Bitcoin traded near 63,000 dollars after U.S. consumer prices rose 0.1% in July, while annual inflation eased to 3.4% and core CPI increased 0.2%.
Kraken has lifted the BTC/USD margin ceiling to 20x for eligible Kraken Pro users in select markets, while keeping its existing liquidation and order controls in place.
Robinhood Chain's public explorer showed more than 20.4 million transactions on Aug. 12, pushing cumulative transactions above 368 million and addresses past 14 million.
A Bank of Russia draft would limit organized public crypto trading to Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether's USDT, spelling out the asset list before the September 1 market launch.
Harmony confirmed an exploit involving the unauthorized minting of 4 billion ONE tokens as the token fell sharply and the team weighed a patch, exchange freezes and a potential rollback.
Fort Worth is considering a zoning change that would prohibit cryptocurrency mining citywide while setting data-center rules, a sharp turn for the first U.S. city government to mine Bitcoin.
Coinbase expanded its International Exchange to eligible UK professional investors, offering crypto perpetuals with up to 50x leverage while keeping retail clients outside the product.
Riot Platforms signed a 20-year, 191 MW AI data-center lease at Rockdale worth about $9.1 billion, giving the Bitcoin miner a contracted revenue case beyond mining.
U.S. spot Ether ETFs logged $243.7 million of net inflows from Aug. 3 through Aug. 7, with BlackRock’s ETHA accounting for $203 million, according to Farside Investors.
Pi Network says every Mainnet node must reach version 26.1 by Aug. 11, with Protocol 27 not yet active and self-managed operators facing a short migration window.