Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Headline: As Familiarity Grows, U.S. Sentiment Turns Cold on AI — What That Means for Crypto Gallup’s latest survey, released Tuesday, shows a striking paradox: Americans say they know more about artificial intelligence than ever, but they like it less. The poll finds growing familiarity has been a

Odaily Planet Daily reports: Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of Strategy, confirmed that the Stretch Dividend Rate for the company’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (STRC) will remain at 12.00% through August 2026. STRC was launched in July 2025 with an initial rate of 9%, and ha

Strategy confirmed its Stretch (STRC) preferred stock will keep paying a 12% annualized dividend in August 2026, even after the security closed July at roughly 12% below its $100 par value.Key TakeawaysStrategy held STRC’s dividend rate at 12% for August 2026, its highest rate since the July 2025 la

Michael Saylor explained that it is mathematically impossible for BIP-110 to reach the 55% volunteer support threshold in the current Bitcoin mining difficulty cycle.According to data shared by Saylor, a total of 946 blocks were generated up to block number 960,561 during the current difficulty adju

BEAT has entered the top 5 of AiCoin's trending list for the first time in the past 7 days, rising from 7th to 5th within 24 hours, indicating a clear increase in market attention. Meanwhile, trading volume has increased to 80% of the 7-day average, and the price has risen cumulatively by 17.4%, cu

A decentralized AI project just learned the hard way that the crypto community is very good at checking receipts. Quasar, operating as Subnet 24 on the Bittensor network, released what it called a groundbreaking 120 billion-parameter model with a 5 million-token context window. Within hours, indepen

Anthropic just gave its AI a pair of eyes for design. Claude Design, the company’s new visual creation tool, can scan any live website URL and automatically extract its entire design system, including colors, typography, spacing, and reusable components.The tool, powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4

The leveraged loan market is sending a clear message to borrowers: the easy money era is over, at least for now. Loan investors are pushing back against borrower-friendly terms with enough force to widen credit spreads, delay debt issuances, and nudge borrowing costs meaningfully higher for private

According to ME News, on August 2 (UTC+8), Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stated that its air force launched multiple ballistic missiles at the U.S. military’s F-35 fighter jet maintenance hangar and apron at Al Zarak Air Base in Jordan, in retaliation for U.S. strikes on Qeshm Island. The

XRP Ledger developers have proposed five new institutional features ahead of the upcoming xrpld 3.3.0 node release, aiming to make the network more private, composable, and easier for banks and asset managers to onboard. Jazzi Cooper, head of product at RippleX, announced the proposals on X, saying

The latest reserve attestation from Tether, the issuer of the world’s dominant stablecoin, reveals a shrinking financial cushion at a time when lawmakers in Washington debate the contours of stablecoin regulation. Excess reserves that stood at a record $8.23 billion at the end of March collapsed to

The world’s largest Bitcoin treasury firm, Strategy, plans to increase its Bitcoin sales fourfold to $5B. During its earnings report call on Thursday, Strategy’s President and CEO Phong Le reiterated that,Our intent is to sell Bitcoin for three reasons when we think it’s appropriate for the company.

Silicon Motion Technology just posted the kind of quarter that makes analysts look conservative. The company reported Q2 2026 revenue of $451 million, a 127% jump year-over-year and 32% higher than the previous quarter. That blew past the consensus estimate of roughly $403 million by nearly 12%.Shar

Key TakeawaysThe U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is a government-held stockpile of forfeited Bitcoin created through an executive order in March 2025.Instead of purchasing Bitcoin on the open market, the reserve is funded primarily with cryptocurrency seized through criminal and civil forfeiture case

Perhaps due to the quickly re-escalating tension in the Middle East, the cryptocurrency market has posted fresh losses over the past few hours, with BTC dropping to $62,000 after failing to reclaim the $63,000 support during the day.XRP was not spared, as it just slipped below $1.05. The asset was r