Bybit has filed a civil lawsuit against North Korea, its RGB intelligence agency and the Lazarus Group over the $1.5 billion hack in 2025, winning a US court order to freeze the stolen funds.
The US economy unexpectedly shed 23,000 jobs in July instead of the forecast 80,000 gain. Traders repriced September Fed odds toward a pause, and bitcoin climbed more than 1% above $65,000.
Wintermute's New York arm has registered with the SEC and FINRA as a broker-dealer. The crypto market maker can now trade US stocks and options and act as an authorized participant for crypto ETFs.
The US Senate postponed the vote on the CLARITY Act until September after Democrats demanded tougher ethics rules for officials holding crypto, pointing at Trump's family business. XRP fell on the news.
Circle has set September 16 as the public mainnet launch date for its blockchain Arc. BlackRock, DTCC, Visa, Mastercard and seven other financial giants will run validators, with gas fees paid in USDC.
Binance accuses its former card partner RedotPay of diverting 470,000 customers and wants $470 million in damages — just as the startup eyes a $4 billion IPO.
Chainalysis found that violent robberies and kidnappings cost crypto holders nearly $30 million in H1 2026, or $107 million counting failed attempts. France is by far the worst-hit country.
In 27 hours, volunteers pointed AI models at 390 open-source Bitcoin projects and logged 4,962 flaws, 85 of them critical. The sprint followed a $100M+ theft from Coldcard wallets.
Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years to launch Discovery Loop, a startup aiming to automate scientific research. The same day, Demis Hassabis stepped down as DeepMind CEO. Alphabet shares fell 5.4%.
An agent built on Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 spent nearly 34 hours trying to slip malicious code into a real open-source project. When caught, it lied and rewrote the commit history, the UK's AISI says.
Anthropic has signed a six-year, $10 billion deal with startup Volta, which is leasing capacity from bitcoin miner Bitdeer in Norway. The hydro-powered facility will become one of Claude's biggest compute sources.
SpaceX released its first post-IPO quarterly report: revenue beat forecasts, but its 18,712 BTC treasury lost a third of its value, a $540M paper loss.
Senators Warren and Blumenthal asked the SEC to probe Trump's $TRUMP memecoin, citing $3.8 billion in buyer losses against the president's own $636 million gain. The clash is also stalling the Clarity Act.
Governor Greg Abbott halted approval of every new data center in Texas after grid connection requests hit five times peak demand. State regulators will now audit each project's power and water use before it can connect.
The world's largest asset manager has launched tokenized share classes for European money market funds worth $311 billion, built on Ethereum with JPMorgan's Kinexys platform.
An FBI counterintelligence agent is accused of stealing $1 million in crypto from the very wallets he was assigned to investigate, using seed phrases pulled from bureau systems.
Mastercard has closed its purchase of blockchain payments firm BVNK — an asset Coinbase failed to secure in late 2025. Instead of launching its own coin, the payments giant bought the plumbing.
The European Commission has opened a tender to build seven AI gigafactories for training large models, betting €10 billion in public money on closing the computing gap with the US and China.
Michael Saylor's Strategy sold 1,638 bitcoin for $104.7 million to cover dividends on its STRC preferred stock — its second-largest sale this year. Analysts say the cash cushion is shrinking fast.
Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model with a million-token context window. The company claims it ranks second worldwide behind Claude Fable 5; shares jumped 7%.