Articles by Khal
Latest from Khal
-
BitMart Shuts Down After 9 Years, Users Face Withdrawal Delays
BitMart announced the closure of its trading platform after nine years, halting new deposits and orders on July 26. On-chain data shows ETH and stablecoins drained from exchange wallets, with users reporting withdrawal delays and stuck funds.
-
Strategy Extends Bitcoin Pause to Five Weeks, Adds $525M Cash
Strategy extended its longest Bitcoin buying pause in two years to five consecutive weeks, instead adding $525 million to its cash reserve and reaching $3.75 billion, while deploying its first preferred stock buyback of $25 million in STRC shares.
-
Securitize wins SEC adviser license as tokenization expands
Securitize Capital registered with the SEC as an investment adviser, broadening the tokenization firm's regulated offerings alongside existing broker-dealer and transfer-agent licenses as vaults grow to $8.6 billion in assets.
-
Crypto Is Infrastructure for AI Agents, Says Coinbase CEO Armstrong
Brian Armstrong argues that crypto firms pivoting away from blockchain to chase AI represent flawed "zero-sum thinking," and that crypto will instead serve as the financial rails for autonomous agents that can't use traditional banking.
-
Shiba Inu 35% Rally Reverses; Futures Open Interest Drops 25%
Shiba Inu experienced a dramatic reversal after surging more than 35% in a single day, with futures open interest falling 25% within 24 hours as traders exited positions. The token's price dropped over 7% to $0.0000050 by July 27.
-
Bitcoin options traders cut downside hedges ahead of Fed rate decision
Bitcoin options traders have sharply reduced put-call ratios and collapsed near-term downside protection, betting on a quiet week despite Wednesday's Federal Reserve rate decision. The market is pricing in a 15% odds of a July rate hike.
-
Antares Nuclear raises $470M for US military microreactors
Antares Nuclear, founded in 2023, raised $470 million to develop microreactors for US military installations. The startup achieved criticality at Idaho National Laboratory in June 2026, becoming the first privately developed advanced reactor to reach this milestone under the DOE Reactor Pilot Program.
-
Bitcoin ETFs Post Third Week of Inflows as Flows Slow to $33.8M
Bitcoin ETFs recorded their third consecutive week of net inflows despite a $465 million weekend outflow, closing the week with $33.8 million in net inflows. Weekly inflows have declined sharply from $197.4 million two weeks ago, raising questions about momentum sustainability.
-
Bitcoin rebounds to $65K as Fed decision looms over geopolitical relief
Bitcoin reclaimed $65,000 on Monday as a pause in US-Iran strikes eased geopolitical risk, but Wednesday's Federal Reserve decision could derail the relief rally. Inflation data showed cooling pressures, yet market expectations for rate action remain divided.
-
Bitcoin Steadies as Iran-U.S. Pause Sends Oil Tumbling, Lifts Risk Assets
Bitcoin held near $65,200 on Monday as crude oil plunged 7% following a U.S.-Iran pause over the Strait of Hormuz, boosting equities and crypto markets ahead of a pivotal Fed rate decision Wednesday.
-
Ethereum Whale Accumulates 25,425 ETH in $50M Two-Hour Buying Sprint
Three recently established wallets believed to be part of the same entity spent $50.04 million DAI to acquire 25,425 ETH at an average price of $1,968, coinciding with Ethereum's recovery of key technical resistance levels.
-
OpenAI establishes Dublin as EU headquarters, plans 400-person EMEA hub
OpenAI designated Dublin its official European Union headquarters and committed to hiring up to 400 employees over three years as part of an aggressive continental expansion, supported by roughly €105 million in Irish investment.
-
Senate to vote on Digital Asset Market Clarity Act within seven days
The U.S. Senate is set to vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, a comprehensive crypto market structure bill, within seven days. The legislation establishes federal oversight by both the CFTC and SEC, and has already advanced past the Senate Banking Committee.
-
Security study finds 31 vulnerabilities in x402 crypto payment standard
Researchers uncovered 31 previously unknown vulnerabilities across 15 major facilitators of x402, an HTTP-native payment standard, affecting 99% of observed transactions. The study validated two free-shopping attacks and identified asset-theft paths, with three affected companies acknowledging fixes as of February.
-
ECB M3 money supply grows to 3.2% as eurozone lending accelerates
The ECB's broadest money measure climbed to 3.2% annual growth in May 2026, while household lending also ticked higher. The expansion occurred weeks after the central bank raised rates, signaling resilient underlying demand in the eurozone economy.
-
Empery Digital sells 1,400 BTC, pivots $87M into AI data centers
Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin treasury firm Empery Digital sold 1,400 BTC for $87.1 million and deployed capital into AI infrastructure, taking an 8% stake in Cardinal Data Power while committing to a separate Midwest property acquisition.
-
Eutelsat, SES to receive $6.1 billion in FCC C-band relocation payments
Eutelsat and SES disclosed on July 27 that they expect to collectively receive around $6.1 billion in incentive payments from the US Federal Communications Commission for clearing portions of the C-band satellite spectrum to make room for 5G expansion.
-
Bitcoin stays range-bound near $65,500 as mega-cap earnings loom
Jeff Ko, chief analyst at CoinEx, expects bitcoin to remain range-bound this week as oil retreats, the 10-year Treasury yield approaches 4.7%, and Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon report earnings that could indirectly shape crypto liquidity.
-
Quantum threat to crypto isn't cryptography—it's governance speed
As quantum computing milestones accelerate, cryptography experts argue Bitcoin and decentralized blockchains face a unique vulnerability: the inability to achieve consensus fast enough to deploy quantum-resistant defenses before a cryptographically relevant quantum computer emerges.
-
Scaramucci: Clarity Act Is Major Improvement Over Crypto 'Wild West'
SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci argues the Clarity Act represents a significant regulatory step forward for crypto, despite ongoing concerns from some Democrats about ethics provisions.
-
AI Chatbots Amplifying Russian Propaganda, NewsGuard Audit Finds
A March 2025 audit by NewsGuard revealed that leading AI chatbots repeated false narratives from the Pravda network about 33% of the time, with seven models directly citing Pravda-affiliated sites. The discovery has prompted European officials to flag risks ahead of upcoming elections.
-
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP spot ETFs see $152M weekly inflows
Crypto spot ETFs tracking Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP attracted over $152 million in net inflows during mid-July 2026, with Bitcoin leading at $203.2 million on a single day. The sustained inflows signal institutional appetite for regulated digital asset exposure.
-
Triple-A confirms treasury breach, $11.8M in losses
Singapore-based stablecoin payments firm Triple-A disclosed an unauthorized access to its treasury wallets resulting in approximately $11.8 million in losses, though client funds remained unaffected and the company absorbed the impact through reserves.
-
AI Companies Spent $41M on Lobbying in H1 2026
Eleven leading AI firms deployed $41 million on Washington lobbying in H1 2026, an 8% increase from the prior year. The spending surge reflects industry efforts to shape federal AI regulation and block state-level rules.