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HashKey Exchange and OSL Group are now authorized distributors, enabling institutional and professional investors to mint and redeem HKDAP tokens.

If an institution qualifies to participate in America’s banking system, it should have a clear path to America’s payment system, argues Anchorage Digital's Rachel Anderika.

Both headline and core inflation matched economists’ expectations, while bitcoin held near $64,000 and Treasury yields declined.

Fidelity plans to add staking to its Ether fund, with 85% of rewards retained by FETH and quarterly cash distributions planned for investors. Fidelity Investments plans to add staking to its spot Ether exchange-traded product, the Fidelity Ethereum Fund (FETH), according to its Tuesday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The asset manager said FETH could stake up to 100% of its Ether under normal conditions, excluding ETH reserved for redemptions, expenses and liquidity needs. The fund would retain 85% of staking rewards, with 15% going toward staking fees, and plans quarterly cash distributions, although payouts are not guaranteed. Fidelity expects staking to begin “as soon as practicable” after the prospectus date. The preliminary prospectus remains subject to change before the registration statement becomes effective. Read more

The US CPI data now follows the weaker-than-expected jobs report from last week.

CFTC Chair Michael Selig said on Aug. 4 that the agency has crypto rule proposals ready and plans to finalize them before the current administration ends, regardless of whether Congress passes the CLARITY Act. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has separately said the SEC can keep pursuing meaningful crypto rulemaking even if Congress fails to act. […] The post SEC and CFTC plans to write crypto rules without Congress – but they can’t make them permanent appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The CFTC keeps going to bat for Kalshi while the ultimate prediction market court battle looms, with the fate of the sector in the balance.

The reduction matches the percentage shed by Coinbase in May, and follows shutdowns at BitMEX and BitMart.

The SEC-CFTC crypto regulation framework gives markets a working map while the Senate's CLARITY Act remains stalled over stablecoin rewards. The post SEC-CFTC Crypto Map Advances as Clarity Act Stalls appeared first on Cryptonews.

The flight-tracking company voluntarily dismissed, without prejudice and without sharing a motive for its decision. However, the flight cancellation market never took off with Kalshi users.

Bitcoin trades near $63,600, below the lowest Bitcoin price researchers tested against a modeled wind-powered mining operation in a new Energy Economics study. At that price level, their model shows no payback within six years under any curtailment scenario they ran. The study, by researchers at the Technological University of the Shannon, models a 20 […] The post Even if Bitcoin rises 30% a year this renewable mining model still loses money as hashrate keeps pace appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Non-qualified investors face a 300,000-ruble (approx. $3,600) annual purchase limit per intermediary, while qualified investors have no cap.

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 12, 2026

Riot Platforms’ 191-megawatt Anthropic lease creates $9.1 billion in contracted revenue, shifting its value beyond Bitcoin mining volatility. The post Bitcoin Mining News: Riot Platforms Anthropic AI Lease Explained appeared first on Cryptonews.

"BTC has made massive moves after CPI before. Today could be another one," one analyst warned.

A validator patch closes the reported receipt flaws while the excess supply and any rollback remain unresolved. The post Harmony weighs a full blockchain rollback after unauthorized minting floods exchanges with billions in ONE appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The team is weighing a rollback, which would undo the attack along with every legitimate transaction made since.

The move will follow BlackRock's debut of ETHB.

Markets are quiet ahead of the July inflation print, with bitcoin little changed, oil near $90 and Harmony nursing a fresh exploit.

Amid a $473 million legal dispute, RedotPay says it expects Binance to end its Singapore case, while Binance says its claims remain active. Binance and RedotPay are disputing whether a Singapore case related to their nearly $473 million Hong Kong legal battle is coming to an end. The stablecoin payments card issuer told Cointelegraph on Tuesday that it expects Binance to discontinue the Singapore proceedings following a hearing on Aug. 7. “RedotPay will be seeking legal costs arising from the discontinuance of the matter from the claimant,” a spokesperson for RedotPay said, adding that the parties would try to agree on costs. However, Binance said it has no plans to abandon its claims. “Reports that Binance will be withdrawing its Singapore claims are false,” a Binance spokesperson told Cointelegraph, adding that the company “is not abandoning its claims and has informed both the court and RedotPay accordingly.” Read more