August 4, 2026
Bitcoin

Robinhood (HOOD) slides 4% as crypto revenue sharply fell

Robinhood (HOOD) topped Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations, but shares fell about 4% in after-hours trading, adding to their 3.1% decline during Wednesday’s session. The online brokerage reported adjusted earnings per share of $0.62, well ahead of analysts’ $0.43 estimate, while revenue climbed 32% from a year earlier to a record $1.31 billion, narrowly topping the

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Bitcoin Barely Budges As Fed Keeps Interest Rates Unchanged

Bitcoin was trading higher on Wednesday — but only slightly — after the Federal Reserve decided to keep interest rates still.  The leading cryptocurrency was recently priced at close to $64,402 per coin, after moving up by nearly 1% in the hour following the announcement.  As expected, the U.S. central bank left the federal funds

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Bitcoin Mining Shifts Greener as Hydropower Overtakes Natural Gas, Cambridge Says

Cambridge finds Bitcoin mining is growing cleaner as hydropower leads, while AI diversification remains in its early stages. Bitcoin mining is using more electricity than ever, yet its carbon footprint is growing at a slower pace. Fresh research from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance points to a larger share of power coming from low-carbon

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Reaching $68,000 Rests On Whether Buyers Return

Today’s Fed decision on rates will likely set Bitcoin’s near-term trajectory, but the real signal will show in the trading sessions that follow. Flow data will reveal if ETF demand will return post-FOMC and allow the price to break the range. Bitcoin enters today’s Federal Reserve decision capped by the same $68,000 ceiling that has

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Can Singapore Create an ASEAN Blackrock?

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek is engineering what the Financial Times calls an ‘Asian BlackRock’ – and the structural logic of that ambition runs directly through Bitcoin. The vehicle at the center of that push is Seviora, Temasek’s wholly-owned asset management arm, which currently oversees approximately $75Bn in assets across four subsidiaries. The central tension

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BNY builds blockchain system for $8.6 trillion fund business

BNY, which has more than $59tn in assets under custody and administration, is moving one of its core record-keeping businesses onto blockchain as Wall Street builds the infrastructure for tokenized funds, the Financial Times reported Thursday. “We think of BNY as modernizing a function that sits behind every single fund transaction by bringing the books

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Dubai-Based Emirates Airline Adds Bitcoin And Crypto Payments

People can now pay with Bitcoin to buy flights from Dubai-based airline Emirates.  Working with Crypto.com, Emirates said Tuesday the customers now have the option to book flights using the crypto exchange’s payment feature. Crypto.com and Emirates last year announced they would work together.  Emirates’ Deputy President and Chief Commercial Officer Adnan Kazim said the

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Binance Runs Monthly Phishing Drills, Warns Repeat Failures May Lead to Dismissal

Binance ties phishing test results to employee reviews as social engineering accounts for most crypto security incidents. Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has spent years testing its own workforce against phishing attacks as part of a wider effort to reduce security risks. Company executives say social engineering remains one of the biggest threats facing the digital asset

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IBM’s Blockchain Patent Empire Lands at Circle in Landmark IP Deal

Circle Internet Group announced on July 27, 2026, that it has acquired more than 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 issued blockchain patents worldwide from IBM in a single transaction, making Circle the largest blockchain patent holder in the United States. The portfolio directly underpins Circle’s core products: USDC, the Circle Payments Network (CPN), and

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Coinbase wants to be Canada’s ‘everything exchange,’ but says clearer rules are needed first

To Richmond, the delay isn’t about regulators moving slowly, but a structural difference between U.S. and Canadian frameworks. “It’s not necessarily just a regulatory thing; just the nature of the rules is different,” he said. Harmonized ‘national instrument’ While there is still work to be done, Richmond is encouraged by the fact that Canadian regulators

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