XRP Ledger crossed 5 billion transactions, but 92% of August activity came from just 767 bots
Bitquery’s audit says a 767-account machine subset generated 92%, separating ledger throughput from durable XRP demand.
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US hit on $24 billion crypto black market sends rival money launderers running for exits
DOJ seized Telegram channels and two wallets while OFAC sanctioned Xinbi and the developers behind SafeW and XinbiPay.
SEC gives Bitcoin-heavy trusts a new 15% window to venture beyond existing listing rules
Qualifying trusts can use a faster generic route while derivatives measured at gross notional can quickly exhaust the flexible sleeve.
Memecoin degens are providing the spark for Wall Street to turn stock tokens into real capital
Speculative trading may seed inventory for lending and vaults, but the full adoption flywheel remains unproven.
Bitcoin holds near $78K as markets confront the macro shocks they may have underpriced this week
The baseline is already hostile. A CPI, central-bank or oil deviation could decide whether Bitcoin breaks its current range.
Paolo Ardoino says 650 million people decentralized US debt, but Tether still controls the T-bills
USDT spreads dollar claims and Treasury funding demand while Tether keeps reserve ownership, portfolio control and gains above face value.
Osmosis freezes 22.65 BTC after Nomic forwarding bug compromises Bitcoin reserves
Even full recovery of the frozen funds would leave roughly 17.19 BTC for the community pool to replace.
Tether is pushing USDT into a cracking $3 trillion Wall Street debt machine as defaults hit five-year highs at major funds
The USDT issuer will originate and advise on deals while Fasanara manages the $400 million-backed fund, which targets up to $3 billion from outside institutions.
Treasury’s $6 billion bond intervention creates a stealth test for Bitcoin’s next move
The September 10 operation triples the prior limit, but accepted purchases and funding conditions will matter more than capacity alone.
Bitcoin sell pressure reaches one-month low as long-term holders slow down profit taking
Glassnode’s seven-day measure fell to 7 basis points from 16 at August’s peak, while overhead holdings barely moved.
Hunter Biden launched LAPTOP to cure memecoin grift and created a whole new batch of losers
Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP token left nearly 80% of traders underwater within hours despite being pitched as an answer to memecoin grift. Hunter Biden is the son of former US President Joe Biden. Data from Bubblemaps showed that 12,151 of the…
OpenAI just showed why one of its former researchers thinks AI could kill everyone
OpenAI says its latest AI system solved a 90-year-old math problem in 88 hours, reigniting fears over runaway intelligence. On Sept. 8, the company said that an internal model significantly more capable than its recently released GPT-6 Astra coordinated roughly…