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CZ And Meme Founder Spar Over Giggle Donation Rules
Binance founder CZ and memecoin developer Brian Sumner clash over how Giggle Academy handles donated tokens, with CZ defending the platform's monthly sell policy to fund free education.
Strategy books an $8.3B Bitcoin markdown in its first post-never-sell quarter
Strategy (MSTR) reported an $8.32 billion Q2 2026 loss on its Bitcoin holdings under fair-value accounting, as BTC traded well below the firm's average cost basis. The quarter also marks the formal end of Strategy's long-standing never-sell policy.
Coinbase posts record market share and a $359.5M loss in the same quarter
Coinbase hit an all-time high crypto trading market share of 10.3% in Q2 2026, its third straight quarterly record, while posting a $359.5 million net loss and missing Wall Street revenue estimates.
Sanctioned before it ever traded: Rostec's ruble token goes live
RubX, the ruble stablecoin tied to Russia's state defense giant Rostec, soft-launched in July and is already offering Tether swaps via Telegram. The EU sanctioned the token in April, months before its first trade, while the US has yet to act.
Senators send the White House a new ethics deal in a push for the CLARITY Act
Senators Thom Tillis and Ruben Gallego sent a bipartisan ethics compromise to the White House on July 30, targeting the key provision blocking the CLARITY Act crypto market structure bill before the August recess deadline.
BlackRock's BUIDL lands on Stripe's payments chain
BlackRock's tokenized Treasury fund BUIDL is now live on Tempo, the payments-first blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, with Securitize handling tokenization rails and RedStone providing daily on-chain valuation.
IBM claims a verified quantum milestone, and Bitcoin's math still holds
IBM and the University of Chicago have demonstrated 'trusted quantum advantage' using 70 logical qubits, but Bitcoin's elliptic curve cryptography remains safe for now. Here is what the milestone means for crypto security.
Canton goes live with bridgeless atomic swaps to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and TRON
Arqitech has completed the first Canton Token Standard V2 atomic swaps on MainNet, letting institutions trade Canton Coin directly for assets on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and TRON with no bridges, no wrapped tokens, and full custody retained.
Uniswap turns itself into a launchpad hub and $UNI rips back above $4
Uniswap has launched a new Launches tab aggregating tokens from multiple launchpads on Robinhood Chain, with 340K+ new tokens added this month and UNI jumping over 12% to reclaim the $4 level.
Big-city police chiefs line up behind the CLARITY Act
The Major Cities Chiefs Association has endorsed the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act, citing new law enforcement provisions for investigating digital-asset crime, as supporters race to pass the bill before Congress breaks for August recess.
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