UK Gives Bank of England New Stablecoin Innovation Mandate
The U.K. government plans to give the Bank of England a new secondary objective to support innovation in payments, including...
Month: August 2026
NZ’s ACT Party Proposes Waiving Capital Gains Tax on Crypto
ACT, a party with the fourth-largest representation in the New Zealand Parliament, is campaigning to modernize digital finance rules, proposing...
Bitcoin Mining Consumes 30% of Paraguay Energy, Analysts Reveal
During the “Accelerating Bitcoin” conference, experts debated how current bitcoin mining operations would affect the Paraguayan grid, warning of a...
Bitcoin now has a quantum computing escape route, but 7 million BTC may still be exposed
Bitcoin has confirmed a quantum-resistant transaction on mainnet using its existing consensus rules, showing that some holders could migrate funds...
The next currency crisis may be harder to contain because of stablecoins, New York Fed report shows
A New York Federal Reserve study found that dollar stablecoins are more likely to flow into wallets tied to countries...
It just got 25 times easier to move self-custody Bitcoin directly onto Wall Street, and $5 billion already has
BlackRock cut the minimum for converting privately held Bitcoin into IBIT shares from $25 million to $1 million, while Bitwise...
Investors just moved $7 billion into Bitcoin and gold in five days to escape an accelerating dollar crisis
Gold and Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) drew roughly $7 billion over five US trading sessions, a record combined haul that...
Morgan Stanley leads Solana ETF $9 million inflows as SOL jumps rises above $100
US Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs) attracted about $9.1 million in net inflows on Aug. 26, led by Morgan Stanley’s MSOL....
Bitcoin’s bottom signal is flashing, but six months of data shows a trap waiting for early buyers
Bitcoin’s late-August recovery has unfolded in stages. Days prior to the Aug. 19 pump, VanEck’s capitulation dashboard showed broad market...
Polymarket Pulls NFL Contracts, Certifies Bitcoin Bets The Same Day
Polymarket’s US-serving platform withdrew both of its NFL player participation filings on Aug. 26, one day after certifying them with...
Trump Media Drops ‘Truth Predict’ Buildout, Chooses Crypto.com Instead
Trump Media has abandoned plans to build a prediction market directly into Truth Social, opting instead to market Crypto.com’s existing...
$13T Asset Manager Charles Schwab Adds 3 Altcoins to Its Crypto Push
There’s been a great deal of institutional interest in crypto assets over the last two years, and on Thursday, the...
Moonwell Locks Base Borrowing After $8.7M MAMO Attack
Attackers extracted roughly $8.7 million from Moonwell after artificially inflating the price oracle of the low-liquidity MAMO token, then using...
Virtu, Tradeweb complete onchain repo using Marshall Islands digital bond
The transaction used the Marshall Islands-issued USDM1 bond as collateral and completed the full repo cycle on the Canton Network...
Bitcoin eyes $81K as Nvidia earnings beat boosts risk assets
Bitcoin and crypto joined US stock markets in fresh gains after Nvidia Q2 earnings beat expectations by around $4 billion.Bitcoin...
