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Bitcoin opens the week in the red as comments from the Bank of Japan and a sharp sell-off in equities markets negatively impact BTC price.

DPRK scammers have been employing fake offers of employment and investment opportunities to trick crypto users into downloading malware.

Bitcoin addresses with balances between 1,000 and 10,000 BTC hold the largest share, 24.17%, of the total BTC supply. 

The fund allegedly lost about half of its assets following FTX's collapse. 

Bitcoin network difficulty, a closely related yet separate metric, is also at historically high levels and currently sits at 89.4 trillion.

It aims to bring institutional-grade security to wrapped BTC.

Matter Labs is the creator of the Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution ZKsync.

Offchain Labs introduces Arbitrum Stylus on mainnet, enabling DApp development with WebAssembly languages, boosting performance, and lowering gas fees.

Awaiting extradition to either the US or South Korea, Do Kwon could have had access to the Terraform Labs wallet containing more than 1,075 BTC.

The plan would create markets for DAI-replacement USDS on Aave.

Bitcoin investors who bought in at the March highs have been fighting choppy BTC price action ever since.

Too many blockchains and less funding for the industry? Plus, Sui’s randomness feature for gaming developers: Web3 Gamer

Hamster Kombat is preparing to launch the “largest airdrop in the history of crypto,” which could bring even more mainstream attention to the viral Web3 mobile game. 

After breaking below a lifetime support level, ADA's price versus Bitcoin could drop by another 25% in the coming months.

Riot Platforms urges further changes to Bitfarms’ board, proposing two independent directors ahead of a special meeting in October.

Solana Foundation’s Dan Albert highlighted the network’s distributed block-producing nodes, arguing that coordinating a patch does not mean centralization.

The crypto lending platform took the 10-month pause to realign its onboarding process with the FCA's guidelines oriented towards investor protection.

South Korea has joined the growing list of global jurisdictions launching probes against Telegram over illicit content dissemination.

Justin Sun’s SunPump community abandons LP token burning in favor of a more transparent onchain buyback and burn process.

The move aims to attract developers and expand XRP Ledger's capabilities, bringing new use cases to its ecosystem.

The majority of the stolen funds are accounted for by a major phishing incident that cost an unfortunate user $55 million.

Elon Musk’s xAI has launched Colossus — now the most powerful AI training system — setting a new benchmark in the AI race with a 100,000 H100 training cluster that will soon double in size.

Bitcoin’s early comeback may last just one week as the ninth month of the year also portends problems for gold.

Gambaryan’s next hearing is set for Sept. 4, where the judge will consider the executive’s latest motion for bail.

Buterin said that the biggest criticism of X’s Community Notes is that they do not appear fast enough. 

A Reddit user’s draft proposal aims to prevent MitM scams in P2P cryptocurrency markets by securing transactions without KYC.

Telegram tap-to-earn games have “finally” brought the mass adoption to crypto the industry has waited for, says Blum founder and CEO Gleb Kostarev.

A wallet address associated with the WazirX hacker has transferred $6.5 million worth of stolen ETH to Tornado Cash as the exchange opens up withdrawals to users ahead of time. 

The flow of money has gone from treasury bills into higher-yielding reverse repos, according to the former BitMEX boss. 

The decentralized trading blockchain Vega Protocol says it expects its alpha mainnet chain to stop within the next three months.