American Bitcoin ended Q2 with 8,002 BTC after mining a record 932 Bitcoin and reporting $67 million in mining revenue, lifting its reserve 14%.
Strategy sold 1,638 BTC for $104.73 million, using the proceeds for preferred dividends and STRC buybacks as its USD Reserve reached $4 billion.
Solana's tentative Agave 4.2 rollout calls for mainnet feature activations to begin Aug. 17, including a 90% cut to refundable storage deposits, 4,096-byte transactions and 200-millisecond slots.
Coinbase Asset Management's CUSHY fund now shows a $25.1 million tokenized share class on Solana, giving private-credit investors an onchain fund position.
The EU AI Act's Article 50 transparency rules now require machine-readable marking of certain AI outputs and clear labels for deepfakes, putting provenance systems under a new compliance spotlight.
Kazakhstan's strategic mining rules are now in force, requiring participating crypto miners to transfer 10% of qualifying net mined assets to a state-linked fund for national crypto-reserve investment.
SBI Crypto Fund I began operations Aug. 1 with a target size of about ¥3 billion, bringing SBI, gumi and Daiwa investors into a three-year strategy spanning Bitcoin, major altcoins, staking and hedging.
Sberbank plans to build crypto trading infrastructure and open a digital depository by Dec. 1, adding custody and off-chain ownership records to Russia's new regulated market framework.
The CFTC told registered prediction-market venues not to use broad template-style self-certifications for event-contract series, putting new scrutiny on settlement methods and data sources.
Zapper will shut down its website, mobile apps and API on Aug. 3, ending a nearly seven-year run for one of DeFi's best-known portfolio dashboards.