Developed by Breez in partnership with Bitcoin Spark, the Glow app lets users send stablecoins from their Bitcoin balance, while empowering developers to build better user experiences without having to worry about the difficult parts of building on top of Bitcoin. Breez’s SDK takes care of asset exchange in the background while supporting lightning payments … Read more
Today, August 7, 2026, the cryptocurrency market is buzzing with news surrounding Shiba Inu (SHIB). In a significant development, a massive token burn event has just occurred, with approximately 83 million SHIB tokens being removed from circulation. While this move is designed to reduce supply and potentially boost value, SHIB’s price action remains under pressure, … Read more
A bipartisan ethics proposal pitched to US President Donald Trump to secure passage of the crypto market structure bill in Congress could create a significant tax benefit for the president, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The ethics addendum, which has not been made public, includes a provision requiring the president to divest from crypto-related businesses, according to … Read more
Ex-governor of New York and Democrat Andrew Cuomo has said lawmakers need to hurry up and get the “highly political” Clarity Act over the line. Cuomo, who is also the director of crypto exchange OKX, said that Democrats and Republicans were mainly locking horns over the ethics language in the bill. A number of lawmakers … Read more
Two groups affiliated with the cryptocurrency company-backed political action committee (PAC) Fairshake disclosed spending more than $1.5 million on media to support House of Representatives and Senate candidates in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming after suffering a primary loss in Michigan on Tuesday. According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings as of Thursday, Fairshake PAC affiliates … Read more
Demand for US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has accelerated over the past week, with a string of daily inflows coinciding with the Coldcard wallet hack — timing that has prompted speculation about whether some investors are reconsidering self-custody. According to Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), Fidelity Wise Origin … Read more
Investors are throwing cash at spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds following the massive Coldcard hack. Major U.S. funds managed by BlackRock, Fidelity, Grayscale, Morgan Stanley and others have received a total of $626 million in fresh cash following news of the hack on Friday, according to data from Farside Investors. Hackers last week started millions in … Read more
Brazil’s B3 stock exchange made headlines last month when its tokenized cows went viral. A farmer in southern Brazil was able to use 10 cows as collateral for a 100,000 Brazilian real ($19,600) loan by virtually herding them into a blockchain based holding pen, demonstrating how farmers can literally milk their assets to access credit. … Read more
Sandisk (SNDK) and Western Digital (WDC), two of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI storage boom, were both 10% lower in pre-market trading Thursday, despite reporting strong quarterly results. Sandisk posted record fourth-quarter revenue of $8.97 billion and non-GAAP EPS of $39.25, comfortably beating expectations. Western Digital also delivered a double beat, reporting revenue of … Read more
BIP-110 is approaching its first consequential activation boundary. The proposal enters mandatory signaling at block 961,632, currently projected around August 9, 2026. It locks in no later than block 963,648, roughly in late August, and activates its new transaction rules at block 965,664, currently projected for early September. BIP-110 uses a 55% signaling threshold and … Read more