Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Huoxing Finance reports that on August 5, Circle released its second-quarter 2026 financial results. Data shows that as of the end of the second quarter, USDC’s circulating supply reached $73.3 billion, a 19% year-over-year increase; USDC on-chain transaction volume for the quarter reached $14.8 tri

Clarity Act Updates: Why is this week the deadline?Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he still expects a floor vote on the CLARITY Act this week, even though the chamber has only a handful of legislative days left before its August recess. The Senate has until Friday to act, after which lawmaker

Huo Xing Finance reports that on August 5, according to OnchainDataNerd, a new wallet deposited 2.44 million USDC and opened a short position of 1,600 BTC with 40x leverage, valued at approximately $102.6 million. The position was opened at around $64,202 per BTC, with a liquidation price of approxi

Circle Internet Group just dropped its Q2 2026 earnings, and the company posted $143 million in adjusted EBITDA, reinforcing its position as the dominant publicly traded stablecoin issuer on the NYSE under ticker CRCL. The company minted $83 billion worth of USDC during the quarter, capturing a 27%

A 29-year-old founder, a billion-dollar valuation, and Alibaba’s checkbook. Vast, the Beijing-based AI startup behind Tripo3D.ai, is eyeing a Hong Kong IPO at a $2 billion valuation, roughly double what it was worth after its most recent private funding round.The company, which specializes in genera

Infineon Technologies is going all-in on the idea that AI data centers need a lot of electricity, and someone has to make the chips that manage all that power. That someone, the company is betting, will increasingly be Infineon.The German semiconductor giant is projecting €1.5 billion in AI-related

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Circle has announced that its open blockchain network for global financial markets, Arc, is scheduled to officially launch on the public mainnet on September 16. It is currently operating on a private mainnet and has attracted over 100 institutions and ecosystem part

PANews, August 5: Circle announced that its open blockchain network Arc, designed for global financial markets, will officially launch on the public mainnet on September 16. Arc is currently operating on a private mainnet and has attracted over 100 institutions and ecosystem participants. BlackRock,

According to ME News, on August 5 (UTC+8), BitcoinTreasuries.NET posted on X that Austrian banking giant Raiffeisen Bank International, with assets of $258 billion, disclosed a 3,080% increase in its stake in Bitcoin treasury company Strategy, now holding 5,980 shares valued at $554,000. (Source: OD

Key takeawaysEthereum traded sideways as mixed on-chain activity reflected uncertainty among investors.Whale wallets holding 10,000–100,000 ETH accumulated a net 130,000 ETH over the past week.Smaller wallet cohorts collectively reduced their holdings by approximately 360,000 ETH.Ethereum (ETH) cont

SpaceX reported for the first time as a public company.Financial results came in better than experts expected.The company also announced an exclusive partnership with Nvidia.SpaceX released its financial results for the second quarter of 2026 — its first public report since going public, Yahoo! Fina

Ether.fi [ETHFI] has stayed on the losing side of the market over the past 24 hours, dwindling further with a double-digit percentage loss.The token ranks among the year’s most unfavorable assets to trade, stringing together multi-week losses. Over the last 90 days, it dropped 17%, and on a one-year

Odaily Planet Daily Report: Former Los Angeles police officer Eric Halem has been sentenced to life in prison plus an additional 15 years for a home invasion robbery case involving the transfer of $350,000 in Bitcoin from a 17-year-old victim. Halem will be eligible for parole after seven years. Pr

Odaily Planet Daily report: Strong earnings have boosted investor confidence in the prospects of artificial intelligence, driving the Nasdaq 100 Index up 9.3% in just four days—the strongest rally since April 2025—with market capitalization surging by $3.5 trillion. The tech sector’s rebound has bee

Cory Klippsten was at a wedding in Paris when the messages started coming in. "It was a brutal weekend for so many who lost bitcoin," the CEO of Swan said in an interview. "I was sending messages at 4 a.m. to help someone on Pacific Time get their coins to safety."That was last Thursday, when attack