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Bullish Posts $280M Quarterly Loss, Yet Adjusted Revenue Surges 62%
Peter Thiel-backed crypto exchange Bullish released its Q2 earnings, revealing a net loss of $280 million as core digital asset sales fell 44%—yet adjusted revenue bucked the trend with 62% growth.
Soft Inflation Data Can't Save Bitcoin: The Quietest Stretch Below $64K
July's PPI came in flat and CPI matched expectations — both should've been bullish for bitcoin, yet price remains stuck below $64,000, refusing to budge. Glassnode points to a lack of buyers, with analysts calling it the quietest stretch of trading since 2019.
Trezor User Data Leaked—The Breach Wasn't in the Wallet, It Was in the Shipping Partner
Trezor has confirmed that its shipping partner ShipMonk was breached, exposing personal data of nearly 14,000 hardware wallet customers, some including shipping addresses. The cold wallets themselves were never compromised—but who bought them and where they live got exposed first.
Washington Court Draws the Line: Kalshi's Prediction Markets Mostly Halted
A Washington State court ruling has shut down most of Kalshi's prediction market operations in the state — but commodities, climate, economic, and financial categories were surprisingly spared.
Bitwise Weighs Tokenizing Solana Staking ETF with Superstate, But Shares Can't Leave the System
Bitwise is evaluating a partnership with Superstate to tokenize shares of its Solana staking ETF; the tokenized version would carry the same rights as traditional book-entry shares, but couldn't be freely transferred outside the system.
MSCI Rolls Out New Screening Rules — Strategy, Metaplanet Face Index Removal
MSCI has proposed new rules establishing screening criteria for "non-operating companies," which could see Strategy and Metaplanet—both major bitcoin holders—removed from its global indices.
Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund's Bitcoin Exposure Hits Record High, 86% via Strategy Stake
Research firm K33 revealed that NBIM, which manages Norway's sovereign wealth fund, has seen its indirect Bitcoin exposure climb to a record high, driven mainly by its Strategy stake. The fund also newly disclosed an $88 million investment in Ethereum treasury company Bitmine.
Trading Volume Down 13%, Payward Revenue Up 17%: What the Kraken Parent's Numbers Are Signaling
Kraken parent Payward reported Q2 adjusted revenue of $508 million, up 17% year-over-year — but trading volume actually fell 13%. Two lines moving in opposite directions, and that divergence is worth more attention than the revenue figure itself.
Selling 685 Bitcoin, Hyperscale Data Trades Crypto for a Michigan Data Center Build
Hyperscale Data offloaded 685 bitcoin for roughly $43 million in cash — not to double down on crypto, but to pay off debt and fund an AI data center in Michigan.
Wrench Attacks, Not Keyboard Hacks: France's Crypto Crime Is Heading for Its Worst Year Ever
French crypto holders are no longer just dealing with hackers — now it's real people showing up with wrenches to force them to hand over their funds. At the same time, a tax data leak has exposed the identities of nearly 678,000 people, and the two combined add up to a very real risk.
3x Leveraged Bitcoin, Ethereum ETFs Knock on US Door as Cboe Files with SEC
LeverageShares has already launched the world's first 3x leveraged Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs in Europe. Now Cboe is filing with the SEC—if approved, it would be a first for the US market.
After First-Ever KPMG Audit, Tether CEO's Only Response: "Honestly, I Don't Care"
Tether has completed its first KPMG audit, but when questioned by outsiders, the CEO simply replied, "Honestly, I don't care." A source familiar with the matter revealed that the privately held company has no plans to make the audited financial statements public.
Price Target Slashed to $11, But Mizuho Says BitGo Regulatory Delay Is Actually Good News
Mizuho cut its price target on BitGo to $11, but pointed out that delays to the Clarity Act could actually benefit the crypto custodian — citing a 27% year-over-year growth in client numbers as the reason.
Trump and CFTC Chair Selig to Appear at White House Wednesday, Meeting Crypto and Prediction Market Executives Beforehand
The White House has scheduled a meeting for 2:30 PM ET Wednesday, with Trump and CFTC Chair Selig expected to attend, serving as a warm-up ahead of the CFTC's first Innovation Advisory Committee meeting the following day.
Trump-Backed World Liberty Financial Gets Preliminary Approval for National Trust Bank
The OCC issued conditional approval on Friday for World Liberty Financial's national trust bank application, moving the Trump-backed venture officially into the next stage of traditional banking oversight.
World's #2 Bitcoin Mining Nation Just Shut Down Its Capital's Rigs Until 2032
Russia commands 16.4% of global Bitcoin hashrate, second only to the US—yet a single government decree just froze Moscow's mining operations through the end of 2032. What's straining isn't just the power grid, it's the whole hashrate ambition.
UBS's IBIT Call Options Surge 24x, But the Numbers Don't Actually Tell the Whole Story
UBS's Q2 13F filing shows its Bitcoin ETF IBIT call option position exploding from 80,000 to 1.95 million shares, with direct holdings growing in tandem while put options got cut in half. The numbers look impressive, but without strike prices or expiration dates, the actual direction remains unconfirmed.
Unitree Hasn't Even Gone Public, But It's Already Up 4x on Hyperliquid
Unitree priced its IPO at RMB 150.80, valuing the company at roughly $9 billion—but pre-IPO perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid have already been bid up to the $38 valuation range. Once trading actually opens, half the leveraged bets in this game are set to blow up.
Harvard Stays Put: No Change to IBIT Stake This Quarter After 43% Cut
Harvard held its IBIT position steady in Q2, continuing a wait-and-see stance after slashing its holdings by 43% the previous quarter. Meanwhile, two Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth funds holding a combined 22.9 million IBIT shares also made no moves during the same period.
Iran War Grounds Flights — and the Trump Family's Maldives Token Sale, Too
World Liberty Financial planned to sell tokens next year tied to loan proceeds from a Maldives resort, but the Iran war's disruption to regional flights has pushed back the launch — proof that even tokenized real-world assets still depend on whether planes can land.
Bitcoin Price Drops, But ETF Inflows Keep Coming: The Institutional Signal Grayscale Is Watching
Bitcoin has been under pressure lately, yet U.S. spot ETFs keep pulling in money. Grayscale says fiscal deficits, maturing financial infrastructure, and clearer regulation are the real indicators to watch for long-term capital flows.
Simulated Profit Screens Spark Backlash: NYC Council Sends Letters Demanding Polymarket, Kalshi Answer 60+ Marketing Questions
The New York City Council has sent investigative letters to four prediction market platforms—Polymarket, Kalshi, Coinbase, and Gemini—over advertising practices, risks of exposure to minors, and consumer protection, focusing on whether simulated trading videos mislead users.
Samsung Puts Two Health AI Models on Your Watch: PPG Learns to Read ECG, Runs in Under 1 Millisecond With No Cloud Needed
Samsung Research America has unveiled xMAE and HiMAE, two wearable health foundation models that let watches derive cardiovascular data from PPG alone—no manual ECG measurement required—while completing on-device analysis in under 1 millisecond.
Interviewer Never Turned On Camera: Singapore Uncovers $11.8M LinkedIn Job Scam
Singapore police and the Cyber Security Agency have exposed a scam that used fake LinkedIn recruitment as bait, with hackers planting malware through bogus coding tests to steal session tokens and bypass multi-factor authentication — racking up total losses of $11.8 million.