JPMorgan Chase terminated its deposit banking relationship with prediction market platform Polymarket in October 2025, citing regulatory concerns, according to a Financial Times investigation published August 14, 2026.
Read full article →Three Binance-linked entities have filed lawsuits in Hong Kong and Singapore against the co-founders of crypto payments startup RedotPay, claiming the company used a commercial partnership to divert nearly half a million Binance Pay users and funnel approximately $304 million in user funds into a competing product.
Pakistan's virtual asset authority reviewed its licensing framework this week, bringing the country closer to activating a full regulatory regime for crypto businesses operating in or from the country. Binance and HTX have already cleared the first stage of a two-step approval process.
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has formally declared TM App a prohibited pyramid scheme, bringing its cumulative banned-entity list to 26 schemes and arriving just eight days after the government handed crypto oversight to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
India's largest crypto exchange by registered user base has delivered a structured blockchain investigation course to officers in the Mira-Bhayander, Vasai-Virar commissionerate, a densely populated satellite corridor north of Mumbai, as part of a nationwide law enforcement outreach programme backed by a ₹100 crore fund.
An unidentified attacker has stolen 1,367 BTC, worth approximately $89 million, from nearly 4,600 Bitcoin addresses tied to Coldcard hardware wallets. The theft began July 30, 2026 and is described by manufacturer Coinkite as ongoing. The root cause is a firmware error introduced in March 2021 that silently disabled the device's hardware random number generator for over five years.
Coinbase posted a net loss of $359.5 million in Q2 2026, its third consecutive unprofitable quarter, as a sharp decline in retail crypto trading overwhelmed gains in subscriptions, stablecoins, and a record-high share of global spot trading volume.