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Valantis has partnered with Pendle to allow traders to buy and sell Hyperliquid trading fee discounts independently of the HYPE tokens that historically conferred them. By tokenizing fee discounts as transferable yield tokens (YTs) tied to stHYPE and listing them on Pendle, the new marketplace enables traders to rent lower fees and allows HYPE stak…
TronBid has upgraded its peer-to-peer platform to operate as a two-sided marketplace for TRON network resources, enabling both buyers and sellers to post orders for Energy and Bandwidth. The expansion adds immediate rental options, a flash recharge feature, and a B2B Quick Rent API aimed at exchanges, wallets and payment processors that handle freq…
CoinMarketCap has completed independent SOC 2 Type 1 and SOC 1 Type 1 examinations of the controls protecting its market-data systems and has retained its dual ISO certifications for information security and privacy management. The reports and certifications cover the parts of the business that handle user and market information and are available t…
<p>Bernstein analyst Gautam Chhugani projects Bitcoin could hit $300,000 by the close of 2029, grounding the view in a price-to-marginal-cost framework and Bitcoin's historical four-year cycle. The firm argues that an end to decades of declining interest rates leaves sovereigns more exposed to rising debt-servicing costs, increasing the likelihood …
Bitcoin eased from three-month highs on Wednesday as investors grew cautious ahead of U.S. PCE inflation data and a critical earnings release from Nvidia. The cryptocurrency slipped roughly 1.8% after topping $80,000 earlier in the week, while wider crypto markets and oil moved in response to developing geopolitical reports and macro risk signals.
Zerostack Corp. reported that its cryptocurrency holdings had an aggregate market value of about $1.06 billion as of August 23, 2026, driven primarily by MemeCore tokens and a smaller holding of 0G tokens. The company provided per-share calculations on both partially diluted and fully diluted bases and noted that its stock traded at a significant d…
FlyEdge has published a multilingual public preview enabling airlines and travelers to test and independently verify an end-to-end on-chain loyalty lifecycle on StreamChain, an EVM-compatible mainnet the company says was built for aviation. The preview centers airline control over issuance, conversion, transfer and redemption, and includes traveler…
Bitcoin is trading at $77,598.78 on the 5-hour chart and has entered a consolidation phase beneath major resistance following a sharp rally. Momentum indicators show mixed signals: the macro trend remains constructive while short-term measures suggest elevated risk of a pullback. The market is confined to a narrow $75,450–$78,500 range where indeci…
<p>Bitcoin eased below the $77,000 mark on Sunday after surrendering earlier intraday gains, while measures of miner revenue climbed sharply. The recent price rebound - which lifted bitcoin as high as $79,461 on Friday - has translated into a notable rise in expected mining income, even as investors weigh macro risks and Grayscale's view that the c…
Bitcoin traded modestly above $77,000 on Saturday after a rapid rally earlier in the week saw the cryptocurrency approach $80,000. The advance accelerated following a U.S. Treasury decision to double buybacks of longer-dated government bonds, which reduced the 30-year yield and triggered a large unwinding of short crypto positions. Spot demand from…
<p>Analysts say recent gains in Bitcoin are better explained by shifting U.S. regulatory developments than by broad macroeconomic concerns. Citi highlights a delayed price response to the Treasury's debt-buyback and ether's stronger performance versus bitcoin as indicators that the "digital gold" narrative is not the dominant driver. Market partici…
Bitcoin surged into the mid-$70,000s on Friday, extending a rebound driven by renewed hopes for U.S. regulatory clarity after former President Donald Trump urged Congress to pass the Clarity Act. The move was reinforced by an uptick in risk appetite following a U.S. Treasury announcement to double bond buybacks to address rising yields. Crypto stoc…
<p>Nexo Australia has been appointed a Credit Representative and has launched regulated Credit Lines in Australia under the National Consumer Credit Protection Act. The offering lets eligible clients borrow against digital assets without selling them, with interest rates ranging from 0.9% to 21.9% p.a., payouts in AUD or stablecoins, and features d…
<p>Autheo has made its native utility token, THEO, available for public trading on Hydrex, a Base-native Omni-Liquidity MetaDEX. THEO started trading at a reference price of $0.05 against USDC. The token launches into an active ecosystem: Autheo’s Mainnet is protected by 125 validators, and testnet activity included over 2 million wallets, 1.1 mill…
Bitcoin surged to about $71,519, gaining roughly 8.39% after President Trump urged Congress to pass the Clarity Act on August 20, 2026. The legislation would clarify whether crypto is a security or commodity and resolve jurisdictional questions between the SEC and CFTC. While the daily chart signals strong bullish momentum, multiple oscillators are…
Bitcoin jumped 10.52% to $71,750 on August 20, 2026, driven by a record $2.7 billion short squeeze and a cluster of regulatory developments, including a White House meeting and a new SEC proposed rule. While momentum indicators on the daily chart are strongly bullish, overbought readings and an upcoming cloture vote on the CLARITY Act create near-t…
<p>Cryptocurrency exchange BYDFi is a Gold Sponsor at Coinfest Asia 2026, held August 20-21 at Melasti Beach, Bali. The company is staffing Booth A1 across the two-day festival to engage with traders, builders, institutional representatives, partners and community members on market access, product usability and evolving trading needs. Coinfest Asia…
Binance introduced Agent OS, a developer-focused platform designed to enable AI applications and custom agents to interact with the exchange's trading, market data, wallet, payment and blockchain features across cryptocurrency and traditional markets. The release, part of Binance Intelligence, supports pre-built integrations and custom agents, allo…
A single-day liquidation of $2.7 billion in bearish crypto positions drove Bitcoin to multi-week highs and produced notable gains across listed crypto companies. The spike coincided with a White House meeting between the president, regulators and industry executives and with fresh SEC rulemaking that proposes new federal offering pathways for crypt…
Ethereum outperformed peers, rising +18.57% to $2,278 and reaching a 15-month high, while Bitcoin climbed above $71,700 with an +11.28% gain. The move followed a White House meeting pressing Congress to pass the Clarity Act and coincided with the Treasury's $4 billion long-term debt buyback program, triggering the largest wave of short liquidations…
Bitcoin led a broad crypto rally on Thursday, climbing nearly 8% to trade just under $70,000 after U.S. President Donald Trump urged Congress to approve the Clarity act. The move coincided with improved risk appetite following the U.S. Treasury’s decision to double the size of debt buyback operations, which helped push yields lower. Major altcoins …
CryptoCapitalFund announced the purchase of 200 million IBNAi tokens, equal to 20% of the token's fixed 1 billion supply. The tokens were acquired on the open market during July and August 2026 and are held in Fireblocks cold storage. The fund frames the acquisition as a long-term strategic investment in a token designed to support InvestorBrandNet…
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has imposed trading and registration prohibitions on two former FTX executives but opted not to seek monetary penalties, citing their cooperation. The settlement, filed in federal court in Manhattan, ties back to the 2022 collapse of FTX and follows guilty pleas and testimony against Sam Bankman-Fried.
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday proposed a package of rules called Regulation Crypto Assets that would set out how certain crypto asset offerings are treated under federal securities law. The plan includes two registration exemptions with disclosure and reporting conditions, a conditional safe harbor from the "investment contract"…
Wagyu.xyz, a Reykjavik-based cross-chain swap platform offering native Monero (XMR) settlement, said cumulative transaction volume has exceeded $700 million roughly seven months after its January 2026 launch. The company also released a public API that enables third-party developers to run independent swap services on Wagyu.xyz infrastructure witho…
