August 4, 2026
Bitcoin

Cardano Whales Accumulate as 14,783 New Wallets Join Post-Selloff

Cardano (ADA) added 14,783 new non-empty ADA wallets in the days following its June 23 price bottom, according to on-chain data firm Santiment. ADA has since gained +24% in seven days, touching $0.199 on July 5 before settling near $0.181, the first time the token has traded at these levels since 2020. The wallet growth

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Bitmine (BMNR) buys 42k ETH while Strategy sells bitcoin (BTC)

Bitmine Immersion (BMNR), the largest Ethereum (ETH) treasury company, stepped up its buying pace last week, purchasing 42,197 ether (ETH) as chairman Thomas Lee pointed to improving prospects for U.S. crypto legislation as a catalyst for the asset. The latest purchase, worth roughly $74 million based on ether’s current price of around $1,750, lifted the

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Preferred Stock Is Becoming Bitcoin Treasury Firms’ Financing Tool Of Choice: Report

A new class of Wall Street securities has grown from an experiment into a multibillion-dollar market in under two years, and a June 2026 research report from BitcoinTreasuries.net argues the expansion has just begun. The report, produced in partnership with the DeFi protocol Apyx, tracks the rise of preferred shares issued by public companies and

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Deribit and SignalPlus Launch The Island Trading Competition With Up to $600,000 USDC in Prizes

Panama City, Panama, July 6th, 2026, Chainwire Deribit by Coinbase, via its broker-dealer DRB Panama Inc., and SignalPlus, a leading provider of software and infrastructure solutions for crypto derivatives, today announced the launch of The Island, their fifth trading competition and biggest edition to date. Running for 35 days, the competition features up to $600,000

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SEC Opens 60-Day Comment Period to Reshape Novel ETF Rules

In SEC crypto news today, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a 60-day comment period to reconsider its regulation of novel exchange-traded funds, a category it explicitly defines as including crypto assets, event-contract products, and complex leveraged strategies. The move, formalized on June 30, 2026, under Release No. 33-11426, signals that the agency

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Americans traded $571 million on Polymarket politic bets despite U.S. ban

As such, Allium can tie only about 6% of Polymarket’s political-market wallets to a country – so the firm says the figures should be read as directional rather than exact. Polymarket did not immediately respond to request for comments ahead of U.S. market hours. Meanwhile, a further interesting bit is what Americans bet on. Geopolitics

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Trump’s Quantum Push Pressures Bitcoin Security: Moody’s

A pair of executive orders signed by President Trump on June 22 has pushed the quantum computing question from the research lab into the boardrooms of crypto exchanges, custodians and stablecoin issuers.  In a June 24 sector comment, Moody’s Ratings warned that the credit implications for digital assets are significant, and that the industry now

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Ethereum Foundation Sends $4.34M stETH to Argot.

Ethereum Foundation sent 2,469 stETH to Argot under its fourth annual grant. Argot receives long-term funding to support Ethereum infrastructure development. Final installment of the five-year Ethereum Foundation grant is due in July 2027. The Ethereum Foundation has transferred 2,469 stETH, valued at approximately $4.34 million, to Argot as part of its long-term funding commitment.

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Trump Crypto Profits Hit $1B as Bitcoin Crashes 50% From Its ATH

President Trump and family crypto ventures cleared more than $1 billion in 2025, according to his latest federal financial disclosure. It was the same year that Bitcoin crashed more than 50% from its $126,000 all-time high, erasing every gain retail investors captured during the post-election euphoria. Market Cap 24h 7d 30d 1y All Time World

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Clarity and Congress’s summer break: State of Crypto

The president also disclosed holding north of $100 million in various cryptos, and a few smaller stakes in firms like Corewave. Senator Elizabeth Warren, the senior-most Democrat on the Banking Committee, called for an ethics provision in the Clarity Act in a statement after the disclosure, saying, “The crypto legislation heading to the Senate floor

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