Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

If you’ve been staking SOL, ATOM, or INJ through Ledger and noticed a name change on your validator, you’re not losing it. Bitwise has officially swapped the Chorus One branding on its Ledger Wallet validator nodes to “Bitwise” across Solana, Cosmos, and Injective.The cosmetic surgery was expected.

July is supposed to be a good month for municipal bonds. Historically, it is one of the strongest periods for state and local government debt, as coupon payments and maturing bonds put cash back into investors’ hands and demand naturally outpaces supply. Not this year.US state and local government d

A rewards subsidiary of Kansai Electric Power has launched a loyalty-points conversion route into JPYC on Polygon, giving Japanese users a small but meaningful bridge between closed-loop reward points and on-chain stablecoin payments.The integration involves MOACT’s rewards app, NORM Points, JPYC, P

Shares of Strategy Inc. fell about 7% after the company released second-quarter earnings, while Peter Schiff argued that its STRC financing priorities increasingly disadvantage MSTR shareholders. The dispute highlights competing views over preferred-stock stability, bitcoin reserves, and common-stoc

The US Treasury yield curve just did something interesting. Following the Federal Reserve’s decision on July 29 to hold its benchmark rate steady at 3.5%-3.75% for the fifth consecutive meeting, the curve twisted in a way that tells a very specific story: markets think the Fed is probably done raisi

TL;DRAlpenglow aims to cut Solana finality from roughly 12.8 seconds to 100-150 milliseconds while rebuilding consensus for demanding financial applications at global scale.Votor moves validator votes away from normal onchain transactions, potentially freeing about 75% of block space, while Rotor ta

Leopold Aschenbrenner built his reputation on a simple thesis: artificial intelligence would reshape the world, and the smart money should be positioned accordingly. In July 2026, the world reshaping went in the wrong direction. His hedge fund, Situational Awareness, lost approximately 67% of its va

Bitcoin’s reaction to the Bank of Japan’s latest policy decision may look calm on the surface, but one analyst believes a much bigger liquidity risk is building beneath global markets.His warning came after the BOJ left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 1% on July 31.Japan’s Bond Market Dilem

Long among Bitcoin's biggest selling points has been that investors don't need to trust banks and exchanges to safeguard their money.That promise suffered one of its biggest blows — maybe ever — after a flaw in popular hardware wallet maker Coinkite's Coldcard allowed attackers to recreate wallet re

ChainCatcher report, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, Fidelity-linked wallets transferred 260,000 ETH (approximately $500 million) to three wallets that were initially funded by Fidelity six months ago. The funds were divided into 95,000 ETH (approximately $183 million), 87,000 ETH (approximate

ChainThink reports that on August 1, Tom Lee, Chairman of BitMine, posted that AI downstream-related assets are outperforming the broader market, with MAGS rising 2.2% and IGV rising 1.0%.Tom Lee believes the current market framework to watch is that AI-related assets and those linked to the Korean

The surge in validators wanting to stake on the Ethereum network has resulted in a backlog of approximately 2.5 million ETH in the activation queue. Due to the current congestion, new staking participants are facing a wait of around 43 days to activate their tokens. However, Thomas Brunner, Head of

MMT has entered the top 5 of AiCoin's trending list for the first time in the past 7 days, rising from outside the rankings to #4 within 24 hours, indicating a significant increase in market attention. Meanwhile, trading volume has surged to 3.3 times the 7-day average, with the price climbing 16.9

According to CoinDesk, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna stated that quantum computing is expected to generate revenue and profits for IBM by 2028 or 2029, and unlock approximately $1 trillion in value by the end of the 2030s. IBM, along with companies such as Alphabet, IonQ, and Rigetti Computing, is accelera

The Japan’s yen is back in focus after it reportedly spent up to $59 billion in one day to support its currency. Now, the U.S. Treasury has warned major banks to stand ready for possible market intervention on Friday, a move that could also affect the dollar, Treasury yields and Bitcoin.U.S. Treasur