The US Senate is running out of time to advance the CLARITY Act, but Bitwise says a decisive failure could eventually remove an obstacle weighing on crypto markets. Senate leaders face a narrowing window on Wednesday to file for cloture if they want to preserve a chance of voting on the digital asset market structure […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo5 Aug
A Bitcoin holder who wants less downside exposure today usually sells the asset or shorts a perpetual futures contract, taking on funding costs and liquidation risk. On-chain options offer a third path consisting of paying a fixed premium, keeping the Bitcoin, and handing the crash risk to whoever is willing to price it. Crypto built […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos5 Aug
A newly proposed Ethereum staking reward cut, outlined in Ethereum Improvement Proposal 8361 (EIP-8361), would lower validators' yield from 2.6% to about 1.2%, a 54% reduction phased in over 18 months. The mechanism is a burn: validators lose a larger share of their consensus reward as the total amount of staked ETH climbs, and the […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos5 Aug
The Coldcard hardware wallet exploit has resulted in the theft of at least 1,596 BTC from about 7,300 addresses as users continue moving funds from potentially vulnerable wallets. Galaxy Research said the confirmed losses came from three major attack waves and 14 smaller incidents. The firm has also identified a possible fourth wave that could […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo5 Aug
Seven funds took in cash with none negative, yet IBIT still supplied 65.5% of the Aug. 3 total.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright5 Aug
Its Aug. 3 move stopped this Form 10 before effectiveness, leaving the maximum authorized 10 trillion Locke tokens unissued.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright5 Aug
The exchange would cut note principal by about one-third while replacement Bitcoin option terms also remain undisclosed.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright4 Aug
The $14.7 million Bitcoin ETF will liquidate from Aug. 18, while Hashdex's filings split on the payout date.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright4 Aug
The Aug. 5 bill-coupon mix will show whether financing pressure reaches Bitcoin-sensitive risk appetite or leaves reserves stable.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright4 Aug
Offline keys still depend on entropy, firmware, signing and recovery, all built from fallible software and hardware.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright4 Aug
Nine sessions were negative and three were flat, while cumulative reported flows remained positive at about $283 million.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright4 Aug
Thor’s diligence right expires before court review, while estate boundaries and claim priorities keep any recovery percentage unresolved.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright4 Aug
October 6, 2025: Bitcoin breaks above $126,000, carried by the belief that its long migration from internet curiosity to a real financial institution is almost complete. Wall Street has ETFs, public companies are raising billions to buy coins, and the White House wants the US to become the world’s crypto capital. After years of regulatory […]
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac4 Aug
The United States joined Japan’s effort to support the yen after preliminary central-bank data indicated Tokyo may have deployed almost $96 billion over two days, putting Bitcoin traders on alert for a possible unwind of positions financed with cheap Japanese capital. On Aug. 3, Japan’s Ministry of Finance confirmed that it purchased yen in coordination […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo4 Aug
Commission review puts QBTC’s conditional approval at risk while an Aug. 24 statement deadline opens the next round.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright4 Aug
The Q2 filing leaves 4,912 BTC outside the disclosed Bitmain pledge and shows no automatic Bitcoin-price trigger.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright4 Aug
Tyler Williams served as Secretary Scott Bessent's principal adviser on blockchain and digital asset policy, making him one of Treasury's top voices on US crypto regulation. He is returning to the private sector after leaving his post on July 31. His exit is the fourth senior crypto departure from a position of federal power this […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos4 Aug
In an Aug. 3 post, Bitcoin bridge Boltz said automated, AI-assisted probing led to several contained exploits before the attack accelerated sharply. Boltz's non-custodial design kept every user's funds safe through months of attacks. Yet the Bitcoin swap service shut down anyway. Boltz said its team could no longer keep pace, so swaps will remain […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos4 Aug
Block's Bitcoin Engineering and Security team and independent Bitcoin Core developers have traced the recent batch of Coinkite Coldcard wallet losses to a specific firmware defect that exposed a hidden weakness in Bitcoin self-custody before any user touched a seed phrase. The bug diverted the device's random-number generation from its STM32 hardware source to MicroPython's […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos4 Aug
Bitcoin and jobs data are on a collision course this week, with the price pinned between $62,200 and $65,000 after the first economic release worked against the bulls. The ISM Manufacturing PMI printed 55.6 on Aug. 3, beating the 54.0 consensus and rising from June's 53.3 to its highest reading since May 2022. New orders […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos4 Aug