A case-specific Anthropic ruling valued one-for-one replacement while physical preservation remained outside the legal test.
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Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is facing renewed scrutiny after three Bitcoin holders alleged they lost $1.8 million to a fake crypto wallet, adding to a growing list of malicious wallet apps that have reached users despite the company’s screening process. The lawsuit, filed July 24 in California, accuses Apple of failing to adequately review […]
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A later snapshot showed open interest down 20.29% while Trade.xyz investigated the price inputs submitted to HyperCore.
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KalshiEX and Polymarket US can keep serving Minnesota users while the merits and contract boundary remain unsettled.
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The five-year trigger is clear, but the first applicable report cycle and transition treatment are not.
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Bitcoin has largely shrugged off the deteriorating outlook for the CLARITY Act, raising the possibility that traders have already priced another legislative failure into the market. Data from CryptoSlate shows the largest cryptocurrency trading around $63,500 as of press time, above the roughly $61,900 level seen on June 5, when Galaxy Digital put the bill’s […]
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Bitcoin traders have spent the past month reducing protection against a price decline while the Fed has made its next decision harder to predict. The Bitcoin options put-to-call open-interest ratio has fallen to approximately 0.52 from 0.76 in late June, meaning about 52 put contracts remain open for every 100 calls. Meanwhile, Fed Funds futures […]
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The July 2026 criminal complaint says the filings failed to reflect a 1.7 billion-baht theft before replacement began.
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The exchange wind-downs show where pressure is landing, while a messy shutdown tally and 49% drawdown leave timing unresolved.
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Circle has acquired nearly 1,000 IBM blockchain patents as the USD Coin (USDC) issuer pushes deeper into the infrastructure connecting stablecoins with banks and payment networks. In a July 27 statement, the firm said the portfolio includes more than 680 patent families spanning blockchain technology, banking, financial services, insurance, enterprise infrastructure, supply-chain verification, and secure […]
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Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has begun buying back its STRC preferred stock as the Bitcoin treasury company shifts more capital toward supporting its financing structure. In a July 27 SEC update, Strategy said it purchased 288,930 STRC shares for $25 million between July 20 and July 26, marking the first disclosed use of a $1 billion […]
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WEMIX says the issuance became WEMIX and USDC.e, but final losses and user impact remain unknown.
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The new complaint alleges an internal desk exploited customer data, while BitMEX says the case has no basis.
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Public Ethereum flows show 5,287 ETH entering one cited address, while source-wallet ownership and the access path remain unconfirmed.
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The commissioner’s fact-specific framework reaches strategy, allocator appointment and asset movement without making any finding about Morpho.
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With ETH drained from its wallets, BitMart faces a wave of stuck user withdrawals after abruptly announcing its closure BitMart said it will wind down its trading platform after nine years, abruptly reversing an expansion push that continued into the summer. The exchange stopped accepting new registrations, deposits and orders at 01:30 UTC on July […]
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Bitcoin reclaimed $65,000 on Monday as a pause in US-Iran strikes revived demand for risk assets ahead of a pivotal Federal Reserve meeting. Data from CryptoSlate showed that the largest cryptocurrency rose about 1% to $65,155, while Ethereum gained 4% to around $1,964, its highest level since early June. The move came as Washington temporarily […]
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The 15 operators covered 99% of observed transactions, with two free-shopping cases validated and other high-impact tests deliberately bounded.
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The company still held 1,514 BTC and $45 million of debt on July 10 as it moved capital toward two separate infrastructure investments.
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Provider fees come first; above the annual threshold, excess net staking income is split 40% to Hashdex and 60% to the trust.
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Phase II handovers are expected to begin in 2027 as the project company takes on fixed cash costs.
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Section 20216 of the latest CLARITY draft states that a self-custodied digital asset cannot become abandoned, unclaimed, or forfeited. It also cannot become subject to adverse possession or finder's title solely because its owner has not moved it or otherwise shown continued interest. The language overrides state and local laws that treat years of wallet […]
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Voluntary sales removed KULR’s collateral risk and Smarter Web’s near-term maturity and 7.7 million potential shares.
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Traders spent most of July with a pretty good explanation for why Bitcoin wouldn't move. A dense cluster of options contracts had the price boxed in, they argued, because the dealers who sold those contracts were buying every dip and selling every rally to keep their own books balanced. Clear the contracts away, and Bitcoin […]
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Ten dairy cows in Paraná, Brazil, carried encrypted identities that Cowmed collars had built from each animal's health, behavior, and location data into B3 this week. Those identities turned the cows into collateral for nearly $20,000 in credit, and the record behind them aims to shrink the haircut lenders apply and stop lenders from pledging […]
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Coinbase began offering US perpetual-style futures on its CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, starting with nano Bitcoin and Ethereum contracts that track spot prices, carry embedded leverage, and trade around the clock. This is a financial product that's responsible for most of the crypto leverage in the world, and it's now crossed into the US market. Aside […]
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Bitcoin is trading near $64,500 this weekend, sitting between $65,000 resistance above and $62,500 support below, the two prices that will define its week. Bitcoin climbed as high as $66,990 on July 21, a one-month high, before slipping back under $65,000 and turning that former breakout line into overhead resistance. Trading volume over the past […]
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Chainlink drew more than $7 billion of token value onto its cross-chain infrastructure in the second quarter as institutional adoption accelerated, according to its second-quarter review. The migration came as crypto projects replaced older bridging systems and traditional-finance firms moved deeper into tokenized markets, expanding Chainlink’s role across both sides of the digital-asset economy. Chainlink […]
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Bitcoin could lower mining difficulty by roughly 16% when its next adjustment arrives around July 26, handing the machines that remain online a considerably larger expected share of the network’s rewards while doing almost nothing to resolve the expensive power contracts, debt obligations and strategic pressures pushing some of the industry’s largest companies away from […]
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Two Wall Street trading desks can hold economically similar exposure to Bitcoin and still pay materially different amounts to keep that exposure open. That's not because one desk made a better market call, but because the regulated products carrying the positions are inside collateral systems that don't always recognize them as parts of the same […]
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