Hacks
Bitcoin purchases halted after data breach puts 250,000 crypto users at risk
Israel’s Bits of Gold says customer funds remain secure, but personal, banking and wallet information may have been exposed.
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Technology
Bitcoin Core feature freeze nears as rebase issues hit unencrypted-connection proposal
The queue mixes feature proposals, bugs and release administration, so the count alone does not identify what could delay October.
Exchanges
Why accepting crypto payments over €1,000 on Bitstamp can reportedly freeze your assets starting tomorrow
The customer-posted notice reportedly leaves exchange transfers unaffected, while rejected funds require support to return them to the originator address.
Governance
Cardano has two weeks to avoid a governance freeze as 4 committee seats expire
A vote to renew four Constitutional Committee seats remains well below required thresholds as the deadline approaches.
Exchanges
Bitfinex gives users 14 days to withdraw 13 delisted tokens or face fees and uncertain recovery
Standard withdrawals end Aug. 31, after which customers must rely on a two-month recovery process that Bitfinex does not guarantee will succeed.
Insurance
Inside the Solana reinsurance sale where parent company Oxbridge supplied 95% of public token demand
Oxbridge supplied $744,623 to T20 and T42 while third parties provided $37,143, and filings do not disclose the purchaser mix for three HCI-linked placements.
ETF
Cboe pushes for 3x Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs after 2x crypto funds suffer losses of up to 96%
Volatility Shares’ proposal needs a special SEC exemption because Cboe’s generic commodity-trust rules explicitly prohibit benchmark multiples.
Derivatives
A $48 billion Bitcoin leverage trap is about to trigger a massive forced exit the moment price boundaries break
Small positive offshore funding exposes longs on a drop, while CME leveraged funds’ net short creates an upside squeeze channel.
Market
Record user activity and a collapse in whale selling should send XRP soaring, so why is it still pinned at $1?
XRPL activity is back above its May peak, whale deposits to Binance have collapsed and leverage is rebuilding, but spot demand keeps fading.
Adoption
Texas refuses to sell as its $10 million Bitcoin bet sinks to $6.6 million
The state kept all 197,844 BlackRock IBIT shares through the second quarter despite a roughly 34% paper decline.
Staking
Wall Street finally turned staking into a dividend, now Ethereum and Solana want to shrink it
Ethereum and Solana are testing whether investors value lower dilution more than yield as staking products finds path into Wall Street.
Regulation
Trump-linked World Liberty Financial wins OCC bank approval as $112 million DeFi position sits near liquidation
The OCC’s conditional approval would bring World Liberty’s $4 billion USD1 stablecoin under federal supervision.
