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The Dutch cyber agency says attackers exploited an authentication flaw in macOS Screen Sharing to gain root access and install Monero miners, and public proof-of-concept code for the exploit is now circulating.

Donald Trump will meet with crypto and prediction market CEOs this week, and the meeting occurs as progress on the Clarity Act has been delayed and the SEC's latest rulemaking has been postponed.

Austria's FMA fined crypto broker Bitpanda €70,000 for white paper and marketing disclosure failures, a penalty the headline reports as $81,000 and describes as the regulator's first published MiCA penalty.

A Bitcoin treasury firm stopped selling BTC after three weeks and raised $334 million by selling MSTR stock; equity issuance funded dividends, a STRC buyback and the dollar reserve.

Short-position exposure against XRP is increasing on Binance, while whale deposits to the exchange have fallen to their lowest level in four years, producing crowded bearish bets and reduced sell-side supply; Binance XRP open interest rose from roughly $181 million on August 3.

Strategy raised $334 million through stock sales, used the proceeds to fund STRC dividends and repurchases, and added $149.1 million to Strategy’s US dollar reserve, which reached $4.8 billion, while buying no Bitcoin.

Harmony plans a rollback that will remove 109,000 transactions after the ONE exploit, and the team said selectively restoring transactions could create inconsistent chain state, while Ravencoin is involved in a separate rollback dispute following an exploit.

Bitdefender reports that counterfeit downloads of the newly released blockbuster The Odyssey are circulating and distributing Lumma Stealer, malware that harvests crypto wallets, passwords, and browser sessions from infected devices.

Strategy did not change its bitcoin holdings while it increased its dollar reserve and repurchased additional STRC last week, and the company, led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, raised $333.7 million through a sale of common stock.

Strategy sold $334 million in MSTR shares and made no bitcoin purchases or sales while its USD reserve reached $4.8 billion; Strategy’s total holdings represent about 4% of the 21 million bitcoin supply cap, with a value of roughly $53.4 billion.

Ethereum’s upcoming Hegotá upgrade has 66 proposals under consideration, and the developers are narrowing that list; among the proposals is a package that would alter how wallets approve and pay for transactions and that would provide developers of privacy apps with more tools inside Ethereum itself.

Israel’s largest crypto broker Bits of Gold suffered a data breach that affected 200,000 customers; funds and digital assets were not touched, but names, bank account details, and national ID numbers may have been exposed, and the company says the incident was part of a wider global attack.

Bitcoin’s implied volatility is near a seasonal floor, yet options are still pricing in substantially more movement than the market is delivering.

Bitcoin closed a weekly candle below its 200-week moving average, mirroring the 2022 bear market, and traders warned of further BTC price downside next.

Binance supplied transaction records and identity documents that were later used in a terrorism-financing case against Yuri Belenkiy, Reuters reported.

Strategy and Metaplanet, described as Bitcoin's biggest holders, are focusing on mathematical factors rather than price. The briefing is a day-ahead look for Aug. 17, 2026.

Bitpanda was fined €70,000 in Austria’s first published MiCA enforcement case for failing to submit a mandatory white paper 20 days before publication and for omitting required disclosures in marketing materials.

More than $556.7 million worth of tokens is scheduled to unlock in the third week of August 2026, with LayerZero (ZRO), KAITO (KAITO), and Soon (SOON) among the major projects set to release substantial new token supplies, which could introduce market volatility and influence short-term price movements.

Paul Tudor Jones' firm increased its iShares Bitcoin Trust holding by 18.9% to 688,529 shares valued at $22.9 million in Q2, and at the same time significantly reduced its call options, shifting from leveraged bets toward direct spot exposure.

HIVE’s BUZZ HPC unit signed a five-year, $350 million GPU cloud contract that adds $70 million in annualized recurring revenue, and it is the company’s second large NVIDIA cluster deal in two months.

As an AI-driven supply squeeze affects copper, Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) is being highlighted as the leading copper stock; the largest US copper miner is trading near $66.50 after a sharp year-to-date advance, its chart shows a bullish continuation pattern projecting toward $87, and Wall Street continues to rate it a Strong Buy.

Dutch prosecutors have sold $2.5M worth of crypto that came from the bankrupt platform Knaken, and the trustee says Knaken purchased the coins in its own name, leaving customers with a euro claim against a company that has collapsed.

BitMart users are demanding verifiable reserves by August 19, while BitMart CEO Sheldon Lee says the accusations are fabricated rumors and users are reporting frozen withdrawals.

An Argentine who held the equivalent of $10,000 in peso cash from 2016 to 2026 finished that period with about $114 in US-dollar value, a near 99% loss; that decline is cited as a reason the dollar has entered everyday financial life across Latin America, with workers receiving salaries in stablecoins and businesses using digital dollars to collect revenue and pay.

Bitcoin rose alongside a rebound in equities, while $390 million of ETF outflows occurred in a streak and there are 10% odds on landmark crypto legislation, leaving markets searching for direction.

Unitree's Superman robot reached a top speed of 12.66 m/s and outpaced Usain Bolt days before Unitree's $9 billion Shanghai IPO trading debut.

COCA integrated Aurora Intents into its self-custodial banking app to reduce transfer complexity caused by differing network requirements for stablecoins that move across many blockchains, allowing users to make cross-chain stablecoin deposits.

Austria’s financial regulator FMA has fined Bitpanda in what is described as the country’s first published MiCA penalty, saying Bitpanda violated MiCA requirements for crypto white papers and marketing communications, and the FMA’s decision is now final.

A flaw in an order-tracking plug-in used by bitcoin wallet provider SafePal exposed the names, addresses and phone numbers of nearly 40,000 customers, stoking fears of physical attacks.

Binance provided user data to Russia that resulted in the arrest of a Ukrainian donor, and the company says it cooperates with lawful requests while noting it left the Russian market in 2023 as part of efforts to improve its compliance strategy.