Harmony confirmed that an attacker minted 4 billion ONE and moved 2.8 billion to exchanges. The team paused its bridge, asked exchanges to freeze four linked wallets and is weighing a chain rollback as ONE fell about 40%.
Bitcoin remains rangebound as trading activity stays weak. Its Coinbase premium has been negative for about 57 days, and holders who bought near $62,000 to $65,000 are selling into rallies.
Four wallets increased their combined Bitcoin short to 5,375 BTC, worth about $343 million. Their liquidation prices range from roughly $64,101 to $66,030.
U.S. July CPI is due August 12 at 8:30 a.m. ET, with headline inflation forecast at 3.4%. A hotter print could pressure Bitcoin through higher rate expectations, while a softer print could support a rally.
Metaplanet moved 4,176 BTC worth about $265 million over seven hours. At least 3,881 BTC moved between company-controlled wallets, with no evidence of a sale.
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $144.7 million in net outflows on August 10, ending a five-day inflow streak that drew about $853.5 million.
Strategy spent $189.8 million buying back STRC, helping lift the preferred stock to about $95 and within $5 of par. It sold 3,328 BTC for $213.3 million over the same two weeks.
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.
The StonkBrokers NFT floor rose above 13 ETH less than a month after its free mint.
Coinbase secured an FSRA license to issue, trade and custody tokenized securities in ADGM. The securities will be backed by underlying shares and give verified holders dividend and voting rights.
USD/JPY moved back above 159 after an estimated $100 billion of U.S.-Japan yen buying briefly pushed it to 155. The weaker yen keeps carry trades open, but a BOJ hike could reverse the move and force sales across crypto and other risk assets.
Fidelity filed to let its $898 million Ethereum ETF stake up to 100% of its ETH and pay net rewards as quarterly cash distributions. The fund would retain 85% of gross staking rewards.
A Cash Cat holder valued an NFT bought for almost nothing at 0.3 ETH.
The OCC said crypto companies conducting permitted activities can apply for national bank charters. The regulator says complete applications can be decided within 120 days.
After closing at $138.74, SPCX fell back near $133, below its $135 IPO price. The bounce from roughly $108 followed the Aug. 6 insider-share unlock, which left more shares available to sell.
Solana processed a record 4.24 billion transactions in July.
Coinbase put a new matching engine live on Deribit that handles more than 100,000 orders per second with sub-millisecond latency. It plans to move all perpetual futures onto the same infrastructure later this year.
Itaú joined an ANBIMA pilot with OpenAssets to test tokenized bonds and investment funds in Brazil.
Pump.fun generated a record $10.03 million in protocol fees from August 3 to 9, up 12% week over week. It bought back and burned 2.15 billion PUMP worth $5.02 million.
Vitalik Buterin’s updated roadmap overlay prioritizes quantum safety and privacy and adds native rollups and a leaner protocol. It pushes VDFs and many EVM improvements down and replaces Verkle trees.
The Senate vote on the CLARITY Act has moved to September after another delay. Cynthia Lummis released a 616-page version and continues negotiating with Democrats.
Some vulnerable Coldcard Mk3 wallets may have drawn from about 4.5 million RNG starting states, a space searchable in seconds on one high-end GPU. The five-year flaw may have enabled the theft of 1,432 to at least 1,730 BTC, most of which has not moved.
BIP-110 was marked closed after drawing 2.53% miner support. Its fork produced only two blocks from Aug. 8 through Aug. 11, leaving it more than 300 blocks behind Bitcoin.
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.
An Ethereum ICO participant moved 2,680 ETH worth about $5.04 million after more than 11 years of inactivity. The original purchase cost $831.