Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Odaily Planet Daily reports: Jeff Dean, one of Google’s earliest employees and the key figure behind the company’s AI strategy over the past 15 years, will leave the company to found a new AI startup focused on scientific discovery. Dean joined Google in 1999 as its 30th employee and will serve as C

ME AI news: Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, plans to step down. Hassabis is one of the key figures in artificial intelligence, co-founding DeepMind in 2010 and continuing to lead the team after its acquisition by Google in 2014. In recent years, he has driven DeepMind’s advancements in found

ChianCatcher report: International venture capital firm White Star Capital has announced the final close of its fourth fund at $250 million. Combined with its previous North American seed fund and several specialized vehicles, the firm has now raised over $350 million, covering investments from seed

A new proposal sparking debate within the Ethereum community foresees a significant reduction in staking rewards. Under Ethereum Improvement Proposal 8361 (EIP-8361), the plan is to reduce validator yields from 2.6% to 1.2%. This represents a reduction of approximately 54% and will be implemented gr

Galaxy Digital shares fell more than 13% Wednesday morning after the company reported an $85 million net loss for the second quarter, driven primarily by the depreciation of digital asset prices.The stock traded near $19.15 during the session, down approximately 13.5%, after falling as low as $18.97

The crypto market has been under pressure in recent months. Bitcoin (BTC) rocketed to a record $126,080 in October 2025, but has since retraced nearly 50%, dragging much of the market down with it. For investors, however, suppressed prices can present opportunity: lower entry points or a chance to l

US private employers added just 44,000 jobs in July, according to the latest ADP National Employment Report. That’s the weakest monthly gain in six months, and it missed economist expectations of roughly 70,000 by a wide margin.The numbers paint a bleak pictureThe July figure represents a sharp dece

ME News reports that on August 5 (UTC+8), sources familiar with the matter revealed that in recent days, hackers launched a sophisticated campaign targeting information systems of Wall Street firms, specifically aiming at major asset management companies. The attackers attempted to infiltrate the in

According to CNBC, Peter Diamandis, an early investor in SpaceX and founder of the XPRIZE Foundation, said that SpaceX has the potential to become the world’s first company to reach a $1 trillion market valuation. Diamandis noted that the market has not yet found the right way to assess SpaceX’s val

Bitcoin shook off a shaky start to the week, bouncing from sub-$62K levels on Monday to reclaim $64,300 by Wednesday morning. The catalyst, or at least the backdrop, was hard to miss: the S&P 500 punched above 7,050 to notch yet another all-time high.The correlation between risk assets and crypt...

Circle reported another quarter of strong USDC growth, with on-chain transaction volume surging to $14.8 trillion during the second quarter. Yet the stablecoin issuer still missed Wall Street’s revenue expectations as lower reserve yields weighed on earnings.The results highlight a key challenge for

SpaceX just posted one of the most impressive revenue beats in recent memory, and the market responded by dumping the stock. The company’s shares fell roughly 8% in after-hours trading despite Q2 2026 revenue coming in at approximately $7.8 billion, blowing past Wall Street’s $6.9 billion estimate b

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Coinbase has released its Q2 2026 Solana validator operations report, stating that its operated Solana validators outperformed the network average in terms of yield, stability, and infrastructure distribution. Data shows that Coinbase currently stakes approximately 4

ChainCatcher report: Coinbase has released its Q2 2026 Solana validator operations report, stating that its operated Solana validators outperformed the network average in terms of yield, stability, and infrastructure distribution. Data shows that Coinbase currently stakes approximately 41.63 millio

Hong Kong just got a new blueprint for tokenized finance. On August 5, FORMS HK, Chainlink, Apex Group, CSpro, and Blockchain Valley@Cyberport officially launched the Tokenized Securities Framework, a joint infrastructure initiative designed to standardize how tokenized securities are issued, distri