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BitGo is paying roughly $42.5 million upfront for institutional trading capabilities while NYDIG prioritizes a claimed power-and-compute footprint of more than 3 gigawatts. CryptoSlate said profitability remains unproven for both strategies.
Cointelegraph reports that Polygon disclosed vulnerabilities involving denial-of-service and validator resource risks after fixing them through recent hard forks. The supplied report does not indicate that the flaws remained exploitable.
Bitcoin faces a fresh macro test as Fed Chair Kevin Warsh points to sticky inflation metrics. ETF inflows and larger Treasury buybacks may reduce volatility, but CryptoSlate says they cannot substitute for disinflation.
BitGo is buying NYDIG’s institutional trading arm in a roughly $42.5 million cash-and-stock deal, adding derivatives, structured products and capital-markets capabilities while NYDIG focuses on power and data centers.
BIS chief Pablo Hernández de Cos said stablecoins lack credibility for payments at scale. A new FSI study also found sharp differences in rules applying to stablecoin issuers across jurisdictions.
Bullish is providing USD.AI with $100 million in stablecoin liquidity for loans backed by AI computing infrastructure, according to Cointelegraph. Terms including duration, rates and collateral valuation were not disclosed.
Bitcoin profitability data has generated a reversal signal previously seen at the start of its 2023 recovery. The CryptoQuant CEO says the pattern suggests Bitcoin’s bear market may be over.
Bullish is extending a $100 million debt facility to USD.AI to finance loans backed by GPUs used in artificial intelligence infrastructure, CoinDesk reported. USD.AI’s related crypto asset trades under the ticker CHIP.
Connecticut’s new lawsuit against Kalshi adds to a growing prediction-market legal battle in state and federal courts. With rulings roughly split, the dispute could ultimately reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
OneKey demonstrated that an outdated Ethereum app could make a Ledger device sign a transaction different from the one shown. Ledger said the vulnerability had been patched before any exploit and denied that its wallets were hacked.
Bitcoin Lightning developers are preparing fixes after confirming several AI-generated vulnerability reports were accurate. The reports identified a critical flaw, leading the project to issue an emergency warning, Decrypt reported.
A bill due before the House of Lords in September would give the Bank of England a legal duty to foster stablecoin innovation, while keeping financial stability as its primary objective, Decrypt reports.
Unstoppable Domains has dropped plans to bring .crypto and .bitcoin to the standard internet. CoinDesk reports that the abandoned bids would have cost more than $2 million in base fees alone.
