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⚡️#Crypto July set a new record for monthly crypto card spending: crypto enthusiasts paid for $1.04 billion worth of goods and services using stablecoins.

👾#Crypto Hackers have stolen 594 BTC from Coldcard Mk3 hardware wallets. On July 30, around 594.5 BTC (roughly $38 million) was drained from about 500 wallets. Every affected address was single-sig — no multisig or Taproot wallets were involved. Seed phrases generated on Mk3 devices running firmware 4.0.1–5.0.3 (released since March 2021) may be compromised due to weak entropy (around 72 bits instead of 128+). In some cases, the random number generator skipped the hardware TRNG and relied on predictable inputs, including button presses during setup. This allowed attackers to reconstruct private keys offline.

🖥#AI HRL Laboratories has unveiled a silicon quantum processor featuring a cryogenic CMOS controller capable of performing real-time quantum error correction without relying on external room-temperature electronics. The system architecture consists of an 18-qubit chip, a cryogenic controller, and a superconducting ribbon cable. According to the researchers, control errors were reduced by a factor of 10 compared to previous demonstrations using this qubit technology, while individual gate operations were completed in under one microsecond. As the number of qubits increased under a repetition-code scheme, the system achieved roughly a fivefold suppression of errors. HRL says this marks the first demonstration of quantum error correction performed entirely by a cryogenic controller, with no involvement from room-temperature electronics.

🇨🇳#AI China's New AI Model: Risk for Bitcoin? - Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3, claiming it outperforms Claude and GPT on coding while being free and open-source. - If its performance is confirmed after the July 27 release, investors may question heavy AI spending, pressuring Nvidia and other AI-related stocks. - Since Bitcoin is increasingly correlated with AI and chip companies, a tech sell-off could also drag BTC lower. Reduced demand for AI infrastructure may also hurt mining firms expanding into AI data centers.

⚡️#BTC Strategy SOLD 3,588 BTC for $216 million to fund dividend payments on its Digital Credit securities.

🔹#ETH Ethereum is no longer the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency. Its spot has been taken by Tether’s USDT stablecoin. Another dollar-pegged stablecoin, Circle’s USDC, is also now among the top five cryptocurrencies by market capitalization.

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🤡#Crypto Michael Saylor admitted that he came up with the idea for STRC preferred shares with the help of ChatGPT.

📉#Crypto Q2 2026 is shaping up to be the worst quarter for ICOs/IDOs in the past five years. Only $58M was raised during the quarter — an 85% drop QoQ. The number of token sales also collapsed by 65%, falling from 105 in Q1 to just 37 in Q2.

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✉️#TON Pavel Durov announced that the native currency of TON will become Gram. TON will remain the name of the blockchain.

🇬🇪#USDT Tether announced plans to introduce GEL₮, a stablecoin pegged to the Georgian lari, in collaboration with the Georgian government. The stablecoin aims to reduce transaction fees, facilitate almost immediate settlements, support programmable payments, and improve digital value transfers. Georgia has also strengthened its regulatory framework for digital assets and stablecoins by addressing reserve management, redemption protections, issuer supervision, and anti-money laundering requirements, while aligning its approach with developing U.S. stablecoin regulations such as the GENIUS Act.

👾#Crypto The hacker group “TeamPCP” claims it gained access to GitHub’s internal systems and stole data from 4,000 private/internal repositories, including company source code and files, attempting to sell the data for $50,000 on dark web forums. GitHub said it is conducting an investigation, during which it discovered a compromised employee device infected through a VS Code extension.

🇮🇷#Crypto Iran has unveiled Hormuz Safe, a government-backed digital maritime insurance platform for ships operating in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, with support for payments and settlements in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

🔹#ETH Ethereum has introduced a new “Clear Signing” open standard designed to reduce the risks associated with blind signing. According to the Ethereum Foundation, the standard allows transaction approvals to display human-readable information instead of complex hexadecimal code, helping users better understand exactly what they are signing before confirming a transaction.

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👾#Crypto Calendar of all crypto hacks that occurred in April 2026: incidents were observed on 22 out of 30 calendar days. Not a single week went by without an incident, and no market segment remained safe. Lending protocols, bridges, wallets, perpetual contracts, gaming — all were affected. Total losses exceeded $630 million!

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👾#LTC Litecoin rolled back a series of invalid MWEB transactions after a zero-day exploit was discovered. The issue stemmed from a vulnerability in the MimbleWimble Extension Block (MWEB) that caused nodes running outdated software to accept a faulty transaction. This flaw allowed attackers to withdraw funds improperly and launch a denial-of-service attack on mining pools. To fix the problem, the network carried out a 13-block reorganization that removed the invalid activity while leaving legitimate transactions intact. The bug has now been patched, and Litecoin is functioning as usual.

👍#POLY Polymarket’s Paris weather market was manipulated through direct physical interference, generating about $34,000 in profit. As reported by Le Monde, an individual took advantage of an unmonitored Météo France temperature sensor near the runway at Charles de Gaulle Airport. Using a portable heat source—believed to be a hair dryer—they temporarily increased the recorded temperature. The person had previously bought unlikely outcomes (like “22°C”) at very low prices on April 6 and April 15, then altered the sensor reading to force the market to resolve in their favor. In response, Météo France has filed a criminal complaint with French authorities.