The long-awaited crypto Clarity Act has stalled and is due a September vote but regulators are ready to step in to advance crypto rules regardless, according to reports. 

Bloomberg reported Tuesday that the Securities and Exchange Commission was preparing to roll out this week initiatives to help the crypto industry. The regulator has said that it will hold an open meeting Friday “to create a tailored offering regime for certain investment contracts involving crypto assets.” 

And JD Supra reported Tuesday that Commodities and Futures Trading Commission Chairman Michael Selig was ready to proceed with “rulemaking whether or not the Clarity Act is enacted, with the…

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Strategy’s U.S. dollar reserve has reached $4.65 billion, up from $3.75 billion two weeks earlier. It has also sold almost 7,000 BTC since late June 2026. 

Many are wondering why a company built around accumulating Bitcoin would choose to hold billions of dollars in fiat. More importantly, should other Bitcoin businesses do the same? 

Strategy holds cash because it’s in a very unique position 

Strategy increasingly operates as an issuer of Digital Credit: preferred securities backed economically by an enormous Bitcoin balance sheet. These instruments create fixed dollar dividends obligations.

Bitcoin produces no cash flow. Strategy’s software business produces far too little…

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sued a Florida crypto trading firm and its chief executive, alleging they ran a Ponzi scheme that took in at least $397 million from about 1,600 customers and spent it on fake payouts and personal luxuries.

The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, names Goliath Ventures Inc. and its CEO, Christopher Delgado, a Florida resident. 

According to the CFTC, Delgado and his company solicited money from the public for crypto asset trading, primarily in Bitcoin and other cryptos, then misappropriated all of it.

Rather than trading customer funds as promised, the agency alleges, the defendants…

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Casa CEO Nick Neuman pointed to onchain data from the recent Coldcard firmware exploit as evidence that self-custody strengthens Bitcoin’s resilience as an asset class.

In an X post on Aug. 9, Neuman cited figures showing that in the days after the Coldcard hack, where approximately 2.1k BTC was stolen, 22k BTC moved to exchanges and 233k BTC left long-term holder wallets in on-chain transactions, according to data by Checkonchain. “The onchain metrics around the Coldcard incident reinforce how important self-custody is to the resilience of Bitcoin as an asset class,” Neuman wrote.

DATA BY CHECKONCHAIN

Galaxy Research has tracked confirmed losses from the Coldcard…

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Bitcoin treasury Twenty One’s new CEO has reassured investors that the firm will become “more than a Bitcon treasury” following shareholder concerns about the company. 

The Tuesday letter to shareholders comes after the Bitcoin treasury — the second biggest in the space — released its quarterly earnings: the company posted a net loss of $413.5 million in Q2 2026, driven almost entirely by a non-cash “change in fair value” of its BTC holdings. 

Bitcoin treasuries have faced a rough 2026 so far following Bitcoin’s price plunge. The leading cryptocurrency has shed about 50% of its value since it notched a all time high of $126,080 in October, hurting such companies’…

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Russia’s central bank has approved Bitcoin trading for the public on the country’s crypto exchanges, according to reports. 

Citing the Bank of Russia’s Telegram channel, news agency Tass reported that the central bank capped cryptocurrency purchases for retail investors at 300,000 rubles ($3,632) per year. 

The news comes as Russia moves fast in regulating the crypto space. President Vladimir Putin has spoken about the benefits of Bitcoin and spoken about how the country has advantages when it comes to crypto mining. But using crypto to pay for goods is still prohibited in Russia. 

“According to the law, the selection of cryptocurrencies factors in their market…

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Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr, who backed the failed Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP)-110, has been removed from his position as an editor of such proposals for the development of the Bitcoin network. 

The decision, voted on by other Bitcoin developers, was posted on the BIP Github Sunday. The BIP Github page, separate from Bitcoin Core’s repository, is where developers can make proposals to change Bitcoin. 

Dashjr called the decision “an abuse of power by Core,” adding: “They have no authority to do so.” 

This is just an abuse of power by Core.They have no authority to do so.

— Luke Dashjr (@LukeDashjr) August 10, 2026

The motion read: “Over the past…

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Bitcoin infrastructure company Blockstream has announced a new feature allowing users to make trustless swaps. 

Dubbed Blockstream Swaps, the idea is that Bitcoiners will be able to quickly move between the main chain and Lightning network. 

It comes after non-custodial Bitcoin swap provider Boltz suspended its service after it said attackers were finding vulnerabilities faster than its team could fix using AI. 

“In support of the broader Bitcoin and Liquid ecosystem, Blockstream is launching Blockstream Swaps,” Blockstream said. 

“This initiative was already under development to ensure a resilient suite of utility for the ecosystem, and it complements the…

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Supporters of BTCPay Server have committed to funding a bounty of up to three Bitcoins for the recovery of funds stolen through a recently disclosed vulnerability in the open-source bitcoin payment processor, the project said in a statement.

The bounty is set at 10 percent of whatever is recovered, capped at three coins in the event of a full recovery. 

The project even extended the offer to the attacker directly alongside anyone else holding actionable information, directing them to a dedicated security address and offering Signal or other encrypted channels on request. 

Hackers last week managed to extract Lightning Network admin macaroon credentials from affected BTCPay Server…

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American Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have had their biggest weekly inflow since April, taking in $850 million last week, according to Bloomberg figures. 

The major U.S. funds managed by BlackRock, Fidelity, Grayscale, Morgan Stanley and others have received the cash the week after hackers targeted Coinkite’s popular Coldcard product.

Hackers started stealing millions in Bitcoin from Coldcard wallets after discovering a vulnerability in the product’s software. Some estimates put the amount of Bitcoin lost now at over $130 million. 

JUST IN: BlackRock tells Bloomberg they’ve “seen consistently” that Bitcoin ETF investors are buying and holding BTC “long term” on this…

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