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Better Mortgage may reuse bitcoin collateral, and borrowers cannot get it back until their mortgage is repaid.

NBA star LeBron James teased a collaboration with prediction market Polymarket in a recent social media video.

Revolut and OpenReserve received initial OCC clearance to charter US national banks, with crypto services planned.

A wallet believed to hold $1B in crypto was cracked by recovery specialists—only to contain $10.

Three warrants in 2025 let US agents seize over $560,000 and track new donations.

Thailand’s new rules require licensed crypto operators to collect extra recipient details and verify self-hosted wallets.

Zakura says new cryptography stack speeds mobile proof generation, reducing private ZEC waits from seconds to under 200 ms.

Zakura says new cryptography stack cuts private ZEC proof generation from seconds to under 200ms.

Creator of a GTA 6-themed memecoin sold their entire stack hours before Rockstar's official gameplay reveal.
The SEC has transmitted a revised crypto custody rule to the White House for review, flagged as deregulatory.

Treasury's Aug. 24 action targets nearly 60 entities and expands authority over Iran's crypto use.

Report: Zondacrypto boss Przemysław Kral faces fraud charge, cooperates with prosecutors amid $650M customer losses.
P2P crypto platform NoOnes is closing, telling 2.5M users to withdraw funds before August 23.
Bearish traders lost over $1 billion in 24 hours as the total crypto market cap climbed 3.7%.
Bearish traders faced $1.06B in short liquidations as crypto market cap climbed 3.7% in a day.
Donald Trump's ninth crypto endorsement, Hyperliquid, rose 14% after a White House appearance; all prior endorsed tokens trade lower.

Unitree's first day of trading outpaced the price implied by Hyperliquid premarket perps by 75%.
Stablecoin holdings on centralized exchanges fell to about $64 billion from an $80 billion peak, with Binance holding most of the liquidity.

Former New York governor warns U.S. is falling behind without crypto regulation clarity.

A customer notice claims Bitstamp will freeze incoming crypto payments above €1,000 starting tomorrow, with exchange transfers unaffected.

Public records and on-chain data suggest the reported $18B Solana liquidation tally may be inaccurate.

White House meeting set for Aug. 19 with Coinbase, Ripple and a16z reportedly attending.

President Donald Trump is expected to join a White House meeting with crypto, prediction market and AI CEOs next week, sources told CoinDesk.

Option gains of $344,849 offset less than 30% of the fund's roughly $1.2 million in crypto-linked losses.