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Binance reportedly plans to apply for a UK licence as new crypto rules take shape.

Strategy gained about 5% to $97.50 as Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) rose 1% to 1.5% and traded near $64,000.

Prominent crypto trader DonAlt has disclosed that he opened a long Ethereum (CRYPTO:ETH) position near US$1,900 on 13 August 2026, acknowledging that the entry point coincided with a resistance level within a consolidating market rather than an optimal technical setup.

Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) started the new week trading at approximately US$63,300, recovering slightly after a decline of more than 3% over the previous week, whilst attempting to hold above the critical US$62,300 support level.

Dutch prosecutors sold Knaken’s remaining cryptocurrency for €2.2 million after the platform went bankrupt.

Stripe has reportedly agreed to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg and TechCrunch.

Ripple minted 10 million RLUSD, taking the stablecoin’s reported supply to about $1.71 billion.

China added eight banks to its digital yuan network, bringing the number of operators to 30.

Blockstream launched its swaps service in beta after Boltz suspended operations on 3 August.

Binance provided Russian investigators with customer data linked to crypto donations to Ukraine, Reuters reported.

Bits of Gold, an Israeli crypto broker, is investigating unauthorised access to customer information through a third-party system.

Harvard University kept its BlackRock Bitcoin ETF position unchanged at 3,044,612 shares on 30 June.