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ECB: Crypto payments remain negligible among euro-area merchants
Crypto assets are still effectively absent from everyday commerce across the euro area, according to a new European Central Bank (ECB) survey of how businesses accept different payment methods. Even as digital ...

CFTC To Explore Crypto Regulation Amid Clarity Act Delay
The CFTC will hold an Innovation Advisory Committee meeting on Aug. 20 to discuss crypto, AI, and prediction market regulation, as the CLARITY Act faces yet another delay.

Bitcoin miners’ hashrate drops 13.4% as AI infrastructure revenue rises
Public Bitcoin mining companies are shrinking their realized hashrate faster than the broader Bitcoin network, according to a BlocksBridge Consulting analysis reported in Miner Weekly. The data suggests ...

SEC To Delay Innovation Exemption After Wall Street, White House Concerns
The SEC has cancelled a Friday meeting on new crypto rules, delaying its anticipated “innovation exemption” for tokenized securities after White House and Wall Street raised legal and market impact con...

Robinhood Chain Approaches $1B TVL as Uniswap Integration Boosts Liquidity
Robinhood’s growing onchain ambitions are getting a major assist from decentralized exchange liquidity—at least according to a new note from Standard Chartered. The bank says Robinhood Chain has nearl...

Neutrl Halts NUSD Redemptions After Unspecified Reserve Issue
DeFi protocol Neutrl has halted minting and redemptions of its synthetic dollar, NUSD, after “unspecified circumstances” affected the protocol’s reserves. The suspension also includes paused protocol functions as ...

Neutrl Halts NUSD Redemptions Amid Reserve Issue Investigation
DeFi protocol Neutrl has halted minting and redemptions for its NUSD synthetic dollar after “unspecified circumstances” affected the protocol’s reserves, leaving the extent of any potential impairment unclear. Th...

Report Shows $4.3B Loan Marketplace Volume as Profit Nears Triple in Q3
Figure Technology Solutions is pointing to a strong second quarter in its consumer lending marketplace business, reporting $4.3 billion in consumer loan marketplace volume—up 132% year over year. The com...

Report Shows $4.3B Loan Marketplace Volume as Profit Nearly Triples
Figure Technology Solutions posted a sharp jump in its consumer loan marketplace activity for the second quarter, reporting $4.3 billion in marketplace volume—up 132% year over year. The company also highlig...

Crypto Group Supports Custodia in Supreme Court Fight for Fed Access
A pro-crypto industry group has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up Custodia Bank’s challenge to how the Federal Reserve handled its request for direct access to the central bank’s payment system. In an...

Tether Finishes First Full Audit, Gets Clean KPMG Opinion
Tether has completed what it describes as its first comprehensive independent audit of its annual financial statements, with KPMG US issuing a clean opinion for its 2025 accounts. The audit, covering the year ended De...

Baltimore Moves to Regulate Prediction Markets for Sports Betting
The City of Baltimore, led by Mayor Brendan Scott, has filed legal actions against two prediction-market platforms—Kalshi and Polymarket—arguing that both companies are effectively running sports-betting opera...

Bitcoin Stays Near $64K as US PPI Softens and Stocks Rise
Bitcoin steadied after a dip toward weekly lows, with the latest catalyst coming from cooling US inflation data. On Thursday, BTC moved modestly higher as July’s Producer Price Index (PPI) showed a small decline in th...

Baltimore Targets Prediction Markets as Sports Betting Expansion
Baltimore and its mayor, Brendan Scott, have filed legal actions against two major prediction market platforms—Kalshi and Polymarket—arguing that the companies are conducting sports-betting activity without the...

Tether Finishes First Full Audit, Gets Clean KPMG Opinion
Tether has moved to put a new layer of third-party scrutiny around its finances, completing an independent audit of its annual financial statements. KPMG US issued a clean, or “unqualified,” opinion on Tether’s 2025 a...

Trezor Says Data of 14K Users Was Exposed by Shipping Provider
Hardware wallet vendor Trezor has disclosed that personal data tied to roughly 14,000 customers may have been exposed through a shipping-related incident involving its logistics provider, ShipMonk. While Trezor e...

Robinhood Chain Approaches $1B TVL as Uniswap Boosts Liquidity
Robinhood’s newly launched blockchain, Robinhood Chain, is scaling its onchain activity with help from Uniswap, according to Standard Chartered—an integration that may reduce one of the biggest early hurdles for ...

Trezor Data Breach Exposes Personal Details of Nearly 14,000 Customers
A Trezor shipping provider incident exposed personal details of 13,689 customers, prompting Trezor to warn users about increased phishing risk and to develop an Anonymous Delivery option.

Crypto Group Supports Custodia in Supreme Court Fight for Fed Access
A U.S. crypto industry group is urging the Supreme Court to take up a dispute between Custodia Bank and the Federal Reserve over access to the central bank’s payment system, arguing that federal law limits ...

Bitcoin Miners’ Hashrate Drops 13.4% as AI Infrastructure Revenue Rises
Public Bitcoin miners are trimming capacity faster than the network itself, according to a BlocksBridge Consulting analysis shared in the Miner Weekly newsletter. The data points to a gradual redeploymen...