have announced workforce reductions this year, citing a variety of reasons, including shifting to AI and market forces.
Zoomsday: AI Used to Build Critical Zoom Exploit in One Day
AI is making it faster and easier to find serious security flaws. Now, a researcher says he used publicly available models to find vulnerabilities in the video chat platform Zoom and build a working attack in less than …
Goldman Sachs leaps into bitcoin income ETFs with $2.25 billion NEOS buyout
Goldman Sachs is acquiring NEOS Investments, the firm behind BTCI, a $1.1 billion bitcoin synthetic exchange-traded fund (ETF) that yields roughly 27%, according to a senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg.
Fidelity Files to Let Its Ethereum ETF Stake and Pay Investors
Fidelity has asked the SEC for permission to turn its spot Ethereum ETF into a yield-bearing product. The Boston asset manager filed a pre-effective amendment to its registration statement on Aug. 11, adding disclosure …
FlightAware drops Kalshi lawsuit one day after filing
Following the initial lawsuit, at least one of Kalshi’s event contracts was changed to list “Primary Source Agency” as the entity behind verifying flight cancellation data.
Bank of England tests stablecoin, digital pound interoperability in cross-border payments
The Digital Pound Lab is testing a cross-border trade finance flow combining stablecoin payments with simulated digital pound settlement.
Wintermute plans $1 billion AI push beyond crypto: Bloomberg
Crypto market maker Wintermute plans to invest about $1 billion in high-frequency trading and artificial intelligence data-center infrastructure over five years as it expands into stocks, commodities and foreign exchang…
HashKey begins beta distribution of Hong Kong-regulated HKDAP stablecoin
HashKey has become an authorized distributor for Anchorpoint’s HKDAP, expanding institutional access as Hong Kong’s regulated stablecoin market takes shape.
XRP Bridge Drained After Software Treats Fake Deposits as Real
An attacker drained nearly 200,000 XRP, worth around $202,000, from an XRP Ledger bridge on August 9 by exploiting a flaw in its deposit-detection software, the project said.
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AKT Price Faces Key Test as Akash Homenode Enters Beta
AKT is consolidating around $0.522 after recovering from its March 2026 low near $0.291.
Why Bitcoin Barely Moved Even as US Inflation Cools to 3.4%
U.S. inflation in July slowed as expected, and markets—including Bitcoin—took it in stride.
Bitcoin eyes $63K as US CPI relief sends September Fed rate pause odds to 60%
Bitcoin price action did not reflect relief in US CPI inflation numbers matching expectations amid a warning over $63,000 failing as support.
Zcash Shielded Transactions Top 3.29M as Price Holds Firm
Zcash shielded transactions surpassed 3.29M across Sapling and Orchard, with about 2.87M remaining after spam filtering.
A Routing Bug Took Solana 86% of the Way to Losing Finality
Solana came within 4.51 percentage points of losing the ability to finalize transactions on Wednesday morning, after a single misconfigured route at one hosting provider knocked 28.83% of staked SOL offline. The chain s…
Kalshi Adds Real-Time Market Data Feed Through DoubleZero
Kalshi is distributing its real-time order book data through DoubleZero Edge, allowing trading firms to access the prediction market’s live data over DoubleZero’s fiber network, the companies announced Wednesday.
Kalshi launches sports and crypto perps data feed on DoubleZero
Kalshi launched access to its sports and crypto perpetual data feed through DoubleZero’s dedicated fiber network to bolster institutional data access.
Slovenia joins EU’s MiCA stablecoin register with first issuer
Slovenia entered the EU’s MiCA stablecoin register through electronic money institution Dinaro, as the update also added two new CASPs.
El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment turns 5: ‘It was for us, not them’
Five years after El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender, the experiment has fallen short of its original promises for locals, but it’s been great for Bitcoin’s global profile.
Wintermute to pour $1B into AI, high-frequency trading amid TradFi expansion: Report
Wintermute will reportedly invest $1 billion in AI infrastructure and high-frequency trading as part of its expansion into traditional finance.
CRV Price Breakout Could Be Bigger Than the 34% Rally: Here’s What Comes Next
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U.S. CPI Comes In at 3.4%, Matching Forecast
U.S. inflation eased in July, with consumer prices rising 3.4% year over year, matching the 3.4% forecast and slowing from 3.5% previously. Consumer prices rose 0.1% month over month, also in line with expectations. Cor…