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PowerCompute's $18M Bitcoin Loan Deadline Passes With No Disclosure

Good Morning Lions, PowerCompute's US Digital subsidiary borrowed $18.07 million from Arch Lending on a 4-day bridge note that matured August 1, representing 97%

Coldcard Firmware Exploit Drives Bitcoin Holders Back to Exchanges

Good Morning Lions, A firmware vulnerability in Coldcard hardware wallets triggered $70–$90 million in losses and reversed one of crypto's most durable post-FTX

1,082 BTC Drained From Coldcard Wallets via Weak Seed Flaw

Good Morning Lions, Galaxy Research mapped a 41-minute attack on July 30 that drained 1,082.65 BTC from 1,196 Coldcard wallets. The attacker never touched the devices.

BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Inflows Surge Past July Levels

Good Morning Lions, BlackRock just moved $183.41 million into Bitcoin following a surge of inflows into its spot BTC ETF — the biggest single-day haul since July.

The Best DEX Is the One You Never Have to Think About

What makes a great DEX? Is it privacy? Liquidity? Speed? Low fees? Or the user experience? The more I learn about decentralized exchanges, the more I realize one

Solana block capacity rises 66% after SIMD-0286 activation

Good Morning Lions, Solana activated SIMD-0286 this morning, raising maximum block compute units from 60 million to 100 million — the largest throughput expansion

Apple Left Fake Bitcoin Wallet on App Store After $875K Theft

Good Morning Lions, A federal lawsuit filed in July alleges Apple kept a fraudulent Bitcoin wallet app on the App Store even after a customer reported an $875,000

Ethereum Whale Stacks $50M in ETH as Price Reclaims Key Resistance

Good Morning Lions, A whale just dumped $50 million into Ethereum in two hours flat. Three recently established wallets — likely the same entity — bought 25,425

Businesses Buy 115K BTC in Q2 as Retail Sells 78K

Good Morning Lions, Business entities acquired 115,000 BTC in Q2 while individual investors dumped 78,000 — a 37,000 BTC net inflow into corporate treasuries during

How to Trade Perps with No Account Signup

Most decentralized exchanges claim they compete with Binance and Coinbase. Almost none of them actually do — until now. We just flipped on Hyperliquid spot and perps

UK Parliament Investigates Banking Barriers Blocking Crypto Firms

Good Morning Lions, A UK parliamentary group is probing whether banking restrictions on crypto businesses and consumers are proportionate. The headline: 40% of crypto

Armstrong Rejects AI Mining Exodus as Bitcoin Difficulty Adjusts

Good Morning Lions, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong just pushed back hard on Chamath Palihapitiya's prediction that AI profits will drain Bitcoin miners. The core

Hyperliquid Flips XRP to Claim Fourth-Largest Crypto Futures Open Interest

Good Morning Lions, Hyperliquid just flipped XRP to claim the fourth-largest futures open interest globally, holding $1.45 billion compared to XRP's $1.12 billion.

Cardano van Rossem Hard Fork Activates July 18 with Plutus Upgrades

Good Morning Lions, Cardano's van Rossem hard fork activates today at 21:44 UTC after ratification cleared every voting threshold — a real milestone for a protocol

Bitcoin Holds $63K as Risk-Off Wave Wipes $43B in Crypto Capitalization

Good Morning Lions, Bitcoin got knocked back overnight. A risk-off wave rolled through equities and crypto at the same time — tech stocks bleeding across North America

Onchain Pokémon Gacha Hits $324M as Bitcoin Sinks to 21-Month Low

Good Morning Lions, Users spent a record $324 million on onchain Pokémon gacha packs in June, even as Bitcoin fell more than 20% and spot ETFs bled capital. When

x402 Protocol hits $24M in July; BTC rallies 3% as ETFs flow in

Good Morning Lions, I've been watching the machine-to-machine payments space for a while now, and something just clicked. The x402 Foundation — backed by Visa,

$200K from a $150 miner — and Tether's $20B gold play

Good Morning Lions, I woke up to something that caught my attention — not because it's shocking, but because it's the opposite. A hobbyist just struck 3.1382 BTC

MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Sale + Oil Surge on Iran Tensions

Good Morning Lions, Michael Saylor's cryptic X post about MicroStrategy's Bitcoin portfolio landed like a gut punch yesterday. A $216 million forced sale — not by

Ripple's SEC fight — and why Brad Garlinghouse almost quit

Good Morning Lions, Brad Garlinghouse just dropped something I haven't heard him say before — that he and Chris Larsen seriously considered shutting Ripple down