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Grayscale drops Cardano, Polkadot and Hedera ETF plans. (Grayscale) Grayscale asked the SEC to withdraw proposed Cardano, Polkadot and Hedera ETF registrations in three filings submitted within four minutes late Friday. The asset manager said it no longer intends to proceed with the offerings. None became effective, and no securities were issued or sold. The withdrawals were sponsor-initiated, not SEC rejections. Grayscale gave no reason and could later submit new registrations. Crypto asset man

Solana lending giant Jupiter now lets the same dollar earn twice. (Live Richer/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk) Jupiter’s Lend v2, introduced Monday, allows deposits and borrowed positions to double as trading liquidity so users can earn both lending interest and a share of swap fees from the same capital. The product introduces optional Smart Collateral and Smart Debt features that automatically pair assets into correlated liquidity pools, boosting yields for depositors and offsetting borrowing c

Bitmine chairman and Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee speaking at Consensus Hong Kong 2026 (CoinDesk) Ethereum treasury firm Bitmine (BMNR) bought just 7,391 ether (ETH) last week, its smallest weekly haul in 2026. The firm shifted more capital toward its own stock, repurchasing 3 million shares worth an estimated $50 million-$58 million. Tom Lee pointed to softer inflation and jobs data as a potential tailwind for crypto, despite the latest delay to the CLARITY Act. Bitmine Immersion (BMNR), the la

Solstice tolled out a token vault that separates dividend income from market price volatility on Strategy’s preferred shares. (CoinDesk). Solstice Finance has rolled out strcUSX on Solana, a structured product that offers DeFi users exposure to the dividend income and price risk of Strategy’s STRC preferred stock without tokenizing the shares. The product splits exposure into a senior token targeting a 7% annual yield and a junior token targeting more than 20% APY, with junior holders absorbing

Strategy sold 1,690 bitcoin for $108.6 million and used the proceeds to repurchase 1.15 million STRC shares. The company raised $653.1 million through MSTR stock sales, directing $650 million to its USD reserve. Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy (MSTR) had raised $108.6 million last week through the sale of 1,690 bitcoin and an additional $653.1 million from the sale of 6.59 million shares of common stock, according to a Monday filing . The company used the bitcoin sale proceeds to repurchase 1,152

Crypto exchange Coinsbuy hacked for $8 million (Boitumelo/Unsplash) An attacker drained $8.07 million from Coinsbuy across TRON and Ethereum in under an hour on Aug. 9, with blockchain researchers linking both chains into a single operation via cross-chain swapper Bridgers. Roughly 79% of stolen funds moved through instant exchange FixedFloat across 50 single-use addresses. ChangeNOW froze a six-figure sum, and approximately $542,000 in ETH has not moved. Coinsbuy refilled the drained wallets wi

Gold bars (Scottsdale Mint/Unsplash) The FCA is drawing up rules for tokenized gold as part of a broader digital asset strategy to preserve London’s dominance in global gold trading. The regulator is consulting financial institutions on how tokenized gold, which represents ownership of physical bullion, could be used as collateral in wholesale markets. The initiative aligns with a wider U.K. push to digitize financial markets, which officials say could add tens of billions of pounds to annual ec

Block production stalled after two blocks on the BIP-110 fork. (BIP110 Situation Monitor) This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.' Sign up here , if you haven't already. Whether bitcoin BTC $ 64,698.21 works better as a store of value or a payments mechanism can be debated. But one of its core appeals, its radically free-market, permissionless design, is not. The BIP-110 saga put that design on full display. The Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP)-110 started as a proposal to limit

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk data) Bitcoin rose 0.54% to $65,209 and ether gained 0.86% to $1,925, tracking a 0.45% rise in Nasdaq 100 futures as reports emerged that Iran is prepared to strike a deal with Oman to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The altcoin market is cautiously optimistic but not yet moving, with the altcoin season indicator sitting at 37/100 and capital still concentrated in bitcoin, suggesting meaningful rotation into smaller tokens is contingent on BTC breaking out of its current ran

Meltdown in bitcoin's BVIV continues. (TradingView) Bitcoin’s volatility index, BVIV, fell to 35.59% over the weekend, the fear gauge’s lowest level since September. In February, it spiked above 90%. Demand for options that bet on big price swings has dried up even as miners and corporates keep selling options through overwriting strategies, flooding the market. Despite low overall volatility, downside insurance remains expensive. Put options still trade at a premium to calls, signaling persiste

BTC: CME Futures Net Position by Leverage Funds (CryptoQuant) CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju says leveraged funds are now net long CME bitcoin futures, a rare shift after years of structural short positioning. Leveraged funds have historically remained net short CME Bitcoin futures because of the basis trade of buying spot bitcoin or ETFswhile simultaneously selling futures. With the futures basis yielding less than U.S. Treasuries, basis trades are unwinding as bitcoin rebounds from $58,000 to aro

The Winklevoss twins' Gemini reports earnings this week. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk) Crypto Week Ahead is a comprehensive list of what's coming up in the world of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, as well as the major macroeconomic events that will influence digital asset markets. Crypto markets enter the week with the near-term direction tied to whether easing U.S. inflation can keep the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate policy on hold and take pressure off the dollar into year-end. Consumer price i

MasterCard logo on a credit card (Getty Images/jbk_photography) Mastercard recently closed its acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK for $1.8 billion. The deal followed intense competition from Coinbase and Visa, with BVNK ultimately favoring Mastercard over a reportedly higher Coinbase offer because of better cultural fit and strategic alignment. The acquisition underscores how major payments players, including Stripe, Visa, Mastercard and Coinbase, are racing to secure positions i

London, UK (jhoanfull/Pixabay) The all-in-one Robinhood app will bring UK customers access to over 50 cryptos alongside stocks and shares ISA, equities, options and futures. The AI service explains in plain English the key factors driving price movements in individual crypto assets. Robinhood (HOOD) is introducing zero-fee crypto trading in the U.K. alongside stocks and shares ISAs, equities, options and futures, the company said on Monday. The all-in-one Robinhood app will bring U.K. customers

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Bitcoin miner rejects BIP-110 despite mining through a pool that supported it. (Winston Chen/Unsplash) A miner using the Ocean pool’s DATUM protocol declined to signal support for the controversial BIP-110 fork and instead mined block 961,634 on bitcoin’s main chain. Simple Mining’s decision underscored that BIP-110 had only about 2.6% of hashrate support, far short of the 55% threshold it sought to restrict non-financial data in transactions for a year. After BIP-110 nodes began rejecting non-s

Bitcoin tops $65,000 with US inflation data due this week. (stevepb/Unsplash) Bitcoin climbed above $65,000, gaining nearly 3 percent over the week, as a weak U.S. jobs report eased fears of further Federal Reserve rate hikes ahead of key inflation data on Wednesday. Major cryptocurrencies mostly advanced, with ether, BNB and Solana posting weekly gains while XRP lagged as the only large token in the red over both the day and the week. Global equities and chipmakers extended recent rallies, oil

XRP fell over 5% last week even as other majors rose. (Jakub Żerdzicki/Unsplash) XRP fell about 5% over the past week to around $1.03, even as bitcoin, ether and solana rose and the broader crypto market added 1.4% in value. XRP-focused exchange-traded funds saw net inflows for a fourth straight week, but new capital dropped roughly 93% to about $1 million while bitcoin and ether funds attracted hundreds of millions. Payments-focused cryptocurrency XRP dropped about 5% to $1.03 last week, even a

U.S. Capitol Building (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk) Senate Majority Leader John announced late last Thursday that the Senate would not hold even a procedural vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before the August recess, dimming the chances that the bill can become law this year. But the chances of a successful vote were already slim, and this delay at least gives lawmakers more time to sort out their outstanding issues. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the in

U.S. Capitol Building (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk) Senate Majority Leader John announced late last Thursday that the Senate would not hold even a procedural vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before the August recess, dimming the chances that the bill can become law this year. But the chances of a successful vote were already slim, and this delay at least gives lawmakers more time to sort out their outstanding issues. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the in