Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Circle acquired IBM blockchain patents, expanding intellectual property and strengthening digital finance infrastructure through enterprise collaboration and product innovation capabilities.Patents cover banking, insurance, supply chain verification, cloud technologies, supporting USDC, Circle Payme

Over the past 24 hours, ESP's trading volume surged to 5.5 times the 7-day average, while the price rose cumulatively by 29%, currently trading at $0.0896 and ranking 6th on AiCoin's trending list. Significant volume expansion accompanied by price strength typically indicates increased capital part

Pump.fun [PUMP] fell to a low of $0.001 two days ago but rebounded alongside the broader market on the 26th of July. The altcoin bounced back to reclaim the $0.0020 resistance level.At press time, PUMP was trading around $0.00203 after rising by 13.02% on the daily charts. Over the same period, the

BlockBeats news, on July 28, the digital asset trading platform Uphold announced a reduction of approximately 17% of its global workforce, affecting 85 full-time and contract employees. The company stated that this adjustment aims to reallocate resources toward its rapidly growing enterprise service

ChainCatcher report: Dutch crypto finance protocol Tori Finance announced that its institutional-grade delta-neutral yield product, strUSD, has raised $50 million in pre-deposits in just seven days, reaching its cap prior to official launch. Tori stated that strUSD offers an approximate 12% annualiz

ChainThink reports that on July 28, Tori Finance disclosed that its institutional-grade delta-neutral yield product, strUSD, raised $50 million in pre-deposits before its official launch, reaching its cap within seven days.Tori stated that strUSD aims for an annualized yield of approximately 12%, ge

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty is tracking toward its first annual decline as weaker profitability forces inefficient miners to shut down operations permanently.Rising production costs, lower hash rates, and weather disruptions have reduced mining activity while automatic difficulty adjustments stabili

Atlético Madrid just did something that most organizations, whether in football or finance, struggle to pull off. They said no to a conversation. Julián Álvarez’s representatives requested a sit-down to discuss the Argentine forward’s future, and the club told them to come back on August 10. Not “le

Ondo Finance has launched the high-performance execution layer, Ondo Network, designed to enhance trade execution efficiency and support applications such as Ondo Perps. CEO Ian De Bode stated that Ondo Network is an evolved version of the Ondo Chain initiative, with the company now focusing on exec

Stellar hosts nearly $3B in tokenized real-world assets, reflecting growing institutional blockchain adoption across regulated financial markets.DTCC selected Stellar for tokenized securities, while wider implementation across markets remains scheduled for a 2027 rollout phase.Franklin Templeton mai

Crypto trading platform Uphold said it cut roughly 17% of its global workforce as it reallocates resources toward its fast-growing enterprise business.Eight five people in total were affected by the cuts, and this included permanent staff and contractors.The layoffs, which hit employees across multi

Lookonchain monitoring shows that between July 20 and July 26, 2026, the total market capitalization of stablecoins increased by $113 million; DEX spot trading volume decreased by 6.65% week-over-week, and perpetual contracts trading volume declined by 14.9% week-over-week; top protocol revenues rem

Micron Technology saw its stock tumble roughly 8% on July 15, trading around $903.50, as investors digested a new reality: China’s memory chip industry is no longer a punchline. It’s a competitor.The catalyst was ChangXin Memory Technologies, better known as CXMT, which has been quietly eating into

BitMEX customers are seeking the return of 622.66 Bitcoin in a proposed class action that accuses the exchange of engineering liquidations and retaining traders’ collateral. The complaint, filed July 23 in the Southern District of New York, arrived as BitMEX began a regulator-approved wind-down ahea

NVIDIA plans to invest $5 billion in Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), an AI company founded by Ilya Sutskever after his departure from OpenAI. The investment, reported by @FirstSquawk, positions NVIDIA to deepen its involvement in AI infrastructure, a sector where it is already a significant playe