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594 BTC drained in 25 minutes as Coldcard flaw sparks alarm
Coinkite has warned owners of its Coldcard Mk3 hardware wallet that any Bitcoin seed generated since March 2021 may be vulnerable after discovering a flaw that could make those seeds predictable. The warning came the same day about 594 BTC—worth roughly $38 million—was drained from around 500 wallets. Users who purchased Coldcard primarily for its...
Fri, Jul 31
Prediction Market Volume Hits Record $55.5 Billion in July as Trades Climb to 383.9 Million
The prediction market sector has been on the ascendancy since the start of the year and last month in June was the first month where we saw a steep acceleration in trading volumes and the total number of trades. Artemis data shows that prediction markets have set yet another monthly high this month with volume...
Fri, Jul 31
Ethereum Foundation names pcaversaccio to board amid restructuring
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has announced that security researcher pcaversaccio has joined its board. The announcement comes the same day a separate group, Ethereum Institutional, said it had closed its first ecosystem funding round. The year has been relatively stormy for EF, which has previously mentioned that it will be cutting spending and has also...
Fri, Jul 31
Three Claude models broke into real companies during Anthropic cyber tests
Anthropic says three Claude models escaped sealed test environments and breached three real organizations after a misconfiguration gave them internet access.
Fri, Jul 31
True IDC seeks $2B loan as Thailand’s AI data center boom accelerates
True Internet Data Center, Thailand’s largest data-center and cloud operator, is seeking a $2 billion loan to fund its expansion. The move is about more than one company’s growth. It signals that Southeast Asia is becoming a place where AI infrastructure is being built, financed, and operated, not just where AI services are consumed. This...
Fri, Jul 31
Quantum Solutions dumps 1,000 ETH to fund Nvidia GPU buildout
Quantum Solutions sold 1,000 ETH for $1.9 million to fund AI data centers, handing Japan's largest corporate Ether treasury title to Def consulting.
Fri, Jul 31
Microsoft cut its capex forecast and posted its best day since 2008
On July 29, 2026, Microsoft informed its shareholders that cloud computing and AI had actually helped the company during its fiscal fourth quarter. The next day, Wall Street reacted by giving Microsoft its biggest rise in a single day since 2008, a 15.5% gain that added roughly $480 billion in market value. It is the...
Fri, Jul 31
Chainalysis traces $5.4M in sanctioned funds through World Cup betting markets
Chainalysis says World Cup betting drove $20 billion on-chain, with $5.4 million traced to sanctioned exchanges and illicit wallets.
Fri, Jul 31
EU opens AI gigafactory race to cut reliance on US cloud
The European Union has initiated the bidding process for as many as seven AI “gigafactories” as part of its procurement program aimed at mobilizing more than 30 billion euros in public and private investments and enabling European firms to tap into the computing power they need to develop cutting-edge AI models. Brussels wishes to have...
Fri, Jul 31
Amazon shares jump as AWS growth and Anthropic gain lift earnings
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) reported $62.6 billion in second-quarter net income after a sharp rise in the value of its Anthropic holding added billions to the result. Profit reached $5.75 per diluted share, compared with $18.2 billion, or $1.68 per share, one year earlier. The 2026 figure included $53.4 billion in pre-tax income outside normal operations,...
Fri, Jul 31
Coinbase services push fails to offset Q2 trading slump
Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) exchange posted $1.2 billion in second-quarter revenue for the period ended June 30, below the $1.3 billion analysts expected in an LSEG (LSE: LSEG) survey. Its loss reached $1.36 per share, far worse than the 17-cent loss Wall Street had penciled in. The company’s stock was immediately sold off following this news,...
Fri, Jul 31
Apple stock falls as supply warning overshadows record quarter
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) brought in $109.42 billion during its fiscal third quarter, yet the stock dropped more than 6% after regular trading ended. Traders focused on the company’s softer forecast for the current period, where sales are expected to rise by only 9% to 11%. Apple blamed tight supplies for the weaker view. The reaction...
Fri, Jul 31
Strategy posts an $8.2 billion loss, but Bitcoin is still the only number investors care about
Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) reported an $8.22 billion net loss for the second quarter, but Bitcoin remains the number investors watch. As of July 26, Strategy managed 843,775 BTC, but executives rounded to 846,000 BTC while citing quarterly growth. The coins have a cost basis of $63.69 billion and a market worth of $54.77 billion at...
Fri, Jul 31
Best provably fair crypto casinos (100% transparent gaming)
In 2026, “provably fair” is no longer a bonus feature — it’s a baseline requirement for trust in crypto gambling. Provably fair crypto casinos provide players with cryptographic proofs that allow them to verify each game outcome themselves, without relying on a third party. Provably fair gambling sites are growing in popularity for the transparency...
Thu, Jul 30
Perceptron announces $6.5M strategic round to expand AI data monetization
Perceptron announced the successful close of a $6.5M strategic funding round, to be used in expanding its decentralized AI data platform.
Thu, Jul 30
Bitcoin’s usual buyers turned sellers in H1 2026 as macro pressures mount, Binance Research
Binance Research’s new report titled “Half-year 2026: Macro & Bitcoin” has shed more light on how the cryptocurrency performed in the first half of the year. The report showed that Bitcoin declined by 32% year-to-date, and it is currently down by over 50% from its all-time high of $126,080, which it hit in October 2025....
Thu, Jul 30
3iQ to manage part of Bhutan's Gelephu Mindfulness City Bitcoin treasury
3iQ, the Toronto digital asset manager now owned by Japan’s Coincheck, has announced that it will manage a portion of the Bitcoin reserves behind Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC). 3iQ will be the special economic zone’s first named manager for the sovereign crypto it plans to build a financial hub on. Why is 3iQ managing...
Thu, Jul 30
Aave moves to wind down Scroll, zkSync and Aptos in reserve cull
Aave’s founder Stani Kulechov named Scroll, zkSync and Aptos among the smaller deployments that the project plans to fully retire in part of a sweeping proposal to deprecate another 50 low-adoption asset reserves in a governance push announced on Thursday. According to the governance forum filing drafted by risk provider LlamaRisk, the two-part plan is...
Thu, Jul 30
BitRiver CEO Igor Runets faces fraud charges in Russia
The founder and chief executive of the Russian Bitcoin mining giant BitRiver, Igor Runets, has been charged with large-scale fraud and remanded in custody. The crypto entrepreneur, who was detained earlier this year on tax evasion charges and initially placed under house arrest, has been moved to a detention facility. BitRiver CEO Runets is facing...
Thu, Jul 30
Binance.US to challenge Kalshi and Polymarket with new prediction market push
Binance.US is gearing up to take on prediction market leaders Kalshi and Polymarket. The American platform is seeking a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) license to launch its own prediction market. During a panel at Rare Evo in Las Vegas, the platform’s CEO, Stephen Gregory, confirmed that they plan to apply for a designated contract...
Thu, Jul 30
