A breach at a Trezor shipping provider exposed names and contact details for 13,689 customers across seven countries. Trezor’s systems and devices were unaffected, but the data could enable targeted phishing or physical threats.
July U.S. producer inflation came in at 4.7%, below the 4.9% forecast. September hike odds fell to 34.6%, easing a rates headwind for Bitcoin even as crypto lagged the stock rally.
Pump.fun alerts every follower when selected traders call out tokens. One hired trader bought $50 of a token at a $12,000 market cap and sold 17 seconds later for an $18 gain, showing how fast callers can exit into followers.
Hormuz traffic rose to 14 crossings on Aug. 11 but stayed far below roughly 120 ships a day before the war, despite Trump’s claim of total U.S. control. Stalled U.S.-Iran talks could lift oil and pressure Bitcoin through renewed inflation fears.
UBS increased its spot Bitcoin ETF holdings by 230% to about $90 million. Its IBIT position reached roughly 2.5 million shares.
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.
FWA has now used 150 ETH in protocol revenue to buy its token. At the 100 ETH mark, 30% of purchased tokens had been burned, equal to 0.5% of supply.
Solana processed a record 4.24 billion transactions in July.
Vulnerable Coldcard Mk3 firmware reduced seed randomness to an enumerable state space, letting attackers recover private keys. Multiple theft waves drained at least 1,719 BTC from more than 5,200 addresses.
The Bank of England moved its Digital Pound Lab into Phase 2 for a cross-border trade-finance pilot linking stablecoin payments with digital-pound settlement. Polygon Labs, NOBO Finance and Dun & Bradstreet are running it without customers or live funds.
The SEC will meet August 14 to vote on whether to propose a tailored offering regime for certain investment contracts involving crypto assets. The framework could give some token issuers a route to U.S. buyers without full SEC registration.
Crypto commentators compare Situational Awareness’s July collapse with LUNA after its leveraged AI-stock portfolio took steep losses. Estimates of the decline remain disputed.
Dominion launched SILV on Solana, with each token backed 1:1 by a redeemable troy ounce of physical silver. It trades around the clock on Raydium and Orca, with cross-chain access through Mayan.
Bitcoin spot exchange volume fell to its lowest level since Glassnode’s series began in 2019, with BTC pinned between $63,000 and $68,700. Weak spot demand and crowded leveraged longs leave price exposed to liquidation-driven moves.
Lombard is replacing Babylon staking yield with a Bitwise-managed covered-call strategy targeting 2.5% net APY in Bitcoin. A $10 million pilot starts in August before the planned September allocation.
PACK launched with Uniswap v4 pools pairing tokenized stocks and memecoins in one basket. It reached about $9 million in market cap on its first day before falling toward $5 million.
Crypto gaming project B3 launched B3IQ, letting users finance and own GPUs that B3 hosts and rents to AI labs and universities. Research teams at Stanford, NYU and other universities already use the service.
CATE’s rebound faded as its market cap slid back toward $2.5 million. Price kept falling despite roughly 42,900 holders, with no clear catalyst for another run.
The StonkBrokers NFT floor rose above 13 ETH less than a month after its free mint.
Neutrl paused minting and redemptions for its $53.3 million NUSD synthetic dollar after circumstances affected protocol reserves. The team cited legal advice without naming the cause, asset or counterparty, and Strata Markets paused its Neutrl contracts.
MUFG is launching a proof of concept for automated Japanese government bond repos and round-the-clock settlement on Canton Network. Tokenized deposits and stablecoins are under consideration.
Goldman Sachs agreed to acquire NEOS Investments for up to $2.25 billion. The deal adds three crypto options-income ETFs, including the $1.1 billion BTCI Bitcoin fund.
CASHCAT rebounded above a $150 million market cap after its post-Robinhood-listing drop. The token gained 37.3% after passing 50,000 holders.
TOAD reached an all-time high near $23 million in market cap.
TradeXYZ allocated about $3.4 million, or 12% of perpetual-fee revenue, to buy roughly 59,000 HYPE through TWAP orders. The move follows plans to make HIP-3 fees configurable from a 90% discount up to 3x standard pricing.