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Altcoin traders saw median profits 3 to 6.6 times larger than large caps across seven years of data. Three-quarters of Ethereum DEX traders now lose money, CoinGecko found.
CFTC Chairman Selig directs staff to draft crypto market rules under existing authorities if Congress fails to pass the CLARITY Act. A Sept. 15 cloture vote will test the bill's path forward.
Bitfinex stops trading in 13 tokens. Withdrawals remain open until Aug. 31, 10:00 UTC. Ticker mismatches, single withdrawal routes and continuing futures contracts add complexity.
Bitgo Korea secured a VASP registration from the Korea FIU, backed by Hana Financial Group and SK Telecom. The approval came two days before tougher entry rules took effect.
Bitcoin holds $63,300 after a nine-day low, absorbing U.S.-Iran tensions, a Strategy BTC sale, and a 4 billion ONE mint. XRP, ADA face selling pressure.
Rapid7 uncovered ASTERIX, a crypto fraud pipeline that was live when discovered. Of 316,002 German numbers checked, 43,066 matched real exchange accounts. The operators sent only six phishing emails and logged 20 lookups in two weeks.
ARK Invest's Lorenzo Valente says specialized RWA markets could give DeFi apps like Trade.xyz leverage over host chains on fees, as real-world assets surpass crypto volume on Hyperliquid for the first time.
Kraken parent Payward is scouting overseas bank licenses, co-CEO Ripley said, as it pushes lending and custody services beyond its core crypto exchange business.
CFTC Chairman Michael Selig readies a fallback crypto market framework under existing law if Congress cannot pass the CLARITY Act. The plan includes a new DCM type for crypto exchanges
Crypto and AI companies lead a record $517 million in corporate election spending for 2026, with Fairshake holding $130 million. Coinbase, Ripple, and others fuel super PACs.
Binance's Agent OS lets ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI tools trade crypto under user-set limits. The move follows Coinbase and OKX into autonomous trading infrastructure.
New Reuters/Ipsos poll finds 63% of Americans disapprove of Trump's crypto holdings while in office. Partisan split is stark: 92% of Democrats oppose, 69% of Republicans approve. Senate vote on crypto clarity bill set for Sept. 15.
Edward Zimbardi faces 25 counts after $165M crypto fraud. The program paid 25% monthly returns using new investor money. Deportation from Fiji ended a year-long flight.
RWA perpetual futures volume hit $347B in May 2026, up 1,472x from early 2025. Hyperliquid RWA perps reached 52% of platform volume, while oracle and deployer concentration pose structural risks.
CFTC Chair Michael Selig ordered staff to draft crypto rules that could bypass Congress, as the Clarity Act stalls over stablecoin yields and ethics disputes.
Grayscale's research head says the SEC's proposed token fundraising rule could pull U.S. issuers back onshore, reversing a years-long offshore trend driven by regulatory ambiguity.
CFTC Chair Michael Selig plans crypto asset rules if the CLARITY Act stalls in the Senate, directing staff on margin trading and developer protections.
Cody Carbone: US determined to be crypto capital; CLARITY Act nears vote with bipartisan support, Trump targets September signing. If stalled, SEC and CFTC may proceed with rulemaking.
Binance's new Agent OS platform gives AI agents direct access to exchange trading, market data, and subaccounts with user-set permission limits.
Total value locked across DeFi protocols jumped 9.15% to $83.2 billion on Aug. 20, with spot DEX volume topping $10 billion for the first time since early June. Hyperliquid dominated perpetual futures with $15.2 billion in 24-hour volume.
Binance's Agent OS lets AI agents trade and make payments on the exchange, with user-set permissions and revocable access. Coinbase and Kraken have similar tools.
Threat actor posed as a CoinDesk VP, used a rigged Google Doc and fake Ledger installer to target security researchers with AMOS infostealer and NetSupport RAT.
Coinbase and Ripple CEOs met Commerce Secretary Lutnick to push the CLARITY Act, stalled over ethics language. A compromise could revive the bill, but political hurdles remain.
Binance's ADGM licensing in December 2025 aimed for a fresh start, but European investigators say its UAE data routing policy slows their probes, the NYT reports.
X is in early talks to pay creators in USDC as it scraps its old rewards program for a new impressions-based model. The shift targets small, cross-border payments that traditional rails handle poorly.
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says tokenization of stocks and AI agents could multiply on-chain activity 10x to 100x, rewriting protocol revenue math.
CFTC Chair Selig directs staff to draft crypto market rules if Congress fails to pass the Clarity Act. He said legislation is preferred but the agency will act alone if needed.
Scammers are impersonating crypto AML checkers to trick users into approving wallet-draining transactions. Malwarebytes says the fake sites ask for wallet connections instead of just a public address.
CFTC Chair Selig says agency will pursue crypto rules, AI compute oversight and prediction market updates at first Innovation Advisory Committee meeting. CME Group among participants.
The SEC delayed a tokenized securities exemption to avoid complicating the Clarity Act's passage, Securitize's president said. Senate vote set for Sept. 15.