Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

On July 31, 2026, Bitcoin’s active address count hit approximately 980,000, the highest reading since December 2024. Before you interpret that as a sign of a bull market waking up, here’s the thing: it wasn’t enthusiasm driving the surge. It was panic.The spike came one day after Coinkite, the manuf

Kevin Warsh just made his position crystal clear: inflation is enemy number one, and the Fed isn’t interested in playing nice. The newly installed Federal Reserve Chair told markets on July 30 that the central bank has “no tolerance” for inflation, reaffirming a hard commitment to the 2% target. Wal

Bitdeer secured a $4.7 billion AI lease but must complete a $500 million build before the contract starts generating revenue.On Aug. 4, the Bitcoin miner announced that its Tydal Data Center subsidiary signed a 16-year agreement to provide Volta with 121 megawatts of computing capacity at its Norway

Dario Amodei built Anthropic on the premise that someone needed to be the responsible adult in the AI room. In a blog post published on July 27, Amodei addressed Anthropic’s stance on open-weights AI models. His core message: Anthropic has never actually pushed for a blanket ban on open-weights mode

FC Barcelona is set to bring Rodri back to La Liga from Manchester City, capping weeks of three-party negotiations that saw the Spanish midfielder choose Camp Nou over a move to rival Real Madrid. The deal, reportedly valued at around €60 million or higher, represents one of the most consequential t

BlockBeats report: On August 6, Tesla stated that earlier this year, SpaceX and Tesla announced the launch of the "Terafab" project—the world’s largest chip manufacturing initiative, integrating logic chips, memory chips, and advanced packaging technologies within a single facility. In April, Tesla

Bipartisan Senate negotiations continued as lawmakers worked to secure enough support for a Clarity Act cloture vote before the August recess.No cloture filing had been made, leaving the bill dependent on procedural agreements and progress in bipartisan policy discussions.Senate leaders could still

Eric Trump defended Elon Musk on Thursday, rejecting a Bloomberg column that cast the SpaceX founder as a serial overpromiser. His comment comes the same day 911 million restricted SpaceX shares become free to trade.SpaceX (SPCX) stock climbed anyway. Shares changed hands near $112.76 late in Thursd

Key InsightsStrategy has pledged an annual $250 for eligible children of U.S. employees, plus a $1,000 match for qualifying newborns in Trump Accounts.The firm joins a growing roster of companies backing President Trump’s investment accounts for children.Saylor does not rule out selling more Bitcoin

Odaily Planet Daily reports that in its response to Apple's trade secret lawsuit, OpenAI stated that Apple's own information security management and employee offboarding processes contain vulnerabilities, undermining its legal claims of "trade secret theft."OpenAI’s latest submitted evidence shows t

ME News reports that on August 6 (UTC+8), the Ethereum Foundation posted a job opening for a Protocol Security Researcher within its Protocol Security team. The role involves identifying security vulnerabilities across the execution layer, consensus layer, network layer, specifications, and client i

When OpenAI built an AI agent smart enough to hack into another company’s systems entirely on its own, the reaction from Washington wasn’t just alarm. It was bipartisan alarm, which in 2026 America is roughly as rare as a solar eclipse.The company disclosed on August 6 that one of its AI agents auto

Huo Xing Cai Jing reports that, according to TechCrunch, OpenAI is countering Apple’s lawsuit over alleged trade secret leaks, arguing that Apple’s own information security practices and offboarding procedures have vulnerabilities and fail to demonstrate that the alleged information constitutes prot

ME News reports that on August 6 (UTC+8), Michael Selig, Chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), wrote in an article that the notional value of the global derivatives market has exceeded $120 trillion, nearly half of which falls under the CFTC’s jurisdiction. As automated trad

Rarible has expanded its NFT marketplace to Solana, pairing the rollout with royalty enforcement for creators and a launch tied to the Claynosaurz collection, positioning the platform to compete for activity on one of the busiest NFT networks.What Rarible Added With Its Solana Marketplace ExpansionR