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Crypto News Bitcoin (BTC)-linked power assets are being recast as AI infrastructure after Chamath Palihapitiya published an August 2026 investing map that puts land, power and shell resources first in the value stack. The Social Capital founder said the physical footprint of a data cente
UNI News Uniswap (UNI) v4 has moved to the center of decentralized exchange activity, with on-chain data showing the latest automated market maker version handled roughly half of quarterly DEX volume about 18 months af
XRP News A fraudulent XRP staking platform that impersonated Flare Network and FXRP projects stole about 3.4 million XRP from 71 victims before South Korean police arrested three suspects, according to law-enforcement findings reviewed by COI
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Solana News The Solana (SOL) Foundation’s chief information security officer, Michael Coates, says the crypto industry’s most serious security failures are increasingly beginning outside blockchains, in Web2 account and key-management envi
Bitcoin News Bhutan's Gelephu Mindfulness City has placed part of its Bitcoin (BTC) treasury under external institutional control, naming Toronto-based 3iQ Corp. as its first official reserve manager. The special administrative regio
BNB News BNB (BNB), tracked on our BNB hub, moved into the center of a security dispute on Aug. 1 after BNB Chain said a former employee used material from an internal training video to issue an unauthorized meme token. The chain’s official s
Crypto News Bitcoin (BTC) sat at the center of a broad derivatives deleveraging episode after roughly $194.25 million in leveraged crypto positions were forcibly closed over the 24 hours to 11:01 UTC Aug. 1. The liquidation data show that bullish trades absorbed most of the damage, with
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Bitcoin News Bitcoin (BTC) is approaching the late stage of its corrective phase, according to technical analysis published Aug. 1 by on-chain analyst Darkfost, who argued that the market is still trapped inside a daily downtrend but is beginning to show early signs of exhaustion. The an
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Crypto News Bitcoin (BTC) is the benchmark asset exposed by Hong Kong’s latest fraud figures after police received 25 crypto investment scam reports in the final week of July. The cases involved romance and online-dating manipulation, with victims losing almost HK$70 million, about $9 mi
Crypto News Ethereum (ETH) faced the largest single security failure in the first half of 2026 when Kelp DAO’s rsETH, a liquid restaking token tied to Ethereum staking yields, lost $292 million after attackers forged a LayerZero cross-chain message. The incident was the biggest of 135 exp
Bitcoin News Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has demanded an immediate Senate vote on the Clarity Act, a digital-asset market-structure measure that has remained stalled for more than one year after the House approved it, making Bitcoin
Solana News Solana (SOL) core contributors at Anza have introduced Quantumglow, a research-stage proposal that would adapt the network's Alpenglow architecture for post-quantum security while preserving high throughput. The plan is aimed at future risks facing ECDSA and Ed25519, the two
XRP News A proposed upgrade to the XRP (XRP) ledger would let banks, issuers, or platforms pay account reserves and transaction fees for their users, removing the current requirement that every participant first acquire the <a href='https://e
Bitcoin News Bitcoin (BTC) came under renewed pressure on Aug. 1 after US spot ETF products recorded about $265 million in net redemptions, with Bitcoin trading near $63,000 during vol
Crypto News Bitcoin (BTC) is at the center of a U.S. market-structure campaign after Stand With Crypto said on July 31 that supporter contacts to lawmakers backing the CLARITY Act had reached 1 million. The advocacy group framed the milestone as pressure on the Senate to act before its s
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Crypto News The path for a U.S. crypto market-structure framework tied to Bitcoin (BTC) and the wider digital-asset market moved into a narrow procedural window after a bipartisan ethics counterproposal reached President Donald Trump. The measure, negotiated by Republican Senator Thom Ti
XRP News XRP (XRP), the cross-border payment token tied to the Ripple ecosystem, traded near $1.06 after a limited 24-hour decline, with market participants treating $1.05 as the immediate support zone that could determine whether the token stabilizes or revisits $1.00. Chart structure s
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SHIB News Shiba Inu (SHIB) recorded a negative net exchange flow of 2.31 billion tokens over the latest 24-hour window, showing more tokens left centralized venues than arrived. The figure is modest for a meme-driven <a href="https://en
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Bitcoin News A security failure in a long-used Bitcoin hardware wallet drained 1,082.65 BTC from 1,196 addresses on July 30, according to on-chain analysis reviewed by COINOTAG, making it one of the largest self-custody breaches tied to a single device family. The transfers occurred in a
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Crypto News Avalanche (AVAX), the Layer 1 altcoin network selected for FIFA’s official digital collectibles platform, received $24 million in primary NFT payments from World Cup buyers between May 2025 and the end of the tournament,
Dogecoin News Dogecoin (DOGE), a major meme-linked altcoin, is struggling to regain footing after its May recovery above $0.11 failed, leaving the token close to its lowest levels of the year. Recent market data shows DOGE changing h
Bitcoin News Bitcoin (BTC) lost its short-term recovery bid after the latest Federal Reserve meeting, as rising long-term U.S. yields and cautious positioning kept new spot demand on the sidelines. Bitcoin traded mostly between $63,000 an
Crypto News Avalanche (AVAX) provided the ledger rails for a four-company proof that settled a real estate security token against a stablecoin-style payment token on July 31, 2026, marking a controlled test of on-chain delivery-versus-payment for regulated Japanese property instruments.
Crypto News Pump.fun’s PUMP token passed a major supply milestone on July 12, when a one-year lockup expired and 82.5 billion tokens became transferable, including 50 billion allocated to the team and 32.5 billion to existing investors. At the token’s late Friday price near $0.002, the t
