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Odaily News: Bank Leumi, Israel's largest and oldest commercial bank, has announced a partnership with cryptocurrency company Galaxy Digital, planning to launch Bitcoin, Ether, and Solana trading services on the Leumi Trade investment app and mobile banking platform PEPPER in early 2027, subject to approval from the Bank of Israel. Customers will be able to buy, hold, and sell related crypto assets through their bank accounts, without needing to open accounts on separate exchanges or use personal wallets. Galaxy Digital will provide institutional trading platforms and custody infrastructure, while Bank Leumi intends to operate under a white-label model where customers do not hold private keys. Bank Leumi previously announced a partnership with Paxos in 2022 to offer crypto trading services, but it did not receive regulatory approval. Fees, trading limits, the asset list, and external wallet withdrawal rules for this service have not yet been disclosed, and custodied crypto assets do not enjoy the same deposit insurance coverage as shekel deposits. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: Analyst Killa stated on platform X that his spot positions are fully loaded, and he has been holding a Bitcoin swing long position with 2x leverage since $62,600, while also deploying a 10x leverage long strategy in batches across sub-accounts. Bitcoin has already retraced 54%, and based on mathematical calculations, he believes the maximum drawdown could range from 65% to 68%. The strategy sets up three 10x leverage long orders with entry prices of $62,600, $57,100, and $51,600, corresponding to liquidation prices of $57,100, $51,600, and $46,100 respectively, with $10,000 margin used for each group. If Bitcoin reaches $126,000, the three long orders are expected to yield profits of $101,300, $120,700, and $144,200 respectively. Killa stated that he actually split this strategy into 4 to 5 entries, and if the first two groups of long orders get liquidated, the profits from the final group of long orders can cover the related losses.
Bitcoin News announced on X platform that @BitcoinatBlock has updated its Bitcoin roadmap, having rolled out multiple features across its products over the past year. Recently launched features include: - Cash App supports Bitcoin purchases via ACH. - More readable Bitcoin addresses. - Dollar payments via the Lightning Network. - Square merchants support Bitcoin payments and Tap to Pay. - 5% Bitcoin cashback. - Increased withdrawal limits and reduced fees. - Open-source mining management through Proto. Features currently in development include: automatic withdrawals to Bitkey, Coin Control, multi-account support, and multi-beneficiary inheritance.
According to a post by MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy has upgraded the dashboard for four preferred stock products: STRC, STRD, STRK, and STRF, adding metrics such as Bitcoin rating, after-tax effective yield, and one-year Sharpe ratio. These new tools can be used to evaluate the yield levels, credit quality, downside protection, and risk-adjusted returns of the relevant products.
Grayscale Research Director Zach Pandl stated in a post that the Ethereum and Solana blockchain networks are considering adjusting their token economic models to reduce future token supply growth by lowering annual inflation rates, thereby enhancing asset scarcity. As key blockchain-native assets underpinning the stablecoin and tokenized asset ecosystems, the prices of ETH and SOL are primarily determined by supply and demand dynamics. If relevant code upgrade proposals are approved, all else being equal, lower supply growth could support token prices. ETH and SOL are becoming important digital commodities underpinning stablecoins and the tokenization of real-world assets, and tokenomic adjustments to lower inflation may further strengthen the scarcity attributes of both. According to Grayscale's analysis, if relevant adjustments are implemented, the supply inflation rates of BTC, ETH, and SOL will continue to decline over the next five years. It is projected that by the end of 2031, the annual inflation rates for Bitcoin and Ethereum will both be approximately 0.4%, while Solana will be around 1.1%, lower than gold's annual supply growth rate of approximately 1.8% and the US CPI inflation level of approximately 3.3%.
According to Calcalist, Israel's Bank Leumi announced a cooperation agreement with Nasdaq-listed company Galaxy Digital, planning to launch cryptocurrency trading services within the Leumi Trade application, allowing customers to buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. The service is expected to go live in early 2027, but requires regulatory approval from the Bank of Israel. This collaboration will integrate Galaxy's Galaxy Custody (formerly GK8) blockchain infrastructure and custody services to provide customers with access to regulated digital assets.
Odaily News – Israel's Bank Leumi has announced a partnership with Galaxy Digital to offer clients bitcoin and other digital asset trading services starting in 2027. The initial offerings will include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and others, making Bank Leumi the first bank in Israel to provide digital asset trading services to its clients. In addition, Leumi will integrate Galaxy's digital asset custody infrastructure platform to provide underlying security architecture support for the bank's digital asset services. (PRNewswire)
Odaily News: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has once again postponed its plan for a tokenization "innovation exemption." The framework was intended to allow companies to test blockchain-based tokenized trading of U.S. stocks without meeting full exchange and broker-dealer standards. The delay is tied to unresolved negotiations over Section 10505 of the draft CLARITY Act in the U.S. Senate. That provision stipulates that tokenized securities remain securities and requires the SEC to study custody, consumer protection, cross-border issues, and regulatory coordination. The SEC also postponed a vote scheduled for Friday on a proposed exemption for crypto startup fundraising, citing scheduling issues, with no new date announced. The House version of the CLARITY Act passed in July 2025, and the Senate Banking Committee version advanced by a 15-9 vote in May of this year. A procedural Senate vote is not expected before September 15. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), a whale holding $125 million worth of BTC short positions added 258 BTC to their position again today. The latest short position is updated to 1,900 BTC, with an average entry price of $63,582, and current unrealized profit has reached $1.794 million. This whale previously persisted in shorting even after being stopped out three times, and added 330 BTC to the position earlier today, pushing the position beyond $110 million (1,742 BTC), earning an additional $118,000 in funding fees.
Odaily News - According to Gate's July wealth management monthly report, the cryptocurrency market continued its cautious recovery in July, with total market capitalization rising to $2.26 trillion, up approximately 7.6% month-over-month. BTC and ETH gained 7.3% and 18.5%, respectively. During the market recovery, demand for stable returns and diversified strategies increased, keeping Gate's wealth management business active.In conservative wealth management, Gate's fixed-term holdings in Yu Bi Bao saw BTC grow 7.3% month-over-month, while USDT surged 70.4%. Total GUSD minting rose from approximately 182 million at the start of the month to around 215 million by month-end, at one point exceeding 230 million. In advanced wealth management, Gate's dual-currency investment for BTC low-buy and high-sell strategies delivered annualized yields of 95.5% and 113.5% for 0-day terms, respectively, surpassing market averages by 34.4 and 32.6 percentage points. In July, the quantitative fund's USDT strategy posted an average monthly return of 3.0%, with Star Pioneer leading at 4.2%. Star Hedging achieved a cumulative return of 19.1%, maintaining a 100% monthly win rate for 25 consecutive months.In equity assets, Gate's platform trading structure shifted with market conditions. Korean stock trading accounted for approximately 90% at the start of the month, before U.S. stock trading rebounded to around 70%. In terms of holdings, SK Hynix ranked first with a 59.3% share, followed by SpaceX at 15.2%, reflecting that platform users' asset allocation is further expanding to cover diverse areas such as crypto assets, stable-yield products, structured strategies, and stocks.
According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a whale previously shorted Bitcoin on a scale of $114 million. After three stop-losses, the whale added another 330 BTC in the early morning, pushing long positions back above $110 million to 1,742 BTC. The average opening price has been updated to $63,709, with an unrealized profit of $292,000 and an additional $118,000 earned through funding fees.
Odaily News, according to Bitcoin News monitoring, new research released by @PraveenPerera shows that the Coldcard attacker appears to have first identified vulnerable addresses, then sorted them by BTC balance, and began transferring funds in batches starting from the addresses with the highest holdings. The actual transfer software used was relatively crude. One address had 225 spendable UTXOs, and the attacker happened to extract the most recent 200, leaving the earliest 25, including one UTXO worth 0.16 BTC. This is fully consistent with the 200-record limit that a blockchain API investigated by the researchers returns by default, suggesting the attacker may have failed to load the next page of data. The software even spent a 294-satoshi UTXO, reportedly increasing transaction fees by approximately 2,040 satoshis, with the spending amount clearly exceeding the UTXO's own value. Based on this, the study's author believes the tool's builder may have a stronger understanding of account balance systems than of Bitcoin's UTXO model. Although the attacker appears to have obtained victims' full seeds, at least 75 BTC remain in other addresses derived from the same seeds. The biggest mystery at present is that 132.95 BTC still remain across the 153 compromised addresses, and researchers have been unable to reproduce the seeds behind these addresses, so they cannot rule out the possibility that the attacker obtained undisclosed private device data or candidate data.
Odaily News: Cryptocurrency market maker Wintermute plans to invest approximately $1 billion over the next five years in AI infrastructure and high-frequency trading systems, while expanding into equities, commodities, foreign exchange, and prediction markets. The company aims to increase non-crypto revenue to more than 50% of total revenue by the end of 2027. Wintermute founder and CEO Evgeny Gaevoy said the company plans to fund the investment with retained earnings. Wintermute's average daily trading volume this year is around $10 billion, down from approximately $15 billion last year; non-crypto businesses currently account for about 10% of revenue. The investment projects will cover computing power, storage, network, and data center infrastructure, supporting quantitative strategies that rely on large-scale datasets and models requiring continuous training and retraining. Wintermute has already expanded into exchange-traded funds, real-world asset perpetual futures, and prediction markets. Wintermute's U.S. affiliate recently completed its broker-dealer registration, allowing it to trade equities and stock options for its own account and serve as an authorized participant for exchange-traded products. The registration provides a pathway for the company to enter regulated securities markets. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: Bitcoin fell to $62,912 on Thursday before briefly recovering above $63,000, with its market cap dropping to $1.26 trillion, still down 0.5% on the day. The total amount of liquidations in the crypto market reached $227 million, with long liquidations at $122 million and short liquidations at approximately $105 million. Bitcoin long liquidations amounted to nearly $34 million, an increase of over $13 million from the previous day. AMINA Research noted in its macro analysis that geopolitical risks in the Strait of Hormuz have driven phased increases in energy prices, raising inflation risks and potentially delaying the Fed's rate cuts until late 2026. At the July 29 meeting, three regional Fed presidents supported a 25-basis-point rate hike. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: Cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX has announced that it will fully shut down its platform at 4:00 (UTC) on September 23, 2026. BitMEX CEO Peter Wilkinson stated that the exchange has been operating for over 11 years and has never lost customer funds due to hacker attacks during that period. Peter Wilkinson noted that BitMEX failed to keep pace with its competitors, having long focused on derivatives business while failing to offer spot trading, yield products, custody, and stablecoin trading services in a timely manner. The exchange also entered the USDT market relatively late, in 2021. He stated that BitMEX once supported its founding team in pioneering perpetual swaps, a product that has since become one of the highest-trading-volume financial instruments in the crypto industry and is now widely used for leveraged cryptocurrency trading. (Bitcoin.com News)
Decentralized finance platform Ether.fi announced that its self-custody app has added trading for tokenized stocks, metals, and crypto assets, along with the ability to borrow against multiple holdings as collateral. Users can lend assets or borrow against a portfolio through the integrated Aave market on Optimism, allowing them to transfer or spend borrowed funds without selling their positions. Ether.fi stated that its fiat accounts support global deposits and withdrawals across more than 30 currencies and payment methods. However, tokenized stock and metal trading is not available to users in the United States and certain other markets. Fiat accounts are only open to users who have completed payment card identity verification, and deposit and withdrawal speeds may vary. Ether.fi will also introduce automatic ETHFI buybacks and offer 3% cashback on card spending. Ether.fi founder and CEO Mike Silagadze said that initial support will cover Ethereum, Bitcoin, Hyperliquid, ETHFI, and select tokenized stocks and gold, with additional collateral assets to be added later. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: Bitcoin News posted on X platform that, after a logistics provider data breach exposed the personal information of 13,689 customers, Trezor stated it is prioritizing the launch of an "anonymous delivery" option. Users can place orders using a nickname or tag ID, have devices delivered to automated parcel lockers, and receive them in unbranded packaging, with purchase information not linked to home addresses or real identities. Trezor plans to roll out this option in the EU in September and in the US by the end of the year.
Odaily Planet Daily: Crypto asset trading platform Bullish has announced its financial results for Q2 2026. The company stated that as global securities markets gradually migrate to public blockchains, Bullish is planning to build a comprehensive issuer-supported tokenized securities service system covering issuance, listing, trading, and tracking.Bullish CEO Tom Farley stated that the global securities market, valued at nearly $300 trillion, is transitioning to public blockchains, and Bullish aims to work with issuers to drive this process. Upon completion of the proposed acquisition of Equiniti, the company will form an integrated platform covering tokenized securities issuance, listing, trading, and tracking.Financial data shows that Bullish's Q2 digital asset sales reached $32.6 billion, down from $58.6 billion in the same period last year; the net loss was $280 million, compared to a net profit of $108.3 million in the same period last year, corresponding to a diluted loss per share of $1.78.However, the company's core business performance improved. Q2 adjusted revenue (non-IFRS) reached $92.6 million, up 62% year-over-year from $57 million in the same period last year; among which subscription, services, and other revenue hit a record $62.7 million. Adjusted trading revenue was $29.9 million, up 24% year-over-year; adjusted EBITDA was $29.5 million, compared to $8.1 million in the same period last year; adjusted net profit was $14.3 million, compared to a loss of $6 million in the same period last year.In terms of business progress, Bullish stated that the acquisition of UK fintech company Equiniti is progressing and is expected to be completed in early 2027, subject to customary conditions including regulatory approvals. Additionally, Bullish's CoinDesk indices continue to gain institutional adoption. Morgan Stanley has launched Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana-related trading products based on CoinDesk benchmark indices, attracting over $400 million in inflows during Q2.On the regulatory front, Bullish has received approval from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC) to provide secondary trading services for tokenized securities, becoming one of the first regulated platforms to offer issuer-supported tokenized securities trading.The company has also raised and refined its full-year 2026 guidance, projecting subscription, services, and other revenue (non-IFRS) of $225 million to $245 million, adjusted operating expenses of $225 million to $230 million, and financing costs of $52 million to $60 million. (Globenewswire)
Odaily News: Bitcoin News posted on X platform that UK-listed Bitcoin reserve company B HODL has signed a letter of intent with ZEUS to deploy its Bitcoin as Lightning Network liquidity, aiming to earn routing fees and enhance ZEUS infrastructure. The two parties have opened the first Lightning Network channel with 1 BTC, and plan to evaluate performance after 3 months, with the possibility of expanding deployment scale. B HODL CEO Freddie New stated that this strategy aims to increase the company's Bitcoin holdings while strengthening Bitcoin payment infrastructure.
Odaily News: U.S. financial services firm Charles Schwab began rolling out Bitcoin and Ethereum spot trading to retail clients in batches on May 13, 2026, with a transaction fee rate of 75 basis points per trade. The company disclosed client assets of $13.1 trillion and 39.8 million brokerage accounts, with Paxos handling execution and sub-custody. During the July earnings call, Charles Schwab stated that related business progress is on track, launched a crypto asset transfer pilot, and has taken an equity stake in Paxos. Initially, only Bitcoin and Ethereum are supported, with no deposits or withdrawals available, and no SIPC protection, except in New York State and Louisiana. Charles Schwab clients already hold approximately $25 billion in crypto ETPs. Morgan Stanley's E*Trade launched Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana trading on July 16 via Zerohash, with a fee rate of 50 basis points; Fidelity's fee rate is 1%, while Coinbase's implied fee rate for consumer trades is approximately 1.75%. (Forbes Digital Assets)