An investor who owns Bitcoin through a brokerage account can finish work on Friday, check the closing price of a spot ETF, and assume the position is done moving for the week. Bitcoin, however, has other plans. Between Friday’s close and Monday’s opening bell, Donald Trump can announce a tariff, a war can escalate, oil…
Digital Asset Acquisition Corp., the SPAC seeking to combine with the parent of regulated bank Old Glory Bank, postponed the shareholder vote on the deal to 10 a.m. Eastern Time on Aug. 14 from July 31. The original meeting date fell two days after the stated July 29 redemption deadline. DAAQ said in a July…
Customarily, Michael Saylor and team have lifted the STRC dividend when it trades sizably below par, but not this month.
The first half of 2026 was the most active six months for crypto exploits on record. This is according to a new report from Blockaid, which shows hackers stole $1.1 billion across 212 incidents. Crypto Hacks Top $1.1B in H1 2026 The Blockaid report found that four major incidents involving KelpDAO, Drift, Resolv, and CoW…
Stablecoin Development Corporation, a public company built around holding and staking Sky Protocol’s SKY governance token, reported that $2.2 million of second-quarter staking revenue roughly matched its company-defined cash operating expenses. The comparison used reported dollar values: SDEV received the rewards in SKY and sold none during the quarter, meaning SDEV would need to sell…
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.
Moonbeam’s standard GLMR migration window closed last night at 23:59 UTC (July 31), as its Polkadot network moved into an operational wind-down ahead of a relaunch on Base. The cutoff ended the standard route for self-custodied free balances, while exchange holdings, frozen balances, and protocol positions remained subject to separate handling. Related Reading Latest bear…
Perhaps due to the quickly re-escalating tension in the Middle East, the cryptocurrency market has posted fresh losses over the past few hours, with BTC dropping to $62,000 after failing to reclaim the $63,000 support during the day. XRP was not spared, as it just slipped below $1.05. The asset was rejected at $1.20 during…
By the time SBI Crypto pulled the plug on its Bitcoin pool in Japan on July 31, its seven-day average hashrate had fallen 64% in a month. Later that day, a Hashrate Index reading put Foundry USA, AntPool and F2Pool at 60% of recent blocks. The timing makes them look connected. Weekly data tell a…
We will begin with the mandatory disclaimer, as we are well aware that historical performance does not guarantee similar moves in the future. However, history does tend to rhyme, and that’s what happened in July for BTC. The question is: will August follow suit, as the month has not been kind to the largest cryptocurrency,…