Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Alex Thorn, Research Director at Galaxy Digital, stated that based on new victim reports received after the incident, the number of attackers exploiting the Coldcard vulnerability has reached at least 15.Thorn said that the information provided by victims helped the

Key PointJapan’s Ministry of Finance confirmed on Aug. 3 that it purchased yen with the US Treasury on July 31 after preliminary data indicated Tokyo may have deployed almost $96 billion over two days. Reuters said the Bank of Japan may have spent $58.97 billion during an initial intervention last T

Starting September 1, rules will take effect for investors, exchanges, trading platforms, and digital custodians. Non-professional investors—meaning any individual wishing to invest—will be permitted to trade cryptocurrencies, but only after passing a special assessment and within an annual limit...

The United States joined Japan’s effort to support the yen after preliminary central-bank data indicated Tokyo may have deployed almost $96 billion over two days, putting Bitcoin traders on alert for a possible unwind of positions financed with cheap Japanese capital.On Aug. 3, Japan’s Ministry of F

Chainlink gains momentum through CCIP innovation, institutional adoption, and ETF approval.Sui rallies strongly as privacy features and free stablecoin transfers approach.Bittensor leads decentralized AI with growing adoption and rising institutional interest.Crypto sentiment has improved after week

Bitdeer leased its Norway campus for 16 years for $4.7 billion.According to the press, Anthropic is the end recipient of the computing capacity.Bitdeer shares jumped on the news.Bitdeer announced that it has signed a 16-year equipment lease agreement at its facility in Norway with Volta Tydal AS wor

Seven weeks ago SpaceX pulled off the largest listing in stock market history. Today the stock trades below the price its own IPO investors paid, and the chart tells the story more clearly than any headline has.$SPCX changed hands around $118.21 on Tuesday morning. That is roughly 44% below the clos

XDC Network just built a marketplace where AI agents can spend money on their own. The platform, called XDC AI, lets autonomous agents discover, buy, and pay for digital services and APIs using USDC, with built-in guardrails to keep things from going sideways.The launch happened on July 29 in New Yo

Mars Finance reports that Michael Saylor posted on X that at block height 961,022, BIP-110 received 38 signals, accounting for 2.7%, failing to reach its 55% voluntary threshold. At block height 961,632, BIP-110 nodes will reject blocks that do not signal support. Unless major miners change their st

ChainThink reports that on August 4, according to Bloomberg, AI cloud services company CoreWeave Inc. plans to enter the Asian market by building its first data centers in Indonesia.CoreWeave stated in its announcement that it plans to build three new data centers outside the United States, all loca

Deutsche Bank is going on offense. The German banking giant has filed a counterclaim against four former senior employees, seeking approximately $636 million in damages tied to the long-running Monte dei Paschi di Siena scandal. The move is a direct response to the ex-employees’ own lawsuit, which d

ME News reports that on August 4 (UTC+8), Nick Tomaino, founder of 1confirmation, posted on X that beyond media coverage, Polymarket has several other noteworthy developments. Over the past month, Polymarket’s website received 43.1 million visits (according to Similarweb), surpassing the combined

Key PointGalaxy Research estimated that the Coldcard exploit caused $100 million in losses across three confirmed attack waves and identified a suspected fourth wave that could bring total losses to about $130 million in Bitcoin. Galaxy Digital head of research Alex Thorn said victim reports helped

Huoxing Finance reports that on August 4, Morgan Stanley stated that the rise of open-weight AI models such as Kimi K3, Qwen, and Llama will accelerate AI adoption by reducing costs, rather than eroding the competitive advantages of industry leaders. The firm believes that lower-cost AI will drive b

The US labor market is cooling, but job openings fell to roughly 7.36 million in June, down from 7.59 million in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey released on August 4.The hires rate held at 3.4%, suggesting employers are still bringing p