Why Did Crypto ETF Inflows Accelerate? U.S. spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs attracted a combined $1.1 billion last week, delivering the strongest weekly inflows for both categories since April as institutional demand improved despite relatively weak trading volumes. Spot Bitcoin ETFs brought in about $853.5 million over five consecutive positive sessions, their largest weekly total
What Did The Senate Do On The Clarity Act? The U.S. Senate has taken its first formal step toward floor consideration of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, giving the crypto market structure bill a narrow path to a September vote after lawmakers failed to act before the August recess. Senate Majority Leader John Thune
Which Crypto Transfers Will Face Brazil’s New Hold? Brazil’s central bank will require cryptocurrency exchanges to delay certain transfers to foreign platforms and self-custody wallets for up to 24 hours under new anti-fraud rules that extend payments-sector controls to digital assets. Resolution BCB No. 584/2026, published Aug. 7, takes effect Jan. 1, 2027. It applies
The fallout from the Coldcard hardware wallet breach has now shown up on-chain, and Glassnode has put a number on it. Roughly 210,000 BTC left long-term holder wallets over the past week, according to Glassnode data via Coindesk, pushing the cohort’s total supply down from just under 15 million BTC to about 14.7 million. It
Why Is Circle Bringing USDC To X Layer? Circle has launched native USDC and its Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol on X Layer, the Ethereum-compatible layer-2 network developed by OKX, extending the stablecoin into an ecosystem connected to one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume. The integration gives X Layer applications direct access to
Why Did Bybit Seek Expedited Discovery? Bybit has secured expanded court authority to trace assets linked to the $1.5 billion cryptocurrency theft attributed by U.S. authorities to North Korea, giving the exchange another route to pursue funds that remain identifiable more than a year after the attack. U.S. court records unsealed on Thursday show that
Why Are Trump Media And Crypto.com Ending Their Partnerships? Trump Media is unwinding parts of its cryptocurrency strategy after mutually ending two partnerships with Crypto.com, including a planned publicly traded CRO treasury company and an arrangement tied to exchange-traded funds. The companies said Friday that they had terminated plans for Trump Media Group CRO Strategy,
Why Did The U.S. Sanction Shelbit And Aban Tether? The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned two cryptocurrency exchanges on Friday, expanding its campaign against digital asset networks that Washington says have helped Iran move money outside the traditional banking system. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control targeted Shelbit Exchange and Iran-based Aban Tether, along with
Japan is set to implement one of its most significant cryptocurrency regulatory reforms on August 7, as digital assets transition from being regulated primarily as payment instruments to a dedicated framework under the country’s securities laws. The reform transfers oversight of crypto-assets from the Payment Services Act (PSA) to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act
Robinhood Chain, the blockchain the retail brokerage launched in July, now holds roughly $774 million in total value locked, up about 20% over the past week, according to DefiLlama data as of August 6. For a chain that has existed for barely five weeks, that is a striking amount of capital. The awkward part is what