Bitcoin weekend blip wiped out $250M in over leveraged long traders while open interest weakens
Open interest fell 2.65% and funding stayed near baseline, pointing to leverage clearing rather than longs rebuilding.
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Bitcoin holders face unresolved fork risks as new eCash test chain launches ahead of October deadline
The Aug. 23 blocks used practice pECX while final software, replay rules and exchange handling remain unresolved.
The next phase of tokenization is utility
The following is a guest post and opinion from Vincent Maliepaard, VP of Marketing at Sentora. Tokenized funds have stopped being a novelty. Tokenized US Treasury funds alone now hold roughly $16 billion in distributed value and the list of…
Wall Street just poured nearly $90 million into altcoins as XRP, SOL and HYPE rip higher
US-listed crypto exchange-traded funds outside Bitcoin and Ethereum drew nearly $90 million last week. Investors followed a sharp market rally into XRP, Solana, Chainlink and Hyperliquid. XRP products led the group with $39.78 million of net inflows in the week…
Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs just had their biggest week of 2026 as crypto exploded higher
US spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded their strongest inflow week of 2026 as a sharp crypto rally pulled investors back into funds that had struggled to attract sustained demand for much of the year. Bitcoin ETFs drew $1.918 billion…
Bitcoin Core considers dropping encrypted routing support as poor node health exposes users to eclipse attacks
The 32.x warning and 33.x removal sequence remains a proposal as maintainers test whether sparse fallback routes add resilience.
Bitcoin miner IPO demands 99.8% of funds from public buyers while handing them just 10% equity
The preliminary S-1 compares $30,000,005 from new investors with $45,000 from existing holders and leaves buyers immediately diluted.
Pakistan gives crypto platforms a September 5 deadline to comply or leave
Covered nonfilers must cease affected services, but the rules do not prescribe a universal customer exit sequence.
How a $20M crypto payout left a micro-cap firm with under $83K in usable cash reserves
The August 21 filing said 205,512.5 tokens remained unmonetized, with their receipt-date fair value still unresolved.
The US approved high-leverage Bitcoin trading while crypto founders remain legally blocked from raising funds
On May 29, the CFTC approved a Bitcoin perpetual contract for a regulated US exchange. Almost three months later, on Aug. 18, the SEC proposed a legal route through which crypto projects could someday raise money from the public under…
Layer 1 network dilutes supply by 75% overnight to fund survival after main developer quits
The executed mint reduced the proposal’s pre-existing supply base to about 25.1% of its estimated post-mint total.
Crypto treasury firm seeks 20B share ceiling and reverse splits after launching $300M stock offering
The proposals would set a 20 billion-share ceiling and grant three years of broad reverse-split authority.