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30 itemsAugust 22, 2026
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Treasury just put a deadline on offshore stablecoins’ access to US customers
By July 18, 2028, a stablecoin could still move freely across blockchains and yet disappear from the buy menu on an American exchange. Under the Treasury Department’s proposed GENIUS Act rules, a digital asset service provider wouldn't be able to offer or sell a payment stablecoin to someone in the ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Bitcoin hits $80,000’s doorstep just as the ETF bid disappears for the weekend
Bitcoin enters the weekend within striking distance of $80,000, registering an intraday high at $79,500 on Aug. 21. The move caps the biggest weekly rally in two years, built on a rare combination. A surprise Treasury intervention, roughly $1.6 billion of spot ETF inflows, and billions of dollars in...
- CoinDeskScore: 85
How a Treasury buyback tweak helped bitcoin surge 25% to nearly $80,000 in days
Treasury buybacks are not QE, analysts said, but the move helped pull long-term yields off 19-year highs and triggered a record short squeeze in a market already leaning too bearish.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
SEC proposes a path for crypto projects to raise $75 million and later end the token’s securities contract
US regulators have already found a home for true Bitcoin perpetuals inside the CFTC’s exchange framework. The SEC is now turning to another part of the same market: how a team can pay to build a network before its token has much use. A derivatives exchange starts with an established asset and places...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
CLARITY gets a September Senate floor date as CFTC signals a limited regulatory fallback
The U.S. Senate has put the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on course for a 60-vote procedural test on Sept. 15. The bill is intended to create a broader federal framework for digital asset markets. Under the official floor schedule, cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633 is scheduled to rip...
- The BlockScore: 85
Bitcoin and ether ETFs draw $2.6 billion in strongest inflow week since October, tripling volume
Combined ETF weekly trading volume more than tripled to $29 billion as bitcoin and ether prices rallied, though both categories are negative on the year.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Ethereum researchers are racing to close a zkEVM security gap before December
Ethereum’s better.codes contest now measures a cryptographic proof gap that researchers can attack from both sides. At 15:44:47 UTC on Aug. 21, the live leaderboard showed a 63.99-bit lower certificate and a 116.13-bit upper certificate for koalaIRS12. The two results left 52.14 bits unresolved afte...
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Zcash jumps 48% to over $800 as Grayscale spot ETF push adds to ‘next bitcoin’ buzz
ZEC traded above its January 2018 peak as futures volume hit billions of dollars and a Grayscale filing showed fresh progress toward converting its Zcash Trust into a spot ETF.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin crash forced Riot to pledge 1,825 BTC, but this huge rally may now free up 1,500 BTC
Riot Platforms entered 2026 with 3,977 BTC pledged against a $200 million Coinbase loan. Bitcoin then fell far enough that the agreement required another 1,825 BTC, taking the collateral balance to 5,802 in February. Those coins still belonged to Riot and sat in a segregated custody account under Co...
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Bitcoin and Ether bears get decimated amid 'squeeze-led' rally and Musk's X wants to pay creators in stablecoins: Crypto week in 5 stories
Bitcoin and crypto staged their strongest rally in months as Treasury intervention, regulatory moves and a historic short squeeze collided, while banks and technology companies pushed deeper into stablecoins.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
MiCA is coming for DeFi vaults, but regulation will be difficult
Brussels is reviewing whether crypto lending should fall under MiCA, but DeFi lending vaults are making it harder to determine who, exactly, should be regulated.
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Web3 gaming network Sandbox stops Base and BNB chain bridging after exploit
The Sandbox disabled bridging on affected networks to isolate tokens and warned users not to trade SAND on Base and BNB, citing an impact of under 0.01% of supply.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
How a former crypto user’s archived Binance data ended up in a foreign terrorism prosecution
When Russian investigators detained IT specialist Yuri Belenkiy in September 2025, Binance had been formally out of Russia for almost two years. Its customer records, however, were still available. Law enforcement documents reviewed by Reuters show that Binance supplied personal and transaction data...
- The BlockScore: 75
Zcash hits eight-year high near $850 with futures volume near $10 billion amid Grayscale ETF push
CoinGlass recorded nearly $10 billion in 24-hour futures volume and $1.76 billion in open interest, indicating that derivatives made up much of the trading.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
A $1 billion meme coin purchase puts a huge 167% share dilution down to a single vote for ZeroStack
ZeroStack’s Aug. 21 resale registration puts a shareholder vote between the company and 36.2 million new shares tied to its MemeCore acquisition, a warrant block larger than its current outstanding stock. The company completed the transaction on Aug. 19, acquiring 925,925,926 MemeCore M tokens in ex...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Everyday crypto users face monthly tax bills on total asset value if covered brokers fail to collect under new Illinois rules
Illinois’s 0.2% digital asset tax, scheduled to start Jan. 1, 2027, now faces another industry complaint as brokers prepare for a levy tied to the value of customer assets rather than their gains or service fees. Blockchain Association and the Crypto Council for Innovation said they filed the compla...
- DecryptScore: 70
AI Has Made Bitcoin Software a Target—This Group Is Fighting Back
A group of 20-odd developers is scanning the Bitcoin ecosystem for AI-discoverable flaws, warning that cheap, powerful models have handed attackers unprecedented reach.
- DecryptScore: 70
Microsoft Fixes 'Perfect 10' Exploit That Could Have Let Hackers Run Code Remotely
The Entra ID flaw earned the highest possible severity score, but Microsoft says it patched the bug before publishing the CVE and found no evidence it was ever exploited.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Adam Back’s Bitcoin treasury deal died, but its $15M obligation did not
Adam Back-led BSTR's plan to become a public Bitcoin treasury company through Cantor Equity Partners I, a special-purpose acquisition company, ended on Aug. 20. The collapse leaves a $15 million cash obligation with two fixed deadlines. Under the executed termination agreement, BSTR Holdings (Cayman...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Grayscale’s Zcash ETF filing proposes a 2.5% fee and a potential 34% DCG stake
Grayscale’s proposed Zcash ETF would carry a 2.5% annual fee. Under one dated ownership calculation, a DCG affiliate could receive about 34% of the fund. If effective, the Aug. 21 SEC amendment would rename the existing trust “The Zcash ETF” and list it on NYSE Arca under ZCSH. The registration rema...
- The BlockScore: 65
Solana cuts mainnet slot time to 350 milliseconds in first step toward 200ms goal
The change should lead to faster transaction confirmations but is not designed to increase the overall throughput of the network.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Kalshi off-limits in multiple states as prediction markets, CFTC team up for battle
Washington state is cut off for Kalshi customers while the company combats the development in court and its federal regulator keeps pursuing new rules.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Solana’s first governance vote nears with a live 60% quorum display error
Solana’s new network governance system is approaching votes on its constitution, inflation schedule and fee structure. The frontend’s production bundle still contains a 60% quorum path that conflicts with the stated one-third rule. The discrepancy is a display problem, not an allegation that Solana’...
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Inside transfer wipes out $1M executive debt as crypto firm offloads payments business without independent valuation
RocketFuel Blockchain transferred substantially all assets used in its payments business to RPay, whose sole director and CEO, Peter M. Jensen, also serves as a RocketFuel director and executive officer. The related-person deal closed Aug. 13 and was disclosed in an Aug. 21 regulatory filing. Rocket...
- CoinDeskScore: 55
Crypto exchange BitMart weighs partial restart and creditor payouts weeks after announcing shutdown
The exchange has hired White & Case as restructuring counsel, with a detailed roadmap expected by Sept. 9.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Just 1% of wallets control $133M in midterm odds on Polymarket, creating a dangerous illusion of mass public consensus
The Nov. 3 midterm election is less than 11 weeks away, and its betting market had already surpassed the full 2024 congressional cycle in the latest comparable data. Traders had placed at least $133 million across markets tied to House and Senate races by Aug. 10, compared with $92.4 million during ...
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Tokenized stocks risk repeating Wall Street’s 1960s ‘paper crisis,’ Fairmint CEO says
Fairmint CEO Joris Delanoue warns tokenized stocks risk recreating Wall Street’s 1960s paper crisis through fragmented systems and standards.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Reaching instant 27ms validation on Bitcoin will take 17 GPU years of compute power
Hazync's developer reports that a 1.7 MB standalone verifier checked a 226,434-byte cryptographic receipt covering the first 1,789 blocks of Bitcoin in 27 milliseconds. The Aug. 15 disclosure limits that result to an early stretch of Bitcoin's history. A complete genesis-to-tip proof campaign remain...
- CryptoSlateScore: 35
Illuvium says six months of cuts bought it another year as MMO becomes its main remaining bet
Illuvium co-founder and CEO Kieran Warwick said Aug. 21 that six months of cost reductions and a further wage cut had restored more than 12 months of operating runway for the web3 gaming studio. Warwick said the remaining workforce is now almost entirely focused on an MMO and that most team members ...
- DecryptScore: 30
A Third of the Post-ChatGPT Web Is AI-Written, Pew Finds
Pew Research scanned nearly half a million webpages with an AI detector and found the fingerprints concentrated on .com domains—and multiplying fast.