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CRO slumped below $0.05 for the first time since late 2023.

[PRESS RELEASE – Los Angeles, United States, August 7th, 2026] Spindex, a real-time data analytics platform for the iGaming industry, has surpassed 150 million tracked gaming events across its monitoring infrastructure, ingesting more than 2,000 new data points per minute from over 700 slot titles. The milestone highlights the scale of live data now flowing […]

Expedited discovery allows the exchange to seek account identities, balances and transaction histories from platforms with US operations. United States court records unsealed on Thursday show that a federal judge backed crypto exchange Bybit’s effort to trace assets stolen in the $1.5 billion North Korea-linked hack by granting the company expedited discovery.  According to the records, Bybit filed the lawsuit under seal on June 18 against North Korea, its Reconnaissance General Bureau, the Lazarus Group and 20 unidentified defendants. The court granted Bybit’s request for expedited discovery on June 19. The discovery authority gives Bybit a practical route to identify alleged intermediaries and pursue a small portion of stolen assets that remains traceable, rather than relying solely on a judgment against North Korea.  Read more

XRP dipped toward $1.00 after the CLARITY Act was delayed, but at least one analyst remains bullish on its long-term perspective.

A new XRPL amendment proposal would let institutions encrypt token balances and transfer amounts while still giving issuers, auditors and regulators selective access.

If a minority chain appears this weekend, buyers could replay signed fork-coin sales on bitcoin itself, making doing nothing the safest move until the chains can be separated.

The actual hack took place over a month ago and the bad actor has been on the move.

The 55-hour campaign shows AI can rapidly fill a security-review pipeline, while public data still cannot show how many findings were valid or fixed. The post Bitcoin’s AI security sprint found 6,700 issues in 55 hours, but no one knows how many are real appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The uncollateralized receivable runs to 2028, while an Aug. 6 sensitivity puts market value 24.5% below company-calculated NAV. The post Inside the uncollateralized deal that locked up 6 million SUI until 2028 while SUI Group trades at a 25% NAV discount appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The miner's BTC holdings dropped 29% year over year as the company sold to support liquidity and capital projects.

The president’s company will unwind an agreement with Crypto.com to create a multibillion-dollar CRO treasury and reportedly not integrate prediction markets onto Truth Social. US President Donald Trump’s company, the Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG), is pulling back from a deal with the Crypto.com exchange to instead focus on a merger with energy company TAE. First reported by Axios on Friday, TMTG interim CEO Kevin McGurn said that the company would pull back from two Crypto.com deals aimed at creating a $6.4 billion CRO treasury and integrating prediction markets into its Truth Social platform. The Trump media company, crypto exchange, and special purpose acquisition company Yorkville Acquisition Corp said “prevailing market conditions and shifting business and stakeholder priorities” led to the dissolution of the treasury deal. TMTG announced the CRO treasury deal in September 2025, in which President Trump’s company would purchase billions of dollars worth of Crypto.com’s CRO tokens, potentially a...

The Truth Social parent company is refocusing on media and its pending merger with a fusion energy firm, as the digital asset treasury boom has lost its steam.

Truth Social's parent company is unwinding two major Crypto.com deals as new leadership shifts its focus to media, data licensing, and a planned merger with fusion energy company TAE.

Bitcoin climbed back above $65,000 this week, extending an unusual stretch of resilience as the cryptocurrency absorbed a string of developments that would typically pressure prices. The top digital asset rose about 2% over the past 24 hours to as high as $65,212, its strongest level since late July, CryptoSlate data shows. The move coincided […] The post Bitcoin’s $65K recovery shows its growing immunity to bad news as ETFs and whales buy $2 billion appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The U.S. Treasury sanctioned two crypto exchanges it says laundered millions of dollars for Iran's Revolutionary Guard, naming a Georgia- and UAE-based operator and an Iran-based platform.

Mateen purchased more than 306,000 shares across two days following the company's quarterly earnings, lifting his stake to more than 492,000 shares.

Retail investors are exiting Bitcoin at their fastest pace since December as whales keep accumulating near current prices.

The US government sanctioned an individual and two crypto exchanges it said facilitated money laundering for a combined $5 million in digital assets linked to Iran. The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against two digital asset exchanges it said that “the Iranian regime relies on to launder billions of dollars” amid military actions between the two countries.  In a Friday notice, OFAC said it had taken measures against crypto exchanges Shelbit and Aban Tether for “facilitating illicit cryptocurrency activity and sanctions evasion,” using the proceeds to support Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The government agency also sanctioned Iranian national Siavash Kayvanpour and crypto wallets and companies tied to him, one of which operates Shelbit. “We will continue to increase the economic pressure,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. “Whether in dollars, rials, or crypto, Treasury will hunt down and dismantle the illicit financial networks tha...

Bitcoin company BTCPay Server told users to install the latest version of the server and replace credentials that may have been exposed.

At height 961,632, enforcing nodes reject non-signaling blocks, but Bitcoin does not automatically adopt the proposal. The post Bitcoin has 185 blocks left before BIP-110 rules begin rejecting blocks appeared first on CryptoSlate.