Bitcoin slips under $77,000 as broad crypto losses deepen
Bitcoin dropped below $77,000 and is down more than 5% this week, while 95 of the CoinDesk 100 declined in 24 hours. Zcash led losses as traders bet on a Federal Reserve rate hike.
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Bitcoin dropped below $77,000 and is down more than 5% this week, while 95 of the CoinDesk 100 declined in 24 hours. Zcash led losses as traders bet on a Federal Reserve rate hike.
Ripple is adding AI agents to a $1 billion corporate treasury initiative. The software can monitor cash, risk and forecasts and suggest financial actions, but human approval remains required for every decision.
A Brevo login flaw allowed a phishing email to reach 347,000 Trezor subscribers, Cointelegraph reported. Trezor said it considers every affected address known to the attacker and potentially reusable for future phishing attempts.
Metaplanet shareholders are criticizing equity allocations for insiders, while new figures show Southeast Asian crypto funding has doubled. Singapore remains Asia’s leading crypto hub, according to Cointelegraph.
Trezor disclosed another data breach involving a marketing platform, with bitcoin hardware-wallet users targeted by phishing attacks, Bitcoin Magazine reported. Details on affected data and user numbers were not provided.
Senate Republicans released a revised Clarity Act draft ahead of a September 15 vote. The proposal adds registration requirements for controlled trading protocols, while its ethics provisions remain largely unchanged.
OpenDesign tested 13 AI models on identical design tasks. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash finished roughly 1.5 points behind GPT-6 Astra while costing about 70 times less, or approximately 1.4% of its price.
The ECDSA.Fail challenge reduced the resource benchmark for one component of a potential quantum attack on Bitcoin by 86% using AI agents. The result does not indicate that Bitcoin has been attacked or that a practical quantum attack exists.
Bitcoin Magazine reports that Senate Republicans have circulated an updated Crypto Clarity Act draft days before a key vote. The report provides no details on the revisions, vote timing, or potential market impact.
Republicans released a revised Clarity Act draft ahead of the Senate’s return next week. The bill needs 60 votes, while changes to DeFi and credit union provisions leave its legislative outlook uncertain.
ESMA warned that stronger connections between crypto markets and traditional finance could amplify risks to the broader financial system, highlighting tokenized equities, DeFi exploits and prediction markets as areas of concern.
The SEC has proposed overhauling transfer-agent rules, a move that could eliminate duplicate shareholder records for tokenized securities, reduce reconciliation costs and lessen legal uncertainty around blockchain-based ownership records.
Bitcoin’s rally has cooled amid an inflation-driven selloff, but its chart is nearing a golden cross—the first potential shift of this kind since November, according to Decrypt.
The Bank for International Settlements says AI is shortening the time banks have to address security flaws. It cites guidance urging institutions to accept planned downtime when urgent fixes cannot wait for routine maintenance schedules.
The UK House of Lords backed an amendment requiring the Treasury to develop a digital-asset strategy covering cryptoassets, stablecoins, tokenized securities and digital financial infrastructure, Cointelegraph reported.