Wallet 0x66f8 closed its 2,136 BTC short for a $1.65 million profit, then opened a 40x long on 200.82 BTC. Wallet 0xff84 now holds the largest tracked onchain Bitcoin short.
USD/JPY traded near 158.60 after intervention drove it from about 164 to 155 in late July. The weak yen keeps crypto carry trades open, but another intervention or BOJ rate hike could force traders to unwind them.
Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser wants the CLARITY Act passed but is still seeking changes over stablecoin rewards. Banking groups are lobbying senators during the August recess before the planned cloture vote.
Vulnerable Coldcard Mk3 firmware bypassed the hardware random-number generator and used a guessable software fallback, letting attackers brute-force seeds offline. Multiple theft waves drained at least 1,719 BTC from more than 5,200 addresses.
Ethereum client teams left EIP-8363 off the next upgrade after it missed the cutoff, delaying any adoption until at least 2027. Franklin Templeton's crypto CIO opposes its plan to burn validator rewards once half of ETH is staked.
KPMG issued an unqualified opinion on Tether International’s 2025 financial statements in its first full audit. The audit put reserves $6.8 billion above liabilities, but covered only Tether International and the statements remain private.
Bank Leumi is partnering with Galaxy to let customers buy, hold and sell Bitcoin, Ether and Solana through its banking app in early 2027. The service would reach about 2.5 million clients.
Situational Awareness’s leveraged AI-stock portfolio collapsed in July, prompting crypto comparisons with LUNA and SBF. Estimates of the loss remain disputed.
SpaceX closed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor. The deal uses SpaceX's seven-day average share price before closing, so Cursor receives more shares after SPCX's decline and increases dilution for SPCX-linked exposure.
Pump.fun alerts followers when selected traders call out tokens, but tracked traders often held positions for zero or one minute. One hired trader sold 17 seconds after buying, leaving followers little time to react.
TradeXYZ allocated about $3.4 million, or 12% of perpetual-fee revenue, to buy roughly 59,000 HYPE through TWAP orders. TradeXYZ also plans to make HIP-3 fees configurable from a 90% discount to three times standard pricing.
The SEC canceled its August 14 Regulation Crypto meeting less than a day before it was due to begin and gave no replacement date. A tokenized-securities exemption expected at the meeting remains on hold, possibly to avoid complicating Clarity Act negotiations.
UPONLY holders can earn ANSEM through the token pair, tying demand for UPONLY to ANSEM rewards. DEALER also routes its creator rewards to ANSEM, DEALER and NORMIE.
CASHCAT rebounded above a $150 million market cap after its post-Robinhood-listing drop. The token gained 37.3% after passing 50,000 holders.
U.S. retail sales fell 0.6% in July versus a 0.1% expected gain, reducing expectations for a September rate hike. Bitcoin barely moved and stayed near its monthly open.
Binance will stop processing transfers involving HTX, EXMO and nine other crypto platforms on August 23, citing regulatory developments.
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund disclosed a new $88 million BitMine stake as its indirect Bitcoin exposure reached an estimated 11,549 BTC. Strategy accounted for most of that Bitcoin exposure.
Ireland’s national anti-money laundering strategy requires stronger checks on self-hosted wallet transfers and overseas crypto transactions, including sender and recipient verification.
BIP-110 closed after drawing 2.53% miner support. Its minority fork produced only two blocks from August 8 through August 11, and those blocks mostly replayed Bitcoin transactions.
Securitize posted a $21.7 million Q2 loss as revenue fell 5% to $14.4 million, even as average tokenized assets under management reached a record $4.3 billion. SECZ fell more than 20% after its first earnings release as a public company.
TokenWorks allocated 327 ETH to buy FWA for a team reserve at a rate of 1 ETH every two hours. It has bought about 14.68 million FWA, or 1.47% of supply, with 221 ETH left.
Robinhood Chain reached a record 375,000 active addresses as DEX volume rose to $361 million and launchpad volume rebounded to $212 million. Uniswap controls 97% of the chain’s DEX liquidity.
Ether.fi launched tokenized stock and metals trading, Aave V4 borrowing on Optimism against full portfolios, and fiat rails in more than 30 currencies. Revenue across its business lines will fund ETHFI buybacks.
EURC became the first euro stablecoin to cross €400 million in circulation. It now accounts for more than half of euro stablecoin supply.
MSCI proposed a non-operating-company screen that could remove Strategy and Metaplanet from its global indexes and place SharpLink on a watchlist. Strategy opposed the proposal, with consultation results due October 16.