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News

Mastercard Closes Its BVNK Deal at $1.5B

Mastercard completed its purchase of stablecoin payments firm BVNK on 3 August, its first direct acquisition of stablecoin rails rather than a partnership.

· 3 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

Tokenized Real-World Assets Cross $36.8B

A single weekly digest, relaying tracker data, marked a new high for tokenized real-world assets, with no asset-class breakdown and no second outlet carrying the print.

· 2 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Coinkite Tells Coldcard Users to Migrate as a Third Sweep Lands

Coinkite told Coldcard owners to keep their devices but abandon their seeds, and named five rival wallets, as a third sweep wave pushed the tally near $89 million.

· 2 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

The Coldcard Flaw Traces to One Disabled Build Flag

A 2021 build-config error left Coldcard firmware using a general-purpose pseudorandom generator instead of the chip's hardware RNG, cutting seed entropy far below 128 bits.

· 1 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

A 2021 Firmware Flaw Drains 594 BTC From Coldcard Wallets

A build error in Coldcard firmware from March 2021 cut key strength from 128 bits to about 40, and an attacker swept 594 BTC out of some 500 wallets in 25 minutes.

· 31 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Coinbase Misses on Q2 Revenue but Takes a Record Share

Coinbase posted $1.22 billion of second-quarter revenue against a $1.29 billion estimate, while claiming a record 10.3% of global crypto trading volume.

· 30 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

Aave Moves to Retire 50 Reserves and Six Deployments

Aave governance took up a proposal to deprecate 50 low-adoption reserves and close six chain deployments, covering $98.1 million supplied and $15.6 million borrowed.

· 30 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

The Fed Holds Rates for a Fifth Straight Meeting

The Federal Reserve left its policy rate at 3.50%–3.75% for a fifth straight meeting on July 29, and crypto barely moved: bitcoin held just under $64,000.

· 29 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Solana Raises Its Block Compute Limit 66% to 100M Units

Solana lifted its maximum block compute budget from 60 million units to 100 million at epoch 1009, a 66% capacity increase that left slot timing untouched.

· 29 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Tether's USAT Goes Live on Celo

Tether's GENIUS Act-compliant dollar token USAT expanded beyond Ethereum for the first time, launching natively on Celo where it can also pay its own gas fees.

· 29 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

Ondo Scraps Its Own L1 for the Ondo Network

Ondo dropped the layer-1 chain it announced in February 2025 for a private execution layer that settles on public chains, starting with perps.

· 28 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Morgan Stanley Launches Staking ETFs at 0.14%

Morgan Stanley's MSSE and MSOL began trading Tuesday at 0.14%, the cheapest fee in each category, with staking rewards accruing to the funds themselves.

· 28 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read