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In brief CZ warned on X that even hardware wallets and long-established wallets can have bugs, suggesting holders split their funds across several wallets to mitigate risk while noting no setup is fully foolproof. The warning follows a Coldcard exploit stemming from a March 2021 firmware build error that drew seeds from a software fallback instead of the hardware generator, making private keys far easier to guess. Galaxy Research, mapping the fund flows from a pattern identified by Block engineers, now pegs losses at about 1,082.65 BTC (~$70.2 million) across 1,196 addresses—nearly double the original $38 million estimate. Binance founder…

Lite Strategy, a Nasdaq-listed company that holds Litecoin as its primary reserve asset, spent about $5.4 million repurchasing roughly 4.9 million shares through July 17. The company funded the purchases with an undisclosed mix of LTC sales and covered-call premiums.The transaction shrank Lite Strategy’s reported Litecoin holdings but appears to have lifted LTC backing per outstanding common share by about 1.7%.In a July 30 filing, the company said it paid an average of $1.11 and retired about 13% of the shares outstanding when the program began, without using debt. It reported 819,070 LTC and 31,882,648 outstanding common shares as of…

Holders of Strategy’s (MSTR) high-yielding preferred stock STRC will not see a dividend increase in August.Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, Strategy is maintaining the current 12% dividend on the shares.STRC investors may have been expecting as much as a 50-basis-point hike in the dividend as Strategy has customarily raised the payout anytime the stock traded sizably below its par value ($100) for the month.As recently as July 1, Strategy had lifted the dividend 50 basis points following June’s plunge in STRC to as low as $71. While that hike — along with Strategy’s sale of some bitcoin to fund…

Jessie A Ellis Aug 01, 2026 22:13 Tezos, launched over a decade ago, continues to evolve with cutting-edge upgrades while staying true to its foundational blockchain principles. As Tezos (XTZ) nears the 12th anniversary of its whitepaper on September 2, 2026, the blockchain finds itself at a crossroads unique to older crypto projects: how to stay relevant in a field dominated by newer, faster, and more modular architectures. While many associate “old” blockchains with stagnation, Tezos is making the case that longevity doesn’t have to mean irrelevance. Launched in 2014 and officially live…

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Thursday’s record Yen defence is the story everyone has written. Friday is the one that matters, because the Dollar has been sold in three separate lurches since the Tokyo morning, nobody has claimed any of them, and the US Treasury has told a number of banks through the New York Fed that it may enter the market and they should stand ready for further action. USD/JPY trades just under 159.00 late in the session, a Yen and a half beneath where the day began.The second round is the cheap oneThe pattern reads like an operation rather than a market. The…

Gold price tumbles nearly 1.50% on Friday as the US Dollar recovers some ground after Japanese authorities intervened in the foreign exchange markets a day ago, driving the Greenback to a 30-day low before recovering, according to the US Dollar Index (DXY). The XAU/USD trades at $4,045.XAU/USD drops as Treasury yields, Fed dissents and inflation risks pressure BullionThe yellow metal is poised to finish the week with losses of over 0.11%, unable to decisively crack the $4,100 milestone.  At the same time, the DXY, which tracks the performance of the buck’s value against six currencies, is down 0.05%, at 99.91,…

The USD/CHF bounces off weekly lows and meanders around 0.8080 after hitting a daily high of 0.8127, amid presumed intervention, with Nikkei reporting that the US Treasury Department has told currency market participants to prepare for additional intervention, following Thursday’s action by Japanese authorities to boost the Yen.USD/CHF Price Forecast: Technical outlookThe USD/CHF rebounded, reaffirming its upward bias. The market structure suggests the uptrend will continue as long as spot prices remain above the 50-day SMA and the July 10 cycle low of 0.8010.The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is turning bearish, aiming upwards, an indication that a recovery may be…

Guerre au Moyen-Orient, incendies à répétition dans le Sud de l’Europe… Les derniers mois ont présenté leur lot de défis pour AXA, mais le géant de l’assurance s’est dit confiant dans sa capacité à atteindre ses objectifs financiers. La croissance de son résultat opérationnel par action devrait se situer « dans le haut de sa fourchette cible » qui est comprise entre 6 % et 8 %. Porté par l’ensemble de ses grands métiers, le groupe français a publié des résultats semestriels solides, en attendant la présentation de son prochain plan stratégique en septembre, dans lequel il se fixera de nouveaux objectifs à horizon trois ans.Guillaume Borie,…

Vessels transiting through the Gulf of Oman are pictured off the coast of Muscat on July 25, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images) / – | Afp | Getty ImagesA tanker near Oman reported being struck overnight, with another saying it saw an explosion nearby as Iran warned Washington that the U.S. military’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would result in the closure of key shipping routes.Separately, Kuwait said its air defenses confronted hostile drone attacks by Iran.The latest conflict comes amid U.S. media reports that U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing for a fresh round of strikes…