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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...

Ripple CTO Emeritus: AI Safety Rules and Copyright Laws Pose Threat to Free Speech

David Schwartz, Ripple’s CTO emeritus, has warned that government rules around AI safety and copyright could give authorities unprecedented control over political and social speech. His argument centers on who gets to decide what AI systems can create, know, and...

Down 50% on crypto and burning $8 million in cash, this Nasdaq firm just pivoted to event robots to survive

AIxCrypto Holdings, a Nasdaq-listed company shifting from a digital-asset treasury toward robot rentals, plans an orderly exit from its crypto holdings after reporting $577,328 in cash at June 30. The company’s June 30 quarterly report listed 46 bitcoin, 616 ether,...

Solana is slashing per-block compute limits so its new 350ms speed boost doesn’t overload the network

Solana's 350ms Mainnet target is set to take effect in epoch 1020, down from the current 400-millisecond target slot time. The feature activated at the start of epoch 1019, but a one-epoch delay means the network keeps its existing...

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DeFi Sector Jumps 38% as US Policy Shift Unlocks Token Value Capture

DeFi tokens have climbed nearly 38% since August 17 as investors reassess how US crypto policy could affect protocol...