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Compound Finance has placed a $52 million bet and leadership renewal on its pivot to institutional DeFi. (Miguel Parera/Unsplash) Compound Finance overhauled its leadership and approved a record $52 million budget as it seeks to revive growth after its total value locked fell to $1.2 billion from a $12 billion peak in 2021. The protocol is pivoting toward institutional clients by developing real-world asset offerings, partner integrations and credit infrastructure designed to meet traditional fi

The U.S. Treasury Department has made a significant proposal in the implementation of the GENIUS Act for stablecoin issuers. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk) The first major proposal to implement the GENIUS Act has emerged from the Treasury Department, marking a significant milestone in the process to put U.S. stablecoin regulations in place. The administration — including banking and markets regulators — are well past the one-year deadline set out in the law, which expired last month, but the regulato

Attackers have now drained nearly $114 million in bitcoin from more than 709 addresses , exploiting a Coldcard firmware flaw that generated wallet seeds with a fraction of their promised randomness. The first sweep emptied roughly 500 wallets in 25 minutes . The bug entered the codebase in March 2021 and sat in public, open-source view for more than five years. Plenty of people are explaining what happened. The harder question is why nobody caught it, and the answer implicates far more than one

Bitmine bought another 9,926 ETH last week, bringing its holdings to 5.815 million ETH worth about $11 billion. The Tom Lee-led company now owns about 4.8% of Ethereum’s total supply, nearing its stated goal of 5%. Lee expects tokenization, AI-agent applications and easing financial conditions to support demand for Ethereum and the broader crypto market. Ethereum treasury company Bitmine Immersion added more of the token to its balance sheet, bringing its total holdings up to 5.815 million token

Jonathan Goodman followed the rules for keeping his bitcoin safe. The hardware wallet holding his keys, a Coldcard, had never been connected to the internet. He kept it stored in a safe deposit box. The seed phrase, which he’d never shared with anyone, was stored in a second safe deposit box. But on July 29, Goodman said, every wallet he had was emptied, every last satoshi stolen. The Toronto entrepreneur reported losing 18.25 bitcoin, worth just over $1.17 million at the time of the attack. “Pe

Strategy sold 3.46 million MSTR shares for $333.7 million, using the proceeds to repurchase $132.2 million of STRC, fund $52.4 million of dividends and add $150 million to its USD reserve. The company made no bitcoin purchases or sales, leaving its holdings at 840,447 BTC, while its $4.8 billion USD reserve now covers 2.8 years of obligations. Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy (MSTR) raised $333.7 million last week through the sale of 3.46 million shares of common stock, according to a Monday filin

Ethereum’s next big upgrade has 66 proposals, including a major privacy fix. (Unsplash) Ethereum developers are weighing whether to include Frame Transactions in the 2027 Hegotá upgrade, a change that would let users customize how transactions are approved, executed and paid for. Together with two related proposals, Keyed Nonces and EIP-8272, Frame Transactions aims to reduce the outside infrastructure needed for private payments on the blockchain, while leaving ordinary ether (ETH) transfers as

Hackers have carried out data breaches affecting three crypto industry firms and over 230,000 users within the last week. (Kevin Horvat on Unsplash) Cryptocurrency broker Bits of Gold said hackers accessed personal data for about 200,000 customers via a breach at a third-party data analytics provider. The stolen information includes names, national ID numbers, emails, phone numbers, IP addresses, bank account details and public wallet addresses, but not funds, passwords, private keys or scanned

BTC Implied Volatility (TradingView) Bitcoin’s 30-day implied volatility of 36.35% is about two-thirds higher than realized volatility of 21.80%. Glassnode data show the one-week implied-versus-realized volatility gap is near a one-year high, favoring options sellers while btc remains range-bound. Bitcoin's BTC $ 63,521.72 price has been eerily calm for weeks, locked in a narrow range below $65,000. Options, or derivative contracts offering insurance against wild price swings, should be cheap in

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor (CoinDesk) This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.' Sign up here , if you haven't already. Bitcoin BTC $ 63,521.72 continues to trade in a narrow price band, and two of its biggest corporate believers aren't blinking. Simon Gerovich, CEO of Metaplanet, and Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy, two of the cryptocurrency’s biggest corporate holders, have doubled down on their argument that BTC’s maximum issuance of 21 million coins

Bitpanda was fined over a white paper submitted early last year (Bitpanda) Austria’s FMA fined Bitpanda 70,000 euros for MiCA breaches, marking the regulator's first penalty under the EU’s new crypto asset rules. The fine stems from Bitpanda failing to submit a mandatory white paper 20 days before publication and omitting required disclosures in marketing materials. Bitpanda characterized the violations as "timing and formal specifications" and has since corrected the issues following a "consens

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk data) U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded four days of outflows last week, shedding a net $390 million, their largest weekly withdrawal in six weeks. Solana ETFs bucked the trend with their strongest weekly inflows since May. Galaxy Digital's head of research, Alex Thorn, cut his odds on the Clarity Act becoming law in 2026 to roughly 10%, down from 75% in May. Bitcoin has rising 0.77% since midnight UTC, while Nasdaq 100 index futures have gained 0.5% to their highest level

Binance reportedly gave client data to Russian authorities Binance allegedly shared customer data with Russia, enabling charges against an IT specialist for donating to Ukrainian groups. Yuri Belenkiy was detained in 2025 after Binance provided his personal details, including passport info and address, to Russian investigators. Binance says it cooperates with lawful requests, despite exiting the Russian market in 2023 to improve its compliance strategy. Binance gave Russian authorities customer

Binance reportedly gave client data to Russian authorities Binance allegedly shared customer data with Russia, enabling charges against an IT specialist for donating to Ukrainian groups. Yuri Belenkiy was detained in 2025 after Binance provided his personal details, including passport info and address, to Russian investigators. Binance says it cooperates with lawful requests, despite exiting the Russian market in 2023 to improve its compliance strategy. Binance gave Russian authorities customer

Circle's relationship with Coinbase is in the spotlight this week. (Nikhilesh De/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. The Federal Reserve's struggle to manage a soft landing, where inflation falls without triggering a recession or a sharp rise in unemployment, will influence markets this week, with Wednesday's FOMC minutes offeri

Circle's relationship with Coinbase is in the spotlight this week. (Nikhilesh De/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. The Federal Reserve's struggle to manage a soft landing, where inflation falls without triggering a recession or a sharp rise in unemployment, will influence markets this week, with Wednesday's FOMC minutes offeri

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Goldman calls September Fed rate hike "very unlikely." (Ramin Talaie/Getty Images) Goldman Sachs said a September Federal Reserve interest-rate increase is “very unlikely.” The bank’s chief economist, Jan Hatzius, said inflation is likely to keep improving, and current market expectations for the federal funds target rate remain too hawkish. Bitcoin is trading around $63,600, up about 1% today. "Very unlikely." That's how Goldman Sachs described the chances of a September Federal Reserve interes

BTC futures market looks like a crowded club with a tiny exit. (Jamie Kimball/Pexels) BTC’s futures open interest stands at roughly $48 billion as of this writing. At the same time, trading volume tallies just $25 billion. The mismatch between the two suggests the “exit door” for traders is narrowing and could breed volatility. The crypto futures market is increasingly looking like a crowded public club with a tiny exit door, setting the stage for a potential liquidity trap and wild price swings

XRP traders bet on a rebound as price slips to $1 and bearish chatter surges. (Jakub Żerdzicki/Unsplash) XRP is hovering around $1 as futures open interest and trading volumes climb, with Binance and OKX traders heavily skewed toward leveraged long positions. Social-media sentiment toward XRP has turned the most negative in three months even as futures positioning nears levels last seen when the token traded several times higher. Network activity is picking up, with nearly 50,000 active addresse

Bitcoin price. (CoinDesk Data) Bitcoin hovered around $63,300 in Asian trading, little changed on the day and lower on the week, as cryptocurrencies stayed stuck in a tight range despite a softer dollar and reduced expectations for Federal Reserve rate hikes. Hyperliquid’s HYPE token was the standout performer, gaining more than 3 percent on the day and nearly 9 percent over the week, while other major tokens such as ether, solana and XRP saw modest moves and mostly weekly declines. Analysts say

U.S. Capitol building in Washington (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission abruptly canceled a planned meeting last Friday where it was supposed to advance its Reg Crypto rulemaking and — separately — unveil its repeatedly delayed innovation exemption. The pause appears to be due to the Clarity Act. You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future editions. Everythin

CoinMarketCap table showing top cryptocurrencies by market capitalization Investors are starting to assess each token’s market opportunity, adoption and value capture rather than its market-cap rank, crypto executives told CoinDesk. Wealth managers entering crypto care little about CoinMarketCap rankings and instead examine individual projects, they said. Hyperliquid is an early example, with investors valuing HYPE against the platform’s activity and economics. Crypto investors are increasingly