DeFi
Standard Chartered Sees $4T Tokenization Driving Chainlink to $200 by 2030
The bank has now set 2030 targets for Uniswap, Aave, Morpho and Chainlink, all resting on one 37x forecast for DeFi grow…
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Bitcoin
H100 becomes Europe’s No. 2 Bitcoin treasury after 2,455 BTC deal
Sweden’s H100 more than tripled its Bitcoin holdings to 3,506 BTC after completing an acquisition involving 2,455 BTC.…
Bitcoin
Bitcoin volatility is in meltdown, but downside protection still commands a premium
Bitcoin’s BVIV volatility index hit the lowest level since 2025 as option demand collapsed. Still, overwriting surged …
Bitcoin
A rare CME shift: Hedge funds abandon structural shorts to bet on a bitcoin rally
CME leveraged funds turn net long as weak futures yields undermine the once-popular basis trade.…
General
Bybit Sues North Korea Over $1.5B Hack, Wins Order Freezing Assets
The exchange says it has recovered $48.4 million and frozen $30.5 million more, a fraction of what the Lazarus Group too…
General
U.S. CPI inflation, Securitize, Gemini among earnings reports: Crypto Week Ahead
Your look at what's coming in the week starting Aug. 10…
General
Inside stablecoin firm BVNK’s journey to a $1.8B acquisition by Mastercard
Early BVNK investor Concentric shares a fascinating inside view on the stablecoin startup’s journey and the eventual M…
General
UK regulators to prepare tokenized gold framework: Report
The UK’s FCA is reportedly preparing a regulatory framework for tokenized gold and how these products may be used as c…
General
Robinhood brings crypto trading to UK in AI-powered all-in-one app
The trading firm is also introducing “Robinhood Cortex Digests for Crypto,” a generative AI-powered widget that anal…
Bitcoin
Live updates: WTI crude oil up 5% and back to $80, as bitcoin drops below $65,000
The market rose even as the Senate left the crypto bill unpassed before its recess, with steady ETF inflows and a softer…
Bitcoin
This bitcoin miner rejected BIP-110 despite mining through a pool that supported it
Ocean, a bitcoin mining pool, had been backing BIP-110 by default. Simple Mining, a company that runs mining machines th…
Bitcoin
Bitcoin Red Team founder turns to Chinese AI: ‘It absolutely guts me’
Bitcoin Red Team has now found 1,288 critical and high-level vulnerabilities in the Bitcoin ecosystem as of Saturday.…
Bitcoin
Bitcoin tops $65,000 with U.S. inflation data due this week
Every major except XRP is green on the week, with BTC, ether and BNB each up nearly 3% as global stocks trade near a rec…
Bitcoin
Australia orders Cryptolink Bitcoin ATMs offline over ‘basic reporting’ failures
Australia’s financial watchdog has suspended Cryptolink’s registration for three months, adding to a crackdown that …
Bitcoin
XRP is getting left behind in the crypto bounce even as ETFs keep attracting investor money
The token fell 5% last week while BTC, ETH and SOL climbed.…
Bitcoin
Crypto’s first quantum attack will look like unexplained breach: Quantus founder
Bad actors with access to a cryptography-breaking quantum computer probably won’t try to announce it to the world by h…
General
BIP-110 ends with a whimper, CLARITY vote punted: Hodler’s Digest, Aug. 9
BIP-110 forks itself into oblivion with a “2-block chain” and CLARITY will finally get a Senate vote in September. T…
General
Ex-US defense secretary calls CLARITY Act a ‘national security bill’
Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says the CLARITY Act is not merely a financial services bill, its a national secu…
Bitcoin
Bitcoin 'Anti-Spam' Fork Sputters to a Halt After Mining Just Two Blocks
The breakaway chain drew just 2.53% of mining support, leaving its blocks hours apart and roughly 350 days from a diffic…
General
Is Clarity's delay a blessing in disguise?: State of Crypto
The crypto industry is angry and disappointed that the Senate is not holding a procedural vote on the Clarity Act this m…
General
Hyperliquid’s RWA perps boom is eating into the revenue that backs HYPE
Revenue has fallen four quarters running while open interest hit a record high. The gap is a fee-sharing program that ha…
Bitcoin
Bitcoin investors pour $853 million into spot ETFs. BlackRock’s IBIT claims the bulk
Bitcoin ETFs recorded $853.54 million in net inflows last week, the strongest since mid-April, with BlackRock’s IBIT t…
General
Crypto is going through a massive dot-com style shakeout as over 100 projects fold in 2026
An industry-wide reckoning is weeding out unsustainable startups, leaving behind only the protocols with real cash flow …
Bitcoin
BIP-110 Bitcoin branch stalls after two blocks as gap widens
The enforcing fork remains stuck at Bitcoin’s full mining difficulty as mandatory signaling proceeds with little hashp…