Binance’s Android app is unavailable on Google Play in some EU markets amid scrutiny over MiCA compliance. The Binance app has become unavailable on the Google Play Store in certain European Union countries amid questions over the exchange’s compliance with the bloc’s crypto licensing framework. A user in Spain confirmed to Cointelegraph on Monday that...Continue Reading

IBM’s blockchain portfolio includes more than 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 issued patents worldwide, with a particular focus in supply chain applications. Circle will acquire IBM’s blockchain patent portfolio, the USDC (USDC) issuer said on Monday. No financial details for the transaction were disclosed in Circle’s announcement. CRCL stock price was up more than...Continue Reading

Hong Kong’s HashKey will unify its crypto exchange branches, with users from its Hong Kong, Global, Singapore and Middle East regions using the same platform. Hong Kong digital asset services business HashKey Holdings has merged its HashKey Exchange and HashKey Global exchanges into a single platform and application. Core jurisdictional hubs including Hong Kong, Singapore,...Continue Reading

Strategy raised $544.5 million through MSTR stock sales as it repurchased $25 million of STRC shares and expanded its US dollar reserve to $3.75 billion. Strategy, the business intelligence firm that has built the largest corporate Bitcoin treasury, continued adjusting its capital structure last week through a combination of stock sales and preferred share repurchases....Continue Reading

BNY Mellon’s European subsidiary joined the MiCA register as ESMA added 15 CASPs, including banks and crypto platforms, in the third post-deadline update. European authorities added 15 crypto companies including a BNY Mellon unit to the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework register in the third update of regulated providers since the July 1 transitional deadline....Continue Reading

Brazilian police suspect the group of shipping around 6.5 metric tons of cocaine and laundering billions in Brazilian reals through crypto-enabled illicit money brokers. The Brazilian Federal Police last week busted an alleged international drug cartel thought to have trafficked around 6.5 metric tons of cocaine and laundered billions of reais in proceeds via methods...Continue Reading

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says AI agents will expand crypto adoption, pointing to Base, USDC and x402 as key pieces of agentic finance. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is pushing back against calls for crypto to pivot to artificial intelligence, arguing AI agents will instead stoke demand for crypto-based financial services. Armstrong took to X on...Continue Reading

The stablecoin payments company said client funds were unaffected and that the financial impact would be absorbed through its treasury reserves. Stablecoin payments firm Triple-A confirmed that unauthorized access to its treasury wallets resulted in the loss of company-owned digital assets. On Monday, the Singapore-based company said it detected the unauthorized access on Saturday and...Continue Reading

Users reported withdrawal delays and freeze notices as wallets attributed to BitMart fell to about $69 million and its BMX token extended an 81.5% weekly decline. Withdrawals from crypto exchange BitMart appeared to slow after it announced plans to wind down its operations.  On Monday, blockchain analytics account Lookonchain reported that only 58 wallets withdrew...Continue Reading

Blockaid said an attacker drained about $450,000 in USDT from Garden Finance’s HTLC contracts across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and BNB Smart Chain. Cross-chain bridging and atomic swap protocol Garden Finance temporarily took its app offline after blockchain security firm Blockaid reported an exploit targeting the protocol’s hash time-locked contracts (HTLC) across four blockchain networks. On...Continue Reading