BNB Chain said on August 1 that it was pursuing legal action against a former employee accused of retaining control of a company-linked tutorial wallet and using it in connection with a new meme token.
Bitcoin opened August below a key support band, while Santiment recorded its most bearish Bitcoin commentary ratio since modern tracking began.
XRP held near $1.06 on August 1, with price still confined between $1.05 support and resistance near $1.11 as Binance open interest fell to a 15-month low.
HYPE slipped below $52.5 on August 1, keeping price inside its descending channel even after Hyperliquid moved permissionless HIP-4 deployments to testnet.
Bitcoin trades at $62,980, down 2.7% over 24 hours, having lost the support band it was defending only hours earlier.
Bitcoin and most major cryptocurrencies fell sharply on July 31 after a Reuters report said the U.S. Treasury had told banks to prepare for possible intervention in the yen market.
Bitcoin started on July 31 at $64,700, reached $65,340, and trades at $63,660 at the time of writing, down roughly $1,050 on the session.
Ethereum climbed to $1,930 on July 31 before reversing to $1,880, down 1.8% as resistance near the 100-day SMA held again.
The Bank of Japan held its policy rate at 1.0% on July 31, six weeks after raising borrowing costs in June.
Coinkite has warned Coldcard Mk3 owners that a weakness in how some devices generated seed phrases may have left their Bitcoin exposed.
Strategy holds 843,775 BTC bought at an average of $75,476, against a price near $64,800 at the time of writing. That puts the position roughly $9 billion below the $63.69 billion the company spent acquiring it.
Open USD will launch on Ethereum from its first day of operation as part of a broader multichain rollout that also includes Solana, Base, Stellar and Polygon.



