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Bitcoin Buys on Pause for Two Months, Yet Strategy Stock Defies Trend to Hit Two-Month High
Strategy (MSTR) hasn't added to its bitcoin holdings for two straight months, but its stock has rallied in step with bitcoin's climb. Meanwhile, STRC keeps recovering too, edging closer to the $100 mark.
Securitize Teams Up With Neuberger Berman to Tokenize $230B Fixed Income Platform, Launches HINC Fund
Securitize is tokenizing Neuberger Berman's $230 billion fixed income platform, with the new HINC fund deployed simultaneously across four blockchains — Avalanche, Ethereum, Solana, and Sui.
Bitcoin's Best Weekly Gain in 2 Years Lifts Market, XRP Leads Altcoin Rebound
Bitcoin posted its best weekly performance in two years, lifting the broader crypto market as XRP led a wave of altcoin gains. HYPE surged nearly 40% for the week, while ZEC and LINK also climbed.
VanEck: Bitcoin's Capitulation Check Flashes 8 of 12 Signals as Nearly 11-Month Correction May Be Nearing Its End
VanEck's research team says 8 of 12 signals in its Bitcoin Capitulation Check have now been triggered, with long-term holders offloading more than 350,000 BTC in a single month — a sign the market may be approaching an accumulation phase.
BounceBit Hacked: 286 Million BB Tokens Drained, Project Shuts Down Native Chain to Migrate to BNB Chain
BounceBit has reportedly suffered an attack worth around $3 million, with attackers draining approximately 286.5 million BB tokens from nine wallets, causing a temporary halt in block production. The project has since decided to discontinue its native chain and migrate to BNB Chain.
Congress Stalls on Digital Asset Legislation, SEC Steps In With Its Own Crypto Fundraising Rule Tuesday
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a new draft rule on Tuesday, attempting to carve out a compliance pathway for investment activities involving digital assets, at a time when related legislation in Congress remains stalled.
Ripple Legal Chief Flags September 15 as Key Test for Clarity Act Market Structure Bill
Ripple Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty called September 15 a "bellwether" for the Clarity Act, warning that the U.S. risks missing a rare window of opportunity.
Bitcoin Breaks $75,500, MEXC Analyst Calls This Rally "Premature"
Bitcoin's price has crossed the $75,500 mark, but MEXC Research Chief Analyst Shawn Young warns that the market is giving the US Treasury's intervention "more credit than it deserves."
South Korea's Shinhan Bank Teams Up With Solana Foundation, Etherfuse, Orca to Pilot Tokenized Korean Won Fund
South Korea's Shinhan Bank has reached an agreement with the Solana Foundation, Etherfuse, and Orca to run a proof-of-concept on the issuance and distribution of a tokenized Korean won-denominated fund. The initiative remains at the PoC stage and has not yet moved into actual issuance.
MANTRA Chain Freezes All Network Transactions After Cosmos EVM Module Incident
MANTRA Chain has opted to halt the entire chain and suspend all transactions following an incident tied to its Cosmos EVM module, with official details still pending.
Ava Labs Business Chief Nahas: Crypto Prices Are Down, But Opportunities Are the Most He's Ever Seen
Ava Labs Chief Business Officer John Nahas says that while crypto prices remain weak, real-world adoption across the industry is giving him the most opportunities he's seen in his career.
Anchorage CEO: AI Agents Need Bank Accounts for a "Jetsons"-Style Future
Anchorage's CEO uses "The Jetsons" as an analogy for where AI agents are headed next, revealing the company has built an agentic banking platform with a "know-your-agent" mechanism to handle AI-driven transactions.
Upbit Trading Volume Surges 273%, Analyst Says: Korean Money Is "Chasing Returns," Not "Believing in Crypto"
South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit has seen trading volume spike 273% recently. An analyst points out that this influx of capital reflects investors chasing short-term returns, not a long-term conviction in any particular asset.
Bitcoin Nears $80K: Bernstein Says ETF Inflow Rebound Marks Momentum Turning Point
As bitcoin's price pushes toward $80,000, Bernstein notes that U.S. spot bitcoin ETF inflows have picked back up, while Strategy's bitcoin holdings have also climbed back above its average purchase cost.
CME CEO Clashes with CFTC Official, Kalshi COO — Prediction Market Oversight Question Takes Center Stage
At a CFTC commission meeting, CME executive Terrence Duffy publicly sparred with CFTC official Selig and Kalshi's COO over jurisdiction for regulating prediction markets, highlighting a widening rift between traditional derivatives exchanges and emerging prediction market platforms.
Grayscale Files Another Amendment, Countdown Begins for First US Zcash ETF
Grayscale submitted a new amended filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, paving the way for its planned Zcash ETF. If approved, it would be the first exchange-traded fund tracking Zcash in the US market.
Curve Founder Egorov: FATF Regulatory Pressure Could Push DeFi Toward Greater Decentralization
Curve founder Michael Egorov offers a counterintuitive take: pressure from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) may not be a headwind for DeFi, but rather a driving force pushing protocols toward greater decentralization and stronger security.
'The Crypto Program' Host Deported from Fiji to US, Faces $165M Crypto Scam Charges
Edward Zimbardi is accused of running a $165 million crypto Ponzi scheme through a project called The Crypto Program, drawing in thousands of investors. He has now been deported from Fiji to the US to stand trial.
Blockchain Association Backs SEC's Push to Repeal 2005 NMS Rules, Citing Tokenization Benefits
Industry group Blockchain Association has publicly voiced support for an SEC proposal to repeal the National Market System (NMS) rules, which have been in effect since 2005, arguing the framework has never achieved what it was designed to do.
TRM Labs Report: AI Use in Crypto Crime Surges 40% Over Past Year
Blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs' latest report finds hackers are ramping up AI adoption to uncover overlooked system vulnerabilities and infiltrate IT companies, with related criminal tactics growing 40% in a single year.
Citi Reportedly Planning Bitcoin Custody Service This Year, to Join New Custody+ Platform
According to The Block, Citi is expected to launch a bitcoin custody service later this year, folding it into a new platform called Custody+ alongside real-time asset servicing, real-time settlement, liquidity tools, and AI-powered market intelligence as part of the same suite of features.
STS Digital CEO: Crypto Prices Still in Winter, But Institutions Have Already Hit Summer
STS Digital CEO Maxime Seiler observes that Bitcoin futures basis is converging toward the risk-free rate, signaling rising institutional adoption—even though token prices have yet to catch up with the shift.
Cypherpunk Mining Goes Live with Zcash Hashrate, The Block Says Winklevoss Poured in $33 Million
Cypherpunk Mining officially went live in the US today with roughly 4.2 GSol/s of Equihash hashrate targeting Zcash mining; a report from The Block says the buildout involves $33 million in funding tied to Winklevoss.
GSR Asset Management Exec: Tokenized Fixed Income Could Become a Key Player in Institutional Collateral
Andy Baehr, Managing Director of Asset Management at GSR, says tokenized fixed income products have the potential to play a pivotal role in institutional collateral use cases, while also expressing "excitement" about the idea of large-scale equity tokenization.