Coinbase has launched futures, choices, and perpetuals for skilled shoppers within the United Kingdom, increasing its derivatives providing by means of its MiFID authorization. The rollout just isn’t for UK retail customers. Eligibility is proscribed to customers categorized as Professional Clients, which suggests they need to meet standards tied to buying and selling exercise, portfolio…
Riot Platforms has signed a long-term information middle lease settlement tied to Anthropic, giving the Bitcoin miner one other route into AI and high-performance computing as miners proceed wanting past block rewards. The firm’s submitting describes a 20-year lease settlement for 191 megawatts of crucial IT capability at its Rockdale campus. The deal carries whole…
BlackRock has diminished the in-kind conversion minimal for its iShares Bitcoin Trust from $25 million to $1 million, doubtlessly making the mechanism accessible to a wider group of institutional members. The change was disclosed in an up to date IBIT submitting and pertains to in-kind creation and redemption exercise, not retail holders instantly swapping ETF…
BitMine Immersion Technologies has added one other 7,391 ETH to its steadiness sheet, pushing its Ethereum treasury to about 5.81 million ETH. The firm’s Ethereum place now represents roughly 4.8% of circulating provide, whereas greater than 5 million ETH is staked via its validator platform. That makes BitMine one of the crucial aggressive public-company examples…
SharpLink reported a $394.3 million web loss for the second quarter of 2026, with the outcome pushed largely by non-cash Ethereum revaluation losses and liquid staking token impairment costs. The firm’s submitting exhibits $321.0 million in unrealized ETH losses and $76.1 million in impairment costs tied to liquid staking tokens. At the identical time, staking…
Strategy has added $650 million to its USD reserve and repurchased $109 million of STRC most well-liked inventory, exhibiting once more that the corporate’s Bitcoin technique is now not only a easy accumulation story. The firm, previously MicroStrategy, filed an replace exhibiting the reserve improve was funded by way of MSTR frequent inventory ATM gross…
Empery Digital has disclosed the sale of 1,635 BTC for $102.2 million, utilizing the proceeds to help debt reimbursement and share buybacks as its unrestricted Bitcoin buffer narrows. The firm’s Form 10-Q filed on August 7 exhibits complete holdings fell to 1,279 BTC. Of that, 954 BTC was pledged as collateral, leaving 325 BTC unrestricted….
Institutional traders accounted for 72% of Wintermute’s spot OTC buying and selling quantity within the first half of 2026, up from 59% a yr earlier, exhibiting how skilled capital is changing into a bigger a part of crypto buying and selling circulation. The figures come from Wintermute’s personal OTC circulation report, so they need to…
An attacker drained almost 200,000 XRP tokens from the Coreum bridge in 97 minutes on August 9, exploiting a validation hole within the relayer software program quite than any weak point within the XRP Ledger. The bridge halted operations as XRP slid under $1 amid broader market warning. $XRP simply dropped under $1 for the…
BTCPay Server has launched model 2.4.2 to patch a vital vulnerability that allowed unauthenticated distant entry to LND credential recordsdata, after attackers used the difficulty to empty service provider Lightning wallets. The venture’s launch notes describe a critical bug involving .macaroon recordsdata, that are utilized by LND to handle entry permissions. In plain English, these…