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Senate Republican leaders are expected to leave Washington, DC, for the August recess without voting on crypto market structure legislation, pushing the bill’s consideration to September, according to a report from Politico.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Friday reportedly confirmed a Politico report that the chamber was “punting” the vote until September and planned to tee up the legislation.
Citing two people with knowledge of the matter, Politico reported that the CLARITY Act lacks Democratic support. Negotiations remained underway, and the schedule could change if lawmakers reach a bipartisan breakthrough.
Thune may still file cloture before the recess. This procedural step could position the bill for a vote when senators return in mid-September, but it would not constitute a vote on the legislation, according to sources.
They said Democrats have declined to approve a time agreement that would expedite the Senate’s remaining pre-recess business and allow the crypto bill to reach the floor.
According to the report, Republican leaders would need unanimous consent from all 100 senators to complete the outstanding items without extending the session deep into next week,
Cointelegraph contacted Thune’s office to confirm the timetable and ask whether he plans to file cloture before the recess, but had not received a response by publication.

Wintermute’s US arm has registered as a broker-dealer, enabling the crypto trading firm to expand into traditional financial services in the US.
On Thursday, Wintermute announced its affiliate Wintermute USA LLC has registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). The registration allows Wintermute USA to trade stocks and stock options and act as an authorized participant for exchange-traded products “including those tied to digital assets.”
Wintermute said the registration allows the firm to position itself for the emerging tokenized securities landscape.
“Our long-term conviction has always been that digital asset markets will evolve in more than one direction,” said Evgeny Gaevoy, founder and CEO of Wintermute.
“Digital assets and traditional finance will continue to develop in parallel, intersect in new ways, and ultimately integrate more deeply. As the landscape evolves, the firms that succeed will be those that have technical and operational know-how to operate in both.”
A broker-dealer is a financial entity that assists in the trading of securities on behalf of customers, on its own account, or both. Authorized participants are the capital market’s facilitators of the ETF creation and redemption process.

Brazil’s B3 stock exchange made headlines last month when its tokenized cows went viral.
A farmer in southern Brazil was able to use 10 cows as collateral for a 100,000 Brazilian real ($19,600) loan by virtually herding them into a blockchain based holding pen, demonstrating how farmers can literally milk their assets to access credit.
And it raises an obvious question: if cows can be tokenized, what can’t be?
From dairy cows to a year’s worth of farts, here are 10 of the strangest things to be tokenized onchain.
1. A year’s worth of farts
When BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink said every asset will eventually be tokenized, he probably wasn’t thinking about flatulence. Yet, that’s exactly what happened here.
Every bit as appealing as, well, a year’s worth of farts, it has to be a contender for the strangest thingever to make it onchain.
It was during the pandemic, when most people were baking bread or leveling up on Duolingo, that filmmaker Alex Ramírez-Mallis recorded his own farts and minted each one as a nonfungible token (NFT).
They say farts are like children, and you only love your own. But the novelty factor meant that Ramírez-Mallis was able to sell his for 0.05 ETH each (about $85 at the time), proving that every asset has its price.
2. Cows
Better known as a prime source of protein in Bitcoin circles, the idea of turning 10 Brazilian cows into tokenized cattle... er, tokenized collateral, is not the most obvious use case.
The deal was structured by Brazilian investment fund Target FIDC, giving each cow a unique digital token linked to an encrypted digital identity.
Larry Fink says every asset can be tokenized. Source: BlackRock
The first loan may have been worth just $19,600, but it was a proof of concept that shows the potential to eventually support around $80 million in livestock-backed financing across its farms.
While it sounds somewhat bizarre on first glance, the agriculture industry generated around $4 trillion in global value added in 2023, so watch out for tokenized sheep, goats and chickens as collateral next.
3. Whiskey barrels
When you think of sharing a whiskey, you probably have the liquid gold kind in mind, but whiskey barrels are a natural candidate for tokenization.
That’s because, like high-end art and collectibles, Scotch whisky typically increases in value as it matures — talk about lifting your spirits!
Several projects are experimenting with putting whisky casks onchain so investors can buy whole units or fractional ownership of tokenized whisky stored in bonded warehouses.
Just remember that if the market crashes, you can’t actually drink a digital JPEG of a barrel.
4. Racehorses
Racehorse ownership has long been reserved for the ultra-wealthy, those with deep enough pockets to cover hundreds of thousands of dollars in breeding, training and upkeep, and a fancy hat to wear at the racetrack.
But tokenization is beginning to chip away at those elitist barriers, dividing ownership of real thoroughbred racehorses into digital shares.
Investors can buy a stake in an animal and share in any prize money, breeding income, or future sale proceeds, without purchasing an entire horse.
Own part of a racehorse. Source: Stablemans
A word of caution for would-be investors in this style of asset, though, whether its watches or whiskeys or large four legged animals, from Chris Turner, co-founder of impact investment firm KULA:
“Putting a collectible or luxury item on a blockchain doesn’t automatically make it more liquid or valuable if the legal rights, transfer process, and market structure remain unchanged.”
5. Uranium
If your mind turns to treasuries and private credit when thinking about tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), it might be a shift to consider uranium, the radioactive metal better known for its role in nuclear power.
But that’s what Tezos-backed metals.io is doing. Tezos co-founder Arthur Breitman says blockchain technology excels at building “reliable, auditable and cost-efficient financial rails for any asset,” but is particularly aligned with “technology-flavored commodities” like uranium.
Breitman says trading volume between November 2024 and July 2026 was $21.5 million over approximately 18,200 trades and around 7,400 unique wallets.
He acknowledges that growth remains modest, telling Magazine that institutional players have shown interest but are “still shy about tokenized rails.”
6. Fishy revenue
One of the most unusual proposals tokenization platform Brickken received came from a Chilean fish-processing company that wanted to issue tokenized debt with returns tied to the value of the fish it sold.
“The token represented the lender’s contractual claim, while the interest payable adjusted according to the company’s verified sales performance. In effect, it was a tokenized, revenue-linked debt instrument,” explains Edwin Mata, chief executive of Brickken.
Mata argues that the idea highlights an important principle:
“Almost any cash flow can support a tokenized financial instrument, provided the underlying rights and data can be independently verified.”
In the end, the fish never made it onchain. The underlying fish sales still relied on audits, commercial reporting and legal agreements that couldn’t yet be automated, proving that, sometimes, the biggest obstacle to tokenization isn’t the blockchain; it’s the real world.
7. Music royalties
Music royalties have also found their way onchain, with one of the earliest high-profile examples in 2021, when DJ and producer 3LAU gave fans 50% of the streaming rights to his single Worst Case through his blockchain platform Royal.
Then, in 2022, rapper Nas used Royal to sell streaming royalty rights to two of his songs, Ultra Black and Rare.
While the idea of onchain royalties gained traction during the NFT boom, tokenized music royalties have yet to become a mainstream asset class. Maybe that’s because the streaming platforms pay peanuts.
Nothing says “financial freedom” quite like owning 0.001% of a track and realizing it needs to be played five million times just to buy a cup of coffee.
8. Human Skin
If tokenizing farts and cattle wasn’t weird enough, what about parts of your own body? That’s exactly what Croatian tennis player Oleksandra Oliynykova did in 2021, when she auctioned the advertising rights to a 15-by-18-centimeter patch of skin on her right arm as an NFT.
The winning bidder paid 3 Ether (around $5,400 at the time) for the right to choose which tattoo she would wear during tournaments for a year.
Athletes have long sold sponsorship space on shirts, helmets and race cars. Oliynykova just took the idea one step further, giving a whole new meaning to having skin in the game.
9. A Burned Banksy
Most art collectors try to preserve masterpieces; crypto collectors set them on fire to make a point about “digital ownership.” In 2021, a group calling itself Burnt Banksy bought a Banksy print titled Morons (White) for around $95,000. They livestreamed themselves burning it, and then minted the destruction.
If that leaves you scratching your head, there was method in the madness; the idea was that while the physical artwork no longer existed, ownership would live on forever through the blockchain.
The NFT sold for around $382,000, sparking fierce debate over whether the group had destroyed a valuable work of art or simply transformed it into a new one. It was probably the first time in history someone made a 300% profit from a “fire sale.”
10. The first tweet
Also in the year of our NFT Lord, 2021, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey tokenized his first-ever tweet — “just setting up my twttr” — and sold it as an NFT to crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi for $2.9 million, quickly becoming a symbol of the NFT boom.
The first-ever tweet sold for $2.9 million. Source: Jack Dorsey
One year later, Estavi tried to resell it for $48 million, but only received bids worth a tiny fraction of the asking price, with the highest reported offer coming in at just $6,800.
While anyone can still read the tweet on X, only one person owns the blockchain certificate tied to it. Whether that’s valuable or not remains an open question. As Mata says:
“Tokenization can improve access, administration, settlement and transferability, but it cannot transform a poor investment into a good one.”
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Two groups affiliated with the cryptocurrency company-backed political action committee (PAC) Fairshake disclosed spending more than $1.5 million on media to support House of Representatives and Senate candidates in Florida, Alaska and Wyoming after suffering a primary loss in Michigan on Tuesday.
According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings as of Thursday, Fairshake PAC affiliates Defend American Jobs and Protect Progress spent a combined $1.5 million on ads for Republican and Democratic candidates, many of whom voted in favor of the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act while serving in Congress.
In Alaska’s at-large congressional district, scheduled to hold a primary on Aug. 18, Defend American Jobs spent more than $500,000 on media supporting the re-election of Representative Nick Begich. The Super PAC spent about the same amount on Republican candidate Sydney Gruters in Florida’s 16th district, and Representative Harriet Hageman, running for the soon-to-be-vacant Wyoming Senate seat now occupied by Cynthia Lummis. Both US states will also hold primaries on Aug. 18.
The reported expenditures follow a primary loss for a Protect Progress-supported candidate in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District. On Tuesday, Democratic incumbent Shri Thanedar lost a primary to State Representative Donavan McKinney after the Super PAC poured more than $2 million into media supporting the former. The final day of Thanedar’s current term in Congress will be in January 2027.
On the Democratic side, Protect Progress reported spending more than $50,000 for the re-election of Lois Frankel in Florida’s 23rd district. Frankel, Begich and Hageman all voted in favor of the GENIUS Act and CLARITY Act while serving in Congress, while Gruters did not appear to have made any public statements on crypto or blockchain, with the exception of saying she supported the crypto market structure bill in a questionnaire conducted by the advocacy organization Stand With Crypto.
The expenditures were the latest examples of Fairshake and cryptocurrency industry-aligned groups attempting to influence US elections through media. The Super PAC reported spending more than $170 million in the 2024 US election cycle on House and Senate races, potentially changing the makeup of the current Congress.
CLARITY votes to influence 2026 midterms?
While it was still uncertain as of Thursday whether the US Senate would hold a vote on the CLARITY Act before the chamber broke for a month-long recess, how lawmakers cast their ballots could affect whether the crypto industry actively supports or opposes their re-election bids. All 435 House seats are up for grabs in 2026, as are 33 seats in the US Senate.
In January, Stand With Crypto said that its “primary goal” in 2026 was getting crypto market structure legislation through Congress. The organization’s community director, Mason Lynaugh, told Cointelegraph in November that how lawmakers vote on the bill could impact their re-election chances. Stand With Crypto rates political candidates on a scale of “strongly supports crypto” to “strongly against crypto” depending on their voting records and public statements, which may be used by PACs and organizations deciding where to allocate funds.
Magazine: 10 weirdest things ever tokenized... including farts

Demand for US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has accelerated over the past week, with a string of daily inflows coinciding with the Coldcard wallet hack — timing that has prompted speculation about whether some investors are reconsidering self-custody.
According to Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC), Bitwise Bitcoin ETF (BITB), ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB) as well as Defiance Daily Target 2X Long MSTR ETF (MSBT) have recorded inflows every trading day since the weekend exploit, totaling roughly $620 million. The cumulative figure is consistent with Cointelegraph’s recent reporting on the ETF inflow streak.
The Coldcard exploit drained more than $116 million worth of Bitcoin from over 5,200 wallet addresses, according to blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs.
“I’m not saying it’s connected, we just don’t know,” Balchunas said in a post on X. “[Although] long-term I can’t imagine there aren’t some who migrate over.”
Source: Eric Balchunas
Coldcard exploit renews debate over self-custody risks
The Coldcard hack renewed concerns that even hardware wallet users can be exposed to firmware flaws and software vulnerabilities, highlighting the operational risks that come with self-custody.
The incident also reignited debate over the trade-offs between holding Bitcoin directly and gaining exposure through regulated investment products such as spot Bitcoin ETFs, where asset custody and security are handled by institutional providers.
Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao also weighed in on the debate, arguing that storing crypto on centralized exchanges may now be “statistically safer” than self-custody, citing data from analyst Willy Woo that cumulative Bitcoin losses from self-custody incidents have surpassed those from exchange hacks.
Source: Changpeng Zhao
“Hack data is easier to collect on the CEX side, usually major news. It is harder on the self-custody side, where hacks, lost coins, etc are often not reported,” CZ said.
The debate comes as AI-assisted cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated. On Monday, Bitcoin swap service Boltz suspended its non-custodial bridge, citing a steady rise in AI-assisted exploits that were allowing attackers to identify and exploit vulnerabilities faster than its team could patch them.
Magazine: Do the Coldcard attacks mean all hardware wallets are now insecure?

Das US-Berufungsgericht für den zweiten Gerichtsbezirk hat eine formelle Anordnung erlassen, die die Verurteilung und die Strafe des früheren FTX-CEO Sam „SBF“ Bankman-Fried aufrechterhält und die Zahl der möglichen Möglichkeiten verringert, vorzeitig aus dem Gefängnis entlassen zu werden.
Am Dienstag hat der zweite Gerichtsbezirk eine Anordnung eingereicht, nachdem er am 12. Juni mit seiner Entscheidung ein Urteil einer unteren Instanz bestätigt hatte, wonach der frühere CEO wegen sieben Vergehen (Felony Counts) verurteilt und zu 25 Jahren Bundeshaft verurteilt worden war. Drei Richter des Spruchkörpers widersprachen den Behauptungen von Bankman-Fried in Berufungen, wonach FTX „über ausreichende Liquidität verfüge, um sicherzustellen, dass die Anleger vollständig entschädigt würden und keine Verluste erleiden“ müssten, und sie hielten außerdem die Vermögensverfall-Anordnung eines New Yorker Gerichts in Höhe von 11 Milliarden US-Dollar im Rahmen des Strafverfahrens aufrecht.

Senator Tim Scott, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee, said that the chamber would vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act before it broke for an August recess, giving lawmakers just a few days to take action on the crypto bill.
In a Thursday Fox Business interview, Scott said that the Senate “should have the first vote” on the CLARITY Act before lawmakers leave for state work periods this week. He added that Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who has the authority to set the agenda and schedule floor votes, still had time to announce a cloture vote on the crypto bill in the next few days.
“The good news is we have the time to get it done,” said Scott.
The South Carolina lawmaker’s statement echoed comments from Senator Cynthia Lummis, who on Wednesday urged the Senate to take up a vote on CLARITY before the chamber’s August recess. Should Republican leaders schedule a vote, the bill would need support from 60 lawmakers to pass the Senate and advance in Congress.
Among the issues still under discussion as of Thursday were concerns from many Democrats regarding US President Donald Trump’s crypto investments and heads of the banking industry calling for the bill to address licensing and restrictions for crypto companies handling stablecoins. Should lawmakers reach an agreement on how to potentially adjust the CLARITY Act for these provisions and how to handle the Senate’s agenda before the recess, there could still be time to schedule a vote.

Bitcoin miners’ pivot into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC) is reshaping their business models, but investors are no longer rewarding new infrastructure deals with the same enthusiasm they once did, suggesting the market has become more discerning as AI hosting strategies move into the mainstream.
According to new analysis by Blocksbridge Consulting published in TheEnergyMag’s Miner Weekly, the market reaction to AI infrastructure announcements has weakened significantly over the past two years. Reviewing 25 AI and HPC infrastructure deals announced between June 2024 and August 2026, the report found that the average announcement-day stock move fell from roughly 24% for the earliest deals to about 10% for the most recent ones. Median gains also dropped by roughly half over the same period, even as the size and value of the contracts increased.
The report found that annualized revenue per contracted megawatt has edged higher over time, indicating that AI hosting agreements are becoming more lucrative. However, as such deals become increasingly common, investors appear to be placing greater emphasis on execution, financing and long-term profitability than on headline contract values alone.
AI infrastructure deals are becoming more valuable, but less market-moving. Source: TheEnergyMag
That shift is evident in how the market has responded to major announcements. Core Scientific’s initial hosting agreement with CoreWeave sent its shares up more than 40%, while Applied Digital’s first CoreWeave lease gained nearly 49% and TeraWulf’s first Fluidstack deal surged almost 60%.
More recent mega-deals have drawn a much more muted response. TeraWulf’s 401-megawatt lease with Anthropic lifted its shares by about 5%, CleanSpark’s $6.6 billion AI hosting agreement gained nearly 9%, and Bitdeer’s new Tydal contract briefly pushed the stock up roughly 12% before those gains disappeared by the market close.
Bitcoin mining stocks reflect cooling AI enthusiasm
The performance of Bitcoin mining stocks that have embraced AI and high-performance computing workloads also reflects the market’s cooling enthusiasm.
TheEnergyMag’s TEM AI Infrastructure Growth Index, which tracks publicly traded companies developing AI data center and digital infrastructure businesses, is down roughly 28.5% from its June peak, suggesting investors have become more cautious even as AI infrastructure demand remains strong.
While the TEM AI Infrastructure Growth Index remains sharply higher over the past year, its momentum has slowed in recent months. Source: TheEnergyMag
The slowdown mirrors a broader pullback in AI infrastructure stocks, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index falling nearly 17% from its July peak.
Magazine: A quantum roadmap would push Bitcoin much higher: Charles Edwards

Bitcoin (BTC) blieb beim Wall-Street-Open am Donnerstag regungslos, während eine Analyse Anzeichen für eine erneute US-„Stagflation“ ausmachte.
Wichtige Punkte:
Bitcoin bleibt unter 65.000 US-Dollar, da der Iran die Erwartungen hinsichtlich einer Wiedereröffnung der Ölroute durch die Straße von Hormus zügelt.
Die Auswertung der US-PMI-Daten sieht die Rückkehr der „Stagflation“ als potenzielles zukünftiges Risiko.
Die Unentschlossenheit beim BTC-Preis bedeutet, dass dem Markt weiterhin ein „echter Ausbruch nach unten“ fehlt, so Bitfinex.
Iran dämpft die Markterwartungen an einen Deal zu Hormus
Daten von TradingView zeigten, dass BTC/USD über 64.000 US-Dollar pendelte, am Tag um etwa 0,5% im Minus, während US-Aktien nahezu unverändert starteten.

Step App, eine Move-to-Earn-Plattform, stellt nach vier Jahren Betrieb den Dienst ein und schließt sich damit einer wachsenden Zahl von Krypto-Unternehmen an, die angesichts eines anhaltenden Marktabschwungs ihre Aktivitäten herunterfahren.
Das Unternehmen gab am Mittwoch auf X bekannt, dass es alle Dienste bis zum 21. August beenden wird. Nutzer werden gebeten, ihre gesperrten Tokens zu entstaken und ihre Exchange-Positionen vor dem Datum zu verwalten.
„Wir sind unglaublich stolz darauf, was Step App erreicht hat – nicht nur als Produkt, sondern als Bewegung“, sagte Step App.
Das Governance- und Utility-Token des Projekts, FITFI, setzte seinen Abwärtstrend fort. Zum Zeitpunkt der Veröffentlichung wurde FITFI zu 0,0001624 $ gehandelt, also 99,9 % weniger als sein Allzeithoch von rund 0,73 $, das im Mai 2022 verzeichnet wurde, wie Daten von CoinGecko zeigen.

Blockchain.com hat eine Lizenz als virtueller Dienstanbieter für Vermögenswerte (VASP) von der Cayman Islands Monetary Authority erhalten, um Verwahrdienste anzubieten.
Die am 22. Juli 2026 erteilte Lizenz berechtigt das Unternehmen für Kryptowährungsdienstleistungen, regulierte Crypto-Custody-Dienste auf den Cayman Islands anzubieten, wie in einer am Donnerstag veröffentlichten Mitteilung berichtet wurde, die von Cointelegraph geprüft wurde. Die Lizenz folgte auf eine bedingte Genehmigung, die die CIMA im Dezember 2025 erteilt hatte.
Die Lizenz erlaubt außerdem Blockchain.com, Krypto-zu-Fiat- sowie Krypto-zu-Krypto-Umtauschdienste bereitzustellen. Das Unternehmen verfügt seit Mai 2022 über eine VASP-Registrierung auf den Cayman Islands.

Der Handel mit tokenisierten Real-World Assets (RWA) macht inzwischen mehr als 33% der Handelsaktivität auf der dezentralen Börse Hyperliquid aus.
HIP-3 RWA-Perpetual-Contracts verzeichneten im zweiten Quartal 2026 einen Anstieg ihres Anteils am Handelsvolumen auf 32,2%, nachdem er im ersten Quartal bei 20,7% lag und im vierten Quartal 2025 bei 1,8%. Das RWA-Handelsvolumen erreichte im Q2 auf Hyperliquid 213 Milliarden US-Dollar, wie aus dem am Mittwoch veröffentlichten Quartalsbericht hervorgeht.
Hyperliquid erklärte, dass der RWA-Handel 6,6% des vierteljährlichen Protokollumsatzes von 169 Millionen US-Dollar ausmachte. Von diesen 169 Millionen US-Dollar gab die Plattform 141 Millionen US-Dollar an Token-Inhaber über Hyperliquid (HYPE)-Tokenrückkäufe zurück. Hyperliquid meldete kumulierte Protokolleinnahmen von über 1 Milliarde US-Dollar.

Die Zeus Wallet, eine selbstverwaltete Bitcoin-Lightning-Network-Wallet, nahm ihre Infrastruktur nach einem Cyberangriff am Mittwoch offline und prüft derzeit ihre Systeme, bevor sie die Dienste wiederherstellt.
In einem X-Beitrag, in dem der Vorfall angekündigt wurde, sagte Zeus, der Angriff habe keine Kundengelder gefährdet, und es gebe keine Hinweise darauf, dass der Vorfall die Lightning-Node-Software betroffen habe. „Auf Grundlage unserer bisherigen Untersuchungen gehen wir davon aus, dass dieser Vorfall auf die Infrastruktur von Zeus beschränkt war“, sagte Zeus-Gründer Evan Kaloudis in einem Blogeintrag des Unternehmens.

Kriminelle haben in der ersten Jahreshälfte durch physische Angriffe auf Krypto-Inhaber mehr als 30 Millionen US-Dollar gestohlen und damit die Weichen gestellt, dass das Jahr den Rekord von 58 Millionen US-Dollar, die 2025 gestohlen wurden, übertreffen wird.
In einem am Donnerstag veröffentlichten Chainalysis-Bericht sagte das Blockchain-Analyseunternehmen, dass bis Ende Juni weltweit 46 gewaltsame krypto-bezogene Vorfälle dokumentiert worden seien – im Vergleich zu 40 im selben Zeitraum 2025. Zu den Vorfällen zählen Entführungen, Wohnungseinbrüche und Geiselsituationen, die zusammen als „Wrench Attacks“ bekannt sind.

Institutionelle Anlagevehikel für Bitcoin haben seit Mai 10 % ihrer BTC-Bestände abgegeben, da die Analyse vor einem „bröckelnden“ Sektor warnt.
Kernaussagen:
Bitcoin-Institutional-Fonds verzeichnen in drei Monaten pauschal eine Reduktion der Bestände um 10%.
Die Analyse besagt, dass das Bitcoin-Treasury-Modell „bricht“, da Unternehmensbewertungen unter den Nettoinventarwert fallen.
Coinbase-Premium war an insgesamt 93 Tagen negativ, ein Rekord.
Stark rückläufige Fondsexponierung, da Bitcoin-Schatzunternehmen unter Druck geraten
Daten der Onchain-Analyseplattform CryptoQuant zeigen, dass die kombinierte institutionelle BTC-Exponierung, die Treuhandfonds, börsengehandelte Fonds (ETFs) und geschlossene Fonds umfasst, innerhalb von drei Monaten von 1,33 Millionen auf 1,20 Millionen BTC gesunken ist.

Rund 64 Bitcoin im Wert von 4,17 Millionen US-Dollar und 200 Ether im Wert von 380.000 US-Dollar, die mit dem jüngsten Coldcard-Exploit in Verbindung stehen, wurden laut der Blockchain-Sicherheitsplattform CertiK an Krypto-Mixing-Protokolle gesendet.
Die Bitcoin-Überweisung ging am Dienstag von der Adresse bc1q0 an das Krypto-Mixing-Protokoll Wasabi, wie aus von CertiK geteilten Blockchain-Daten hervorgeht.
„Wir denken, dass es sich möglicherweise um einen kleineren Ausnutzer handelt. Es gibt wahrscheinlich ein paar Kopien nach dem ersten Exploit“, sagte ein Sprecher von CertiK gegenüber Cointelegraph. Die 200 Ether (ETH) wurden am Mittwoch an Tornado Cash übertragen, wie aus dem X-Post von CertiK hervorgeht.

Situational Awareness, der von dem ehemaligen OpenAI-Forscher Leopold Aschenbrenner gegründete Hedgefonds, soll wenige Tage nachdem er aufgrund von Margenforderungen beinahe kollabiert war, 400 Millionen US-Dollar in ein nicht börsennotiertes Unternehmen investiert haben.
Der Fonds investierte im Juli 100 Millionen US-Dollar in das gleiche ungenannte Unternehmen, wie Bloomberg am Donnerstag unter Berufung auf mit der Angelegenheit vertraute Personen berichtete. Die neueste Investition wurde am Dienstag abgeschlossen.
Cointelegraph hat Situational Awareness um eine Stellungnahme gebeten.
Vermögenswerte zur Situationsaufklärung fielen im Juli um etwa 78 %, nachdem ein KI-Aktienverkauf Abschreibungsmargenforderungen von Wall-Street-Kreditgebern ausgelöst hatte.

Der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin hat ein Gesetz unterzeichnet, das einen regulierten Rahmen für die Kryptowährungs-Märkte in Russland schafft.
Putin habe am Dienstag den Gesetzentwurf Nr. 1194918-8 mit dem Titel „Über digitale Währungen und digitale Rechte“ unterzeichnet, wie offizielle Aufzeichnungen der Staatsduma, des Unterhauses des russischen Parlaments, zeigen. Die Gesetzgebung legt Regeln für Teilnehmer am Krypto-Markt fest, darunter Börsen, Broker, Verwahrer und andere Krypto-Dienstleister.
Das Gesetz verpflichtet Krypto-Börsenbetreiber, regulatorische Anforderungen zu erfüllen und einer finanzmarktbezogenen Selbstregulierungsorganisation beizutreten. Es begrenzt Privatanleger darauf, genehmigte Krypto-Assets über Vermittler zu kaufen, wobei es eine jährliche Obergrenze von 300.000 Rubel (3.700 US-Dollar) pro Vermittler gibt. Qualifizierte Anleger dürfen jede Kryptowährung ohne solche Einschränkungen kaufen.

Real-World Assets (RWAs) gewinnen an Dynamik, da tokenisierte Versionen traditioneller Anlagen über die Emission hinausgehen und zu aktiven Bestandteilen der Onchain-Finanzmärkte werden.
RWA-Einlagen über dezentrale Finanzplattformen hinweg haben sich im Jahresvergleich im zweiten Quartal 2026 mehr als verdreifacht und erreichten 7,4 Milliarden US-Dollar, während die gesamten DeFi-Einlagen um etwa 15% zurückgingen, wie aus einem gemeinsamen Bericht von CoinShares und Token Terminal hervorgeht, der am Donnerstag veröffentlicht wurde.
CoinShares-CEO Jean-Marie Mognetti sagte, die Divergenz zeige, dass die RWA-Nachfrage durch praktische Use Cases angetrieben werde, nicht durch breitere Marktbedingungen.

Der Emittent eines yen-gebundenen Stablecoins JPYC hat die Verlängerung seiner Series-B-Finanzierungsrunde abgeschlossen und damit die kumulierte Gesamtsumme der Runde auf etwa 6 Milliarden Yen (38 Millionen US-Dollar) gebracht.
Am Mittwoch teilte das Unternehmen mit, dass die japanische Logistikgruppe AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings als neuer Investor der Runde beigetreten ist. JPYC sagte, man wolle die Erlöse nutzen, um sein Finanz- und Web3-Ökosystem auszubauen und die Einführung seines yen-gebundenen Stablecoins zu beschleunigen.
JPYC legte den genauen Betrag, der durch die Verlängerung aufgenommen wurde, oder die Größe der Investition von AZ-COM nicht offen. Allerdings stieg die kumulierte Gesamtsumme der Runde um etwa 1 Milliarde Yen von rund 5 Milliarden Yen, die im Mai angekündigt wurden. Außerdem lieferte man keine finanziellen Konditionen für das Kapital und die geschäftliche Allianz der Unternehmen.