Hyperliquid’s HYPE Outperforms Bear Market as AQAv2 Nears Launch
Hyperliquid’s HYPE token is holding near $73 as trader Pentosh1 argues its fee-burn engine, set to expand under a mechanism...
Month: August 2026
Sharplink Bets Big on Ethereum, Stakes Another 39,319 ETH Worth $91 Million
Sharplink Gaming has staked another 39,319 ETH worth roughly $91 million, adding to a treasury that already ranks among the...
Prediction Markets Platform Kalshi Delves Further Into Traditional Derivatives, Seeks CFTC Nod for Copper Perpetual Futures Contract
Kalshi prediction market platform is expanding into regulated perpetual futures trading for copper, a key industrial metal. The proposed COPPERPERP...
Solana cuts blockchain slot time to 350 milliseconds
Solana reduced its slot time for the first time since genesis as it works toward a 200-millisecond target aimed at...
Laser Digital gets Japan’s first crypto exchange approval in 4 years
Nomura-backed Laser Digital Japan received registration to provide domestic liquidity before expanding into institutional crypto trading.Nomura Group’s digital asset subsidiary,...
Binance says employees questioned in UAE cleared and released
Binance’s employees were cleared and released after providing statements to UAE authorities about third-party fund flows through a company client...
Arizona Financial Firm To Hand Out up to $5,000 per Person in Settlement Over Data Breach That Exposed Names, Social Security Numbers
Arizona-based financial firm On Q Financial is agreeing to a $1.25 million class action settlement over a February 2024 data...
Standard Chartered wavers on $100K Bitcoin year-end call, says it may be ‘too low’
Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick said Bitcoin could move toward its $126,000 all-time high after Oct. 6 as spot Bitcoin ETF...
Coldcard strengthens seed generation with firmware update
Coinkite urged Coldcard users to generate new seed phrases, warning that existing vulnerable seeds remain unsafe despite the security upgrade.Coinkite...
Ethereum Wallet Delegation Feature Faces Scrutiny After Attacker Findings
TLDR A peer-reviewed study for USENIX Security ’26 found attacker-linked contracts tied to 63% of Ethereum’s EIP-7702 authorization transactions. Researchers...
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...
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...
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. In an interview...
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...
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...
