Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Crypto investors managing complex portfolios face a tax reporting problem that spreadsheets and automated software cannot solve. For those holding DeFi tokens across multiple protocols, NFTs from various marketplaces, and assets spread across dozens of wallets and exchanges, the gap between what sof

BlockBeats report, August 7: MetaMask has officially launched Agent Wallet, providing self-custodial AI agent wallets for traders and developers. Users can connect to agent frameworks such as Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw, allowing agents to execute on-chain operations within predefined rules.Age

SWIFT Ledger Targets Real-Time Liquidity as XRP Ledger's Decade-Long Head Start Draws Attention SWIFT has introduced its new Swift Ledger, a platform designed to make liquidity visible in real time and enable true 24/7 cross-border payments. While the initiative marks a major evolution for the globa

Solomon Labs just did something most crypto projects talk about but rarely follow through on: it opened its books. The Solana-based protocol released a complete B1 Token Transparency Filing through Blockworks on August 6, characterized as having “zero gaps” in its disclosures.Here’s the thing, thoug

Ethereum Staking garnered publicity when Bitmine increased the total amount of stakes to 5,067,309 ETH, or 87.4% of the stake.ETH is consolidating under resistance, with RSI and MACD indicating a cooling of its bearish trend. A confirmed breakout with stronger volume could shift market focus toward

SpaceX just flooded the market with roughly 911.5 million newly tradable shares worth approximately $100 billion. The stock didn’t blink.The August 6 lockup expiration, the first major one since SpaceX’s blockbuster June 2026 IPO, more than doubled the company’s public float. Before the unlock, fewe

China just dropped a not-so-subtle reminder that it has economic ammunition of its own. On August 5, Beijing sanctioned at least six US entities and slapped strict new export controls on drones headed to America, all while warning Washington that additional tech restrictions would be met with furthe

Senator Elizabeth Warren has raised concerns about changes to the Federal Reserve’s Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation measure. Warren has requested detailed information regarding the modifications, which could potentially lower reported inflation by approximately 0.2 percentage point

Tesla just had the kind of month that makes portfolio managers reconsider their career choices. The stock cratered roughly 26% in July after the company’s Q2 2026 earnings report revealed an uncomfortable truth: selling a lot of cars doesn’t necessarily mean making a lot of money.The earnings releas

ChainCatcher report: On Thursday, MetaMask launched Agent Wallet, a self-custodial wallet that enables AI agents to execute on-chain transactions within user-defined limits, targeting traders and developers who use AI agents to monitor markets, identify opportunities, and autonomously execute trades

Odaily Planet Daily reports that stablecoin issuer Tether has announced that its asset tokenization platform, Hadron, will provide real estate asset tokenization technology to institutional investors in Saudi Arabia, enabling the blockchain integration of traditional real estate assets.Tether stated

Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, has expanded its gold holdings significantly in the second quarter of 2026, acquiring 14 additional tonnes. This purchase brings Tether’s total gold reserves to 146 tonnes, valued at approximately $18.8 billion. As a result, Tether is now one of the largest

Tether is expanding its tokenization business into Saudi Arabia, and the company is starting with real estate. On August 6, 2026, Tether unveiled a strategic collaboration to deploy Hadron by Tether as the technology backbone for tokenizing institutional-grade property assets in the Kingdom, marking

ME AI messages: Fintech company Stripe is in exclusive acquisition talks with AI model aggregation platform OpenRouter, with a valuation of approximately $10 billion. Sources familiar with the matter say OpenRouter has previously received acquisition interest from several major tech companies, but S

According to ME News, on August 7 (UTC+8), the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Liu Zhou, founder and primary operator of the cryptocurrency financial services company MyTrade, was recently sentenced to a $10,000 fine by a federal court in Boston for his involvement in a cryptocurrency mark