XRP trades near $1.06, down 2.9% over 24 hours and 8.6% over the past week, as CoinGlass shows $2.43 billion in XRP open interest, $2.47 billion in 24-hour futures volume, and just $361 million in spot volume. Futures turnover is running roughly 6.85 times spot turnover, and forced liquidations have already erased $9.5
Bitcoin fell over the past 24 hours as traders positioned for a Federal Reserve decision that could break a market pattern dating back more than three decades. Data from CryptoSlate showed the largest cryptocurrency falling as much as 3% to $62,913, its lowest level in nearly two weeks, before recovering to $63,795 as
ISBNdb is marketing physical-book orders of up to one million titles to AI developers, including material it describes as non-digitized, rare, or out of print. The offer, reported by 404 Media, puts a 2025 copyright ruling in an uncomfortable new light: discarding a purchased book can support the legal premise that its
Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is facing renewed scrutiny after three Bitcoin holders alleged they lost $1.8 million to a fake crypto wallet, adding to a growing list of malicious wallet apps that have reached users despite the company’s screening process. The lawsuit, filed July 24 in California, accuses Apple o
A two-minute price shock in a Hyperliquid market tied to South Korea’s SK Hynix has put the mechanics and oversight of equity-linked perpetuals under scrutiny. SKHX, a TradeXYZ-operated perpetual on Hyperliquid that tracks the US dollar value of one Korean SK Hynix share, briefly sank to $927 during South Korea’s pre-m
A federal judge has temporarily barred Minnesota from enforcing its new prediction-market felony law against federally regulated exchanges designated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission as contract markets, including Kalshi and Polymarket US, days before the statute takes effect on Aug. 1. Judge Katherine Menen
Maine's new virtual-currency unclaimed-property rules take effect July 29 with a five-year dormancy clock, while the State Treasurer's current reporting manual still shows three years. The mismatch leaves businesses that hold customer crypto without published transition instructions as the statute becomes effective. Pu
Bitcoin has largely shrugged off the deteriorating outlook for the CLARITY Act, raising the possibility that traders have already priced another legislative failure into the market. Data from CryptoSlate shows the largest cryptocurrency trading around $63,500 as of press time, above the roughly $61,900 level seen on Ju
Bitcoin traders have spent the past month reducing protection against a price decline while the Fed has made its next decision harder to predict. The Bitcoin options put-to-call open-interest ratio has fallen to approximately 0.52 from 0.76 in late June, meaning about 52 put contracts remain open for every 100 calls. M
Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a criminal complaint against Bitkub Online and two former directors, alleging that the crypto exchange submitted daily net-capital reports, known as Form DA 1, that failed to show the effect of a 2021 theft involving about 1.7 billion baht (roughly $53 million) in
Crypto’s 2026 bear market has become an industry-wide shakeout. Projects are closing, companies are winding down, and owners are retiring products across exchanges, DeFi, NFTs and infrastructure. The damage has the feel of capitulation. Bitcoin’s low still depends on demand, liquidity and positioning. That strain reach
Circle has acquired nearly 1,000 IBM blockchain patents as the USD Coin (USDC) issuer pushes deeper into the infrastructure connecting stablecoins with banks and payment networks. In a July 27 statement, the firm said the portfolio includes more than 680 patent families spanning blockchain technology, banking, financia
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has begun buying back its STRC preferred stock as the Bitcoin treasury company shifts more capital toward supporting its financing structure. In a July 27 SEC update, Strategy said it purchased 288,930 STRC shares for $25 million between July 20 and July 26, marking the first disclosed
The WEMIX team said compromised ownership of a contract tied to its WEMIX$ stablecoin enabled approximately 5.23 million tokens to be minted without authorization, prompting it to suspend bridges, liquidity pools, and several services on the WEMIX3.0 network. Contract-owner breach tested WEMIX$'s 1:1 design The WEMIX3.
BitMEX customers are seeking the return of 622.66 Bitcoin in a proposed class action that accuses the exchange of engineering liquidations and retaining traders’ collateral. The complaint, filed July 23 in the Southern District of New York, arrived as BitMEX began a regulator-approved wind-down ahead of its September c
Triple-A, a Singapore-based stablecoin payments firm, said unauthorized access to wallets holding its own digital assets was contained without affecting client money. The company has not disclosed the size of its treasury loss or explained how the wallets were accessed. Triple-A said it identified the incident on July
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has warned that crypto vaults may face federal securities-law scrutiny when people control how assets earn yield. Morpho Vault V2 offers a clear case study because its architecture divides the same powers Peirce highlighted. Curators choose the strategy and appoint allocators, while alloc
With ETH drained from its wallets, BitMart faces a wave of stuck user withdrawals after abruptly announcing its closure BitMart said it will wind down its trading platform after nine years, abruptly reversing an expansion push that continued into the summer. The exchange stopped accepting new registrations, deposits an
Bitcoin reclaimed $65,000 on Monday as a pause in US-Iran strikes revived demand for risk assets ahead of a pivotal Federal Reserve meeting. Data from CryptoSlate showed that the largest cryptocurrency rose about 1% to $65,155, while Ethereum gained 4% to around $1,964, its highest level since early June. The move came
A new security study reported 31 previously unknown vulnerabilities across 15 major facilitators supporting x402, an HTTP-native standard for programmatic payments. The tested group represented 99% of observed transactions in the study window, and each facilitator failed at least one of eight rules for payment verifica