Crypto

The OKX executive says Democrats have little incentive to hand Republicans a crypto victory before the midterms.

US job growth turned negative in July, reducing market expectations of a September Federal Reserve rate hike to 44%. Bitcoin rose about 0.7% following the data, while stocks gained and Treasury yields declined.

After months of public warnings from onchain analysts, the prediction market is moving to time-weighted prices to make artificial price pushes too costly.

Crypto business is converging with banking as stablecoin reserves, tokenized funds, Treasury income and balance sheet management become key profit drivers. At first glance, this week’s biggest business stories could have come straight from Wall Street. BlackRock launched tokenized money market funds for stablecoin reserves. Tether generated another $1.5 billion in profit from its US Treasury holdings. Tokenized gold continued gaining traction, though its use in decentralized finance remains limited. Even Bitcoin (BTC) mining was defined by production costs, profitability and balance sheet management rather than the price of Bitcoin. The digital asset industry’s business model is increasingly converging with traditional finance. Stablecoin reserves, tokenized money market funds and onchain collateral are emerging as some of the industry’s most important revenue drivers, signaling that blockchain’s next phase may be shaped as much by financial infrastructure as by digital assets themselves. Asset manager BlackR...

XRP remains under sustained selling pressure against both USDT and BTC, with the higher time frame structure continuing to favor the bears. The latest breakdown below the key horizontal support reinforces the prevailing downtrend and leaves the market vulnerable to another leg lower unless buyers quickly reclaim the lost levels. Ripple Price Analysis: The USDT […]

When FTX collapsed, the parts of it bound by law survived. Mainstream finance is now converging with digital assets, and the law built to protect it the same way is the one the Senate did not pass this week, argues Bullish's Randi Abernethy.

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Despite numerous promises from Trump, both sides failed to announce a conclusive deal.

Aug. 7 is the final spending day; cardholders should finish withdrawals, rewards claims and wallet-access steps before the later date. The post If you use a Cypher or Osmosis card, your spending dies tonight and unbacked wallets could go with it appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The FSB said at least 20 individuals were arrested in connection with a ring that scammed an undetermined number of Russian citizens.

ADA has "probably one of the best-looking charts among the major caps," a popular analyst claimed.

Ethereum’s proposed EIP-8363 staking overhaul aims to reduce issuance, but critics say it could hurt DeFi, decentralization and institutional adoption. Ethereum researchers just wanted to reduce staking incentives. Instead, they sparked one of the biggest debates over the network’s economics since the Merge. Ethereum Improvement Proposal EIP-8363, or “Tapered Issuance Burn,” would gradually reduce staking rewards as more and more Ether is locked up to secure the network — eventually cutting new protocol issuance to zero once 50% of ETH’s supply is staked. Its authors, including Ethereum Foundation’s Justin Drake and Ethereum Community Conference (ETHCC) co-founder Jerome de Tychey, argue that Ethereum has reached the point where additional staking provides diminishing security returns, while diluting holders who choose not to stake. Read more

Gold, Treasuries and the S&P 500 led the growth, in a year when spot volumes on decentralized exchanges fell by roughly 70%.

Dice entropy may become the new gold standard after the Coldcard hack In light of the catastrophic low-entropy bug in Coldcard hardware wallets, linked to publicly observed thefts beginning on July 30, Bitcoin holders have started to re-evaluate the trust assumptions in their hardware wallet setups.  The Coldcard devices were equipped with apparently functional STM32 “true random number generators” (TRNGs) that rely on physical processes to produce an unguessable seed phrase. However, after Coldcard creator NVK decided to initiate a firmware rewrite to switch from a GPL-licensed free software model to a read-only model, a serious vulnerability appears to have been introduced. Read more

The miner sold 2,213 BTC and later pledged 18,750 BTC, while the differently dated collateral pools cannot be reconciled. The post MARA sold almost all its mined Bitcoin, then pledged 18,750 BTC for an AI dream with no disclosed safety net appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Unlike the recent breakouts at OpenAI and Anthropic, this involved a model anyone can download, running its default safeguards.

The chances of a Federal Reserve rate hike at its next meeting in September have slipped below 50% in the aftermath of the report.

Russia has shut down nine unregistered crypto exchanges in Moscow, with the FSB alleging they helped move scam proceeds abroad through Ukrainian call centers. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has raided nine unregistered crypto exchange services in Moscow over alleged money laundering involving fraud proceeds that authorities linked to Ukraine-based scam call centers. The agency said it detained more than 20 employees at the Moscow International Business Center (Moscow City) as part of an operation targeting channels allegedly used to move illicit funds abroad through crypto assets, according to an official statement on Friday. The FSB said the exchanges converted money stolen from Russian victims of phone scams into cryptocurrency and transferred it to accounts belonging to what it described as Ukrainian handlers. Read more

This Friday, we examine Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, Binance Coin, and Hyperliquid in greater detail. Ethereum (ETH) This week, Ethereum continued to range without any significant volatility. This has allowed the price to consolidate under the $2,000 resistance. At the time of this post, the support at $1,800 is holding well and was recently re-confirmed. The […]

Perpetual futures trading volume on crypto exchanges fell to its lowest level in 31 months, while perpetual trading on decentralized platforms neared a one-year low. Crypto perpetual futures trading volume on centralized cryptocurrency exchanges (CEXs) fell to $4 trillion in July, marking a 31-month low last seen in December 2023. Binance led CEXs with $1.4 trillion in monthly perpetual futures volume, followed by OKX with $607 billion and Bybit with $300 billion, analytics platform CryptoRank said in a Friday X post. Perpetual futures volumes briefly recovered between April and June before declining across all major venues in July. Read more