Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

ChainCatcher report: The South African National Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) have jointly released a draft handbook on Cross-Border Crypto-Asset Activities, currently open for public consultation until September 30, 2026. This handbook complements the previously issued draft Ca

BlockBeats news, on August 3, Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh decided last week to hold interest rates steady, but bond markets experienced significant volatility. Some seasoned bond fund managers believe that the Fed’s decision to stand pat has produced a stronger financial tightening effect than

BlockBeats report, on August 3, after a significant correction in July, some foreign institutional investors believe the selling pressure driven by leveraged trading may be nearing an end, and are beginning to cover their short positions and reposition themselves in South Korea’s semiconductor stock

Since early this morning, the renowned hardware wallet Coldcard has suffered at least four consecutive attacks due to an RNG (random number generator) vulnerability—stolen BTC has rolled upward from 1,159 → 1,300 → 1,367 coins, with cumulative losses reaching approximately $88.6 million. A single

QCP Group reported that the U.S. Treasury, in coordination with the New York Fed and Japan’s Ministry of Finance, purchased yen—the first joint U.S.-Japan foreign exchange intervention since 1998. The yield on the U.S. 30-year Treasury note rose briefly to approximately 5.27% before retreating to 5.

Hamas agreed to consider laying down its weapons. Israel responded by picking up more of its own.In the days following President Donald Trump’s announcement of a phased disarmament framework on July 30-31, 2026, Israeli forces have escalated strikes across Gaza, killing at least 17 people including

Odaily Planet Daily reports, according to Arkham monitoring, renowned trader James Wynn has been liquidated for four consecutive days due to short positions on the S&P 500. Data shows that from last Friday through Monday, James Wynn’s short positions on the S&P 500 were forcibly closed, reducing his

Huoxing Finance reports that on August 2, the European Commission gained new regulatory enforcement powers over AI, enabling it to assess AI models, restrict market access, and impose fines on companies developing general-purpose AI (GPAI) models, with U.S. AI firms such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Go

American Bitcoin reported a $57.2 million loss for the second quarter of 2026 while lifting its bitcoin treasury to 8,002 BTC, framing the quarter around balance-sheet scale rather than quarterly earnings.The figures come from the company’s own second-quarter results, which pair a headline net loss

France just made it significantly harder for non-European investors to buy their way into the country’s most sensitive industries. A decree enacted on August 2, 2026, drops the foreign direct investment screening threshold from 25% to 10% of voting rights, meaning the French Economy Ministry now get

Bitcoin’s improving market conditions have begun easing pressure on underwater holders, although the broader recovery remains incomplete.The unrealized loss ratio fell to 35.2%, dropping below the historical 40% deep-stress threshold after peaking at 42.2% in late June.That decline suggests fewer in

Someone running a company just dropped $10,000 on AI model API credits with a single goal: find software vulnerabilities in Bitcoin. Not $10,000 on Bitcoin itself. Not $10,000 on some new token. Ten grand on conversations with AI chatbots, pointed squarely at the most battle-tested codebase in crypt

This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.'Sign up here, if you haven't already.A solo miner scored a major win even as the broader market frets over a multimillion-dollar Coldcard hardware wallet exploit.According to mempool data, an independent miner successfully packaged block 960,804

According to Bloomberg, South Korean AI chip design company DeepX has completed the first tranche of its Series D funding, raising 4.2 billion KRW from existing investors BNW Investment Co. and DS Asset Management Co., with a latest valuation of approximately 3.14 trillion KRW (around $2.2 billion),

According to Huoxing Finance, on August 3, blockchain fintech company Ripple announced a strategic investment in Zilo, a UK-regulated asset transfer agency, and Licuido, a tokenization solutions provider regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), to advance the application of tokenized f