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Circle reported $701M in Q2 revenue versus about $713M estimates, while naming major firms as Arc validators for a planned September launch.
Russia has reportedly legalized regulated retail crypto trading and permitted crypto for cross-border settlement, while keeping its domestic payment ban in place.
A Bitcoin Red Team says it filed about 5,000 findings, including 85 critical ones, across 390 open-source repositories after the Coldcard RNG exploit.
The CLARITY Act faces an approaching Senate cloture window, but ethics review and law-enforcement concerns are still preventing a deal from taking shape.
A CIP-0059 commit added van Rossem to its hard-fork feature table, creating an early documentation signal but not evidence of a scheduled or ratified upgrade.
Leios merged a change adding incremental-decoding benchmark results, showing work to measure block and header decoding under the proposed design.
Leios merged infrastructure work for its “Musashi” proto-devnet, adding aligned alloy configuration, dashboards, and trace headers ahead of measurable devnet operation.
Cardano’s deep-link signing proposal is now CIP-186 and a Candidate, with reference implementations, a public dApp SDK, and conformance vectors.
Convictions in London and charges in Missouri point to renewed reports of alleged physical coercion aimed at crypto holders, though the record offers no evidence of wider market effects.
CME’s challenge has put Nasdaq’s conditional QBTC Bitcoin options approval under commission review. The next disclosed milestone is an Aug. 24 statement deadline.
Hashdex plans to liquidate its US spot Bitcoin ETF from Aug. 18 after the fund failed to gather assets, a closure framed as a first for the US spot Bitcoin ETF market.
BNY plans to offer eligible institutional clients proof-of-stake yield through Galaxy, extending its role beyond asset safekeeping into staking access.
Reports of coordinated US-Japan yen intervention put carry-trade liquidity on watch, even as Bitcoin reportedly held near $63,000 to $64,000.
The record reports a Coldcard firmware key-generation defect tied to roughly $130 million in losses, with phishing and exchange-inflow activity also flagged.
Wells Fargo, Dinari and BlackRock were reported to have introduced tokenized products spanning corporate payments, stocks and money-market share classes.
The CLARITY Act faces a roughly three-day Senate window before recess, while staff departures and contested passage odds cloud its immediate path.
Ethereum is considering draft changes that could reduce validator rewards as staking rises. The key question is whether they advance and how validators respond.
A single crypto-media report said ADA rose about 22% to $0.190 as whales added roughly 240 million ADA. The claims remain unconfirmed in the supplied record.
Hydra’s fanout benchmark now varies party counts and reports the largest UTxO set that still fits, giving builders clearer capacity-planning data without indicating a fanout speedup.
Hydra merged a test-first fix for a Plutus time-conversion failure that could arise only if the L1 slot length changes through a future hard fork.
Hydra now separates deposit activation timing from the deposit deadline through an opt-in local-node setting that preserves existing behaviour by default.
The latest Ouroboros Leios prototype hotfix prevents a node crash when an adopted block carries an invalid Leios certificate, recording an InvalidBlock trace instead.
Bithumb is targeting a 2028 IPO after a controls overhaul, with a preliminary listing review planned for 2027 and international accounting standards adopted.
Prosecutors allege a former FBI counterintelligence supervisor stole about $1 million in cryptocurrency from wallets tied to FBI investigations and later sought ChatGPT advice.
