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Yesterday
10:01 PM
Neutral
Strategy holds STRC dividend at 12%
Customarily, Michael Saylor and team have lifted the STRC dividend when it trades sizably below par, but not this month.
8:10 PM
Negative
Bitcoin cold-wallet attack spreads to 4,500 addresses as losses near $89 million
Galaxy Research flagged a third wave of sweeps tied to weak Coldcard-generated keys, with the attacker now targeting smaller balances and changing how funds are collected onchain.
4:51 PM
Positive
Tokenized stock trading surged 288% in July, but one QQQ token drove most of it
Without that QQQ token, QQQB, July volume for tokenized equities would be roughly $2.03 billion, about 30% below June’s total.
4:00 PM
Negative
Bank of Italy research suggests stablecoins aren't necessarily cheaper for remittances
A mystery-shopping experiment found that exchange fees, foreign exchange spreads and banking rails mean stablecoin remittances are often no cheaper than traditional transfer means.
3:48 PM
Neutral
SEC to review Nasdaq bitcoin options approval after CME challenge
CME argues that because bitcoin is a commodity, options tied to its value fall under CFTC jurisdiction, not the SEC's authority.
1:00 PM
Negative
Solana Foundation's new CISO warns AI is making crypto scams more convincing
Michael Coates, the foundation’s new CISO, said that AI vulnerabilities and fake identities will drive the next wave of blockchain security concerns.
9:01 AM
Neutral
Binance founder CZ calls for wallet diversification after $70 million Coldcard exploit
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao says hardware wallets can still have bugs and suggests spreading funds across multiple wallets after the major Coldcard security failure.
6:09 AM
Positive
XRP Ledger upgrade brings back features once pulled over critical bugs
The xrpld 3.3.0 release is expected next week with five proposed amendments, including two revised features that were previously withdrawn after researchers found bugs that could have allowed unauthorized transactions or fee draining.
5:55 AM
Negative
How bitcoin cold wallets lost $70 million in an attack that never touched the devices
Galaxy Research said weak seed generation let an attacker recreate likely private keys offline, sweep more than 1,000 BTC from nearly 1,200 wallets and continue searching without ever accessing the devices.
Jul 31
6:24 PM
Neutral
Tether posts $1.5 billion operating profit in Q2 as reserve buffer falls by half
The world’s largest stablecoin issuer added 14 metric tons of gold and about 1,800 bitcoin to its reserves during the second quarter.
5:53 PM
Positive
The good and the bad of perps, according to crypto traders
Both retail and institutional traders worry about the funding rate.
5:07 PM
Negative
Coldcard's $38 million (so far) exploit shakes faith in self-custody, may push investors to ETFs
A software bug in popular hardware wallet Coldcard that led to the theft to this point of nearly 600 bitcoin worth roughly $38 million is prompting questions about security and whether managing private keys has become too risky for everyday investors.
3:39 PM
Positive
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Quantum computing nears commercial breakthrough, IBM CEO says
Arvind Krishna said quantum computing will begin generating meaningful revenue before the decade ends as investment in the sector accelerates, in an interview on CNBC.
3:00 PM
Negative
Crypto faces 3 barriers to next bull run, STS Digital CEO says
Institutional options selling, AI and delayed U.S. crypto regulation are weighing on bitcoin, according to STS Digital CEO Maxime Seiler.
1:35 PM
Positive
Circle secures New York trust charter as crypto regulatory push accelerates
The approval lets the USDC issuer offer fiduciary and custody services under New York banking law.
1:20 PM
Neutral
Coinbase's weak quarter leaves Wall Street split on timing of a recovery
Most analysts blamed a weak crypto market for Coinbase's earnings miss, though opinions diverged on when trading activity will recover.
12:28 PM
Negative
Dubai-based crypto exchange tied to $4 billion Iran sanctioned-evasion network
Shelbit allegedly sent hundreds of millions of dollars to major crypto exchanges, including Binance, as it linked gambling sites and sanctioned Iranian entities to global crypto markets.
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Major bitcoin wallet flaw drains $38 million worth of BTC in 25-minute sweep

A hardware wallet randomness bug turned “impossible to guess” seeds into guessable ones, and $38 million is already gone.

Jul 31, 2026
Coldcard flaw lets attacker drain $38 million in bitcoin from old wallets. (Coinkite)

Opinion

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Everyone has the perps convergence backwards

Gracy Chen
Martin Lee

RWA perps will outpace tokenization

Martin Lee
Matthew Fisher

Everything is becoming a perp

Matthew Fisher
Chris Tyrer, Tram Doman

The systemic-risk debate over perpetual futures is aimed at the wrong target

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Markets

Michael Saylor

Tokenized stock trading surged 288% in July, but one QQQ token drove most of it

Binance founder CZ calls for wallet diversification after $70 million Coldcard exploit

Bitcoin holds monthly gain, faces 'choppy' August as 'forced-selling' exhausted, analysts say

Finance

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Bitcoin mining difficulty shrinks 14% from this year's high as plunging revenues force operators to pivot

Tether posts $1.5 billion operating profit in Q2 as reserve buffer falls by half

The good and the bad of perps, according to crypto traders

Policy

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Circle secures New York trust charter as crypto regulatory push accelerates

U.S. sanctions Iran-linked bitcoin insurance scheme for Strait of Hormuz ships

New York sues Kalshi, alleges it offers a gambling platform 'plain and simple'

Tech

Hacker facing screens with lines of code (Boitumelo/Unsplash)

Solana Foundation's new CISO warns AI is making crypto scams more convincing

XRP Ledger upgrade brings back features once pulled over critical bugs

How bitcoin cold wallets lost $70 million in an attack that never touched the devices