The United States and the United Kingdom have announced a formal joint digital asset framework, marking the most significant transatlantic regulatory alignment effort in crypto history and a boost to regulation for stablecoins. The plan targets stablecoins, tokenized securities, and cross-border capital markets, sending a clear signal that the world’s two largest English-speaking financial centers

Inflows into Hyperliquid (HYPE) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have largely ground to a halt after surging in May and June, reflecting growing concerns over the protocol’s competitive outlook, according to Wall Street bank JPMorgan (JPM). The bank said Hyperliquid ETFs led non-bitcoin crypto funds in inflows relative to assets under management in May and June, though

Rallied by the recent, catastrophic vulnerability in Coldcard hardware wallets, exploited to the tune of over $100 million, the Bitcoin community has rallied to prevent future critical bugs in the industry’s open source software. PSA: Any users of Coldcard wallets that have not migrated their bitcoin to new seeds generated in secure firmware are still

Ethereum’s last two major upgrades were focused squarely on Layer 2s. Glamsterdam, targeted to ship in H1 2026, is about improving Layer 1 — not just in terms of speed and efficiency but also the entire block production process. With execution increasingly migrating to L2s and Ethereum itself taking shape as the ecosystem’s underlying settlement

In Bitcoin ETF news today, Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s largest bank, filed its Q2 2026 Form 13F, the SEC’s mandatory quarterly disclosure of institutional long positions in US-listed securities, on August 4, and the numbers tell a sharp story. The bank slashed its BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) position by roughly 94% while tripling its stake

According to Thielen, traders are missing the key point that BTC’s failure to move lower despite the hawkish Fed is itself a bullish signal. “Traders are underestimating the upside risk from a less hawkish Fed, and overlooking the possibility that the four-year cycle has already bottomed,” he noted. Other market watchers point to erratic demand

Time is running out to get a vote on the long-awaited crypto Clarity Act, though bipartisan work is intensifying with the White House reviewing the latest draft behind closed doors, according to reports.  Senator Thom Tillis said that bipartisan language drafted and sent to the White House last week is currently being reviewed by the

AI trading agents now execute a growing share of crypto order flow with little or no human input — but the safeguards around them have not kept pace. The result is a new kind of market risk that shows up both in individual account security and in the collective behaviour of autonomous systems at scale.

In Bitcoin news today, BitMEX co-founder and Maelstrom Chief Investment Officer Arthur Hayes has made his most direct Bitcoin price prediction yet: $1M per coin, driven not by a crypto-native catalyst but by the collapse of what he calls the largest credit bubble in modern history. The mechanism he describes is the AI infrastructure buildout,

RedotPay, which describes itself as the world’s largest stablecoin payment card issuer, told CoinDesk Wednesday it will defend itself “vigorously” against a $470 million Binance lawsuit alleging it poached 470,000 users. “RedotPay is aware of legal proceedings initiated by Binance and will vigorously defend all claims,” the firm said in an emailed statement. “The Company