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Eric Trump Denies New Coin Launch as TRUMP Jumps 38%
The rumor included an unverified claim about a 290 ETH Robinhood Chain wallet, while MELANIA gained 18.4% over 24 hours.
Solana Activates 350-Millisecond Slots on Mainnet
The first cut since Solana’s inception shortens the block-production window for validators and begins an epoch-by-epoch path toward 200 milliseconds.
Bitcoin Posts Biggest Week Since 2024 as Trump Pushes Senate on CLARITY Act
Bitcoin gained 22.6% over seven days, its largest advance over any seven-day window since November 2024, after the president told crypto executives at the White House that Congress needs to pass market structure legislation.
Judge Keeps Sun's World Liberty Claims In Court
Justin Sun's individual claims will be heard in open court, and the two sides must negotiate which of the claims brought by his corporate plaintiffs go to a private arbitrator. No written order had been entered on the docket as of Thursday afternoon.
Arbitrum Activates Elara With Optional Compliance Filters for Dedicated Chains
Chain owners—not ArbitrumDAO—control screening on dedicated networks, while priority fees remain off on Arbitrum One pending another vote.
Bitcoin Tops $68,000 as Short Liquidations Hit $1.7 Billion
Ether gained 9% and total crypto market value rose 5.1% after the U.S. Treasury said it would at least double the size of its long-dated bond buybacks. Short positions accounted for 91% of the day's liquidations.
HSBC and Standard Chartered Complete First Live Transaction on Swift Blockchain Ledger
Swift’s ledger matched and netted obligations recorded on the banks’ separate platforms, but final settlement still ran through existing systems.
Maya Protocol Exploit Drains $1.7 Million From Shared Liquidity
Founder Aaluxx said he would ‘work to fix and recover in full,’ while routing service LeoDex reported that Maya had activated a global halt.
SEC Proposes Token Offering Rules With $75 Million Exemption
The proposal pairs two registration exemptions with a conditional safe harbor that would take the "investment contract" label off a token, and preempts state securities law. All three sitting commissioners backed it in a vote held outside a public meeting.
Omnichain Launchpad Printr Shuts Down, Cancels Token Launch And Airdrop
Printr said it will cease all operations by Aug. 31 and will not hold the token generation event or airdrop it had promised. The launchpad raised $4.5 million last October and collected 84% of its lifetime fees in a single month.
Deel Takes Its DLUSD Stablecoin Wallet to More Than 80 Countries
The payroll platform's dollar balance, issued through Stripe's Bridge and settled on Tempo, is now live across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. The US, UK, EU and Australia remain excluded.
Compound Foundation Names Coinbase And Anchorage Alumni To Run $52 Million Institutional Push
The DAO approved the two-year budget in May with 1.88 million COMP in favor and none against. Compound holds about $1.2 billion in deposits, against Aave's $14.8 billion.
Fake World Assets Opens Its Gacha Pool to New NFT Collections
TokenWorks will let artists issue collections directly into the randomized pool through a mechanism called FWAir, with backers fronting the ETH and creators paid out of trading fees rather than mint proceeds.
Stripe’s Reported $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Buys Micropayments Without a Blockchain
OpenRouter meters AI usage against prepaid deposits and charges 5% on crypto top-ups against 5.5% on card purchases made through Stripe. Stripe co-incubated Tempo to settle machine payments onchain; the chain is running at about one transaction per second.
SafePal Breach Exposes 39,798 Buyers as Stolen Records Hit Cybercrime Forum
The wallet maker says a flaw in an order-tracking plug-in leaked names, phone numbers and shipping addresses over 14 months. A seller is now advertising the file.
Tether Clears First Full Audit From KPMG Without Publishing the Statements
The Big Four firm issued an unqualified opinion on 2025 accounts for Tether's El Salvador issuing entity. The work was done to AICPA standards rather than the PCAOB standards the GENIUS Act sets for licensed U.S. issuers, and Tether has released neither the statements nor the opinion letter.
Norway Wealth Fund Discloses $81.9 Million BitMine Stake
The fund reported holding 6.15 million BMNR shares at June 30, giving it indirect Ethereum exposure through a listed company.
Standard Chartered Says Its $100 UNI Target May Be Too Low After Robinhood Chain Burns
Geoff Kendrick says UNI burns funded by Robinhood Chain trading have run at an annualized $90 million since Jul. 27. DefiLlama data puts Uniswap's protocol revenue at 2.4 times its prior level, with Robinhood Chain supplying about 60% of it.
Trezor Shipping-Provider Breach Exposes Data of 13,689 Customers
ShipMonk incident exposed names and contact details of recent customers in seven countries; Trezor says its devices and systems were not compromised.
ether.fi Adds Tokenized Stocks, New Fiat Rails And Aave-Backed Borrowing
The Summer release lands a week after the protocol pulled restaking out of weETH. The release also introduces programmatic ETHFI buybacks funded from every revenue line.
Securitize’s Tokenized Assets Hit $4.3 Billion as Revenue Falls
Tokenization revenue dropped 12% and operating costs jumped 56%, showing that higher onchain assets have yet to produce steadier earnings.
Boltz Founders Exit as Unnamed Bitcoin Group Agrees to Take Over Suspended Swap Service
The service remains offline while incoming operators work to fix vulnerabilities; Boltz said attacks caused losses to the company.
Circle’s cirBTC Is Live on Ethereum but Has Only 40 BTC Outstanding
Circle National Trust custodies the backing, while published Bitcoin addresses and Chainlink Proof of Reserve provide onchain visibility; Arc support remains forthcoming.
BitGo CFO to Exit as Q2 Net Loss Hits $19 Million
Revenue jumped 80%, but trading and staking margins weakened as BitGo targeted $15 million in annualized savings following June layoffs.