Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Someone, or rather a lot of someones, really likes Cardano right now. Wallets holding between 100 million and 1 billion ADA accumulated over 240 million tokens in the span of five days, a haul worth approximately $175 million at current prices.The buying spree coincided with a 22% jump in ADA’s pric

A crypto-aligned super PAC has poured more than $2 million into Michigan’s 13th Congressional District contest, according to last‑week Federal Election Commission disclosures — a late cash surge that puts industry money at the center of the Aug. 4 Democratic primary. Key facts - Protect Progress, a

Bittensor is the strongest AI-agent coin in this shortlist for readers seeking a token embedded in a market for specialized machine-intelligence work. Virtuals is the clearest agent-distribution exposure, Fetch.ai is the clearest agent-service exposure, and the Artificial Superintelligence Alliance

Ripple unlocked one billion XRP from escrow while returning 700 million XRP to escrow, limiting the effective market supply increase to 300 million tokens.The revised escrow sequence reduced immediate selling pressure as XRP held above the $1.0480 support level despite August’s weak historical recor

Ethereum outpaced Bitcoin in July as stronger investment-product demand and corporate accumulation powered its first sustained relative advance in months.Data from CryptoSlate shows that ETH gained 19% during the month, climbing as high as $1,970 before retreating to $1,868 as of press time. Bitcoin

ChainCatcher reports that Alex Thorn, Research Director at Galaxy, stated that attacks targeting Coldcard wallets are still ongoing, with an increasing number of smaller attackers and imitators now focusing on the remaining Coldcard mnemonic phrases. Alex Thorn noted that, through assistance in ide

Huo Xing Cai Jing reports that on August 2, researchers from the People’s Public Security University of China developed an AI framework capable of detecting illegal cryptocurrency transactions with nearly 90% overall accuracy. The study was published in the Chinese peer-reviewed journal *Journal of

Huoxing Finance reports that on August 2, Galaxy Research’s Head of Research, Alex Thorn, stated that attacks targeting Coldcard wallets are still ongoing, with an increasing number of smaller attackers and imitators now targeting remaining Coldcard mnemonic phrases. Alex Thorn noted that, through a

Odaily Planet Daily reports: Alex Thorn, Research Director at Galaxy, posted that attacks targeting Coldcard wallets are still evolving, with more small-scale attackers and imitators now emerging to target remaining Coldcard seed phrases. He stated that through assistance, he helped identify a user

ME News reports that on August 2 (UTC+8), Moscow Mayor Sobyanin posted on social media that the restaurant explosion in the city on August 1 was a terrorist attack, resulting in three deaths and 21 injuries. Sobyanin stated that law enforcement agencies are investigating the specifics of the inciden

Alex Thorn, Head of Research at Galaxy, stated that attacks targeting Coldcard wallets are still evolving, with an increasing number of smaller attackers and imitators now focusing on the remaining Coldcard mnemonic phrases. He noted that through assistance provided, the identity of a user whose fun

ChainThink reports that, on August 2, according to Alex Thorn, Research Director at Galaxy, attacks targeting Coldcard wallets are ongoing, with additional smaller attackers and imitators emerging to target remaining Coldcard mnemonic phrases.Alex Thorn noted that during assistance in identifying th

xAI failed to block the first US ban on AI “nudification.”Elon Musk’s company filed a court motion over Minnesota’s law against generating nude deepfakes and was denied.This case could set a precedent for the entire generative AI industry.A US federal court denied Elon Musk’s xAI’s request for a tem

ChainThink reports that on August 2, according to Nomura Securities' "China Internet and New Media: App Tracking June 2026," citing QuestMobile data, ByteDance's share of user time among the top 50 apps, which cover approximately 93% of mobile internet usage, rose to 40.1%, marking its first exceeda

The revelation that attackers may have systematically drained Bitcoin addresses produced by Coldcard hardware wallets has put a harsh spotlight on cold storage assumptions. Galaxy Research’s on-chain work, detailed in the original report, identified three distinct waves siphoning a combined 1,367.05