Crypto market news today for traders

News ⚡ Medium 01.08.2026, 18:01 Report: US bomb strikes residential Iran home, killing 3 civilians A Times analysis found evidence that a US bomb struck a house in a heavily populated area of Iran, killing three civilians. This adds to the human toll of the Iran conflict and could stok...

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News 💦 Low 01.08.2026, 17:19 Arthur Hayes dumps 6.16M SYN worth $658K and rotates $248K into 3.05M ENA, per Lookonchain. Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX and a well-known crypto whale, just sold a sizable chunk of SYN (a token) and bought ENA (another token). This kind of visible move by a big trader can...

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News ⚡ Medium 01.08.2026, 15:25 Russian missiles kill 9 in Kyiv hours after Trump backs off air defense pledge. Russia launched another deadly attack on the Ukrainian capital, killing at least nine people, shortly after President Trump reportedly stepped back from a pledge to help Ukraine build Pat...

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News 💦 Low 01.08.2026, 15:15 Amazon completes full $50B investment in OpenAI, revealing it has already paid out the remaining $21.3B after the quarter. Amazon's latest financial filing shows it has finished investing a total of $50 billion into OpenAI. This is a major bet on AI, and the shares will convert to common stock if OpenAI goes...

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News 💦 Low 01.08.2026, 13:45 AI-focused fund Situational Awareness suffers 67% July loss after margin-call spiral; founder scraps $3.5B Anthropic stake sale, dumps public stock portfolio to Citadel at a >10% discount. This hedge fund used borrowed money to buy AI and tech stocks. When the market fell, banks demanded extra collateral, forcing the fund to sell at a loss. The fund lost 67% in July, but th...

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News 💦 Low 01.08.2026, 09:32 Hyperliquid's HIP-4 permissionless deployment goes live on testnet. Crypto morning brief: Hyperliquid HIP-4 testnet goes live, Tether Q2 profit, Coinbase miss, Strategy shifts from 100% BTC, plus regulatory and layoff news for intraday traders.

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News 🔥 High 01.08.2026, 08:52 US Treasury stepped into the yen market on Friday, selling euros to buy yen in a joint intervention with Japan for the first time in 30 years. Bessent's notebook, caught on camera, even lists a $5-10B yen buy. This means the US government directly bought Japanese yen to strengthen it. This is rare — the US Treasury hasn't done this for 30 years, and doing it together with Japan makes it a big d...

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News 🔥 High 01.08.2026, 08:49 US and Israel reportedly planning renewed strikes on Iran as soon as this weekend, targeting energy infrastructure in 'harshest bombing campaign to date'. This news suggests the US and Israel may launch a major military campaign against Iran's energy infrastructure within days. For traders, this raises the risk of a wider war, higher oil pr...

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News ⚡ Medium 01.08.2026, 08:31 Arthur Hayes dumps 2,364 ETH at a loss, swaps to 4.3M USDC via Cumberland and Galaxy Digital. Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, sold a large chunk of Ethereum at a loss, meaning he swapped ETH for stablecoins at a price lower than his purchase price. For traders, a big sell-off...

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News ⚡ Medium 01.08.2026, 08:27 Suspected BitMine wallet scoops up 10,460 ETH (~$19.5M) via FalconX, on-chain sleuths flag the move from the largest listed Ethereum treasury. A wallet likely tied to BitMine, a public company that holds over 4.8% of all ETH, bought about 10,460 Ether. This is seen as a big institutional buy, which can push ETH demand and price...

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News ⚡ Medium 01.08.2026, 08:26 Saylor hints Strategy won't stay 100% Bitcoin, analysts back cash buffer Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) is the biggest corporate Bitcoin holder. In its earnings call, executive chairman Michael Saylor said the company might not put all its money into Bitcoi...

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News ⚡ Medium 01.08.2026, 08:26 Coinbase Q2 earnings miss sends stock near 2.5-year low, analysts split on path forward Coinbase, a major US crypto exchange, reported quarterly earnings that missed what Wall Street expected. Its stock fell to its lowest level in about two and a half years before recovering...

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News 🔥 High 01.08.2026, 08:25 Trump mulls ethics counterproposal on crypto holdings, Clarity Act supporters wait on White House The Clarity Act is a bill that would force the US president to either sell his crypto assets or put them in a blind trust. Now the White House is considering its own alternative proposals...

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News 💦 Low 01.08.2026, 07:51 Trump pulls back from deal to let Ukraine build Patriot missiles, Ukraine warns it's running out of interceptors. This is a geopolitical story about a change in US policy on allowing Ukraine to manufacture Patriot air defense missiles. Traders watch such headlines because shifts in US foreign policy...

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News 🔥 High 01.08.2026, 07:27 Trump and Netanyahu appear to clash again over Gaza, as Trump's surprise announcement complicates ties with Israel's leader during the Iran war. A dispute between the US and Israeli leaders over how to handle Gaza adds geopolitical risk, which can make markets more volatile and push traders toward safer assets.

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News ⚡ Medium 01.08.2026, 07:01 Ex-Congressman George Santos settles with CFTC for $35K after manipulating a Kalshi bet on his own State of the Union attendance, cashing in by posting about it. A U.S. derivatives regulator fined a former politician for trading on an event he could influence. He bought 'Yes' on whether he would attend the speech, then posted about going, which pu...

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News ⚡ Medium 01.08.2026, 04:55 Fed Chair Warsh mulls slashing meeting schedule from 8 per year — first major structural shake-up of his term. The Fed holds eight rate-setting meetings annually. Reducing that number would lessen the frequency of policy shifts, potentially reducing short-term volatility but also making the Fed le...

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News ⚡ Medium 01.08.2026, 03:25 Trump appeals court ruling branding IRS lawsuit 'self-dealing' — legal fight deepens as AG pick faces backlash. President Trump is challenging a judge's decision that criticized his business dealings and called the IRS lawsuit a conflict of interest. The appeal keeps the legal battle alive and adds...

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News 🔥 High 01.08.2026, 01:19 Ukraine strikes Iranian ship carrying arms to Russia, raising fears the two wars are merging into one. Ukraine hit an Iranian vessel that was reportedly transporting military aid to Russia. This could drag Iran and its conflicts with the US and Israel closer to the war in Ukraine, possibly...

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News 💦 Low 01.08.2026, 01:09 Fidelity-linked wallets move 260K ETH (~$500M) to three addresses after 6 months of dormancy, on-chain data reveals. On-chain monitors detected that wallets associated with Fidelity transferred a large amount of Ethereum to other wallets, which could signal institutional activity or potential future sel...

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