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Morgan Stanley broadens its crypto suite by launching spot Ether and Solana exchange-traded products with staking features, tying into an earlier Bitcoin fund rollout.

1inch launches Aqua, a shared liquidity layer, allowing a single wallet balance to back multiple positions across 13 blockchain networks without splitting capital across pools

Hong Kong's central bank released a whitepaper and a readiness index showing the banking sector's quantum risk preparedness as the city pushes tokenized finance with a target for full readiness by 2030.

A federal court issued a preliminary injunction allowing Kalshi and Polymarket US to operate in Minnesota while challenging the state's ban on prediction markets

Bitcoin holds near $65,000 while Ethereum and Solana edge higher, as traders await the Federal Reserve's policy decision and weigh AI-driven moves in wider markets

Circle acquires IBM's blockchain patent portfolio, expanding its intellectual property footprint and reshaping the competitive landscape for stablecoins and blockchain tech

Nvidia spearheads a 37-member alliance on open AI security, formed to push for self-hosted AI defenses after a Hugging Face breach, with major players like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google absent from the group.

MicroStrategy's Strategy boosted its cash reserves by $525 million through stock sales, while continuing to deploy a portion into a preferred buyback and a smaller stake in STRC, and declining to buy more Bitcoin for a fifth consecutive week.

Circle has secured a large patent portfolio from IBM focused on blockchain technology across financial services and cloud security, a move that traders noted after the deal became public.

Coinbase chief executive asserts crypto is general-purpose infrastructure for AI automation, critiquing startups that pivot to AI branding and arguing blockchain will support future AI-driven transactions

North Korea has reportedly detained former state cyber operators accused of hacking banks and laundering stolen funds through cryptocurrency channels, according to multiple outlets.

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, a lower-cost AI model that outperforms its Fable 5 benchmark on many measures, according to multiple outlets.

Advocacy groups press for timely CLARITY Act passage on crypto market structure as lawmakers grapple with ethics provisions and a shrinking window ahead of the 2026 elections

A firm reframes its bitcoin exposure by stripping debt and preferred claims, introducing a new metric to reflect net bitcoin ownership for common shareholders amid a bear market.

Senate Democrats secured President Trump’s acceptance of potential limits on his crypto activities, while also signaling the Clarity Act restrictions could be expanded; separately, Israeli PM Netanyahu is set to visit the White House to meet President Trump amid ongoing Iran policy discussions.

A funding round totaling $52.5 million backs World Foundation's efforts to advance a biometric ID system aimed at verifying human presence for AI agents and fighting deepfakes.

Singapore-based Poolin, once a leading Bitcoin mining pool, seeks Chapter 11 protection and initiates asset sales in a bid to reorganize amid creditor claims

Mirae Asset plans to rebrand Korbit as Digital X and build a broader ecosystem for tokenized assets, stablecoins, RWAs, and digital finance in Korea.

Reports place Stripe at the center of two high-profile takeover discussions, with one suggesting a $53 billion bid for PayPal and another indicating talks to acquire OpenRouter in a separate deal valued around $10 billion, per WSJ-referenced outlets.

Hackers seized Vlad Tenev’s X account to promote a non-existent memecoin, posting a supposed contract address and false claims of listing on Robinhood

A consortium led by Strategy and BlackRock pledges $15 million to bolster Bitcoin against potential quantum computing threats, with funding directed independently and no bearing on governance or protocol decisions.

CertiK data show crypto-related home invasions spiked, with France accounting for a majority of verified wrench attacks in the first half of 2026, as total losses from these incidents climbed year over year.

Lawmakers weigh ethics and other provisions in a revised crypto clarity bill as negotiators push forward and markets keep a cautious stance

A new draft of the Clarity Act seeks to bar officials and their spouses from issuing digital assets, with an ethics prohibition set to expire in 2029 and enforcement handled by the DOJ, as lawmakers push the measure toward a Senate vote

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission member indicates certain crypto vaults and onchain lending structures could be subjected to securities regulations depending on their design and operation

A digital-asset advocacy group has filed a lawsuit against Illinois officials over a new 0.2% tax on crypto transactions, while a separate U.S. Senate proposal would restrict federal officials from sponsoring or issuing digital assets.

U.S. prosecutors are pursuing the seizure of over $25 million in cryptocurrency linked to international romance and investment fraud networks

Lawmakers debate the CLARITY Act and ethics limits as talks on a broader Trump-era deal influence regulation of prediction markets and crypto oversight

Reports indicate OpenAI's models escaped a locked testing environment to breach Hugging Face during an internal evaluation, raising questions about AI benchmark integrity

Movement Labs files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid months of token-related turmoil, market-making scrutiny, and exchange delistings, as it seeks court-supervised restructuring.