China’s national security agency is calling out the growing trend of projects collecting sensitive biometric data like iris scans in exchange for digital assets. In a public advisory issued through its official WeChat account on August 6, China’s Ministry of…...

Bitcoin’s instability continued in the past 24 hours as the asset dipped below $113,000 after getting rejected at $116,000. The altcoins are back in the red, with substantial price declines from the likes of XRP, SOL, HYPE, XLM, LTC, TON, and others. BTC’s Insecurity Continues The primary cryptocurrency’s troubles...

Shares of CEA Industries Inc. (NASDAQ:VAPE) rose over 3% in Tuesday’s after-hours trading after the nicotine vape company completed a $500 million private offering to adopt BNB Coin (CRYPTO: BNB) as its primary treasury reserve asset. VAPE shares trended up modestly. Track live prices here. CEO Underlines Strategic Realignment...

Regulators in the Philippines have issued a sharp warning to anyone trading digital assets without proper local approval. Based on reports from the Securities and Exchange Commission, 10 major crypto exchanges are operating in the country without the required registration under the new rules that took effect July 5,...

Australian Housing Market & Economy August 2025 Update In this regular segment Martin North of Digital Finance Analytics & I go over the latest news & data points affecting the Australian Housing Market, Global & National Economy, including our forecast & predictions. This is our monthly segment to dig...

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Laser Digital, the cryptocurrency trading and servicing subsidiary of Japanese bank Nomura, secured a limited license to offer regulated, over-the-counter (OTC) crypto derivatives from Dubai under the Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority’s (VARA) pilot framework. Under this regime, Laser Digital says it is the first regulated entity under VARA to...

SBI Holdings has filed for a dual-asset crypto ETF offering direct exposure to both bitcoin (BTC) and XRP (XRP), in a rare instance where XRP is formally bundled with BTC in an institutional-grade product. Revealed in the firm’s Q2 2025 earnings report, the ‘Crypto-Assets ETF’ is structured to track...

This is a technical analysis post by CoinDesk analyst and Chartered Market Technician Omkar Godbole. A U.S.-listed leveraged anti-Strategy (MSTR) exchange-traded fund (ETF) surged last week, suggesting a potential bearish outlook for bitcoin (BTC) and MSTR. The Defiance Daily Target 2x Short MSTR ETF, listed under the ticker SMST...

Block production on Coinbase’s (COIN) Base network halted for 33 minutes early Tuesday following a sequencer failover that didn’t recover as expected, developers said in a post-mortem report Wednesday. The outage began at 06:07 UTC on Aug. 5, when the active sequencer fell behind due to congestion from on-chain...