UK regulators to prepare tokenized gold framework: Report
The UK’s FCA is reportedly preparing a regulatory framework for tokenized gold and how these products may be used as collateral assets in wholesale markets.
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Here’s what happened in crypto today
Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.
Bitcoin Red Team founder turns to Chinese AI: ‘It absolutely guts me’
Bitcoin Red Team has now found 1,288 critical and high-level vulnerabilities in the Bitcoin ecosystem as of Saturday.
Australia orders Cryptolink Bitcoin ATMs offline over ‘basic reporting’ failures
Australia’s financial watchdog has suspended Cryptolink’s registration for three months, adding to a crackdown that previously saw the Bitcoin ATM operator fined $56,340.
Crypto’s first quantum attack will look like unexplained breach: Quantus founder
Bad actors with access to a cryptography-breaking quantum computer probably won’t try to announce it to the world by hacking Satoshi Nakamoto’s high-profile Bitcoin wallets, crypto executives say.
BIP-110 ends with a whimper, CLARITY vote punted: Hodler’s Digest, Aug. 9
BIP-110 forks itself into oblivion with a “2-block chain” and CLARITY will finally get a Senate vote in September. The odds say that vote will be a No.
Ex-US defense secretary calls CLARITY Act a ‘national security bill’
Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says the CLARITY Act is not merely a financial services bill, its a national security one.
BIP-110 Bitcoin branch stalls after two blocks as gap widens
The enforcing fork remains stuck at Bitcoin’s full mining difficulty as mandatory signaling proceeds with little hashpower support.
Brazil targets crypto fraud with up to 24-hour transfer hold
The rules, effective Jan. 1, 2027, cover transactions above $10,000 sent to overseas providers or self-custody wallets, along with other transfers flagged for review.
BTCPay restricts remote Lightning access after attackers steal funds
Foundation and Citadel21 reported drained Lightning nodes, but the total amount stolen and number of affected operators remain unknown.
Bitcoin’s BIP-110 enters mandatory signaling with miner support below 3%
The deployment milestone tests whether enforcing nodes can sustain the change amid limited miner signaling and discussion of a hard-fork fallback.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs post best week since April with $1B inflows
The spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds registered their third-strongest showing since October as institutional demand showed signs of renewed momentum.