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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

Market

Spot Bitcoin ETFs Close Their Best Week Since April

US spot bitcoin ETFs drew $853.54M over five sessions with no outflow days, 81% of it into BlackRock's IBIT — but the funds are still billions in the red for 2026.

· 7 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Mining

MARA and CleanSpark Post a Combined $851M Quarterly Loss

MARA lost $611.3M and CleanSpark $239.8M as revenue fell 27% and 30.5%. Both leaned harder on AI and data-center capacity, and both stocks fell on the print.

· 6 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

Bitcoin

Bitcoin's Mempool Is the Busiest Since February 2025

Bitcoin's transaction queue hit 89,031 unconfirmed entries on 5 August, with active addresses at a three-month high. The congestion came from wallet migration, not trading.

· 5 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Circle Posts $701M in Quarterly Revenue and Dates Arc for September

Circle's second quarter brought $701M of revenue, $73.3B of USDC outstanding and a Coinbase distribution deal renewed through 2029. Arc's mainnet is dated 16 September.

· 5 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Bitcoin Volatility Hits a Ten-Week Low as ETF Money Returns

Bitcoin's 30-day implied volatility fell to 36%, its lowest since 31 May, while US spot ETFs took $211.49 million on a second straight day of inflows.

· 4 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

Bitcoin

Strategy Sells 1,638 BTC in Its Second Monetization Step

Strategy sold 1,638 BTC for $104.73 million at an average of $63,957, leaving 842,138 BTC carried at an average cost of $75,419 and a dollar reserve of $4 billion.

· 3 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read