Cryptocurrency

Trump-backed $4 billion USD1 stablecoin has wallet powers its own GitHub does not show

Justin Sun escalated his public fight with Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial on Friday, accusing its USD1 stablecoin of carrying administrative powers that allow privileged operators to move funds from frozen wallets without holder consent. On Aug. 21, the Tron...

Smart Money Helping Support Bitcoin Rebound, Says Pantera Capital

Bitcoin Magazine Smart Money Helping Support Bitcoin Rebound, Says Pantera Capital American investment firm Pantera Capital’s portfolio manager has said “smart money” is helping push bitcoin’s price higher.  Cosmo Jiang, portfolio manager at the firm, said in a Friday CNBC interview that...

A $22.9 million capital deficit threatens to derail an energy firm’s pivot to off-grid Bitcoin mining

Olenox Industries is an energy company that acquired Bitcoin miner CS Digital Ventures in May. It reported preliminary July production of 15.13 BTC against a June 30 balance sheet. The balance sheet carried $1.21 million of cash and $26.26...

We Asked Sam Altman ChatGPT AI Where Bitcoin Will Be at the End of 2026

Three days in August did more for sentiment than the previous three months. ChatGPT AI predicts that the shift holds, and the price prediction places Bitcoin at $95,000 to $110,000 by the end of 2026, with $102,000 as the...

HSBC and Standard Chartered Run First Live Tokenized Deposit Transfer on SWIFT’s Blockchain Ledger

HSBC and Standard Chartered executed the first live tokenized deposit transaction on SWIFT’s blockchain-based ledger, the two banks said on August 19, six weeks after the network opened to an initial cohort of 17 banks. Payment messages moved between HSBC’s...

This Bitcoin miner just signed a $350 million AI deal, but it needs $185 million to make it work

HIVE Digital Technologies’ $350 million AI cloud contract depends on a $185 million GPU buildout that must be completed in the fourth quarter before most of the revenue can begin. The five-year agreement, signed by HIVE’s BUZZ High Performance Computing...

Bitcoin Could Attract More Buyers As Fast Money Is Washed Out, Says Lyn Alden

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Could Attract More Buyers As Fast Money Is Washed Out, Says Lyn Alden Macroeconomist and author Lyn Alden has said that while sentiment for Bitcoin has been low in recent months, there are “not a lot of downside...

Solana’s 50,000 SOL security contest did not cover a clock attack disclosed months earlier

At USENIX Security on Aug. 12, researchers presented a Solana Proof-of-History clock attack they had disclosed privately to Solana developers in December 2025. Anza's 50,000 SOL Alpenglow competition closed seven days later, and its rules appear to place the...

Can tokenized assets continue to scale faster than the revenue models behind them?

Securitize closed its first quarter as a public company with average tokenized assets under management hitting a record $4.3 billion, up 16% year over year, while transaction volume on the platform jumped 147% to $5.3 billion. Total revenue fell 5%...

Bitcoin’s $69,000 breakout now hinges on yields after Fed warns more tightening may be needed

Bitcoin ran from around $64,100 to nearly $70,000 within hours on Aug. 19, once the US Treasury unexpectedly doubled its planned buybacks of long-dated government debt. The move pushed bond yields lower and forced roughly $1.4 billion of crypto...

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Ledger wants customers to trust its new $849 device as criminals compromise existing wallets

Reservations are open for the data-only device, which pairs everyday apps with hardware approvals and targets 2027 delivery. Read the...