The headline number from Hacken’s Q2 2026 Security and Compliance Report is $763,971,791 stolen across 67 incidents between April and June 2026, a 58.3% increase from Q1’s $482.7 million and the worst quarter since Q2 2025. But the headline number…
The Numbers Banks Don’t Want You to See: Saylor’s Bitcoin Case at Bitcoin 2026
TL;DR and Key Takeaways ▶ Saylor’s Bitcoin supply shock argument: ~$10B in new Bitcoin mined annually, $20-100B in institutional credit forming to buy it. ▶ Goldman Sachs targets $200,000. JPMorgan targets $150,000. Both warned about Strategy as a risk six…
Strategy Buys 24,869 BTC and Hits 843,775 Total Holdings. Then It Stopped
TL;DR and Key Takeaways ▶ Strategy holds 843,775 BTC as of July 26, 2026, bought for a total of $63.69 billion at an average of $75,476 per coin. ▶ That is 4% of all Bitcoin that will ever exist, more…
MSTR or STRC: Michael Saylor Built Two Products From the Same Bitcoin. Here’s How to Choose
Michael Saylor built two products from the same asset. Both are backed by the same 843,738 Bitcoin sitting on Strategy’s balance sheet. Both are publicly listed on Nasdaq. Both are accessible through every major U.S. brokerage. And they could not…
Circle Just Bought IBM’s Entire Blockchain Patent Portfolio. Nearly 1,000 Patents. No Price Tag
Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL) announced on July 27, 2026 that it has acquired fundamental assets from IBM’s blockchain patent portfolio. The portfolio contains more than 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 issued patents worldwide, spanning foundational blockchain technology, banking,…
DOJ Seizes $25M in Crypto From Five Fraud Networks in One Day
The US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Secret Service Washington Field Office announced on July 21, 2026 that five separate cryptocurrency fraud investigations have resulted in the seizure of more than $25 million in digital assets.…
Datavault AI Gets a USPTO Patent Allowance to Put Naked Short Selling on a Blockchain. Here Is What That Actually Means
The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a Notice of Allowance on July 1, 2026, allowing all 24 pending claims in US Patent Application No. 19/445,241, filed by Datavault AI Inc. (NASDAQ: DVLT) on January 9, 2026. The application…
Midnight NIGHT Token Wanchain Hack: $13M, 515M Tokens, Hoskinson’s ZK Response
A vulnerability in the TreasuryCheck validator of Wanchain’s Cardano-to-BNB Chain bridge allowed an attacker to drain 515.2 million NIGHT tokens between 14:46 and 14:55 UTC on July 20, 2026. Eight minutes. Four transactions. Roughly $13 million in token value. The…
AFX Trade Loses $24M on Arbitrum. July 22 Is Now the Worst Single Day for DeFi Bridge Hacks in 2026
AFX Trade, a decentralized perpetuals exchange that settles trades in USDC on Arbitrum, lost approximately $24.15 million on July 22, 2026, after an attacker targeted a bridge the protocol operates. Blockchain security firm Blockaid detected the exploit at 9:30 PM…
Bitcoin Hits $64,800 on Coolest CPI Drop Since 2020. Three Things That Happen Next
Bitcoin climbed to $64,800 on Wednesday July 15, 2026, up 3.6% in 24 hours, after the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that headline consumer prices fell 0.4% in June, the largest single-month decline since April 2020. Annual inflation slowed…