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Morning Minute: Coinbase Posts Surprise Loss as Crypto Trading Dries Up

Plus, BTC is red this morning despite $233M in ETF inflows yesterday; and NY State is trying to shut down Kalshi and…

XRP’s Bank Adoption Could Take Weeks: Demand Case Unproven?

Analyst asserts that banks could integrate Ripple’s payment tech

Citadel buys bulk of Situational Awareness stock portfolio after AI rout: Reports

Situational Awareness retained about $10 billion in assets, including its Anthropic stake, after reportedly selling…

Crypto Kiosk Scams Cost Texans $57M as Lawmakers Weigh a Ban

Three states have already outlawed Bitcoin ATMs, and a committee chair says Texas will go further than regulating them.

BIS Project Agorá settles $1 million in tokenized cross-border payment trials

Twenty-eight financial institutions and central banks completed real-value settlements across six currencies using…

Where to watch the next total solar eclipse anywhere in the world

The total solar eclipse on 12 August will only be visible to a lucky few, but eclipses happen all over the world – here…

IRS Fraud Alert: Fake Letters Target Crypto Holders in Data-Stealing Scam

New York AG Seeks $36B From Kalshi Over 'Illegal Gambling'

The CFTC asked a court to stop New York enforcing against the prediction market the day before the state filed.

New York sues Kalshi over alleged illegal gambling operation

The lawsuit adds to a growing clash between New York and the CFTC over whether federally regulated prediction markets…

New York vs. Kalshi: $36B Fight Over Prediction Markets

New York seeks to block Kalshi contracts, while the CF

$38M in Bitcoin Drained by Coldcard Key Flaw Its Maker Thinks AI Found

Coinkite said it’s likely that an attacker used AI to review previous versions of its open source firmware to uncover a…

Why the Next Payments Battle Will Be Fought Above the Rails

OpenPayd CCO Lux Thiagarajah argues the winners in

Aave weighs closing 6 V3 blockchain markets, offboarding 50 low-use reserves

DeFi risk management service LlamaRisk recommended that Aave wind down every reserve on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis,…

RWA perpetual futures volume nears Bitcoin on Hyperliquid, Binance

RWA perpetual futures reached 99.2% of Bitcoin perpetual volume on Hyperliquid and Binance as tokenized equities led…

Read an extract from The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

In this extract from Peter Heller’s novel, the August read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to pilot…

How I wrote The Dog Stars, the novel behind Ridley Scott’s new film

Set in an empty world after a superflu pandemic wipes out most of humanity, Peter Heller's The Dog Stars - the August…

The Premier League clubs fighting a World Cup hangover

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Why full-fledged quantum computers might always be five years away

To predict when we’ll have a truly useful quantum computer, we need to know precisely what one is.

Bitcoin ETFs post $233M inflows, pushing week back into the green

BlackRock’s IBIT led $233.1 million in daily inflows as US spot Bitcoin ETFs turned positive for the week and July…

UK rapper Yung Filly found not guilty of raping woman after Australian show

The YouTuber has been found guilty for two counts of assault over the 2024 incident in Perth.

Crypto’s next altseason may have fewer winners: Wintermute

Institutional investors accounted for 72% of Wintermute’s spot OTC flow in the first half of 2026 as capital clustered…

Coldcard issues Mk3 warning as experts examine $38M Bitcoin wallet drain

Coinkite urged Coldcard Mk3 users to migrate funds after identifying a potential seed-generation risk, as Bitcoin…

Bhutan’s Gelephu taps 3iQ to manage part of Bitcoin treasury

3iQ will manage an undisclosed portion of Gelephu Mindfulness City’s Bitcoin treasury as Bhutan develops a digital-asset…