Raw News Items
31 itemsAugust 15, 2026
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Trump to meet Coinbase, Ripple and crypto leaders as CLARITY Act odds collapse to 10%
President Donald Trump and the heads of the SEC and CFTC are expected to meet crypto and prediction-market executives at the White House next week as the industry’s biggest legislative priority faces dwindling odds of becoming law this year. According to reports, the Aug. 19 gathering is expected to...
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Clarity survives (barely), Strategy sells and the untold story of Mastercard's $1.8 billion deal: Crypto's week in 5 stories
Washington kept crypto’s biggest legislative hope alive, Wall Street pushed deeper into digital assets, and a security scare sent billions of dollars of bitcoin moving between wallets.
- DecryptScore: 80
Trump-Linked World Liberty Gets Conditional Bank Charter for USD1 Stablecoin
The proposed World Liberty Trust Company would take over issuance of the USD1 stablecoin from BitGo.
- CoinDeskScore: 80
The $11.2 billion in 2026 funding that killed crypto’s permissionless era
Dubai-based crypto lawyer Irina Heaver and her team parsed every crypto deal in the first half of 2026. BlackRock, Goldman, and Persian Gulf sovereigns all wrote checks to regulated firms.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin erased $118 million from Abu Dhabi’s ETF holdings, but its sovereign funds kept every share
Two Abu Dhabi sovereign investors kept their BlackRock Bitcoin ETF holdings unchanged through the second quarter, retaining $764 million of exposure even as the cryptocurrency remained mired in one of its steepest annual declines. Mubadala Investment Company and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council held...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Institutional investor Paul Tudor Jones adds 109,446 BlackRock Bitcoin ETF shares while cutting calls by 85%
Tudor Investment reported 18.9% more direct shares in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF at June 30 than it held three months earlier, even as its reported call-equivalent quantity fell 85.2%. Together, those moves complicate a straightforward reading that the manager simply increased its Bitcoin...
- The BlockScore: 75
Trump, CFTC Chair Selig expected at Wednesday White House meeting with crypto and prediction market executives
The session is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday and is intended as a kickoff for the CFTC's first Innovation Advisory Committee meeting the next day.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Crypto crash liquidations face massive data gap as public records contradict $18B Solana claim
Solana Research Institute, a Solana-aligned research group, used an Aug. 14 post to revive a July open letter by Angus Scott to the UK Financial Conduct Authority and other regulators. SRI reported roughly $18 billion in liquidations over 14 hours during the Oct. 10, 2025 crypto crash, including $3....
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
A Bitcoin treasury with $67 million in BTC has just $5,397 in cash and needs money immediately
Bitcoin treasury holder CIMG Inc. said in its Aug. 13 quarterly filing that it needs to raise capital immediately, even though it held 1,145.4 BTC valued at $67.19 million on June 30. CIMG had just $5,397 in cash and $1.87 million in current assets against $9.25 million in current liabilities, leavi...
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Bitcoin’s $16.3 billion Wall Street stress test splits into four positional patterns
The $16.3 billion in Bitcoin ETF positions that CryptoSlate recently tracked ahead of the Q2 filing deadline resolved into four disclosed position patterns. Two Abu Dhabi filers held their ordinary ETF share counts steady, JPMorgan increased ordinary spot-ETF units, UBS shifted its disclosed long-op...
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Why the world’s second-largest Bitcoin mining power is shutting down rigs in its capital city
The Energy Ministry enacted the year-round restriction to mitigate power capacity shortages, as energy-intensive mining facilities continue to strain regional grids.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
A staked Ethereum ETF processed $48M in redemptions while keeping 86% of ETH locked, 21Shares filing shows
The 21Shares Ethereum ETF, which trades as TETH, reported $48.4 million in TETH redemptions during the first half of 2026 and ended June with 86.42% of its ETH holdings staked, according to an Aug. 14 quarterly filing. The redemption total covers completed activity; the June 30 staking ratio exposes...
- CointelegraphScore: 65
Kalshi ordered to stop broad range of prediction markets in Washington
Kalshi must implement initial geofencing by Aug. 19 and a GeoComply multi-source geofencing system by Sept. 2.
- CoinDeskScore: 65
Swiss mega-bank UBS ramps up its Bitcoin exposure with a massive 24-fold surge in ETF call options
Direct holdings of IBIT also rose 12% to 407,890 shares, while put option exposure dropped roughly 53% to 143,300 underlying shares during the quarter.
- CointelegraphScore: 65
Tokenized stock holders more than double as monthly volume surges
Tokenized equities reached 1.31 million holders over the past month, as monthly transfer volume surged 179% to $23.13 billion and distributed value rose 5.9% to $2.38 billion.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Galaxy lowers CLARITY Act odds to 10%
Galaxy cited unresolved ethics, stablecoin yield and developer protection issues, along with a narrow Senate window when lawmakers return in September.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Paul Tudor Jones’ investment firm increases stake in BlackRock's bitcoin ETF after year of selling
Calls fell 85.2% to 148,000 underlying shares, while puts slipped 1.4% to 715,000.
- The BlockScore: 55
Harvard leaves bitcoin ETF stake untouched in Q2 after cutting it 43% in the prior quarter
UAE-based Mubadala Investment Company and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council also retained their combined 22.9 million IBIT shares.
- DecryptScore: 50
Apple Turns to Alibaba to Help Build AI Model for China
Apple is pairing its in-house model with Alibaba’s Qwen as it prepares to bring Apple Intelligence to Chinese iPhones.
- CryptoSlateScore: 45
Machi Big Brother sells 3 Bored Apes to cut his Ethereum long in 52%, but liquidation moved to just $22 away
Three Bored Ape sales at steep losses accompanied a month-long contraction in the leveraged Ethereum account that Lookonchain publicly tracks as Machi Big Brother's. By Aug. 14, official venue data showed the ETH long had been cut by more than half, yet the market remained close to the account's liq...
- The BlockScore: 45
JPMorgan cut Polymarket’s banking ties in October but still wants a role in a potential IPO: FT
Polymarket has moved its accounts to a lender the report could not identify but says it still maintains a "close, active relationship" with JPMorgan.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
CyberWallet users have until Aug. 15 before crypto withdrawals become a smart contract recovery job
Crypto company Cyber is telling CyberWallet and Cyber Passkey Wallet users to move their assets ahead of an Aug. 15 shutdown that will take both interfaces offline. Users who still hold balances after the cutoff would be left with a technical recovery process that Cyber says it will not support. Cyb...
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Why a weekend break below $62,500 could unleash a Bitcoin selling wave toward $58,500
Bitcoin trades near $62,900 heading into the weekend, having touched an intraday low of $62,538 on Aug. 14. That low effectively tested the $62,500 to $62,560 zone that has held as the floor of a five-week trading range between roughly $62,000 and $66,000. Bitfinex found Bitcoin tested the $65,000 t...
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Bitcoin could bottom in October, altcoins are ‘basically dead,’ Swan CEO says
Klippsten said Bitcoin could bottom about a year after its previous peak and argued that crypto’s best outcome is to become part of TradFi.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Robot maker Unitree is going public. Hyperliquid traders see 4x upside from IPO price
Hyperliquid traders value Unitree at nearly $38 billion versus $9 billion at its IPO, leaving leveraged bets vulnerable when trading begins, Allium analysts said.
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Bybit adds Unitree, Moonshot AI to pre-IPO perpetuals lineup
The additions come as Bybit’s TradFi perpetuals lineup grows to more than 200 products spanning equities, ETFs, commodities, indices and private companies.
- CryptoSlateScore: 30
Solana treasury earns $2.5M in staking rewards but had to sell equity to raise $12M in cash for operations
Solana Company, a Nasdaq-listed SOL treasury under the ticker HSDT, recognized $2.512 million of staking revenue in the second quarter. But the rewards were automatically restaked while the business used an estimated $11.892 million of cash in operations, so staking did not itself supply the cash ne...
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Wall Street's private blockchain obsession is a 'race to the bottom,' Ethereum advocate Raman warns
Centrally controlled, permission-only networks have a role to play in finance, but need a transparent, open base to reap the benefits blockchain technology offers.
- CointelegraphScore: 30
Bitcoin to $1M by 2030 is ‘mathematically impossible’ says Markus Thielen
The trillions required to boost Bitcoin to a price of $1 million per coin is not going to happen by 2030... or perhaps ever, says party pooper Markus Thielen.
- CryptoSlateScore: 30
How a public crypto firm’s 4.3% AI gain hides millions in balance sheet losses
SRX Global reported a 4.3% EMJX gain that the company labels hypothetical, but its first post-acquisition disclosures still leave the central investor question unanswered: whether the strategy performs with company capital. SRX completed the acquisition on June 16, two weeks before its fiscal third ...
- DecryptScore: 20
Meta Patents Cameras That Recognize Faces and Log Your Actions
The filing would turn raw footage into labeled clips of who did what, without anyone opting in.