Bitcoin held near $65,159 after U.S. payrolls fell by 23,000 in July, missing an 80,000-job gain forecast as May and June figures were revised 103,000 lower.
Wintermute USA has registered as a U.S. broker-dealer, allowing proprietary trading in stocks and options, ETF liquidity activity and self-clearing for digital-asset securities.
Tether will deploy its Hadron platform with First Data and BKN301 to tokenize institutional Saudi real estate, but the companies disclosed no assets, value or launch date.
Coinbase says it will suspend trading in IDEX, LRC, OMNI, PIRATE and FIS on Aug. 7 at about 2 p.m. ET after an asset review, leaving users to check their order and transfer options.
The Senate's published floor schedule has not set a CLARITY Act vote before the August break, leaving the U.S. crypto market-structure bill without a completed floor step as Bitcoin trades near $64,300.
Tokenized real-world asset deposits in DeFi rose from $2.3 billion to $7.4 billion in a year, CoinShares and Token Terminal found, even as total DeFi deposits fell about 15%.
Russia's new crypto-market framework starts September 1, allowing regulated trading but limiting non-qualified investors to ₽300,000 a year per intermediary after a test.
Binance has accused stablecoin card firm RedotPay of diverting about 470,000 customers and misusing Binance Pay funds, seeking nearly $473 million in a dispute RedotPay says it will fight.
Coincheck will end Blood Crystal trading and withdrawals on August 26 after citing project-continuity and liquidity concerns, leaving BC with no other registered Japanese exchange.
Coinbase has opened 24/5 trading in nearly 4,000 U.S. stocks to eligible UK users, putting equities, crypto and cash in one app after its July MiFID authorization.