Kite (AI payment chain) hit a wallet compromise: ~133.4M KITE (~$13.5M) moved from 16 Ethereum wallets, then frozen; transfers paused, team says no loss — Coinkolik

SharpLink (SBET), a top corporate ETH holder, is staking $200M of ETH (~106,000, ~12% of its 888,938 ETH) through Lido, receiving wstETH in Anchorage custody — SharpLink

Databricks closed a $5B round at a $190B valuation (up from ~$134B six months ago), led by Coatue with Blackstone, MGX and T. Rowe Price; its revenue run-rate now tops $7B — CNBC

FG Nexus wound down its ETH treasury within a year: the discontinued crypto unit lost $45.2M in H1 vs just $144K in staking, and it's now pivoting to real estate — CryptoSlate

Plume signed an MOU with Shinhan Asset Management (~₩133.6T AUM) to build a KRW-denominated tokenized fund backed by ultra-short-term Won bonds, piloting offshore — Cryptobriefing

RedotPay is delaying its US IPO to 2027+ after Binance-linked entities sued its founders for ~$473M, alleging 470,000 Binance Card users were diverted to its own card — WuBlockchain

JPMorgan ended its banking relationship with Polymarket over regulatory concerns, while maintaining some ties to the prediction market and other sector players — WSJ

SafePal disclosed a data breach exposing order info of ~39,800 customers (names, emails, addresses, phones); no seed phrases, keys or funds affected, main risk is targeted phishing — SafePal

Cosmostation, the 2nd-largest Cosmos wallet, is shutting down from Sept 1 (only seed/key export left); non-custodial so funds are safe, export and move to another wallet like Keplr — Twitter

Stripe has reportedly agreed to buy AI model marketplace OpenRouter for over $7B (per Bloomberg), a 5x+ jump from its $1.3B May valuation; OpenRouter routes apps across 400+ AI models — Bloomberg

Strategy (Saylor) sold ~$334M of MSTR shares last week but bought no bitcoin, using the cash for dividends, a STRC buyback and lifting its USD reserve to ~$4.8B — The Block

Austria's FMA fined Bitpanda €70,000 (~$81K) in the EU's first published MiCA penalty, over a late white-paper filing and marketing without required disclosures; Bitpanda stays authorized — The Block

The US Treasury released its first GENIUS Act stablecoin rule proposal, defining US issuers and treating payment stablecoins as a new category, not securities; 60-day comment window — CoinDesk

Upbit and Bithumb saw H1 revenue fall about 50% as South Korea’s crypto trading activity contracted, with operating profits down roughly 80% at both exchanges — The Block

Ripple partners with South Korea’s Jeonbuk Bank to deploy Ripple Payments for 24/7 cross-border remittances, marking its third Korean banking partnership this year — The Block

Farcaster’s team is looking for a new owner to run Farcaster, Clanker and Neynar, while winding down the current company structure — Twitter

Kraken parent Payward joins Anthropic’s Project Glasswing, gaining early access to Claude Mythos 5 to scan its systems and open-source dependencies for security vulnerabilities — Decrypt

Binance is reportedly seeking an FCA crypto licence to re-enter the UK market after years of regulatory restrictions — Twitter

Compound approved a record $52M budget and a new leadership team to pivot toward institutional DeFi (RWAs, TradFi-grade credit rails), after its TVL fell to $1.2B from a $12B peak — CoinDesk

Centrifuge proposed letting CFG holders convert tokens 1:1 into equity in the company behind it, plus a foundation revamp; it's an RFC in a 14-day comment window, no vote date yet — Cryptobriefing

Banking giant Citi will launch bitcoin custody later this year under its new Custody+ platform, blending traditional and crypto custody with real-time settlement and AI market tools — The Block