A rewards subsidiary of Kansai Electric Power has launched a loyalty-points conversion route into JPYC on Polygon, giving Japanese users a small but meaningful bridge between closed-loop reward points and on-chain stablecoin payments. The integration involves MOACT’s rewards app, NORM Points, JPYC, Polygon, and HashPort Wallet. According to the validated notes, users can convert loyalty…
Lite Strategy has repurchased 4.9 million shares for $5.4 million, using Litecoin treasury activity and covered-call premiums to fund the buyback. The company said the repurchase represented 13% of shares outstanding, with an average price of $1.11 per share. The validated notes show Lite Strategy holding 819,070 LTC against 31,882,648 shares outstanding after the transaction.…
Ethereum has turned 11, and the network’s birthday arrives with a very Ethereum-style contradiction: it is still one of the most important settlement layers in crypto, but its base-chain revenue has cooled sharply. The validated July 31 notes show Ethereum hosting roughly $148.8 billion in stablecoins and around $15.5 billion in tokenized real-world assets. At…
Granite Protocol has been listed on Borrow on Bitcoin, adding another lending route for users who want to put Bitcoin-linked collateral to work without leaving the broader Bitcoin DeFi stack. The listing centers on Granite’s Stacks-based lending market, where users can deposit sBTC collateral and borrow USDCx. The validated notes point to a variable borrow…
A Coldcard security issue has put Bitcoin hardware-wallet safety back under the microscope after reports that a firmware flaw affected seed generation on some older device versions. According to the validated incident notes, the issue relates to Coldcard Mk3 firmware versions 4.0.1 through 5.0.3, along with Mk4 and Mk5 devices before firmware 5.6.0, and Q…
BitMEX is facing a proposed class action in the Southern District of New York seeking the return of 622.66 BTC over alleged forced liquidations and platform misconduct. The complaint was filed on July 23, 2026, by BKX Services Inc. and David Namdar against HDR Global Trading Limited, Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, Samuel Reed, and Gregory…
The CLARITY Act appears unlikely to move through the Senate before the August recess, slowing the crypto market structure push at a moment when the industry had hoped for faster progress. The bill, formally listed on Congress.gov as H.R. 3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025, is designed to create clearer rules for…
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev’s X account was compromised to promote a fake memecoin, giving crypto another reminder that social engineering still works best when it hijacks trust.Robinhood Communications confirmed the incident in a post on X, saying Tenev’s account had been compromised and that the company worked with X to resolve the issue. The fraudulent…
Poolin Technology has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, setting up an orderly wind-down and asset sale process tied to its West Texas mining operations. The filing was made on July 22, 2026, in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey under Case No. 26-18325. Poolin Technology PTE. Ltd. and its US…
Kraken is bringing perpetual futures to eligible US traders through a regulated derivatives structure, and that is a notable shift for a product category that has usually lived outside the US market. The exchange said the product is offered through NinjaTrader Clearing, LLC, doing business as Kraken Derivatives US, a CFTC-registered Futures Commission Merchant. The…