Latest annual UK tax data shows 240 people reported more than £1 million in crypto capital gains
HM Revenue and Customs, the UK's tax authority, said on Thursday that 240 people reported more than £1 million ($1.36 million) each in crypto...
ENA token rises 10% as Ethena puts revenue-funded token buybacks to vote
The native token of the synthetic dollar protocol Ethena (ENA) registered double-digit gains after the Ethena Foundation unveiled four ecosystem...
Pakistan Built Its Crypto Regulatory Regime Using Just 8% of Its Budget, Minister Bilal Bin Saqib Reveals at Bitcoin Asia
Pakistan has launched its virtual asset regulatory regime in less than six months while using just 8% of the budget allocated to build it, according...
The Sandbox pledges 1:1 repayment after $700K bridge exploit
Blockchain gaming platform The Sandbox has pledged to repay eligible SAND holders 1:1 after an Aug. 21 bridge exploit drained 14.744 SAND, worth...
XRP treasury firm Evernorth says SEC registration now effective, clearing way for Nasdaq listing
Evernorth Holdings, Inc. announced today that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has declared its S-4 registration statement effective,...
BitGo buys NYDIG’s institutional trading business, expanding derivatives offering
BitGo announced today that it has completed the acquisition of bitcoin (BTC) miner NYDIG's institutional trading business and related assets, which...
Bitcoin Completes First Experimental Quantum-Safe Transaction, Starkware Says
In brief StarkWare says the first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction has been mined on Bitcoin mainnet. The method uses hash-based security without...
Google’s Android 17 Turns On New Privacy Feature—But Your Browsing Isn’t Fully Hidden
In brief Android 17 adds platform support for Encrypted Client Hello, which encrypts the domain name sent when a connection opens so the network...
The next currency crisis may be harder to contain because of stablecoins, New York Fed report shows
A New York Federal Reserve study found that dollar stablecoins are more likely to flow into wallets tied to countries experiencing currency or...
Red Flag? OpenAI's Agentic ChatGPT Work Signs Into Your Accounts Without You
In brief ChatGPT Work's browser on web and mobile can now complete tasks on sites that require you to sign in. You enter credentials once; the agent...
Virtu, Tradeweb complete onchain repo using Marshall Islands digital bond
Virtu Financial, M1X Global and Tradeweb completed an onchain repo transaction using a sovereign digital bond as collateral, with the full...
Genius Group Sets $2B Dual Treasury Target Months After Liquidating Bitcoin Holdings
Genius Group has announced a new plan to buy bitcoin — just months after selling its entire stash. The NYSE-listed AI-powered education company said...
It just got 25 times easier to move self-custody Bitcoin directly onto Wall Street, and $5 billion already has
BlackRock cut the minimum for converting privately held Bitcoin into IBIT shares from $25 million to $1 million, while Bitwise lowered its floor...
$6.4 Billion in Bitcoin Options Expire Tomorrow—Here's What It Means
In brief About 81,700 Bitcoin options worth $6.44 billion expire on Deribit at 08:00 UTC Friday, split between 44,639 calls and 37,061 puts for a...
Japanese Bitcoin Industry Unveils ‘Aurora’ to Let Global Anime Fans Support $2 Trillion Yen Space
Japan Bitcoin Industry Co., Ltd. has debuted a self-custodial Bitcoin payments platform designed to help Japanese companies sell to international...
Bitcoin Again Flirts With $81,000 Ahead of Fed’s Jackson Hole Meeting
Bitcoin again closed in on the $81,000 mark on Thursday before dropping again as its stellar week continued. The leading cryptocurrency was recently...
Trump cost investors $4.7B through crypto ‘schemes’: Public Citizen
The nonprofit consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen reported that US President Donald Trump “left investors at least an estimated $4.7...
Mirae Asset lays out crypto, stablecoin, tokenization plans for Digital X
Mirae Asset lays out crypto, stablecoin, tokenization plans for Digital X Latest NewsPublishedAug 27, 2026The South Korean financial group plans to...
Investors just moved $7 billion into Bitcoin and gold in five days to escape an accelerating dollar crisis
Gold and Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) drew roughly $7 billion over five US trading sessions, a record combined haul that puts both assets at...
Grayscale says Zcash can challenge Bitcoin’s network effects as privacy demand grows
Zcash could emerge as a meaningful challenger to Bitcoin’s dominance among digital assets as the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence puts a...
No Fork Required: Bitcoin’s First Quantum-Safe Transaction Just Happened
Should fund managers dealing in Bitcoin be worried about the threat of quantum computing? The short answer is yes — but there’s time to prepare and...
No, Ledger Wasn’t Hacked: Vulnerable Ethereum App Was Patched Before Exploit, Company Says
In brief OneKey reproduced a transaction-replacement attack against version 1.22.1 of Ledger’s Ethereum app. Ledger says it fixed the vulnerability...
Morgan Stanley leads Solana ETF $9 million inflows as SOL jumps rises above $100
US Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs) attracted about $9.1 million in net inflows on Aug. 26, led by Morgan Stanley’s MSOL.SoSoValue data showed...
Bitcoin Eyes Major Resistance as Jackson Hole Kicks Off With Unusual Fed Agenda
In brief Bitcoin trades at $80,526, up 1.9% on the day, after getting rejected near $81,265 earlier this week. The Fed's Jackson Hole symposium...
Bitcoin eyes $81K as Nvidia earnings beat boosts risk assets
Bitcoin (BTC) rebounded toward $81,000 around Thursday’s Wall Street open as Nvidia earnings boosted US stocks.Key points:Bitcoin reclaims $80,000...
Why Nvidia’s Acquisition of Hugging Face Would Reshape Open-Source AI
In brief Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire open-source AI repository Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The deal follows a period in which Nvidia...
Bitcoin’s bottom signal is flashing, but six months of data shows a trap waiting for early buyers
Bitcoin’s late-August recovery has unfolded in stages. Days prior to the Aug. 19 pump, VanEck’s capitulation dashboard showed broad market stress...
Bitcoin Could Overtake Gold in the Next Bull Run: Binance Founder CZ
In brief Binance founder Changpeng Zhao told the Bitcoin Asia conference in Hong Kong that Bitcoin will become more important than gold, with the...
Bitcoin Asia: Binance’s CZ Says $1M Bitcoin Is Coming — and Gold Won’t Keep Up
Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has said that Bitcoin will hit $1 million dollars per coin sooner than we think — and eventually surpass gold’s...
Charles Schwab adda Solana, Avalanche and Chainlink to nascent crypto platform
US financial services giant Charles Schwab plans to add Solana (SOL), Avalanche (AVAX) and Chainlink (LINK) to its crypto trading platform in the...
Bitcoin’s 23% rally sends beaten-down miners soaring past AI stocks
Bitcoin’s August rally has revived some of the mining sector’s most beaten-down stocks, reversing a trend that has favored miners pivoting toward...
UK government reports 240 crypto millionaires in 2025
UK government reports 240 crypto millionaires in 2025 About 17,600 people in the UK reported a combined $1.9 billion in gains tied to crypto in the...
Is the Jackson Hole central bank retreat now a crypto conference?
There was an actual crypto conference that took place in Jackson Hole between Aug. 17 and Aug. 20, where about 500 guests gathered at the Four...
AI Finds Critical Flaw in Bitcoin Lightning, Devs Issue Emergency Warning
In brief Core Lightning confirmed that several AI-generated security reports identified real flaws. The project told operators to verify and install...
Proof boundaries in a minimal homomorphic tally for token weighted voting
Motivation Homomorphic tallying is easy to summarize: encrypt each ballot, add the ciphertexts, and decrypt the sum. The harder part is specifying...
Solana Is Having Its Best Month Since 2024—With a Historic Governance Vote on Deck
In brief Solana (SOL) is up more than 8% in the past 24 hours and roughly 44% this month, its strongest month since 2024, pushing the token back...
Crypto users lost at least $5.69 million because their wallet seeds were too predictable
A flaw in software used by at least five crypto wallets made some recovery phrases predictable enough for attackers to reconstruct, contributing to...
Flock CEO Asks Americans to 'Compromise' on Privacy as Camera Backlash Grows
In brief Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley told Fox News that the country has to prioritize a compromise between privacy and safety. He compared...
Ripple Prime expands into US equity derivatives with Delta One business
Ripple Prime, Ripple’s multi-asset prime brokerage business, launched a Delta One service for institutional investors, expanding into US equity...
Onslaught of AI-found bugs forces Bitcoin’s Core Lightning into a secret 14-day emergency lockdown
Core Lightning developers have asked node operators to make a security decision before they can fully assess the threat. An Aug. 23 message posted...
Bank of England set for new innovation mandate covering stablecoins
The UK is moving to put stablecoins at the center of a new Bank of England mandate aimed at supporting innovation in digital payments.The government...
SEC crypto custody rewrite enters White House review with key rules still undisclosed
The SEC crypto custody rewrite for investment advisers and funds, including their crypto assets, entered White House review on Aug. 25. The move...
Morning Minute: Robinhood Chain Levels Up as Memes and RWAs Soar
Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those...
Behind Bitcoin’s sudden resilience is a $2 billion cash surge that wiped out speculative leverage
July's PCE inflation reading held at 3.7% headline and 3.3% core on Aug. 26, both still above the Fed's target.Futures markets responded by pushing...
Bank of England Handed New Legal Duty to Foster Stablecoin Innovation
In brief The Treasury said Wednesday it will give the Bank of England a secondary statutory objective to support innovation in payments and digital...
An Evaluation of Authenticated UTXO Discovery with EIP-8304 and UTXO Proof Tables
Thanks to Toni Wahrstätter for suggesting this line of work, and to Zsolt Felföldi for his work on the Trustless log and transaction index. TL;DR:...
Bitcoin ETFs Draw $2.8B in Eight-Day Streak as BTC Tests $80K
In brief U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have seen inflows of $2.8 billion across eight consecutive trading sessions. Daily inflows have retreated from a...
Bitcoin faces true demand test above $83K as liquidity thickens: Glassnode
Bitcoin (BTC) has struggled to flip $80,000 into support in recent days, but bulls’ real challenge is still to come, new research says.Key...
AMM Yield Maximization: Convergence of the Liquidity Provider and Arbitrageur Roles
This essay is authored by the MEV-X research team together with academic collaborators from HSE University. Abstract DeFi markets are efficient at...
How one small BTC transfer exposed the fine print behind Trump’s ‘never sell’ strategic Bitcoin reserve
A wallet tagged to the US government moved a small amount of Bitcoin linked to assets seized from Alameda Research's Binance.US accounts.The...
Bitfinex Securities completes record $50M tokenized capital raise
Bitfinex Securities completes record $50M tokenized capital raise Bitfinex Securities completed a record $50 million raise for Alkemya, whose token...
Rogue OpenAI Agents Sacrificed Their Own Runs to Hack Hugging Face, Report Finds
In brief METR said Wednesday that roughly 1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated on an unsanctioned message board, and about 700 went on to attack Hugging...
Bithumb wins 2 suits over mistaken Bitcoin credits: Report
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has reportedly won first-instance rulings in two lawsuits against its users to recover proceeds from...
Bitcoin hit $80,000 but failed to restore BTC treasury premiums at Strategy, Twenty One Capital, or Metaplanet
Bitcoin price is trading near $78,900, close enough to $80,000 to revive the old treasury-company pitch on paper: higher Bitcoin should lift the...
Pyth Network’s API overhaul threatens to freeze unpatched smart contracts across 300 DeFi protocols
Crypto price oracle Pyth Network missed its documented 16:00 UTC cutover deadline on Aug. 26, adding a new requirement for developers who call its...
Core Lightning confirms multiple vulnerabilities, prepares security update
Core Lightning, an open-source implementation of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, has confirmed multiple vulnerabilities and urged node operators to...
Bitcoin ETF inflows slow to $232M as BTC holds under $80K
US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) drew $232.1 million in net inflows on Wednesday, slowing from the previous day while extending...
Staking Ethereum could soon look entirely different under a new deposit proposal
Ethereum developers have opened an early proposal to make the staking deposit system flexible enough to accept future quantum-resistant validator...
Tokenized deposits could raise US credit costs: Dallas Fed economists
Tokenized deposits could make bank funding less stable and raise credit costs for US households and businesses, according to an analysis by two...
Smart AI deposits could soon force banks to raise loan rates for everyday borrowers
AI-directed bank accounts could move deposits rapidly among banks, weakening a funding advantage that helps finance long-term credit, according to a...
StarkWare tests quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction on mainnet
StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy has tested an experimental quantum-resistant transaction on the Bitcoin mainnet, in what the company described as...
Cardano and Solana just exposed crypto governance’s biggest weakness
Cardano and Solana are testing two competing approaches to on-chain governance, with one exposing the cost of voter absence and the other shifting...
Solana takes its first step toward sub-second speed by cutting block confirmation times across the network
Solana’s mainnet is producing blocks faster after its first staged slot-time reduction moved the network’s target from 400 milliseconds to 350...
When Multiple Pools Behave Like One: Impact-Constrained Capacity Concentration in Uniswap v3
TL;DR 293,273 reconstructed family × day × direction × impact_bps cells across 78 Ethereum Uniswap v3 token–quote families. Nominal multiplicity...
SHRINCS BIP published: Quantum-secure Bitcoin comes with a catch
Blockstream co-founder and CEO Adam Back has a reputation as a quantum computer skeptic who believes the technology is so immature the threat won’t...
Bitcoin is trapped between $75,000 and $80,000 ahead of a massive Friday derivatives settlement
Bitcoin is trading between $80,000 and $78,000, and faces two option strikes that could shape dealer hedging into Friday.Reported call exposure at...
Coinkite’s Coldcard Bug Exposed Single-Sig Risk. Multi-Vendor Multisig Is the New Bitcoin Custody Baseline
In the wake of Coldcard’s catastrophic entropy bug, self-custody advocates and experts have begun recommending a new standard, multi-vendor...
Avalanche Treasury doubles down on its strategy to build shareholder value after a $44 million hit
Avalanche Treasury Corp approved a $10 million Class A share-repurchase program after reporting a $44.7 million second-quarter loss, with about...
Russian Influence Network Used ChatGPT to Masquerade as Academic Experts
In brief OpenAI banned ChatGPT accounts it assessed as very likely originating in Russia. The accounts promoted an ostensible Israeli institute that...
Bill Gates Wants a Robot Tax and Jobs Humans Can't Be Fired From
In brief Bill Gates published a nearly 6,000-word essay on Gates Notes calling the AI transition "one of the most turbulent times in human history"...
Thailand is rewriting its stock exchange rules to trap billions in Bitcoin ETF wealth strictly inside its own borders
Thailand is proposing a crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) framework that would give domestic fund managers, the Stock Exchange of Thailand and...
Nvidia Shares Surge in After-Hours Trading After Record $96.2 Billion Revenue
In brief Nvidia’s quarterly revenue rose 106% year over year to $96.2 billion. Data Center revenue increased 117% to $89 billion. The company...
Billions Pour Into Bitcoin ETFs as Rally Rolls On
Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have continued their winning streak, attracting billions of dollars in new investment over the past week. U.S....
A hidden Bitcoin node database just shrank by 40 GB, but only if runners rebuild it
Bitcoin Core has merged a redesign of its optional transaction index that cut about 40 GB from the database in one contributor's mainnet test....
What Traders Are Watching for Bitcoin's Next Move
In brief Bitcoin is holding near $78,000 after a hot PCE inflation reading knocked it back from an $81,000 high, with a $6.4 billion options expiry,...
Better launches Bitcoin-backed mortgages powered by Coinbase
Better Mortgage and Coinbase have made their Bitcoin-backed mortgage product generally available, allowing US homebuyers to pledge Bitcoin as...
Galaxy Opens Retail Crypto-Backed Credit Lines on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana
In brief Galaxy launched the GalaxyOne Crypto Portfolio Line of Credit (PLOC) on August 25 for eligible U.S. clients. The revolving line has no...
Strategy’s MSTR quietly outperforms Bitcoin’s $80,000 rally as STRC closes in on $100
Bitcoin's sharp two-week recovery, which briefly pushed its value above $80,000, has brought Michael Saylor's Strategy BTC treasury back into profit...
Forget the Trump Bump — Bitcoin Would Be Fine Under Democrats, Says VanEck
President Donald Trump may be the most crypto-friendly leader the U.S. has had so far — but what would happen to Bitcoin if the Democrats were to...
US Banks Join Forces to Build a Blockchain of Their Own
In brief Thirty-nine state bankers associations formed the BankChain Alliance to develop blockchain infrastructure owned and governed by banks. The...
A 2,712 BTC treasury company just lost its Bitcoin strategy chief with no successor named
The Smarter Web Company, which reported holding 2,712 BTC earlier this month, said Jesse Myers, Head of Bitcoin Strategy, will leave on Sept. 1...
Bitcoin Wallets Dormant for Over a Decade Move $40M in One Week
In brief Galaxy Research tracked six Bitcoin wallets dormant since 2011, 2012, and 2014 moving coins over a 10-day stretch this month, worth a...
TxFlow L1 Strengthens Its Infrastructure with OpenZeppelin Audit as Its On-chain Ecosystem Expands
Independent OpenZeppelin review of TxFlow’s bridge contract marks another step in TxFlow’s approach to security as its L1, DEX, and builder...
25 Years on Wall Street, Now Crypto: GSR’s Baehr Sees a New Bitcoin Regime
Andy Baehr, GSR’s managing director of asset management, says bitcoin’s $80,000 breakout marks a new market regime. He argues the crypto trading...
Solana Treasury Firm Invites Investors to Look 'Beyond the Price of SOL'
In brief DeFi Development Corp launched State of Solana, a free public dashboard tracking Solana price, staking yields, validator distribution, and...
Chainalysis estimates $457B in taxable crypto activity, says CARF misses most
Potentially taxable onchain crypto activity reached at least $457 billion globally in 2025, while international reporting rules may capture only a...
Bitcoin’s security risk starts when one block gets far more fees than the next
Bitcoin’s security-budget debate usually starts with one total: how much miners collect in transaction fees as the block subsidy shrinks.A July 2026...
Coinbase and Better Mortgage Announce General Availability of Bitcoin-Backed Mortgages
Coinbase and Nasdaq-listed Better Mortgage have announced the availability of Bitcoin-backed mortgages for Americans. The crypto exchange and lender...
'The Government Doesn't Own Our Data': Prosecuted GrapheneOS User
In brief Samuel Tunick told the New York Times he hopes his defense establishes that the government has no claim on people's data. He said he...
Crypto CEO Faces US Extradition Over Alleged $20 Million Token Scheme
In brief A UK judge rejected Manpreet Kohli’s extradition challenge and sent the case to British ministers. Prosecutors allege Saitama executives...
Banks found a way to copy stablecoins without losing the money that funds their loans
Banks defend themselves against stablecoins by saying they are building tokenized deposits to modernize payments, with programmable money and...
SEC sends crypto custody rule overhaul to White House for review
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is moving forward with plans to overhaul custody rules for investment advisers and investment...
Tokenized Deposits Could Drain $700 Billion From Bank Lending, Dallas Fed Warns
In brief Tokenized deposits could allow customers to move funds more quickly in search of higher yields. A 10% increase in deposit-rate sensitivity...
77% of Americans see crypto in retirement plans as risky: Survey
More than three-quarters of Americans view cryptocurrency in workplace retirement plans as risky, as concerns over retirement security mount across...
Bitcoin dips below $78K as stocks, gold fall on higher US PCE Inflation data
Bitcoin (BTC) slipped under $78,000 following Wednesday’s Wall Street open after US inflation data came in above expectations.Key points:Bitcoin...
Why this XRP ETF could drift from XRP price as fees, trading costs and fund structure stack up
REX-Osprey’s XRP ETF held 40.25% of its assets in the CoinShares Physical XRP ETP on Aug. 24, routing $22.87 million of a $56.68 million portfolio...
XRP Leads Crypto Pullback as Leverage Unwind Tests Rally
In brief XRP fell 6.23% over 24 hours, the steepest drop among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap XRP still leads the pack with a 35.55%...
SEC Sends Proposal to White House To Modernize Crypto Custody
The Securities and Exchange Commission has sent a proposal to the White House aiming to “clarify the framework for the custody of crypto assets” for...
Ethereum Devs Propose Deposit Contract Overhaul to Quantum-Proof Staking
In brief A draft EIP submitted Monday would replace Ethereum's validator deposit contract with one accepting variable-length keys, clearing the way...
Protocol upgrade decouples consensus from execution to solve scaling bottlenecks
High-performance blockchains often run into the same architectural limit, where the execution sits directly in the path of consensus. In a...
Coinbase, Better make token-backed mortgages generally available
Better Mortgage and Coinbase announced on Wednesday that their token-backed conforming mortgage is generally available to Coinbase One members,...
MSTR holders just funded a $1.59 billion cash pile that may never become Bitcoin
Strategy, the Bitcoin treasury company formerly known as MicroStrategy, raised $2.0065 billion by selling common shares from Aug. 17 through Aug. 23...
Old Lightning nodes may be exposed to a full-channel wipeout after LND fix lands later than disclosed
LND, a Lightning Network node implementation, has disclosed a channel-close flaw that can put an entire channel balance at risk in the reproduced...
SEC’s proposed crypto rules probably won’t spark new ICO boom
After what feels like a lifetime in the making, the SEC’s proposed new Regulation Crypto Assets rules could finally make public token sales easier...
Students want crypto classes but learn on social media: OKX survey
Students want crypto classes but learn on social media: OKX survey A separate review found only about 28% of accredited US business schools offered...
Digital Euro Will Offer 'Maximum Level of Privacy,' ECB Board Member Says
In brief ECB executive board member Piero Cipollone said the digital euro guarantees the maximum privacy current technology can offer, in an...
XRP rebounds 32% from $1 as ETF money pours in and whales reposition
XRP is on course for its strongest monthly gain in more than a year after recovering from below $1, even as a fresh pullback and heavy whale...
Bernstein forecasts Bitcoin to reclaim $125K by late 2026 ahead of cycle peak
Wall Street research company Bernstein expects Bitcoin to recover from its latest downturn, reclaim its 2025 high and set new records in the coming...
Revolut Launches Euro-Pegged EURR Stablecoin
In brief Revolut has begun a phased rollout of EURR, a euro-pegged token, to selected customers in three EEA markets. The token is issued by Bridge...
Three critical US reports arrive in 30 minutes as Bitcoin’s $2.5 billion ETF streak faces its first real test
The U.S. macro package that landed at 8:30 a.m. ET on Aug. 26 was collectively mildly hawkish, but it did not trigger the sharp Bitcoin selloff that...
Taurus links digital asset platforms to Swift’s blockchain ledger
Taurus links digital asset platforms to Swift’s blockchain ledger Taurus expects first institutional clients to connect in days, with initial DLT...
Morning Minute: LayerZero Announces ATLAS as New Settlement Engine
Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those...
Why Bitcoin’s $80,000 rally just flipped from short squeeze to long squeeze
Bitcoin's brief pullback below $78,000 triggered more than $300 million in crypto liquidations as traders took profits after a sharp $80,000 rally...
Supply absorption ‘key question’ as Bitcoin fails to reclaim $80K: Analysis
Bitcoin (BTC) remains sensitive to sell-side pressure at $80,000, even as investors broadly avoid mass profit-taking.Key points:Bitcoin investors’...
Japan weighs blockchain fast lane for securities cash settlement
Japan weighs blockchain fast lane for securities cash settlement The FSA, Finance Ministry, BOJ and financial institutions plan to study the...
Roman Storm's Tornado Cash Retrial Pushed to April 2027
In brief Judge Katherine Polk Failla adjourned Roman Storm's retrial to April 26, 2027, in an order entered Tuesday. His motion for acquittal,...
Profit Connect owner convicted over $24M AI crypto fraud scheme
A federal jury convicted Profit Connect owner Brent C. Kovar on 15 fraud and money-laundering counts after prosecutors said he obtained $24 million...
Kalshi’s $1.5B equity offering is three-quarters sold at $1.12B
Kalshi’s $1.5B equity offering is three-quarters sold at $1.12B The Form D lists 71 investors and says Kalshi is relying on an exemption that allows...
Bitcoin traders hedged $60k and loaded up above $78k leaving the low $70k exposed
Bitcoin's end-of-September options expiry holds 130,670 BTC of open interest, compared with 79,003 BTC for August, a headline gap large enough to...
Revolut rolls out euro stablecoin in three European markets
[Update Aug. 26, 2026, 8:57 UTC: Added comments from a Revolut spokesperson.]Revolut has begun rolling out its first stablecoin, a euro-pegged token...
A zero-balance bug let empty wallets seize control of 82 Provenance assets
Trail of Bits disclosed a Provenance Blockchain authorization flaw that it said exposed 82 live mainnet asset accounts to takeover. A successful...
Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm’s retrial delayed to April 2027
Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm’s retrial delayed to April 2027 Judge Katherine Polk Failla adjourned the retrial in light of Storm’s pending...
Bitcoin ETFs tear through 2026 outflows in 7-day hot streak
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) extended their inflow streak to seven trading days on Tuesday, attracting $314.37 million in net...
US bank lobby wants stablecoin holders to open an account before cashing out
The American Bankers Association is pressing US regulators to require anyone who buys or redeems a payment stablecoin directly with its issuer to...
Moonwell has a $1.8M liquidity hole and its latest plan allocates $0 to fix it
Decentralized lending protocol Moonwell has proposed no cbETH repayment in its latest reserve round, even as the Base market for Coinbase Wrapped...
US banking groups plan nationwide blockchain network for 2027
Thirty-nine US state banking associations have formed the BankChain Alliance to build a nationwide, industry-owned blockchain network for banks,...
40 malicious Firefox add-ons targeted crypto wallets, and 9 began as sports-score tools
Software supply-chain security firm Socket found 40 Firefox add-on identities with confirmed malicious behavior, including draining crypto,...
RockawayX acquires Relayer Capital to expand crypto offerings in US
Cryptocurrency investment firm RockawayX has acquired crypto hedge fund Relayer Capital to add long and short strategies to its existing platform...
Soluna’s 1 billion-share proposal exposes the funding challenge behind its AI and Bitcoin expansion
Soluna Holdings is asking shareholders to substantially expand its ability to issue stock as the data-center developer tries to finance a...
Phantom’s plan to drop Sui exposes the hidden power wallet interfaces hold over user funds
Phantom will remove Sui from its wallet interface on Sept. 24, one month after announcing that it and Sui had decided to end the integration. After...
Bitcoin miner Sphere 3D faces $2.2M tariff claim equal to 77% of its cash
Crypto miner Sphere 3D said it could face approximately $2.2 million in supplemental US tariffs, before interest, on Bitcoin miners purchased in...
$7 Trillion Japan Bond Market is Moving to the Blockchain
Japan’s bond market is heading for a blockchain makeover. Nikkei reported this week that regulators want stocks and Japanese government bonds (JGBs)...
Cardano has days to close two huge voting gaps before governance hits a 3-seat bottleneck
Cardano’s vote to seat four elected Constitutional Committee members is now in its final week, and both voter groups remain far from the required...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Plans $100 Billion Louisiana Spaceport
In brief SpaceX plans to invest $100 billion in a new spaceport in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, on land acquired from Exxon. Construction is...
Bitcoin’s 7 million coin quantum problem just reached the US Treasury
The US Treasury has formally brought digital assets into the financial sector’s preparations for quantum computing threats.On Aug. 24, the US...
XRP Hot Streak Cools as Traders Hit a Wall: Where Does It Go Next?
In brief XRP closed at $1.4554 on the latest daily candle, down from a $1.5505 high. The 50-day moving average sits below the 200-day, with a death...
Alibaba to Release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next as a Preview of What Qwen 4 Will Offer
In brief Alibaba's Qwen team is set to release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next on Wednesday, a Mixture-of-Experts model described as a preview of the Qwen4...
Is Bitcoin Out of Its Bear Market? These Analysts Think So
Bitcoin is out of its bear market. But expect a possible pullback. That’s according to analysts at crypto research firm CryptoQuant, who say the...
These Researchers Just Shrunk an AI Model and Somehow Made It Smarter
In brief Multiverse Computing's team published a method called Quantization-Aware Healing on the Hugging Face blog on August 25. They shrank...
Traders start losing control of open positions as BitMEX begins its staged shutdown
As the BitMEX closure approaches, the derivatives exchange will enter reduce-only mode at 04:00 UTC on Aug. 26. Traders will lose the ability to...
World Liberty Financial launches USD1 natively on Canton Network
World Liberty Financial has launched its USD1 stablecoin natively on the Canton Network, allowing institutions to use it to settle transactions...
Bitcoin Breakout Could Be Around the Corner as Asset Is No Longer Oversold: Fairlead Strategies’ Katie Stockton
Bitcoin is no longer oversold but there’s still time to buy, according to Fairlead Strategies’ Katie Stockton. Speaking on Tuesday to CNBC, the...
Bitcoin Open Interest Collapses to 12%. Is the Short Squeeze Over?
In brief Crypto-margined Bitcoin futures now make up about 12% of open interest, down from nearly 100% around 2019–2020. Bitcoin rebounded from...
Copper Hits Highest Close in History as Debasement Trade Lifts Gold, Silver, Bitcoin
Copper futures settled at $6.71 per pound on Comex on Tuesday, the highest closing price in the metal’s history. The debasement trade is lifting...
What's the Deal With Nancy Pelosi and the Bloom Energy Stock Surge?
In brief Accounts owned by Nancy Pelosi's husband bought 15,000 Bloom Energy shares and 200 call options in late July. The second purchase came...
Strive bought 1,110 Bitcoin, but shareholders gained less than 2% real BTC yield
Bitcoin treasury company Strive added 1,110 Bitcoin in a week, but the benefit to common shareholders was much smaller than the headline purchase....
Kraken Says ‘Dust Attack’ From Sanctioned HTX Wallet Locked Out Customers
Crypto exchange Kraken clients were reportedly locked out of their accounts after receiving tiny amounts of sanctioned digital coins. In a statement...
Crypto Market Flips From Fear to 'Extreme Greed' for First Time Since 2024
In brief The Crypto Fear and Greed Index has hit "extreme greed," the highest reading since the 2024 cycle top. The score jumped from 36 (fear) a...
Mistral and HUMAIN Are Building 'Sovereign AI' in Saudi Arabia
In brief Mistral and Saudi PIF-backed HUMAIN struck a strategic AI collaboration valued in the "hundreds of millions of euros." The work spans...
Nasdaq-listed crypto treasury avoids cash drain by pushing millions in defaulted SPAC debt onto future equity
Nasdaq-listed StablecoinX's debt restructuring covers $6.879 million of defaulted former-SPAC notes with about $344,000 in cash and two warrant...
Bitcoin enters ‘initial phase’ of new bull market, but $83K remains key: CryptoQuant
Bitcoin has entered the early stages of a new bull market after a 24% rally pushed key onchain and demand indicators into bullish territory,...
Solana transactions hit record 4.2B as SOL rallies 40%
Solana transactions hit record 4.2B as SOL rallies 40% Tokenized real-world assets on Solana are nearing $4 billion as network activity accelerates...
How Ethereum’s new 2,048 ETH staking rule could lock up user rewards longer than expected
Ethereum is considering a change that would let compounding validators set how much ETH should remain on a validator before excess rewards enter the...
Gold Hits Three-Month High as Bitcoin Tests $80,000
In brief Gold climbed toward $4,700 an ounce Tuesday, reaching its highest level since mid-May. Bitcoin crossed $80,000 for the first time in three...
US Opens a New Front Against Iran’s Crypto Economy
The U.S. this week closed in on Iran, further targeting its crypto-related methods of dodging sanctions in a new economic campaign against the...
Strategy’s $66B Bitcoin machine hinges on capital markets, not BTC price: Report
Strategy’s Bitcoin treasury may be less vulnerable to a crypto market crash than to a prolonged loss of capital-market access, a risk that could...
Bitcoin Rally Is Outrunning the Rest of the Market: Here’s Why
In brief Bitcoin is up roughly 24% over the past week to near $79,000, its best run since 2023, while the altcoin market grew by less even during...
Bitwise launches self-custodied tokenized stock portfolios with Coinbase
Bitwise Asset Management has launched automated portfolios of Coinbase’s tokenized US stocks that allow eligible investors outside the United States...
Crypto Group Warns Regulators Against Expanding Stablecoin KYC
In brief The Blockchain Association urged regulators to limit stablecoin identity checks to direct relationships between issuers and customers. The...
Take-Two branded SEC filings push GTA VI Solana currency linked to memecoin trading
Two public-comment PDFs on a US Securities and Exchange Commission docket describe a proposed Grand Theft Auto VI currency called Sharkbux and a...
The Human Rights Foundation Announces Support for 16 Projects Worldwide
The Human Rights Foundation has announced support for more projects around the globe, this time giving over 500 million satoshis — worth $396,854 at...
DGrid AI token jumps 93% after launch as decentralized AI network goes live
DGrid AI token jumps 93% after launch as decentralized AI network goes live DGAI nearly doubled in its first day of trading as DGrid expands its...
Is Altseason Starting? 2 Charts Give Opposite Answers
The ETH/BTC ratio has broken out of a long-term declining channel and reached a 7-month high near 0.0334. Bitcoin dominance broke out of its own...
Bitcoin ETFs inflow streak reaches $2.2 billion in 6 days as assets near $100 billion
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) extended their inflow streak to six trading days on Monday, adding another $337.6 million and pushing...
Bitcoin slips from $80K as gold cools with falling US bond yields
Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $80,000 into Tuesday’s Wall Street open as crypto and gold gave way to gains in US equities.Key points:Bitcoin upside...
Bitcoin Tops $81,000 — Is the Debasement Trade Back?
Bitcoin soared past $81,000 for the first time since January on Monday before dropping slightly. The recent moves have market observers asking if...
Crypto Fund Founder Convicted of Fraud Over Fake Trading Bot
In brief A federal jury has convicted Japheth Dillman of wire fraud and conspiracy over the collapse of crypto fund Block Bits Capital. He told...
US widens Iran crypto sanctions as dollar threat revives Bitcoin and gold debate
The United States is threatening to eject Iran’s trading partners from the dollar system while widening its power to sanction the country’s crypto...
Dozens of Fake Firefox Wallet Extensions Linked to Crypto-Stealing Malware
In brief Security firm Socket has linked 77 Firefox extension identities to a campaign it calls the Offside Wallet Theft Factory, confirming 40 as...
Arcus launches tokenized perp positions on Robinhood Chain
Arcus launches tokenized perp positions on Robinhood Chain Arcus introduced transferable ERC-20 tokens for perpetual positions and lets tokenized...
This crypto firm lost $13M operating, but paper gains on its own token cleared a path to major payout bonuses
The9’s second-quarter profit was driven by accounting for its 9BIT token holdings rather than its operating businesses, with one fair-value gain...
Hugging Face hack exposes the open-weight AI cybersecurity paradox
“AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman back in...
Chainalysis-led operation flags 7,700 accounts in child abuse probe
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis said a global operation it led identified more than 7,700 suspect accounts linked to child sexual abuse...
Why major crypto asset manager’s 25% buyback plan might recycle shares to employees instead of shrinking supply
The proposed CoinShares buyback authority would cover up to 25% of its ordinary shares. But because CoinShares could keep any purchased stock in...
India plans first tokenized bonds using wholesale CBDC: Report
India reportedly plans to launch its first tokenized corporate bonds in September as part of a pilot involving blockchain-based transactions settled...
Grayscale Launches Zcash ETF Following Critical Privacy Flaw That Rocked the Cryptocurrency
In brief Grayscale’s Zcash fund began trading Tuesday on NYSE Arca under the ticker ZCSH. The product began as a private placement in October 2017....
Morning Minute: Coinbase Puts Tokenized Stocks on Base
Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those...
Shipyard winds down IPFS work after Protocol Labs ends funding
InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) maintainer Shipyard will wind down its engineering, maintenance and infrastructure operations on Sept. 30 after...
Some Bitcoin holders tax bill is now set when they leave the country instead of when they sell
In Canada, Australia, and a handful of other countries, leaving now triggers a tax bill on Bitcoin gains that have never been sold. Both countries...
Jury Convicts Las Vegas Man of $24M AI Crypto Mining Ponzi Scheme
In brief A federal jury has convicted Brent Kovar of defrauding at least 400 investors of $24 million through his company Profit Connect. He...
Bitcoin RSI bullish divergence draws 2022 comparisons as analysis weighs new price trend
Bitcoin (BTC) price action is offering mixed signals after hitting $80,000 as traders diverge on market trajectory.Key points:Bitcoin weekly...
US Can Now Sanction Anyone Operating in Iran's Crypto Sector
In brief OFAC has issued a sectoral determination covering digital assets, letting it sanction any person worldwide who operates in that part of...
A $215 billion altcoin rally rests on Bitcoin holding its reclaimed market structure
The altcoin rally added $215 billion in market capitalization between Aug. 19 and Aug. 22, pushing the combined value of coins outside Bitcoin...
Thailand moves closer to Bitcoin, Ether ETFs with draft rules
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has advanced its framework for locally listed spot Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded funds...
Standard Chartered becomes first bank distributor of HKD stablecoin
Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong), or SCBHK, has become the first bank authorized to distribute HKDAP, a regulated Hong Kong dollar-backed...
Franklin Templeton's Tokenized Treasury Fund Lands on HashKey
In brief HashKey Exchange has begun distributing Franklin Templeton's tokenized money market fund, grBENJI, through its Earn channel. The fund holds...
Bitcoin tops $80,000 as Treasury weighs $950 billion cash pile for bond buybacks
Bitcoin price has crossed $80,000 as the US Treasury explored tapping its roughly $1 trillion cash pile to fund an escalating effort to stabilize...
Galaxy puts Coldcard hack losses at 1,789 BTC, with 87% unmoved
The vast majority of Bitcoin stolen in the Coldcard hack remains unmoved, according to researchers tracking one of the largest hardware wallet...
Tether’s $120 million Uruguay mining failure now shadows its next Bitcoin bet in Brazil
Tether’s abandoned Bitcoin mining venture in Uruguay, where a former contractor estimated spending reached about $120 million across two sites, is...
Business owner faces up to 280 years over $24M crypto Ponzi scheme
Business owner faces up to 280 years over $24M crypto Ponzi scheme A federal jury convicted Brent Kovar of wire fraud, mail fraud and money...
Las Vegas businessman faces 280 years in prison after $24 million crypto fraud conviction
Las Vegas businessman Brent C. Kovar was convicted by a federal jury for fraudulently obtaining $24 million from at least 400 investors through his...
Bitcoin ETFs add $338M as six-day inflow streak hits $2.26B
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded $337.6 million in net inflows on Monday, marking their sixth consecutive trading day of...
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