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Grayscale quietly drops Cardano, Polkadot and Hedera ETF plans
The asset manager said it no longer intends to proceed with the offerings. None became effective, and no securities were issued or sold.
Solana lending giant Jupiter now lets the same dollar earn twice
The new Lend v2 product turns deposits and borrowed assets into trading liquidity, tying higher returns to whether Jupiter’s router can send enough swap flow to the new vaults.
Tom Lee's Bitmine Buys $14M in Ethereum as Cash Falls to $104M
Bitmine has reported 4.8% of the supply for five straight weeks, leaving its 'Alchemy of 5%' target roughly 230,000 tokens away.
Bitmine’s ETH buying slows as Tom Lee's firm shifts capital to share buybacks
Chairman Tom Lee said easing financial conditions could support crypto, even as the CLARITY Act failed to reach a Senate vote before the August recess.
Bitdeer increased Bitcoin mining output by nearly fivefold in Q2
Bitdeer mined 2,694 BTC in Q2, but ended the quarter holding just 150 BTC after liquidating its treasury earlier this year.
Strategy turns 1,690 BTC into $108.6M STRC buyback
Strategy sold 1,690 Bitcoin to repurchase STRC shares as its US dollar reserve rose to $4.65 billion and its Bitcoin holdings fell to 840,447 BTC.
Strategy Sells $109M in Bitcoin as Dollar Reserve Tops $4.6B
All of the proceeds went into a $109 million STRC buyback, while the company sold six times as much again in its own stock.
Bitcoin's BIP-110 episode is free-market capitalism in purest form
Your day-ahead look for Aug. 10, 2026
Four takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive AI manifesto
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a lot to say about the idealized future he now envisions for humanity co-existing with artificial intelligence - his latest essay spans more than 6,500 words on the matter. The lengthy manifesto Zuckerberg published on Monday, titled "The Future is for Everyone," broadly lays out his beliefs about how the […]
Markets flip for Fed rate-hike pause into CPI: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin spiked to a new August high into Sunday’s weekly close as market participants turned their attention to the next US inflation reports.
Standard Chartered Sees $4T Tokenization Driving Chainlink to $200 by 2030
The bank has now set 2030 targets for Uniswap, Aave, Morpho and Chainlink, all resting on one 37x forecast for DeFi growth.
Bybit Sues North Korea Over $1.5B Hack, Wins Order Freezing Assets
The exchange says it has recovered $48.4 million and frozen $30.5 million more, a fraction of what the Lazarus Group took in February 2025.
Ford’s new AI assistant can check your fuel levels and tire pressure
Ford is rolling out a new AI-powered assistant that can answer questions about your Ford or Lincoln vehicle, such as how much fuel you'll need for your next road trip or whether your truck can tow that new motor boat. The app is rolling out first to the Ford and Lincoln mobile apps, where it […]
Live updates: WTI crude oil up 5% and back to $80, as bitcoin drops below $64,000
The market rose even as the Senate left the crypto bill unpassed before its recess, with steady ETF inflows and a softer dollar doing more for prices than Washington.
This bitcoin miner rejected BIP-110 despite mining through a pool that supported it
Ocean, a bitcoin mining pool, had been backing BIP-110 by default. Simple Mining, a company that runs mining machines through Ocean, used software from the pool that lets individual miners choose for themselves and went the other way.
Bitcoin tops $65,000 with U.S. inflation data due this week
Every major except XRP is green on the week, with BTC, ether and BNB each up nearly 3% as global stocks trade near a record.
Australia orders Cryptolink Bitcoin ATMs offline over ‘basic reporting’ failures
Australia’s financial watchdog has suspended Cryptolink’s registration for three months, adding to a crackdown that previously saw the Bitcoin ATM operator fined $56,340.
XRP is getting left behind in the crypto bounce even as ETFs keep attracting investor money
The token fell 5% last week while BTC, ETH and SOL climbed.
Crypto’s first quantum attack will look like unexplained breach: Quantus founder
Bad actors with access to a cryptography-breaking quantum computer probably won’t try to announce it to the world by hacking Satoshi Nakamoto’s high-profile Bitcoin wallets, crypto executives say.
BIP-110 ends with a whimper, CLARITY vote punted: Hodler’s Digest, Aug. 9
BIP-110 forks itself into oblivion with a “2-block chain” and CLARITY will finally get a Senate vote in September. The odds say that vote will be a No.
Bitcoin 'Anti-Spam' Fork Sputters to a Halt After Mining Just Two Blocks
The breakaway chain drew just 2.53% of mining support, leaving its blocks hours apart and roughly 350 days from a difficulty adjustment while the main network powered ahead.
Is Clarity's delay a blessing in disguise?: State of Crypto
The crypto industry is angry and disappointed that the Senate is not holding a procedural vote on the Clarity Act this month, but that isn't the worst possible outcome.
Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.
The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards, and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models.