Coinfello COO Minchi Park notes that plain-language AI eliminates Web3’s steep “tooling learning curve” and addresses post-onboarding user drop-off caused by manual maintenance fatigue.

Swissquote reported a record $118.4 billion in client assets for the first half of 2026, up 19.8% from a year earlier, but a sharp decline in crypto revenue has prompted the online banking group to lower its full‑year revenue forecast.

Ireland has launched its first national anti-money laundering strategy, targeting crypto assets, corporate transparency, and inter-agency intelligence to combat financial crime and align with global and EU regulations.

Thirty-five Arizona crypto ATM fraud victims received $171,332 in refunds under a law limiting mandatory refunds to customers who had been with an operator for fewer than 10 days.

Grayscale expects bitcoin adoption to keep expanding even after the latest bear market, pointing to government deficits, wider blockchain use, and changing portfolio preferences. Those forces could deepen bitcoin’s integration with traditional finance over time.

The breach involves taxpayer data in the General Directorate of Public Finances’ custody, which has already confirmed that threat actors had access to the addresses and real estate of 678K users. Crypto holders fear that this leak might spark a new wave of violence.

World Liberty Financial, the Trump family-linked decentralized finance (DeFi) firm, cleared its first major banking hurdle on Friday after the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted preliminary conditional approval for a national trust bank.

MSCI’s proposed eligibility screen would remove Strategy from its global equity benchmarks, the largest of three companies flagged in a May simulation at $23.9 billion. The bitcoin treasury firm answered on Aug. 14 with a flat refusal.

Bitwise is working with Superstate to let investors hold shares of certain funds in tokenized form while preserving the same legal and economic rights. Its Solana staking ETF is expected to be the first product considered for the blockchain-based structure.

Kalshi has removed all sports-mention markets (contracts on whether a broadcaster says a particular word), as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission reviews whether the category invites manipulation, NPR reported based on anonymous sources. Mention markets on Trump, corporate earnings calls, and news broadcasts remain live on the platform even as a Washington court has just banned the category outright.

Bitcoin hovered near $63,000 after hitting an intraday low of $62,470, remaining virtually flat over 24 hours and leaving seven-day losses at 2.6%.

SpaceX has completed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, bringing the AI coding company and its model-development operation under SpaceX. The transaction deepens a partnership centered on using large-scale computing infrastructure to train more capable models.

Bitcoin’s network hashrate has fallen as much as 17% below its all-time high, per CryptoQuant, as publicly listed miners redirect power and capital toward artificial intelligence data centers instead of chasing new mining capacity.

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U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs lost $131.13 million on Thursday, extending a difficult stretch for the market’s largest crypto funds. Ether ETFs added $6.72 million, while XRP products drew $2.25 million.