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CoinDesk 20 Books 8.7% July Gain Even as BTC and ETH Fade on the Last Day
Bitcoin closed July 31 at $63,870 and Ether at $1,890 after a 1.3% and 1.4% intraday slide, but the CoinDesk 20 still posted its largest monthly advance in a year at 8.7%.
Three Fed Dissents, One Rate Hold, and a $32.1M Bitcoin ETF Flip on the Same Day
The FOMC kept rates at 3.50% to 3.75% on July 29 in a 9-3 vote, the first triple hawkish dissent since 2016, and by July 31 spot Bitcoin ETFs had booked $32.1 million of net inflows.
GRVT Jumps 62% on Debut as ZKsync DeFi Token Lands on Six Exchanges at Once
GRVT closed its first full trading day up 62.44% at $0.2436 on $246.2 million in volume, one day after a multi-exchange launch that put the ZKsync Validium based DeFi token on Binance, Bybit, MEXC, KuCoin, Bitget, and Coinbase deposits at once.
A 2021 Firmware Bug Just Cost Coldcard Users 594 BTC in a 25 Minute Sweep
A build setting introduced in Coldcard firmware 4.0.0 back in March 2021 quietly turned hardware seeds into guessable ones, and attackers drained 594 BTC (about $38 million) in a single 25 minute window.
Bitcoin ETFs Pulled In $233M on July 30. Ethereum Got $12.8M. The Gap Is the Story.
BlackRock's IBIT alone took $183.4 million in a single session while Ethereum's entire spot ETF complex managed a fraction of that, extending a rotation pattern that has held for most of July.
BNY Is Putting $8.6 Trillion in Fund Records On a Blockchain, Keeping the Old Rails Anyway
The 242-year-old bank is quietly rebuilding the plumbing behind 7.6 million fund accounts on-chain, with BlackRock and Baillie Gifford as anchor clients.
SEC Chair Atkins Says He Can Ship Crypto Rules Even If CLARITY Dies in Senate
SEC Chair Paul Atkins told CNBC his agency is 'ready, willing, and able' to issue crypto rules without the CLARITY Act if the Senate fails to pass it before the August recess.
US Spot Bitcoin ETFs Bleed for a Fourth Straight Day Ahead of the FOMC Decision
US spot bitcoin ETFs shed $49.75 million on July 28, a fourth straight day of outflows, putting the category on track for the smallest monthly inflow total since the January 2024 launch.
Morgan Stanley Debuts MSSE and MSOL at 0.14 Percent, Lowest on the US Market
Morgan Stanley Investment Management listed MSSE and MSOL on NYSE Arca on July 28 at a 0.14 percent expense ratio, with staking rewards passed through to shareholders.
Russia's Biggest Bank Is Building a Crypto Exchange Before the Law Exists
Sberbank set a December 1, 2026 launch date for a full crypto trading stack including a digital depository, moving faster than the State Duma's July 21 bill that has not yet been signed into law.
North Korea's Best Crypto Hackers Now Vet You Before They Rob You
BlueNoroff's phishing kit scans your browser for wallet extensions during a fake Zoom or Teams call and only drops malware if you look worth it, hitting 100+ victims in 20+ countries between May 31 and July 14, 2026.
BitMEX Invented The 100x Perp Then Killed It. HDR Is Winding Down 11 Years Of Derivatives Volume By September 23
HDR Global will shut BitMEX on September 23, 2026 after a board review. The exchange that invented the perpetual swap is exiting exactly as Binance, OKX, Hyperliquid and Bybit push derivatives ADV to record levels. New positions are already halted.
B² Network Skipped The Whitehat Bounty Script And Offered The $3.86M Attacker Outright Legal Immunity For A Partial Refund
B² Network lost 8.59M B2 (~$3.86M) after an attacker compromised the upgrade authority on its staking contract. Funds moved B2 to BNB to ETH, then through NEAR Intents into Zcash. B² responded with a legal immunity offer, not a standard whitehat bounty.
Kraken Just Broke xStocks Out Of US Equities, And GTN Is The Pipe Nobody Talks About
Payward is putting Hong Kong stocks onchain through regulated broker GTN, with UK, EU and Korean shares queued behind regulatory approvals. The interesting part is not the tokens, it is the settlement plumbing crypto-native venues cannot skip.
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