Blockchain & Digital Assets

August 6, 2026 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin has moved closer to the $65,000 level in recent sessions, trading in the mid-to-high $64,000 range as of early August 2026. The cryptocurrency has shown resilience after earlier consolidation in the low $60,000s, with intermittent advances testing the psychologically important $65,000 BTC price threshold… Read More

August 6, 2026 @ 5:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tokyo-based JPYC Inc., the issuer of Japan’s regulated yen-pegged stablecoin, has completed an extension of its Series B funding round, bringing the cumulative total raised in the series to roughly 6 billion yen (about $38 million). The company disclosed the development in an official announcement,… Read More

August 6, 2026 @ 4:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has announced the addition of 24-hour trading of equities five days a week in the UK. According to a note from Coinbase UK, customers will be able to trade approximately 4,000 stocks, as well as manage their crypto and other financial needs, all… Read More

August 6, 2026 @ 1:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tribal gaming regulators and members of Congress are pressing for specific language in the pending CLARITY Act to prevent prediction markets from offering sports and casino-style contracts outside existing state and tribal oversight. The call came during a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs roundtable held… Read More

August 6, 2026 @ 12:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent joint proof-of-concept between Partior and OpenAssets has shown that digital assets, regulated stablecoins, and commercial bank tokenized deposits can complete simultaneous, risk-free settlement. The exercise points to a practical route for continuous, always-on atomic clearing that uses tokenized deposits as the central settlement… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 9:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uniswap, one of the largest decentralized exchanges by trading volume, has broadened its services beyond swaps and liquidity provision by introducing Earn. This new product enables traders and investors to generate passive returns on idle digital assets without leaving the Uniswap interface. Available in both… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 9:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Western Union (NYSE: WU) has rolled out a new product called Stablecard, developed together with the stablecoin infrastructure firm Rain. The offering pairs a digital wallet holding the company’s own dollar-linked token, USDPT, with a Visa secured credit card. The goal is to let people… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 5:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

STS Digital, a Bermuda-regulated principal trading firm focused on digital asset derivatives, has expanded institutional access by integrating its options and spot trading capabilities with Talos, a provider of institutional digital asset infrastructure. This collaboration enables professional clients to access STS Digital’s deep liquidity and… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 2:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Three men from St. Louis, Missouri, are facing federal charges in connection with an alleged scheme to seize Bitcoin through a planned residential break-in in Connecticut nearly two years earlier. US Attorney David X. Sullivan for the District of Connecticut announced that Sedric Louis, 32,… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 1:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cryptocurrency project Scandic Coin (SNC) has issued a formal public demand for answers from the exchange BitMart regarding three long-pending withdrawal requests that remain unresolved. The requests, submitted from an approved institutional account, involve substantial amounts of USDT and SNC tokens that have stayed in… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 12:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Senate is scheduled to go into recess at the end of business this Friday, leaving only a couple of days for the CLARITY Act to reach a floor vote. While a growing number of Americans hold crypto and there is an obvious need to… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 10:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Cloudflare (NYSE:NET), the internet infrastructure platform that just about everyone in the world uses, says it has integrated artificial intelligence (AI) agents, digital wallets, and the ability to use stablecoins. Cloudflare Wallets will enable agentic commerce in a secure environment. Cloudflare Wallets and Cloudflare.pay aim… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 10:29 am By JD Alois  |  

In a challenging market for the world’s most popular crypto, Xapo Bank reports that its clients are buying more Bitcoin. According to a note from the bank, data from Q2 2026 (79%) shows an increase in the amount of Bitcoin held in accounts during the… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 9:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the US Senate approaches its summer recess, attention remains fixed on the fate of the CLARITY Act, a major piece of digital asset market structure legislation. Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has offered a measured perspective: while passage would represent the ideal outcome… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 9:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) is preparing to introduce tokenized deposits for its corporate and commercial customers later this year, marking another major bank’s move into blockchain technology for payments and settlements. The initiative aims to modernize how businesses handle funds while remaining firmly within the… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 9:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Candidates supported by the cryptocurrency industry’s political action committee network advanced through key party primaries in Michigan and Washington on Tuesday, according to results reported by the Associated Press. Affiliates of Fairshake provided hundreds of thousands of dollars in independent expenditures to several of the… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 4:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A group of Ethereum researchers has put forward a draft proposal designed to reshape the network’s staking economics by progressively destroying a share of the rewards paid to validators. Known as the Tapered Issuance Burn and provisionally designated EIP-8361, the idea aims to remove the… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 2:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pump.fun, the Solana-based platform that allows users to quickly launch meme coins, has come under scrutiny following reports that it terminated employees just weeks or months before their company token grants were set to begin unlocking. An investigation by Sandmark, drawing on internal documents, emails,… Read More

August 5, 2026 @ 1:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) is preparing to restructure the share structure of its flagship spot Ethereum exchange-traded fund through a one-for-three reverse share split. The adjustment, approved by the fund’s sponsor, is scheduled to take effect in early October and aims to recalibrate the product’s trading dynamics… Read More

August 4, 2026 @ 9:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bahrain-based fintech Infinios has launched operational stablecoin settlement services in partnership with Mastercard (NYSE:MA), reportedly becoming the first issuer in the Kingdom of Bahrain to do so. The move enables the use of regulated stable digital currencies for settlement processes and positions Bahrain more strongly as… Read More