Bitcoin has reached block 961,632, triggering the long-awaited mandatory signaling period for BIP-110, a controversial proposal designed to temporarily curb non-financial data from being embedded on the network. The proposal entered the signaling phase at around 19:35 UTC on Saturday, with support from miners seldom exceeding 2.5%, a long way short of the 55% mark […]
Brazil’s central bank will require crypto exchanges to delay some customer transfers to foreign platforms and self-custody wallets for up to 24 hours as part of new anti-fraud rules. The requirement takes effect Jan. 1, 2027 under Resolution BCB No. 584/2026, published Aug. 7. The rule applies when a customer deposits the country’s fiat currency […]
There is already money on the chain for the feature to serve. Onchain data aggregator RWA.xyz tracks about $1.38 billion of distributed real-world assets on XRPL, including $845.7 million of RLUSD. Ondo accounts for another $212.6 million, followed by VERT Capital at $116.1 million and Archax at $55.4 million. Societe Generale sits further down the […]
“The order is intended to preserve identified stolen digital assets while the litigation continues, representing an important step in Bybit’s ongoing efforts to recover funds, support international law enforcement investigations, and reinforce accountability for large-scale cybercrime,” Bybit said in the release. “Our focus has never changed: protect our users first, recover what we can, and […]
Bitcoin’s BTC$64,251.13 recent price action has been unremarkable and boring, the kind that sends traders looking for excitement elsewhere. But look closer, through a technical analyst’s lens, and the token appears to be hammering out a bullish pattern, which, if confirmed, could suggest a rally to $76,000. That pattern is the popular inverse head-and-shoulders (H&S) […]
Tether, best known for issuing USDT, the world’s most widely used stablecoin, is expanding its push into real-world asset tokenization to bring institutional-grade real estate asset onchain in Saudi Arabia. The company said Thursday that its tokenization platform, dubbed Hadron, will provide the technology to issue and manage tokenized real estate assets for institutional investors […]
In other words, no news on cloture on Wednesday night might just be no news. In one scenario, Majority Leader John Thune files cloture on Wednesday night, gets through all of the Senate’s other priorities by Friday, holds the first procedural vote on Friday night and then everyone goes back to their districts to meet […]
The exploit, which researchers say stemmed from a flaw in the wallet’s firmware, has resulted in at least 1,816 bitcoin, worth about $114 million, being drained from more than 5,200 addresses since July 30, underscoring the risks even self-custodied assets face when wallet security is compromised. FRNT Financial echoed that view, saying the exploit exposed […]
SpaceX (SPCX), Elon Musk’s space technology company, reported its first quarterly results as a public company on Tuesday, announcing second-quarter revenue of $7.8 billion. That figure topped Wall Street expectations of $6.9 billion, while narrowing its quarterly loss to $541 million as growth accelerated across its launch, Starlink and AI businesses. The company reported a […]
The $TRUMP coin was worth more than $46 at its height, but it steadily declined to its current price of $1.47. The token saw brief spikes in value when the company behind it announced it would host dinners — including at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, with the president as the keynote speaker — but that price action […]
A supervising U.S. FBI agent who worked in intelligence at the national headquarters has been arrested and accused in a federal court filing of stealing more than $1 million in cryptocurrency. The high-level special agent, identified as Patrick Steven Yarmoch, allegedly turned himself in to agency colleagues, reporting that he dug crypto keys from FBI […]
Matt Prusak, president and interim chief financial officer of Trump-linked bitcoin miner American Bitcoin (ABTC), is leaving the company to join AI and energy infrastructure developer Giga Energy, marking another senior executive move toward the power sector that is increasingly underpinning both bitcoin BTC$63,824.22 mining and artificial intelligence. Prusak said he will step down from […]