Raw News Items
28 itemsJuly 26, 2026
- Cointelegraph
WEMIX says attacker moved about $724,000 after contract breach
WEMIX suspended bridges, liquidity-pool trading and several services after an attacker compromised a WEMIX$-linked contract and moved 724,198 USDC.e.
- CointelegraphScore: 85
BitMart to wind down exchange, end trading by Aug. 26
Crypto exchange BitMart said it will wind down operations after its BMX token plunged and users reported withdrawal delays, with platform operations set to end in January.
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Crypto exchange BitMart to shut down after nine years, BMX token crashes 58%
Users have a month to close trades and six months to withdraw, and the exchange gave no specific reason for closing.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
A $650 million wave of bridge hacks just triggered a $7 billion mass migration to Chainlink
Chainlink drew more than $7 billion of token value onto its cross-chain infrastructure in the second quarter as institutional adoption accelerated, according to its second-quarter review. The migration came as crypto projects replaced older bridging systems and traditional-finance firms moved deeper...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Multi-trillion-dollar offshore engine driving 90% of crypto trading arrives in America – and CME is suing to crush it
Coinbase began offering US perpetual-style futures on its CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, starting with nano Bitcoin and Ethereum contracts that track spot prices, carry embedded leverage, and trade around the clock. This is a financial product that's responsible for most of the crypto leverage...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Lawsuit claims 3.8M dormant BTC using police lost-and-found rules as Congress races to stop it with CLARITY
Section 20216 of the latest CLARITY draft states that a self-custodied digital asset cannot become abandoned, unclaimed, or forfeited. It also cannot become subject to adverse possession or finder's title solely because its owner has not moved it or otherwise shown continued interest. The language o...
- CoinDeskScore: 80
Europe's high regulatory bar could spark new crypto industry M&A wave
As MiCA beds in and the U.K. finalizes its crypto framework, stringent regulation could spur mergers, acquisitions and closer ties with banks.
- CointelegraphScore: 80
Russia’s Sberbank to launch crypto trading infrastructure this year
Russia’s biggest bank plans to create cryptocurrency trading infrastructure by Dec. 1 as the country is set to establish rules for market participants while allowing crypto assets to be used in foreign trade operations.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Crypto promised to eliminate stockbrokers, but 94% of its tokenized market now relies on an Alpaca
Alpaca says it custodies more than $1.5 billion of shares backing tokenized equities, which, by public tracker measurements, would represent most of the market. With DTCC preparing to launch its own tokenization service in October and the SEC warning that third-party stock tokens can expose investor...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
The brutal $346M math behind Galaxy’s high-stakes race to build CoreWeave’s Texas AI mega-center
Galaxy Digital’s $3.507 billion financing for its CoreWeave data-center build in Texas comes with a steep price: about $346.3 million in annual interest. A Galaxy project subsidiary priced the 9.875% senior secured notes on July 23. The deal is slated to close July 28, and the notes mature on Aug. 1...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin is about to give miners a 16% lifeline, but $19 billion in AI deals is luring them away anyway
Bitcoin could lower mining difficulty by roughly 16% when its next adjustment arrives around July 26, handing the machines that remain online a considerably larger expected share of the network’s rewards while doing almost nothing to resolve the expensive power contracts, debt obligations and strate...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Why two public companies quietly liquidated 511 Bitcoin in 24 hours to escape $31.7 million in debt
KULR Technology Group, a US-listed battery technology company, and The Smarter Web Company, a UK-listed web services group with a Bitcoin treasury strategy, have sold approximately 511 BTC and used the proceeds to retire approximately $31.7 million of obligations in disclosures published one day apa...
- The BlockScore: 75
Triple-A hot wallet losses climb to $11.8 million as new deposits keep being swept: report
Triple-A said it is investigating and that customer funds are not affected, though it has not fully addressed the incident publicly.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
The $25 million Bitcoin glitch hiding inside Wall Street’s clearinghouses
Two Wall Street trading desks can hold economically similar exposure to Bitcoin and still pay materially different amounts to keep that exposure open. That's not because one desk made a better market call, but because the regulated products carrying the positions are inside collateral systems that d...
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Shiba Inu surges 36% as South Korean traders fuel mystery rally
The rally has no announcement behind it, other dog tokens haven't matched it, and Korean venues are carrying the volume.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
South Korea’s largest bank to launch payment service on JPMorgan’s Kinexys
South Korea’s largest lender will use JPMorgan’s blockchain platform to support US dollar cross-border payments for import and export businesses across 10 countries.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
CFTC issues second warning to prediction markets on cookie-cutter self-certifications
For the second time this year, the regulator told prediction markets to stop issuing overly broad, template-style certifications of events contracts.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
2 weeks left for Clarity: State of Crypto
The Senate leaves town in two weeks. Here's what needs to happen for Clarity to advance before then.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Bitcoin traders ran out of excuses for the market’s flatline – and now a $2.5 billion bet is running out of time
Traders spent most of July with a pretty good explanation for why Bitcoin wouldn't move. A dense cluster of options contracts had the price boxed in, they argued, because the dealers who sold those contracts were buying every dip and selling every rally to keep their own books balanced. Clear the co...
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Binance ‘red teams’ its own staff every month to keep hackers out
Binance regularly tests its employees for security hygiene, with social engineering becoming a major source of industry breaches.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
U.S. regulator warns prediction markets against cutting corners in event contracts
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission again issued an advisory that signals firms have been straying into cookie-cutter self-certification.
- The BlockScore: 60
BitMart to wind down trading platform as global CEO says he was not consulted
BitMart's global CEO said the firm told him on July 24 that his employment was ending and that he learned of the closure when it went public.
- CryptoSlateScore: 50
Bitcoin price has a $64.5k trap as Sunday’s close forces traders between a $68k relief rally or a drop to $60k
Bitcoin is trading near $64,500 this weekend, sitting between $65,000 resistance above and $62,500 support below, the two prices that will define its week. Bitcoin climbed as high as $66,990 on July 21, a one-month high, before slipping back under $65,000 and turning that former breakout line into o...
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Bitcoin OG selling eases as dormant BTC movement hits 4-year low: Thorn
Dormant Bitcoin activity fell to its lowest level since Q3 2022, suggesting long-term holders have slowed distribution after heavy profit-taking.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Why Hashdex’s new crypto ETF keeps 100% of your initial staking yields and 40% of everything else
Hashdex plans to put some of the crypto held by its Nasdaq CME Crypto Index ETF (NCIQ) to work through staking. The sponsor takes the first slice of net income, while common shareholders begin sharing in the rewards after an annual threshold is cleared. The framework is prospective. A July 23 Form 8...
- The BlockScore: 40
Michael Saylor teases ‘another color’ after four straight weeks without a Strategy bitcoin buy
Strategy holds 843,775 BTC at an average cost of $75,476, leaving the position roughly $9.3 billion underwater with bitcoin near $64,600.
- CryptoSlateScore: 30
How 10 cows in Brazil unlocked a tokenized path to bridge an $8 trillion global finance gap
Ten dairy cows in Paraná, Brazil, carried encrypted identities that Cowmed collars had built from each animal's health, behavior, and location data into B3 this week. Those identities turned the cows into collateral for nearly $20,000 in credit, and the record behind them aims to shrink the haircut ...
- DecryptScore: 20
Mira Murati’s Inkling AI Model Review: Best Open-Source Model in the West
After two years of silence from Thinking Machines Lab, Murati's debut model is out and on OpenRouter. The MCP score is genuinely impressive. The price-to-performance math is more complicated.