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Wintermute Registers as US Broker-Dealer, Eyes Tokenized Stocks
Wintermute’s U.S. arm has registered as a broker-dealer, giving the crypto market maker a path into regulated securities trading. The firm plans to expand from digital-asset ETFs and related markets into tokenized equities if U.S. regulatorbitcoin.comBitcoin Still in Death Cross as Jobs Miss Cuts Rate-Hike Odds
The U.S. labor market cracked harder than anyone expected. Employers cut 23,000 jobs in July—the first net loss since the pandemic-era recovery, and a sharp miss against the 95,000 gain economists had penciled in. The unemployment rate tickDecryptOpenAI's First Device Is a $300-Plus Doughnut-Shaped Speaker: Report
OpenAI's first consumer device will be a screenless smart speaker shaped like a doughnut and roughly the size of a hockey puck, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the work who asked not to be identified because it iDecryptBitcoin Wallet Dormant Since 2011 Moves Millions in BTC
Another dormant Bitcoin whale has awoken. An old Bitcoin address holding millions in Bitcoin that had not made any transactions in over 14 years suddenly reactivated yesterday. Per Galaxy Research's monitoring, the Bitcoin address beginningDecryptIntesa Sanpaolo Cuts BTC ETF Stake by 94%, Triples Staked ETH Position
In its Q2 2026 Form 13F filing, Italian banking giant Intesa Sanpaolo revealed a 94% reduction in its flagship spot bitcoin ETF while tripling its position in Blackrock’s iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF. Strategic Expansion into Stabitcoin.comCarbon Launches TradFi-Native On-Chain Derivatives Venue With 950+ Markets in One Account
Road Town, British Virgin Islands, August 7th, 2026, Chainwire 250+ TradFi markets join Carbon's 530+ crypto perpetuals & 150 24/7 RWAs in one venue. Wall Street depth at listing, stable overnight rates, and on-chain settlement. CarbonDecryptOLY Announces August 28 Mint Built Around Long-Term Holders
Betania, Panama, August 7th, 2026, OLY is preparing to open its mint on August 28 with a design built around one core belief: the people who commit for the longest should be the people the protocol serves best. The Ethereum based DeFi proDecryptBIP-110 Supporters Prepare PoW Switch If Miners Refuse Soft Fork Plan
Bitcoin developer Chris Guida has dusted off code that could swap the mining algorithm on a breakaway BIP-110 chain if supporters fail to overcome miners’ resistance. With the activation height closing in fast, supporters are now openbitcoin.comTokenized Asset Deposits Tripled to $7.4B as DeFi Shrank: CoinShares
Deposits of tokenized real-world assets into decentralized lending platforms and exchanges more than tripled over the past year, climbing from $2.3 billion to $7.4 billion, while total deposits across DeFi fell by approximately 15%. The figDecryptChina’s Kimi K3 Broke Out of Its Sandbox to Look Up Test Answers
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 left the sandbox it was being tested in and went onto the open internet to find answers to problems it had been set, according to security firm Frontier Security. The model was being assessed on defensive cybersecurityDecryptMorning Minute: MetaMask Hands AI Agents a Wallet
Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. GM! Today’s top news: Crypto majors are slightly green; BTC at $65k Clarity ActDecryptCathie Wood’s Ark Buys $21M in Block, $2.3M in SpaceX
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest bought $21 million in Block shares and $2.3 million in SpaceX stock, doubling down on two companies sitting at the intersection of bitcoin and Elon Musk’s business empire. Key TakeawaysArk Invest boughtbitcoin.comMyTrade Founder Fined $10K Over Bots That Wash Traded 60 Cryptocurrencies
The founder of crypto market maker MyTrade has avoided prison and been fined $10,000 for running a wash trading service that generated millions of dollars in fake daily volume across roughly 60 cryptocurrencies. Liu Zhou, 41, a Canadian citDecryptBitcoin Red Team Finds 4,962 Flaws After Coldcard Hack
A volunteer security group called the Bitcoin Red Team uncovered 4,962 vulnerabilities, 85 of them critical, across 390 open-source Bitcoin projects over a 27-hour stretch after the Coldcard hack. Key TakeawaysThe Bitcoin Red Team filed 4,9bitcoin.comTesla, SpaceX Pick Texas Site for Musk’s $16.8B Chip Plant
Tesla and SpaceX have formally committed $16.8 billion to break ground on Terafab, Elon Musk’s giant AI chip factory, after moving the project’s planned site from Austin to a rural county outside Houston. Key TakeawaysTesla andbitcoin.comMARA Reports $611M Loss While Miners Deposit 581 BTC to NYDIG
MARA Holdings posted a $611 million net loss in the second quarter as its bitcoin treasury shrank 29% year-over-year to 35,577 BTC. The report landed the same week rival Riot Platforms and MARA itself sent a combined 581 BTC to custodian NYbitcoin.comColdcard Hacker Resumes Moving Stolen 30 BTC to New Wallet
The hacker behind the Coldcard wallet exploit, believed to hold 2,055 BTC (about $130 million) in stolen bitcoin, moved funds for the first time in weeks, sending 30.185 BTC (about $1.94 million) to a new wallet. Key TakeawaysThe Coldcard hbitcoin.comMalta Would Pay More Than Italy Under EU’s $2.19B Gambling Levy
Malta has joined Italy, Portugal, and Spain to block a possible EU-wide online gambling levy, four diplomats told Politico, in a budget fight any one of the 27 governments can veto. Commission modeling would bill Malta about $190 million (€bitcoin.comCertiK Director Lau Advances AI as Net Positive Despite Risks
In response to recent events where AI agents escaped their sandboxes and attacked real-world targets, Kaijern Lau, Senior Director of Engineering at CertiK, believes the industry must prepare by increasing its investment in AI security as tbitcoin.comGoogle Scraps Google Earth’s AI-Generated Imagery Feature After Misinformation Warnings
Google pulled a newly launched AI-generated satellite imagery feature from Google Earth less than 24 hours after release, after experts warned it could be used to create realistic fake scenes and fuel misinformation. The tool let users genebitcoin.com
