Bitstamp Review 2026: Robinhood Ownership, MiCA Passporting, And The Fee Reality

Bitcoin has surged past $74,000 and traded as high as $75,527, extending a four-day rebound that has forced more than $3 billion in bearish positions out of the crypto derivatives market. BTC was trading around $74,695, up 7.8% over 24 hours and nearly 20% from its weekly low of $62,525. CoinGlass liquidation data put crypto short liquidations above $3.1 billion across the August 19-20 surge, with Bitcoin accounting for more than half of the squeeze. The acceleration builds directly on...

Bitcoin and Ethereum have broken sharply higher after weeks of compressed trading, with BTC briefly touching $70,000 and Ether gaining almost 18% as fresh liquidity, institutional inflows and forced short covering hit the market at the same time. Bitcoin traded near $69,400 in the latest market check, up more than 7% over 24 hours, while Ethereum changed hands around $2,250, up roughly 18%. The move represents a major shift from last week, when Bitcoin was stuck near $63,900 as spot...

Developer Simon Males has launched a browser-based Bitcoin puzzle game that offers 6 BTC to anyone whose graphics card finds the private key controlling one of Bitcoin’s longest-running public cryptographic challenges. Krackpot targets Bitcoin Puzzle #71, an intentionally weakened wallet created as part of a 2015 challenge designed to demonstrate the difficulty of searching increasingly large private-key ranges. The address remains unsolved with approximately 7.1018 BTC, while Krackpot describes itself as the “world’s worst lottery” because of the extraordinary odds...

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....

A crypto user lost 1,010 ETH after following an old Tornado Cash bookmark into a phishing frontend that captured the private withdrawal credentials needed to access the deposited funds. The victim deposited the ETH into legitimate Tornado Cash contracts, but the malicious interface obtained the private note generated during the process. The attacker then used those credentials to withdraw the assets within roughly 12 hours without compromising the underlying Tornado Cash smart contracts. Phishing Frontend Targeted Private Withdrawal Notes Tornado...

Ethereum’s network-growth metric has accelerated sharply in August, with new daily ETH addresses climbing from 121,210 on August 8 to 212,560 on August 16. The increase represents roughly 75.4% growth in eight days and adds another signal that activity is returning to the network. New-address creation measures the number of addresses appearing onchain for the first time rather than the number of unique people using Ethereum. A single user or automated system can control multiple addresses, so the metric is...

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...

A crypto trading bot is a chain of dependencies. It reads a position, prices it, decides, places an order, and confirms settlement. Every one of those steps is an API call, and a failure at any single step stops the strategy. The provider choice shapes what a bot can actually do more than the strategy logic does. The common mistake is searching for one API that covers everything. No such API exists in 2026. Market data providers do not route...

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...

Coinbase has integrated Hyperliquid perpetual futures into Base App, giving eligible users access to more than 290 leveraged markets without leaving their self-custody wallet. The new product covers Bitcoin, Ethereum, equity-linked markets and commodities, with leverage reaching 50x on supported contracts. Hyperliquid handles trade execution and liquidity while Base App provides the user-facing trading interface. Coinbase Head of Engineering Chintan Turakhia called perpetuals the “single most requested feature from our power users”, with the company increasingly building Base App around...

The benchmark opened 4.96% lower and fell as much as 6.4% in early trading. The Korea Exchange activated the sell-side sidecar at 9:06 a.m. local time, temporarily suspending program sell orders for five minutes after KOSPI 200 futures remained at least 5% below their previous close for one minute. The KOSPI later recovered part of the decline and was trading around 5.2% lower at 6,515.97 during the session. Samsung And SK Hynix Lead Semiconductor Rout Samsung Electronics fell as much...

Attackers are actively exploiting a high-severity authentication flaw in Apple’s macOS Screen Sharing service, gaining root access to internet-exposed Macs and installing Monero cryptocurrency miners. The Netherlands’ National Cyber Security Centre has identified active exploitation on multiple systems with port 5900 exposed to the internet. Users running affected macOS versions should install Apple’s August security updates immediately and avoid exposing Screen Sharing directly to the public internet. Attackers Bypass Screen Sharing Authentication Tracked as CVE-2026-65400, the vulnerability affects the authentication...

SafePal has disclosed unauthorized access to personal and purchase information belonging to approximately 39,798 customers after identifying an authorization flaw in a plug-in used for order tracking. The affected records cover customers who placed orders between March 2, 2025 and April 11, 2026. The exposed information included names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers and purchase details. Seed phrases, private keys, wallet passwords, bank account information, payment card numbers and government-issued identification numbers were not exposed, while SafePal found no...