Cryptopolitan

The Trump-backed Bitcoin treasury and mining American Bitcoin (ABTC) ended Q2 2026 at a loss, despite better results than in the previous quarter. The company posted a net loss of $57.2 million in the three months to June 30, down from roughly $82 million reported in Q1. American Bitcoin generated $67.0 million in mining revenue...

The five captors of two French cryptocurrency millionaires, who were held for more than two days in an east London flat, have been convicted at Inner London Crown Court.  Violent physical attacks aimed at crypto holders have seen a recent increase worldwide. In this particular case, the captors were demanding a $150,000 ransom.  How are...

Bithumb’s ambitions of having a public listing have not been shelved despite its recent troubles with regulators, which saw it get fined alongside a suspension and an accidental Bitcoin payout that was once valued at $43 billion. The second-largest crypto exchange in South Korea has informed its shareholders that it will be putting measures in...

Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) entered yet another week without announcing a Bitcoin purchase. Instead, the leading corporate Bitcoin holder sold 1,638 Bitcoins (BTC) for about $104.7 million during the week of July 27 and August 2.  Strategy sold the latest batch at around $63,957 per coin, more than $10,000 below the almost $75,500 it paid on...

ZeroStack fears it may not have enough cash to operate for another year, as its 0G token treasury sinks 91%. The Nasdaq-listed company told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Friday that there is substantial doubt about its ability to keep operating as a going concern for the next 12 months. In the filing,...

Ant Group’s (HK: 6688) Lingbo Technologies recently started its first external funding round, aiming to raise 1.5 billion yuan ($206 million).  The company intends to hold a second funding round before the end of 2026, which would make it the fastest funding round of any startup in China’s robot-brain sector.  Why is Lingbo focusing on...

The U.S. dollar slid from above 163 yen to around 156 after Washington and Tokyo confirmed joint intervention. Japan is trying to curb the yen’s inflationary weakness, while the U.S. also sees economic and trade benefits. Tokyo plans to use the Fed’s FIMA repo facility, avoiding Treasury sales that could disrupt U.S. funding markets. The...

Ripple has tapped two UK-based companies to expand its capital markets infrastructure. The company announced Monday that it made strategic investments in ZILO and Licuido. The financial terms were not disclosed. However, Ripple said the investment builds on already-existing partnerships with the companies. Ripple invests in ZILO and Licuido ZILO provides transfer agency and fund...

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Coldcard holders have been attacked in a fourth wave of sweeping idle cold storage BTC addresses. Around 1,500 wallets have been swept so far, and more vulnerable wallets can be discovered.

James Wynn has now been liquidated 22 times while shorting Hyperliquid’s SP500 perpetual futures contract, according to on-chain tracker Onchain Lens on August 3. His latest liquidation came roughly 40 minutes before the update. As per S&P Dow Jones Indices, SP500 perpetual is “the first and only officially licensed perpetual derivative contract based on The...

Decentralized exchanges have been chipping away at the volume from centralized platforms for a while now and ever since April of last year, this ratio has consistently been in the double digits territory. Last month, onchain trading took its largest bite out of CEX volume. According to the Block’s DEX to CEX spot trade volume,...

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. debuted Qwen3.8-Max, its latest AI model, ahead of next week’s planned open-weight release to the public. The new model features 2.4 trillion parameters and outperforms Moonshot’s newly launched Kimi K3 on multiple benchmarks. It also marks the company’s return to its open-source roots after several of its top-tier AI models were...

A lone Bitcoin transaction has ended a prolonged period of silence lasting seven months. According to blockchain tracker Lookonchain, a wallet containing 16,400 BTC, equivalent to $1.04 billion, made the transfer of its whole balance on August 3. This transfer coincides with the price of Bitcoin being approximately $62,800, which is almost 50 percent lower...

Berkshire Hathaway’s stock (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) is rallying today because the company still trails the wider market, trades below last year’s richer valuation, holds almost $400 billion in cash, and may have bought back billions of dollars of its own shares. Barron’s reported that the rally carried the conglomerate to an eight-month high this week....

The Vice President of Bitcoin Strategy at Strive, Joe Burnett, described the past week as “possibly one of the worst weeks in the history of Bitcoin.”  The statement suggested that large holders ought to trust institutional custodians more than hardware wallets.  Why did Strive’s VP of strategy call out the worst week in Bitcoin’s history? ...

After first-half trading turnover fell 54.6% from a year earlier, South Korea’s five won-based crypto exchanges are rebuilding their businesses around bank and brokerage partnerships, institutional services and regulatory cleanup. Due to trading volume being down by 55%, exchanges are changing their business models to survive.  What is happening to South Korea’s crypto market?  The...

7 月 31 日，紐約州起訴 Kalshi，要求關閉預測市場，追回其在該州獲得的收益，並對這些利潤處以三倍賠償。.

AFX Trade於7月31日（週五）通知其用戶，將於8月3日（週一）發佈一項針對用戶的“善意補償計劃”。這或許是朝着彌補受影響用戶損失邁出的一步；然而，此次更新並未提供用戶應該期待的具體信息。該通知名爲…….

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