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The funds are $390 million short of October 2025’s inflow total after cutting their year-to-date net outflow deficit by more than half.

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.

BankChain joins a growing field of bank-led networks building shared infrastructure for tokenized deposits and onchain payments.

USD1 is the sixth-largest stablecoin, with a market capitalization of more than $4 billion, according to industry data.

CryptoQuant says Bitcoin’s 24% rally has flipped key market indicators bullish, though rising profit-taking could bring near-term turbulence.

Tokenized real-world assets on Solana are nearing $4 billion as network activity accelerates alongside a broader recovery in crypto markets.

Strategy’s biggest risk may not be a Bitcoin crash, but losing access to the capital markets that help it service $1.76 billion in annual obligations.

Bitwise’s new portfolios automatically rebalance Coinbase tokenized stocks while allowing eligible non-US investors to keep the assets in their own wallets.

DGAI nearly doubled in its first day of trading as DGrid expands its distributed AI inference network and rolls out hardware for its personal AI agent.

Bitcoin bulls battled for control of the $80,000 zone as gold came off its highest levels since mid-May on falling US bond yields.

Arcus introduced transferable ERC-20 tokens for perpetual positions and lets tokenized stocks back leveraged trades without requiring users to sell their holdings.

Hugging Face relies on open weight Chinese models to defend itself from rogue AI agents. But a lack of safety guardrails makes those models potentially dangerous too.

Operation Lighthouse generated 14,300 investigative leads across 11 crypto exchanges and payment services and flagged over 7,700 suspect accounts.

India plans to test tokenized corporate bonds in a September pilot, with state-controlled REC issuing the debt and select investors using wholesale CBDC payments.

The funding loss leaves InterPlanetary File System software without dedicated maintainers and puts the future of key public services in Protocol Labs’ hands.

Bitcoin price analysis eyes the potential end of its current macro downtrend based on weekly RSI signals.

Thailand’s SEC opened consultations on local Bitcoin and Ether ETF rules and qualification standards for foreign digital asset custodians.

The bank plans tokenized money market fund settlements in the fourth quarter as HKDAP expands its phased rollout into conventional banking.

Galaxy Research’s latest tally shows that more than half of 221 Coldcard hack victim reports involved individual losses exceeding 1 Bitcoin.

A federal jury convicted Brent Kovar of wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering after he took $24 million from at least 400 investors.

Bitcoin ETFs have drawn $2.26 billion over six trading days, while year-to-date net outflows have narrowed to about $2.57 billion.

The US Treasury expanded sanctions to Iran’s digital asset sector, alleging a UAE-based broker processed over $100 million in crypto for oil sales.

BNB Chain activates the Pasteur hard fork on BSC, closing bridge and validator security gaps while targeting greater transaction capacity.

Asia’s biggest crypto hubs are locked in a tax-cut arms race, while Ripple will help Korea’s Jeonbuk Bank move money across borders.

A judge stayed the CFTC’s civil case against a soldier who allegedly used nonpublic information for a Polymarket bet, but the regulator is trying to weigh in on the criminal case.

Japan's regulators are racing to modernize national settlement systems to prevent institutional investors and foreign capital from fleeing to overseas markets.

The privacy coin's spot ETF began NYSE trading Tuesday, which was one of the catalysts behind its surge to an eight-year high. Now traders are selling the news, with leverage stacked into the move.

Friday’s expiry follows bitcoin’s surge from $62,000 to $80,000, leaving market makers with increased exposure to manage around several key strike prices.

ETF issuers are lowering the barrier for bitcoin whales to trade self-custody for ETF shares.

CryptoQuant data show XRP’s estimated leverage ratio on Binance at its highest since January, with long accounts outnumbering shorts as futures volume runs more than five times spot trading.

The Fear & Greed Index reached 74 on Tuesday after sitting at 27 less than two weeks ago, showing how quickly traders have gone from caution to chasing risk.

Every major token fell over 24 hours except HYPE, though bitcoin holds a 23% weekly gain and XRP almost 45%.

The "BankChain Alliance" is aiming for a 2027 launch, and would foster stablecoins, payments and tokenized deposits inside the banking system's regulatory sphere.

The crypto infrastructure firm failed to get approval when it first sought a U.S. charter, and the company is quickly back with what it said would be a narrower effort.

The $22 billion trading company worked with Olea and Intain on the transaction, following an Injective pilot with LG CNS last month.

The trading infrastructure runs on LayerZero's Zero blockchain, backed by Citadel Securities with DTCC and ICE exploring institutional market applications.

The crypto ETF issuer is pushing deeper into onchain asset management as tokenization create new ways to build and manage investments.

Once valued at $2.5 billion, Copper was being marketed by investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald at around $500 million in May this year.

Many in Poland may look back at 2026 as the year European crypto finally grew up, and one of Poland’s brightest economic ambitions faded into darkness, writes Mateusz Kara, founder and CEO of Morphic Financial Group.

'Operation Lighthouse' went after child sex abuse materials, working with law enforcement to round up more than 14,000 investigative leads.

One wallet bought heavily into a yield token, which pushed the price of its paired principal token down just enough to trigger liquidations across borrowers using it as collateral.

Brent Kovar has been found guilty of running a crypto Ponzi scheme, defrauding at least 400 investors out of $24 million.

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 25, 2026

Falling open interest and subdued funding rates suggest the rally remains structurally healthy.

Bitcoin crossed $80,000 for the first time since May, extending its seven-day advance to roughly 25%.

Crypto-margined Bitcoin futures have collapsed from near-total dominance to about 12%. But leveraged traders are still placing big bets.

Pelosi disclosed millions of dollars in Bloom Energy investments weeks after shares and options were purchased through her husband's accounts, including a purchase just before the company reported record earnings.

The Crypto Fear and Greed Index was at 36, firmly in the fear zone, just a month ago.

Mistral and HUMAIN announced plans to build sovereign AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and across the region—a tie-up valued in the hundreds of millions of euros that deepens Gulf money flowing into European AI.

Gold extended its August rally as a weaker dollar and falling yields boosted demand, while Bitcoin briefly climbed above $80,000 for the first time since May.

Bitcoin gained roughly 24% this week while the broader crypto market grew by less, a mismatch that shows up clearly in Bitcoin's rising share of the total crypto market.

The crypto trade group warned that forcing issuers to verify identities for peer-to-peer wallet transfers would “cripple the industry” as regulators implement the GENIUS Act.

Japheth Dillman told investors that Block Bits Capital's "Autotrader" software was finished and running, and took nearly $1 million.

Forty are confirmed malicious, impersonating OKX, Rabby and TronLink to harvest recovery phrases from anyone who types one in.

The fund gives brokerage investors exposure to ZEC as Grayscale bets on demand for crypto assets beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum.

These aren’t derivatives tracking stock prices; each token has a direct claim on a share including its rights.

Brent Kovar told at least 400 investors a supercomputer was mining crypto for them, and that their money was insured by the FDIC.

Digital assets are among five sectors in a campaign Treasury called an “Economic D-Day,” alongside technology, gold, aviation and shipping.

The $1.8 trillion manager is putting its onchain money market fund on the Hong Kong exchange's Earn channel.

The open-source AI hub is fielding buyout interest at nearly triple its 2023 valuation, weeks after a security breach and days after Stripe's OpenRouter deal reset the price of AI infrastructure.

The company increased its Bitcoin holdings by 5.5%, but its Bitcoin per fully diluted share rose only about 1.4%.

Ox Alpha is topping benchmark scores, reads a million tokens, takes video as input, and has developers guessing who's behind it.

Bitcoin and gold rose as the dollar weakened following expanded Treasury bond buybacks, reflecting concerns about U.S. fiscal policy, analysts say.

The tokens represent shares held by regulated custodian Alpaca and can be traded or used in decentralized finance applications on Base.

Hyperliquid's token is riding a record into its largest remaining supply release.

ZEC broke above $880 while open interest in perpetual futures climbed to $1.8 billion.

Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs booked their strongest inflow week since October, but most of the gain came from coins investors already owned getting more valuable.

Bitmine is about 187,000 Ethereum short of its 5% of supply target.

Bitcoin just closed its biggest weekly candle of all time in notional value, and 10 alt leaders put up 50%+ gains in massive crypto rebound.

The company has not bought Bitcoin since June, and has now created a liquidity account it said may be spent on more of it.

Anyone serving Pakistani users since March must apply for clearance by September 5, then incorporate locally to keep going.

Kevin Warsh gives his first Jackson Hole keynote as Fed chair on Friday, with futures now pricing a September rate hike at 36%.

Witchcraft books had the highest rate of likely AI-generated content at 78%, according to an Originality.ai analysis of more than 2,000 titles.

The breakthrough could come from AI models that help robots understand and interact with the physical world, though widespread adoption may still be years away.

The Entra ID flaw earned the highest possible severity score, but Microsoft says it patched the bug before publishing the CVE and found no evidence it was ever exploited.

A group of 20-odd developers is scanning the Bitcoin ecosystem for AI-discoverable flaws, warning that cheap, powerful models have handed attackers unprecedented reach.

Pew Research scanned nearly half a million webpages with an AI detector and found the fingerprints concentrated on .com domains—and multiplying fast.

Coinkite's latest firmware requires users to add their own randomness when generating wallet seeds and fixes additional security issues uncovered during a three-week review.

Large XRP withdrawals jumped by 4.3x in two days!

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The popular memecoin has a new price target in its sights now.

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Polygon breaches higher resistance levels as traders buy more POL.

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TRUMP’s recovery faces fresh selling pressure.

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Cumberland deposited 2 million LIT worth $6.94 million.

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The $290 target also represented the market’s largest visible liquidation test.

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Kraken says thousands of tiny transfers from HTX-linked wallets triggered temporary account restrictions, but HTX denies directing the activity.

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All about why Stacks is surging so hard after breakout.

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BitMine added 32,447 ETH during the week, taking its Ethereum treasury to roughly $14.3 billion as BMNR stock continued its recovery.

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VIRTUAL’s Solana expansion, Spot outflows, and surging derivatives activity have pushed $0.84 into focus.

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But why does HPC believe regulators could provide clarity with the existing laws?

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