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Bitcoin recovered above $64,400 on Sunday after briefly slipping below the $63,800 support level watched by technical traders. BTC traded near $64,491, up about 0.6%, after moving between $63,765 and $64,520 during the session. Spot trading volume stood near $14.3 billion over 24 hours, below the levels recorded during last week’s push above $66,000. Ali Martinez identified $63,800 as the immediate pivot, with a sustained hold opening a potential rebound toward $67,000. A breakdown would return attention to the $60,000...

Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson said Bitcoin could lose its position as the largest cryptocurrency if its governance process fails to deliver the upgrades needed to address quantum-computing risks. The issue with Bitcoin is it’s frozen in time. It’s very difficult to change anything,” Hoskinson said during an interview on The Starting Block on Friday. Bitcoin’s resistance to rapid protocol changes helped the network survive regulatory pressure, market collapses and the disappearance of its creator, Hoskinson said. Quantum computing would present...

Poolin Technology and two U.S. affiliates filed for Chapter 11 protection on July 22, seeking to sell their West Texas mining sites and wind down operations. The Singapore-based parent filed alongside Lonestar Dream Inc. and Lonestar Taproot LLC in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. The companies requested joint administration under case number 26-18325. Poolin listed assets between $1 million and $10 million and liabilities between $100 million and $500 million. Poolin was founded in China...

Strategy launched the Bitcoin Security Consortium, bringing together nine financial and crypto companies that have pledged $15 million over three years to support independent work on Bitcoin’s security. BlackRock, Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets and Strategy joined as founding members alongside Anchorage Digital, ARK Invest, Block, Blockstream and Galaxy. The commitments will support open-source developers, researchers and organizations working on Bitcoin’s code, testing infrastructure, cryptography and long-term resilience. Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor framed Bitcoin security as a shared responsibility for...

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...

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....

Crypto data aggregators turn scattered market information into one usable research layer. Instead of checking separate exchanges, DEX pools, block explorers, wallet dashboards, token pages, protocol analytics, and portfolio apps, users can compare price, market capitalization, trading volume, liquidity, supply, exchange pairs, contract addresses, DeFi activity, and on-chain movement from one place. Crypto markets are fragmented across venues, chains, and token versions, so the same asset can trade on centralized exchanges, several decentralized exchanges, multiple networks, and wrapped or bridged...

South Korea’s KOSPI fell 8% on Wednesday, extending its July decline to roughly 35% as another wave of selling hit the country’s largest semiconductor stocks. The benchmark dropped to 5,547.77 by midday in Seoul, its lowest level since April. The Korea Exchange activated a market-wide circuit breaker at 12:33 p.m. after an earlier sell-side sidecar suspended programme trading for five minutes. The circuit breaker requires the index to remain down at least 8% for one minute and halts trading for...

South Korea’s KOSPI plunged nearly 10% on Tuesday as investors accelerated their exit from the semiconductor stocks that powered the market’s artificial intelligence rally. The benchmark traded near 6,089, down 666 points, after falling as low as 6,031.38. The intraday low placed the index more than 35% below its June record of 9,385.59. The Korea Exchange halted trading in KOSPI-listed shares for 20 minutes at about 10:14 a.m. Korea Standard Time after the decline remained above the 8% circuit-breaker threshold....

BitMart has begun winding down its global trading platform, setting an August 26 deadline for all spot, futures and other trading services. The exchange stopped accepting new registrations and deposits from 01:30 UTC on July 26. Futures accounts are moving into reduce-only mode, while spot trading will no longer accept new orders. Copy trading, grid trading, API trading and other automated services are also being discontinued. BitMart attributed the closure to an assessment of its operating conditions, the market environment...

Apple shares rose nearly 4% on Friday to an all-time high of $334.28, briefly pushing the company’s market capitalization above $4.9 trillion. AAPL traded near $332.26 later in the session, up 3.3%, with about 24.8 million shares changing hands. The stock opened at $321.82 and did not trade below $321.39 before accelerating through its previous record. Apple’s market value stood near $4.89 trillion at the latest price, leaving it behind Nvidia, which was valued at approximately $5.13 trillion. Apple briefly...