Hyperion DeFi Q2 2026 Earnings: $31M Profit Hides HYPE Bet
Adjusted Gross Profit reached $1.15M, while operating cash flow remained negative.
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Why millions of everyday savers will soon own Bitcoin without ever downloading a crypto app
A future Bitcoin buyer may encounter the asset through a portfolio they already own. An adviser can add a small allocation, a brokerage account can hold a spot ETF, and future retirement products could place Bitcoin ins…
Study finds 65,340 risky crypto addresses tied to $574 million in losses
A study presented at USENIX Security '26 identified 65,340 risky crypto addresses involved in misuse across Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain, with 126,982.94 ETH and 17,726.7 BNB in associated native-token losses.
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Zcash is borrowing crypto’s new institutional playbook as privacy goes mainstream
Zcash Labs launched Aug. 6 to move Zcash deeper into business and institutional use. The independent group is focused on integrations, infrastructure, and adoption projects for companies that want to use ZEC.
How a wall of 1.79 million Bitcoin is quietly choking every attempt to break above $65,000
Bitcoin traders are rebuilding bets on a run toward $70,000 while still paying for protection against a fall to $60,000, showing that softer US inflation data has done little to break the market’s defensive positioning.
Strategy sold $100M to defend STRC’s $100 stock price as DeFi packages the risk into a 7% ‘safer’ trade
Solstice announced a tranched product built on Strategy's Bitcoin-related STRC preferred stock, and said its senior tranche would not begin absorbing losses until STRC trades below $47.66.
Arthur Hayes says a $60 billion Fed cap is Bitcoin’s next liquidity trigger and needed for a price surge
Arthur Hayes says a $60 billion Federal Reserve limit is the next liquidity trigger he wants to see before adding more aggressively to risk assets, such as Bitcoin.
BlackRock’s Bitcoin income ETF offset less than 30% of its $1.2M crypto losses with options
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA) recorded $79,073 of realized gains and $265,776 of unrealized appreciation on written options in its first operating period, helping offset losses on its Bitcoin hol…
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Cypherpunk secures a $46M Zcash gain and turns a $4.7M operating loss into $39.4M profit
Zcash treasury firm and Leap Therapeutics owner, Cypherpunk Technologies, reported $39.4 million in second-quarter net income, reversing a $16.6 million loss a year earlier.
Bitcoin miner HIVE’s $79M quarter runs into an $80M Swedish tax problem
Bitcoin miner HIVE Digital Technologies missed the Aug. 10 deadline for its quarter-ended-June 30 Form 10-Q even as preliminary revenue climbed to approximately $79 million.
Russia picks Bitcoin, Ethereum and USDT for public trading as retail faces $58,000 cap
The Bank of Russia has proposed opening public organized crypto trading with only Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether’s USDT eligible for admission.
21Shares XRP ETF loses 54% of assets as redemptions lock in $13.4 million loss
The 21Shares XRP ETF lost more than half its assets during the first six months of 2026 as falling XRP prices collided with heavy redemptions that crystallized $13.36 million in losses.
A $36 billion lawsuit just turned Kalshi’s $40 billion valuation race into a federal market emergency
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has ordered Kalshi to keep operating after the prediction-market exchange declared a market emergency tied to New York’s enforcement campaign.
Tron Inc. put over 90% of assets behind an uninsured JustLend dependency as its TRX treasury kept growing
Nasdaq -listed Tron Inc. continues expanding its TRX treasury reserve as it routes nearly all of its holdings through JustLend, the largest DeFi platform on the TRON blockchain.
After selling 832 BTC to clear debt, this Nasdaq-listed crypto firm is using a 1-for-50 reverse split to mask its shrinking treasury
Bitcoin financial services firm Fold could address its Nasdaq share-price problem through a potential reverse split, but the company’s shrinking Bitcoin reserve raises a separate question about how it will fund operatio…
As retail crypto trades collapse 73%, eToro drops $231 million to capture active US stock traders
eToro’s users executed 1.4 million crypto trades in July, down 73% from a year earlier. The average amount invested per trade halved to $182. In the same Aug. 11 update, the trading platform agreed to pay consideration …
XRP loses $1 for the first time since Trump’s 2024 election as bearish bets surge and 200,000 XRP stolen
XRP slipped below $1 as leverage rebuilt and selling pressure deepened across the market.
SEC and CFTC plans to write crypto rules without Congress – but they can’t make them permanent
CFTC Chair Michael Selig said on Aug. 4 that the agency has crypto rule proposals ready and plans to finalize them before the current administration ends, regardless of whether Congress passes the CLARITY Act.
Even if Bitcoin rises 30% a year this renewable mining model still loses money as hashrate keeps pace
Bitcoin trades near $63,600, below the lowest Bitcoin price researchers tested against a modeled wind-powered mining operation in a new Energy Economics study.
Harmony weighs a full blockchain rollback after unauthorized minting floods exchanges with billions in ONE
Harmony, the layer-1 blockchain network, has released an emergency validator patch that it says prevents further unauthorized minting of ONE, its native token. The project said it will address tokens already created in …
Twenty One’s $2.8 billion Bitcoin pile is worth far more than its stock, but there’s a catch
Twenty One Capital says investors value its shares below its Bitcoin holdings even as 37% of the treasury remains pledged against debt.
TON Strategy earned $15 million staking Gram while operations burned $10.6 million in cash
TON Strategy reported a 17% annualized gross staking yield for the second quarter, but its new filing also revealed a mismatch between token-denominated income and operating cash flows.
Strategy’s $4.6 billion cash buffer gives it almost 3 years before Bitcoin sales create real stress
Strategy said it held 840,447 BTC as of Aug. 9 and has begun treating its Bitcoin reserve as a source of balance-sheet flexibility.
This spot Bitcoin ETF only logged six inflow days ever – now investors have until August 17 before forced cash liquidation
Hashdex will stop trading its DEFI Bitcoin ETF after the Aug. 17 close, giving investors a final window to exit before the fund is liquidated.