Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

BNY’s Digital Transfer Agency places official fund ownership records directly on blockchain infrastructure for faster settlements.Ripple already works with BNY through RLUSD reserves and transaction banking services for institutional operations today.XRPL is absent from the initial rollout, while fu

Ctrl Wallet users have reached the app's last scheduled day of full service. On Aug. 3, sending, receiving, swaps, and dApp connections are due to stop, leaving recovery-phrase export as the only function.Ctrl markets the non-custodial wallet as supporting more than 2,500 blockchains. Its deprecatio

A crypto user known as @cprkrn just recovered 5 BTC, worth approximately $400K, after more than a decade of being locked out. The tool that finally cracked the case wasn’t some sophisticated hacking rig. It was Anthropic’s Claude AI, doing what amounts to very fast detective work on old computer fil

Coldcard users told to move funds now after researchers tie seed-flaw to large Bitcoin drain Coldcard hardware-wallet users face an urgent migration warning after on-chain research linked a firmware bug to a large series of thefts. Dogecoin contributor Mishaboar on Aug. 1 urged anyone who has ever

Headline: XRPL urges urgent node upgrade after “manifest flood” strains network resources Ripple’s Director of Engineering Vijay Khanna on Aug. 2 urged XRP Ledger node operators to install xrpld v3.2.1 immediately after developers detected a validator “manifest flood” on July 31. The quick hotfix l

Key PointBitGo and Concrete, the vault product built by Blueprint, announced on June 2 a platform that lets institutional clients earn on vetted onchain strategies while assets stay in BitGo Bank & Trust custody. Concrete deploys synthetic representations of custodied assets into those strategie...

The cryptocurrency market has experienced a decline in the last week due to the recent hacking incident and the impact of geopolitical developments.As is known, ColdCard, one of the Bitcoin hardware wallets, was subjected to a hacking attack, and the BTC assets of those who used this hardware wallet

ME News reports that, as of August 3 (UTC+8), prediction market data shows that the event "LoL: KT Rolster vs Hanwha Life Esports (BO3) - LCK Round 3-4 Legend Group" achieved a 24-hour trading volume of $2.3M, with significantly increased market participation.

Data shared by Lookonchain earlier today suggests that Trump Media, the entity behind the Truth Social media platform, majority-owned by the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, has sold over $165 million worth of bitcoin.This was the second substantial sale made by the entity in recent months after it

Bitcoin Market Cap continues tracking Bitcoin closely despite Coinbase Premium remaining below zero throughout the recent recovery period.Negative Coinbase Premium signals restrained U.S. spot demand even as Bitcoin regained higher levels during July’s advance.Total crypto market capitalization cont

BNB Chain has reclaimed the number-two spot in decentralized exchange activity, posting $1.473 billion in 24-hour DEX volume compared to Solana’s $1.301 billion, according to DefiLlama data. That’s roughly a 13% gap, not a blowout, but enough to remind the market that the DEX wars are far from settl

After two consecutive painful months in which they lost billions of dollars, the spot Bitcoin ETFs finally turned the page in July, but inflows were still modest.Meanwhile, the exchange-traded funds tracking the performance of the largest altcoin enjoyed the month more, attracting over 2x more fresh

XRP funds led altcoin inflows in July, extending a four-month streak that increasingly separates them from most rival products.The US-listed funds attracted $27.29 million during the month, nearly twice Solana’s $14.62 million intake, according to SoSoValue data. Chainlink followed with $4.54 millio

Bitkey, the self-custody Bitcoin wallet built by Jack Dorsey’s Block, Inc., is accelerating development of a coin control feature that lets users label individual UTXOs and manually choose which coins to include in a transaction. The move comes directly in response to persistent user feedback.For a

Researchers at China’s top police university have built an AI system that can identify illicit Bitcoin transactions with 89.4% overall accuracy, a development that could reshape how law enforcement agencies worldwide approach crypto-related financial crime.The team at the People’s Public Security Un