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Coinbase opens futures and options to UK professional clients only
Coinbase has enabled futures, options, and perpetual swaps for United Kingdom clients classified as Professional Clients under MiFID authorization....

Riot leases 191 MW to Anthropic, unlocking up to $16.1B revenue
Riot Platforms signed a 20-year data center lease tied to Anthropic that opens a second line of business in AI and high-performance computing while...

BlackRock cuts IBIT in-kind conversion minimum to $1 million
BlackRock lowered the in-kind conversion minimum for the iShares Bitcoin Trust from $25 million to $1 million. The change applies to institutional...

BitMine adds 7,391 ETH, lifts treasury to 5.81M and 4.8%
BitMine Immersion Technologies added 7,391 ETH to its balance sheet, bringing its Ethereum holdings to about 5.81 million ETH. The company now holds...

Strategy adds $650M cash, sells 1,690 BTC to buy back preferred
Strategy increased its USD reserve by $650 million and repurchased $109 million of STRC preferred stock, funded through MSTR common stock ATM...

SharpLink posts $394M Q2 loss on ETH revaluation, impairments
SharpLink posted a $394.3 million net loss in Q2 2026, driven by non-cash Ethereum revaluation losses and liquid staking token impairments, while...

Empery Digital sells 1,635 BTC to repay debt and buy back shares
Empery Digital disclosed the sale of 1,635 BTC for $102.2 million to repay debt and fund share buybacks. Its August 7 Form 10-Q shows total holdings...

Wintermute reports institutions drove 72% of its H1 2026 spot OTC
Institutional clients represented 72% of Wintermute’s spot OTC trading volume in H1 2026, up from 59% in H1 2025. This reflects Wintermute’s own OTC...

Bitcoin maintainers remove Luke Dashjr from BIP editor role
Luke Dashjr was removed as a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal editor via Pull Request 2248 in the bitcoin/bips repository, updating BIP 3 and reflecting...

BTCPay Server patches LND credential flaw that drained Lightning wallets
BTCPay Server released v2.4.2 to fix a critical flaw that exposed LND .macaroon credentials to unauthenticated remote access. Attackers used the...

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Bitcoin and Ethereum rise as dominance dips and altcoin rotation starts
Bitcoin and Ethereum ticked higher into July 31 as a slight decline in their market dominance indicated tentative rotation into selected altcoins....

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NEAR launches staking-based payments for AI compute credits
NEAR introduced a staking-based payment model for NEAR AI that lets users lock NEAR tokens to receive monthly compute credits rather than pay via...

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ENS Labs keeps DAO wallet, moves $65M endowment to Foundation safeguards
ENS Labs revised a governance proposal after delegate criticism: the DAO keeps custody of its primary operational wallet holding ETH and...

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Uniswap activates v4 fee switch to buy and burn UNI
Uniswap governance activated the v4 protocol fee switch, increasing protocol revenue and channeling collected fees into UNI buy-and-burn via...

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CleanCore signs $800M Cerebras deal, pivots from Dogecoin treasury strategy
CleanCore Solutions signed a 10-year colocation agreement with Cerebras Systems valued at $800 million. The company allocated $40 million initially...
