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07-31
Wintermute Warns Next Altcoin Season May Favor Fewer Assets
TL;DRInstitutional Concentration: Wintermute says institutions now generate 72% of OTC spot flow, tightening liquidity and shaping a more selective Altcoin Season.Narrower Token Participation: Institutional clients traded only 24% more unique tokens since 2024, suggesting future Altcoin Season cycle
New wallet withdraws 468.3 BTC, worth $29.88M, from BitMEX
Odaily Planet Daily reports, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a newly created wallet withdrew 468.3 BTC from BitMEX, valued at approximately $29.88 million. This is the first single withdrawal exceeding $10 million since BitMEX announced its closure.
Amazon invests $100 billion in Anthropic and $137 billion in OpenAI in Q2 2026
Amazon invested $10 billion in Anthropic during the second quarter to purchase non-voting preferred shares. Over the six months ended June 30, Amazon invested $28.7 billion in OpenAI’s Series C preferred shares, including $13.7 billion in the second quarter.
BitMEX Reports First $10M+ Withdrawal Following Closure Announcement
ChainCatcher report, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a newly created wallet withdrew 468.3 BTC from BitMEX, valued at approximately $29.88 million. This is the first single withdrawal exceeding $10 million since BitMEX announced its closure.
Coinbase Q2 2026 Revenue Drops 19% Despite Record Market Share
Coinbase’s second-quarter 2026 financials lay bare a bitter contradiction for one of crypto’s most prominent public companies. Total revenue contracted 19% year-over-year to $1.22 billion, while the company swung to a net loss of $359 million. Yet amid the decline, the exchange grabbed a record shar
Coldcard Attack Steals $40M in Bitcoin, Raising Security Concerns
Key PointAttackers drained some 500 Coldcard hardware wallets and stole almost 600 bitcoin worth around $40 million from hundreds of wallets. The bitcoin price dropped in the hours after the attack was discovered but stayed above its key $60,000 support level. The affected wallets mostly used single
Bitcoin Enters August 2026 with Seasonal Weakness and Projected $58K–$62K Bottom
Bitcoin is entering August with the strongest 30-day performance it has shown in months — but entering August with positive momentum has not historically protected the asset from the month’s consistent pattern of negative returns. Four consecutive years of August declines averaging -10% creates a se
Coldcard Warns Mk3 Users Over Potential Seed Vulnerability Amid $38M Bitcoin Sweep
Hardware wallet maker Coinkite has urged Coldcard Mk3 users to move their Bitcoin if their recovery seed was generated using specific firmware versions. The warning comes after security researchers identified a coordinated transfer of 594.48 BTC, worth about $38.2 million, although no confirmed link
Wintermute: Altcoin Season 2026 May Favor Fewer Tokens as Institutional Capital Concentrates
The next altcoin season could look very different from previous market cycles, according to crypto market maker Wintermute. Instead of capital spreading across hundreds of cryptocurrencies, the firm expects institutional investors to concentrate their money in a much smaller group of established pro
HashKey Exchange Launches Its First Private Credit Tokenized Product, ACRED
Hong Kong, July 31, 2026 — HashKey Exchange, Hong Kong’s largest¹ licensed virtual asset exchange, announces the official launch of its first private credit tokenized product, ACRED (Securitize Tokenized Apollo Diversified Credit Fund), on its wealth management channel. The product is tokenized via
New York Sues Kalshi Over Prediction Market Operations
New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Leticia James have filed a lawsuit against one of the most popular prediction market platforms, Kalshi.The move marks the latest escalation in the growing battle over whether event contracts fall under federal commodities law or state gambling regu
Amazon pre-market rises 13% on strong Q2 earnings and AI outlook
Odaily Planet Daily reports, according to MSX.COM data, Amazon's pre-market gain has reached 13%.Previously, the company reported that its Q2 2026 financial results exceeded expectations in both performance and profitability, with AWS cloud revenue growth reaching its highest level in 18 quarters. T
Bitcoin and Ethereum Options Worth $10.5 Billion Set to Expire on July 31
The leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, is struggling to find direction around the $64,000 level amid ongoing uncertainty surrounding US monetary policy and geopolitical risks in the Middle East.As BTC continues to move within a narrow range, attention in the cryptocurrency markets has turned to the hi
Eurozone inflation rises to 2.9% in July amid U.S.-Iran tensions
Huo Xing Finance reports that on July 31, inflation in the eurozone rose amid rising oil prices following the breakdown of the U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement, further strengthening market expectations that the European Central Bank will raise interest rates again. Data released by Eurostat on Friday
South Korea Imposes Leverage ETF Restrictions, Trading Volume Falls 75.3%
According to Korean media, on the first day of South Korea’s financial regulator’s restrictions on individual stock leveraged ETFs, the total trading volume of 16 individual stock leveraged and inverse ETFs dropped to KRW 330.71 billion, a 75.3% decline from KRW 1.24485 trillion the previous day and
