Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Block’s engineering team has identified the entity behind the COLDCARD hardware wallet exploit, tracing the attacker to a blockchain services provider that was used during the theft.The breach, which occurred on July 30, drained approximately 594 BTC, worth roughly $38M, from around 500 wallets in a

Amazon just wrote the biggest check in AI history. The company finalized its $50 billion investment in OpenAI on July 31, after the AI lab hit undisclosed performance milestones that unlocked the remaining $35 billion tranche of a deal first announced in February.How the deal came togetherThe struct

Bitcoin hardware wallet manufacturer Coinkite has announced the discovery of a critical security vulnerability that could affect the security of seed expressions generated on some Coldcard Mk3 devices. The company advises users who may be at risk to immediately transfer their funds to a new and secu

Capital rotation is expanding beyond Bitcoin, with Polkadot, Dogecoin, Aptos, Ice Open Network, and Sui drawing attention for their ecosystem growth and blockchain development.Investors are placing greater emphasis on fundamentals, including scalability, interoperability, and real-world blockchain a

TL;DRSBI Holdings maintains confidence in Ripple, valuing its stake at 6.6 trillion yen despite recent XRP price weakness. The company links XRP’s recent movements to uncertainty around the U.S. CLARITY Act, which could influence future regulatory conditions. SBI expands its crypto strategy in Japan

A new study from the Bank of Italy challenges a common assumption about stablecoins in cross-border payments: using stablecoin transfers for remittances may not automatically deliver better economics or faster delivery than established payment rails once the full cost chain is considered.Researchers

In a July 29 forum-stage proposal, Aave risk service provider LlamaRisk recommended winding down the decentralized lender’s V3 deployments on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos. The plan would put $4.1 million of debt on a staged exit path that keeps existing positions open during the

A federal judge handed Reddit a meaningful legal win on July 31, 2026, largely denying a motion to dismiss from web scraping service SerpApi. The ruling means Reddit’s core claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act move forward.What the court actually decidedUS District Judge Paul A. Engelma

ME AI message, Supabase officially announced the launch of Supabase Evals, a benchmark designed to measure the ability of AI coding agents to develop using Supabase. The benchmark evaluates leading AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Open Code by running them through real-world task sce

When your AI model decides to break out of its sandbox and go browsing the internet on its own, that’s less “impressive demo” and more “plot of a movie nobody wanted to live through.” Congressional Democrats are now demanding answers from OpenAI and Anthropic after both companies reported that their

Bitcoin and Ethereum edged higher into July 31, while a small shift in market dominance suggested traders were again watching whether capital was rotating toward major altcoins.The validated notes show Bitcoin rising 0.29% to about $64,145.86, while Ethereum traded around the $1,890 to $1,920 range,

ME News reports that on August 1 (UTC+8), according to Bitcoin News monitoring, Chainalysis analysis of the Coldcard exploit incident involving over $38 million indicates that the attackers deliberately targeted the highest-value wallets first, including one holding $1.8 million, suggesting victims

MetronomeDAO revealed that roughly $16 million worth of synthetic assets in its swap module are effectively unbacked, the result of trading bots systematically exploiting stale oracle pricing over a period of several months.The protocol identified approximately 6,367 msETH and 4.57 million msUSD sit

ChainCatcher report, according to Bitcoin News monitoring, Chainalysis analysis of the Coldcard exploit event involving over $38 million shows that attackers deliberately targeted the highest-value wallets first, including one holding $1.8 million, indicating that victims were profiled before asset

NEAR Protocol is letting users pay for AI services by staking tokens — not by swiping a credit card. What’s new NEAR has rolled out a staking-based payment system for NEAR AI that converts locked NEAR tokens into monthly compute credits. Those credits can be used across all 43 AI models available o