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Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, August 5th, 2026, Chainwire The former TON executive joins as Director of Strategic Partnerships to form the connections behind ChangeNOW’s next phase. Former TON executive Martin Masser joins ChangeNOW to build strategic partnerships, ecosystem relationships, and media momentum behind its next phase. Masser comes with experience across traditional banking, Web2 and Web3, including senior growth and business development roles within the TON space. At ChangeNOW, he will lead strategic relationships with blockchain networks, wallets, fintech companies, payment providers and other infrastructure partners. His appointment comes as ChangeNOW grows beyond standalone crypto services, transitioning to…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, August 5, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, today unveiled MEXC 0808: Stock Season, the inaugural edition of its annual brand celebration centered on 0 Fees and Infinite Opportunities. Early bird registration is now open, ahead of the main campaign launch on August 8, offering participants the opportunity to compete for a share of a $500,000 prize pool. The launch establishes MEXC 0808 as an annual brand milestone built around 0 Fees and Infinite Opportunities. Zero fees are not limited to a single campaign period. They represent a value that MEXC continues to deliver…

New York City, United States, August 5th, 2026, Chainwire Fourteen-day event with Decibel will pit tokenized stocks, gold and oil against BTC, ETH and SOL in a first-of-its-kind self-custodial competition with a $25,000 USDC prize pool One of the fastest-growing narratives in digital assets is about to face its biggest public test. Tria, the self-custodial neofinance platform, today launched TradFi vs Crypto, the industry’s first trading competition to pit tokenized real-world assets directly against cryptocurrencies under identical conditions on a self-custodial platform. Developed in partnership with Decibel, the Aptos Labs-incubated perpetuals exchange, the fourteen-day competition allows traders to compete across…

PUMP is today’s top performer, followed by ZEC, LIT, and HYPE. After testing the $62,000 support on a couple of occasions since August began, bitcoin has managed to weather the storm and now sits above $64,000 as markets expect a Strait of Hormuz deal to be announced today. Most larger-cap alts have produced contracting performances over the past day. XMR, XRP, and XLM are in the red, while HYPE and ZEC have posted notable gains. BTC Reclaims $64K The US Federal Reserve FOMC meeting brought some intense volatility to the crypto market, as BTC slumped from $65,600 to $62,800 before…

A suspected attack targeting Bitcoin addresses created using 1,367.05 BTC drained 1,367.05 BTC, worth approximately $88.6 million, from 4,585 addresses, according to Galaxy Research. This development came after Coinkite announced an entropy flaw in older firmware versions used to generate seed phrases and urged affected users to move their assets quickly.The flaw lies in how certain Coldcard firmware versions generated seed phrases with lower-than-required randomness, allowing an attacker to narrow the wallet brute-force search space significantly. Coinkite stated that new firmware versions have fixed the bug for future seed generation processes, but cannot “fix” weak seeds that were created previously.COLDCARD…

Just when you thought crypto was getting boring, a new phenomenon is lighting up Crypto Twitter — Fake World Assets (FWAs). Yes, really.It’s the latest iteration of the onchain gacha craze, where users receive a random collectible, or collectibles, that are usually worth very little, but are sometimes worth quite a lot.Within four days of launch, FWAs guzzled so much Ethereum gas that they briefly became the chain’s largest gas consumer by fees over a 24-hour period. At its peak on July 25, FWAs generated approximately $1.53 million in daily fees, and even leapfrogged Tether and Circle to briefly rank…

The defendants allegedly traveled from Missouri to Connecticut to kidnap a Bitcoin holder and force him to transfer cryptocurrency before abandoning the plan.

Caroline Bishop Aug 04, 2026 22:26 GitHub’s Engineering Blog explores the shifting economics of code ownership and AI-driven development, with insights on Copilot and agentic workflows. GitHub’s Engineering Blog has released a new feature exploring the changing economics of software development in the AI era. Titled “The cost of saying yes has changed,” the piece examines how advances in AI tools have driven down the cost of writing code, but left the ongoing costs of maintaining and owning it largely unchanged. This insight is particularly timely as GitHub continues to position itself as the world’s largest developer platform, with over…

Cardano expanded its interoperability, advanced its governance tools, and entered a new development phase as ADA rallied to a one-month high. Cardano’s ecosystem recorded several important developments between July 30 and August 5th. These range from a new cross-chain connection to changes in the way governance representation works. Meanwhile, ADA briefly approached $0.20 after gaining over 20% over the past week. Here are some of the most important Cardano news and an update on ADA’s price action from the past few days. Cardano Connects With Injective Through IBC Cardano and Injective established their very first connection through the Inter-Blockchain Communication…

In brief Bitcoin bridge Boltz has suspended its Bitcoin swap service indefinitely. The company says AI-assisted attacks are outpacing its ability to patch vulnerabilities. Boltz says no user funds were at risk because the platform is non-custodial. Boltz has suspended its Bitcoin swap service indefinitely, saying a surge in AI-assisted attacks has left it unable to continue operating safely.In a series of posts on X on Monday, the company said swaps are disabled “until further notice” and that it cannot provide an estimate for when the service will return.]]>“We can’t give an ETA as of this time, but will provide…