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Blockstream's Liquid Network Hacked for $320M, $47M Kept
An attacker drained about 4,200 BTC ($320M) from Blockstream's Liquid Network on September 6, 2026, by exploiting a bug in Elements, not stolen keys. After Blockstream patched the flaw, roughly 3,400 BTC came back, but the attacker kept about 598 BTC (~$47M) as a self-appointed bounty.
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Coinbase Files to Bring 24/7 Stock Perpetuals to the US
Coinbase filed two SEC applications on September 1, 2026 seeking approval to offer 24/7 perpetual futures on individual US stocks, but CFTC approval, still pending, is what would actually let the product launch.
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Standard Chartered Launches Institutional Bitcoin Trading in UAE
Standard Chartered switched on institutional spot Bitcoin and Ether trading in the UAE on September 3, 2026, becoming the first Global Systemically Important Bank to offer the service directly through its Dubai-regulated entity.
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Strategy Resumes Bitcoin Buying With $370M Purchase
Strategy bought 4,603 bitcoin for $369.7 million between August 24 and 30, its first purchase since June, ending a 10-week selling streak even as its stock trades below the value of its own treasury.
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Bitcoin's 3-Month High Is a Treasury Bond Story, Not a Crypto One
Bitcoin opened at a three-month high above $78,900 and briefly topped $81,000 this week because the U.S. Treasury doubled the size of its long-bond buyback operations, easing yields and weakening the dollar enough to send investors into scarce assets like gold and bitcoin. A parallel push for the Clarity Act and heavy BlackRock ETF buying added extra fuel.
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SEC's New Crypto Rule Sends Bitcoin, Ether Surging
The SEC's newly proposed Regulation Crypto Assets creates two registration exemptions and a path out of securities treatment for tokens, and the announcement helped drive an 8.6% Bitcoin and roughly 18% Ether surge within 48 hours.
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Ethereum staking hits record 34% as yields sink to 3-year low
About 41.4 million ETH, roughly 34% of circulating supply, is now staked, an all-time high, while seven-day staking APR has fallen to 2.66% from a 5.06% peak in June 2023 because fixed issuance is split across ever more validators.
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CFTC Invokes Emergency Powers to Keep Kalshi Live in NY
The CFTC declared a market emergency on 11 August 2026 and ordered KalshiEX to keep offering event contracts in New York, overriding the state attorney general's bid to shut the exchange down.
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Strategy Sold Bitcoin Below Cost to Prop Up Its Preferred Stock
Strategy sold 1,690 bitcoin for $108.6 million at an average of $64,262 per coin, well under its own $75,385 cost basis, and spent every dollar buying back 1,152,020 STRC preferred shares. The August 10 filing marks the first time the company has realised a loss on bitcoin to defend an instrument it issued.
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The CLARITY Act Isn't Stuck on Crypto Rules. It's Stuck on Ethics.
A four-day arc explains where the CLARITY Act actually stands: Trump approved ethics language on July 20, Democrats rejected it on July 23, and the Senate broke for recess without a vote. Five compliance officers, exchange counsel, and policy specialists agree the bill's three-way jurisdictional split was never the hard part, it's who watches officials trading crypto while writing the rules that actually stalled a bill that already passed the House 294-134.
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Trump Media's Last 4,261 BTC Are Collateral, Not Treasury
Trump Media moved 2,628 BTC worth about $165 million to Crypto.com on August 2, leaving roughly 4,261 BTC in tagged wallets. Filings show 4,260.73 BTC of that is pledged as convertible-note collateral until May 2028, so almost nothing left is actually free.
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Morgan Stanley Debuts Staking Ether and Solana ETFs
Morgan Stanley listed two spot crypto funds on NYSE Arca on July 28, 2026: the Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust (MSSE) and the Morgan Stanley Solana Trust (MSOL). Both charge a 0.14% sponsor fee, both stake their holdings, and 95% of the network rewards go to shareholders.
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Apple Responds to $1.8M Fake Bitcoin Wallet Lawsuit
Apple said Monday morning it removed the apps impersonating Sparrow Wallet and terminated the developer accounts behind them, three days after three men sued in California over about $1.8 million in Bitcoin lost to a counterfeit wallet app. Sparrow has never shipped an iOS version, so every listing under that name was fake by definition.
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BitMart winds down after nine years, BMX crashes 58%
BitMart began an orderly wind-down on July 26, halting new deposits and orders at 01:30 UTC, ending all trading on August 26 and closing the platform on January 31, 2027. Its BMX token fell 57.7 percent in a day to about 8 cents, and the slide started six days before the notice went out.
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BitMEX hit with 623 BTC lawsuit as its shutdown begins
A proposed class action filed today in the Southern District of New York accuses BitMEX of rigging liquidations and seeks 622.66 BTC, about $40.6 million, one day after the exchange told users it is closing on September 23, 2026.
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Regulators Blew the GENIUS Act Stablecoin Deadline
US federal agencies missed the GENIUS Act statutory deadline of July 18, 2026 to finalize stablecoin rules, and because the law contains no fallback, the industry now defaults to a January 18, 2027 effective date with no federal rulebook in the interim.
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South Korea Folds Crypto Into a 76-Year-Old Asset Law
South Korea's Ministry of Economy and Finance announced on July 15 it will create a National Asset Basic Act, revising the 1950 National Property Act to classify virtual currencies and intellectual property as national assets. It is the first overhaul of state asset management in 76 years, and the tokenized bond pilot lands in 2027.
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Stripe and Advent Launch $53B Stablecoin Bid for PayPal
Stripe and private equity firm Advent International reportedly bid $53 billion, or $60.50 a share, to acquire PayPal, a roughly 28% premium that would unite two of the largest players in stablecoin payments and PayPal's 400 million-plus accounts.
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Japan's Upper House Advances a Landmark Bitcoin ETF Bill
A Japanese Upper House committee approved legislation to reclassify Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as financial instruments and cut crypto tax to a flat 20%, clearing a major hurdle toward spot crypto ETFs listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as early as 2027.
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US Moves $288M Seized Crypto to Coinbase Prime
The US government transferred about $288M in seized Bitcoin and Ether to Coinbase Prime, an on-chain move that traders track closely because government wallets holding seized crypto are a recurring source of supply overhang.
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TeraWulf's $19B Anthropic Deal Finishes Its AI Pivot
TeraWulf signed a roughly $19 billion AI hosting agreement with Anthropic, completing its transformation from a Bitcoin miner into an AI infrastructure company and cementing the miner-to-AI-datacenter trade now reshaping the sector.
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Bitcoin ETFs Snap a 10-Day Outflow Streak With $221M Day
US spot Bitcoin ETFs ended a 10-day run of outflows with $221.7 million in net inflows, their largest single-day haul in two months, a tentative sign that demand is stabilizing after Bitcoin's worst month in four years.
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Empery Digital Dumps Half Its Bitcoin for AI Compute
Bitcoin treasury company Empery Digital sold roughly half its BTC stack to pivot toward AI data centers, a concrete sign that capital is rotating out of the crypto-treasury trade and into AI infrastructure as the more compelling growth story.
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Ethereum Foundation Sics AI Agents on Validator Software
The Ethereum Foundation pointed coordinated AI agents at the software its validators run and got a real, remotely triggerable crash, plus a pile of confident, well-written findings that turned out not to be bugs at all, a preview of both the promise and the noise of AI security auditing.
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Strategy Became Bitcoin's Buyer of Last Resort
With spot Bitcoin ETFs bleeding about $5.5 billion this year, corporate treasury buying led by Strategy (MSTR) kept net demand positive, making one leveraged company the swing buyer and its biggest hidden risk.
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Bitmine Nears 5% of All ETH in Tom Lee's Treasury Bet
Bitmine, chaired by Fundstrat's Tom Lee, added another $74M in Ether and is closing in on its goal of holding 5% of the entire ETH supply, a MicroStrategy-style treasury bet aimed at the pending CLARITY Act.
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Gemini's stock is down 89%: the crypto IPO winter is real
The Gemini Space Station exchange has cratered 89% from its $37 debut to $4.19, and most crypto listings since mid-2025 now trade below their opening price, exposing a gap between crypto prices and crypto equities.
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Circle wins US trust-bank approval for its stablecoin
Circle secured US trust-bank approval, letting the USDC issuer operate inside the federal banking system. It is a milestone in crypto’s move from the sidelines into regulated finance, and rivals are queuing behind it.
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Swift and 17 banks pilot tokenized-asset settlement
HSBC, UBS, Wells Fargo, Citi and 13 other major banks are piloting live transactions of tokenized digital assets on Swift's new blockchain payments platform, a milestone that pulls tokenization from crypto experiment into core banking rails.
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Crypto Stocks Crater Even as Bitcoin Rebounds
Even as Bitcoin bounces back above $60,000, the stocks of crypto companies that IPO'd in 2025 have collapsed: Gemini is down about 89% from its debut, BitGo 77%, and Bullish 71%. The split shows public markets rating the businesses far more harshly than the coins.