Bad actors and scammers stole at least $142 million from the crypto space in July across 17 separate attacks, with the exploit of crypto exchange CoinDCX accounting for the most significant loss. The total monthly losses represented a 27% increase from the $111 million in June, blockchain security firm PeckShield said in an X post…
Key points: Retail investors bore the brunt of ETH’s long liquidations, but they also stepped in to buy the dip to $3,600. ETH price rebounded to its average trading range while Bitcoin continues to face heavy selling below $116,000. ETH (ETH) price continues to face selling near $4,000, to the surprise of many traders who…
Strategy’s Michael Saylor has joined the call for the US to create a formal crypto taxonomy to clearly define when a security can be tokenized and what constitutes a digital security or commodity. “My opinion is it would be beneficial to the market if they nail down the digital assets taxonomy,” Saylor said during Strategy’s…
Bitcoin has fallen to its lowest level in three weeks as US President Donald Trump released an executive order imposing trade tariffs on a raft of countries. Bitcoin (BTC) fell to $114,250 on Coinbase during early trading in Asia on Friday, according to TradingView. It hasn’t been that low since June 11. The original cryptocurrency…
Key points: Retail investors bore the brunt of ETH’s long liquidations, but they also stepped in to buy the dip to $3,600. ETH price rebounded to its average trading range while Bitcoin continues to face heavy selling below $116,000. ETH (ETH) price continues to face selling near $4,000, to the surprise of many traders who…
Tether disclosed another strong quarter as stablecoins continue to gain traction amid growing regulatory clarity in the United States. The company said it posted $4.9 billion in profit for the second quarter of 2025, a 277% increase compared with the same period a year ago. Tether is the creator of USDt (USDT), a stablecoin pegged…
Bitcoin-focused staking platform Solv Protocol has launched a structured yield vault for institutional investors, targeting more than $1 trillion in BTC currently sitting idle and not collecting interest. Solv’s new BTC+ is designed as a Bitcoin (BTC) yield vault aggregating and deploying capital across various yield strategies spanning decentralized finance (DeFi), centralized finance (CeFi) and…
Solana infrastructure provider Jito Labs, asset managers VanEck and Bitwise and two other stakeholders are appealing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to allow liquid staking for Solana exchange-traded products (ETPs). Liquid staking is a form of allocating tokens to a validator while receiving a derivative token in return, effectively meaning the staked…
Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake has proposed “Lean Ethereum,” a plan to make the layer-1 smart contract network quantum-secure, while also simplifying Ethereum’s tech stack, which includes the consensus layer, data layer and execution layer. The researcher proposed zero-knowledge powered virtual machines, a way of verifying data onchain without revealing the content of that data,…
Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake has proposed “Lean Ethereum,” a plan to make the layer-1 smart contract network quantum-secure, while also simplifying Ethereum’s tech stack, which includes the consensus layer, data layer and execution layer. The researcher proposed zero-knowledge powered virtual machines, a way of verifying data onchain without revealing the content of that data,…
