The CLARITY Act got stuck in political limbo at the end of the business week until lawmakers return from their August recess, and Grayscale laid out a potential plan ahead for the US crypto industry if Congress ultimately fails to deliver the highly anticipated market structure this year. There’s no need to sugarcoat it: it…

The delay of the US CLARITY Act announced at the end of the business week harmed several altcoins, but XRP’s price dipped the most among the larger caps. BTC and ETH managed to hold support on Friday, remaining above or at key milestones at $64,000 and $1,900. XRP, on the other hand, slipped to just…

A couple weeks ago, I received some hype from a financial newsletter I follow about the NatGold launch on Kraken. I created an account, verified it, and deposited my funds in anticipation of a launch. The launch never happened and no information was given as to why. I want to withdraw my funds, not needing…

XRPL has released version 3.3.0, which takes another step toward becoming infrastructure for institutional tokenization. It introduces several proposed amendments focused on privacy, payments, and managing real-world assets (RWAs). Confidential Transfers Perhaps the most significant new feature is called Confidential Transfer. It’s designed to allow institutions to hide balances and transaction amounts for Multi-Purpose Tokens…

Scammers impersonating financial regulators and licensed exchanges are targeting crypto holders who are still moving assets five weeks after the EU’s licensing deadline under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). This is according to several regulators, including France’s Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM), and the European Securities…

Just a day or so after it became known that the most anticipated crypto legislation in the US will not be voted on in August, more details have emerged on when it will hit the Senate floor. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has filed cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633, the Digital…

A coordinated Bitcoin security campaign uncovered nearly 5,000 software issues across hundreds of open-source projects in about 30 hours. The effort combined human expertise with artificial intelligence tools to identify software weaknesses. The initiative brought together 16 security researchers led by developer Calle, with support from OpenSats, OpenCode, and AI inference sponsors. The group worked…

After a shaky July in terms of ETF performance, the Bitcoin funds started August with a bang, attracting more than $800 million in the first full week of the month. This coincided with the underlying asset’s price revival, as BTC jumped from a monthly low at $62,200 on Monday to over $65,000 on Friday. Best…

Although there was some intra-week volatility for BTC and other larger-cap altcoins, most are closing in on another rather sluggish trading period, with little to no movements on a weekly (and even monthly) scale. Cardano’s native token, though, has defied this trend. It has risen by 18% over the past seven days and briefly pushed…

Less than a year after announcing plans to develop a new special administrative region called Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) using the proceeds of BTC sales acquired through hydropower mining, the Royal Government of Bhutan has continued to offload as the asset’s price is trying to stabilize at around $65,000. Data from the on-chain analytics resource…

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Bitcoin’s price jumped to $65,400 on Friday after the weaker-than-expected US jobs report, but it has lost some traction and has remained sideways at around $65,000. Most larger-cap alts are slightly in the green, aside from HYPE and CRO. The latter has slumped hard after the Trump Media group canceled its partnerships with the company…

Ever since bitcoin started plunging real hard at the start of the new year and dumped to and eventually below $60,000, analysts have been focused on trying to determine where the bottom is. As usual, they are split into two camps: two who believe another crash is coming, and the optimists indicating that the worst…

Over a year after announcing the initial plans to complete several deals with the popular crypto exchange Crypto.com, Trump Media, the entity behind Truth Social, has backed off as it has now focused on other internal developments and an upcoming merger. The native token of the platform reacted with an immediate nosedive that pushed it…

[PRESS RELEASE – Los Angeles, United States, August 7th, 2026] Spindex, a real-time data analytics platform for the iGaming industry, has surpassed 150 million tracked gaming events across its monitoring infrastructure, ingesting more than 2,000 new data points per minute from over 700 slot titles. The milestone highlights the scale of live data now flowing…

Ripple’s native token hasn’t really been able to recapture the traction that culminated in July 2025, when it surged to a new all-time high. It has lost its momentum further in the past few weeks, dipping to $1.02 on Friday. However, this hasn’t shaken out the conviction of popular market analyst EGRAG CRYPTO, who argued…

If you weren’t living under a rock in 2025 you probably remember crypto.com unanimously deciding to “unburn” and give themselves 70B in CRO tokens. Well it later came out part of that was to bribe Trump family by giving them Billions in CRO for them to make the “worlds largest CRO treasury company”. Yep…. Unfortunately…

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The unknown hacker behind June’s exploit against the Ethereum maximal extractable value (MEV) bot jaredfromsubway.eth continues to try to time the market with their ETH moves, but with negative consequences. Using the proceeds they secured from the $7.7 million attack, the bad actor made some questionable decisions that actually cost them a portion of their…

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MARA Holdings, the largest publicly traded Bitcoin miner, reported a net loss of over $611 million for the second quarter of 2026, as revenue fell 27%, the company said in a shareholder letter released August 6. The quarter shows a widening gap between MARA’s growing computing capacity and the falling value of the Bitcoin on…

Bitcoin Magazine Trump Media Pulls Back From Crypto Deals: Report The President Donald Trump-backed media company, Trump Media and Technology Group, is pulling back from two of its crypto deals, according to a report by Axios.  The publication reported Friday that the two deals with Crypto.com — a prediction market and treasury — would not…

Bitcoin Magazine Senators Cynthia Lummis and Angela Alsobrooks Say Bipartisan Work on Clarity Act Continues Despite Delays The Clarity Act may be delayed — for now — but pro-crypto senators remain committed to the fight.  And not just Republicans: Democratic Senator Angela Alsobrooks accompanied conservative “Bitcoin Senator” Cynthia Lummis in assuring voters that work was…

Bitcoin whales and sharks are continuing to increase their holdings as the cryptocurrency trades in the $63,000 to $65,000 range, according to the latest data from Santiment. The accumulation trend has strengthened since its previous report earlier this week, which highlighted a surge in network activity driven by the impact of the Coldcard hardware wallet…