Bitcoin (BTC) passed one-month highs on Tuesday as price action defied the odds to top $66,000. Key points: Bitcoin broke through resistance to hit $66,000 for the first time in more than a month. Traders see as much as 6% BTC price gains if further nearby upside targets are reached. Month-end derivatives positioning underscores crypto … Read more
The White House’s top crypto adviser Patrick Witt said he will not take a leave of absence at the end of the month for military training, allowing him to remain in place to help advance the CLARITY Act in the Senate. “Last week, it was reported that I was set to leave for mandatory training … Read more
Celsius co-founders Shlomi Daniel Leon and Hanoch “Nuke” Goldstein have been ordered to pay over $6 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges alleging they misrepresented the safety of the Celsius platform before the company collapsed. Goldstein, Celsius’ former chief technology officer, was ordered to pay $2.014 million under an order signed Monday by US … Read more
A major security flaw has been found in a widely used Ethereum smart contract. This discovery sends shockwaves through the crypto community. Billions of dollars in digital assets are potentially exposed. The vulnerability could allow hackers to drain funds from applications built on this contract. We’re talking about a serious threat to decentralized finance (DeFi). … Read more
VIETNAM Vietnam goes after the little guys Vietnam will fine retail crypto users up to $1900 if they trade on unlicensed overseas platforms such as Binance, OKX and Bybit, instead of on licensed local exchanges. There’s just one problem: Vietnam’s Finance Ministry has yet to issue any exchange licenses for its regulated digital asset market … Read more
As lawmakers in the US Senate are likely to vote soon on the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act, representatives from advocacy organizations and companies are providing details of closed-door negotiations over the bill, which is expected to be the most comprehensive piece of legislation affecting the crypto industry. In a Monday CNBC interview, Coinbase … Read more
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued crypto mining investment business Mining Automatic and its founder, Zan Shaikh, alleging they raised $22 million from investors while spending only about 13% of the funds on mining operations. Mining Automatic was operated by Massachusetts-based Bright Vision Distribution LLC, which the SEC said raised the money … Read more
Shares of several Bitcoin mining companies surged Monday after Hut 8 and IREN announced major AI infrastructure deals, reinforcing investor optimism around miners expanding into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. IREN, Cipher Digital, CleanSpark, Hut 8 and MARA Holdings each gained at least 11% in early Monday trading. The rally followed Hut 8’s announcement of … Read more
Veteran trader Peter Brandt says he has pinpointed the exact day in 2026 when he expects Bitcoin to hit the bottom of this market cycle. “I’ll go out on a limb and say we bottom on October 4th. So we’ll see,” Brandt tells Cointelegraph during an interview for Trade Secrets. Of course, picking the exact … Read more
Institutional investors are looking beyond smart contract audits after traditional trust signals such as prior audits and operating history failed to predict which crypto projects would be exploited, according to Hacken. In its Q2 2026 Security & Compliance Report, Hacken said that only 9% of 1,427 tracked projects had third-party monitoring, while 4% combined monitoring … Read more