Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Nvidia released Alpamayo 2 Super for commercial use Tuesday, giving automakers and autonomous vehicle developers access to its largest open reasoning model for robotaxis and self driving systems.The model is available through Hugging Face under the Linux Foundation’s OpenMDW 1.1 license, which allow

BlockBeats news, on August 5, "Fed Whisperer" Nick Timiraos published an article stating that U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent’s policy reaction function has shifted to become less dovish. His remarks this year suggest that the Fed should maintain interest rates at their current level. Earlier this y

ChainThink reports that on August 5, according to BIT market data, U.S. stocks in the optical communications sector continued their upward trend, with AAOI (Applied Optoelectronics) rising 21.7%.Among other related assets, the pure-play photonics ETF FOTO rose 11.41%, Corning (GLW) increased 9.21%,

If you’ve moved a token between blockchains recently, there’s a very good chance LayerZero handled the delivery. The protocol’s Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) standard now accounts for 87% of all cross-chain transfer volume, a figure the company highlighted on August 4.How OFT became the defaultThe

TL;DRAptos launched Confidential APT on its mainnet, a feature that encrypts balances and transaction amounts using zero-knowledge proofs.Wallet addresses remain visible on the network, meaning the sender and receiver are still identifiable even though amounts are hidden.The tool is entirely optiona

ChainCatcher report: In response to an EIP proposal submitted by the Ethereum community, Aave founder and CEO Stani Kulechov published a post opposing it, arguing that the proposal fails to achieve its intended goals and instead harms Ethereum. He noted that capping ETH staking rewards at 0% when th

Zug, Switzerland, August 4th, 2026, ChainwirePartnership brings AmericanFortress’s zero-knowledge security stack to the Casper ecosystem, reinforcing the Casper Manifest’s privacy and quantum-safety initiatives as institutional tokenization accelerates.“Institutions will not tokenize meaningful valu

ChainThink reports that on August 5, according to ABC News, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York upheld SBF’s convictions for fraud and conspiracy on Tuesday, rejecting his appeal.In 2024, SBF was sentenced to 25 years in prison in connection with the collapse of FTX. Prosecu

A Bitcoin-backed stablecoin you probably haven’t heard of just quietly crossed $750 million in lifetime volume. MUSD, the flagship product of the Mezo ecosystem, now operates natively across Mezo, Ethereum, and Base via Wormhole’s cross-chain infrastructure, marking a notable milestone for what rema

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Bitcoin News posted on X that Bitcoin developer Chris Guida has re-adapted Luke Dashjr’s 2017 proof-of-work modification code to the latest version of Bitcoin Knots, as an emergency fallback for miners who refuse to signal support for BIP-110. This proposal serves

The US labor market just flashed another yellow light. Job openings dropped to 7.359 million in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ JOLTS report released on August 4, marking the lowest reading since March and falling well short of the 7.44 million economists had penciled in.That’s a

Wells Fargo will introduce tokenized deposits for its corporate and commercial clients this fall, the bank said on Aug. 4, beginning with a limited U.S. dollar-to-British pound exchange for select clients and expanding over the course of 2027 to more clients, countries and currencies.The fourth-larg

Micron (MU) has emerged as one of the breakout beneficiaries of the AI boom—posting sharp revenue and EPS gains over recent quarters as demand for high-performance memory surges. That momentum has Wall Street betting big, but the path forward is far from certain. Where the analysts stand - Wall Str

Bitcoin’s hardware wallet ecosystem is facing a rare and dangerous moment. The maker of Coldcard has confirmed that an exploit still actively draining funds from specific devices has already led to roughly $114 million in losses, and the flaw remains unpatched as of Tuesday. The company is telling u

Bearish chatter around Bitcoin [BTC] peaked on the 31st of July as the asset tumbled from a high of $65,409 to $62,466 that same day and slid lower still on the 1st of August.The gloom has not fully held up, though, and Bitcoin has since rebounded off its low to climb back above $64,000 in the early