Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

ByteDance just dropped a new AI model that can see you, hear you, and talk back to you, all at the same time and in real time. The company’s internal AI research group, Seed, launched SeedRealtime on April 9, making it available to users of the Doubao app, which has quietly become one of the most wi

A Bitcoin holder who wants less downside exposure today usually sells the asset or shorts a perpetual futures contract, taking on funding costs and liquidation risk. On-chain options offer a third path consisting of paying a fixed premium, keeping the Bitcoin, and handing the crash risk to whoever i

Could Bitcoin [BTC] break its recurring August bearish trend?So far, Bitcoin is up more than 2% this month, marking a clear divergence from its typical August performance. According to CoinGlass data, Bitcoin hasn’t posted a positive August since the 2021 cycle. From 2022 to 2025, the month averaged

SummaryFormer Ripple CTO David Schwartz warned XRP holders about a fake Ripple website designed to drain cryptocurrency wallets through deception.Scammers copied Ripple’s branding while promising exclusive rewards before triggering malicious wallet approvals that drained victims’ XRP funds irreversi

Odaily Planet Daily reports that at least six Wall Street financial institutions, including Bank of America (BofA), have initiated coverage on SK Hynix’s American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) and issued “Buy” or “Overweight” ratings, citing strong demand from U.S. tech companies, leadership in the hig

SummaryBNY is integrating cryptocurrency staking into its Digital Asset Custody platform through a partnership with Galaxy, enabling institutional clients to earn staking rewards without transferring assets outside the bank's custody environment.Key TakeawaysBy embedding Galaxy's staking infrastruct

According to Mars Finance, SEC filings reveal that TeraWulf reported its second-quarter 2026 operating results, generating $44.767 million in revenue, of which $31.932 million came from HPC leasing services, accounting for approximately 71% of total revenue. The company’s Lake Mariner project in Ne

Introduction: Is the U.S. ready to decouple from Chinese optical modules? Yesterday (August 4), the global optical module market was suddenly rocked by news of a U.S. version of the "domestic replacement" plan. According to media outlets such as China News Service and Yicai, citing overseas reports,

ME News reports that, as of August 5 (UTC+8), the probability of the CLARITY Act (H.R.3633) being signed into law by 2026 on Polymarket is currently at 13%, the lowest level since the prediction market was created, down 14% within 24 hours. The total trading volume for this event has reached approxi

Huo Xing Finance reports that on August 5, the Korea Post Corporation of the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Development Bank signed a business cooperation agreement at the KDB headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul, to jointly establish a 1 trillion KRW "AI Infrastructure Fund" dedicated to inves

On August 4, Mizuho Securities analyst Dan Dolev, in an interview with Bloomberg, stated that he would maintain his underweight rating on Circle. He believes Circle’s only current upside catalyst is potential earnings growth from rising interest rates; however, from a fundamental perspective, multip

Odaily Planet Daily reports: The Hong Kong Exchange disclosed an equity change notice: Duan Yongping’s long position in POP MART through H&H International Investment decreased from 7.65% to 5.55% on July 30, a reduction of 2.1 percentage points. The subtlety lies in the timing—on July 23, Duan Yongp

Odaily Planet Daily report: According to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings, TeraWulf reported its second-quarter 2026 operating results, generating $44.767 million in revenue, with $31.932 million from HPC leasing services, accounting for approximately 71% of total revenue.The company

When a $45 billion hedge fund implodes overnight, someone’s going to pick up the pieces. In this case, that someone was Ken Griffin.Citadel’s Wellington multistrategy fund posted a 5.9% gain in July after acquiring a massive chunk of the public equity portfolio belonging to Situational Awareness, th

Former Los Angeles Police Department officer Eric Halem has been sentenced to life plus 15 years in state prison for kidnapping and robbing a teenager of a hard drive holding about $350,000 in Bitcoin.Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mildred Escobedo handed down the sentence on Aug. 4 after r