Bitcoin price hits $69,500 because US just doubled Treasury buybacks to crush long-term yields
Bitcoin and Ethereum surged above $69,500 and $2,000 on Wednesday after the US Treasury doubled planned buybacks of long-dated government debt.
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Wall Street piled $1.2 billion into MSTR in Q2 before Strategy turned its Bitcoin flywheel toward rescuing STRC
Wall Street institutions increased their exposure to Strategy's MSTR in the second quarter, just before Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin accumulation machine began redirecting capital toward STRC.
Metaplanet’s US Bitcoin treasury bet could unlock up to $3.4 billion, but there’s a catch
Metaplanet is set to take near-total control of Nasdaq -listed Super League Enterprise with a $134.6 million investment, while most of the billions of dollars tied to the deal would remain dependent on future financing …
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A hidden divide inside the Fed could trigger a hawkish shock for Bitcoin at 2 PM today
Bitcoin heads into the Federal Reserve's July meeting minutes, due Wednesday, Aug. 19, at 2 p.m. Eastern, with a question the policy statement could not answer: did pressure for higher rates stop with the three official…
Ripple just scored two major institutional wins but XRP traders are bracing for a bigger move
On Aug. 18, Ripple deepened its push into traditional finance, securing a South Korean banking deal as its prime brokerage raised $275 million.
Bitcoin’s Q2 selloff split Wall Street as banks bought, hedge funds cut and sovereigns held
Bitcoin fell 14.2% in the second quarter, while institutional Bitcoin ETF holdings rose 7.5% over the same period, climbing from 498,389 to 535,723 BTC equivalent. Fewer institutions drove that increase, with the number…
SEC opens door to day-one crypto insider sales that Senate draft would block
The SEC's new crypto fundraising proposal deliberately treats tokens as free to trade as soon as a buyer acquires them, unless the issuer or another law says otherwise.
This Solana treasury company may sell SOL as a DeFi loan ties up more than half its treasury
SOL Strategies may sell part of its Solana treasury to meet obligations, as much of its holdings remain pledged against debt.
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Ethereum’s 12-GPU proving problem just got a 4-GPU answer
ZisK's new four-GPU benchmark claim has lowered the headline hardware count in Ethereum's real-time proving race. In February, CryptoSlate examined a roughly 12-GPU setup as a possible centralization risk. The new figur…
Canaan counted paused Ethiopia mining as nearly 35% of its July operating hashrate total
Canaan's July mining update counted 4.96 exahashes per second from paused operations in Ethiopia inside 14.24 EH/s of global operating computing power. That means nearly 35% of the reported total came from a country whe…
Yakovenko wants Solana to mint SOL to buy a company, but who would own it?
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko has floated the idea of expanding SOL’s supply, paying for a company with incremental tokens, then using the acquired business’s revenue to buy and burn SOL. The posts sketch a tokeno…
AsiaStrategy’s Astra deal lets insider-linked buyers take ownership before $8 million comes due
AsiaStrategy agreed to sell all the shares of a Singapore holding company whose sole asset is a 7.07% stake in Thailand-listed Astra Enterprise, transferring the exposure to two insider-linked buyers for $10 million whi…
HIVE’s $84.7 million Swedish tax provision eclipsed revenue even as Bitcoin output hit a record
HIVE Digital Technologies booked an $84.7 million non-cash Swedish tax provision tied to contested VAT exposure after adverse court rulings led it to change its accounting assessment.
This public company now controls 18% of Zcash mining power after $33 million Winklevoss-linked deal
Cypherpunk Technologies acquired roughly 18% of Zcash’s mining power in a $33.33 million equity deal that could dilute shareholders.
Shifting $576M of forced sales off public order books saved Hyperliquid from a systemic crash
Hyperliquid, an on-chain perpetual futures venue, sent most of the forced selling in the worst minute of the October 2025 crypto crash to the Hyperliquid backstop rather than its public order book, according to a new re…
Solana’s Alpenglow bug hunt charges researchers 0.5 SOL to report flaws
Anza is charging security researchers a non-refundable 0.5 SOL to file each Alpenglow finding before the competition closes at 16:00 UTC on Aug. 19.
Bitcoin ETF flows jumped by $137 million, but it only recouped a third of recent losses
Farside’s currently reported $137.3 million U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF inflow on Aug. 17 rested heavily on Fidelity, leaving the session short of a market-wide demand signal.
Ethereum wants to hide your trades from bots before they can attack
Ethereum developers are weighing a new defense against predatory trading bots that exploit pending transactions before they reach the blockchain.
Circle still tells users to buy Noble USDC on Coinbase after cutoff date passes
Coinbase’s announced Aug. 17 cutoff for USDC deposits and withdrawals on Noble had passed, but Circle’s public Noble guide was still telling users to use Coinbase and select Noble as the network as of press time Aug. 18.
Aave Gold Deposits Surge 91% as XAUT Gains Ground
Aave stablecoin utilization reached about 82.5%, with $7.40B borrowed against $8.98B supplied.
Blockchains may finally break their hidden reliance on a ticking randomness clock to keep networks secure
A paper accepted for Crypto 2026 in Santa Barbara says it resolves a theoretical gap in permissionless consensus by replacing a public beacon that supplied participants with fresh random values at regular intervals.
Strategy raised $334 million from MSTR shareholders last week — Bitcoin got none of it
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) directed all $333.7 million raised from common-stock sales last week toward preferred-stock obligations and cash reserves, extending a two-month shift that has prioritized STRC support …
Peter Todd reopens Bitcoin’s 21M cap debate because transaction fees make up just 0.5% of miner revenue
Early Bitcoin developer and self-proclaimed “Bitcoin thought leader,” Peter Todd, has revived debate over Bitcoin's 21 million-coin limit and whether Bitcoin tail emission could help fund proof-of-work security as block…
Half of Aave’s debt sits in just 9% of positions built around one Ethereum correlation trade
Galaxy's Aug. 7 snapshot of Aave V3 Core found 19,073 loans on the protocol after applying standard filters. Fewer than 9% of those positions are using Aave's E-mode setting, account for roughly half of all outstanding …