Raw News Items
22 itemsJuly 19, 2026
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Crypto malware in 8 Steam games steals tokens after leaving trail to Uber Eats deliveries
The FBI is seeking potential victims who downloaded eight games named in its Steam malware investigation, a case that shows crypto custody can fail before a wallet ever opens. In a separate federal complaint reported by Local 10, agents allege an eight-game campaign infected about 8,000 devices, gai...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
UK turns delayed wallet identification into a 14-year criminal risk for crypto firms
The UK's designation of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps took effect on July 17, creating a new criminal exposure for UK-linked people and businesses that receive or retain value supplied by or on behalf of the group. Under the designation instrument, the IRGC became one of the first three b...
- CointelegraphScore: 75
South Korean regulator begins sanctions process against Dunamu: Report
The proceedings come as South Korea’s Virtual Asset User Protection Act lacks explicit sanctions provisions for hacking and computer system incidents, leaving the scope of penalties uncertain.
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Inside Zcash's new node that targets Visa-scale privacy at 50,000 transactions per second
The new Zakura client is the first live piece of a plan to take Zcash from roughly one private transaction per second to payment-network scale.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
US agencies miss GENIUS Act deadline for final stablecoin rules
US regulators failed to finalize implementing regulations by the GENIUS Act’s one-year deadline, issuing 10 proposed rules instead.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
MetaMask code was open to a North Korea-linked contractor for a month before Consensys halted releases
A contractor brought in through a third-party provider worked on MetaMask code from March 9 until Consensys cut off access in April. Consensys later described the person as linked to North Korea. Consensys said its investigation found no misappropriation of assets or data, no malicious code deployme...
- The BlockScore: 75
Upbit parent Dunamu faces sanction process nearly eight months after $30 million hack: report
The severity of any sanctions remains unclear because South Korea's current crypto law contains no direct sanction provisions for hacking or IT failures.
- The BlockScore: 75
Saylor urges Bitcoin to reject BIP-110 in 110-point essay as soft fork’s August showdown approaches
Saylor followed up Sunday with a cryptic tracker-chart post captioned "What's next?" ahead of Strategy's expected Monday disclosure.
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Tether's USDT hits 2-year countdown threatening its position on U.S. crypto platforms
The GENIUS Act has hit its first anniversary without U.S. regulators yet meeting deadlines to write regulations, though rules will be in full effect by July 2028.
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Bitcoin’s quantum problem gets a recovery tool, but not for Satoshi’s 1.1 million coins
Project Eleven says it has funded a proof that lets a wallet's own key-derivation path stand in as ownership after quantum computers can forge its signatures. It runs in 243 milliseconds on a laptop.
- The BlockScore: 70
France orders internet providers to block Polymarket ahead of World Cup final
The order cuts French users off ahead of the World Cup final, which will settle the largest event markets in the industry's history.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Treasuries are amplifying market selloffs and Bitcoin is paying the price
For two decades, the American investor essentially got a free insurance policy. When equities fell, Treasuries rallied, and the loss on one side of the portfolio was partly covered by the gain on the other. That relationship became so reliable that an entire industry built products on it, and an ent...
- CointelegraphScore: 65
Saylor turns up heat with ‘110 reasons’ why BIP-110 is a bad idea
The man in control of the biggest Bitcoin corporate treasury said he shares the objectives but disagrees about the remedy detailed in the proposed temporary fork.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Grayscale is setting up a quarterly cash showdown between Ethereum and Solana staking
Grayscale wants to turn staking rewards from its Ethereum and Solana funds into cash payouts at least once a quarter, starting around Aug. 7. That would give investors a straightforward way to compare what each fund actually delivers. In July 17 SEC filings for the Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF and...
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Electronic Transactions Association CEO Expecting More Partnerships with Bitcoin Startups
Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) CEO, Jason Oxman, indicated that members of his organization might start recognizing Bitcoin’s disruptive potential, suggesting that this might lead to more partnerships between traditional electronic payment providers and Bitcoin startups.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Kraken says simpler options can unlock crypto's next derivatives market
The Wyoming-based firm launched USD-settled bitcoin and ether options, saying product design, not demand, has held back adoption.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Bitcoin's biggest advocate, Michael Saylor, says new plan to clean up the blockchain is 'a bad idea'
Michael Saylor argues that a new proposal, BIP-110, to temporarily block "spam" data from the Bitcoin blockchain would undermine the network's neutrality and create a dangerous precedent for censorship.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Bitcoin sellers are tiring but weak demand leaves an 18% fall to $52,900 in play
Bitcoin's first recovery test sits near $69,000. Its lower on-chain stress boundary sits much farther down, near $52,900. CryptoSlate's Bitcoin market data shows BTC at $64,672. Reaching the recent-buyer cost basis near $69,000 requires a gain of about 6.69%, while a decline to Glassnode's displayed...
- CoinDeskScore: 40
The GENIUS Act turns 1: State of Crypto
The stablecoin-focused GENIUS Act became a law a year ago.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Wall Street’s $128 billion private credit exposure is starting to look harder to contain
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told analysts in April that the roughly $1.8 trillion private credit market doesn't pose a systemic risk. “You have to have very large losses in private credit before, at least it looks like, banks are going to get hit,” he said. He made that comment the sa...
- CoinDeskScore: 30
AI is destroying the internet. Math is our only hope.
The rise of autonomous AI agents necessitates the utilization of zero-knowledge proofs, argues Brian Trunzo, chief growth officer at Succinct Labs.
- CryptoSlateScore: 20
Bitcoin rallied on cheaper gas while Americans expect rents to surge 8.3%
There's a question buried in this week's US economic data that sounds simple but is surprisingly hard to answer: when Americans spend more money, does that mean they're buying more, or just paying more for the same stuff? Those are completely different things, and it's important to tell them apart. ...