Circle's USDC takes over Chelsea FC jersey front in Premier League first
The shirt sponsorship deal puts USDC branding on Chelsea's men's, women's, and academy kits, marking the first Premier League front-of-shirt sponsorship for a s
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Bitcoin touches $81,455, highest in 3 months, before pulling back ahead of Warsh speech
BTC briefly broke above $81K overnight - its best level since May - before retreating as markets turned cautious ahead of Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole s
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BitGo acquires NYDIG's institutional trading business
The deal brings about 30 NYDIG employees and their institutional trading relationships into BitGo, expanding the custodian's derivatives offering.
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Visa partners with Upbit operator Dunamu on stablecoin payments in South Korea
The global payments giant is deepening its footprint in Asia's crypto hub through a partnership with South Korea's largest exchange that will explore stablecoin
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240 UK taxpayers reported over £1 million in crypto capital gains in 2024-2025
HMRC data shows 17,600 people reported $1.87 billion in crypto profits, with 240 declaring gains above £1 million, as UK tax scrutiny on digital assets intensif
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Kraken users briefly locked out after flood of sanctioned crypto transactions
An attacker spread sanctioned funds to trigger account restrictions between Aug. 17 and Aug. 24, briefly locking some Kraken users out of their accounts.
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Connecticut sues Kalshi over sports event contracts, adding to prediction market legal fight
The state lawsuit piles on to existing federal litigation, with roughly split outcomes so far suggesting the Supreme Court may ultimately have to settle the que
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Solana governance votes advance: faster disinflation plan leads, $800K daily burn proposal trails
All three proposals have cleared quorum, but the plan to slow new SOL creation is narrowly passing while a separate vote to sharply increase token burns remains
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XRP treasury company Evernorth clears SEC registration, setting up Nasdaq listing vote
The SEC declared Evernorth's S-4 registration effective for its merger with SPAC Armada, with a Sept. 30 shareholder vote to determine its Nasdaq listing under
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IREN shares fall 8% as costly AI transition weighs on earnings
Weakening profitability overshadowed a major milestone in IREN's transformation into an AI cloud provider, sending shares down 8%.
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Ethena Foundation proposes fee switch for ENA buybacks and VC unlock overhaul
The four proposed updates aim to cut investor selling pressure and channel protocol revenue to ENA, reviving growth in the USDe stablecoin.
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Charles Schwab to add Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink to crypto trading platform
The brokerage is expanding its crypto offering beyond BTC and ETH, adding SOL, AVAX and LINK to Schwab Crypto at 75 basis points per trade.
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Polish Olympic Committee president detained in Zondacrypto bribery probe
Prosecutors allege Zondacrypto's CEO gave Polish Olympic chief Radosław Piesiewicz a 40,000 euro watch to help with regulatory hurdles.
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Bullish backs USD.AI with $100 million debt facility for GPU-backed loans
The crypto platform is providing financing to USD.AI to originate loans collateralized by graphics processing units used for AI infrastructure.
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Moonwell investigates $8.7M exploit on Base lending market
Security firms CertiK and PeckShield estimate losses after an attacker manipulated the collateral price of MAMO on Moonwell's Base deployment.
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Mirae Asset outlines $109 billion digital asset push after acquiring Digital X
South Korea's Mirae Asset Financial Group targets building a $109 billion crypto business around the former Korbit exchange, focusing on stablecoins, RWAs and S
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Bithumb wins lawsuit over proceeds from 620,000 BTC fat-finger error
The South Korean exchange accidentally credited 620,000 BTC internally to hundreds of users in February; the court ruled on the disposition of the resulting pro
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AI bug reports trigger emergency warning for Bitcoin Lightning node operators
Developers are holding details for two weeks while fixes reach operators, marking the second Lightning security emergency this month traced to AI work on Bitcoi
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