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Coinbase suffered a "system-wide outage" for three hours but also claimed it was "planned maintenance," leaving their users in the dark
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Industry group disputes law enforcement's reading of the bill's DeFi safe harbor as the Senate enters its last window before recess.
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Mike Belshe's wager turns Anthropic's own incident report into a public, on-chain experiment its critics can't dismiss as marketing.
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Coinfest Asia's 2026 Edition Adds Institutional Track for Stablecoins and Tokenization
The shift follows a 2025 edition that drew more than 11,000 attendees from 90 countries, and adds closed-door tokenization roundtables to a festival previously built around a single unified stage.
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The exchange is enforcing Brussels' sanctions list to the letter, down to the exact spelling of each entity's name — the same pattern it followed with Iran-linked platforms two weeks earlier
Strategy Didn't Touch Its Bitcoin Last Week. It Sold Stock Instead.
After weeks of selling BTC to fund preferred dividends, Strategy raised $334 million through MSTR share sales and made no bitcoin purchases or sales at all — a pause inside a $5 billion monetization program the company approved just weeks earlier
Hong Kong's First Regulated Stablecoin Just Started Moving Real Money
Anchorpoint's HKDAP entered phase-one Beta Access on August 12 with HashKey and OSL as distributors — a controlled first step for the token Blockhead called a parallel, tightly controlled track rather than an open market