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The breach stemmed from a vulnerability in transaction signing software that enabled the derivation of private keys from blockchain transaction data.

The free, open source workspace runs on Nostr, gives AI agents their own cryptographic identities, and challenges Slack and GitHub.

The integration provides institutional clients with access to Kalshi’s event contracts and crypto perpetuals via Talos’ existing trading infrastructure. Institutional crypto trading platform Talos has integrated with Kalshi, allowing select clients to trade the prediction market operator’s event contracts and crypto perpetuals through the same infrastructure they already use for digital assets, eliminating the need for a separate connection. Talos will offer algorithmic order types including Iceberg, TWAP and POV, along with multi-leg execution for perp-to-perp and perp-to-spot spread trades. The company said institutional clients will also be able to execute block trades in Kalshi contracts through its request-for-quote platform using participating over-the-counter liquidity providers. Later this year, Talos plans to extend its dealer software to brokers and trading platforms, allowing them to offer Kalshi event contracts directly to customers where permitted. The company also plans to launch a unified predi...

Tom Lee says AI capital is rotating from chip stocks into Ethereum. ETH trades near $1,925 with $2,000 resistance in focus. Here's the technical setup and what breaks it. The post Ethereum Price Eyes $2,000 as AI Funds Shift From Chips to ETH, Says Tom Lee appeared first on Cryptonews.

Trading activity on South Korea’s five major crypto exchanges fell sharply as the KOSPI surged, signaling a shift in retail investors toward equities. South Korea’s major crypto exchanges have seen their trading activity fall sharply over the past year as the country’s stock market surged, suggesting retail speculative interest may be shifting toward equities, Cointelegraph analysis shows. The Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) benchmark more than doubled over the period, while volumes across the country’s largest won-based crypto platforms contracted. Cointelegraph reviewed CoinGecko’s historical 24-hour volume readings for Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit and Gopax, comparing seven-day periods in July 2025 and July 2026. Read more

BTC retreated from a one-month high as WTI crude topped $85 for the first time since June, reigniting inflation concerns and pushing investors toward gold, silver and the safety of bitcoin over altcoins.

Payward's xStocks pushes beyond U.S. equities as competition to bring global stock markets onchain accelerates.

Foundry USA asked its mining customers to signal their support for BIP-110, an actively debated proposal seeking to shrink the amount of data that can be stored in a Bitcoin transaction. Foundry USA began asking mining customers to vote on how the pool should signal on Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP-110), a soft fork proposing to shrink how much data can be stored in Bitcoin transactions to limit non-monetary transactions, such as Ordinals, on the Bitcoin network. The world’s largest mining pool by hashrate also released educational resources on the proposal and said that the voting window will close at Bitcoin block 961,632, or sometime in early August. Foundry’s mining clients can cast their votes by accessing a link received via email. Read more

A major exploit involving a bridge connected to the Cardano ecosystem sent Midnight’s NIGHT token to an all-time low on July 20 after an attacker drained roughly 515 million tokens from infrastructure operated by Wanchain. The tokens were removed from a Cardano-side lock address backing NIGHT bridged to BNB Chain, leaving only a fraction of […] The post 515M NIGHT bridge exploit rocks Cardano but ADA jumps 8% anyway after landmark hard fork appeared first on CryptoSlate.

[PRESS RELEASE – London, United Kingdom, July 22nd, 2026] Recognition in the Enterprise Fintech category reflects OpenPayd’s role in building the universal financial infrastructure for the digital economy OpenPayd, a leading provider of financial infrastructure, has been recognized among CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2026, earning a place in the Enterprise Fintech category. Following an […]

Smart contract deployments, Binance stablecoin inflows, and elevated funding rates are firing simultaneously — a rare ETH setup that signals volatile moves ahead. The post Ethereum News: Builder Activity & Leverage Data Align, $2k Next? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Security researchers point to missing validation checks as the key factor that allowed liquidations to occur almost instantly.

SecondFi will wind down after a $2.6 million ADA theft, while users still await recovery tools that were initially expected within weeks of the exploit. Cardano-based wallet SecondFi is preparing to shut down after a security breach exposed issues around wallet security and left hundreds of users awaiting recovery options. SecondFi said it will wind down SecondFi and Yoroi wallet services after attackers stole about 16.1 million ADA, worth roughly $2.6 million, due to a cryptographic flaw in its wallet software, according to an update published on Wednesday. The platform said an independent investigation by blockchain intelligence provider Groom Lake identified a sophisticated external actor behind the attack and found indicators potentially linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, although no attribution has been confirmed. It added that the breach affected 374 wallets. Read more

Galaxy pledged up to $5 million in grants for developers working on Bitcoin’s quantum security and elected a council of quantum-advisory experts to research quantum-resistant migration solutions. Galaxy Digital has pledged up to $5 million in grants to open-source developers building post-quantum cryptography for Bitcoin. The company also formed a quantum advisory council under its Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative, which it announced Tuesday. The council includes Barry Sanders, professor and scientific director of Quantum City at the University of Calgary; Damien Bérubé, an MIT Sea Grant Knauss fellow; and Eran Tromer, professor of computer science at Boston University. The grants will fund quantum-resistant upgrade proposals, post-quantum cryptography, Bitcoin signature schemes, wallet and custodian migration tooling and formal security audits. Read more

Bitcoin has climbed back from its June 30 low near $58,500, trading at near $66,000 as of press time. Options traders are still paying steep premiums for protection against another leg down, and traders on perpetual futures markets have resumed paying to hold leveraged long positions. Both readings sit in a middle zone, well short […] The post As Bitcoin breaches $66K its latest bottom signal trapped buyers in a 20% loss appeared first on CryptoSlate.

DeXe is close to falling out of the top 100 alts by market cap. HYPE is also well in the red daily.

An attacker fed the lending system a fake, abnormally low bitcoin price, liquidated vaults that should have been safe, and pocketed the difference in a single transaction.

A Senate deadline could determine XRP price, and secure the regulatory clarity many investors want, or lose its biggest legislative catalyst. The post XRP Price Could Turn Volatile This Month: What’s at Stake for Ripple? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Shareholders voted 90%+ to liquidate Satsuma Technology's 668 BTC, ending a Bitcoin treasury experiment that turned £163.6M raised into under 20p per pound recovered. The post Bitcoin News: BTC Treasury Strategy Casualty as Satsuma Technology Votes to Wind Down appeared first on Cryptonews.

ADA drops to $0.1708 after a 515M NIGHT token exploit on the Wanchain–Cardano bridge crushes sentiment. Here's the technical setup, key levels, and what it takes for ADA to recover. The post Cardano Price Prediction: Midnight Hacked, Cardano Rally Canceled appeared first on Cryptonews.