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A volunteer security effort says it has scanned 150 Bitcoin repositories, disclosed more than a dozen vulnerabilities, and is building an open-source AI platform to automate software security reviews.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune filed the motion to proceed early Saturday, setting up a mid-September showdown.

“We want to show customers that we care about what they care about," Robinhood head of crypto Johann Kerbrat told Decrypt.

Truth Social's parent company is unwinding two major Crypto.com deals as new leadership shifts its focus to media, data licensing, and a planned merger with fusion energy company TAE.

The U.S. Treasury sanctioned two crypto exchanges it says laundered millions of dollars for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, naming a Georgia- and UAE-based operator and an Iran-based platform.

Attackers emptied Lightning nodes belonging to BTCPay Server users on Friday, including one run by hardware wallet maker Foundation, after the self-hosted bitcoin payment processor warned that a critical vulnerability was being actively exploited and told merchants to update to version 2.4.2 or... Read the full story at The Defiant

Flash Trade said on Friday it will wind down operations unless it finds a party to acquire the Solana perpetuals exchange, and that the decision was not driven by money. "This decision is not calculated based on monetary reasons," the team wrote on X, citing "direction, shrinking market... Read the full story at The Defiant

Bitcoin company BTCPay Server told users to install the latest version of the server and replace credentials that may have been exposed.

A leaked Flock presentation shows the surveillance firm pitching a plan to pull license-plate data from rideshare and delivery drivers.

Joseph Chalom said SharpLink opposes EIP-8363, a draft Ethereum proposal that would burn part of validator rewards as the staking ratio climbs, in an article published on X on Friday. "Sharplink opposes it," he wrote. Chalom described the proposal, titled "Tapered Issuance Burn," as phasing in a... Read the full story at The Defiant

XRP is taking the Clarity Act news harder than the rest of the crypto market. Here's why.

Rarible said on Thursday that its NFT marketplace is live on Solana, opening with the Claynosaurz collection as its first featured drop. The marketplace now lists Solana as a supported network alongside Ethereum, MegaETH and Base, with dedicated Solana Explore, Mint and Gacha pages. Solana's... Read the full story at The Defiant

A checkout register at the Lawson Takanawa Gateway City convenience store in Tokyo took a 322-yen payment in the yen stablecoin JPYC on Aug. 6, printing "stablecoin" on the receipt as the payment method, according to CoinPost, whose reporter Ritsuki Kumazawa made the purchase during the... Read the full story at The Defiant

Microsoft said compromised websites are retrieving malicious instructions from the blockchain before tricking visitors into running them on Windows devices.

A soft July payrolls print pulled September rate-hike odds down. It gives investors in risk assets hope, but Bitcoin remains in bear territory.

Designed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom studio, the screenless gadget is slated for 2027 and will use cameras, lights and moving parts.

A Bitcoin address that had stayed silent for 15 years just sent its coins out for the first time.

Gold, Treasuries and the S&P 500 led the growth, in a year when spot volumes on decentralized exchanges fell by roughly 70%.

Unlike the recent breakouts at OpenAI and Anthropic, this involved a model anyone can download, running its default safeguards.

MetaMask's Agent Wallet lets AI agents trade crypto on their own. Plus, Bitcoin reclaims $65k despite the Clarity Act facing a new delay.

Liu Zhou told undercover agents the objective was to make other buyers lose money, according to the Justice Department.

Senate Majority Leader Thune says the bill will be queued up when lawmakers return, leaving weeks to find 60 votes before midterms take over.

Browser-based tool lets investors and lenders cryptographically confirm that every loan in a tokenized pool belongs there and has passed eligibility rules, without seeing private borrower data Wayzata, MN — August 6, 2026 — Black Lake Digital Markets, the institutional rails for mortgage capital... Read the full story at The Defiant

The financial regulator subscribed to a global flight database covering more than a billion tickets to monitor activity.

ether.fi has removed all restaking exposure from weETH, making its flagship asset a plain liquid staking token and confining restaking to weETHs, a separate token built on Symbiotic. The protocol announced the split on X on Thursday. The change ends the arrangement that made ether.fi the largest... Read the full story at The Defiant

Tokyo has asked Washington to stop meme-posting Mario, Pokémon, and Naruto without permission in a clash between meme-heavy statecraft and strict IP norms.

The company says a configuration error by an outside testing partner gave one of its Muse Spark models internet access during a cybersecurity evaluation.

Uniswap Labs' launchpad passed Pons on daily token launches within a day of opening on Robinhood Chain, according to onchain data, taking the lead from a product that settles every trade on Uniswap's own automated market maker. Uniswap now runs a product in the same category as applications built... Read the full story at The Defiant

Robinhood Chain's decentralized exchange volume fell 72.5% between its Jul. 11 peak and Aug. 1, but every other headline metric on the chain kept climbing through the drop. While transactions, total value locked and stablecoin supply are all at record highs, the size of the average trade collapsed.... Read the full story at The Defiant

Democratic lawmakers say wildfire event contracts create risks of arson, insider trading, and disaster profiteering as they urge federal regulators to step in.

a16z crypto policy head Miles Jennings argued on X on Thursday that the banking industry's campaign against the CLARITY Act will backfire, because blocking the bill leaves in place the stablecoin yield arrangement banks have lobbied hardest to stop. "The bewildering thing about TradFi's extreme... Read the full story at The Defiant

Sentora is curating a Morpho lending vault that accepts as collateral a token backed by an actively managed credit portfolio run by Wellington Management, the Boston asset manager with more than $1.3 trillion under management as of December 2025. The token, mWIN, was issued by Midas on Aug. 5.... Read the full story at The Defiant

The new law creates a licensed, central bank-supervised market for trading digital assets, yet crypto remains barred from everyday payments.

The presentation at the annual Black Hat conference sheds new light on how OpenAI's models collaborated to launch the Hugging Face breach.

On-chain data shows big holders quietly buying XRP near $1, yet the daily chart is still trapped below a death cross.

SpaceX and Circle rank among the 10 largest positions in Ark's flagship innovation fund after the firm continued buying both companies following their second-quarter earnings.

The new Agent Wallet lets AI agents execute on-chain trades within user-defined limits as MetaMask expands its push into AI-powered crypto trading.

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Arc is a new layer-1 blockchain developed by USDC issuer Circle, designed specifically for stablecoin-native finance.

France's watchdog says fraudsters are impersonating its own staff to talk stranded customers into moving assets to fake websites.

It looks like Uniswap is playing to win with their zero-fee model, and the early data shows them already taking the top spot.

The blockchain analytics firm says home invasions are becoming more common, France has emerged as the leading hotspot, and some attackers are using increasingly sophisticated laundering techniques.

A volunteer group is pointing AI agents at Bitcoin project codebases and says 720 of the issues it has filed are high severity or critical.

Uniswap opened pools.trade, a memecoin launchpad on Robinhood Chain, shortly after 5 p.m. ET on Aug. 5, four and a half hours after the public countdown it had set expired. The highest-valued token on it is FRONG, minted six days earlier by the same contracts, carrying the name of the video Uniswap... Read the full story at The Defiant

Meta's new agent runs in your terminal, coordinates subagents, and survives crashes—but on the benchmarks that matter, it lags behind.

The release targets developers building autonomous apps and workflows on Cloudflare's edge—a clear bet on agent infrastructure.

A U.S. appeals court ruled Amazon is unlikely to prove Perplexity violated federal hacking law, marking the first appellate decision on whether AI agents can legally act on users' behalf online.

Aave founder Stani Kulechov and ether.fi chief executive Mike Silagadze have come out against the proposal to burn a rising share of Ethereum validator rewards, joining a list of DeFi founders, solo stakers and researchers who have spent two days arguing against it on X and on the Ethereum... Read the full story at The Defiant

Eligible Visa Direct clients can now prefund accounts and send payouts in stablecoins, expanding Visa's latest push to bring blockchain-based payments into its global network.

Prediction-market traders cut the odds that the CLARITY Act becomes law this year after Senate Majority Leader John Thune declined to file cloture on the motion to proceed to the crypto market structure bill on Tuesday night and instead filed cloture Wednesday morning on a college sports bill and... Read the full story at The Defiant

Dinari opened tokenized U.S. stock trading to U.S. investors on Tuesday, saying 724 tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs — including every company in the S&P 500 — can now be bought with USDC from self-custody wallets by eligible investors in the United States. The company said it is the first platform... Read the full story at The Defiant

Circle on Aug. 5 named the founding validator cohort for Arc, its Layer 1 blockchain, listing BlackRock, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, Galaxy, Global Payments, ICE, Mastercard, MoneyGram, SBI Group, Standard Chartered, Sumitomo Corporation and Visa alongside Circle itself, ahead of a... Read the full story at The Defiant

Laser Digital, the digital assets arm of Japan’s Nomura Group, has taken a stake in ZIGChain’s ZIG token and agreed to structure and oversee risk on a pipeline of onchain private credit products built by ZIG Markets, the Layer 1’s product and access layer. The arrangement puts a Nomura subsidiary... Read the full story at The Defiant

Proof of Play, the studio behind the fully onchain game Pirate Nation, said on Tuesday that it is ceasing operations, telling players it "couldn't build a product and sustainable business that proved out this thesis at scale." The thesis, the studio said, was that "games using blockchain tech had... Read the full story at The Defiant

Eliza Labs founder Shaw Walters said the ai16z token is "dead. Completely." and that the foundation behind it is winding down, after his side settled a class action brought by Burwick Law by handing over "the rest of the treasury and all the money we had." "Burwick sued us and we settled with a... Read the full story at The Defiant

Mastercard and Borderless.xyz are piloting the use of Mastercard Crypto Credential, the card network's verification system for digital asset transactions, in cross-border stablecoin payments, the companies said Wednesday. The pilot targets a bottleneck in stablecoin payment networks: every new... Read the full story at The Defiant

Cloudflare launched Cloudflare Wallets on Tuesday, giving AI agents that run on its network a stablecoin balance and a human-readable name to present when they pay for APIs, content and MCP tools. The product gives Cloudflare the buy side of agent payments a month after it built the sell side. Its... Read the full story at The Defiant

Western Union and stablecoin card issuer Rain launched Stablecard on Aug. 4, a digital wallet and Visa card that lets people receive money transfers as USDPT and spend the balance at any Visa merchant or ATM. Stablecard extends Western Union's onchain push from settlement infrastructure into a... Read the full story at The Defiant

Six authors including the Ethereum Foundation's Justin Drake published a draft proposal on Aug. 4 that would burn a growing fraction of validator rewards as more ETH is staked, taking net consensus-layer issuance to zero at a 50% staking ratio. The draft, numbered EIP-8361 in its pull request, is... Read the full story at The Defiant

Wells Fargo will introduce tokenized deposits for its corporate and commercial clients this fall, the bank said on Aug. 4, beginning with a limited U.S. dollar-to-British pound exchange for select clients and expanding over the course of 2027 to more clients, countries and currencies. The... Read the full story at The Defiant

BitGo will make Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol the exclusive cross-chain infrastructure for Wrapped Bitcoin, the custodian said on Aug. 4, taking what it describes as more than $7.7 billion of the token off the provider it selected in 2024. All future BitGo-issued assets will use... Read the full story at The Defiant

BitMine Immersion Technologies said Monday that its crypto, cash and "moonshot" holdings totaled $11.3 billion as of 4:00 pm ET on Aug. 2, down from the $11.8 billion it reported a week earlier, even after buying another 10,399 ETH. The decline came from the price BitMine used to mark its position,... Read the full story at The Defiant

TokenWorks, the two-person team behind NFT gacha protocol Fake World Assets, will route 80% of future protocol fees to FWA token buybacks and spend 327 ETH, about $610,000, buying the token for a team reserve. The commitments came after holders learned that the team's original plan for FWA's... Read the full story at The Defiant

Robinhood opened the order window on Monday for Robinhood Ventures Fund II, a closed-end fund that will give retail investors exposure to seed-stage startups from the Y Combinator ecosystem,at an expected $25 per share. The fund extends Robinhood's private-markets push from late-stage names like... Read the full story at The Defiant

Boltz, the non-custodial bridge that routes swaps between bitcoin's mainchain, the Lightning Network and Liquid, disabled its service indefinitely on Monday, saying months of automated, AI-assisted attacks on its infrastructure have outpaced its ability to ship fixes. Boltz first took its swap... Read the full story at The Defiant

Tornado Cash processed 968 deposits on July 23, its busiest day of 2026, according to L2Beat data. The spike shows large-scale attackers have returned to the privacy protocol since the U.S. Treasury lifted sanctions in March 2025 — and that its baseline usage keeps climbing even as developer Roman... Read the full story at The Defiant

Flap, a BNB Chain token launchpad, generated $1.18 million in revenue on Aug. 1, passing Pump.fun in daily revenue for the first time, according to DefiLlama. Flap earned $1,183,980 on Aug. 1, edging out $1,103,266 for the entire Pump family — the pump.fun launchpad plus its PumpSwap AMM and... Read the full story at The Defiant

Decentralized exchanges handled spot volume equal to 24% of centralized exchange volume in July, the highest ratio since The Block's data series began in 2019. The record share came in a shrinking market: onchain volume held up better than centralized exchange volume as both fell, extending a climb... Read the full story at The Defiant

Real-world asset markets accounted for more than half of Hyperliquid's trading volume for two consecutive weeks in July, the first time perps tied to stocks, commodities and indexes out-traded crypto on the platform. RWA perps did $25.1 billion in the week of July 13–19, or 52% of Hyperliquid's... Read the full story at The Defiant

Spending on crypto payment cards reached a record $748.7 million in July, the fifth consecutive monthly increase, according to onchain analytics tracker Paymentscan. July volume rose 19.1% from June's $628.7 million and 144.7% from $306 million a year earlier, per Paymentscan, which indexes card... Read the full story at The Defiant

Strategy sold 1,638 bitcoin for $104.73 million between July 27 and Aug. 2, an average of $63,957 a coin net of fees, and used the money to cover preferred stock dividends and buy back its own STRC shares, according to a Form 8-K filed Monday. The company said $52.4 million of the proceeds funded... Read the full story at The Defiant

Jonathan Goodman kept his 18.25 BTC on a Coldcard that had never touched the internet, locked in a safety deposit box. Between 9:36 pm and 9:43 pm on July 29, every wallet he had was emptied — about $1.6 million Canadian dollars, gone in seven minutes. "Perhaps the hardest part about this is that I... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Attackers began a fourth wave of sweeps against bitcoin held in Coldcard hardware wallets on Monday, pushing estimated losses to roughly $114 million since Thursday. The latest transactions remained replaceable in the mempool, giving some victims a brief window to move their coins before the thefts... Read the full story at The Defiant

Yield Guild Games co-founder Gabby Dizon said its web3 game publishing arm went dark on Friday. "@YGG_Play services will shut down as of today," Dizon wrote on his verified X account on Friday, adding that "our @YieldGuild story continues - more on this starting next week!" The unit posted its own... Read the full story at The Defiant

MetronomeDAO disclosed that roughly 6,367 msETH and 4.57 million msUSD in circulation, about $15.7 million at current prices, have no collateral behind them, after trading bots spent months exploiting delayed price data in the protocol's swap feature. The hole equals about 31% of all msETH and 16%... Read the full story at The Defiant

Coinbase says Base is processing more stablecoin volume than any other blockchain — and the company is earning less from the network each quarter. In its second-quarter earnings presentation filed Thursday, the exchange said "other" transaction revenue fell 11% quarter-over-quarter to $47.4... Read the full story at The Defiant

Crypto closed out July on the back foot, sitting out Friday's stock rally as the Federal Reserve's hawkish stance and stubbornly high inflation pushed the rate cut that bulls were counting on further out of reach. Bitcoin fell 3.5% over 24 hours to $62,464, CoinGecko data shows, while the S&P 500... Read the full story at The Defiant

Users of MOACT, the rewards app run by a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese utility Kansai Electric Power, can now convert their loyalty points into JPYC, the yen stablecoin, on Polygon, wallet developer HashPort said in a press release published Thursday. The feature, live as of July 30, lets... Read the full story at The Defiant

Katherine Wu, chief operating officer of ENS Labs, posted an executable draft Thursday of the proposal to establish an ENS Foundation, dropping a plan to shift the DAO's operational wallet to the new entity after weeks of delegate opposition to an earlier version of the plan. The draft, "[Draft]... Read the full story at The Defiant

Uniswap's fee switch reached the protocol's newest pools this week, and the first revenue arrived alongside a public brawl over who is paying for it. The early returns favor UNI holders. Protocol revenue has nearly tripled since the July 27 activation, with about $325,000 flowing toward UNI burns... Read the full story at The Defiant

Ready, the self-custodial wallet formerly known as Argent, shut down its card program on Wednesday after its issuer wound down without warning, co-founder Itamar Lesuisse said in a post on X. "We were given no notice, so if you were relying on the card today, you found out at roughly the same time... Read the full story at The Defiant

Banco Santander, the Spanish banking group with more than $16 billion in disclosed U.S. equity holdings, reported a stake in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust for the first time, according to a 13F filing submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. The filing shows 129,615... Read the full story at The Defiant

The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned two Iranian firms on Wednesday — HormuzSafe Marine Services Authority and the Persian Gulf Marine Insurance Company — that it says force commercial vessels to buy mandatory "insurance" to transit the Strait of Hormuz, with HormuzSafe... Read the full story at The Defiant

Aave, the largest DeFi lending protocol with $14.3 billion in deposits, is moving to deprecate 50 low-adoption asset reserves and fully wind down its deployments on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium and Aptos, under a governance proposal posted Wednesday by risk provider LlamaRisk. The changes... Read the full story at The Defiant

Lightning Labs, the company behind Lightning Network developer tools, announced a dedicated website for L402 on Wednesday, positioning the protocol as a rail for AI agents to pay in bitcoin. "With L402, agents can pay with bitcoin and natively authenticate. No accounts, no intermediaries, no humans... Read the full story at The Defiant

Bitcoin climbed above $64,400 after the Federal Reserve held its benchmark rate at 3.50%-3.75% on Wednesday, then gave back the move when Chair Kevin Warsh opened his press conference by saying, "There is no soft inflation target." BTC was trading just under $64,000 at press time, up about 1% over... Read the full story at The Defiant

Only 150 unique venture capital firms have participated in crypto funding rounds in July, the lowest monthly count since November 2020, according to CryptoRank data through July 28. The figure captures how far the investor base has compressed since the last bull market: at the May 2022 peak, 1,177... Read the full story at The Defiant

Morgan Stanley Investment Management launched the Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust and Morgan Stanley Solana Trust on NYSE Arca, spot exchange-traded products that will stake portions of their holdings, the firm said in a press release published Tuesday. The launch deepens the first crypto ETP... Read the full story at The Defiant

SoFi Technologies, the digital bank with 15.8 million members, said commercial clients have begun settling transactions in real time through its SoFiUSD stablecoin, according to the company's second-quarter results published Wednesday. The milestone moves SoFiUSD from launch announcement to... Read the full story at The Defiant

Morpho, the DeFi lending protocol with about $7.6 billion in total value locked, will complete a full deployment on HashKey's HSK Chain and become the network's official onchain credit partner, HSK Chain said in a post on X on Tuesday. The deal gives Morpho its first anchor in Hong Kong, one of the... Read the full story at The Defiant

Safe smart accounts processed nearly 130 million transactions in the second quarter, the highest quarterly total in the protocol's history and a 5.7% increase from Q1, the Safe Ecosystem Foundation said in its Q2 2026 report published Wednesday. The record quarter came against a weaker market, a... Read the full story at The Defiant

Ten European financial institutions, including ABN AMRO, DekaBank, DZ BANK and Natixis CIB, launched Regulated Layer One, a jointly owned blockchain network for regulated financial markets, the group said in a press release published Tuesday. The launch consolidates one of Europe's longest-running... Read the full story at The Defiant

Attackers stole more than $1.1 billion across 212 verified exploits in the first half of 2026, the highest incident count on record for any half-year, according to Blockaid's H1 2026 Onchain Security Report, published Tuesday. The record count lands even as dollar losses came in below the same... Read the full story at The Defiant

Tokenized stocks on Robinhood Chain averaged $29.7 million in daily DEX volume over the past seven days, according to a Dune dashboard maintained by OKX's Web3 wallet team — more than Solana's two stock-trading venues, xStocks at $11.1 million and Backpack's Sunrise at $13.4 million, combined.... Read the full story at The Defiant

Rand Hindi, CEO of the fully homomorphic encryption firm Zama, said the company reached 1,000 confidential transfers per second on GPUs, a self-reported benchmark he described as a milestone for the privacy technology. Fully homomorphic encryption, or FHE, lets computations run on encrypted data... Read the full story at The Defiant

1inch launched its Aqua liquidity protocol to the public on July 28, backing the release with a rewards program funded with 10 million 1INCH from the 1inch Foundation and 500,000 USDC from the 1inch DAO, the company said. The program, called 1inch Network Incentives, is delivered through incentive... Read the full story at The Defiant

Fake World Assets, an Ethereum-based NFT gacha protocol built by two-person team Token Works, overtook Solana's Collector Crypt in daily revenue on July 25, four days after its July 20 relaunch, according to DefiLlama data. The protocol pulled in $447,604 in revenue on July 25, its peak day, per... Read the full story at The Defiant

Franklin Templeton, an asset manager with $1.79 trillion under management, publicly endorsed the CLARITY Act, the federal crypto market-structure bill moving through the U.S. Senate. "Franklin Templeton supports passage of the CLARITY Act," the firm said on July 27 from its verified account. "It's... Read the full story at The Defiant

Ondo Finance, a tokenization company, launched the Ondo Network, an execution layer it describes as the evolution of its vision for Ondo Chain, the blockchain it had planned to build for real-world assets. Ondo said the first version is live. In its own announcement, Ondo said the network is not a... Read the full story at The Defiant