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Flowdesk Lands a Full VARA Broker-Dealer Licence in Dubai

Flowdesk Omega FZE received Dubai VARA's full broker-dealer licence for qualified and institutional investors, about two months after its in-principle approval.

· 10 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

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Coinsbuy Drained of About $8M Across Tron and Ethereum

Attackers pulled roughly $8 million from Coinsbuy's wallets on Tron and Ethereum, moved 79% through FixedFloat within hours, and the exchange is repaying from reserves.

· 9 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

BIP-110's Fork Mines Two Blocks in Eight Hours and Stalls

Bitcoin's data-limits fork opened its mandatory phase at 2.53% support, mined two blocks in eight hours and fell 98 behind, facing a 350-day wait for a difficulty reset.

· 9 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

Galaxy Puts the Coldcard Theft at 1,719 BTC From More Than 250 Victims

Galaxy Research counts 1,719 BTC confirmed stolen in the Coldcard exploit, about $111 million from more than 250 victims, and warns the total may top $130 million.

· 8 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Coinkite Suspends the Policy That Deleted Customer Data After 120 Days

The Coldcard maker paused the automated erasure of customer records, citing preservation duties from anticipated legal proceedings. Customers can still opt out on request.

· 7 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Japan's FSA Opens a Cryptocurrency and Stablecoin Division

Japan's financial regulator stood up a dedicated crypto and stablecoin division on 7 August, folding in its monitoring office and adding innovation and digital-payment units.

· 7 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Binance Sues RedotPay's Founders for $472.8M in Hong Kong

Three Binance-linked entities filed a Hong Kong claim against RedotPay's co-founders, alleging 470,000 diverted users and $304M of misrouted Binance Pay funds.

· 6 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

XRPL Ships xrpld 3.3.0 With Confidential Transfers and Batching

The XRP Ledger shipped xrpld 3.3.0 on 6 August, retiring five old amendments and putting confidential transfers and batching in front of validators.

· 6 Aug 2026· 🕐 4 min read

News

A Sixteen-Person AI Audit Returns 4,962 Findings Across 390 Bitcoin Repos

The Bitcoin Red Team filed 4,962 findings, 85 of them critical, across 390 open-source repositories in 27.5 hours, on just over $40,000 of OpenSats funding.

· 5 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Wells Fargo, BNY and Western Union Ship Stablecoin Rails on One Day

Wells Fargo, BNY and Western Union each announced digital-asset product on 4 August: a tokenized deposit, a custody staking service and a consumer stablecoin card.

· 4 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

Galaxy Counts at Least Fifteen Attackers in the Coldcard Exploit

Galaxy Research counted at least 15 independent attackers sweeping vulnerable Coldcard wallets, with 1,596 BTC confirmed stolen and a suspected total of 2,055 BTC.

· 4 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

BlackRock Launches Two Tokenized Funds Across Three Chains

BlackRock launched BSTBL on Ethereum and BRSRV across Solana, Ethereum and Tempo on 3 August, the latter built as a GENIUS Act-eligible stablecoin reserve.

· 3 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read