Archives for August 1, 2026

Holders of Strategy’s (MSTR) high-yielding preferred stock STRC will not see a dividend increase in August. Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, Strategy is maintaining the current 12% dividend on the shares. STRC investors may have been expecting as much as a 50-basis-point hike in the dividend as Strategy has customarily raised the payout anytime […]

The attacker working through Coldcard-generated keys is now emptying wallets worth a few thousand dollars each. Galaxy Research flagged a third wave of sweeps early Sunday, roughly 208 bitcoin drained from 1,912 addresses between Friday midday and Saturday morning UTC. That is just over a tenth of a bitcoin per victim. The July 30 opening […]

Trading volume for tokenized stocks and ETFs surged 288% to a record $11.3 billion in July, though most of the increase came from a single Binance-linked token. Binance bStocks accounted for $9.41 billion, or 83.3% of the total, according to CoinDesk Data’s latest Stablecoins & Tokenized Assets report. A bStocks token, QQQB, tracking Invesco’s QQQ […]

For years, stablecoins have been marketed as crypto’s breakthrough application for cross-border payments, promising near-instant transfers at a fraction of the cost charged by traditional remittance providers. Sending USDC across a blockchain may indeed cost only a few cents but a new study from the Bank of Italy suggests that isn’t what most people actually […]

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has fallen below its year-earlier level for only the second time in the network’s history as weak mining economics and the shift toward artificial intelligence weigh on capacity growth. The metric, which measures how difficult it is to mine a Bitcoin block, is now at 126.23 trillion after falling 0.74%, about 1.1% […]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has paused Nasdaq’s approval of cash-settled bitcoin index options and will reconsider the decision following a legal challenge from CME Group, the agency said in an order released for public inspection on July 31. Back in May, the SEC granted Nasdaq PHLX conditional approval to list cash-settled bitcoin […]

The obvious objection is that this is leveraged speculation in new language, and that traditional markets keep their frictions for good reasons. Both points have force. A funding rate is not a substitute for the price discovery that settlement enforces, and continuous leverage on volatile assets concentrates risk in ways periodic markets do not. But […]

While exploits in crypto often grab headlines because of the sheer amount of money that gets stolen, Coates emphasized that many of these hacks actually originate outside of blockchain compromises themselves. “In many cases, it is an operational security issue or a Web2 issue that led to a key compromise,” he said. This will only […]

Crypto holders used to focus on diversifying their coins. Now, following a $70 million Coldcard exploit, they’re being told to diversify their wallets as well. On Saturday, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, asked crypto holders to split their funds across multiple wallets following a major security failure in popular Coldcard hardware devices. “Even […]

Validators (entities that supply their resources to run and maintain a network) were advised to reject it, and an emergency server release marked it unsupported to prevent activation. No funds were lost, because it never reached the main network. Permission Delegation, which lets an institution grant another account narrowly scoped authority without handing over full […]