Raw News Items
26 itemsAugust 16, 2026
- CryptoSlate
How a Bitcoin Treasury company sold 600 BTC to cut debt but still ended up with $60 million due in December
Nakamoto, the parent company of Bitcoin Magazine, faces a near-term balance-sheet test at year-end, when 60 million USDT of a Bitcoin-backed credit facility comes due amid tight unencumbered liquidity and heightened market volatility. According to the company’s second-quarter regulatory filings, Nak...
- Cointelegraph
Data of 54,000 wallet users leaked, CLARITY odds just 10%: Hodler’s Digest
Owners of Trezor and SafePal crypto wallets at high risk of phishing attempts after separate data leaks, CLARITY odds at 10% despite White House meeting this week.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Trump-linked World Liberty Financial wins OCC bank approval as $112 million DeFi position sits near liquidation
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) gave World Liberty Financial, a DeFi venture associated with President Donald Trump, preliminary conditional approval to charter a national trust bank built around its roughly $4 billion USD1 stablecoin. World Liberty Trust Company would eventually...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
A $48 billion Bitcoin leverage trap is about to trigger a massive forced exit the moment price boundaries break
Bitcoin's calm near $62,941 masks a split in Bitcoin futures positioning: either a downside break or an upside breakout could gain speed from forced trades. At 09:30 UTC on Aug. 15, CoinGlass showed $47.88 billion of Bitcoin open interest, $38.49 billion of 24-hour futures volume and $2.234 billion ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Cboe pushes for 3x Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs after 2x crypto funds suffer losses of up to 96%
Cboe BZX is asking the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an exception to its own generic listing rules so it can list funds targeting three times the daily performance of Bitcoin and Ethereum futures. The Aug. 10 proposal covers six Volatility Shares funds tied to Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold,...
- The BlockScore: 85
Wallet provider SafePal says data breach exposed personal info of nearly 40,000 customers
SafePal said it found the root cause of the breach recently, though customers had posted online about being targeted by phishing attempts as early as July.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Wall Street finally turned staking into a dividend, now Ethereum and Solana want to shrink it
Grayscale's July 17 SEC filings said its Ethereum and Solana staking ETFs would convert staking rewards to cash and distribute them to shareholders at least quarterly, with the changes expected around Aug. 7. Solana and Ethereum are each weighing protocol changes that would reduce that income at the...
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Ethereum devs to narrow 66 proposals tied to Hegotá upgrade
The Hegotá upgrade aims to introduce more native privacy for Ethereum applications.
- CoinDeskScore: 75
The 'long bitcoin, short the bankers' era is officially over as TradFi giants embrace digital assets
Financial firms are partnering with specialists to build infrastructure, blurring lines between traditional and decentralized finance into a unified sector.
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Crypto wallet SafePal reveals a data breach exposing nearly 40,000 customers' order info
While the data breach exposed the personal order details of thousands of customers, all private keys, seed phrases, and crypto assets remain completely safe.
- The BlockScore: 75
Hackers exploited macOS Screen Sharing flaw to install Monero miners, Dutch cyber agency says
U.S. officials rated the severity of the vulnerability a critical 9.8/10 on the CVSS scale, and experts are warning users to update their devices.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
This Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin treasury diluted shareholders 18-fold to survive a $212 million crypto loss without selling its stash
GD Culture Group reported a $211.8 million first-half unrealized Bitcoin loss on its holdings while its split-adjusted share count rose to more than 18 times its year-end level, exposing two distinct pressures behind the company’s crypto-treasury strategy. The Nasdaq-listed digital media and technol...
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Texas refuses to sell as its $10 million Bitcoin bet sinks to $6.6 million
Texas kept its 197,844-share position in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) unchanged during the second quarter even as the stake's market value fell to about $6.62 million. The Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company reported the same number of IBIT shares in its June 30 Form 13F as it did i...
- CoinDeskScore: 70
MiCA's cleanup is creating a new scam wave across the European Union
Fraudsters impersonating regulators and licensed crypto exchanges to steal funds from users forced to migrate their accounts after the EU's MiCA deadline are on the rise.
- CoinDeskScore: 70
The SEC meeting that wasn't: State of Crypto
There were hopes that regulators could move if the Clarity Act didn't advance, but those, too, may be paused.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
How a public firm’s $70 million altcoin bet crashed 77% and left it facing Nasdaq delisting
Greenlane Holdings is a Nasdaq-listed company holding about 81.3 million BERA and BERA-equivalent units. Its token treasury ended the second quarter valued at about 77% below cost. A stayed Nasdaq rule could eventually expose the company to a $5 million listing test with no ordinary cure period. At ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Record user activity and a collapse in whale selling should send XRP soaring, so why is it still pinned at $1?
XRP is back near $1 even as network activity rebounds, whale deposits to Binance collapse, and derivatives exposure builds near recent lows. The token fell to about $0.98 this week before recovering toward $1, according to CryptoSlate data, extending a retreat that has erased much of its May rally. ...
- DecryptScore: 60
People Are Turning to AI for Mental Health, California Wants It Banned
A California bill is awaiting an Assembly vote to "place guardrails" around AI chatbots and prevent them from acting as therapists.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
DefiLlama delayed mobile launch over phishing apps on Apple Store, founder says
DefiLlama’s founder said Apple removed one fake app within days after the company documented it draining funds from a small crypto wallet.
- CryptoSlateScore: 45
Inside the Solana reinsurance sale where parent company Oxbridge supplied 95% of public token demand
Oxbridge Re Holdings supplied about 95% of the $781,767 raised by SurancePlus’s two T20 and T42 Solana-based placements. Those two offerings were part of the five placements behind Oxbridge’s broader $7.1 million headline, according to the company’s Aug. 13 filing. SurancePlus, Oxbridge’s 80%-owned ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 45
Slowing ETF demand and corporate treasury selling are breaking the math behind Wall Street’s $16 trillion Bitcoin target
Bitcoin market cap must rise to ARK Invest's roughly $16 trillion 2030 base case, requiring about 78.6% annual growth from the current level; institutions and digital-gold adoption carry almost the entire scenario. CryptoSlate's Bitcoin market cap stands at near $1,263,920,244,537. Reaching $16 tril...
- The BlockScore: 45
Prediction market Novig sues Wisconsin AG in latest spat over sports contracts
Novig, which recently announced a partnership with the New York Mets, has sued officials in five states including Wisconsin since Aug. 4.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
The stablecoin yield clash that won't go away has banks, crypto battling over tradition
The bankers want people kept in lower-yield deposits for the good of the financial system as it's existed for generations, and their argument is gaining ground.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Over 1.3 million staked tokens remain stranded onchain after a major validator missed its deadline to exit Aztec
DV Labs’ planned Aug. 15 Aztec exit was still incomplete by 2 a.m. UTC on Aug. 16: seven DV Labs-listed attesters remained in the on-chain VALIDATING state with 1.386 million AZTEC in effective stake. The infrastructure operator announced the wind-down on July 16 and asked delegators to begin exitin...
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Crypto investors are looking past market-cap rankings and back to fundamentals
Investors are starting to judge crypto tokens on usage, economics and value capture rather than market-cap rank, industry executives said.
- DecryptScore: 20
Gemini 3.7 Flash Review: Google's Cheap Model Isn’t Dumb Anymore
Three weeks after a Flash release that couldn't produce a working file, Google's budget tier zero-shots a playable game. It still can't reason, and a free 27B model still writes better.