DOJ Indicts Crypto Investor Over Alleged $20 Million Fraud Targeting Dozens of Victims – Bitcoin News
Key Takeaways Federal prosecutors allege a crypto investment scheme caused about $20 million in investor losses. The 29-count indictment includes wire fraud, money laundering, bank fraud, and identity theft charges. Prosecutors allege investor funds moved through cryptocurrency exchanges and financial…
Why transaction counts tell you almost nothing
Every chain announcement leads with a transaction number. On a network charging $0.0002, 1 million transactions represents $200 of economic activity and a weekend of testing. The metric that headlines every milestone is the one that survives the least scrutiny,…
AI Stock Weakness Fails To Deter Bitcoin Ahead of FOMC News
In Bitcoin news today, the price edged +1% higher to $64,250 on Wednesday morning, even as an AI-driven equity rout tore through Asian and semiconductor markets. Bitcoin is holding a level that growth stocks cannot, hours before the Federal Reserve…
CME Group Targets $650 Billion Sports Industry With First Sports Index Futures
Key Takeaways CME Group will list futures and options tied to Futuresports performance indexes. The first monthly and quarterly contracts are expected to trade this summer. Businesses could use the products to manage financial risks linked to sports results. CME…
What happens if a prediction market is delisted?
Prediction market guides explain how contracts resolve and pay. Almost none explain what happens when a market never gets that far, because it was voided, suspended by a court, renamed mid-life, or pulled by the exchange. The answers live in…
Binance Quietly Returns to Another Philippine ISP
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. Telecommunications provider PLDT Inc. has restored access to the Binance website across its internet network, following a similar access restoration…
Russia Charges Pavel Durov With Terrorism, Escalating Telegram Crackdown
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has formally charged Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, with facilitating terrorist activity and placed him on an international wanted list, a direct escalation of a criminal case that first surfaced in February 2026. The move…
Tether Data Pushes AI Off the Cloud With New 460M Parameter Vision Model
Key Takeaways Tether’s QVAC unit open-sourced a 460-million-parameter vision model on July 29, 2026. The model beat Liquid AI and Hugging Face rivals across 16 of 17 benchmark tests. Its Flash version ran up to 36 times faster than SmolVLM2-500M…
Fidelity Flags October and Bitcoin Bottom as ‘Yardstick’ Hits Historic Lows
Bitcoin is nearing a market bottom, according to a key valuation metric called the Yardstick from Fidelity Digital Assets. “BTC’s Yardstick is hovering near historic lows, while several sentiment indicators are approaching capitulation territory,” stated Fidelity in its Q3…
Trump threatens Iran as oil jumps 7% and stocks sink
President Donald Trump threatened a forceful response after Iran fired missiles at U.S. forces in Jordan, ending a brief pause in fighting and sending oil prices sharply higher. Summary Trump vowed to hit Iran “very hard” after missiles targeted American…
