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The Bitcoin Red Team has scanned 501 open-source Bitcoin projects and produced 7,958 security findings, including 1,280 rated high or critical severity, as AI dramatically accelerates code review across wallets, Lightning software and Bitcoin infrastructure. Twenty-five developers worked on the coordinated review for 108 hours, combining human analysis with automated harnesses and AI models. The project has relied heavily on Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 alongside other models, with OpenSats funding the compute costs through its dedicated Bitcoin Red Team programme....

Bitcoin is trading near $63,900 after another failed move through the mid-$60,000 range, leaving the market compressed around onchain cost-basis levels while spot participation falls to its weakest point in years. BTC was recently at $63,859, with an intraday range between $63,267 and $64,298. The price remains roughly 49% below its October 2025 record above $126,000 and only about 9% above the June 30 low near $58,535. Bitcoin Trades Between $63K And $68.7K Cost Bases Bitcoin is now sitting almost...

Strategy sold another 1,690 BTC for $108.6 million between August 3 and August 9, extending its Bitcoin sales into a second consecutive week and reducing its treasury to 840,447 BTC. The 1,690 BTC were sold at an average price of $64,262, net of fees and expenses. Strategy’s remaining Bitcoin carries an aggregate purchase cost of $63.36 billion and an average acquisition price of $75,385. Bitcoin Sale Funds Another $108.6M STRC Buyback Strategy used the entire Bitcoin sale proceeds to repurchase...

H100 Group has nearly tripled its Bitcoin holdings to 3,506.4 BTC after completing its acquisition of Norwegian company NSD AS through an all-share transaction requiring no cash consideration. The August 10 acquisition brought 2,455.37 BTC into H100 through NSD’s direct and indirect ownership of Moonshot AS and PDI AS. H100 entered the transaction holding approximately 1,051 BTC. The enlarged treasury positions H100 among Europe’s largest publicly listed Bitcoin holders and creates what the company describes as the first Bitcoin-for-Bitcoin public-market...

Wallets attributed to stablecoin payments firm Triple-A were drained of more than $9.7 million across TRON, Ethereum, Polygon and Arbitrum before the assets were routed to Ethereum. Onchain analyst Specter traced the multichain outflows and linked the affected wallets to Triple-A. The stolen assets were moved through cross-chain bridges and consolidated into 5,227 ETH at an Ethereum address beginning with 0x01F8 and ending with 53b1. The transfers converged on the address after funds moved out of wallets on all four...

A wallet tracked as belonging to BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes purchased 1,332.5 ETH worth about $2.53 million early Tuesday, extending a fresh accumulation run as ether traded near $1,900. Lookonchain flagged the purchase roughly three hours after the transaction. The implied acquisition price was about $1,899 per ETH. Hayes had not publicly confirmed the trade at publication. The same tracker recorded a 1,293 ETH purchase worth $2.48 million on July 15. The two transactions added 2,625.5 ETH for approximately $5.01...

BitMine Immersion Technologies repurchased approximately 5.5 million common shares over the past week as the company shifted capital away from its usual pace of Ethereum accumulation. The shares were acquired at an average price of $15.6156, implying a total outlay of roughly $85.9 million. The purchases were completed under BitMine’s previously authorized $4 billion share-repurchase program. Chairman Tom Lee called the repurchases accretive to shareholder value. BMNR traded near $15.97 on Monday, slightly above the average price paid by the...

BitMine Immersion Technologies acquired 27,801 ETH over the past week, lifting its total holdings to 5,770,038 ETH as of July 12. The position represents about 4.8% of Ethereum’s 120.7 million circulating supply, placing the company 96% of the way toward its stated goal of controlling 5% of all ETH. The latest treasury update valued the ETH position at roughly $10.5 billion using a reference price of $1,820. BitMine also held 206 BTC, $482 million in cash and marketable securities, a...

Polymarket and Kalshi helped turn prediction markets into a mainstream trading category, but neither platform fits every trader. Access varies by country, market selection can lean heavily toward certain topics, and the tools available for entering, managing, and automating positions differ sharply across platforms. The strongest alternatives are not identical copies. Some emerging prediction markets platforms focus on professional order controls, some concentrate on fast crypto and financial markets, and others use onchain infrastructure or play-money forecasting. Users unfamiliar with...

A funded crypto trading account gives a trader access to more notional capital after they prove they can follow a firm’s risk rules. The usual route starts with a paid crypto prop firm challenge that requires a profit target without breaching daily or overall loss limits. Passing is not only about making money. Drawdown control, minimum trading days and rule compliance determine whether the account survives. The evaluation fee can be lost, and crypto prop firms use different account models,...

Tokenized stock perps allow traders to take long or short exposure to companies, ETFs and equity indexes through crypto-native derivatives markets. Positions can use stablecoin collateral, remain open without an expiry date and continue trading when the main stock exchange is closed. The trader receives price exposure, not ownership of the referenced shares. The interface often looks identical to a crypto perpetual futures market. The risk does not. A stock-linked contract can remain active overnight, through weekends and during holidays...

Agentic trading is a form of market automation where an AI agent can analyze data, reason through a goal, use tools, prepare trades, and sometimes execute orders through an exchange API, wallet, smart account, broker connection, or onchain protocol. It moves the conversation beyond simple trading bots because the agent is not only following a fixed trigger. It can combine market data, user instructions, portfolio context, and approved tools before deciding what action fits the rules it has been given....

Jane Street suffered roughly $15 billion of losses in July after its investment in AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness fell sharply alongside positions exposed to the broader technology selloff. The month became Jane Street's first negative trading-revenue period since 2016 and its worst monthly loss on record. The trading firm has still generated more than $40 billion of revenue this year, already exceeding the $39.6 billion produced across all of 2025. Jane Street executives linked part of the drawdown to...

Personal data belonging to 13,689 Trezor customers was exposed in a breach at ShipMonk, the third-party fulfillment company responsible for shipping Trezor Shop orders across several markets. The August 13 disclosure covers customers who received orders in the U.S., U.K., Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, Italy or Portugal during the 90 days before August 8. ShipMonk notified Trezor of unauthorized access to systems containing customer information on August 10. Names, Addresses And Phone Numbers Exposed Full names, shipping addresses, phone numbers and...

Riot Platforms has signed a 20-year agreement to provide 191 megawatts of critical IT capacity at its Rockdale, Texas campus, creating a $9.1 billion contracted revenue stream as the Bitcoin miner accelerates its expansion into artificial intelligence infrastructure. The August 10 agreement runs through June 2048 and includes two additional five-year options that could lift total contract revenue to approximately $16.1 billion. Riot identified the customer only as a leading frontier AI lab in its public disclosure. Anthropic is the...

Three Binance-affiliated companies have sued RedotPay’s co-founders in Hong Kong, seeking $472.8 million over allegations that the payments firm diverted more than 470,000 Binance users to its competing stablecoin card network. Nest Trading Ltd., DistributedTechnologies Ltd. and Chaintecs Consulting Singapore Pte named Gao Zhangpeng, Chan Wa Choi and Yao Chao as defendants. The claims remain allegations and have not been tested in court. Lawsuit Targets RedotPay Card Top-Ups The Hong Kong petition alleges that the founders breached a commercial agreement...