Cryptocurrency

Brazil’s central bank has ordered cryptocurrency exchanges operating in the country to delay large cross-border transfers as part of a new anti-fraud control, according to reporting from CoinDesk on August 7. The measure targets transfers exceeding $10,000 and is described as a temporary hold rather than an asset freeze. The directive is the latest move

Circle reported $701 million in Q2 revenue as BlackRock, DTCC, Mastercard and Visa joined Arc’s validator cohort ahead of its September launch.

Senate leaders missed the Aug 4 cloture deadline for the CLARITY Act; Kalshi now prices 2027 passage at 41% and Polymarket’s 2026 odds sit near 23% as ethics provisions stall the bill.

Flare’s FXRP was approved as collateral in Sentora’s $280 million RLUSD lending vault on Morpho Blue, letting XRP holders borrow against their coins on Ethereum

Taiwan FSC mandates customer information sharing for every domestic crypto transfer from October 2026, with foreign VASP transfers to follow by end of 2027.

A hardware wallet that was never supposed to connect to the internet has lost more than $130 million in Bitcoin to attackers who worked out what the private keys were. Galaxy Research has now tracked 1,596 BTC stolen across three confirmed waves, with a suspected fourth wave that would lift the total to roughly 2,055

EU Council Decision 2026/1847 bans Belarusian nationals from owning MiCA-regulated crypto firms from Aug 25, alongside the 21st Russia sanctions package.

Mastercard has completed its acquisition of crypto infrastructure company BVNK, adding stablecoin settlement capabilities to its global payments network.

CLARITY Act was absent from the U.S. Senate’s August 3 schedule. A Wednesday August 5 cloture filing is the only path to a Friday vote before the August 10 rece

Tether Posts $1.5 Billion Q2 Profit, but Its Reserve Cushion Just Halved to $4.1 Billion Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, generated about $1.5 billion in net operating profit during the second quarter of 2026, according to the company’s quarterly attestation prepared by accounting firm BDO and published on July 31, 2026. The headline