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The CFTC has again warned prediction-market operators against overly broad template self-certifications for event contracts, signaling closer attention to how those products are filed.
Reported bitcoin sales by KULR and Smarter Web highlight how debt and refinancing needs can pressure public-company treasury strategies during a drawdown.
Triple-A says a treasury-wallet compromise has reached $11.8M, while reports indicate new deposits are still being swept and the incident remains only partly addressed publicly.
KB Kookmin Bank plans to launch a Kinexys-based blockchain USD payments service next month for corporate import and export flows across 10 countries. Two outlets corroborate the plan.
A single-source report says North Korea arrested former state cyber operators accused of hacking two state banks and laundering proceeds through crypto.
Samsung Wallet may add native stablecoins, potentially expanding distribution, but the issuer, chain, custody, and redemption design have not been announced.
Bitcoin ETF volumes reportedly reached their lowest level since October 2024, while ether funds drew nearly as much capital over three weeks despite far smaller net assets.
Reports say Robinhood is discussing a deal with Crypto.com’s derivatives arm for yes/no contracts, potentially sharpening competition with Kalshi. The talks remain unconfirmed by a completed agreement.
Reported bridge losses of about $31.69 million and B²’s staking suspension extend a recent exploit wave across distinct control failures.
Galaxy Digital puts the Senate’s remaining window at roughly four working days, while Fidelity has joined the industry campaign for the CLARITY Act.
Reports say the EU’s 21st Russia sanctions package will bar transactions with HTX, EXMO, Rapira and BitPapa from Aug. 23, creating a compliance deadline for EU-facing operators.
BitMart is reportedly winding down, with trading expected to end around Aug. 26 and a full shutdown targeted by January amid reported withdrawal delays.
The CLARITY Act appears unlikely to reach a Senate vote before the August recess as ethics-language disputes erode support and compress the legislative calendar.
The Leios 2026w30 prototype adds an optional BLS key field to pool registration certificates, but the keys are not yet used and this is not a mainnet change.
A reported State Department Freedom Tech program pairs the Bitcoin Policy Institute with Palantir and Anduril around technology framed as protecting free expression online.
BitMEX co-founders face proposed fraud claims as the exchange winds down, though the supplied record describes no balance-sheet hole and less than 0.01% market share.
World Foundation says it raised $52.5 million in a one-year locked WLD token sale to fund World ID biometric infrastructure for human verification.
India reportedly gave GitHub three hours to remove BitChat repositories, prompting a challenge from the Internet Freedom Foundation.
Strategy has introduced new Bitcoin-per-share and coverage metrics, including a modeled floor intended to make its downside tolerance more visible as the bear market persists.
Tokenized real-world assets became Hyperliquid's largest weekly trading category, taking more than half of volume in a shift ARK Invest described as structural.
The EU has listed HTX in its 21st sanctions package over Russia ties, adding regulatory pressure without describing a full asset freeze.
Poolin filed for Chapter 11 with roughly $164–173 million in claims, proposing a sale of two West Texas mining sites to support creditor recovery.
Leios prototype 2026w30 adds interim workarounds for a Dijkstra block-encoding issue and requires musashi testnet operators to wipe local state before resyncing.
Leios proto-devnet now uses tx-firehose to generate and observe load. The change improves test instrumentation, while leaving performance results unreported.
