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33 itemsAugust 2, 2026
- CryptoSlate
After 3 reverse stock splits and a $13.5M loss, this real estate firm bet $8M on crypto it may not be allowed to withdraw
Real estate services company La Rosa Holdings put $8.14 million of digital assets on its March 31 balance sheet in a delayed first-quarter filing. How much could it actually use? The filing leaves that figure blank. Cash stood at $1.74 million, total liabilities at $28.34 million, and the stockholde...
- Cointelegraph
Coldcard exploit sparks Bitcoin flight, ‘bullish’ crypto consolidation: Hodler’s Digest, August 2
The “sickening” loss of $90 million of Bitcoin from cold storage weighs heavily on sentiment, as the Clarity Act stalls with just five days left to hold a Senate vote.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Bitcoin ETFs just bled $265M in a brutal 24 hours, and Ethereum’s supposed rescue is another BlackRock illusion
U.S. spot Bitcoin funds posted net outflows of $265.4 million on July 31, reversing a $233.1 million inflow the previous session. Ethereum showed a $9 million net inflow, but only because BlackRock's staked Ethereum fund drew more than the group gained overall. Every Bitcoin product displayed in Far...
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Coldcard hack sparks biggest sub-1 BTC move since FTX: CryptoQuant
Bitcoin users moved 39,600 BTC in small transactions as the Coldcard hack continued, with researchers warning that the attack remained active.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Donald Trump releases the $1.2 million data feed that lets Wall Street front-run his market-moving policy announcements
On April 9, 2025, Donald Trump told his Truth Social followers that it was “a great time to buy,” then announced a 90-day pause on many of his new tariffs a few hours later. The S&P 500 finished the day 9.5% higher, Bitcoin gained more than 5%, and crypto traders holding short positions ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Ethereum just outpaced Bitcoin with $365 million in ETF inflows, but on-chain data shows the real bottom isn’t in yet
Ethereum outpaced Bitcoin in July as stronger investment-product demand and corporate accumulation powered its first sustained relative advance in months. Data from CryptoSlate shows that ETH gained 19% during the month, climbing as high as $1,970 before retreating to $1,868 as of press time. Bitcoi...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
How XRPL validators quietly killed a silent exploit that could have drained victim accounts through transaction fees alone
RippleX expects the next version of the XRP Ledger's core server software, xrpld 3.3.0, as soon as next week. The release would put rewritten Batch and Permission Delegation amendments back into the validator process after authorization flaws led operators to block their predecessors before mainnet ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
The US just blacklisted the Iranian maritime scheme forcing commercial ships to pay Bitcoin tolls for safe passage
The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control added two Iranian maritime insurance firms to its Specially Designated Nationals list on July 29, designating HormuzSafe Marine Services Authority and Persian Gulf Marine Insurance Company as blocked counterparties for U.S. persons and for transactions withi...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Coldcard’s $89M wallet bug triggers the biggest Bitcoin movement since FTX and completely distorts market signals
Coldcard’s wallet crisis has shaken Bitcoin sentiment, blurred on-chain signals and exposed a recurring weakness in AI-assisted cyber defenses. On July 30, hardware maker Coinkite warned users that wallets generated with affected Coldcard firmware could be drained because a software error produced s...
- DecryptScore: 80
Coldcard Bitcoin Exploit Balloons to $88 Million as Attackers Keep Draining Wallets
Galaxy Research says a third wave of thefts from Coldcard Bitcoin wallets has pushed observed losses to roughly 1,367 BTC across 4,585 addresses.
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Unlike the FTX collapse, the $89 million Coldcard exploit has investors sending bitcoin back to exchanges
The Coldcard vulnerability has smaller bitcoin holders moving funds onto exchanges for safety, according to blockchain analytics firms. This is opposite of the trend seen following the FTX collapse in late 2022.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
New York asks judge to force Kalshi to hand over the names, wagers, and losses of its local bettors
New York has asked a Manhattan state court to permanently block prediction-market exchange Kalshi from offering what the state calls unlicensed sports wagering to New Yorkers, escalating a fight over whether federal commodities oversight shields the platform from state gambling laws. A verified peti...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
CLARITY Act vanishes from Monday’s Senate schedule, triggering 72-hour countdown to save it before recess
The Senate’s published floor plan for Monday contains no action on the CLARITY Act. Instead, senators are due to reconvene at 3 p.m., with the only listed roll-call vote at about 5:30 p.m. on cloture for the motion to proceed to H.R. 6500, a continuing-resolution vehicle. The chamber’s cloture ledge...
- The BlockScore: 75
SEC keeps Nasdaq bitcoin options on hold after granting CME review
CME is arguing that the contracts are commodity option swaps subject exclusively to the CFTC's oversight rather than the SEC's.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Trump Media sells another 2,628 BTC, holdings fall to 4,261 BTC
Trump Media transferred another 2,628 Bitcoin to Crypto.com, bringing its reported sales over seven months to 7,281 BTC and leaving the company with 4,261 BTC in holdings.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
The sudden collapse of a $20 billion AI fund reveals why Bitcoin is the first thing Wall Street sells when margin calls hit
A $20 billion AI hedge fund gained 439% through June, lost roughly two-thirds of its value in July, and sold most of a $16 billion public-stock portfolio as leverage turned against it. The collapse offers a warning for Bitcoin: when Wall Street needs cash quickly, the first asset sold may not be the...
- The BlockScore: 70
Saylor hints at Strategy bitcoin buy after five-week pause as STRC rate stays at 12%: ‘Bitcoin Drive engaged’
Strategy has gone five consecutive weeks without a disclosed bitcoin purchase; the firm last reported holding 843,775 BTC acquired for $63.69 billion.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Bitwise is liquidating six crypto option ETFs that offered 25% payouts while returning investors’ own capital
Friday, July 31, was the final trading day for six Bitwise option-income ETFs. Shareholders still holding shares as of Aug. 3 face automatic cash redemption rather than an exchange sale. The Bitwise Funds Trust board voted June 30 to liquidate ICOI, IMRA, IMST, IGME, ICRC, and IETH, according to an ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Why a sudden 5,500 BTC drop in leveraged short positions failed to deliver the bullish confirmation Bitcoin traders wanted
Leveraged funds' combined net bearish position across CME's standard and micro Bitcoin futures narrowed by 5,566.5 BTC-equivalent between July 21 and July 28. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's futures-only report, released at 3:30 p.m. ET on Friday, July 31, captured positions as of Tuesday...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
XRP extends the longest active ETF inflow streak in crypto as rival funds struggle for fresh cash
XRP funds led altcoin inflows in July, extending a four-month streak that increasingly separates them from most rival products. The US-listed funds attracted $27.29 million during the month, nearly twice Solana’s $14.62 million intake, according to SoSoValue data. Chainlink followed with $4.54 milli...
- CoinDeskScore: 60
The reverse bridge: Crypto meets Wall Street using perps
Crypto exchanges built perpetual futures for digital assets. Now they are using them to offer 24/7 exposure to stocks, commodities and indexes.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Why a DeFi platform ditched its consumer app to become the secret backend for tech giants
Revenue fell from $80 million to $20 million in the bear market. OTC lending at $260 million outstanding is the fastest-growing line, targeting $1 billion by year-end.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Counting down the days: State of Crypto
The Senate is going on its summer break in a week, leaving next to no time left to sort out its remaining priorities in August. And obviously, the fate of Clarity is one of those priorities.
- CryptoSlateScore: 45
Another crypto wallet pulls the plug tomorrow with no exact cutoff, leaving users racing to rescue tokens
Ctrl Wallet users have reached the app's last scheduled day of full service. On Aug. 3, sending, receiving, swaps, and dApp connections are due to stop, leaving recovery-phrase export as the only function. Ctrl markets the non-custodial wallet as supporting more than 2,500 blockchains. Its deprecati...
- CryptoSlateScore: 45
How Interactive Strength erased a $50M FET token bet and sent common shareholders to the back of the line
Interactive Strength's crypto treasury of FET tokens was liquidated in late 2025. On July 28, the company paid a dividend with 619,584 preferred shares, preserving cash and putting $1.239 million of minimum base liquidation preference ahead of common holders. An 8-K filed July 31 breaks out 281,344 ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 45
A tiny cluster of Solana bots unlocked a 3x trading advantage by routing through one proprietary protocol
New research into automated trading on Solana found a nearly threefold difference in positive wrapped SOL outcomes inside one small group of bots. Transactions that invoked HumidiFi, which the paper classifies as a proprietary automated market maker, recorded a positive WSOL balance change about 62....
- CointelegraphScore: 40
BNB Chain pursues legal action after ex-employee’s memecoin launch
BNB Chain said a former employee allegedly used a company tutorial wallet to create a memecoin that the company says it did not authorize or endorse.
- The BlockScore: 40
Trump Media says $165 million bitcoin transfer to Crypto.com wasn’t a sale
The company said a similar transfer to Crypto.com in May was part of a broader trading strategy and did not represent a sale.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
The future of crypto payments won't include on-ramps or bridges, Fun CEO says
Alex Fine said standalone crypto payment rails are becoming obsolete as platforms shift toward unified funding flows that abstract away blockchain complexity for users.
- CryptoSlateScore: 30
Funding stock buybacks by selling your primary reserve asset is a dangerous game, but Lite Strategy just pulled it off without using a dime of debt
Lite Strategy, a Nasdaq-listed company that holds Litecoin as its primary reserve asset, spent about $5.4 million repurchasing roughly 4.9 million shares through July 17. The company funded the purchases with an undisclosed mix of LTC sales and covered-call premiums. The transaction shrank Lite Stra...
- CryptoSlateScore: 30
Trump’s legal loophole around the Supreme Court is keeping inflation alive – and trapping Bitcoin in the Fed’s crosshairs
The Supreme Court gave Donald Trump a pretty direct answer in February: the emergency law he had used to tax imports from nearly everywhere didn't give him the authority to impose tariffs. However, Washington didn't see that as a locked door and treated it more like a disappointing result from a key...
- CointelegraphScore: 20
Strategy leaves preferred STRC dividend at 12% as price still below par
Investors have previously benefited from a payout boost when the preferred STRC shares traded well below their $100 par value for a month.
- DecryptScore: 15
What’s the Deal With Meta’s ‘Pervert Glasses’?
Lawsuits, privacy complaints, secret recordings, and government investigations have put Meta’s AI glasses under scrutiny.