Proof of Play to shut down after blockchain gaming thesis falls short
The a16z-backed studio will open-source Pirate Nation assets, while an independent foundation continues supporting the PIRATE token.Blockchain game developer Proof...
Month: August 2026
Forgd brings its crypto market-maker leaderboard to DefiLlama
Forgd’s ratings draw on data from more than 500 token projects and 35 market-making firms, but do not solely reflect...
AI credit bubble could fuel Bitcoin ‘crack-up boom’ past $1M: Hayes
Hayes likened the debt-fueled AI infrastructure boom to the 2008 credit bubble, but evidence suggests financial strain is uneven across...
Lookonchain: Strategy-Linked Wallet Moves 1,030 BTC as Fourth Sale Looms
A wallet tied to Michael Saylor’s Strategy moved 1,030 BTC worth $66.14 million recently, just days after the company confirmed...
You Can Now Rent a Humanoid Robot in China for $443 a Day. Thousands Already Have
More than 5,500 humanoid-robot rental orders landed in just three months after AGIBOT launched its SHAREBOT subsidiary in December 2025,...
Dutch Court Hears Crypto Dispute Kidnapping Case
Dutch prosecutors charged three men in connection with a May 1 incident in Nieuw-Vennep involving the kidnapping, physical abuse, and...
Apple Pulls Telegram After Illegal Content Appears in Public Group
Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store after prohibited content surfaced in a public group. CEO Pavel Durov said...
Senators Demand SEC Probe Into Trump Memecoin After $3.8B Losses
Two U.S. senators urged regulators to investigate $TRUMP after nearly one million investors reportedly lost $3.81 billion while Trump-affiliated entities...
Ripple Pushes Full XRPL Stack as Tokenized Assets Expand
Ripple is building issuance, stablecoin, trading, custody, and credit infrastructure as financial institutions adopt tokenized assets. Its XRPL ecosystem links...
Binance Launches Lite Loan With No Liquidation for 30 Days
Binance has launched a 30-day bitcoin-backed loan offering up to 1,000 USDT, with no price-triggered liquidation during the initial term....
Ethereum researchers want to rein in staking, critics say it could backfire
EIP-8363 is a newly published draft proposal that would cut net consensus-layer rewards as the Ethereum staking ratio heads toward...
GameStop plans $1.4 billion stock swap as Bitcoin collateral risk emerges
GameStop has agreed to swap $1.4 billion of zero-coupon convertible notes for stock, a deal that would retire about one-third...
Hashdex is shutting down its Bitcoin ETF, leaving investors with just days to sell before a blind, unpredictable cash out
One of the early Bitcoin futures ETFs that was converted to a spot fund after the launch of the Newborn...
Tomorrow sees a massive liquidity trap for Bitcoin as the US Treasury is quietly draining $77 billion from bank reserves
Bank reserves fell $77.579 billion on a weekly-average basis last week ending July 29. Days later, the US Treasury borrowing...
Why AI is now a more immediate threat to Bitcoin than quantum computers
Bitcoin’s biggest near-term security problem may not be a breakthrough against its cryptography, but the software and hardware already standing...
