By Lawrence Mondal from Crypto.news US and UK financial regulators have expanded talks on stablecoins, tokenization and digital asset oversight as Washington begins implementing the GENIUS Act. US, UK regulators discuss stablecoin policy Senior officials from HM Treasury and the US Treasury met in London for the 13th UK-US Financial Regulatory Working Group meeting, according
By James Van Straten from CoinDesk U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed Sunday that the U.S. joined Japan in coordinated foreign exchange intervention last Friday, calling it a move to counter “disorderly yen movements.” The USD/JPY pair almost hit 164 its weakest level since 1986 before snapping back to 156.5 on Monday. “We will not
By Olivia Stephanie from Crypto.news SEC review leaves Nasdaq Bitcoin options unable to launch Nasdaq PHLX proposed cash-settled, European-style options under the ticker QBTC. The contracts would track the CME CF Bitcoin Real Time Index divided by 100. Final settlement would use the New York variant of the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate, also divided
By Olivia Stephanie from Crypto.news Trump Media-linked wallets transferred 2,628 Bitcoin, valued at about $165 million, to Crypto.com on Aug. 2, according to on-chain analysts Lookonchain. Trump Media transfer is not a confirmed sale The movement reportedly reduced the wallets’ remaining balance to about 4,261 BTC. Lookonchain described the movement as another sale and estimated
By Francisco Rodrigues from CoinDesk 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
By Shaurya Malwa from CoinDesk 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
By Olivia Stephanie from crypto.news Quantum Solutions and Hyperscale Data each redirected part of their crypto treasuries toward AI data centers on July 30. Tokyo-listed Quantum sold 1,000 ETH for $1.903 million, while U.S.-listed Hyperscale monetized about 100 BTC and established a Bitcoin-backed credit facility. The transactions show two approaches to using digital assets as
By Olivia Stephanie from crypto.news Quantum Solutions sold 1,000 ETH for $1.903 million on July 30 through its consolidated subsidiary, GPT Pals Studio Limited. The Tokyo-listed company plans to redirect the proceeds toward its AI Infrastructure Data Center business. The sale reduced the group’s Ethereum balance to 4,764.80 ETH and is expected to produce a
By Olivia Stephanie from crypto.news Binance Research said on July 30 that the first half of 2026 produced a “broad on-chain contraction, not a rotation.” Crypto market contraction hit DeFi and major L1s The decline spread across capital, lending and network valuations rather than moving money cleanly from one blockchain sector into another. DeFi TVL
By Rony Roy from crypto.news Ethereum price rose nearly 2% on July 29 as US spot ETF inflows and short liquidations helped ETH defend its rising support structure before the Federal Reserve’s rate decision. Ethereum price returns above $1,900 According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum (ETH) price was trading near $1,913 at the time of
