Crypto News Flash

Crypto hacks, scams, and exploits caused over $1.3 billion in gross losses during the first half of 2026, with several large incidents dominating the recorded

SBI Ventures Asset Pte. Ltd. closed on a majority stake in Coinhako on July 16, folding Southeast Asia's longest-running licensed crypto exchange into a Japanese financial conglomerate that already counts more than 14 million users across its brokerage, banking, and insurance arms. Taken on its own, the deal looks like a routine acquisition in a year full of them. Taken alongside everything SBI Holdings has announced since late June, four other announcements in five weeks, the Coinhako purchase reads as the final piece of a corridor SBI has been assembling in full public view over five weeks. SBI's buildout looks different from the Circle- and Tether-centered infrastructure stories dominating Western crypto coverage this year: a Tokyo securities house trying to own every layer between a Japanese yen and a Southeast Asian retail account.

Ledger opened its Agent Stack toolkit to the public on July 16, 2026, giving developers a standardized way to let AI agents read crypto balances and analyze portfolios, then draft the transactions that would move funds, all without ever touching the private keys behind them. The Paris-based hardware wallet maker built the release around a single constraint: an agent can draft a swap or a payment, but the decision to execute it still has to pass through a physical button press on a Ledger device, confirmed by the person who owns the wallet. The launch follows

Summary NOXA generated roughly $12 million in protocol fees in under two weeks of activity on Robinhood Chain.

YouTube is one of the most influential platforms in modern media, but its origin story is surprisingly simple: a small team wanted an easier way to share

Bitcoin moved from roughly $62,600 before the latest U.S. inflation report to a monthly high near $65,500, only to return toward the $63,000-$64,000 area as

Nothing shuts down. That is the first thing to understand about Saturday's missed deadline: the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation failed to finalize joint rules for payment stablecoins under the

Bitcoin's BIP 110 proposal, a one-year softfork that would reimpose strict limits on how much arbitrary data miners can embed inside transactions,

The proposed fund would hold WLD tokens directly and seek a Nasdaq listing under the ticker GWLD.

Summary Senate negotiators settled the ethics dispute that had stalled the CLARITY Act for weeks.