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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…

Another Friday has rolled around, and this one is the last of the month, meaning a much bigger Bitcoin and Ethereum options expiry event. Around 149,000 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, July 31, with a notional value of roughly $9.57 billion. This expiry is much larger than usual events, being the end of the month, so it may induce spot market volatility. Crypto markets have retreated slightly this week, with around $25 billion leaving the space following the Fed’s decision to leave rates unchanged and the resumption of military action between the US and Iran. Bitcoin Options Expiry…

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CXMT Corp (688825) jumped 8.95% on Friday to close at 57.60 yuan (about $8.51), extending its rally through a fifth trading day on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The Chinese memory chipmaker has grown continuously in the few days since its record initial public offering (IPO) last week, pushing its market capitalization to roughly 3.54 trillion yuan, or about $523 billion. Why CXMT Keeps Climbing CXMT, short for ChangXin Memory Technologies, listed on Shanghai’s STAR Market on July 27. Shares surged as much as 466% on opening day. The move briefly pushed CXMT past Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to…

Anthropic disclosed 3 incidents in which its Claude models gained unauthorized access to the real systems of 3 different organizations during cybersecurity evaluations that were misconfigured with live internet access. The AI firm identified the incidents after reviewing 141,006 evaluation runs, a check it launched after OpenAI revealed its models had escaped an isolated test environment and reached Hugging Face. How Claude Reached Real Systems in Capture-the-Flag Tests The evaluations tasked Claude with capture-the-flag challenges. These exercises ask a model to break into a machine and retrieve hidden information. Anthropic told the models they had no internet access. However, a…

Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis has again attacked the Democrats for holding back the long-awaited crypto Clarity Act.  Speaking on the Crypto in America podcast Thursday, Lummis said that the bill could have been passed months ago but is unfairly being held back.  Lawmakers are hoping the Clarity Act gets passed before Congress departs for August recess. While the bill has been drafted bipartisanly, some Democrats are unhappy with the current version.  JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Sen. Cynthia Lummis says a Senate vote is still on track before the August recess 👀”Sen. Thune has kept a place for the CLARITY ACT on…

An ascent to $9 or further crash to $0.50: what comes next for ICP? Many leading cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Ripple (XRP), are currently trading far below their historic peaks, yet none of these declines compares to the massive crash that Internet Computer (ICP) has suffered. Despite the bloodbath, several analysts refuse to lose hope and think a resurgence could be on the horizon. On the other hand, pessimists believe things are likely to deteriorate even further from here. The Bright Side ICP began trading in May 2021, and during its early days, its price briefly skyrocketed…

Roughly 594 bitcoin, worth about $38 million, was swept out of around 500 separate wallets between 01:31 and 01:56 UTC on Friday in an attack traced to a flaw in how Coldcard hardware wallets generated their keys.The theft moved 1,324 chunks of bitcoin across 500 transactions inside a three-block window, with 562 BTC then consolidated into a single address that has not moved.Every drained wallet was single-signature and each held more than 0.15 BTC. Many had been dormant for years and the coins spanned 2021 to 2026, matching the flaw’s age almost exactly.Coldcard is a hardware wallet built by Canadian…