
BitMEX and BitMart Announce Shutdowns Three Days Apart
BitMEX said on July 23 it would close after 11 years; BitMart followed on July 26 after nine. Both set withdrawal deadlines, and BMX fell 58%.
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BitMEX said on July 23 it would close after 11 years; BitMart followed on July 26 after nine. Both set withdrawal deadlines, and BMX fell 58%.

Futu opened a real-time BNB order book under the SFC's virtual asset regime, restricted to Professional Investors holding at least HK$8 million.

CFTC staff told exchanges to stop bundling event contracts into template self-certifications. Letter 26-22 requires each to be filed in full under Rule 40.2.

Triple-A's hot wallets were drained across six chains and bridged into one Ethereum address. Published loss counts range from $9.3 million to about $12 million.

Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Capital put one of its private-markets strategies onchain with about $75M at launch, and Coinbase took exposure on its own balance sheet.

Mirae Asset Consulting holds 97.15% of Korbit, the first time an affiliate of a traditional Korean financial group has controlled a domestic crypto exchange.

DEXE fell about 85% on 22 July after team-linked wallets sent $6.2M of tokens to Binance. Three outlets gave three different closing prints: $4.83, $4.92 and $5.27.

Augustus raised $180 million led by Tiger Global at a $1 billion valuation to build a clearing bank for stablecoin settlement. It issues no token, only rails.

A King County judge barred Kalshi from offering event contracts to Washington residents, holding that federal commodities law does not displace state gambling law.

Michael Saylor set out 110 points against BIP-110, a one-year soft fork that would restrict data in bitcoin transactions and cut the signalling threshold to 55%.

Allbridge Core lost $1.65 million after its swap instruction accepted one pool account in two roles, letting a single address play both sides of a trade.

Cardano was the lone top-20 name with a real gain on a thin Saturday session, sentiment stayed in extreme fear, and the day's two market digests disagreed on the bitcoin and ether marks.