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Liquid Network pauses after purported β€˜white-hat’ hackers withdraw $320 million in bitcoin

By: Zack Abrams β€”
The Bitcoin sidechain has been paused, with exchanges suspending LBTC deposits and withdrawals as Blockstream works to contact those responsible.

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STONK surges 250% to $140 million market cap as stock-paired Solana launchpad StonkFun pulls volume to Raydium and Jupiter

By: Zack Abrams β€”
The platform integrated with Raydium's LaunchLab on Saturday as RAY also saw gains of more than 40%.Β 

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Coinbase-backed Router Protocol to shut down, burn 303 million ROUTE tokens

By: Zack Abrams β€”
The shutdown comes after attempts to commercialize, license or find a buyer for its technology failed to produce a sustainable business.Β 

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UBS, Jane Street among firms with combined $75 million in Hyperliquid ETF holdings: Bloomberg

By: Zack Abrams β€”
Brazil's Wealth High Governance Asset Management held about $24 million worth of 21Shares' HYPE fund as of the end of June, the top HYPE ETF holder.

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LeBron James teases Polymarket partnership in new social media video

By: Zack Abrams β€”
The announcement comes after James' free agency decision generated $273 million in prediction market volume across platforms.

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Buying memecoins with credit cards on Robinhood Wallet and Fomo appears to sidestep card-network crypto rules

By: Zack Abrams β€”
Test memecoin purchases were coded as "digital media" rather than crypto, earning credit card points despite card network restrictions.

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Kalshi becomes exclusive prediction market partner of US Open: report

By: Zack Abrams β€”
As part of the agreement, rival prediction market platforms are reportedly barred from advertising at the tournament and on its ESPN broadcasts.

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Crypto.com-linked Cronos network halts after Tectonic exploit estimated at $75 million

By: Zack Abrams β€”
Li says the attacker manipulated the price of Tectonic's illiquid TONIC token before borrowing against the inflated collateral, a Mango Markets-style hack.

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Chainalysis accuses ICE of unfairly steering $95 million blockchain contract to TRM Labs

By: Zack Abrams β€”
The lawsuit asks a federal court to block the $95 million TRM contract and require ICE to conduct a full and open competition.

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Layer 1 blockchain Fogo halts mainnet after attacker receives 400 million FOGO tokens, 10% of circulating supply

By: Zack Abrams β€”
The affected tokens make up about 4% of FOGO's genesis supply and were worth about $3 million at the time of the incident.Β 

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Cosmos Labs says it wrongly cleared the bug behind a $5.7 million six-chain hack

By: Zack Abrams β€”
MANTRA Chain, which lost $3.6 million, claimed the patch was only released 20 hours before the attack began and did not identify the flaw it fixed.Β 

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Former White House teleprompter operator ordered to pay $172,000 for Kalshi trades on mention markets

By: Zack Abrams β€”
The fine marks the CFTC's second insider trading case against a federal employee trading event contracts and its second related settlement in four weeks.Β 

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DeFi lending protocol Term Finance loses an estimated $8.5 million to governance exploit

By: Zack Abrams β€”
Term vault proposals face a seven-day delay and can be vetoed by liquidity providers, yet those controls apparently did not stop the exploit.

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Tether’s $120 million Uruguay bitcoin mining project collapsed over a power contract dispute: Reuters

By: Zack Abrams β€”
UTE cut power to Tether's mining sites in July 2025 after Tether representatives did not attend the signing of a revised contract, per the report.

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Bitcoin and ether ETFs draw $2.6 billion in strongest inflow week since October, tripling volume

By: Zack Abrams β€”
Combined ETF weekly trading volume more than tripled to $29 billion as bitcoin and ether prices rallied, though both categories are negative on the year.

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Zcash hits eight-year high near $850 with futures volume near $10 billion amid Grayscale ETF push

By: Zack Abrams β€”
CoinGlass recorded nearly $10 billion in 24-hour futures volume and $1.76 billion in open interest, indicating that derivatives made up much of the trading.

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Solana cuts mainnet slot time to 350 milliseconds in first step toward 200ms goal

By: Zack Abrams β€”
The change should lead to faster transaction confirmations but is not designed to increase the overall throughput of the network.Β 

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Prediction market Novig sues Wisconsin AG in latest spat over sports contracts

By: Zack Abrams β€”
Novig, which recently announced a partnership with the New York Mets, has sued officials in five states including Wisconsin since Aug. 4.

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Wallet provider SafePal says data breach exposed personal info of nearly 40,000 customers

By: Zack Abrams β€”
SafePal said it found the root cause of the breach recently, though customers had posted online about being targeted by phishing attempts as early as July.Β 

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Hackers exploited macOS Screen Sharing flaw to install Monero miners, Dutch cyber agency says

By: Zack Abrams β€”
U.S. officials rated the severity of the vulnerability a critical 9.8/10 on the CVSS scale, and experts are warning users to update their devices.

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JPMorgan cut Polymarket’s banking ties in October but still wants a role in a potential IPO: FT

By: Zack Abrams β€”
Polymarket has moved its accounts to a lender the report could not identify but says it still maintains a "close, active relationship" with JPMorgan.

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Harvard leaves bitcoin ETF stake untouched in Q2 after cutting it 43% in the prior quarter

By: Zack Abrams β€”
UAE-based Mubadala Investment Company and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council also retained their combined 22.9 million IBIT shares.

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Trump, CFTC Chair Selig expected at Wednesday White House meeting with crypto and prediction market executives

By: Sarah Wynn and Zack Abrams β€”
The session is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday and is intended as a kickoff for the CFTC's first Innovation Advisory Committee meeting the next day.

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World Liberty received $100 million from businessman investigated for money laundering: NYT

By: Zack Abrams β€”
The businessman, Guren "Bobby" Zhou, has not been charged, though British officials told the Times that the investigation remained active as of late July.
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Brazil to tighten crypto fraud controls with new 24-hour wait on transfers to self-custody wallets

By: Zack Abrams β€”
The new rule will take effect on Jan. 1, 2027, and will cover cryptocurrencies including fiat-backed stablecoins.Β Β 
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Bitcoin’s BIP-110 supporters split onto minority chain as main network pulls ahead

By: Zack Abrams β€”
BIP-110 is a proposed one-year change that limits non-financial data on Bitcoin and has sparked a debate over how Bitcoin's block space should be used.
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Majority Leader Thune files cloture on Clarity Act, setting up Sept. 15 Senate vote

By: Zack Abrams β€”
The Senate is set to vote on the motion on Tuesday, Sept. 15, the day after the body returns, though at least seven non-Republicans will need to support it.
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Bitcoin, ether ETFs draw $1.1 billion in best inflow week since April, despite low volume

By: Zack Abrams β€”
Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas tied the run to the Coldcard wallet exploit, noting several Bitcoin funds have drawn inflows daily since the hack.Β 
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World Liberty received $100 million from businessman investigated for money laundering: NYT

By: Zack Abrams β€”

The businessman, Guren "Bobby" Zhou, has not been charged, though British officials told the Times that the investigation remained active as of late July.

☐ β˜† βœ‡ The Block

Brazil to tighten crypto fraud controls with new 24-hour wait on transfers to self-custody wallets

By: Zack Abrams β€”

The new rule will take effect on Jan. 1, 2027, and will cover cryptocurrencies including fiat-backed stablecoins.Β Β 

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Bitcoin’s BIP-110 supporters split onto minority chain as main network pulls ahead

By: Zack Abrams β€”

BIP-110 is a proposed one-year change that limits non-financial data on Bitcoin and has sparked a debate over how Bitcoin's block space should be used.

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Majority Leader Thune files cloture on Clarity Act, setting up Sept. 15 Senate vote

By: Zack Abrams β€”

The Senate is set to vote on the motion on Tuesday, Sept. 15, the day after the body returns, though at least seven non-Republicans will need to support it.

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Bitcoin, ether ETFs draw $1.1 billion in best inflow week since April, despite low volume

By: Zack Abrams β€”

Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas tied the run to the Coldcard wallet exploit, noting several Bitcoin funds have drawn inflows daily since the hack.Β 

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SEC keeps Nasdaq bitcoin options on hold after granting CME review

By: Zack Abrams β€”

CME is arguing that the contracts are commodity option swaps subject exclusively to the CFTC's oversight rather than the SEC's.Β 

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Saylor hints at Strategy bitcoin buy after five-week pause as STRC rate stays at 12%: β€˜Bitcoin Drive engaged’

By: Zack Abrams β€”

Strategy has gone five consecutive weeks without a disclosed bitcoin purchase; the firm last reported holding 843,775 BTC acquired for $63.69 billion.

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Trump Media says $165 million bitcoin transfer to Crypto.com wasn’t a sale

By: Zack Abrams β€”

The company said a similar transfer to Crypto.com in May was part of a broader trading strategy and did not represent a sale.

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Iran-linked exchange sent $676 million to Binance wallets in alleged sanctions-evasion operation: Reuters

By: Zack Abrams β€”

Dubai-based Shelbit processed over $4 billion since May 2024 through a network tied to Iranian gambling sites, the central bank, and the IRGC, per Reuters.

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BNB Chain β€˜pursuing legal action’ against former employee over memecoin launched from tutorial wallet

By: Zack Abrams β€”

Lookonchain said the former employee bought nearly 80% of ASTEROID's supply for $10,000 before selling most of the tokens for about $638,000.

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Russian decree bans crypto mining across Moscow region through 2032

By: Zack Abrams β€”

Regional energy officials had estimated that mining consumes 1 GW of power and could contribute to future electricity shortages.Β 

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Triple-A hot wallet losses climb to $11.8 million as new deposits keep being swept: report

By: Zack Abrams β€”

Triple-A said it is investigating and that customer funds are not affected, though it has not fully addressed the incident publicly.Β 

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Michael Saylor teases β€˜another color’ after four straight weeks without a Strategy bitcoin buy

By: Zack Abrams β€”

Strategy holds 843,775 BTC at an average cost of $75,476, leaving the position roughly $9.3 billion underwater with bitcoin near $64,600.

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BitMart to wind down trading platform as global CEO says he was not consulted

By: Zack Abrams β€”

BitMart's global CEO said the firm told him on July 24 that his employment was ending and that he learned of the closure when it went public.

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EU adds HTX to Russia sanctions list, barring transactions starting Aug. 23

By: Zack Abrams β€”

Other crypto platforms listed alongside HTX include EXMO, Rapira, BitPapa, Aifory Pro, WhiteBird, NoOnecrypto and Exnode.

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Robinhood in talks to add Crypto.com prediction markets as Kalshi rivalry grows: WSJ

By: Zack Abrams β€”

A deal would let Robinhood customers trade yes-or-no contracts offered through Crypto.com’s derivatives business, though no deal has yet been reached.

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Bitcoin ETF weekly trading volume falls to lowest since October 2024 as ether funds lead inflows again

By: Zack Abrams β€”

Ether funds have drawn nearly as much capital as bitcoin ETFs over the past three weeks despite holding about one-eighth as much in net assets.

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Saylor urges Bitcoin to reject BIP-110 in 110-point essay as soft fork’s August showdown approaches

By: Zack Abrams β€”

Saylor followed up Sunday with a cryptic tracker-chart post captioned "What's next?" ahead of Strategy's expected Monday disclosure.

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Upbit parent Dunamu faces sanction process nearly eight months after $30 million hack: report

By: Zack Abrams β€”

The severity of any sanctions remains unclear because South Korea's current crypto law contains no direct sanction provisions for hacking or IT failures.

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France orders internet providers to block Polymarket ahead of World Cup final

By: Zack Abrams β€”

The order cuts French users off ahead of the World Cup final, which will settle the largest event markets in the industry's history.

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US regulators miss GENIUS Act’s one-year deadline for final stablecoin rules

By: Zack Abrams β€”

The delay does not postpone the law’s Jan. 18, 2027 effective date, leaving regulators and stablecoin issuers with a compressed implementation window.

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