Strategy, the business intelligence firm that has built the largest corporate Bitcoin treasury, continued adjusting its capital structure last week through a combination of stock sales and preferred share repurchases. Strategy sold 5,429,160 shares of its Class A common stock (MSTR) through its at-the-market (ATM) offering program between July 20 and July 26, generating $544.5 … Read more
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is pushing back against calls for crypto to pivot to artificial intelligence, arguing AI agents will instead stoke demand for crypto-based financial services. Armstrong took to X on Sunday to tout agentic finance (AiFi), highlighting Coinbase’s Base network, USDC and x402 as the infrastructure for autonomous machine-to-machine payments. “AI being a … Read more
Withdrawals from crypto exchange BitMart appeared to slow after it announced plans to wind down its operations. On Monday, blockchain analytics account Lookonchain reported that only 58 wallets withdrew about $805,000 in over 24 hours. It added that the exchange had not processed any withdrawals during the latest eight-hour period it tracked. X users also … Read more
Something wild is happening in the crypto world right now. The Solana network, a big player in the digital currency space, is under a massive attack. Hackers are hitting it hard with a Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS, attack. This means they are flooding the network with so much fake traffic that it can’t … Read more
[Updated July 27, 2026, 2:16 UTC: Revised to reflect clarifications from a Garden Finance spokesperson.] Garden Finance said an independent solver’s off-chain database was compromised in an incident that prompted the cross-chain bridge and atomic swap protocol to temporarily take its app offline. On Sunday, Blockaid said an attacker drained about $450,000 in USDT from … Read more
Clarity may get a vote, but don’t get your hopes up yet Despite wealthy memecoin entrepreneur Donald Trump agreeing to an ethics deal, the Clarity Act is floundering as the August recess deadline looms. Senate Majority Leader John Thune doesn’t believe the Act has the votes to pass just yet, but may bring it to … Read more
The Smarter Web Company has sold a portion of its Bitcoin treasury to repay an $11.7 million convertible debt facility held by TOBAM, a move the company frames as a choice for balance-sheet flexibility over equity dilution. The company sold 177.8909127 BTC at an average price of $65,762 to retire the instrument, known as the … Read more
For the second time this year, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a warning to prediction markets operators to follow the rules when creating contract certifications that operators consider cover a broad swath of events contracts. The CFTC, which claims to be the primary regulator of prediction markets, on Friday issued an advisory … Read more
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren has blasted the Clarity Act draft bill, claiming it would allow criminals and cartels to move money. Speaking in a video statement on X Wednesday, Warren hinted that the potential law would allow President Donald Trump to make money from crypto. Lawmakers are currently mulling over the latest draft of the … Read more
Senate Democrats have rejected the ethics provision in the latest Clarity Act draft in blunt terms, and Majority Leader John Thune cast doubt on Thursday that the crypto market-structure bill can pass before the August recess. “Whatever piece of s–t they sent back to us, that was not a serious effort,” Senator Ruben Gallego of … Read more