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All six reported a 0% 30-day SEC yield, while remaining holders face an automatic August cash redemption. The post Bitwise is liquidating six crypto option ETFs that offered 25% payouts while returning investors’ own capital appeared first on CryptoSlate.

An investor who owns Bitcoin through a brokerage account can finish work on Friday, check the closing price of a spot ETF, and assume the position is done moving for the week. Bitcoin, however, has other plans. Between Friday’s close and Monday’s opening bell, Donald Trump can announce a tariff, a war can escalate, oil […] The post How thin weekend Bitcoin liquidity turns minor geopolitical news into massive Monday price gaps for ETF holders appeared first on CryptoSlate.

DAAQ disclosed no reason for the delay and no redemption tally showing what remains in trust. The post Digital asset SPAC delays crucial merger vote, leaving a deeply undercapitalized Old Glory Bank waiting on a $50M lifeline appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Customarily, Michael Saylor and team have lifted the STRC dividend when it trades sizably below par, but not this month.

North Korea-linked attackers accounted for more than half of all stolen crypto funds in the first half of 2026.

A case tied to defunct crypto exchange FTX moves forward, a soldier seeks to dismiss over a Polymarket bet and a former congressman was ordered to pay $35,000 for manipulative trading. In a Friday filing with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) over campaign finance charges, Michelle Bond’s legal team asked the court to consider precluding evidence related to former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame, her husband who is currently serving a 90-month sentence after he pleaded guilty in 2023. Bond faces campaign finance charges alleging that her unsuccessful 2022 congressional run in New York was partially funded by contributions from FTX facilitated by Salame. As part of the filings this week, Bond asked the court to exclude evidence of her husband’s guilty plea and “related plea materials,” in which the former executive admitted to making “political contributions in [his] name that were funded by transfers from the bank accounts” of an entity tied to FTX.  “The Court should p...

The token rewards roughly matched its non-GAAP cash-cost proxy but remained unsold as warrants for up to 33.5 million shares became exercisable. The post One public crypto firm just staked its way to breaking even, but a $50M paper loss and 66% dilution threat tell a darker story appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Galaxy Research flagged a third wave of sweeps tied to weak Coldcard-generated keys, with the attacker now targeting smaller balances and changing how funds are collected onchain.

The snapshot tracks direct bridge use, not stranded supply, while self-custodied tokens and protocol positions face separate action paths. The post Moonbeam just halted all user transactions, leaving late GLMR holders at mercy of an email helpdesk to recover funds appeared first on CryptoSlate.

XRP has dropped below $1.05 for the second time in the past several days.

The leaders were already dominant before the cutoff, and aggregate data do not identify a destination for SBI’s lost pool hashrate. The post A major Japanese Bitcoin mining pool just pulled the plug on its Bitcoin service just as 3 mega-miners claimed 60% of the network appeared first on CryptoSlate.

History repeated in July with a notable increase: will it happen again in August but this time in the opposite direction?

Act 482 takes effect Aug. 1, while clearly disclosed document requests can reset the 90-day payment clock. The post Louisiana just armed crypto ATM users with a legal cheat code to demand full refunds from unlicensed operators appeared first on CryptoSlate.

State officials reported that Minnesota residents, and largely senior citizens, had lost about $1 million from scams tied to crypto kiosks from 2023 to 2025. A Minnesota law prohibiting virtual currency kiosks in the US state took effect on Saturday following the signing of a bill by Governor Tim Walz in May.  According to the law, SF 3868, which Walz signed on May 5, all crypto ATM operators in Minnesota are prohibited from “installing, operating, maintaining, or making available” virtual currency kiosks. Companies with machines already installed must deactivate them by Saturday, but have until Dec. 31 to physically remove them from locations “visible or accessible to the public.” Minnesota’s commerce department reported residents had lost about $1 million from scams tied to crypto ATMs from 2023 to 2025, with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center reporting the state had more than $151 million in losses tied to digital assets or crypto wallets in 2025. Officials said that the schemes “disproportionately ...

Bitcoin is trading near $63,000, with rate markets assigning roughly 66% odds to a September Federal Reserve hike, under a policy framework Kevin Warsh has left partly hidden. The Fed chair has defined his reaction function around “underlying inflation,” then declined to disclose how he weighs the indicators that produce that judgment. The official dashboard […] The post If the Fed trusts this single 2.2% metric, Bitcoin could break $65.3k and ignite a path to $68k appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Without that QQQ token, QQQB, July volume for tokenized equities would be roughly $2.03 billion, about 30% below June’s total.

Strategy's CEO warned on Friday that the company might sell up to $5 billion in BTC.

Tether's second-quarter materials report $1.5 billion in net operating profit, earned mainly from Treasuries and repo activity. However, the attached reserve report shows a negative $3.17 billion first-half financial result, and the company's materials do not reconcile the two figures. Subtracting the first quarter's positive $1.04 billion financial result from that first-half figure implies a […] The post Tether claims $1.5B profit, but hidden math reveals a $4.2B hit that halved its safety cushion in 90 days appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Binance founder urged holders to spread funds across multiple wallets as Galaxy Research put the toll from the Coldcard exploit at roughly $70 million—nearly double the initial estimate.

A mystery-shopping experiment found that exchange fees, foreign exchange spreads and banking rails mean stablecoin remittances are often no cheaper than traditional transfer means.