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Today’s highlights
- Strategy holds STRC dividend at 12% — 2026-08-01
- Customarily, Michael Saylor and team have lifted the STRC dividend when it trades sizably below par, but not this month.
- Onchain, in court: What happened in crypto legal news this week — 2026-08-01
- A case tied to defunct crypto exchange FTX moves forward, a soldier seeks to dismiss over a Polymarket bet and a former congressman was ordered to pay $35,000 for manipulative trading.
- Bitcoin cold-wallet attack spreads to 4,500 addresses as losses near $89 million — 2026-08-01
- Galaxy Research flagged a third wave of sweeps tied to weak Coldcard-generated keys, with the attacker now targeting smaller balances and changing how funds are collected onchain.
- Minnesota crypto ATM ban goes into effect after reported $1M losses — 2026-08-01
- State officials reported that Minnesota residents, and largely senior citizens, had lost about $1 million from scams tied to crypto kiosks from 2023 to 2025.
- Tokenized stock trading surged 288% in July, but one QQQ token drove most of it — 2026-08-01
- Without that QQQ token, QQQB, July volume for tokenized equities would be roughly $2.03 billion, about 30% below June’s total.
- Bank of Italy research suggests stablecoins aren’t necessarily cheaper for remittances — 2026-08-01
- A mystery-shopping experiment found that exchange fees, foreign exchange spreads and banking rails mean stablecoin remittances are often no cheaper than traditional transfer means.
- Bitcoin mining difficulty shrinks 14% from this year’s high as plunging revenues force operators to pivot — 2026-08-01
- Difficulty falls as weak mining economics reduce capacity, while forward markets signal little relief through year-end.
- SEC to review Nasdaq bitcoin options approval after CME challenge — 2026-08-01
- CME argues that because bitcoin is a commodity, options tied to its value fall under CFTC jurisdiction, not the SEC’s authority.