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Chinese Real Estate Developer Murdered in Cambodia After $2M Crypto Ransom Demand
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A 53-year-old Chinese Real Estate developer, Yang Weixin, has been killed in Cambodia by kidnappers who demanded $2 million in cryptocurrency from his wife. According to reports, the businessman lived in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, and his body was found in the Dangkor district.
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The victim was abducted a day before his body was found, with security footage of his apartment showing three unidentified men forcing him into a vehicle from the parking area on the night he was kidnapped. The kidnappers allegedly sent messages to the victim’s wife using his phone, demanding the crypto ransom.
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Messages stopped reaching the wife’s phone after 9 a.m. the following morning, shortly before the police notified Weixin’s family that he had been found dead. The investigators suspect a quick escalation of the violence after finding blood, knives, tape, plastic ties, and other incriminating elements in and around the vehicle used to kidnap the victim.
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Early findings suggested torture, beating, stabbing, and suffocation before the body and the vehicle were abandoned. According to investigators, the case is being treated as kidnapping, extortion, and homicide. The police are also digging into the victim’s business relationships to know whether an older business conflict could have been involved in the saga.
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According to reports, Yang’s wife has already informed the police of an ongoing business dispute involving her husband that has lasted since 2014. The deal is with another Chinese national, and the pressure allegedly resurfaced in 2025. In the meantime, no motive has been established in that direction, and the police are continuing with the hunt for those directly involved with the kidnapping.
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The Phnom Penh killing highlights a broader issue involving crypto crime encroachment into the wider society. Crypto-related crimes are increasingly moving beyond wallet drains, malware, fake apps, or exchange account takeovers. Criminals are tilting toward the narrative of using pressure to force people to unlock large digital assets.
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Crypto ransom propagation has shaped recent coverage in Europe, with France dominating the infamous headline, with a surge in reported crypto wrench attacks. Criminals in the region have repeatedly used kidnapping, home invasion, and direct threats to force crypto owners into making significant transfers.
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The case in Cambodia differs in location and victim profile. However, it follows similar mechanics, where attackers do not need to crack sophisticated codes, but simply identify high-value targets and try to extort them of their digital assets.
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Chinese Executive Killed in Cambodia After Family Couldn’t Pay $2 Million Crypto Ransom
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Chinese Executive Killed in Cambodia After Family Couldn’t Pay $2 Million Crypto Ransom
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Chinese real estate boss killed in Cambodia after $2 million crypto ransom demand.
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Kidnappers abducted Yang Weixin from his Phnom Penh apartment building on May 29.
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Three suspects remain at large as police probe a long-running business dispute.
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A Chinese real estate executive was killed in Cambodia after his family failed to pay a $2 million crypto ransom. Cambodian police say he was abducted and tortured by three captors before being murdered.
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Kidnapper seized Yang Weixin, 53, from his Phnom Penh apartment building on May 29. His body was discovered roughly 14 hours later in an abandoned car near a Dangkao district dump.
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Three men forced Yang into a vehicle at about 8 p.m., according to security footage cited by Singapore-based Mothership.
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At roughly 3 a.m. on May 30, the kidnappers used Yang’s phone to demand the $2 million crypto payment.
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The wife told police she could not raise the funds. A final message arrived shortly before 9 a.m., after which the captors went silent.
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A truck driver later discovered Yang’s bloodstained Toyota Prius in Ba Ko village, Dangkao district. The vehicle was unlocked and contained cable ties used to bind the victim.
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Cambodian police have classified the case as premeditated kidnapping for ransom that resulted in murder.
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The attack fits a violent year for holders of digital assets.
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Investigators are pursuing a possible link to a 2014 business dispute between Yang and another Chinese national.
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Security firm CertiK tracked 34 verified physical coercion incidents in the first four months of 2026. That is a 41% jump on the same period a year earlier.
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Researchers expect further escalation through 2026 as social-media profiling helps criminals identify visible holders.
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Other recent cases include the kidnapping of Russian entrepreneurs in Buenos Aires. A separate Hong Kong trader kidnapping involved torture and the forced surrender of exchange credentials.
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Cambodia has separately become a hub for crypto-linked organized crime. The Huione Group network and Prince Holding compounds have drawn US sanctions in recent months.
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The three suspects in Yang’s abduction remain at large, and police have not released images or descriptions, and no public on-chain trace of the ransom wallet has surfaced.
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The case is the latest to highlight how visible crypto wealth can attract violent attention in regions with weak enforcement.
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A Chinese real estate developer was killed in Cambodia during a crypto ransom attack.
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The kidnappers demanded $2 million in cryptocurrency from the victim’s wife.
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Investigators are treating the case as kidnapping, extortion, and homicide.
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A 53-year-old Chinese Real Estate developer, Yang Weixin, has been killed in Cambodia by kidnappers who demanded $2 million in cryptocurrency from his wife. According to reports, the businessman lived in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, and his body was found in the Dangkor district.
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The victim was abducted a day before his body was found, with security footage of his apartment showing three unidentified men forcing him into a vehicle from the parking area on the night he was kidnapped. The kidnappers allegedly sent messages to the victim’s wife using his phone, demanding the crypto ransom.
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Messages stopped reaching the wife’s phone after 9 a.m. the following morning, shortly before the police notified Weixin’s family that he had been found dead. The investigators suspect a quick escalation of the violence after finding blood, knives, tape, plastic ties, and other incriminating elements in and around the vehicle used to kidnap the victim.
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Early findings suggested torture, beating, stabbing, and suffocation before the body and the vehicle were abandoned. According to investigators, the case is being treated as kidnapping, extortion, and homicide. The police are also digging into the victim’s business relationships to know whether an older business conflict could have been involved in the saga.
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According to reports, Yang’s wife has already informed the police of an ongoing business dispute involving her husband that has lasted since 2014. The deal is with another Chinese national, and the pressure allegedly resurfaced in 2025. In the meantime, no motive has been established in that direction, and the police are continuing with the hunt for those directly involved with the kidnapping.
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The Phnom Penh killing highlights a broader issue involving crypto crime encroachment into the wider society. Crypto-related crimes are increasingly moving beyond wallet drains, malware, fake apps, or exchange account takeovers. Criminals are tilting toward the narrative of using pressure to force people to unlock large digital assets.
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Crypto ransom propagation has shaped recent coverage in Europe, with France dominating the infamous headline, with a surge in reported crypto wrench attacks. Criminals in the region have repeatedly used kidnapping, home invasion, and direct threats to force crypto owners into making significant transfers.
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The case in Cambodia differs in location and victim profile. However, it follows similar mechanics, where attackers do not need to crack sophisticated codes, but simply identify high-value targets and try to extort them of their digital assets.
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Chinese Executive Killed in Cambodia After Family Failed to Pay $2 Million Crypto Ransom
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Yang Weixin, a 53-year-old Chinese real estate executive, was abducted in Phnom Penh and killed after his family could not pay a $2 million crypto ransom.
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Kidnappers demanded payment around 3 a.m. on May 30, and his body was found about 14 hours after the abduction.
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CertiK tracked 34 verified physical crypto attacks in early 2026, underscoring rising coercion risks for visible online holders and executives globally.
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A Chinese real estate executive was killed in Cambodia after his family failed to pay a $2 million crypto ransom, a case that turns the abstract fear around digital-asset wealth into something brutally physical. Cambodian police said Yang Weixin, 53, was abducted from his Phnom Penh apartment building on May 29, tortured by three captors and later murdered. The disturbing detail is how quickly the ransom demand became fatal, with investigators saying his body was discovered roughly 14 hours later in an abandoned Toyota Prius near a Dangkao district dump.
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The timeline remains grim and strangely precise. Security footage reportedly showed three men forcing Yang into a vehicle at about 8 p.m. At around 3 a.m. on May 30, the kidnappers used his phone to demand payment in crypto. Yang’s wife told police she could not raise the funds, and a final message arrived shortly before 9 a.m. before the captors went silent. The case shows how crypto ransom pressure can move faster than any negotiation, leaving families with little time, limited options and almost no visibility into whether payment would even preserve life.
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Police have classified the case as premeditated kidnapping for ransom that resulted in murder. A truck driver later found Yang’s bloodstained Toyota Prius in Ba Ko village, unlocked and containing cable ties used to bind him. Investigators are also examining a possible connection to a 2014 business dispute involving Yang and another Chinese national. That unresolved motive keeps the case from being a simple crypto-only story, even though the ransom demand was denominated in digital assets and the suspects remain at large without public images or descriptions.
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The killing lands inside a broader pattern of violent crypto coercion. CertiK tracked 34 verified physical attacks in the first four months of 2026, a 41% increase from the same period last year, while researchers expect more escalation as social-media profiling helps criminals identify visible holders. Recent cases included Russian entrepreneurs kidnapped in Buenos Aires and a Hong Kong trader tortured into surrendering exchange credentials. The larger warning is that visible wealth can become attack surface, especially in places where crypto-linked organized crime has already drawn sanctions against networks and compounds tied to Cambodia as enforcement gaps persist across borders.
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A Chinese real estate business owner living in Phnom Penh has been killed after kidnappers demanded $2 million in cryptocurrency from his wife. The victim, identified as Yang Weixin, was a 53-year-old Chinese national and real estate company owner living in the Cambodian capital. His body was found on May 30 in a white Toyota Prius abandoned in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district.
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The abduction began the previous night. Security footage from Yang’s apartment building showed three unidentified men forcing him from the parking area into a vehicle at about 8 p.m. on May 29. Around 3 a.m. on May 30, messages sent from his phone demanded the crypto ransom from his wife. The final message arrived shortly before 9 a.m., after which contact stopped. Police later notified the family that Yang had been found dead.
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The violence appears to have escalated quickly. Investigators found blood, knives, tape, plastic ties and other evidence in and around the vehicle. Early findings described torture, beating, stabbing and suffocation before the body was dumped with the car. The case is being handled as a kidnapping, extortion and homicide investigation.
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Police are also examining whether an older business conflict played a role. Yang’s wife told investigators that her husband had been involved in a debt dispute with another Chinese national since 2014, and that the pressure allegedly resurfaced in 2025. No final motive has been confirmed, and the hunt for those involved is still active.
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The Phnom Penh killing is part of a wider shift in crypto crime. The danger is no longer limited to wallet drainers, malware, fake apps or exchange account takeovers. When criminals believe someone can unlock large digital assets under pressure, the person, the family and the routine can become the target.
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That pattern has already shaped recent coverage in Europe. France has become the clearest warning sign after a surge in reported crypto wrench attacks, where criminals use kidnapping, home invasion or direct threats to force transfers. The attempted kidnapping involving the wife of The Sandbox cofounder Sébastien Borget showed how relatives can become leverage even when the public crypto figure is not the easiest target.
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Cambodia’s case is different in location and victim profile, but the mechanics are familiar. Attackers do not need to break cryptography if they can identify a high-value person and use violence. A crypto ransom adds speed, cross-border settlement and a perceived laundering path, even when blockchain tracing can later help investigators follow funds.
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The strongest self-custody plan now has to account for real-world exposure. Public wealth displays, leaked identity records, visible business disputes, predictable parking routines, conference habits and family awareness all matter. A hardware wallet cannot protect someone whose address, car, daily schedule or relatives are already known to a violent group.
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Better operational security means reducing single-person control and reducing personal visibility. Multisig wallets, withdrawal delays, separated custody, limited hot-wallet balances, private travel habits and clear family instructions can make it harder for criminals to turn pressure into an immediate transfer.
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A practical wrench-attack defense starts with the assumption that the attacker may not care about the device first. Recent U.S. robbery cases have shown how forced access, home invasion and intimidation now sit beside phishing and malware in the same crypto-crime stack. The Phnom Penh killing gives that trend a harsher edge: for high-value targets, the attack surface may begin long before anyone opens a wallet app.
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WEMIX suspended bridges and decentralised trading services after an attacker seized ownership control of a contract tied to its WEMIX$ stablecoin and minted 5,225,525 tokens without authorisation. The abnormal transactions began at 09:17 UTC on July 26. The attacker converted the unbacked WEMIX$ issuance into 30,736 WEMIX and 724,198.27 USDC.e, then moved the USDC.e through bridges to Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain. The funds were exchanged for ETH and USDT, distributed across several addresses and partly deposited into centralised exchanges.…
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Machi Sells Bored Ape At 14.89 ETH Loss After Fresh Hyperliquid Liquidation
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Machi Big Brother sold Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT #6801 after another liquidation cut into his leveraged Ether position on Hyperliquid. The NFT sold for 8.61 ETH, down from the 23.5 ETH Machi paid three years earlier. The sale crystallized a 14.89 ETH loss, worth about $28,000 at the time of the transaction. Another liquidation preceded the sale as Machi continued backing an ETH long through the wallet publicly associated with his Hyperliquid trading. The size of the latest forced…
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Strategy launched the Bitcoin Security Consortium, bringing together nine financial and crypto companies that have pledged $15 million over three years to support independent work on Bitcoin’s security. BlackRock, Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets and Strategy joined as founding members alongside Anchorage Digital, ARK Invest, Block, Blockstream and Galaxy. The commitments will support open-source developers, researchers and organizations working on Bitcoin’s code, testing infrastructure, cryptography and long-term resilience. Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor framed Bitcoin security as a shared responsibility for…
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Bitcoin ETF Inflows Reach Seven-Day Streak As BTC Tests $66,300
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U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded seven consecutive trading days of net inflows between July 14 and July 22, the longest uninterrupted run since October 2025. Bitcoin reached an intraday high of $66,313 as regulated fund demand strengthened alongside the spot-market recovery. Santiment tracked $981.2 million in net inflows during the seven-session stretch. Farside Investors also recorded a positive aggregate result on every trading day, with the largest daily totals reaching $226.8 million on July 20 and $203.2 million on…
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Coldcard Hack May Reach $132M As At Least 15 Attackers Target Wallets
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Coldcard-linked Bitcoin thefts may have reached 2,055 BTC, worth approximately $132 million at current prices, as multiple attackers race to drain wallets generated with vulnerable firmware. Galaxy Research has high confidence that three major waves and 14 smaller incidents removed 1,596 BTC from roughly 7,300 addresses. A suspected fourth wave would lift the total to 2,055 BTC across more than 7,700 addresses, although Galaxy has not received enough victim reports to classify that group with the same confidence. At Least...
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Strategy Sells 1,638 BTC As Saylor Defends “Never Sell” Message
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Strategy sold 1,638 BTC for $104.7 million between July 27 and August 2, completing its third disclosed Bitcoin sale of 2026 and reducing its holdings to 842,138 BTC. The sale was completed at an average price of $63,957 per coin. Strategy’s remaining Bitcoin was acquired for $63.51 billion at an average price of $75,419, leaving the company with more than 4% of Bitcoin’s maximum supply. Bitcoin Proceeds Fund Dividends And STRC Buybacks Strategy allocated $52.4 million from the latest Bitcoin...
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Galaxy Research identified a third suspected attack wave involving Bitcoin addresses believed to have been generated by vulnerable Coldcard firmware. The latest wave drained 207.7294 BTC, lifting the estimated observed total to 1,367.05 BTC across 4,585 addresses. Galaxy valued the combined transfers at approximately $88.6 million when it published the update. Third Wave Uses Different Transaction Pattern The first two suspected waves followed similar onchain patterns, including a funnel structure that moved funds into a small group of shared collector...
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Strategy Opens Door To Roughly $5B In Bitcoin Sales For Reserves And Buybacks
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Strategy has opened the door to roughly $5 billion in potential Bitcoin sales under a balance-sheet programme covering cash reserves, preferred dividends, debt interest and securities repurchases. The figure combines up to $1.25 billion for the USD reserve, approximately $1.76 billion in current annual dividend and interest obligations and as much as $2 billion across common and preferred-stock repurchase programmes. The BTC Monetization Program has no expiration date and does not require Strategy to sell any specific amount. Bitcoin Sales...
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Triple-A-Linked Wallets Drained Of More Than $9.7M Across Four Chains
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Wallets attributed to stablecoin payments firm Triple-A were drained of more than $9.7 million across TRON, Ethereum, Polygon and Arbitrum before the assets were routed to Ethereum. Onchain analyst Specter traced the multichain outflows and linked the affected wallets to Triple-A. The stolen assets were moved through cross-chain bridges and consolidated into 5,227 ETH at an Ethereum address beginning with 0x01F8 and ending with 53b1. The transfers converged on the address after funds moved out of wallets on all four...
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Arthur Hayes Wallet Adds $2.53 Million In Ether As Recent Buying Tops $5 Million
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A wallet tracked as belonging to BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes purchased 1,332.5 ETH worth about $2.53 million early Tuesday, extending a fresh accumulation run as ether traded near $1,900. Lookonchain flagged the purchase roughly three hours after the transaction. The implied acquisition price was about $1,899 per ETH. Hayes had not publicly confirmed the trade at publication. The same tracker recorded a 1,293 ETH purchase worth $2.48 million on July 15. The two transactions added 2,625.5 ETH for approximately $5.01...
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BitMine Repurchases 5.5 Million Shares As Weekly ETH Buying Slows
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BitMine Immersion Technologies repurchased approximately 5.5 million common shares over the past week as the company shifted capital away from its usual pace of Ethereum accumulation. The shares were acquired at an average price of $15.6156, implying a total outlay of roughly $85.9 million. The purchases were completed under BitMine’s previously authorized $4 billion share-repurchase program. Chairman Tom Lee called the repurchases accretive to shareholder value. BMNR traded near $15.97 on Monday, slightly above the average price paid by the...
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BitMine Buys 27,801 ETH As Holdings Reach 5.77M
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BitMine Immersion Technologies acquired 27,801 ETH over the past week, lifting its total holdings to 5,770,038 ETH as of July 12. The position represents about 4.8% of Ethereum’s 120.7 million circulating supply, placing the company 96% of the way toward its stated goal of controlling 5% of all ETH. The latest treasury update valued the ETH position at roughly $10.5 billion using a reference price of $1,820. BitMine also held 206 BTC, $482 million in cash and marketable securities, a...
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How to Get a Funded Crypto Trading Account in 2026 Step by Step
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A funded crypto trading account gives a trader access to more notional capital after they prove they can follow a firm’s risk rules. The usual route starts with a paid crypto prop firm challenge that requires a profit target without breaching daily or overall loss limits. Passing is not only about making money. Drawdown control, minimum trading days and rule compliance determine whether the account survives. The evaluation fee can be lost, and crypto prop firms use different account models,...
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How To Trade Tokenized Stock Perps: Leverage, Funding And Risks
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Tokenized stock perps allow traders to take long or short exposure to companies, ETFs and equity indexes through crypto-native derivatives markets. Positions can use stablecoin collateral, remain open without an expiry date and continue trading when the main stock exchange is closed. The trader receives price exposure, not ownership of the referenced shares. The interface often looks identical to a crypto perpetual futures market. The risk does not. A stock-linked contract can remain active overnight, through weekends and during holidays...
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What Is Agentic Trading? AI Trading Agents, Crypto Automation And Risk Controls
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Agentic trading is a form of market automation where an AI agent can analyze data, reason through a goal, use tools, prepare trades, and sometimes execute orders through an exchange API, wallet, smart account, broker connection, or onchain protocol. It moves the conversation beyond simple trading bots because the agent is not only following a fixed trigger. It can combine market data, user instructions, portfolio context, and approved tools before deciding what action fits the rules it has been given....
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What Are Crypto Data Aggregators? Price, Volume, Token Data, And Market Tracking Explained
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Crypto data aggregators turn scattered market information into one usable research layer. Instead of checking separate exchanges, DEX pools, block explorers, wallet dashboards, token pages, protocol analytics, and portfolio apps, users can compare price, market capitalization, trading volume, liquidity, supply, exchange pairs, contract addresses, DeFi activity, and on-chain movement from one place. Crypto markets are fragmented across venues, chains, and token versions, so the same asset can trade on centralized exchanges, several decentralized exchanges, multiple networks, and wrapped or bridged...
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Binance Affiliates Sue RedotPay Founders For $472.8M Over Alleged User Diversion
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Three Binance-affiliated companies have sued RedotPay’s co-founders in Hong Kong, seeking $472.8 million over allegations that the payments firm diverted more than 470,000 Binance users to its competing stablecoin card network. Nest Trading Ltd., DistributedTechnologies Ltd. and Chaintecs Consulting Singapore Pte named Gao Zhangpeng, Chan Wa Choi and Yao Chao as defendants. The claims remain allegations and have not been tested in court. Lawsuit Targets RedotPay Card Top-Ups The Hong Kong petition alleges that the founders breached a commercial agreement...
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Strategy Posts $8.22B Q2 Loss As Capital Plan Expands Beyond Bitcoin Purchases
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||||
Strategy reported an $8.22 billion net loss for the second quarter after Bitcoin’s decline generated a large unrealized loss across the company’s digital-asset holdings. The company recorded an $8.33 billion operating loss, including an $8.32 billion unrealized Bitcoin loss. Diluted losses reached $24.45 per common share, while net losses attributable to common shareholders totaled $8.62 billion after $400.7 million of preferred-stock dividends. Bitcoin Decline Reverses Strategy’s 2025 Gain Strategy’s second-quarter financial results marked a sharp reversal from the same period...
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KOSPI Surges 15% As Korea Unveils $13.9B Strategic Fund
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||||
South Korea’s KOSPI surged about 15% to 6,376.68 by midday Friday, recovering a large portion of the losses recorded during a three-day semiconductor selloff. The index climbed as much as 16.8% to 6,531.71 earlier in the session before giving back part of the advance. Samsung Electronics rose about 21%, while SK Hynix gained 24.6%. Both stocks had climbed even further shortly after the opening bell, with Samsung reaching a 22.5% gain and SK Hynix advancing 27.7%. The rebound followed stronger...
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KOSPI Falls 8% As July Loss Reaches 35% In Deepening Chip Rout
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||||
South Korea’s KOSPI fell 8% on Wednesday, extending its July decline to roughly 35% as another wave of selling hit the country’s largest semiconductor stocks. The benchmark dropped to 5,547.77 by midday in Seoul, its lowest level since April. The Korea Exchange activated a market-wide circuit breaker at 12:33 p.m. after an earlier sell-side sidecar suspended programme trading for five minutes. The circuit breaker requires the index to remain down at least 8% for one minute and halts trading for...
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