Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

According to CoinTelegraph, a European Central Bank survey found that only 0.2% of online merchants in the eurozone accept cryptocurrency payments, with acceptance at physical point-of-sale terminals below 1%, showing almost no growth between 2024 and 2026; during the same period, mobile payment acc

Investors are increasingly examining network activity, utility, and adoption rather than relying solely on market narratives.LINK, AVAX, DOT, HBAR, and LTC operate across data infrastructure, smart contracts, interoperability, enterprise technology, and payments.Economic data, network developments,

According to ChainCatcher, citing PR Newswire, AI data center company Hyperscale Data (NYSE: GPUS) has announced the completion of the sale of approximately 685 bitcoins, generating around $43 million in proceeds based on recent market prices. The funds will be primarily used to support ongoing deve

As per the Announcement, KuCoin Futures will adjust the maximum leverage and risk limit of multiple perpetual contracts for Isolated Margin on August 15, 2026, between 10:00 and 11:00 UTC. The changes affect contracts such as BSPUSDT, POPMARTUSDT, CIENUSDT, and others, with updated leverage and risk

Tether announced that the audit covered not only reserve information but also the company’s broader financial reporting and supporting documentation—including assets, liabilities, transactions, accounting systems, valuation methods, and cash flows. According to the audit report, Tether’s reserves...

Bitcoin has been doing something unusual for an asset known for dramatic price swings: almost nothing. Price has been grinding in the $63,200–$63,500 range through another session of limited movement, and two independent technical indicators are now both quantifying just how historically extreme thi

ME AI message: Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas, in his latest research report, presents a market-overlooked insight: by 2040, the distributed computing power of robot clusters may surpass any data center in helping SpaceX achieve its 1 terawatt computing target. Morgan Stanley estimates that by 20

Author: Claude, DeepChain TechFlowDeepChain Summary: On August 12, OpenAI and five scholars released a 69-page working paper linking over 17 million real usage logs from ChatGPT Enterprise with employee seniority levels, task categories, and financial data of publicly traded companies. The findings

Odaily Planet Daily reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has once again delayed its “innovation exemption” plan for tokenization. The framework aims to allow companies to test blockchain-based tokenized trading of U.S. equities without meeting full exchange and broker-deale

CoinDesk reports:A study to be presented at USENIX Security '26 reveals that 65,340 high-risk address instances were identified on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain, involving the loss of 126,982.94 ETH and 17,726.7 BNB in native tokens. The research team estimated the total value at over $574.8 million

CoinDesk reports:The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will hold its inaugural Innovation Advisory Committee meeting on August 20, with topics including cryptocurrency regulation, artificial intelligence, and prediction markets. In the absence of progress on comprehensive digital asse

Crypto assets are still effectively absent from everyday commerce across the euro area, according to a new European Central Bank (ECB) survey of how businesses accept different payment methods. Even as digital payments expand, the ECB finds that only a small fraction of merchants take crypto—whether

The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has planned a meeting of its Innovation Advisory Committee to discuss crypto, AI, and prediction market regulations.The Innovation Advisory Committee will advise the CFTC on policy issues, including crypto regulation following yet another

According to Lookonchain, the whale 19pFLW purchased 300 BTC five hours ago, worth $19.03 million. Whale 19pFLW currently holds 1,120 BTC, valued at $70.43 million, with an average purchase price of $69,294 per BTC.

Trezor, the firm behind the first-ever hardware wallet, has reported a data breach at its shipping provider, ShipMonk, which exposed sensitive order information pertaining to thousands of users.According to a message Trezor shared on X on August 13, ShipMonk notified the company on August 10 that an