🔥 XRP Holders Can Now Borrow Ripple's RLUSD on Ethereum Without Selling Their Crypto.
Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Flare's FXRP is now accepted as collateral in Sentora's RLUSD vault on Morpho. XRP holders can borrow Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin on Ethereum without selling their XRP. The integration is the first time an XRP-based asset has been approved as collateral in an institutionally curated Ethereum lending vault. Announced on Monday by layer 1 blockchain developer Flare, the integration lets users convert XRP into Flare's FXRP token, bridge it to Ethereum, deposit it as collateral on the Morpho lending protocol, and borrow RLUSD.
Because the loan is backed by collateral rather than a sale, borrowers retain exposure to XRP's price while accessing dollar-pegged liquidity. XRP is one of the largest assets in crypto and one of the least used in DeFi. That gap came down to infrastructure, co-founder and CEO of Flare, Hugo Philion, said in a statement. XRP is now collateral that an institutional risk team underwrites on Ethereum mainnet, which is a stronger form of recognition than another bridge listing. The model is similar to Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), which lets Bitcoin holders use their BTC in Ethereum-based decentralized finance without selling it.
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It documents protective uses including civilian access under sanctions, corporate confidentiality and defense against physical coercion. The report also cites TRM Labs putting 2025 illicit inflows at $158 billion, with 84% of fraud proceeds moving over stablecoin rails. Crypto privacy tools serve essential protective functions that restore a measure of financial privacy that has always existed in TradFi, according to a new report from non-custodial crypto platform ChangeNOW and digital asset management platform CoinRabbit.
Building on data from sources including TRM Labs, Chainalysis, RAND Corporation and the authors own internal research, the report highlights the risks of data exposure on conventional public blockchains. They include financial access under economic sanctions and authoritarian governance, corporate sovereignty as firms transition to blockchain infrastructure, and individual security in the face of scam attempts and wrench attacks. Sanctions fall hardest on the people least able to influence the conduct being punished, the report argues. When Iran was cut off from SWIFT, ordinary citizens lost the ability to receive foreign payments, buy imported goods and collect family remittances, while the political class kept alternative rails.
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🔥 Solo Bitcoin Miner Hits Jackpot, Scoring $200K BTC Reward.
Image: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief A solo miner solved Bitcoin block 960,804 overnight, taking a reward worth close to $200,000. The payout was 3.16 BTC, the 3.125 BTC subsidy plus 0.03 BTC in fees from 4,243 transactions. It was the 317th solo block found through CKPool. A solo Bitcoin miner solved block 960,804 at 02:11 UTC on Monday, netting a reward worth about $200,000.
The block paid 3.15689830 BTC, made up of the 3.125 BTC subsidy and 0.032 BTC in fees from the 4,243 transactions it carried. It was the 317th solo block found through CKPool, the pseudonymous developer known as Dr -ck said, naming the winning address as bc1qdyqjq9qccp34pyv3kxmsrkn7p0amnsqqy8kdeq. Congratulations to miner bc1qdyqjq9qccp34pyv3kxmsrkn7p0amnsqqy8kdeq with a wildly variable - presumably rental - hashrate peaking at 100PH for solving the 317th solo block at Despite the chaos from the hardware wallet exploit, bitcoin just keeps on doing Bitcoin mining pits machines against each other to solve a cryptographic puzzle, with the winner taking the block rewardcurrently 3.125 BTC, a figure that halves roughly every four years. This one was less of a lottery ticket than most.
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🔥 Trump Familys American Bitcoin Tops 8,000 BTC After Record Mining Quarter.
Photo: Token2049/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief American Bitcoin grew its treasury to about 8,002 BTC after mining a record 932 Bitcoin in Q2. Mining revenue climbed to $67 million while the cost to mine each Bitcoin remained largely unchanged. The company narrowed its quarterly net loss despite a weaker Bitcoin price during the period. The Trump family-backed American Bitcoin said Monday it expanded its Bitcoin reserve to more than 8,000 BTC, worth roughly $512 million, during the second quarter after producing a record 932 Bitcoin, underscoring its strategy of pairing large-scale mining with long-term accumulation.
According to American Bitcoin, the company ended June with approximately 8,002 BTC, up about 14% from roughly 7,021 BTC at the end of March. The increase came as the company generated its highest quarterly Bitcoin production since launching in September. Our view of the world is simple: Bitcoin is a growing capital asset, and we believe its long-term compounding will outperform our cost of capital, CEO Mike Ho said in a statement. Despite Bitcoin headwinds in Q2, we stayed focused on what we can control: we delivered our highest quarterly production on record, grew our strategic reserve to over 8,000 Bitcoin, and strengthened the foundation of our business. Mining revenue rose to $67 million from $62.1 million in the first quarter, while the company's cost to mine a Bitcoin held relatively steady at about $36,500 despite higher energy costs.
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🔥 The Coldcard Bitcoin Hack Nears $114 Million in Potential Losses.
Morning Minute: The Coldcard Bitcoin Hack Nears $114 Million in Potential Losses Price data by DecryptNewsOpinionMorning Minute: The Coldcard Bitcoin Hack Nears $114 Million in Potential LossesSelf-custody is under attack, and it's becoming increasingly clear that AI is one of crypto's leading threats.By Tyler WarnerEdited by Stephen GravesAug 3, 2026Aug 3, 20265 min readBitcoin. Source: Shutterstock/DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. The Coldcard Hack Passed $89 Million Before Fourth Wave Coldcard is one of the most trusted hardware wallets in Bitcoin, the kind of air-gapped, offline device serious holders use to keep coins in deep cold storage. Last week, it became the center of one of the largest self-custody thefts ever.
Attackers began systematically draining Bitcoin from Coldcard wallets, exploiting a flaw that let them regenerate users private keys without ever touching the physical device. The cause is a firmware flaw, not phishing. A March 2021 Coldcard update drew wallet seeds from a weak software fallback instead of the hardware random generator, collapsing an Mk3s key security to about 40 bits from the intended 128. That made the keys guessable, which is why coins that sat untouched for years are being swept from wallets that never connected to the internet. One Canadian victim lost 18.25 BTC from keys kept in a safety deposit box, writing that the hardest part was that he did everything right. The theft grew all weekend.
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🔥 Strategy Sells $105M in Bitcoin as Dollar Reserve Hits $4B.
Image: DecryptCreate an account to save your articles.Add on GoogleAdd Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.In brief Strategy sold 1,638 BTC for $104.7 million in the week to Aug 2, leaving 842,138 coins. Half the proceeds funded preferred dividends and half an $81 million STRC buyback. The company has not bought Bitcoin since June. Strategy sold 1,638 BTC for $104.7 million in the week to Aug 2, according to an 8-K filed Monday, cutting its Bitcoin stack to 842,138 BTC from the 843,775 it had held since early July. The coins went at an average of $63,957, net of fees.
The sales leave Strategy with an aggregate cost basis of $63.51 billion, or $75,419 per Bitcoin$11,462 more than it took for this week's coins. Strategy said $52.4 million of the sale proceeds funded dividends on its preferred stock and $52.3 million went toward repurchasing STRC shares. The repurchase came to $81.2 million, or 912,143 STRC shares, with the remaining $28.9 million funded out of common stock sales. It is Strategy's second buyback under a $1 billion program announced June 29 and first used last week with a $25 million purchase, leaving $893.8 million of authorization outstanding. The company said the week's moves extended what it calls its USD duration by 57 days, to 2.3 years, and tightened STRC's Bitcoin credit spread by five basis points.
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🔥 Coldcard Bitcoin Exploit Balloons to $88 Million as Attackers Keep Draining Wallets.
Galaxy's Alex Thorn described the sweeps as deliberate and likely LLM-orchestrated, warning that every single-sig Coldcard address created after the March 2021 firmware flaw will eventually be drained. The breach has spurred an unusual reversal of the not your keys, not your coins ethos as users move Bitcoin back to exchanges. The theft of Bitcoin from compromised Coldcard hardware wallets is still underway, with researchers now tracking losses of roughly $88 million and warning that every vulnerable device will eventually be emptied.
Galaxy Research said Saturday it has identified a third wave of thefts, in which 207.73 BTC was drained, lifting its observed tally to about 1,367 BTCaround $88.6 millionacross 4,585 addresses. The firm called the exploit ongoing and urged anyone holding single-signature funds on a Coldcard to move them at once. Galaxy said it has flagged roughly 600 suspected attacker addresses to federal investigators, compliance firms and cross-industry cyber investigators, crediting victims who shared transaction details for helping map the on-chain patterns.
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同社は金曜日、この認可の下でCircleは「Circle New York Trust」として事業を行うと発表しました。認可は2015年に受け取ったBitLicense(ビットライセンス)を土台にしているとしつつ、CEOのジェレミー・アラー氏は声明で、ニューヨークの信託認可を得ることは長年の目標だったと述べ、この承認を同社にとって重要なマイルストーンだと位置づけました。この認可は、10年以上にわたる規制対応への取り組みを反映しており、デジタルドルが世界の金融システムの中心になっていく中で、USDCを強固で評価の高い枠組みに位置付けます。さらに、この認可によりCircle New York TrustはNYDFSの監督下に置かれます。