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Tony Kim Aug 09, 2026 09:28 FILE is printing a textbook bearish stack at $0.71, trading beneath every key moving average while aggressive sell-side order flow contradicts smart money’s outsized long positioning. The next 7-10… FILE’s Technical Reality Check FILE is sitting at $0.71 underneath a ceiling of stacked moving averages that tells you everything about who’s in control. The 7-day SMA is flush with price, the 20-day is overhead at $0.72, the 50-day at $0.75, and the 200-day looms at $0.90 — every meaningful time horizon is pointing down. The EMA spread…

A critical vulnerability in BTCPay Server is being actively exploited, allowing attackers to drain Bitcoin from Lightning Network nodes used by merchants and other businesses.BTCPay Server confirmed the attacks late Friday, warning operators running LND, the most widely used software for operating Lightning nodes, to immediately update to version 2.4.2 or take vulnerable servers offline.The project has not disclosed how many users were affected or how much Bitcoin was stolen. However, at least two organizations have publicly confirmed losses.The incident adds another security concern to a difficult week for Bitcoin infrastructure, after researchers uncovered thousands of vulnerabilities across Bitcoin-related projects…

Ask ten people for a crypto airdrop definition today, and you will get ten different answers. Free tokens for wallet holders. Points programs that take six months of grinding. Retroactive rewards for early users. Raffles. Testnet campaigns. Somewhere out there, a claw machine that spits out Pokémon cards.Back in 2017, we had one answer. We launched AirdropAlert as the world’s first airdrop aggregator, and we appointed ourselves guardians of the word. This is the story of how we defended the original crypto airdrop definition, built a whole second website to protect it, and lost the war anyway.Spoiler: the market won.…

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has filed a civil lawsuit against North Korea, its Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) intelligence agency and the Lazarus Group over the $1.5 billion crypto heist that struck the exchange in February 2025.Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the lawsuit marks a new phase in Bybit’s effort to recover the stolen assets and hold the alleged perpetrators accountable. The exchange also secured a preliminary injunction freezing certain digital assets linked to the theft and held by unidentified individuals and entities listed as “John Doe” defendants.Bybit said the order is intended to preserve identifiable…

Key TakeawaysCySEC and ESMA announced joint digital resilience audits for crypto custody providers under CSA 2026.EU crypto custodians must prove strict compliance across 6 core operational risk areas.CySEC will execute on-site and desk reviews on a sample of firms from H2 2026 to H1 2027. Targeting Custody and Infrastructure Risks The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) will launch a wave of on-site visits and desk-based reviews targeting authorized crypto asset service providers (CASPs) as part of a broader European effort to strengthen operational resilience in digital asset custody. In a circular issued to regulated firms, CySEC chairperson George Theocharides…

The launchpad war on Robinhood Chain just got its biggest plot twist yet. For weeks, Pons Family looked untouchable. The scrappy launchpad absorbed the entire category after NOXA stepped back, at one point driving roughly 80% of all launchpad volume on the chain. Then, on August 5, 2026, Uniswap Labs walked into the ring with Pools Trade.That changes everything. This is no longer a fight between crypto-native startups. Instead, it is the chain’s homegrown champion against the biggest name in decentralized trading. In this Pons Family vs Pools Trade comparison, we break down how both launchpads work, what they charge,…

Bitcoin just hit block 961,632, and with it, one of the strangest governance battles in years reached its climax. The mandatory signaling period for BIP-110 went live on August 8, 2026. A small group of node operators now rejects blocks produced by almost the entire mining industry.If you hold BTC, you might wonder whether this means free fork coins are coming your way, like Bitcoin Cash back in 2017. Short answer: almost certainly not. Long answer below, including why “free coins” headlines around BIP-110 should raise your scam radar.What Is BIP-110?BIP-110, formally the Reduced Data Temporary Softfork, is a proposal…

Bitcoin Reclaims $65,000 Despite CLARITY Act Setback The first week of August delivered strong momentum across the cryptocurrency market, with aggregate market capitalization surging from a low under $2.2 trillion to reach $2.9 trillion by Aug. 8. Bitcoin spearheaded the rally, reclaiming the $65,000 threshold for the first time in August and lifting its total market cap back past $1.3 trillion. Market data shows bitcoin gained over 3% over seven days, ascending from $62,721 to a peak just above $65,300 on Friday before consolidating above key support. Crucially, bitcoin secured these gains despite regulatory headwinds following the U.S. Senate’s failure…

The 2026 World Cup may have marked the point when crypto betting stopped looking like a niche experiment.According to a Chainalysis report published on July 30, the tournament generated $20 billion in prediction market volume and $24 million in digital collectible trades, with more than 400,000 wallets participating in blockchain-based betting throughout the World Cup.Hundreds of thousands of participating wallets point to something more interesting than a large headline number. Football fans were becoming comfortable using blockchain infrastructure to express a view on a match.And as the 2026–27 European season begins, that behavior has somewhere else to go.The World Cup…

The GT price has already shown what happens when momentum and the 200-day EMA line up. From $3.60 in 2024, GT surged to $25.92 by early 2025, a nearly 600% rally, before selling pressure dragged it below $7 by the end of the first half of 2026.GT Price Returns To A Critical TrendlineNow the setup looks different, but not entirely unfamiliar. In August, GT price is sitting around $6.75, directly on a trendline support that has been relevant since 2021. The historical pattern suggests that this support becomes more effective when GT can reclaim and sustain above the 200-day EMA.That…