Crypto Breaking News

Circle Internet Group shares rose about 7% after opening above US$64, recovering some of the losses triggered by the announcement of the competing Open USD stablecoin project.

Polymarket will be given an opportunity to respond before South Korea's Broadcasting, Media and Communications Review Committee decides whether to take corrective action over concerns that the prediction market platform may breach the country's gambling laws.

Zcash (CRYPTO:ZEC) fell below US$450 after failing to hold gains near US$475, while a prominent trader increased a short position to about US$14.9 million as bearish sentiment strengthened.

Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) rose above US$63,000 after recovering from recent selling pressure, with comments from Donald Trump adding to positive market sentiment.

Mt. Gox transferred 47,228 Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) to Bitstamp (private)-linked wallet addresses as the failed exchange continued distributing assets to creditors through its repayment programme.

Belgium's Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) has warned consumers against six crypto-asset service providers that it said were operating without authorisation under the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework.

CertiK reported that cryptocurrency losses fell 46.8% year-on-year to US$1.32 billion in the first half of 2026, but the company said attackers have become more sophisticated despite the lower overall losses.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a regulatory roadmap outlining how autonomous artificial intelligence could reshape retail financial services.

TeraWulf (NASDAQ:WULF) signed a 20-year lease with Anthropic for a purpose-built artificial intelligence data centre that the company said is expected to generate about US$19 billion in contract revenue.

M1X Global has raised US$5.5 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by Paradigm, with participation from Breed VC, to expand adoption of its tokenised sovereign debt platform.

A prediction market on Polymarket assigns a 23% probability that the US government will formally block public access to a major Chinese artificial intelligence model before 31 December 2026.

Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) miner stress has fallen to its lowest level of 2026, with multiple mining indicators entering an "undervalued" range as analysts estimate about 20% of miners are operating below production costs.