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Gold and US stocks stole the limelight on Wednesday as Bitcoin failed to gain significantly beyond $64,000. Bitcoin stayed wedged at $64,000 on Wednesday’s Wall Street open as gold hit six-week highs. Key points: Data from TradingView showed continued BTC price inertia contrasting with upside for both precious metals and US equities. Read more

Grok AI predicts a Bitcoin bottom is in, with potential prices reaching $120,000 to $150,000 by the end of 2026. The post Elon Musk Grok AI Just Predicts the Bottom for Bitcoin, Here’s the Number appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin sales, what is now a $4 billion cash reserve, and a $975 million repurchase program, have supported STRC’s recovery.

RippleX targets August 2026 for xrpld 3.3.0, bundling rewritten Batch and Permission Delegation fixes with three new tokenization amendments for validator vote. The post RippleX Is Bringing Back Two Features That Had Critical Security Flaws: Will Validators Trust Rewrite? appeared first on Cryptonews.

A $473 million lawsuit has put RedotPay under pressure as Binance affiliates alleged that the firm breached a commercial agreement.

Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP whales increased balances during market weakness, as CryptoQuant said large holders are absorbing supply ahead of a possible bottom. Large cryptocurrency holders are accumulating Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) as valuations approach levels associated with the final stage of a bear market, according to CryptoQuant. Rising whale balances during price weakness can reduce available supply and concentrate ownership among larger holders, the blockchain analytics company said in its latest Smart Money report seen by Cointelegraph. Bitcoin whale holdings, excluding exchanges and mining pools, rose to about 3.06 million BTC from 2.87 million BTC in December 2025, with accumulation accelerating after Bitcoin dropped below $60,000 in June. Read more

BlackRock is preparing a one-for-three reverse split of its iShares Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHA), a structural change that will lift ETHA’s share price and could reduce its effective trading spread without changing the value of investors’ holdings. ETHA’s sponsor approved the reverse split on July 31, according to an SEC regulatory filing. Every three shares […] The post BlackRock’s rare ETHA reverse split is about to make trading Ethereum 70 times cheaper than Coinbase appeared first on CryptoSlate.

[PRESS RELEASE – Dubai, UAE, August 5th, 2026] BNB Chain, one of the most active blockchain ecosystems worldwide, today announced Build the Era, an open hackathon challenging builders to create the definitive AI agent marketplace on BNB Smart Chain (BSC). The winning submission will have the opportunity to become the officially adopted BNB Agent Studio […]

The Coldcard entropy flaw caused a crisis of confidence in hardware wallets. Here’s the details you need to know before you entrust Ledger, Trezor or Foundation with your Bitcoin. Just when you thought crypto market morale couldn’t sink any lower, along comes the Coldcard entropy bug to prove you wrong. The discovery of a flaw in one of the industry’s longest-running hardware wallets last Friday serves as a stark reminder that there is no perfectly safe place to put all your Bitcoin. Coldcard disclosed the entropy-generation flaw affecting multiple Coldcard devices on July 31. Since then, researchers at Galaxy Digital say attackers have been able to steal more than 1,596 Bitcoin worth at least $100 million through several coordinated attacks. Read more

Laser’s investment in ZIGChain is understood to be in the single-digit millions.

Galaxy Digital reported an $85 million net loss driven by falling digital asset prices and $8.7 billion in revenue that missed Wall Street estimates. Galaxy Digital reported an $85 million net loss for the second quarter of 2026 as cryptocurrency valuations declined in the period. That resulted in a $0.09 loss per share posted on Wednesday which Galaxy attributed to the depreciation of digital asset prices during the quarter.  Revenue at $8.7 billion was down 15% from $10.2 billion in the first quarter of 2026. Analysts had forecast a consensus of $12.7 billion, according to estimates compiled by Yahoo Finance. Read more

Senate Democrats have unified against CLARITY Act cloture over ethics, illicit finance, and stablecoin yield disputes, with the 60-vote threshold out of reach before August 7. The post Senate Democrats Block Path to 60 Votes on CLARITY Act Before August Recess appeared first on Cryptonews.

Mastercard and Borderless are exploring ways to bring more trust into cross-border stablecoin transfers through the payment processing giant’s Crypto Credential framework. Payment processor Mastercard and stablecoin orchestration network Borderless will run a new pilot project to explore how Mastercard’s Crypto Credential standards-based framework can bring greater trust to cross-border stablecoin payments. The pilot will test how Mastercard’s framework can address the challenge of providing assurance signals that participants can incorporate into their approval, compliance and risk processes, they said in an announcement shared with Cointelegraph. Mastercard’s framework uses common standards and assurance signals to help bring certainty to blockchain transactions. The pilot will seek out new governance signals that can reduce friction in cross-border stablecoin payments. Read more

The tokenized-assets firm appointed ex-Blockchain.com and Monashee executive as finance chief as it expands its onchain capital markets business.

The more institutional crypto becomes, the more it prices on headlines. The edge now is reading the positioning data underneath, not reacting to the narrative on top.

Anthropic's LLM and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol took "unsanctioned action" on the live internet, the UK's AI Security Institute said.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Public Utility Commission and ERCOT to audit every data center project seeking a grid connection before regulators approve any new projects. The order puts AI infrastructure tied to Bitcoin miners under scrutiny, while the audit verifies each project's power sourcing, water use, cooling plans, and ownership. The order covers […] The post Bitcoin miners’ AI pipelines are on trial as Texas freezes 474 GW of data center requests appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Helios produced data-center revenue for the first time with Phase I expected to generate about $80 million quarterly from Q3.

BlackRock, DTCC, and Mastercard are joining Circle's Arc as validators, while BUIDL is expected to deploy on the network after launch.

Eliza Labs founder Shaw Walters said the ELIZAOS foundation is closing and that holders should sell, ending the token that replaced AI16Z after a lawsuit, a rebrand and a 97% crash.