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Capital B has added 376 BTC to its treasury after fresh capital raises, lifting its strategic reserve to 3,521 BTC. The French-listed Bitcoin firm is still below its euro cost basis, but its Bitcoin stack and Bitcoin-native backers keep growing.
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Winona County paid roughly $128,000 after one ransomware attack, only to be hit again months later by a second crew. The blunt takeaway: paying criminals may restore access, but it doesn’t buy immunity — or erase stolen data.
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Senator Cynthia Lummis says a failed CLARITY Act vote could shove U.S. crypto market structure reform all the way to 2030, as Senate math, Democratic resistance, and a tight calendar threaten to kill the bill before it gets a real shot.
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Citi and DBS completed a live Singapore-to-New York U.S. dollar payment in minutes using Swift’s Digital Ledger, showing tokenized deposits can work across borders even on a weekend. It’s a promising proof point for faster bank rails — but still a tightly controlled test, not a full rollout.
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Bitcoin is holding near $79,500 as a packed U.S. macro week looms, with PPI, CPI and Treasury yields poised to swing rates, risk appetite and BTC price action. Softer inflation could give Bitcoin room to run; hotter data may keep the pressure on.
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Bitcoin is hovering near $80,000 as traders weigh a fading halving-cycle buy window against a market now shaped by ETF flows, liquidity, and macro forces. The next test: whether BTC can clear $82,500 and aim for $88,000, or get shoved back by reality.
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Zcash blasted past $1,200, slamming one major Hyperliquid short with about $25.7 million in unrealized losses. The move was fueled by a mix of leverage, renewed privacy-coin interest, and Grayscale’s ZCSH launch — though the wallet’s alleged owner is not independently verified.
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Hyperliquid’s massive HYPE unlock looks ugly on paper, but the market picture is less dramatic: prior unlocks barely hit exchanges, while buybacks, burns, and heavy treasury accumulation are creating a real supply cushion. The unlock is large — the dump is not guaranteed.
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Pi Network is set to activate Protocol 27 on September 15, but the real test is whether new DEX and smart contract features can create enough utility to offset huge 2026 token unlocks. Big user counts are nice; actual on-chain activity is what matters.
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Ripple’s 1 billion XRP escrow unlock barely moved the market, as traders increasingly focus on net supply, ETF inflows, and growing network activity instead of old fear headlines. With legal uncertainty fading and Ripple’s stack expanding, the real question is value capture, not supply panic.
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