Summary: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong backs the SEC's proposal to allow professional credentials and a new exam to determine accredited investor status, moving beyond traditional wealth thresholds.
Summary: Ledger links all confirmed wallet-draining cases to reseller CryptoBilis, stating its direct channels are safe while investigators trace over $86 million in suspected thefts across multiple blockchains.
Summary: Crypto Fear and Greed Index drops to neutral 56 as Bitcoin falls 6% amid rising Treasury yields and oil prices, with ETF outflows signaling cooled investor appetite.
Summary: Lenders scrutinize AI data center deals, causing Bitcoin miners like IREN to face varied interest rates between 6% and 9%, while others accept equity warrants to secure lease backstops.
Summary: Kalshi traders predict inflation peaked for 2026 at 4.2%, expecting September CPI to rise to 3.6% but assigning less than one-in-three odds to new annual highs.
Summary: XRP Ledger patched a decade-old payment engine bug that could have enabled counterfeit token creation, bypassing standard governance procedures to deploy the fix rapidly.
Summary: NEXTPredict paid $12,000 for Kalshi contracts covering $3 million if JFK flight cancellations exceed 50% before its conference, marking the first prediction-market hedge for an event.
Summary: Ledger hardware implant exploits prompting up to $86 million in losses drive analysts and firms to advocate for Bitcoin ETFs as safer alternatives to self-custodial wallets.
Summary: Evernorth Holdings shares rose 5% on their Nasdaq debut, coinciding with the appointment of former Coinbase executive Hugo Jeandesboz as CIO to manage its $657 million XRP treasury.
Summary: Willem Middelkoop states central banks avoid Bitcoin due to lack of control over its supply and price, unlike gold, while institutional investors increasingly adopt it via ETFs.
Summary: ARK Invest retains its five-year Bitcoin thesis despite flat annual performance, citing early-stage adoption and shifting dynamics from stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets.
Summary: Rep. Warren Davidson links Western civilization's future to monetary policy, citing $40 trillion in debt and a 30% loss in dollar purchasing power since 2020 as drivers for adopting sound money and real assets.
Summary: Binance retains low spot fees of 0.1 percent but blocks new EU deposits and buys since July 1, 2026, lacking required MiCA authorization after withdrawing its Greek application.
Summary: Bitmine added 12,532 ETH worth $31.9 million, bringing holdings to 4.9% of supply, with Chairman Tom Lee stating the firm is nearly done stacking toward its 5% target.
Summary: Strategy bought 250 BTC for $21.5M and repurchased $192.4M in STRC preferred stock, raising its total holdings to a record 848,250 BTC funded largely by MSTR equity sales.
Summary: Strategy purchased 250 Bitcoin for $21.5 million, marking a second straight week of reduced acquisitions as its total holdings reached 848,250 BTC.
Summary: Bitcoin rose 1.38% to $82,837 on Friday after a weekly dip, but traders price in a 67% chance of falling below $80,000 amid significant ETF outflows.
Summary: THORChain co-founder Chad Barraford stated that Tether blacklisted network vault addresses, freezing 1.45 million USDT across four wallets before unfreezing them hours later.
Summary: Executives at major AI firms are privately rehearsing responses to a catastrophic cyberattack, with insiders expecting a major incident within six to twelve months.
Summary: Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky is permanently barred from crypto and securities industries under a New York settlement requiring up to $35 million in conditional payments.