The ECB will launch Pontes in September to settle tokenized transactions in central-bank money, and Isabel Schnabel wants programmable reserves across Europe’s wholesale financial markets.
Bitcoin slipped below $79,000 while Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh delivered an inflation-focused speech, as gold declined and major US stock indexes moved only slightly.
Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP are consolidating after August's sharp rally as investors await Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech and its potential impact on Treasury yields.
HMRC’s first dedicated cryptoasset figures identified 240 people who reported capital gains above £1 million during the 2024–2025 tax year. They accounted for £717 million of the £1.38 billion reported by 17,600 individuals.
BitGo has acquired NYDIG’s institutional trading business, adding derivatives, financing, structured products and capital markets services to its custody and settlement infrastructure.
Ripple Prime has launched a Delta One business offering total return swaps tied to US-listed equities, stock indices and digital assets.
XRP has returned to the upper edge of its four-hour correction. A close above the descending channel would confirm the initial breakout, but the first retest and the failed $1.55 pivot will determine whether the move develops into a broader recovery.
Charles Schwab is widening its crypto menu beyond bitcoin and ether, giving eligible clients a simpler route to three large digital assets through an existing financial account.
Bitcoin is entering a regime transition near $79,000, where muted miner distribution and steady ETF inflows indicate a shift from market repair toward institutional price discovery.
Following broad intraday drawdowns across spot exchanges, crypto asset prices have begun to find firm ground.
Coldcard’s seed-generation failure showed that a Bitcoin multisig wallet can share one manufacturer-level weakness when several signing keys come from the same device family or firmware.
Bitcoin’s quantum-security work took two visible steps on August 26. StarkWare published a mined Bitcoin transaction built with its Quantum-Safe Bitcoin method, known as QSB. A team including Blockstream researcher Jonas Nick released a detailed SHRINCS specification, giving developers a hash-based signature scheme to examine.
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