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BTC ETF streak hits $3.1B as ETH flips red
Bitcoin ETFs stretch a nine-day, $3.1B inflow streak while Ether ETFs post their first outflow in a week.
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September 30, 2026 · 4 min read
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Illinois' crypto tax has a fee loophole
Illinois' draft 0.2% digital asset tax taxes stablecoins and bridges but exempts DeFi swaps with no protocol fee, per its Sept 29 filing.
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IBIT flows hide a basis trade, not belief
CoinShares' own numbers show over half of September's IBIT inflows track a 6% basis trade, not a bullish bet.
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Senate report: USDT in Iran finance web
A Senate investigation names Tether's USDT as central to Iran's sanctions-evasion network, with specific flows tied to the IRGC.
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One wallet ring, $18.4M in rug pulls
An onchain analyst traces $18.4M in Robinhood Chain memecoin drains to wallets exempted from anti-sniping tax across 10 token launches.
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Bitcoin ETF buyers just broke even
Bitcoin ETFs pulled $2.8B in six days, but the average buyer only just crossed into profit after a year underwater.
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BTC ETFs erase $5.8B hole, barely
Spot bitcoin ETFs flipped to $800M net inflows for 2026 after a $5.8B July deficit, but the pace trails 2024 and 2025 by miles.
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Bitget freeze catches $318K, hack moved more
Circle and Tether froze $318K tied to the Bitget hack. The attacker had already swapped the rest into ETH first.
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ETF buyers keep buying as BTC price drops
Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $347M as BTC fell below $84K, extending a five-day streak to $2.65B despite the price drop.
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Fed opens stablecoin rulebook for comment
The Fed's GENIUS Act proposals set full-reserve rules and a bank application path for stablecoin issuers it supervises.
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BTC ETFs pull $1.7B as buyers cross even
US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $1.7B in two days as BTC cleared the average holder's cost basis near $81,722.
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Coinbase locks in rates on BTC-backed loans
Coinbase now offers fixed-rate USDC loans against Bitcoin via Morpho Midnight, the first enterprise deployment of fixed-term on-chain credit.
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NYSE, Blockchain.com eye tokenized stocks
NYSE and Blockchain.com signed a deal to explore tokenized US stocks and ETFs, pending regulatory approval.
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SEC's tokenized stock rule has a narrow lane
The SEC's five-year Innovation Exemption only fits custodial, rights-bearing tokens in permissioned pools, not most stock tokens live today.
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ETF flows split from price for a reason
Ether and XRP ETFs bled cash for a third day even as prices rose, while $47M chased a Zcash fund up 10%.
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Grayscale splits ZEC ETF after $233M surge
Grayscale's Zcash ETF plans a 3-for-1 share split after a $233M inflow surge pushed assets near $890M.
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MoonPay taps WisdomTree's $1.2B fund
MoonPay will hold WisdomTree's $1.2B tokenized Treasury fund as stablecoin reserves, plugging 35M accounts into a $15.4B market.
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World turns iris scans into a payments rail
World's new super app ties stablecoins, Stripe, Kalshi and Morpho to World ID verification for boosted rewards.
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Deutsche Bank's crypto custody, on a timer
Deutsche Bank expects an October MiCA license for crypto custody, joining a queue of German banks already live.
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House crypto tax bill exempts $10 fees
A House committee's draft crypto tax bill sets a $10 de minimis exemption for fees paid in crypto, ahead of Wednesday's markup.
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Kraken puts DeFi yield on tokenized stocks
Kraken's xStocks vaults let clients lend tokenized Nvidia and ETF shares into DeFi markets like Kamino for yield, US clients excluded.
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USDT trail in Orlen's $230M oil loss
Orlen wired $230M for Venezuelan crude in USDT; only $29M in oil arrived. The stablecoin didn't fail, the trust layer around it did.
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Clarity Act's ethics trade for crypto votes
Senate Republicans swapped tougher ethics language for DeFi and stablecoin concessions to win Trump's backing on the Clarity Act.
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Stablecoins stall at 3% of trade payments
WTO says stablecoins cut trade friction but sit at 3% of global payments because only 11 of 28 jurisdictions have finished rules.
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Circle buys $400M of market access
Circle's $400M Tazapay deal is a purchase of licenses and bank rails in emerging markets, not tech.
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Mexico's fourth hidden crypto mine in a year
Mexican authorities raided a hidden crypto mine near a hydroelectric dam, the fourth such farm found in the area since early 2025.
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x402 protocol's AI trade is mostly fake
TRM traced $52.7M across x402 settlements and found agents behind only a sliver of real commerce.
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Anchorage backs a stablecoin with $100K TVL
Anchorage Digital lets institutions custody Frgmnt's fUSD, a stablecoin protocol with roughly $100,000 in total value locked and a 13.32% APR pitch.
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Revolut data leak used a fake gov't domain
Revolut confirms KYC and Bitcoin transaction data exposed via a spoofed government domain request, with investigators flagging a wealth-targeting pattern.
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RLUSD eyes a slice of $13T treasury cash
Ripple's stablecoin chief pegs a $13 trillion corporate treasury market as RLUSD's real target, not retail payments.
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UniCredit weighs crypto custody in Italy
UniCredit, Italy's second-biggest bank, is picking a tech vendor for crypto custody, joining a wave of MiCA-licensed European banks.
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Bitcoin ETF outflows hit $449M in three days
Bitcoin ETFs shed $282.6M Thursday, the worst day since July, with ARK 21Shares alone losing $164M.
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BTC ETFs post $167M outflow after inflow run
Bitcoin ETFs lost $167M over two days, erasing 4.4% of their strongest three-week inflow run of 2026, while ETH and SOL funds rebounded.
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Lords force Treasury's hand on crypto
Lords passed a 194-138 amendment forcing UK Treasury to publish a digital asset strategy within 12 months, over Labour's objection.
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Uniswap's new hook targets LP fee leakage
Uniswap Labs launches StablePair Hook, a v4 dynamic-fee tool aimed at stablecoin LPs losing value to arbitrage.
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Miners are missing bitcoin's rally
Only Canaan has beaten bitcoin's price this cycle among tracked miners, per The Block, as exchanges and stablecoin firms outrun the coin.
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Block's bank charter skips deposits, loans
Block filed for a US trust bank charter to custody bitcoin and stablecoins, joining a queue that already includes Ripple, Circle and BitGo.
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Visa's stablecoin volume hits $20B run rate
Visa's stablecoin settlement run rate crosses $20 billion, up more than 15x year over year, as payment volume nearly triples.
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Bitcoin ETFs snap back with $987M week
Spot bitcoin ETFs pulled $987M last week and $3.52B in August, the best month since September 2025.
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Tether's $91B rests on two signatures
Hacken finds Tether's minting keys need just two of several signers, exposing $91B in USDT to a single breach.
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600 BTC from 2010 moves, not Satoshi's
12 dormant 2010 mining rewards worth $48M moved after 16 years; Whale Alert says none trace to Satoshi.
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Liquid Network's federation loses 4,000 BTC
An inflation bug let hackers mint fake L-BTC and cash out 4,019 BTC ($320M) from Blockstream's Liquid federation reserve.
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Orionx shuts down over $7M custody gap
Tether-backed Chilean exchange Orionx is closing after an audit found $7M in client assets moved outside its custody, with transfers dating to 2018.
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Stablecoins hit a bank-sized bottleneck
Genuine stablecoin payments ran near $390B annualized in late 2025, just 0.02% of the $208T cross-border market. Banks are the ceiling.
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BOK: dollar stablecoins can weaken won
Bank of Korea study finds dollar-backed stablecoin demand can push the won and other local currencies lower, even without a crisis.
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BTC ETFs post $3.8B run, still red for 2026
Bitcoin ETFs pulled $3.8B over three weeks, their best 2026 stretch, but the year-to-date tally is still negative.
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SEC's ETF fast track splits crypto industry
Crypto issuers want faster, confidential SEC ETF filings. Jane Street and Schwab warn that speed cuts the scrutiny investors rely on.
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Trezor breach grows to 67,000 more US users
Trezor's ShipMonk breach jumps from 11,742 customers to nearly 79,000 after the vendor kept deleted data.
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Bitcoin ETFs post $731M day on Fed bet
US bitcoin ETFs pulled in $731M in a single day, the largest since January, on dovish Fed comments from Waller.
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Zcash tops $1,000 as miners squeeze margins
ZEC crossed $1,000 as Grayscale's ZCSH pulled in inflows, but rising hashrate is already cutting into miner rewards. Finding #1: mining difficulty gains are outpacing price gains.
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Coinbase files for 24/7 equity perpetuals
Coinbase asks the SEC to list equity perpetual futures trading around the clock, a bid to move stock exchanges onto crypto market structure.
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Ether, XRP ETF streaks end same day
Ether and XRP ETF inflow streaks broke on the same day Bitcoin funds rebounded $101M, but the moves trace to price, not rotation.
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SoFi's stablecoin buys its way into Kraken
SoFi links its bank-grade dollar rails and SoFiUSD stablecoin to Kraken, trading listing access for round-the-clock settlement plumbing.
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Crypto lobby asks SEC to lock in ETF rules
Crypto Council, Grayscale and a16z pushed the SEC to fix fund classifications now, before a wave of novel ETF filings arrives.
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Singapore bans stablecoin yield, not risk
MAS proposes 100% reserves and a yield ban for stablecoin issuers, but leaves distribution and lending channels untouched.
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Tether froze $42M before a warrant existed
Two Thai businessmen say Tether locked $42.4M in USDT on an agent's phone call, months before any seizure warrant.
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Cango's miner pivot posts an $81.6M loss
Cango shed rigs to chase efficiency and still lost $81.6 million in Q2, sending shares down 20%.
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Robinhood Chain's DEX volume hits $1.6B
Robinhood Chain's DEX volume jumped 61% to $1.6B in days, but TVL of $738M shows the flow, not sticky deposits, is the real number.
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Strategy's buyback pause was never a pause
Strategy bought 4,603 BTC for $370M after a 10-week break, but its cash reserves grew to $6.7B during the halt.
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Webull outsources Canada crypto to Coinbase
Webull adds crypto in Canada via Coinbase's CaaS infrastructure, betting on a jump in ownership from 10% to 25% since 2023.
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Polygon patched bugs before disclosing them
Polygon fixed DoS and consensus flaws in its Bor and Heimdall clients via two hard forks, then disclosed them after deployment.
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Bitcoin ETFs bleed, altcoin funds don't
Bitcoin ETFs lost $201.8M Friday, but Ether, XRP and Solana funds kept taking in cash. #24
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CFTC fines ex-White House staffer $172K
A former White House teleprompter operator must pay $172,000 for trading Kalshi mention markets on inside knowledge of presidential speeches.
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Circle sponsors Chelsea after FCA warning
Circle put USDC on Chelsea's jerseys three months after the FCA warned clubs about crypto sponsors.
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Cosmos Labs botched the fix before a hack
Cosmos Labs said it wrongly cleared a bug that let hackers drain $5.7M across six chains, MANTRA got hit for $3.6M.
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Bitcoin ETF streak hides fading demand
Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $2.8B over eight days, but daily inflows fell from $606M to $232M as BTC tested $80K.
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Strategy's real risk isn't bitcoin's price
Strategy's $22B debt survives a 96% BTC crash. The actual threat is losing access to capital markets, per Regime Intelligence.
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BlackRock cuts bitcoin ETF swap floor to $1M
BlackRock reportedly dropped its bitcoin ETF swap minimum to $1 million, opening a market-maker tool once reserved for the largest desks.
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Bitcoin ETFs cut 2026 losses in half
Bitcoin ETFs pulled $314M Tuesday, a 7th straight day, halving 2026's net outflow deficit to $2.26 billion.
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Revolut's euro stablecoin, issued by Stripe
Revolut's EURR stablecoin launched in three EEA markets, but Stripe subsidiary Bridge Building holds the reserves, not Revolut.
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SEC's custody rule skips public comment
The SEC sent crypto custody rule changes to the White House on Aug. 25, bypassing a stalled Congress to reshape adviser rules.
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Bitcoin ETFs claw back only 47% of losses
Six days, $2.26B in Bitcoin ETF inflows, but YTD outflows are still $2.57B. The rebound hasn't erased the hole.
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Lobby group backs GENIUS Act's KYC scope
Blockchain Association backs Treasury's GENIUS Act draft, pushing to limit stablecoin KYC checks to direct issuer sales.
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Crypto lobby fights stablecoin KYC scope
A crypto trade group warns regulators that extending KYC to peer-to-peer stablecoin transfers under the GENIUS Act would 'cripple the industry.'
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Solana ETFs hit a 5-day inflow streak
Solana ETFs just posted five straight days of inflows, capped by the year's biggest single-day haul.
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Thailand drafts rules for local crypto ETFs
Thailand's SEC opened consultation on draft rules for onshore Bitcoin and Ether ETFs, with an 80% exposure floor and onshore custody first.
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Bitcoin ETFs snap back but stay underwater
Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $1.92B last week, the strongest since October 2025, yet 2026 flows remain net negative at $2.91B.
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Circle's bull case skips the Clarity Act
Bernstein sees 59% upside for Circle, arguing USDC supply growth doesn't need the Clarity Act to pass.
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ETF inflows are mostly price, not cash
Bitcoin and Ether ETFs added $23B in AUM last week, but only $2.6B was fresh money—the rest was price appreciation on existing holdings.
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Fasset hits $1B on emerging-market plumbing
Fasset raised $68M at a $1B valuation, betting emerging-market remittance corridors beat crypto trading apps.
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Crypto card spend tops $1 billion
Crypto-linked card spending crossed $1 billion, and stablecoins are doing the settlement work behind it.
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Tether's $120M Uruguay mine fell apart
A $120M Tether bitcoin mining project in Uruguay collapsed after state utility UTE cut power over a contract signing dispute.
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FTX's Ellison, Wang get 5-year trading bans
CFTC banned Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang from trading for 5 years, citing their cooperation in the FTX probe.
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Grayscale's Zcash ETF nears the line
Grayscale filed a fresh amended S-1 for its Zcash ETF, moving the privacy coin closer to a first US listing.
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MiCA eyes DeFi vaults, hits a wall
Brussels is weighing whether to regulate crypto lending vaults, but its own architecture splits control across four roles, not one.
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Zcash tops $800 on Grayscale ETF push
Zcash jumped 48% to over $800, its highest since 2016, as a Grayscale spot ETF filing fuels privacy-coin demand.
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Bitcoin's $80K push has an ETF tailwind
Bernstein ties bitcoin's move toward $80K to rebounding US spot ETF inflows and Strategy's holdings back above cost.
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BlackRock takes 83% of Bitcoin ETF inflows
Spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $606M Thursday, the biggest day since May, with BlackRock's IBIT alone pulling $503M of it.
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Ether ETFs post biggest inflow since October
Ether ETFs took in $220.8M in a single day, their largest since October, as Bitcoin funds hit a 2026 monthly high of $2.07B.
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StanChart: $100K bitcoin call may be too low
Standard Chartered's Geoff Kendrick says his $100K year-end bitcoin target may be too low, six months after cutting it from $150K.
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XRP's 30% week rode a BTC short squeeze
XRP jumped 10.4% Wednesday and roughly 30% for the week, its best since November 2024, tracking a bitcoin short squeeze.
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Bank lobby revives stablecoin yield fight
Bank lobbyists reopened the stablecoin yield fight, pushing to tighten Clarity Act language even after a bipartisan compromise.
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Banks fight stablecoin yield, again
Banks are lobbying to strip stablecoin yield from the Clarity Act, arguing deposit flight could hurt lending, even as deposit interest rates keep falling.
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Galaxy cuts CLARITY Act odds to 10%
Galaxy Digital slashed its odds of US crypto market structure law passing in 2026 to just 10%, down from 75% in May.
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Mac flaw let hackers mine Monero, 9.8/10
A macOS Screen Sharing flaw scored 9.8/10 on the CVSS scale, and hackers used it to quietly install Monero miners.
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SafePal breach hits 40,000 customers
SafePal confirmed a data breach exposed personal info of nearly 40,000 customers, weeks after phishing reports surfaced.
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UBS call options on IBIT jump 24-fold
UBS's bullish IBIT call exposure surged from 80,000 to 1.95 million underlying shares in one quarter.
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Cboe files for US 3x bitcoin, ether ETFs
Cboe asks the SEC to list the first US 3x leveraged bitcoin and ether ETFs, following LeverageShares' European launch.
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Gen Z trades ETFs, not stocks, on Binance
Binance data: ETFs hit 25% of Gen Z equity volume in early August, up from 18.5% in June, as younger traders skip leverage.
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Harvard holds its bitcoin ETF stake flat
Harvard's endowment held its IBIT stake flat in Q2 after slashing it 43% the prior quarter, per its 13F filing.
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StablecoinX shares jump on 20% ENA stake
StablecoinX shares rose 12% after disclosing it holds 20% of ENA's total token supply.
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Tudor adds to IBIT, still 91% below peak
Paul Tudor Jones' firm raised its IBIT stake 18.9% to 688,529 shares, still 91.4% below its 2024 peak of 8.05 million shares.
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JPMorgan's crypto ETF filing isn't a bet
JPMorgan's Bitcoin ETF stake rose 25% and its Ether ETF stake more than quadrupled in Q2, per a 13F filing.
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Morgan Stanley added IBIT as it fell 18%
Morgan Stanley's IBIT stake rose 23% to 16.5M shares in Q2 even as the position's dollar value fell 18% on price.
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Tether finally gets a real audit
KPMG gave Tether an unqualified opinion for 2025, finding reserves exceed liabilities by $6.814 billion.
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Binance bStocks overtakes xStocks
Binance's bStocks hit $610.6M, edging past Kraken's xStocks to become the No. 2 tokenized stock issuer in under two months.
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Brazil ETF bets 95% on one MSTR stock
OranjeBTC's DIGY11 ETF will put 95% of its portfolio in Strategy's STRC preferred shares, targeting a 17-19% yield.
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FCA and HTX in talks after undercover buy
FCA and HTX are in settlement talks after a regulator staffer allegedly bought crypto using a UK driving license as ID.
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Public miners cut hashrate 13.4% for AI
Public Bitcoin miners' realized hashrate fell 13.4% in six months as they shift power to AI and HPC deals.
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Bitcoin's volatility hits a 3-year low
Crypto trading volumes have fallen to their lowest in three years as ETF buying offsets miner and corporate selling near $63,500.
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Fidelity adds staking to $898M ether ETF
Fidelity moves to add staking and quarterly cash payouts to its $898M ether ETF, keeping 85% of rewards.
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Miden launches a stablecoin you can't see
Miden will launch USDCx, a privacy stablecoin backed 1:1 by USDC via Circle's xReserve, at month's end.
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Coldcard hack: three trackers, three totals
CryptoQuant confirms 1,432 BTC stolen in the Coldcard hack, while Galaxy and TRM Labs trace figures closer to 1,816 BTC.
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Decta moves its own treasury onto USDC
Payments firm Decta will convert company funds to USDC via OpenPayd for treasury settlement, not customer payments.
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Grvt puts $100M into Ondo's USDY
Exchange Grvt is moving up to $100 million into Ondo Finance's tokenized Treasury note USDY.
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Retail is buying gold, not bitcoin
GLD pulled $1.4B in August retail inflows while bitcoin sank to a one-week low ahead of US CPI data.
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Bitcoin ETFs pull $854M, but flows fade fast
Spot bitcoin ETFs took in $853.5M over five days, but daily totals shrank and BlackRock's IBIT alone grabbed 80% of it.
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BlackRock puts Bitcoin at 3% in a stock fund
BlackRock Canada's new IBQT ETF holds 97% global equities and 3% Bitcoin, packaged as a single ticker on the TSX.
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Tron's stablecoin rails outgrow its DeFi
Tron's USDT supply hit $87.9B in Q2 with $2.1T transferred, even as DEX volume fell for a fourth straight quarter.
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Bitcoin anti-spam fork stalls at 2.53%
A BIP-110 fork of Bitcoin drew just 2.53% of mining support and mined only two blocks before stalling.
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Brazil adds 24-hour hold on crypto transfers
Brazil's central bank will let VASPs hold transfers above $10,000 to foreign platforms or self-custody wallets for up to 24 hours from 2027.
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T. Rowe Price puts dogecoin in an active ETF
T. Rowe Price's TKNZ ETF holds dogecoin at 1.26% of assets, defending memecoins as a blockchain stress test.
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Bitcoin ETFs' $1B week follows a hack
US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in roughly $1B this week, their best since April, right after a $116M Coldcard wallet hack.
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HTX's $135M stETH trail leads to Poloniex
On-chain data traces 71,853 stETH, worth $135M, moving from HTX reserves into Poloniex wallets before June's proof-of-reserves reset.
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USDC lands on OKX's X Layer network
Circle launched native USDC and CCTP on X Layer, plugging OKX's L2 into the $60B+ stablecoin's crosschain rails.
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Bitcoin ETFs: three days, $626M in
US Bitcoin ETFs took in $244.4M Wednesday, a third straight inflow day worth $626M combined, even as fear stays extreme.
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Bitcoin's boredom bottom at $64K
Spot bitcoin ETFs pulled in $211.5M Tuesday as price held near $64,000, with analysts calling flat trading a sign of bottoming.
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Circle's $12M miss hides a margin story
Circle's Q2 revenue of $701M missed estimates by $12M, but net income jumped $530M year-over-year as reserve income grew.
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Coldcard hack sends BTC into ETFs
Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $382M over two days as a $130M hardware wallet hack revived custody fears.
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Strategy joins Trump Accounts pledge list
Saylor's Strategy joins Coinbase and Morgan Stanley pledging contributions to Trump Accounts, which will hold S&P 500 index funds, not crypto.
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Dinari puts S&P 500 stocks in self-custody
Dinari now lets US wallets hold tokenized S&P 500 shares settled in USDC, no broker custody required.
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First spot bitcoin ETF closure, $14.7M fund
Hashdex will liquidate its $14.7M DEFI ETF, the first U.S. spot bitcoin ETF closure, as flows concentrate in a handful of giants.
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Intesa triples staked ETH ETF, guts IBIT
Intesa Sanpaolo tripled its staked Ether ETF stake to $7.1M while cutting IBIT shares 94% in Q2.
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Coinbase premium's record 77-day discount
Coinbase Bitcoin premium has stayed negative for 77 straight days, the longest streak on record, even as ETFs turned net positive.
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Coldcard loss hits $88.6M, still moving
Galaxy Research puts Coldcard wallet losses at 1,367 BTC ($88.6M) across 4,585 addresses, as sub-1 BTC transfers spike to a 2022 high.
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Spark bets on stablecoin fragmentation
Spark ditched its consumer app and now routes $1.5B in stablecoin swaps, betting fragmentation among tech giants' tokens is the opportunity.
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Stablecoins hit a 9% wall on remittances
Bank of Italy mystery-shopped 200 USDC across 10 corridors: total costs ran 0.3% to 9%, with gas fees a rounding error.
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Bitcoin ETFs' green July hides a $5.3B hole
Spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $172.4M in July but still sit $5.3B negative for 2026 after May-June withdrawals.
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Iran-linked exchange sent $676M to Binance
Reuters: Dubai's Shelbit moved $676M to Binance and over $4B total since May 2024 in an alleged sanctions-evasion network tied to Iran.
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Tether's $1.5B quarter runs on Treasuries
Tether posted $1.5B in Q2 profit and a $4.11B reserve surplus, mostly from US Treasury interest income.
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Bitcoin ETFs snap back with $233M inflow day
Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $233.1M in a single day, flipping the week green with $203.84M net and July up $437.8M.
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Coinbase's loss shows a trading drought
Coinbase posted a surprise quarterly loss as trading volumes dried up, even as bitcoin ETFs pulled in $233M the same day.
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Coldcard bug drains $38M, dents self-custody
A Coldcard firmware flaw let attackers rebuild seed phrases, draining roughly 600 BTC ($38M) from self-custodied wallets.
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Bitcoin ETFs snap back, Ether funds reverse
Bitcoin ETFs took in $32.1M, ending a four-day, $500M+ outflow streak, while Ether ETFs lost $18.65M.
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Bitcoin ETFs' worst inflow month on record
Bitcoin spot ETFs took in just $205M in July, the lowest monthly total ever, per SoSoValue data.
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Coinbase's Q2 miss hides a bigger shift
Coinbase posted a $359M Q2 net loss on falling trading revenue, but subscriptions hit 48% of net revenue.
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Cash beats carry trade for 2nd time ever
Treasury yields topped the carry trade for only the second time on record, and bitcoin still pushed toward $65,000 on thin volume.
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Bernstein cuts Circle target to $140
Bernstein trims its Circle price target to $140 from $190 but keeps Outperform, betting USDC's near-ATH supply outlasts the Open USD threat.
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Bitcoin ETF outflows hit $526M in four days
US spot Bitcoin ETFs bled $526M over four sessions as BTC slipped below $65K, though the yearly total still tops $51B.
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Tether's USAT stablecoin lands on Celo
Tether's GENIUS-compliant USAT stablecoin launches on Celo, its first chain beyond Ethereum, and doubles as gas.
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Visa's neutral stance on its own stablecoin
Visa CEO says the firm won't 'pick winners' on Open USD, staying multi-coin and multi-chain instead.
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Bitcoin ETFs shed $465M in two days
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $465M over two days, snapping a seven-day, $1B inflow streak, led by outflows from BlackRock's IBIT.
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Ethereum L2 TVL slides to 2-year low
Ethereum Layer 2 TVL has fallen back to roughly $5 billion, matching levels last seen in 2023.
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Fortitude cuts ZEC mining cost to $40
Barry Silbert-backed miner Fortitude says a new Nebraska facility cuts direct ZEC cash cost from $70 to about $40.
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IMF: Brazil stablecoin flows outrun capital
IMF says stablecoin purchases in Brazil are 2-3x more sensitive to global shocks than traditional FDI or portfolio flows.
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PayPal's Q2 keeps crypto off the books
PayPal posted $8.68B in Q2 revenue and pushed stablecoins, but excluded an $81M crypto swing from its adjusted earnings.
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Bitcoin ETFs eke out third weekly inflow
Bitcoin ETFs posted $33.8M in weekly inflows despite $465M in Thursday-Friday outflows, the smallest gain of a three-week streak.
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Metaplanet's real plan: bitcoin-backed bonds
Analyst Benchmark says Metaplanet's brokerage tie-up undersells a bigger goal: 4-6% bitcoin-backed 'Bitbonds' settled on-chain in stablecoins.
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Triple-A absorbs $11.8M treasury breach
Stablecoin payments firm Triple-A confirms an $11.8M treasury-wallet breach, says client funds held in trust were untouched.
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Binance phish-tests staff monthly
Binance runs monthly simulated phishing attacks on staff and can fire repeat failures, per CSO Jimmy Su.
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BitMart winds down as BMX token drops 70%
BitMart will halt trading Aug. 26 after BMX fell nearly 70% and users flagged withdrawal delays.
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CFTC warns prediction markets, again
The CFTC issued its second warning in 2026 telling prediction markets to stop filing broad, template-style event contract certifications.
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Bitcoin ETF volume hits 8-month low
Bitcoin ETF weekly trading volume dropped to its lowest since October 2024 while ether funds pulled in nearly as much cash with an eighth of the assets.
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ETH ETFs snap streak, still win the week
Ethereum ETFs lost $70.6M on Friday, ending a 5-day inflow run, but still closed the week up $103.9M.
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Bitcoin ETF streak ends with $225M outflow
Spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $225.2M in outflows Thursday, ending a seven-day, near-$1B inflow run.
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Samsung Wallet mocks up USDC support
Samsung showed a Samsung Wallet mockup holding Circle's USDC at Galaxy Unpacked, with no launch date attached.
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AFX Trade drained of $24M, offers hacker 30%
Arbitrum perp DEX AFX Trade lost $24M when its own USDC custody bridge was exploited, not the chain itself.
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Goldman breaks ranks on crypto bill
Goldman CEO David Solomon backs the Clarity Act as six major bank trade groups fight its stablecoin yield language.
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Kakao taps Circle for a won stablecoin
Kakao Group's three arms signed an MOU with Circle to explore won-backed stablecoin payments and settlement.
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A fake price crashed a stablecoin 99%
Balance Coin fell 99% to $0.0014 after an oracle exploit let an attacker net $912,000 from bitcoin-backed vaults.
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Binance sees biggest BTC outflow since 2024
Binance recorded a net outflow of over 9,000 BTC in one day, its largest since November 2024, per CryptoQuant.
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Bitcoin's rally hits a $68,000 wall
Bitcoin holds above $65,800 on a sixth straight day of ETF inflows, but analysts flag $68,000 as the next real test.
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Bitcoin ETFs' longest inflow run since April
Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $227M on July 20, a fifth straight day of inflows totaling $727M, the steadiest run since June's outflows.
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Bitcoin ETFs hit five-day inflow streak
US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled $227M Monday, a five-day streak worth $727M, as BTC broke above $65,000.
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CoinShares brings a miner ETF to Europe
CoinShares' new UCITS ETF tracking Bitcoin miners traded just 60 units, worth $1,320, on its Xetra debut.
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Movement Labs' bankruptcy claims
Ousted co-founder Rushi Manche filed the largest claim, $1.6M, in Movement Labs' bankruptcy, which lists up to $10M in liabilities.
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Bitcoin ETF inflows: $273M vs $8B exodus
Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $273M over two weeks, barely more than the smallest single week of the prior $8B outflow streak.
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Bitcoin ETFs post second week of inflows
Bitcoin ETFs added $75.7M in week two of inflows, but Citi just cut its 12-month inflow forecast to zero.
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Grayscale files Worldcoin ETF with SEC
Grayscale filed the first US ETF tied to Worldcoin (WLD), a token now trading near $1.5B market cap.
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Miners' AI pivot masks a $50B funding gap
Hut 8 and IREN's AI deals sparked 11%+ stock gains, but Blocksbridge pegs the sector's AI buildout gap at $50B.
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Strive's bitcoin buying slows to a crawl
Strive bought just 21 BTC last week for $1.3M, its smallest add yet, while cash reserves grew faster than its bitcoin stack.
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Stablecoin issuers get no rulebook one year after GENIUS Act signing
US agencies missed the GENIUS Act's rulemaking deadline; zero final stablecoin rules exist a year after the law was signed.
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Korea opens sanctions case against Upbit over $36M hack delay
South Korea's FSS sent Dunamu a formal inspection letter over the $36M Upbit hack, but the law has no hacking penalty clause.
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Saylor's 110-point case against BIP-110
Saylor published a 110-point essay opposing BIP-110 ahead of the soft fork's August vote window.
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Stablecoin rules miss their deadline as agencies file 10 proposals
A year after the GENIUS Act became law, US agencies have issued 10 proposed stablecoin rules but zero final ones.
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Tether faces a two-year clock on U.S. stablecoin rules
The GENIUS Act's first anniversary passed with roughly a quarter of USDT's reserves still in assets that won't meet the law's standards.
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US regulators blow past GENIUS Act deadline for stablecoin rules
A year after signing, the GENIUS Act still has no final rules. Treasury, OCC, FDIC and the Fed all missed the deadline.
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BIP-110 signaling stalls under 1% of Bitcoin hashrate
Miner signaling for BIP-110 sits near 0.6% of blocks over 60 days, far short of the support that carried Segwit's activation.
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Bolivia's dollar shortage is making USDT a national payment tool
Bolivia is weighing a framework to recognize USDT for payments after abandoning its currency peg, as dollar scarcity pushes demand toward stablecoins.
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IBIT's fast rise to $100 billion echoes gold's 2011 top
Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas says IBIT's sprint past $100 billion resembles GLD's 2011 run, right before gold entered a multiyear drawdown.
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OKX Europe builds an exit ramp off USDT
OKX Europe now lets users convert USDT to USDC, giving EU customers a route around MiCA's restrictions on Tether's token.
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Washington attacks Pix while the dollar already wins in Brazil
The US slaps a 25% tariff on Brazil over Pix, even as dollar stablecoins already make up 90% of Brazil's crypto transactions.
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Bitcoin ETFs post three straight inflow days, still deep in the red for 2026
US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $368M over three days, but that barely dents a $5.4B net outflow for 2026.
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Bitcoin drops under $63,000 as geopolitics rattles markets
Bitcoin fell below $63,000 on Iran strikes and US-China tension, but ETF inflows hit $510 million and the strike-hour outflow of -18.3 BTC reversed within the hour.
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Coinbase premium stays negative for a record 60 days
Bitcoin slid toward $63,000 as the Coinbase premium held negative for a record 60 straight days, signaling weak US demand.
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OKX gives EU users an exit ramp from USDT, but few are taking it
OKX Europe now lets users convert USDT to USDC, yet Tether still holds 59% of a $310B stablecoin market despite MiCA locking it out.
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SBI's Coinhako deal is a licensing shortcut, not a bet on Singapore
SBI Holdings gets MAS approval to take majority control of Coinhako, its third crypto acquisition move in weeks worth over $365M combined.
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BitPay wins Dutch MiCA license, opening EU stablecoin push
BitPay secured a CASP license from the Dutch AFM under MiCA, joining a small group of firms cleared to operate across the EU.
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Galaxy wraps DeFi yield in a compliance blanket for institutions
Galaxy Curator gives Fireblocks' 2,400 institutional clients access to Morpho vaults, backed by a $1.4B loan book and $3B in staked assets.
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Ostium halts trading after $18 million vault exploit
Ostium paused trading after an apparent $18 million exploit drained its vault, with the attacker converting USDC to ETH.
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Visa builds a stablecoin platform that skips Circle
Visa is reportedly building an internal stablecoin platform giving clients access to OUSD, a direct challenger to Circle's USDC.
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An MOU, and Japan's stablecoin pileup
JCB signed an MOU with Circle to test USDC in Japan. It commits no money, but it's the fourth regulated Japanese stablecoin move since a 2023 law, which is the real signal.
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Circle froze a Tether-backed fund over manipulation fears
Circle suspended Heka Funds after learning Tether had put $800 million into the arbitrage fund, arbitration filings show.
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One fund set the ETF flow print, again
US spot bitcoin ETFs took in $181M Tuesday after a $425M redemption Monday. BlackRock's IBIT was 77% of it and ETHA was 100% of the ether inflow. The daily print is one desk's plumbing.
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The stablecoin money is buying the pipes
Velocity raised $38M for stablecoin settlement software, part of a wave of infra rounds. With $226B in B2B stablecoin payments in 2025, the money is buying rails, not new coins.
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A $425M ETF outflow, and the whales buying the other side
US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $424.66M on Monday, their worst July day, even as on-chain data shows large holders adding. The daily flow number measures the wrapper, not conviction.
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Crypto customers win 8% of the time
When a dispute with a crypto exchange reaches an arbitrator, the customer wins about 8% of the time. Nine in ten cases never get that far. Our tally of 1,617 filings through 2026.
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Where the Two Billion Went
813,294 wallets lost $2.0 billion on the TRUMP token. The family took about a third, 58 wallets more than half. Every estimate, one page.
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Survival of the Licensed
Inside the MiCA cull: how Europe went from 3,167 crypto firms to 244 in eighteen months.
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Everyone came to crypto for the volatility. The thing that actually found product-market fit holds still on purpose.
Read the Story ▸What the ETF Flows Are Actually Telling Us
A green inflow number is not a vote of confidence. It is a plumbing change, and the plumbing is the story.
Read the Story ▸Custody, Explained: Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins
The oldest slogan in crypto is also the most misunderstood. Self-custody is not safer by default. It just moves the risk onto you.
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