Bitcoin hits $80,000’s doorstep just as the ETF bid disappears for the weekend
Bitcoin enters the weekend within striking distance of $80,000, registering an intraday high at $79,500 on Aug. 21.
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Treasury just put a deadline on offshore stablecoins’ access to US customers
By July 18, 2028, a stablecoin could still move freely across blockchains and yet disappear from the buy menu on an American exchange. Under the Treasury Department’s proposed GENIUS Act rules , a digital asset service …
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Adam Back’s Bitcoin treasury deal died, but its $15M obligation did not
Adam Back-led BSTR's plan to become a public Bitcoin treasury company through Cantor Equity Partners I, a special-purpose acquisition company, ended on Aug. 20. The collapse leaves a $15 million cash obligation with two…
Illuvium says six months of cuts bought it another year as MMO becomes its main remaining bet
Illuvium co-founder and CEO Kieran Warwick said Aug. 21 that six months of cost reductions and a further wage cut had restored more than 12 months of operating runway for the web3 gaming studio.
Ethereum researchers are racing to close a zkEVM security gap before December
Ethereum’s better.codes contest now measures a cryptographic proof gap that researchers can attack from both sides.
MANTRA Chain stays offline after exploit as Aug. 21 restart hinges on patch test
MANTRA Chain remained halted on Aug. 21 after the team said an attacker exploited a vulnerability in an upstream dependency. Transactions, transfers, and staking are unavailable while the mainnet is paused.
Trump-backed $4 billion USD1 stablecoin has wallet powers its own GitHub does not show
Justin Sun escalated his public fight with Donald Trump -backed World Liberty Financial on Friday, accusing its USD1 stablecoin of carrying administrative powers that allow privileged operators to move funds from frozen…
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A $22.9 million capital deficit threatens to derail an energy firm’s pivot to off-grid Bitcoin mining
Olenox Industries is an energy company that acquired Bitcoin miner CS Digital Ventures in May. It reported preliminary July production of 15.13 BTC against a June 30 balance sheet . The balance sheet carried $1.21 milli…
Unresolved $11 million liquidity crash leaves pools exposed as attacker still holds 20.83 BTC on Maya Protocol
The suspected Bitcoin address at the center of Maya Protocol’s Aug. 18 exploit still held about 20.8273 BTC with no outgoing spend on Aug. 21, while no published recovery plan accounted for the much larger estimated imp…
The latest $1.61 billion crypto ETF surge risks grinding to a halt against a 30-year US Treasury yield spike
Four consecutive sessions of U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF inflows have revived a regulated demand channel just as the U.S. Treasury offered investors a 2.973% real yield for nearly three decades.
US expands Iran-linked hacking case to 17 defendants over HBO’s $6 million Bitcoin ransom plot
US prosecutors have expanded an eight-year-old hacking case tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps , adding eight defendants and linking six of them to the 2017 HBO breach that included a $6 million Bitcoin ex…
Holders face permanent token destruction with no guarantee of value as deadline looms for Shade’s privacy protocol
Shade Protocol says only SHD burned before 18:00 UTC on Aug. 21 will qualify for a future Feather allocation, leaving holders hours to choose whether to permanently destroy their tokens for undisclosed terms. The deadli…
This Nasdaq-listed crypto firm is swapping fresh Ethereum buys for an AI pivot
Intchains Group is pulling back from fresh Ethereum purchases after its first-half revenue collapsed by 94% and is now focused on redirecting capital toward a new mining chip and early-stage AI initiatives.
Bitcoin miners are getting a new AI hedge, but it may protect them from the wrong risk
The US derivatives regulator is exploring a market for futures tied to AI computing power just as Bitcoin miners pour hundreds of millions of dollars into data centers , but the contracts may leave their biggest risks u…
Justin Sun keeps World Liberty fight public as its $4 billion stablecoin bank awaits final approval
Justin Sun said on Aug. 20 that a California federal judge rejected World Liberty Financial's attempt to force all of his claims into private arbitration, keeping his individual allegations in open court.
US rule rewrite looms for $200B on-chain venue Hyperliquid as Trump signals onshore approval
President Donald Trump said Aug. 19 that CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring Hyperliquid to the US in a fully compliant, legal way.
Bitcoin is closing in on $80,000 and already destroyed a record $4 billion in short bets
Bitcoin surged toward $80,000 on Friday, extending a three-day rally that has liquidated more than $4 billion in bearish bets and pushed the cryptocurrency to a three-month high.
SEC’s latest crypto rules only open a few of Wall Street’s ‘million doors’ – Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan
Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan doesn't think Washington's crypto-friendly turn is the moment that completely unlocks Wall Street.
Sudden 22% XRP rally triggers forced market wide short-buying, driving XRP toward a make-or-break resistance test
XRP jumped roughly 22% in 24 hours, trading near $1.26 and clearing the level CryptoSlate had flagged in July as the upside target of its breakout setup.
Attackers drove 63% of early use of Ethereum’s new smart wallet feature
Ethereum's shortcut to smart wallet behavior arrived with a new trust problem: a wallet can make a regular address programmable without moving the user's assets, while the delegated code gains power to act with that acc…
BTCS used Ethereum to repay Aave debt and ended Q2 with just $317,000 in cash
Nasdaq-listed Ethereum infrastructure company BTCS swapped ETH into USDT to pay down Aave loans in the second quarter and ended June 30 with $317,113 in cash and stablecoins.
Zcash miner buys 9.4% of merger target that warns failed deal could end in liquidation
Fortitude Mining, Digital Currency Group's Zcash-focused miner, bought a 9.4% stake in Nasdaq-listed HeartSciences for about $1 million, giving its proposed merger partner cash for operating expenses while shareholder a…
Ethereum’s next upgrade turns a 2-second block bottleneck into a roughly 9-second window
Ethereum node operators now have an active public network for rehearsing Glamsterdam’s coordinated execution- and consensus-client upgrade. Platåberget has an open, permissionless validator set, turning the upgrade into…