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The million dollar question is what prompted a Bitcoin OG to send 20 BTC to a custodian, retrieve it back, and then deliberately burn it?

Japan’s FSA requested to exempt trust-type stablecoins from mandatory tax filings starting in fiscal year 2027, arguing that it would improve their use as transaction tools.

The Japanese Bitcoin treasury company has transferred 10,270 BTC to Coinbase Prime this week, an amount equal to more than 29% of its reported holdings.

Strategy added to its BTC treasury for the first time in two months, while continuing to bolster its cash reserves and buy back its perpetual STRC preferred stock.

Crypto projects spent a record $638 million on token buybacks so far in 2026, as more protocols are turning their revenue into buybacks to return more value to token holders.

Bitcoin approached the August monthly close below key resistance with markets once again pricing in a Federal Reserve interest-rate hike in September.

Blockaid said an attacker used an Ankr liquid staking token and E-mode to overborrow from More Markets and drain about $9.3 million in WFLOW from a lending reserve.

Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.

Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek said the company’s app and exchange were unaffected by the Tectonic breach and continued operating normally.

Bitcoin moves toward a post quantum future, Solana validators agree to curb rampant inflation and the bull case from Bernstein is for Bitcoin to peak at $500K this cycle.

Michael Saylor’s “We’re Back” post hints Strategy may resume Bitcoin buying after a two-month pause to strengthen its balance sheet.

Russia’s largest bank, Sber, plans to accept USDT and Ether alongside Bitcoin as loan collateral as the country introduces regulated crypto trading under a new law.

Trump-linked Real Trump Coins said it never authorized GOLD or any digital token as questions persisted over its X account, associated domains and the concentrated token supply.

The vulnerabilities posed denial-of-service and validator resource risks but were patched before Polygon publicly disclosed them.

Stellar’s real-world asset market has expanded rapidly this year as institutional adoption and tokenization activity grow across the network.

Tokenized equities saw a sharp rise in onchain activity as active addresses and holders more than doubled over the past month.

Real Trump Coins promoted GOLD before deleting related X posts, while team-linked wallets sold 224.5 million tokens as its market value fell about 99%.

BIS chief Pablo Hernández de Cos said stablecoins lack credibility for payments at scale, while a new FSI study highlights sharp differences in issuer rules.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $201.8 million in net outflows Friday, led by ARK 21Shares, as total fund assets slipped back below $100 billion.

The approved proposal doubles Solana’s annual disinflation rate from 15% to 30%, reducing future SOL issuance while leaving its long-term inflation target unchanged.

According to Circle, the USDC stablecoin name will appear on the front of club jerseys for Chelsea’s upcoming football season.

The institutional crypto exchange is providing $100 million in stablecoin liquidity to support loans backed by AI computing infrastructure.

Bitcoin failed to make a decisive break above $80,000 as traders digested Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole keynote speech, which remained wary of US inflation trends.

Bitcoin’s $80,000 rebound lifts crypto stocks as Circle, Strategy and Solana show how capital markets, stablecoins and onchain growth are driving crypto’s recovery.

If your personal AI agent goes rogue and causes harm or financial damage in the real world, can you be held liable?

The two-month-old network processed a record 5.52 million transactions on Aug. 30 as users launched 22,600 tokens and memecoin trading tools drove most of the $2.66 million in revenue.

The Bank of Russia recently included ETH and USDT in a draft list of cryptocurrencies approved for public trading on Russian exchanges.

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 31, 2026

Bitcoin held steady despite a broader risk-off move after the first U.S. strikes against Iran for weeks sent oil higher and stocks lower. The cryptocurrency has gained 24% this month.

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Aug. 31.

The price of crude oil is surging higher after overnight military strikes in Iran, with Trump once again proclaiming victory.

The split was mutual, with both parties citing differing views on the future of Bitcoin mining and recent protocol developments.

Odds of a rate hike in September remain below 60% despite Warsh's hawkish speech on Friday. Observers downplay fears of tightening.

Zakura says a new cryptography stack makes mobile proof generation more than 14 times faster, removing one of the biggest delays users face when sending private ZEC.

An attacker allegedly pushed Tectonic’s thinly traded TONIC token up 100-fold, used it as collateral to borrow real assets and left most funds stranded when Cronos validators paused the network.

BTC remains August's best-performing asset after the latest escalation in geopolitical tensions.

Bitcoin rebounds from Friday’s low as Strategy’s valuation expands and bitcoin dominance climbs above 60%.

Finance has spent centuries decoupling wealth from physical transport, but constantly erasing friction creates vectors for increasingly high-tech exploits.

As bitcoin surges back above $80,000, sophisticated trading firms are quietly collecting yield rather than making directional bet.

The exploit caused the neobank's AVICI token to drop 49% from a 24-hour high, hitting a record low before paring some of the losses.

A new survey suggests some of bitcoin's most familiar sales pitches of changing the world may be poorly suited to a majority of prospective buyers.

Crypto executives say new blockchain payment infrastructure could make Swift obsolete. Bankers say its 11,500-institution network gives it the power to absorb the technology instead.

AI agents are coming. They will need to pay each other. Crypto executives agree on the problem but disagree sharply on the solution, and one thinks the answer has not been invented yet.

When you strip out what was never mobile, correct for who's holding what and why, add back what works off-contract, the utilization of tokenized assets looks close to 20%, argues Katana’s Matthew Fisher.

Six decade-old wallets moved $40 million this month, but Galaxy's data shows dormant coin activity at its lowest since 2022 and 2026 on pace for under half of last year's total.

Vlad Tenev’s new blockchain is soaring in all metrics as memes paired with tokenized stocks start to take off.

The 4,603 BTC cost an average of $80,318, some 29% above what the company took for the coins it sold this summer.

Shares, bonds, funds, ETFs and insurance products will qualify for the tax-advantaged accounts, which open next year.

Some $6 million reached Ethereum before validators froze the chain, stranding the rest on a network that still is not producing blocks.

Gabriel Perez used his access to Trump's speeches before delivery to bet on "presidential mention market" contracts, profiting more than $107,500 before the CFTC caught up with him.

The Austin and Kyoto hard forks, deployed quietly on the Bor and Heimdall clients before public disclosure, closed denial-of-service and consensus-hardening flaws that Polygon says were never exploited.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $201.9 million on Aug. 28, ending a nine-day inflow run, even as Ethereum funds extended a 10-day streak with fresh cash.

A Bitcoin rally to around $79,000 lifted the company's 840,447 BTC roughly $2.8 billion above its cost basis, as Saylor's "We're Back" post fueled speculation that Strategy may resume buying.

More than 100 AI, security, finance, and technology organizations want governments and industry to prepare for attacks powered by increasingly capable models.

The Vermont senator warned that the surveillance company's 120,000-plus AI cameras are pushing the US toward a "surveillance state," adding a prominent voice to a growing bipartisan backlash.

Galaxy Research shows coins untouched for 10-plus years moving at an unusual pace in 2026, with six ancient wallets shifting $40 million in a single 10-day stretch this month.

The roughly $42.5 million cash-and-stock deal adds derivatives, structured products and capital-markets capabilities, while letting NYDIG focus on its power and data-center business.

BTC gave back some of its gains after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh talked tough on inflation, but prediction market traders are still leaning bullish.

The company says it needs more skilled workers as its AI infrastructure expands, but employees fear automation could reduce or eliminate some roles.

Evernorth has gained SEC clearance, teeing up a shareholder vote on its Nasdaq listing—while the firm's XRP stash sits well below what it paid for it.

Austin is the latest city to consider restrictions as communities challenge the water and electricity demands of AI infrastructure.

The "Double Disinflation" proposal squeaked through by a razor-thin margin after Kraken nearly sank it, while a separate fee-burning measure failed.

Fed Chair Warsh devoted a full section of his speech today at Jackson Hole to AI's weight on the economy. Here are the biggest takeaways.

The brokerage will expand Schwab Crypto trading to Solana, Avalanche, and Chainlink, but has not given a launch date for the three tokens.

Strategy’s co-founder Michael Saylor pioneered the Bitcoin treasury playbook. Here’s what you need to know.

AI cloud revenue topped Bitcoin mining for the first time as IREN accelerated its data center conversion.

Fed Chair Warsh's first Jackson Hole keynote doubled down on giving markets zero rate hints as inflation runs hot and Bitcoin traders wait on September's call.

Nine straight sessions have brought in $1.4 billion, with Thursday marking the funds' strongest day in 10 months.

Two majors proposals are set to pass, its leading DATs are back, and Schwab is offering SOL to its clients—quite the setup for Solana.

The 20.21 BTC was linked to marketplaces running between 2016 and 2019, and the man who held it died before it was forfeited.

HMRC's first breakdown shows 17,600 people declared £1.38 billion, most of them under 55 and 87% of them men.

Rita Lin vacated the supply chain designation and issued a permanent injunction, refusing the government even a seven-day stay.

The transaction used Bitcoin’s existing rules to protect funds from a future quantum attack without requiring a network upgrade.

Google's new privacy standard scrambles the one field of a web request that still travels in the clear: the name of the site being opened.

Developer Craig Raw said an AI-assisted review produced most of the fixes in version 2.5.4, though none appeared likely to put users’ funds at risk.

OpenAI says the model never sees your password—but a signed-in session can persist across tasks, and you can step away while it works.

Deribit's Friday settlement covers nearly a fifth of the exchange's Bitcoin open interest, and max pain sits well below where BTC is trading right now.

OneKey demonstrated how an outdated Ethereum app could sign a transaction different from the one shown on a Ledger device, but the wallet maker says the vulnerability had already been fixed.

Is Saylor planning to buy Bitcoin again, or is he setting a trap for investors?

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Could Metaplanet's latest Bitcoin transfer signal a shift in its long-term treasury strategy?

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Tectonic exploit drained $75M via TONIC manipulation, exposing liquidity risks despite Cronos halting transfers.

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Weak Bitcoin volumes and macro FUD signal looming rejection, fueling confidence in an altcoin rotation.

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Ondo crypto prices tried, and failed, to breach the $0.42 local highs last week- what should traders expect this week?

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How does Vietnam’s new framework aim to reduce crypto scams and speculative tokens?

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Bulls are not giving bears room to take control as they continue pushing the asset higher.

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Ethereum’s recovery is gaining support from improving holder profitability and sustained institutional demand as ETH tests a key price zone.

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Selini Capital deposited 2 million ZRO worth $2.18 million to Binance.

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