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08-04
EA to be acquired by Saudi-backed consortium for $55 billion
Mars Finance reports that on August 4, according to a document released by the European Commission, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund (PIF), along with an investor consortium, has received European Union approval under the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation to acquire g
ATOM Price Surges 9% Amid DeFi Sector Rotation and Growing Bullish Sentiment
ATOM price has emerged as one of the strongest performers in today’s crypto market, climbing nearly 9% as investors rotate capital back into DeFi-focused projects. While Bitcoin and Ethereum continue consolidating, Cosmos has attracted renewed attention thanks to improving market sentiment, surging
Sequans Communications Sells 344 BTC, Plans to Divest Remaining 314 BTC
Sequans Communications, a Paris-based IoT semiconductor company listed on the NYSE under ticker SQNS, sold 344 Bitcoin during Q2 2026 and has signaled its intention to offload the remaining 314 BTC still on its balance sheet. The company is officially winding down what was once an ambitious crypto t
Coldcard Exploit Tops $100M as Stolen BTC May Be Hard to Spend
Well over $100 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) has now been stolen through the ongoing Coldcard wallet exploit, said Galaxy Research, but market commentator Joe Consorti has argued that the attacker may struggle to spend much of that haul since every BTC is being tracked on the public blockchain.Inst
Entegris Q2 2026 Earnings Beat Estimates with 41% EPS Growth
Entegris, a specialty materials maker which supplies critical components for semiconductor manufacturing, posted Q2 2026 results that cleared Wall Street expectations across the board.Net sales came in at $883.2 million, an 11% jump from the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings per share hit $0
Five men in London convicted of kidnapping and assaulting French crypto millionaires
According to Decrypt, the Central Criminal Court in London recently handed down a ruling in a violent kidnapping case targeting cryptocurrency holders. Five men were found guilty of unlawfully detaining two French cryptocurrency millionaires, with Gerson Borges and Mohamed Osman additionally convict
Mysterious Whale Buys Lumentum (LITE) Before Price Surges, Earns 284% Profit
ME News reports that, on August 4 (UTC+8), according to TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight), the whale beginning with 0xaa53 made two purchases of Lumentum (LITE), both precisely timed just before price acceleration began.
As of 18:00 today, Reuters, citing sources familiar with the matter, reve
AMD MI355X Outperforms NVIDIA B200 in Kimi K3 Deployment
This could be the moment AMD has been waiting for.Recently, Wafer AI deployed on the AMD MI355X
Kimi
K3. As a result, a model that previously required 16 NVIDIA B200 GPUs across two servers can now be deployed on a single AMD server equipped with 8 MI355X GPUs.More importantly, it’s not jus
India to Reintroduce Merchant Fees on UPI After Six-Year Zero-Cost Experiment
India is preparing to bring back merchant fees on its wildly popular Unified Payments Interface, ending a six-year experiment with zero-cost digital transactions that the country’s own lawmakers have called unsustainable.The Taxation and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha on Au
Gemini Agent-to-Agent Attack Exposes Secrets and Enables Pull Request Tampering
Pillar Security published research on August 3, 2026, detailing a novel attack against Google’s open-source Agent Development Kit for Python, specifically targeting workflows inside the gemini-cli GitHub repository. The exploit works by injecting malicious instructions into a low-privilege AI agent,
The CLARITY Act requires a Senate motion to proceed with a vote on Thursday.
ME News reports that on August 4 (UTC+8), the U.S. cryptocurrency market structure regulation bill, the CLARITY Act, reached a critical moment this week. Under Senate procedures, if senators wish to proceed with their planned August recess, Senate Majority Leader and Republican Senator John Thune mu
Trader TwoEyes Adds $1.4M in BTC and Strategy Assets Short Positions on Hyperliquid
Odaily Planet Daily report: Polymarket trader "TwoEyes" significantly increased short positions in BTC and Strategy-related assets on Hyperliquid this morning. Opening a new BTC short position of 13.4011 BTC at an average price of $63,679.40, while simultaneously selling 5,000 shares of MSTR and 899
Coldcard Exploit Surpasses $100M with 1,596 BTC Stolen
What initially appeared to be a major hardware wallet breach has grown into a far larger forensic investigation as new evidence continues reshaping its scale.Initial findings linked the exploit of Coldcard to 4,585 addresses in three waves and the theft of about 1,367 Bitcoin [BTC] worth roughly $88
FalconX Cuts 10% of Workforce Amid Crypto Market Downturn
Key InsightsCrypto news focused on FalconX cutting roughly 10% of employees.FalconX reportedly shifted its Singapore strategy toward crypto derivatives.The crypto market downturn pushed trading firms beyond spot services.FalconX reportedly cut roughly 10% of its global workforce on Monday. The crypt
Coldcard vulnerability results in $130 million in losses as phishing attacks surge
Odaily Planet Daily reports that hardware wallet manufacturers Trezor and Foundation have warned of an increase in phishing attempts targeting hardware wallet holders following the disclosure of a Coldcard firmware vulnerability, with attackers seeking recovery phrases and诱导 users to download malwar
