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📰 Strategy says MSCI should measure markets, not dictate corporate assets StrategyMSTR$93.05has pushed back against MSCI’s proposed methodology for identifying “non-operating companies,” which could result in the largest bitcoin treasury company being removed from the index provider’s global equity indexes. Strategy said on X, “Digital assets are assets. Index providers should measure markets, not decide which assets companies are allowed to own,” Strategy said. “MSCI’s proposal puts it out of step with regulators, markets, and its own customers. Bitcoin doesn’t need MSCI. Neither does Strategy.” 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News

📰 Israel’s largest bank to offer crypto trading with Galaxy Bank Leumi, Israel’s largest bank,will offer cryptocurrency trading to customers from early 2027becoming the first Israeli bank to announce such a service. Customers of Leumi and its mobile banking unit, Pepper, will be able to buy, hold and sell bitcoinBTC$63,011.96, etherETH$1,879.26and solana (SOL) through a section of the Leumi Trade app, according to a Friday announcement. 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News

📰 Fear is fading across markets, be it bitcoin, stocks, gold or bonds This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.'Sign up here, if you haven't already. Scan the news and there are plenty of reasons for worry: continued U.S.-Iran escalation risks, mounting sovereign debt and rising bond yields among them. Crypto carries its own set of concerns, including regulatory disappointments, weak demand and hack risks. 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News

📰 Trump family's World Liberty Financial delay plans to sell Maldives resort token World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency project backed by the Trump family, delayed plans to sell a token related to a resort in the Maldives,Bloomberg reported on Friday. The token was planned to go on sale next year, giving investors a share of revenue from loans financing the Trump-branded resort, but this has been pushed back due to the Iran war disrupting travel in the region, according to the report, citing people familiar with the matter. 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News

📰 Bitcoin slips as U.S. inflation fails to spark gains, ETFs see August's first two-day drawdown BitcoinBTC$63,054.16dropped below $63,000, losing 1.14% since midnight UTC as a second day of outflows from spot exchange-traded funds and a lack of bullish catalysts weighed on the crypto market. Spot bitcoin ETFs experienced the first back-to-back days of outflows since late July with $192 million exiting the products, according toSoSoValue. 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News

📰 Cluster of headwinds weigh on bitcoin. XRP teeters near $1 BitcoinBTC$62,975.53is under pressure again while XRP (XRP) teeters near $1 amid a cluster of unfriendly developments over the past 24 hours. Regulatory setbacks are leading the charge. Progress on the Clarity Act has stalled in the Senate, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange commission (SEC)is reportedly set to further delayits long-anticipated "innovation exemption.” That rule is meant to make it easier to trade tokenized securities on blockchain networks under current securities laws. 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News

📰 Bitcoin holders Strategy and Metaplanet face stock-index exclusion under MSCI’s new proposal Top publicly listed bitcoin holding firms, Strategy (MSTR) and Metaplanet (3350), are back in MSCI's crosshairs, months after dodging the index provider's crypto-specific exclusion rule. The finance company hasopened a new consultationthis month, proposing to identify and exclude "non-operating companies" from its Global Investable Market Indexes. The proposed classification would be based on five financial ratios rather than a threshold for cryptocurrency holdings. 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News

📰 JPMorgan shuttered its banking relationship with predictions platform Polymarket: FT JPMorgan Chase stopped providing its banking services to the decentralized prediction market platform Polymarket late last year,according to the Financial Times. In October 2025 the bank told Polymarket it would have to secure a different banking partner amid regulatory worries. Polymarket has already moved to another lender, though that firm’s name remains undisclosed, the FT report said. 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News

📰 U.S. SEC to again delay 'innovation exemption' for tokenization amid Wall Street, White House concerns The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to further delay its anticipated "innovation exemption" designed to accelerate tokenized securities trading after concerns emerged from both the White House and Wall Street over the proposal's legal footing and potential market impact, according to three industry sources familiar with the matter. The exemption, which had been expected to be released in part as soon as this Friday, would have eased regulatory hurdles for firms seeking to issue and trade tokenized securities on blockchain rails under existing securities laws. The SEC had announced an open meeting this Friday to discuss its planned "Reg Crypto" rulemaking, a parallel but unrelated effort to create rules for projects looking to fundraise using tokens. The commission was also expected to share details about the innovation exemption at the same meeting, but not release it through a formal notice-and-comment process. The commissioncanceled that Friday meetinglate Thursday. 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News

📰 SEC cancels long-awaited proposal of Reg Crypto, postponing meeting without new date The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wason the vergeof revealing its first major rulemaking effort in the digital assets sphere, having been set to propose its "Regulation Crypto," but the agencycancelled the Friday meetingin an end-of-day statement on Thursday. "Due to an unforeseen scheduling issue," the SEC is moving the meeting to "a later date," according to a statement from an agency spokesperson. 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News

📰 Tether says it completed long-promised 'Big Four' audit of finances behind $180 billion USDT stablecoin Tether, the company behind the world's largest stablecoin USDTUSDT$0.9990, said Thursday that it hadcompleteda full financial audit for the first time, claiming it delivered on a transparency measure it had promised for years as questions lingered over the assets backing its token. KPMG U.S., one of the “Big Four” accounting firms, audited Tether International's financial statements for the year ended Dec. 31, 2025 and issued an unqualified opinion, Tether said. That means the accounting firm found the statements fairly presented Tether's financial position, results and cash flows in all material respects under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News

📰 Forecasts for $1 million bitcoin price likely look too ambitious, key ratio suggests Asset manager Bitwise is thelatest to predictthat bitcoin could reach $1.3 million within a decade. This isn't new territory. Coinbase'sBrian Armstrong, Block'sJack Dorsey, and Ark Invest'sCathie Woodhave all said versions of it before. A closer look at bitcoin's current price trajectory, adjusted for the "risk-free rate" of traditional finance, suggests these targets may be a little too ambitious. 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News

📰 Trezor warns 14,000 customers after fulfilment partner suffers data breach ShipMonk, Trezor’s fulfillment partner, suffered unauthorized access to its systems, affecting nearly 14,000 customers’ data, thecold storage crypto wallet firm reported Thursday. Trezor said the names, email addresses, phone numbers and shipping addresses of 11,742 customers had been compromised. It also said the names, cities and email addresses of another 1,947 customers were also breached, bringing the estimated number of victims to nearly 14,000 across the U.S., the UK, Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, Italy and Portugal. 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News

📰 B2C2 taps Schroders veteran to chase Asia’s growing crypto wealth Institutional crypto liquidity provider B2C2 has appointed Jason Lai, the former chairman of Schroders Wealth Management Asia, as a senior adviser in Singapore, as the firm looks to deepen its ties with family offices, funds and asset managers across Asia-Pacific, the company said in a press release Thursday. Lai is a veteran of Asia's private wealth industry and the founder of Thirdrock Group, an independent wealth and asset manager established in 2009. Schroders acquired the business in 2019, after which Lai served as CEO of the firm's Asian wealth management unit and later as chairman. He retired from Schroders in 2026. 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News

📰 Figure revenue doubles as blockchain loan marketplace volumes surge Figure Technology Solutions (FIGR), the blockchain lending firm co-founded by former SoFi CEO Mike Cagney, more than doubled its revenue in the second quarter as lending activity surged across its marketplace The company reported $226 million in net revenue for the quarter ended June 30, up 113% from a year earlier. Net income climbed 192% to $87 million, or 35 cents per diluted share, while adjusted EBITDA more than doubled to $119 million. 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News

📰 Bullish shares surge 14% as subscription revenue offsets digital asset slowdown BullishBLSH$27.06, the cryptocurrency platform and parent company of CoinDesk, surged 14% after saying subscription, services and other revenue reached a record $62.7 million in the second quarter. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (ebitda) more than tripled to $29.5 million, while adjusted net income rose to $14.3 million from a year-earlier loss of $6 million,the company said. 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News

📰 Bitcoin holds steady near $64,000 as monero, hyperliquid outperform Bitcoin held near $63,600 after Wednesday’s in-line U.S. inflation print proved enough to calm nerves, but not enough to move markets decisively in either direction. The largest cryptocurrency has added 0.30% since midnight UTC, while the broader crypto market capitalization dropped 0.54% over 24 hours to $2.18 trillion. 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News

📰 MUFG to test real-time blockchain settlement for Japanese government bond trades Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) plans to use blockchain technology tooffer faster settlement of Japanese government bond (JGB) transactions, in a move reminiscent of similar initiatives by banks in other countries. MUFG is preparing a proof-of-concept for onchain JGB transactions using the Canton network to expedite the settlement, which typically takes 1-3 days by traditional means. 🔗 Source: CoinDesk 📌 Read full #Crypto #News