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Bitcoin rose above $80,000 before slipping toward $79,000, as gain-taking followed a sharp weekly advance and leverage signals returned.
A Bitcoinist report says CIP-0197 could bring post-quantum protection to Cardano wallets, but no matching primary CIP-repository record appeared in today’s feed.
Hydra has reworked its benchmark harness to compare each pull request with its merge base on the same runner and added runtime gauges to hydra-node.
Hydra merged a deposit-binding fix that closes a look-alike deposit path which could have left a head crediting more Layer 2 value than it received.
A single report says Zondacrypto CEO Przemyslaw Kral faces fraud charges in Poland, but no official confirmation or independent corroboration is supplied.
Standard Chartered is reported to be distributing an HKD-pegged stablecoin in Hong Kong, a potential institutional milestone that needs confirmation beyond the single supplied source.
US Treasury expanded sanctions to Iran’s digital-asset sector, alleging a UAE-based broker processed more than $100 million in crypto tied to oil sales.
Three security updates highlight risks in wallet entropy, transaction signing, and DeFi governance, while key loss and remediation details remain incomplete.
Strive added 1,110 BTC and Bitmine added about $81 million of ETH, extending corporate treasury accumulation as operators take different approaches to cash and crypto holdings.
Coinbase’s B20 product brings selected equities, including Apple and Nvidia, onchain through Base, with 24/7 trading and stated DeFi use for eligible non-US users.
Bitcoin and gold rose as the dollar softened and Treasury buybacks expanded, while investors looked ahead to Kevin Warsh's Friday Jackson Hole keynote.
Strategy raised roughly $2 billion through MSTR stock sales while holding 840,447 BTC and building a USD cash pool instead of making another purchase.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak, but the reported rise in Bitcoin and Ether ETF assets was driven mainly by price movement rather than fresh capital.
Bitcoin moved above $80,000 for the first time since May, extending a strong weekly run as short liquidations passed $220 million and Solana rose about 8%.
A preliminary S-1 reportedly pairs $30,000,005 from new investors with $45,000 from existing holders, while new buyers receive about 10% equity.
CoinDesk reports card-linked crypto spending surpassed $1B, offering a limited but notable data point for stablecoins in everyday purchases.
Bitcoin is holding near $77,000 after the prior week’s rally, while attention turns to Jackson Hole, US PCE data, and IREN earnings.
Fasset says it raised at a $1B valuation with SBI support, highlighting a stablecoin-focused push into payments.
An update links a US Treasury bond buyback intended to lower yields with a roughly 23% Bitcoin move, though the supplied record does not establish causation.
CryptoSlate reported $1.918 billion in US spot Bitcoin ETF inflows and $697.2 million for Ether funds through Aug. 21, with smaller crypto ETPs adding about $90 million.
Pakistan has set a Sept. 5 deadline for existing virtual-asset providers to seek a no-objection certificate or cease operations under its new framework.
Term Finance says a governance exploit drained about $8.5 million from its Meta Vaults after an attacker acquired controlling voting power. The vaults have been permanently closed.
A Leios devnet harness now raises byte throughput by increasing outputs per transaction, because its endorser-block transaction-count cap does not vary with transaction size.
A bounded mempool configuration improved certification and sustained higher throughput in a paired Leios devnet run, while the otherwise-identical unbounded run collapsed.
