Raw News Items
27 itemsAugust 9, 2026
- CryptoSlate
A pre-revenue AI crypto startup funneled $12 million into EV as bad crypto trades erased 97% of cash in six months
AIxCrypto Holdings, a pre-revenue company building a robot-rental marketplace while holding digital assets, entered the third quarter with $577,328 in cash after its balance fell 97% in six months. Its nearest stated route to operating revenue, RoboShare, was still preparing a Los Angeles pilot as o...
- The Block
World Liberty received $100 million from businessman investigated for money laundering: NYT
The businessman, Guren "Bobby" Zhou, has not been charged, though British officials told the Times that the investigation remained active as of late July.
- The Block
Brazil to tighten crypto fraud controls with new 24-hour wait on transfers to self-custody wallets
The new rule will take effect on Jan. 1, 2027, and will cover cryptocurrencies including fiat-backed stablecoins.
- CointelegraphScore: 85
BTCPay restricts remote Lightning access after attackers steal funds
Foundation and Citadel21 reported drained Lightning nodes, but the total amount stolen and number of affected operators remain unknown.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Bitcoin split into two chains overnight, but a silent miner boycott just halted the enforcing BIP-110 chain
BIP-110, a proposed temporary soft fork restricting some uses of arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions, entered its mandatory-signaling window with miners producing 59 consecutive non-signaling blocks. Nodes enforcing the proposal were left on a two-block branch, 57 blocks behind Bitcoin’s dominant...
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Bitcoin investors pour $853 million into spot ETFs. BlackRock’s IBIT claims the bulk
Bitcoin ETFs recorded $853.54 million in net inflows last week, the strongest since mid-April, with BlackRock’s IBIT taking the bulk.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
White House warns CLARITY Act will die Sept 15 unless 7 Democrats vote yes
The White House is raising pressure on Senate Democrats ahead of a Sept. 15 vote on the CLARITY Act, arguing that lawmakers have already had enough time to reach a deal on crypto market structure. On Aug. 8, Patrick Witt, executive director of the Presidential Council of Advisors for Digital Assets,...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
A proposed Ethereum upgrade threatens to kill native yield and force SharpLink’s $125M treasury into high-risk DeFi
An Ethereum staking proposal would lower the native-yield baseline underpinning SharpLink’s strategy to make its corporate ETH treasury more productive, increasing its reliance on variable and higher-risk sources of return. EIP-8363 would progressively burn a larger share of consensus rewards as the...
- CointelegraphScore: 80
BIP-110 Bitcoin branch stalls after two blocks as gap widens
The enforcing fork remains stuck at Bitcoin’s full mining difficulty as mandatory signaling proceeds with little hashpower support.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Never sell treasury model cracks again as 1,635 BTC is offloaded shrinking Empery reserves by 76% in weeks
Bitcoin-treasury company Empery Digital sold 1,635 BTC for $102.2 million from July 1 through Aug. 6, leaving it with 1,279 BTC, according to its latest quarterly filing. Of that total, 954 BTC was restricted as collateral against $35 million of debt. Subtracting the pledged balance from total holdi...
- The BlockScore: 75
World Liberty received $100 million from businessman investigated for money laundering: NYT
The businessman, Guren "Bobby" Zhou, has not been charged, though British officials told the Times that the investigation remained active as of late July.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Brazil targets crypto fraud with up to 24-hour transfer hold
The rules, effective Jan. 1, 2027, cover transactions above $10,000 sent to overseas providers or self-custody wallets, along with other transfers flagged for review.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
A $1.8 billion leverage trap is building on Solana as traders pay 11-month high rates to defend $78
Aggregated funding on SOL perpetual futures has climbed to its highest level since September 2025, according to Velo data. Solana's futures open interest sits near $1.8 billion, equal to roughly 23.1 million SOL in notional exposure at current prices. Most major venues, including Binance, Bybit, Hyp...
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Michael Saylor reveals how ChatGPT helped Strategy unlock $15 billion for its Bitcoin machine
Michael Saylor says Strategy used AI to design a new class of preferred stocks that ultimately allowed the company to raise roughly $15 billion for its Bitcoin strategy. The Strategy executive chairman said he turned to AI after the company’s existing financing channels, including common-stock sales...
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
A major Bitcoin miner burned through 357 BTC on secret compute deals while its output plummeted
Bitcoin miner and cloud-mining provider BitFuFu said advance payments for 330 days of future hashrate were the primary reason its reported Bitcoin holdings fell by 357 BTC in July. At the same time, production and managed hashrate declined, leaving a clear operational checkpoint: whether the platfor...
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Crypto holders face an Aug 27 deadline to save 21 tokens before Kraken liquidates them into thin order books
Kraken clients holding any of 21 delisted tokens face a 14:00 UTC deadline on Aug. 27, when the exchange's general withdrawal window closes; remaining balances will then move toward automatic liquidation. The exchange plans to liquidate remaining balances between Sept. 1 and Sept. 5 based on prevail...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Investors poured $267 million into Bitwise’s Solana ETF, but market losses erased every cent
The Bitwise Solana ETF, formally named the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF, recorded a net $267.1 million increase from share transactions in the first half of 2026. Yet it finished June with $592.3 million of net assets, about $49.0 million less than at the end of December. Authorized participants handl...
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Controversial Bitcoin fork BIP-110 mines two blocks, then stops
The breakaway chain inherited bitcoin’s mining difficulty with only a tiny share of hashpower, leaving blocks hours apart while both chains still accept the same transactions.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Wall Street put $7B into tokenized funds, but under 1% is actually being used in DeFi
DeFi recorded 99 hacks in the second quarter of 2026, more than any quarter on record in DeFiLlama's database. Real-world tokenized assets in use inside DeFi protocols have since climbed to nearly $3.97 billion, a fresh all-time high. DeFi gives tokenized assets something to do on-chain, turning the...
- The BlockScore: 60
Brazil to tighten crypto fraud controls with new 24-hour wait on transfers to self-custody wallets
The new rule will take effect on Jan. 1, 2027, and will cover cryptocurrencies including fiat-backed stablecoins.
- DecryptScore: 60
Bitcoin 'Anti-Spam' Fork Sputters to a Halt After Mining Just Two Blocks
The breakaway chain drew just 2.53% of mining support, leaving its blocks hours apart and roughly 350 days from a difficulty adjustment while the main network powered ahead.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Is Clarity's delay a blessing in disguise?: State of Crypto
The crypto industry is angry and disappointed that the Senate is not holding a procedural vote on the Clarity Act this month, but that isn't the worst possible outcome.
- CoinDeskScore: 45
Hyperliquid’s RWA perps boom is eating into the revenue that backs HYPE
Revenue has fallen four quarters running while open interest hit a record high. The gap is a fee-sharing program that hands half the platform's volume to outside builders.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Why crypto ‘audited’ badges are giving investors a dangerous false sense of security
At 1:30 p.m. UTC on Feb. 21, 2025, Bybit began moving funds from an Ethereum cold wallet to a warm wallet, the sort of routine transfer designed to make custody look boring. Authorized signers reviewed the destination on their screens and approved it, unaware that their screens were actually lying. ...
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Crypto is going through a massive dot-com style shakeout as over 100 projects fold in 2026
An industry-wide reckoning is weeding out unsustainable startups, leaving behind only the protocols with real cash flow and actual users.
- CryptoSlateScore: 20
AI financial advisers carry a hidden Bitcoin bias activated by a single specific switch
An AI financial adviser receives the same client three times, with the finances and tolerance for risk left unchanged. The first prompt asks for a diversified long-term portfolio. The second introduces bank failures and capital controls, while the third imagines an economy in which autonomous softwa...
- CryptoSlateScore: 20
With $0 in revenue and 35 idle machines in storage, an inactive Bitcoin miner printed 1.65 billion shares to stay alive
MGT issued about 1.65 billion shares by Aug. 6 as the inactive Bitcoin miner with no operating business reported no revenue for the first half of 2026 and held just $232,000 in cash while warning it needs more capital to restart operations. The company’s quarterly filing, submitted Aug. 7, shows tha...