Peter Todd reopens Bitcoin’s 21M cap debate because transaction fees make up just 0.5% of miner revenue
A viral clip sharpened the clash between fee-funded security and the credibility of a fixed supply.
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Half of Aave’s debt sits in just 9% of positions built around one Ethereum correlation trade
Galaxy's Aug. 7 snapshot of Aave V3 Core found 19,073 loans on the protocol after applying standard filters. Fewer than 9% of those positions are using Aave's E-mode setting, account for roughly half of all outstanding debt on the platform,…
Bitcoin faces its highest Treasury hurdle since 2007 with $22.5B less crypto credit to unwind
The US 30-year Treasury yield crossed 5.3% on Aug. 17 for the first time since June 2007, the same day Galaxy published a report showing crypto-collateralized lending down more than $22 billion from its peak. Bitcoin hit an intraday high…
Polymarket’s 20% CLARITY Act odds sit on a market one $100K trade could radically reprice
An anonymous trader on Polymarket holds a No position on the CLARITY Act worth about $414,895, roughly 2.6 times larger than the $160,200 in liquidity currently available on the market where it sits. CryptoSlate's live market data puts CLARITY Act…
Bitcoin turned $10,000 into $870,000 in a decade where 87% of active stock funds failed to beat passive rivals
Bitcoin returned 87 times over a decade, while only 13% of actively managed US large-cap equity funds beat comparable passive funds' benchmarks through June 30, according to Morningstar data reported by The Wall Street Journal. That rate rose to 27%…
KuCoin’s new perp rule can turn one funding-rate extreme into 36 hours of hourly settlements
USDT and USDC contracts move from the next period, while returning to four-hour settlement requires 36 stable hours.
Solana treasury firm cuts shares 700-for-1 but leaves room for nearly 100 billion more
Shareholders approved the vast capacity after the former BIT Mining’s NYSE suspension, but no specific use or exact post-consolidation share count was disclosed.
Crypto miner warns of potential bankruptcy as unclosed financing leaves $33 million in maturing debt exposed
The PIPE’s Oct. 10 outside date lands 21 days before the notes mature, with $9.2 million of June liquidity.
Forced liquidations begin in 30 days for business crypto accounts missing new verification rules on Bybit
Only notified business users are covered; access restrictions follow Aug. 21 and market-price liquidation starts Sept. 21.
Solana’s Agave 4.2 activation target arrives with mainnet feature gates still pending
The first slot-time gates were still pending, while the 90% rent cut and 4,096-byte transactions lacked confirmed starts.
Bitcoin purchases halted after data breach puts 250,000 crypto users at risk
The company has more than 250,000 customers, but it has not disclosed how many were affected.
Bitcoin Core feature freeze nears as rebase issues hit unencrypted-connection proposal
The queue mixes feature proposals, bugs and release administration, so the count alone does not identify what could delay October.