Blockchain Association backs SEC’s proposal to scrap outdated NMS rules, citing tokenization benefits
The rules, established in 2005, have "failed to achieve their stated purposes," the Blockchain Association said.
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Bitcoin price spike to $64.5K was ‘low-volume liquidity trap’: Analysis
Bitcoin derivatives markets created a short squeeze that took BTC price action 3% higher on Monday.
Bitpanda Hit With Europe's First Published MiCA Penalty in Austria
Austria's Financial Market Authority fined the Vienna-based exchange 70,000 euros for procedural and disclosure breaches, an early marker of how EU regulators intend to enforce the bloc's new crypto rulebook.
Sourced, Completed, Verified: Apex Fusion Opens Its Settlement Layer for AI Agents
The Apex Fusion Foundation today opened Vector, the neutral settlement, accountability and provenance layer for AI agents within the Apex Fusion ecosystem, to labs, companies, researchers and independent builders. The opening follows eleven months live on mainnet and a pilot…
Gold Options Traders Chase More Upside After 8% August Gain
Options investors are increasingly paying for gold upside rather than downside cover, according to Susquehanna, with one-month implied volatility on the metal sitting near recent lows. This marks a major turn from the summer, when put protection carried a richer…
Strategy faces Chanos $80B Bitcoin arbitrage claim
Jim Chanos called Strategy and Bitcoin an $80 billion arbitrage opportunity, although current market values show a much narrower premium.
XRP Whale Activity Explodes 280% as Price Falls Below $1: What’s Going On?
Large XRP transactions skyrocketed over the past day, which just adds more to the Ripple whale picture but the price keeps struggling.
Oil Surges Above $90 After Trump Threatens to Bomb Oman Over Strait of Hormuz
Brent crude broke above $90 a barrel and rose 2.7% on Monday after President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Oman if the country interferes with talks over the Strait of Hormuz. The remarks landed as a 60-day US-Iran negotiating deadline…
Solana’s Agave 4.2 goes live: 90% rent cut, 3.3x larger transactions and the road to 200ms slots
Three feature gated upgrades began activating on Solana mainnet the week of August 17. A 90% rent reduction, 3.3 fold larger transactions, and staged slot time cuts from 400ms toward 200ms mark Solana's biggest infrastructure shift since Firedancer reached mainnet.
The stablecoin distribution war: why issuing dollars stopped being the hard part
Open USD launched with 140 partners including Visa, Mastercard and BlackRock. Standard Chartered began rolling out a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin. World Liberty Financial got a bank charter to issue its own. The competition has moved from who can mint…
The CLARITY Act dropped from 82% to 10% odds: what killed crypto’s best shot at US regulation
Galaxy Digital slashed its passage odds to 10%. Polymarket fell from 82% to under 20%. The bill that was supposed to give the $2.28 trillion industry a permanent regulatory framework is running out of calendar, votes and political goodwill. Here…
The summer of crypto breaches: why your shipping address is now the most dangerous thing you own
Three hardware wallet and broker breaches in a single week exposed 253,487 customers. The common thread is not the companies themselves but the third party vendors they trusted with physical addresses, and a single Metabase zero day that connected two…