BitMart Employees Hijack X, Demand 5 Answers on Frozen Funds by 19 August
Some people claiming to be BitMart employees took control of its Chinese X account.
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Dutch Prosecutors Sell $2.5M of Crypto From Bankrupt Platform Knaken
The Dutch Public Prosecution Service has sold the cryptocurrency it seized from Knaken, raising $2.5 million (€2.2 million) toward paying the collapsed platform's creditors, according to court-appointed trustee Carl Ham…
Paul Tudor Jones' Firm Buys Back Into BlackRock Bitcoin ETF After a Year of Selling
Tudor Investment, the macro hedge fund founded by billionaire Paul Tudor Jones, added to its stake in BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF last quarter, reversing a year-long stretch of selling.
Strategy Pauses Bitcoin Purchases, Raises $334M From MSTR Sales
Strategy made no Bitcoin purchases or sales between August 10 and August 16, leaving its holdings unchanged at 840,447 BTC. The company acquired its Bitcoin for a total of $63.36 billion, at an average price of $75,385 …
Strategy raises $334M through stock sales but buys no Bitcoin
Proceeds funded STRC dividends and repurchases, while $149.1 million was added to Strategy’s US dollar reserve, which reached $4.8 billion.
ZEC Price Gains 5% as Bulls Close In on Breakout: Is the Next Move 30% Higher?
ZEC price is around $510, up roughly 5%, as bulls push toward the upper boundary of a multi-month triangle.
SafePal Bitcoin Wallet Data Breach Stokes Fears of Physical Attacks
Bitcoin and crypto wallet maker SafePal said Saturday that a flaw in an order-tracking plug-in gave attackers unauthorized access to the personal information of roughly 39,798 customers, the latest breach to put a hardw…
Top Altcoins That Could Explode Next
The next major opportunity for several altcoins could come from the convergence of tokenization and AI-driven agentic payments. According to one analyst, while the sector is still early, blockchain projects are already …
ETHFI Price Jumps 8% After Ether.fi Upgrade: Why Bulls are Watching $0.64
ETHFI price jumped nearly 8% today, reclaiming the $0.50 level and breaking above a key resistance zone on the daily chart.
Binance Shared Client Data with Moscow over Ukraine Crypto Donations
Binance shared user data with Russian authorities in a terrorism-financing case.
Crypto News: Curve Founder Calls Pump.fun a ‘Casino of Scams,’ Sparks Solana Debate
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Chainalysis Sues US Government Over $94.6M TRM Labs Crypto Contract
Chainalysis is challenging the U.S. governmentâs $94.6 million contract awarded to TRM Labs.
Greenlane’s $70M BERA treasury ends Q2 valued at $16M
Greenlane recorded a $19.1 million noncash valuation loss as BERA’s price fell nearly 76% year to date.
Chainalysis sues US over $95M ICE contract with TRM Labs
The sealed complaint leaves Chainalysis’ specific objections and requested remedy undisclosed as briefing continues.
Pi Network News: Repeated 0.03 Pi Transfers Puzzle On-Chain Analysts
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XRP traders bet on a rebound as price slips to $1 and bearish chatter surges
XRP traders are increasingly betting on a rebound even as the token struggles around $1 and online commentary turns its most bearish in three months.
Data of 54,000 wallet users leaked, CLARITY odds just 10%: Hodler’s Digest, Aug. 16
Owners of Trezor and SafePal crypto wallets at high risk of phishing attempts after separate data leaks, CLARITY odds at 10% despite White House meeting this week.
Bitcoin hovers around $63k as Strategy’s Saylor calls it ‘digital monetary energy’
For the second consecutive week, Michael Saylor's Strategy Inc. raised hundreds of millions of dollars and bought exactly zero Bitcoin — a disclosure that crystallizes what the company has not yet said out loud: the fin…
People Are Turning to AI for Mental Health, California Wants It Banned
California is one step closer to barring AI chatbots from posing as therapists and making mental health decisions without human oversight.
The SEC meeting that wasn't: State of Crypto
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission abruptly canceled a planned meeting last Friday where it was supposed to advance its Reg Crypto rulemaking and — separately — unveil its repeatedly delayed innovation exemptio…
MiCA's cleanup is creating a new scam wave across the European Union
When the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulations’ ramework came into full force on July 1, more than 1,700 unlicensed crypto platforms were required to stop serving EU customers and direct them to licensed alternati…
DefiLlama delayed mobile launch over phishing apps on Apple Store, founder says
DefiLlama’s founder said Apple removed one fake app within days after the company documented it draining funds from a small crypto wallet.
Crypto investors are looking past market-cap rankings and back to fundamentals
Crypto investors are increasingly using revenue, usage and value capture to sort tokens over longer horizons, even as perpetual futures continue to drive prices day to day, industry players at Bitwise, Wintermute and th…
Crypto wallet SafePal reveals a data breach exposing nearly 40,000 customers' order info
Crypto hardware wallet provider SafePal has disclosed a security incident that exposed the personal information of thousands of customers.