Australia’s financial crime regulator has forced 96 Cryptolink crypto ATMs offline for three months after identifying renewed compliance failures. The suspension follows earlier enforcement over transaction reporting and anti-money laundering controls.

As far as digital asset regulation is concerned, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is not waiting around for Congress. The agency has scheduled an open meeting for Friday, Aug. 14, to weigh a proposal that could make it easier for crypto companies to raise money without enduring full securities registration.

A federal judge denied Kalshi’s request for a preliminary injunction against Connecticut regulators, holding that its sports-event contracts are not swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act, so the CFTC’s exclusive jurisdiction never attached. Coinbase Financial Markets lost a companion motion on the same reasoning despite never having received a cease-and-desist.

Mysten Labs co-founder and chief cryptographer Kostas Chalkias says he has quietly leased a factory to mass-produce quantum-resistant hardware wallet cards for Sui, aiming to keep users safe from a threat that just cost bitcoin holders roughly $130 million.

Empery Digital sold 1,635 BTC for $102.2 million after the second quarter, cutting its bitcoin holdings to 1,279 BTC. With most of the remaining BTC pledged against debt and a potential $62.1 million property commitment ahead, the company’s liquidity flexibility has tightened.

Russian authorities disrupted nine foreign-coordinated cryptocurrency channels operating out of the Moscow City business district. Over 20 employees from unregistered crypto exchanges and several couriers were detained for their involvement in the laundering operation.

Nvidia is working with major Wall Street firms to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure over time. The financing platforms could turn GPU compute into a long-duration institutional investment category.

Bitcoin dipped 0.7% to trade near $63,400 after a brief morning rally to $64,400 failed. Volatility triggered $39 million in total liquidations over 24 hours, heavily skewed toward long positions.

Peter Schiff says bitcoin has become “anti-gold,” arguing the asset’s recent slide will continue as war-driven inflation fears send gold and silver higher, a divergence he says proves bitcoin never behaved like digital gold in the first place.

Gold muscled back above $4,400 an ounce this week, hitting its highest level in roughly two months as a brutal U.S. jobs print, relentless Chinese central bank buying, and suddenly softer Federal Reserve expectations sent traders scrambling back into bullion.

Coinbase has secured regulatory approval in Abu Dhabi to build an international hub for tokenized securities, giving the crypto exchange a supervised base for bringing traditional stocks onto blockchain networks outside the United States.

Moneygram has launched its Ramps service on Solana, giving wallets and applications on the blockchain a direct connection between cryptocurrency and the company’s global cash network.

Anthropic has agreed to take 191 megawatts of computing capacity at Riot Platforms’ Rockdale campus in Texas. The 20-year agreement could ultimately be worth $16.1 billion, accelerating Riot’s transformation from bitcoin miner to AI infrastructure provider.

Strategy has realized more than $102 million in losses from its 2026 bitcoin sales, as Michael Saylor’s company keeps selling coins below its average purchase price to fund dividend and buyback obligations.

Meta plans to give billions of people a free personal AI agent that writes code, builds businesses and manages the household. The company is backing that pledge with up to $145 billion in spending this year.