The Brutalist Report

Coindesk

• Trump Media pulls back from crypto, scraps Crypto.com's CRO token treasury deal [17d]
• Trump-Backed American Bitcoin director Justin Mateen buys nearly $2 million of ABTC stock [17d]
• U.S. widens Iran crypto crackdown with sanctions on two exchanges [18d]
• BitMEX sale collapsed as buyers balked at founder ownership and shrinking business [18d]
• Bybit sues North Korea and Lazarus Group over $1.5 billion hack, secures asset freeze [18d]
• OKX's Rafique doubts Clarity Act will pass, warns optimism is already priced into bitcoin [18d]
• How a five-second trick let traders drain millions from Polymarket [18d]
• A part of FTX survived, and it’s the case for the CLARITY Act [18d]
• Russia cracks down on unlicensed crypto exchanges it claims are linked to Ukraine [18d]
• The U.S. lost 23,000 jobs in July, far shy of forecasts for a gain of 80,000 [18d]
• After a Clarity Act funeral, the crypto world would keep turning [18d]
• Why Bitcoin's BIP-110 refuses to die despite near-zero miner support [18d]
• Bitcoin’s volatility has nearly disappeared. The risk hasn’t. [18d]
• Bitcoin hovers below $65,000 as Middle East tensions escalate further [18d]
• Coldcard fallout shows up onchain as 210,000 bitcoin leaves old wallets [18d]
• Crypto market maker Wintermute lands SEC approval to trade equities and ETF blocks [18d]
• Ethereum staking token weETH splits from restaking as rewards debate heats up [18d]
• Live updates: Bitcoin flat at $64,300 before US jobs report, with oil back as a headwind [18d]
• Bitcoin whales load up on $1.2 billion in BTC as ETFs attract $750 million [18d]
• Bitcoin wallet dormant since 2011 moves $3.2 million toward FalconX-linked address [18d]
• A case for a bitcoin surge to $76,000 may be building beneath the boring price action, but there's a caveat [18d]
• XRP leads majors losses as Clarity Act vote slips to September [18d]
• Senate won't vote on crypto Clarity Act before its summer break [18d]