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Bitcoin Holds Above $64,000 as Asian Chip Stocks Crash, Decoupling From AI Trade
Crypto markets showed resilience as South Korea's chip sector suffered a record two-day decline, with Bitcoin holding steady ahead of the Federal Reserve's rate decision.
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Zcash Activates Ironwood Upgrade, Sealing $1.7 Billion Shielded Pool
The network upgrade retires the Orchard pool after a counterfeiting bug was found undetected for four years, opening a new quantum-resilient pool with a turnstile migration mechanism.
Bitcoin Holds $65,000 Through AI Selloff as Traders Unwind Hedges Before Fed
BTC has shown unusual resilience against sliding tech stocks, but options positioning and weak demand metrics suggest the rally may be a positioning bounce rather than a sustainable breakout.
Lido Begins Historic $16.5 Billion Staked Ether Migration to Streamline Ethereum
The liquid staking giant is consolidating 8 million ETH onto optimized validators, cutting Ethereum's validator count by a third and introducing operator bonds for the first time.
Nvidia Forms 37-Member AI Security Alliance, Excluding OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
The Open Secure AI Alliance brings together Microsoft, IBM, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and others to build open-source security tools for AI, following a breach where closed models blocked forensic analysis.
SparkKitty Malware Exploited Apple and Google App Stores to Target Crypto Wallets
A malware campaign distributed through both major app stores scanned users' photo libraries for wallet seed phrases, exposing a common security practice as a critical vulnerability.
U.S. Senate Delays Crypto Clarity Act as Calendar Squeezes Industry's Flagship Bill
The Senate's packed agenda — Russia sanctions, nominations, and a funeral — pushes the market structure bill further down the queue, with summer recess looming August 8.
Bitcoin Reclaims $65,000 as US-Iran Ceasefire Holds, Ether Outperforms
Risk assets rebounded Monday as a fragile ceasefire between the US and Iran entered its second day, with oil dropping 5% and ETH leading crypto gains.
CFTC Warns Prediction Markets Against Cutting Corners on Event Contracts
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an advisory signaling that prediction market platforms have been straying into cookie-cutter self-certification.
South Korea's POSCO International Tokenizes Trade Receivables With LG CNS on Injective
POSCO International and LG CNS are putting live commercial invoices onchain via the Injective network, marking another step for blockchain in corporate finance.
Crypto Is the Canary in the Coal Mine for Quantum Computing, Experts Warn
Quantum computing could expose crypto networks first, but the real vulnerability isn't cryptography — it's governance speed.
Russia's Largest Bank Sberbank Plans Crypto Trading Infrastructure by December
Sberbank is preparing to launch crypto trading, custody and settlement services as new Russian regulations take effect September 1.
Bitcoin Treasury Companies Unwind Holdings as Share Prices Collapse
Strategy, Satsuma, Nakamoto and others are selling BTC to repay debt, fund operations, or pivot to AI infrastructure, signaling a broad restructuring of the digital asset treasury model.
BitMart to Shut Down After Nine Years as BMX Token Crashes 58%
The crypto exchange will halt all trading by August 26 and cease operations by January 2027, becoming the second major exchange to announce closure this week after BitMEX.
Brazilian Farmers Tokenize Dairy Cows to Unlock Credit on the Blockchain
An agtech startup in Paraná has placed 10 tokenized dairy cows on the B3 stock exchange, raising $20,000 in the world's first livestock tokenization — a test case for real-world asset financing in agriculture.
EU Deploys 21st Sanctions Package Against Russia, Targeting $120 Billion Crypto Network
The European Union's latest sanctions expand transaction bans to 14 crypto platforms and introduce a mechanism that could enable a full third-country ban on crypto services used by Russia.
Robinhood Chain's Tokenized Assets Surge Fivefold as Real-World Equities Gain Traction
Real-world asset value on Robinhood Chain has jumped from the low tens of millions to $70 million in under two weeks, with a dozen tokenized stocks now clearing $500,000 in daily volume.
Bitcoin Holds Near $65,000 as $800 Billion AI Selloff Leaves Crypto Largely Untouched
While the Magnificent Seven shed nearly $800 billion in value, bitcoin barely moved — raising questions about whether crypto is finally decoupling from the AI trade.
EU Deploys 21st Sanctions Package Against Russia, Targeting $120 Billion Crypto Network
The European Union's latest sanctions package expands crypto-related transaction bans to 14 platforms and introduces a new instrument that could enable a blanket ban on third-country crypto services used by Russia.
India Orders Takedown of Jack Dorsey's Bitchat as Protesters Use Mesh Networks to Evade Internet Shutdowns
India's cybercrime agency has ordered GitHub to remove Bitchat, a Bluetooth mesh messaging app that relays encrypted messages and bitcoin transactions without internet connectivity.
Poolin, Once Bitcoin's Largest Mining Pool, Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
The Singapore-based mining pool that controlled nearly 20% of Bitcoin's global hashrate in 2019 has filed for bankruptcy with $173 million in debts, ending a years-long decline.