Raw News Items
94 itemsAugust 7, 2026
- The Block
SharpLink CEO warns EIP-8363 could kill ETH’s biggest advantage over Bitcoin
The "Tapered Issuance Burn" proposal would phase in a rising burn of consensus rewards to limit the amount of ETH staked.
- The Block
US sanctions two more Iranian crypto exchanges under ‘Economic Fury’ campaign
The U.S. Treasury Department traced more than $3 million in transfers between Shelbit and IRGC-linked wallets.
- The Block
Trump Media and Crypto.com end partnerships as companies shift priorities
This ends plans Trump Media, Crypto.com and Yorkville Acquisition Corp. had to turn Yorkville into a CRO treasury company.
- The BlockScore: 90
BTCPay warns of actively exploited vulnerability that could drain funds
Makers of the open source bitcoin payment processor BTCPay urged users to update their servers to version 2.4.2.
- DecryptScore: 90
Bitcoin Payment Service BTCPay Warns Critical Flaw Is Under Active Attack
Bitcoin company BTCPay Server told users to install the latest version of the server and replace credentials that may have been exposed.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
BlackRock’s crypto ETFs shed $3.5 billion as last year’s creation boom turns into redemptions
BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded a combined $3.5 billion net decrease from capital-share transactions in the second quarter, reversing a $13.9 billion increase a year earlier, according to new SEC filings. The $17.4 billion year-over-year swing measures trust-level share creation ...
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Bitcoin whales load up on $1.2 billion in BTC as ETFs attract $750 million
Bitcoin whales accumulate $1.2 billion in BTC while spot ETFs pull in $754 million this week.
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Coldcard exploit pushes July losses to $247M as second-worst month of 2026
The Coldcard exploit, which caused more than $100 million in losses, helped push July crypto thefts to $247 million, making it the second-worst month of 2026.
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Fierce backlash to Ethereum’s EIP-8363 staking proposal
Ethereum’s proposed EIP-8363 staking overhaul aims to reduce issuance, but critics say it could hurt DeFi, decentralization and institutional adoption.
- The BlockScore: 85
Bitcoin tops $65,000 after ‘massive surprise’ US jobs miss
Bitcoin topped $65,000 after U.S. payrolls fell 23,000 in July versus an 80,000 forecast, pushing traders to price out a September Fed rate hike.
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Bybit sues North Korea and Lazarus Group over $1.5 billion hack, secures asset freeze
The exchange has secured a preliminary injunction freezing stolen assets.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Senate abandons August CLARITY Act vote – leaving 14 ‘work days’ until midterm election season kills it
The US Senate has abandoned plans to vote on the landmark CLARITY Act legislation before its August break. On Aug. 6, Senate Majority Leader John Thune confirmed that the legislation will have to wait until lawmakers return Sept. 14, reversing his earlier expectation that the Senate would act before...
- The BlockScore: 85
US sanctions two more Iranian crypto exchanges under ‘Economic Fury’ campaign
The U.S. Treasury Department traced more than $3 million in transfers between Shelbit and IRGC-linked wallets.
- DecryptScore: 85
Treasury Sanctions Crypto Exchanges It Says Laundered Millions for Iran
The U.S. Treasury sanctioned two crypto exchanges it says laundered millions of dollars for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, naming a Georgia- and UAE-based operator and an Iran-based platform.
- CointelegraphScore: 85
US Treasury’s OFAC sanctions 2 Iran-linked crypto exchanges
The US government sanctioned an individual and two crypto exchanges it said facilitated money laundering for a combined $5 million in digital assets linked to Iran.
- CoinDeskScore: 80
Coldcard fallout shows up onchain as 210,000 bitcoin leaves old wallets
Roughly 200,000 bitcoin have moved from long-term holder wallets in the past week, suggesting a possible shift in custody rather than conventional selling
- CointelegraphScore: 80
Binance Bitcoin volume ratio hits record as futures outweigh spot eight times over
Binance saw a record divergence between daily spot and futures trading volumes, with the latter reaching nearly $58 billion.
- CointelegraphScore: 80
Bitcoin price tags $65.3K August high as low US jobs numbers cool Fed rate bets
Bitcoin hit month-to-date highs above $65,000 as risk-assets gained on low US nonfarm payrolls data.
- DecryptScore: 80
Hackers Use BNB Chain to Spread Malware Through Fake CAPTCHAs
Microsoft said compromised websites are retrieving malicious instructions from the blockchain before tricking visitors into running them on Windows devices.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Searching your Bitcoin wallet can put your IP address in Chainalysis’ hands
A warning posted on X on Aug. 5 urged Bitcoin users to avoid entering their own wallet addresses into public block explorers. It alleged that explorers log visitors' internet protocol addresses, sell the information to Chainalysis, and ultimately expose it to government agencies. Public block explor...
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Crypto market maker Wintermute lands SEC approval to trade equities and ETF blocks
The crypto market maker can now trade US stocks and options and support ETFs as crypto moves closer to traditional markets.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin holds $64,000 as private hiring drops 53% before today’s macro test that could break support
Bitcoin at $64,000 faced a key test early Friday as the official U.S. jobs report approached, after a sharp slowdown in private hiring left the market balancing possible interest rate relief against the risk of a deeper growth scare. At about 2:08 a.m. UTC, Coinbase priced Bitcoin at $64,322.23, onl...
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Bitcoin hovers below $65,000 as Middle East tensions escalate further
Brent crude has meanwhile moved to over $83 a barrel after Yemen’s Iran-linked Houthis attacked Saudi Arabia, further escalating tensions in the Middle East.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
A $433 million Bitcoin accounting crash just exposed the high-stakes gap in CleanSpark’s massive AI transition
CleanSpark reported a 30.5% year-over-year revenue decline and a $497.2 million swing from profit to loss in its fiscal third-quarter results. The deterioration adds pressure to the Bitcoin miner's balance sheet before its Sandersville AI lease can contribute, with the first phased deliveries not ex...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
MARA sold almost all its mined Bitcoin, then pledged 18,750 BTC for an AI dream with no disclosed safety net
MARA Holdings sold 2,213 Bitcoin during the second quarter, equal to 91.37% of the 2,422 BTC it mined, before adding $600 million of new borrowing secured by Bitcoin collateral to help finance its planned acquisition of Long Ridge, a power-generation site it aims to develop for AI and high-performan...
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Bitcoiners turn to dice throws as self-custody setups are re-evaluated
Dice entropy may become the new gold standard after the Coldcard hack
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Wintermute takes aim at Wall Street’s crypto ETF gatekeepers
Crypto trading giant Wintermute has secured a crucial foothold in US securities markets, clearing a major regulatory hurdle to serving as an authorized participant for digital asset exchange-traded products. On Aug. 6, the firm announced that its subsidiary, Wintermute USA LLC, is now registered as ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Coinbase is pulling Loopring trading today – finding a safe place to sell LRC tokens is getting complicated
Coinbase is scheduled to suspend LRC-USD trading on or around 2 p.m. ET on Aug. 7. If completed, the move would close a Coinbase-hosted dollar market while keeping customer balances accessible and withdrawals available. Coinbase’s notice said the change covers Coinbase.com Simple and Advanced Trade,...
- CoinDeskScore: 75
U.S. widens Iran crypto crackdown with sanctions on two exchanges
The Treasury's OFAC targeted Shelbit and Aban Tether as Washington continues its effort to cut Tehran's access to crypto and foreign currency.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin has 185 blocks left before BIP-110 rules begin rejecting blocks
Bitcoin nears the deadline for BIP-110, a proposed temporary soft fork that would shrink block data. Once the current signaling period ends, nodes enforcing it will reject blocks that do not signal support. A third-party monitor showed only 48 of 1,831 blocks signaling as of 14:41:49 UTC on Aug. 7, ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin’s $65K recovery shows its growing immunity to bad news as ETFs and whales buy $2 billion
Bitcoin climbed back above $65,000 this week, extending an unusual stretch of resilience as the cryptocurrency absorbed a string of developments that would typically pressure prices. The top digital asset rose about 2% over the past 24 hours to as high as $65,212, its strongest level since late July...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin’s AI security sprint found 6,700 issues in 55 hours, but no one knows how many are real
AI-assisted security campaign focused on the Bitcoin ecosystem, Bitcoin Red Team, said it generated 6,700 findings across 425 projects in its first 55 hours. The campaign labeled 1,029 of them high or critical. The Aug. 6 update measures how much material entered a security triage pipeline, and its ...
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Crypto market maker Wintermute launches US broker-dealer
Wintermute said the registration allows the firm to position itself for the growth of tokenized securities in the US.
- The BlockScore: 70
Senate delays Clarity Act vote until after August recess, Thune confirms
Senate Majority Leader John Thune confirmed with The Block, saying: 'We're getting that queued up first thing when we come back.'
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Senate won't vote on crypto Clarity Act before its summer break
The U.S. Senate won't go on its August recess just yet but it will not vote on the Clarity Act this month, dimming hopes that the bill can become law this year.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
US Senate pushes CLARITY Act vote to September: Report
Senate Majority Leader John Thune reportedly confirmed that the chamber was “punting” the vote until September.
- CoinDeskScore: 70
XRP leads majors losses as Clarity Act vote slips to September
Bitcoin, ether showed slight losses while Ripple-linked XRP fell 5.5% on the week, the worst of the majors, as the Senate left Washington without taking up the market structure bill.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Japan FSA asks crypto exchanges to impose withdrawal delays to fight scams
Japanese authorities called for address registration, customer-specific limits and stronger authentication as part of a broader push to curb misuse of exchange accounts.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Stripe-owned Bridge joins EU MiCA register after Luxembourg approval
Stripe-owned Bridge has entered the EU MiCA register following Luxembourg approval, joining regulated providers under the bloc’s crypto framework.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
American Bitcoin built an 8,002 BTC reserve, but nearly 40% of it is quietly tied up with Bitmain
American Bitcoin mined approximately 932 BTC and reported $67.015 million in revenue in the second quarter. But its six-month cash flows do not show that the broader reserve strategy was self-funding. The miner finished June with 8,002 BTC, while first-half operations used $63.795 million in cash an...
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Russia cracks down on 9 crypto exchanges in Moscow City
Russia has shut down nine unregistered crypto exchanges in Moscow, with the FSB alleging they helped move scam proceeds abroad through Ukrainian call centers.
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Russia cracks down on unlicensed crypto exchanges it claims are linked to Ukraine
The FSB said at least 20 individuals were arrested in connection with a ring that scammed an undetermined number of Russian citizens.
- The BlockScore: 70
Coldcard bitcoin exploit exposes crypto’s ‘original sin’ of private keys, Blockaid CEO says
Crypto at risk of becoming "canary in a coal mine" when it comes to demonstrating how AI could impact cybersecurity.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Circle expands USDC to OKX ecosystem with X Layer launch
The rollout gives X Layer users access to Circle-issued USDC and crosschain transfers as the stablecoin expands across major blockchain ecosystems.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Solana whales just triggered a countdown that could skyrocket SOL’s daily burn rate by over 1,200%
Two Solana supply reforms are now on a live governance clock. SGP-0002 would cut future issuance, and SGP-0003 would burn resource fees in full. Both moved into discussion after the governance interface marked their 15% stake-support thresholds as met. The official records for the Solana supply refo...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Inside the $18 million Bitcoin gamble with zero margin calls until September
PowerCompute will face its first monthly decision on 307 pledged BTC on Sept. 2, when its $18.13 million loan from Arch Lending reaches the end of its initial 30-day period. The Bitcoin treasury and mining company refinanced three existing facilities into the collar loan at an initial 2% annual rate...
- The BlockScore: 65
Sui to add post-quantum signature schemes for quantum-safe accounts
Sui said users can adopt quantum-safe keys without creating a new recovery phrase or changing wallet addresses.
- DecryptScore: 65
Senate Punts Clarity Act Vote to September as Democrats Hold Out
Senate Majority Leader Thune says the bill will be queued up when lawmakers return, leaving weeks to find 60 votes before midterms take over.
- DecryptScore: 65
Morning Minute: MetaMask Hands AI Agents a Wallet
MetaMask's Agent Wallet lets AI agents trade crypto on their own. Plus, Bitcoin reclaims $65k despite the Clarity Act facing a new delay.
- DecryptScore: 65
Bitcoin Wallet Dormant Since 2011 Moves Millions in BTC
A Bitcoin address that had stayed silent for 15 years just sent its coins out for the first time.
- The BlockScore: 65
SharpLink CEO warns EIP-8363 could kill ETH’s biggest advantage over Bitcoin
The "Tapered Issuance Burn" proposal would phase in a rising burn of consensus rewards to limit the amount of ETH staked.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
AVAX One holds $88 million in Avalanche tokens, but its lender only wants cash or Bitcoin
An unnamed institutional investor has drastically tightened its leash on AVAX One, raising the Nasdaq-listed crypto firm's minimum liquidity requirement 35-fold and strictly excluding its namesake Avalanche token from counting toward the new threshold. The stringent restructuring, detailed in an Aug...
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Bitget explores licensed crypto presence in Bhutan
Crypto exchange Bitget has signed an agreement with Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority to pursue a regulated local presence.
- The BlockScore: 60
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest buys $21 million in Block as stock drops 6%
Block's stock fell 6.15% on Thursday as the company posted rising operating expenses in Q2, despite cutting 40% of its workforce in February.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Ethereum staking token weETH splits from restaking as rewards debate heats up
The move separates ordinary Ethereum staking from higher-risk restaking exposure as a new proposal to cap validator rewards divides the staking sector.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
CLARITY Act delay gives Asian financial hubs an opening: First Digital CEO
Industry figures warned that continued legislative limbo could slow institutional adoption, revive regulation by enforcement and push innovation offshore.
- DecryptScore: 60
MyTrade Founder Fined $10K Over Bots That Wash Traded 60 Cryptocurrencies
Liu Zhou told undercover agents the objective was to make other buyers lose money, according to the Justice Department.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
After a Clarity Act funeral, the crypto world would keep turning
With the U.S. crypto bill missing a crucial window before the Senate hangs its closed-for-summer sign, the alternatives are getting more attention.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
CEX perpetual futures volume falls to $4T, lowest since late 2023
Perpetual futures trading volume on crypto exchanges fell to its lowest level in 31 months, while perpetual trading on decentralized platforms neared a one-year low.
- DecryptScore: 60
Tokenized Asset Deposits Tripled to $7.4B as DeFi Shrank: CoinShares
Gold, Treasuries and the S&P 500 led the growth, in a year when spot volumes on decentralized exchanges fell by roughly 70%.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
If you use a Cypher or Osmosis card, your spending dies tonight and unbacked wallets could go with it
The Cypher wind-down, after payments company Nium acquired the crypto card and self-custody wallet provider, will end purchases on all active Cypher Cards at 00:00 UTC on Aug. 8. That makes Aug. 7 the final spending day, while users have until Sept. 6 to withdraw balances, claim rewards and preserve...
- CoinDeskScore: 60
How a five-second trick let traders drain millions from Polymarket
After months of public warnings from onchain analysts, the prediction market is moving to time-weighted prices to make artificial price pushes too costly.
- DecryptScore: 60
Bitcoin Still in Death Cross as Jobs Miss Cuts Rate-Hike Odds
A soft July payrolls print pulled September rate-hike odds down. It gives investors in risk assets hope, but Bitcoin remains in bear territory.
- DecryptScore: 60
XRP at a Crossroads as Senate Punts on Clarity Act
XRP is taking the Clarity Act news harder than the rest of the crypto market. Here's why.
- The BlockScore: 60
CFTC cautions prediction markets over using American-style ‘moneyline’ betting odds: Bloomberg
Some prediction market platforms received a warning from the CFTC to refrain using American-style gambling odds, according to Bloomberg.
- CoinDeskScore: 55
Bitcoin wallet dormant since 2011 moves $3.2 million toward FalconX-linked address
The 50 BTC remained in the receiving address Friday, but that wallet has previously sent funds to FalconX-labeled deposits, leaving open whether the old stash is being reorganized or moved closer to a trading venue.
- CoinDeskScore: 55
Why Bitcoin's BIP-110 refuses to die despite near-zero miner support
BIP-110 has attracted only a sliver of miner support, yet its user-activated design means the proposal continues toward its activation date and (most likely) beyond.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
MARA swings to Q2 loss as Bitcoin’s slump masks higher output
Bitcoin miner MARA posted its highest quarterly Bitcoin production in over a year, but was overshadowed by a 28% decline in the average price of Bitcoin.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Live updates: Bitcoin flat at $64,300 before US jobs report, with oil back as a headwind
Brent climbed on stalled Hormuz talks, reviving the inflation worry that has capped bitcoin all summer. Today's US payrolls print is the next catalyst.
- The BlockScore: 50
Bernstein favors CleanSpark on AI execution as MARA awaits first commercial contract
Bernstein rates CleanSpark Outperform at $24 on AI lease progress, while keeping MARA at $17 as it awaits its first commercial AI contract.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
U.S. unexpectedly shed 23,000 jobs in July, putting Fed rate hikes in question
The chances of a Federal Reserve rate hike at its next meeting in September have slipped below 50% in the aftermath of the report.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
A part of FTX survived, and it’s the case for the CLARITY Act
When FTX collapsed, the parts of it bound by law survived. Mainstream finance is now converging with digital assets, and the law built to protect it the same way is the one the Senate did not pass this week, argues Bullish's Randi Abernethy.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Crypto Biz: Crypto’s biggest business is starting to look a lot like banking
Crypto business is converging with banking as stablecoin reserves, tokenized funds, Treasury income and balance sheet management become key profit drivers.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
BitMEX sale collapsed as buyers balked at founder ownership and shrinking business
Potential buyers, including Exodus, passed on BitMEX amid concerns over founder ownership and its shrinking business, according to a source familiar.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Reform UK chair calls for probe into SBF-linked donation: Report
As the chairman of the Reform UK calls for an investigation into a FTX-linked political donation, the party’s leader prepares to face voters amid his own crypto-related scandal.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Donald Trump’s media company to terminate Crypto.com deal
The president’s company will unwind an agreement with Crypto.com to create a multibillion-dollar CRO treasury and reportedly not integrate prediction markets onto Truth Social.
- The BlockScore: 50
Trump Media and Crypto.com end partnerships as companies shifts priorities
This ends plans Trump Media, Crypto.com and Yorkville Acquisition Corp. had to turn Yorkville into a CRO treasury company.
- DecryptScore: 50
Trump Media Abandons Crypto Treasury, Prediction Market Ventures
Truth Social's parent company is unwinding two major Crypto.com deals as new leadership shifts its focus to media, data licensing, and a planned merger with fusion energy company TAE.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Trump Media pulls back from crypto, scraps Crypto.com's CRO token treasury deal
The Truth Social parent company is refocusing on media and its pending merger with a fusion energy firm, as the digital asset treasury boom has lost its steam.
- CryptoSlateScore: 45
Inside the uncollateralized deal that locked up 6 million SUI until 2028 while SUI Group trades at a 25% NAV discount
SUI Group Holdings has lent 6 million SUI tokens to Bluefin Markets under an uncollateralized agreement that lets the borrower reuse the assets and gives the Nasdaq-listed treasury company a share of Bluefin’s revenue. The arrangement may improve income, but SUI Group has not disclosed the revenue b...
- CoinDeskScore: 40
A case for a bitcoin surge to $76,000 may be building beneath the boring price action, but there's a caveat
Bitcoin's chart is quietly tracing out a bullish setup technical analysts watch closely. But it isn't confirmed, and one key level will decide if it plays out.
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Proposed CLARITY ethics deal could save Trump millions in taxes: Bloomberg
The latest bipartisan ethics proposal would reportedly require Trump to divest crypto businesses while allowing him to defer capital gains taxes on those sales.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
With leverage outnumbering spot volume 6 to 1, XRP traders are walking a $2.36B tightrope
Stablecoin-margined XRP open interest on Binance fell to about $186 million on July 31, its lowest level since April 2025, according to CryptoQuant. Bybit held roughly $229 million in the same contract type, about $43 million more than Binance. XRP trades near $1.03, putting the token roughly 3% abo...
- CointelegraphScore: 40
CleanSpark misses Wall Street revenue estimates as shares sink
CleanSpark’s shares fell 5.5% on Thursday after the Bitcoin miner reported $138 million in quarterly revenue, narrowly missing Wall Street’s consensus estimate.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Bitcoin’s volatility has nearly disappeared. The risk hasn’t.
Your day-ahead look for Aug. 7, 2026
- DecryptScore: 40
China’s Kimi K3 Broke Out of Its Sandbox to Look Up Test Answers
Unlike the recent breakouts at OpenAI and Anthropic, this involved a model anyone can download, running its default safeguards.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
OKX's Rafique doubts Clarity Act will pass, warns optimism is already priced into bitcoin
The OKX executive says Democrats have little incentive to hand Republicans a crypto victory before the midterms.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
BitGo investors face flood of Aug. 7 class-action deadline warnings
A wave of law-firm alerts is warning BitGo investors about an Aug. 7 deadline. However, the cutoff applies only to those seeking to lead a proposed securities class action against the crypto custodian. Over the past few days, several law firms, including DJS Law Group, Faruqi & Faruqi, and Schall Br...
- DecryptScore: 40
Flock Wanted to Turn 350,000 Uber Drivers Into a Nationwide Plate-Scanning Fleet
A leaked Flock presentation shows the surveillance firm pitching a plan to pull license-plate data from rideshare and delivery drivers.
- CryptoSlateScore: 30
CoinDesk owner Bullish volume fell 43%, but a 72% spread jump nearly offset the annual decline
CoinDesk's subsidiary and affiliate Bullish reported a 42.9% year-over-year drop in July trading volume even as its company-defined average trading spread widened 72.4%. The two figures produced a derived volume-times-spread proxy that remained slightly below its level a year earlier, so the wider s...
- The BlockScore: 30
‘Applesauce’: Michigan judge denies Coinbase bid to block state enforcement of sports event contracts
"Coinbase's averments are, in a word, applesauce," U.S. District Judge Shalina Kumar wrote in Thursday's ruling.
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Trump-Backed American Bitcoin director Justin Mateen buys nearly $2 million of ABTC stock
Mateen purchased more than 306,000 shares across two days following the company's quarterly earnings, lifting his stake to more than 492,000 shares.
- CryptoSlateScore: 20
Former OpenAI researcher predicts brain-controlled AI coding agents by 2027
Former OpenAI alignment researcher Naomi Bashkansky said she resigned from the AI company on July 23 and joined Conduit the next day as a founding researcher. At Conduit, she will work on models designed to turn non-invasive neural recordings into text that can direct AI agents, a goal her essay cal...
- DecryptScore: 20
OpenAI's First Device Is a $300-Plus Doughnut-Shaped Speaker: Report
Designed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom studio, the screenless gadget is slated for 2027 and will use cameras, lights and moving parts.