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New York City, United States, August 5th, 2026, Chainwire Fourteen-day event with Decibel will pit tokenized stocks, gold and oil against BTC, ETH and SOL in a first-of-its-kind self-custodial competition with a $25,000 USDC prize pool One of the fastest-growing narratives in digital assets is about to face its biggest public test. Tria, the self-custodial neofinance platform, today launched TradFi vs Crypto, the industry’s first trading competition to pit tokenized real-world assets directly against cryptocurrencies under identical conditions on a self-custodial platform. Developed in partnership with Decibel, the Aptos Labs-incubated perpetuals exchange, the fourteen-day competition allows traders to compete across…

The Hyperliquid (HYPE) token trades at around $55, up roughly +5% in 24 hours, a bounce that still leaves it well off the highs that once made it one of crypto’s standout performers. The uncomfortable truth is that the rally was never built on earnings power, and the market is now seemingly pricing that in. HYPE’s price surge was engineered by concentrated treasury buying, not by accelerating DeFi revenue or expanding protocol fundamentals, and once that bid stopped, unwinding was inevitable. This drawback has left investors wondering whether HYPE really is the future of decentralized finance or if it will…

Validators would still be paid the same way for doing the same work, and they keep all the transaction fees and tips they earn from building blocks. Only the newly created ETH gets burned. The deduction from validator rewards arrives slowly, phasing in over 18 months, with about six months before that while the upgrade ships, so roughly two years to adjust.The current curve never switches off. The proposed one hits zero at 50%. (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)Six researchers signed the proposal, including Justin Drake of the Ethereum Foundation. It landed days before the deadline for smaller changes to be considered for…

Bybit just got a meaningful regulatory win in Europe. Bybit Payments GmbH — the exchange’s dedicated payments arm — has received an electronic money institution license from Austria’s Financial Market Authority, opening the door to a broad set of payment services across the European Economic Area. The license isn’t just a rubber stamp. It lets Bybit Payments GmbH build and roll out person-to-person payments, merchant payment solutions, open banking features, and card products — basically a full stack of financial services that goes well beyond crypto trading. All of it will plug into Bybit.eu, the exchange’s European platform, which has…

Rongchai Wang Aug 04, 2026 19:20 Paxos’ OCC charter positions the firm as a federally supervised national trust bank, enhancing stablecoin issuance and compliance under U.S. federal oversight. Paxos Trust Company, a leading blockchain infrastructure firm, has officially transitioned into a federally supervised national trust bank under the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The conversion, finalized on December 12, 2025, positions Paxos to issue and manage stablecoins like PayPal USD (PYUSD) and Pax Gold (PAXG) within a unified federal framework. This move comes as the U.S. regulatory environment for digital assets evolves under the GENIUS Act, set…

Hayes likened the debt-fueled AI infrastructure boom to the 2008 credit bubble, but evidence suggests financial strain is uneven across Big Tech.

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The licence will support regulated e-money and payment services on the Bybit.eu platform, alongside the crypto-asset services. VIENNA, Aug. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Bybit.eu today announced that Bybit Payments GmbH has been granted an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence by Austria’s Financial Market Authority (FMA). Bybit Payments GmbH will provide regulated e-money and payment services through the Bybit.eu platform. Crypto-asset services on the same platform are provided separately by Bybit EU GmbH, an Austrian crypto-asset service provider authorised under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) since May 2025. To comply with regulatory requirements, the two Austrian entities have distinct regulatory…

Willemstad, Curaçao, August 4th, 2026, PlayNewswire 1win, a crypto entertainment platform, has launched a new Web3 authentication system that allows users to register, sign in, and deposit funds using a crypto wallet. The new verification mechanism eliminates the need for email registration, passwords, or manually copying wallet addresses.  The feature is now available to all 1win users and supports Trust Wallet, MetaMask, and other wallets via WalletConnect. EVM-compatible networks are supported across all options, while TRON connections are available through Trust Wallet and WalletConnect-enabled TRON options. 1win is among the first crypto entertainment platforms to introduce seamless wallet onboarding for…

Bitmine owns 4.8% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 96% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 13 months In July, ETH outperformed Nasdaq 100 by 2,500 basis points, the largest since July 2025, reflective of the strengthening fundamentals of crypto Bitmine repurchased 4.5 million common stock in the past week, authorized under the previously announced $4 billion share repurchase program Bitmine was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index on June 26, 2026 Bitmine’s Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP Bitmine has 4,917,189 staked…