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UK’s 81,000 crypto warnings offer a glimpse of 2027 tax crackdown
Britain’s tax authority sent more than 81,000 warning letters to crypto investors over the past year. This highlights a sharp rise in scrutiny of digital asset holdings. Meanwhile, a much bigger change is coming in 2027, when the UK and dozens of other jurisdictions are expected to begin automatically sharing crypto account information under a...
Sat, Aug 22
Trump slaps 50% tariffs on Canada as Carney fires back with matching levies
Early Saturday, President Donald Trump imposed 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products after the two allies failed to reach a deal. Canada has since promised to set an immediate, equivalent retaliatory levy package. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney particularly asserted that they would match the U.S. tariffs dollar for dollar. Earlier this...
Sat, Aug 22
The Sandbox rallies as a suspected mint attack adds 500M tokens
A potential violation of security surrounding The Sandbox’s SAND token has caused a stir among traders. According to on-chain researchers, the perpetrators could be behind the minting of several hundred million in SAND tokens. On August 22, 2026, South Korean exchange Upbit cautioned traders to treat SAND with “special caution” due to indications of problems...
Sat, Aug 22
Nearly 500 liquidations later, Machi flips $152K into $12.7M
On-Chain data show that Machi Big Brother turned $152,000 into $12.72 million in just 3 days on Hyperliquid. The fresh surge in the crypto market has put the exchange’s leveraged perpetuals back in the limelight. Hyperliquid controls a huge portion of trade leverage already. It held a perpetual futures volume of $12.19 billion on August...
Sat, Aug 22
SEC charges two former Wall Street bankers over $18.5 million insider trading scheme
Two former Wall Street investment bankers were charged with fraud by the SEC on Friday following their stock trades in South Jersey Industries prior to the company’s February 24, 2022 takeover announcement. According to the lawsuit, Mr. Satsky, aged 59, was one of the heads of an energy and utility banking unit at the New...
Sat, Aug 22
TikTok and ByteDance agree to $400 million settlement over children’s privacy violations
TikTok, ByteDance and affiliated entities agreed on Friday to pay $400 million to settle litigation over compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the Justice Department announced. Three hundred million is payable immediately. The remaining $100 million turns on a court entering an order vacating a prior consent decree against Musical.ly, the app ByteDance...
Sat, Aug 22
Eric Trump agreed to limit his influence over World Liberty Financial’s planned trust bank
Eric Trump has agreed to pull back from decision-making at World Liberty Financial’s proposed national trust bank while the crypto business works through the federal approval process. Eric, World Liberty co-founder Zak Folkman, and Emirati investor Hamad Khalfan Ali Matar Alshamsi each signed separate commitments through companies connected to them. The agreements keep all three...
Fri, Aug 21
Vitalik lands on local mixing as obfuscation series reaches third stage
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published the third installment of his cryptographic obfuscation series on Friday. He examined a method called “local mixing” that throws out lattices and elliptic curves in favor of ideas lifted from hash function design. Buterin had published Part I on June 29, and the second one, which is the diamond...
Fri, Aug 21
India orders shutdown of hundreds of Google Firebase accounts used in banking scams
India’s cybercrime agency has ordered Google to shut down hundreds of accounts on Firebase, the tech giant’s app building platform, after multiple fake banking apps and phishing sites were traced back to the service. The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center (I4C) sent Google at least three notices in August, naming at least 57 websites and...
Fri, Aug 21
Circle's Jeremy Allaire bullish on FASB 'enormous strategic unlock' for stablecoins
Co-founder of Circle (NYSE: CRCL), Jeremy Allaire has called the new accounting proposal from the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) “an enormous strategic unlock” for stablecoins like USDC. He said this on Friday 21, August, 2026. He claimed that the proposal makes it easier for companies to hold tokens. This came three days after...
Fri, Aug 21
BitMart weighs restructuring and business resumption after wind-down
BitMart recently told its users that it is weighing a “potential restructuring and business resumption plan.” The company announced that it would begin winding down operations on July 26 and has since left many of its 12 million registered users waiting on their frozen funds. Will BitMart reverse its shutdown? BitMart recently posted a note,...
Fri, Aug 21
Korean lawmakers move to hand the FIU its own crypto enforcement teeth
FIU would gain power to probe unregistered crypto operators and refer them to prosecutors under a new South Korea bill, after police shelved 23 of 25 cases.
Fri, Aug 21
China orders record largest vehicle recall affecting Tesla and others
Tesla is set to recall almost 3 million vehicles in China starting September 25 after regulators picked out emergency door releases that could be difficult for occupants to find after a crash, the largest recall in the automaker’s history and part of the biggest recall campaign China’s auto market has ever seen. Door handles trigger...
Fri, Aug 21
Tether abandons Bitcoin mining sites in Uruguay after power dispute
Tether has walked away from its Bitcoin mining operation in Uruguay, abandoning two facilities that cost an estimated $120 million after a prolonged tussle with state utility UTE over the power numbers available to the sites. This move ends the USDT issuer’s initial move into South American mining. Power dispute due to unclear contract clauses...
Fri, Aug 21
XRP leads Korea's crypto comeback as Upbit volume jumps 273%
Trading on Upbit, South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, jumped 273% over the past 24 hours to roughly $1.84 billion, representing its busiest day since mid-March. XRP was reportedly the single most-traded token as a rise in bitcoin’s price pulled Korean money off the sidelines. Why are so many people trading XRP? XRP has surpassed bitcoin,...
Fri, Aug 21
Bitcoin.com Wallet Adds Native Support for TRON, Bringing TRX and USDT-TRC20 to Millions of Users
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, August 21, 2026 — Bitcoin.com, one of the world’s most widely used cryptocurrency platforms, today announced that its self-custody Bitcoin.com Wallet app now natively supports the TRON network. Users can hold, send, swap, and buy TRX and USDT on TRON directly within the mobile application. TRON has established itself as one...
Fri, Aug 21
Trump jets to South Carolina as fight for pro-crypto, AI-positive Congress heats up
The biggest name in US politics not on the ballot this election cycle, President Donald Trump, has inserted himself into the conversation as America heads to the polls to choose its next Congress, with crypto and artificial intelligence regulation stakes on the line. As if Trump’s return to the campaign trail was not enough splash,...
Fri, Aug 21
‘Russia’s Amazons’ Wildberries and Ozon to launch digital ruble payments
The leading online marketplaces in Russia and its region, Wildberries and Ozon, are launching digital ruble payments in the coming weeks. The news coincides with Moscow’s preparations to enforce a new crypto law and begin introducing its state-issued coin starting from September. Russian e-commerce giants to support payments in digital rubles The top two sites...
Fri, Aug 21
Nomura unit becomes first firm licensed to run a crypto exchange in Japan in four years
Nomura's Laser Digital Japan completed crypto asset exchange registration on August 21, the first new approval Japan has granted since 2022.
Fri, Aug 21
Hackers set traps on over 2,000 hacked WordPress sites for crypto users
A criminal group that Check Point Research has dubbed StopAndProtect has been using nearly 2,000 poorly maintained WordPress blogs to host malware that steals cryptocurrency wallet seeds, passwords, and files from infected Windows computers. For crypto holders, the most alarming part is that the takeovers are distributed across legitimate sites that appear to be standard...
Fri, Aug 21
