Ripple-linked token leads drop as traders eye $70,000 bitcoin

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That makes $70,000 the next area to watch, another round number with the 200-day moving average sitting nearby. Clearing it would put bitcoin above the range where buyers and sellers fought through March and April, a move Kuptsikevich said would shift sentiment meaningfully. Traders are not there yet. The crypto sentiment index sits at 30, […]

Grayscale quietly drops Cardano, Polkadot and Hedera ETF plans

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Crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments has dropped plans for exchange-traded funds tied to Cardano’s ADA, Polkadot’s DOT and Hedera’s HBAR, withdrawing three registration statements from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) late Friday. Through three separate requests with the regulator, Grayscale told the SEC it “does not intend to proceed with the planned distribution” […]

Bitcoin tops $65,000 with US inflation data due this week

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Bitcoin rose above $65,000 on Monday, up nearly 3% over the week, with July inflation data due Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. ET after Friday’s weak jobs report eased worries the Federal Reserve would need to raise rates. Ether traded near $1,919 and is also up almost 3% on the week. BNB gained 0.3% to $603 […]

Hyperliquid’s RWA perps boom is eating into the revenue that backs HYPE

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At the start of 2026 these builder-deployed markets were about 2% of Hyperliquid’s perp volume. They are now roughly half of it. The pass-through shows up in the accounts. Cost of revenue, the portion of fees Hyperliquid hands straight back to builders, market makers and its own liquidity vault, was under 6% of gross revenue […]

Bitcoin hits block 961,632 as the controversial BIP-110 soft fork attempt begins

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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 orders exchanges to delay large crypto transfers abroad

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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 […]

New XRP Ledger proposals target $530 million in tokenized Wall Street assets

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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 […]

Bybit sues North Korea and Lazarus Group over $1.5 billion hack, secures asset freeze

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“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 […]

$76,000. That’s the potential target hiding inside bitcoin’s boring price action

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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 expands tokenization platform to Saudi Arabia, starting with real estate

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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 […]

Here’s what could happen with the crypto market structure legislation

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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 […]

Coldcard hack could lift demand for regulated bitcoin products, analysts say

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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 […]