Raw News Items
25 itemsAugust 23, 2026
- Cointelegraph
We are so back! Bitcoin’s 23% rally on US debt policy: Hodler’s Digest
The US may face a debt crisis within three years according to Ray Dalio, and debt-related issues helped fuel a rally in Bitcoin that could mark the beginning of a new cycle.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
America is creating a new class of crypto banks – but they aren’t really banks
Circle now has a federal bank charter. However, the charter provides no ordinary checking accounts, FDIC-insured savings accounts, or mortgages. Circle National Trust is part of a new federal cohort built around custody, fiduciary administration, stablecoin reserves, and settlement. Ripple, BitGo, F...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
The US approved high-leverage Bitcoin trading while crypto founders remain legally blocked from raising funds
On May 29, the CFTC approved a Bitcoin perpetual contract for a regulated US exchange. Almost three months later, on Aug. 18, the SEC proposed a legal route through which crypto projects could someday raise money from the public under rules written for token networks. That's a pretty unusual order i...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Pakistan gives crypto platforms a September 5 deadline to comply or leave
Pakistan has given crypto platforms until Sept. 5 to enter its new licensing regime or stop serving the market, moving the country from broad crypto policy toward formal supervision. The Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, or PVARA, opened a licensing portal on Aug. 22 after issuing final ...
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Regulation Crypto is here: State of Crypto
The SEC published its Reg Crypto proposal last week, giving the public 60 days to comment.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs just had their biggest week of 2026 as crypto exploded higher
US spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded their strongest inflow week of 2026 as a sharp crypto rally pulled investors back into funds that had struggled to attract sustained demand for much of the year. Bitcoin ETFs drew $1.918 billion in the five trading sessions through Aug. 21, while funds hold...
- CoinDeskScore: 80
XRP on track for biggest weekly gain in 21 months as Treasury buyback spurs 'curve control' hopes
XRP’s price has surged by 50% this week, the best performance since November 2024. Here's what's driving the rally.
- The BlockScore: 80
DeFi lending protocol Term Finance loses an estimated $8.5 million to governance exploit
Term vault proposals face a seven-day delay and can be vetoed by liquidity providers, yet those controls apparently did not stop the exploit.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Coldcard now requires 65 key presses after seed exploit, while exposed funds still must move
Coinkite, the maker of the Coldcard Bitcoin hardware wallet, released new standard firmware on Aug. 20 that forces users to add physical randomness whenever they generate a seed. Owners who generate a seed after installing the current fixed release can use the hardened process. Owners still relying ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Local’s access to global crypto platforms could end under Nigeria’s proposed capital floor
Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed rules that would bring crypto businesses into its licensing perimeter when they operate in Nigeria, serve Nigerian residents, or target the country’s investors and market through digital channels. The plan would raise the cost of serving Nige...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin Core considers dropping encrypted routing support as poor node health exposes users to eclipse attacks
Bitcoin Core contributors are weighing whether a thinly used network transport offers valuable insurance or has become a liability too costly to retain. In the open CJDNS support discussion, Bitcoin Core member Andrew Chow said one seeder database held 25 CJDNS addresses, had reached 22 and classifi...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Wall Street just poured nearly $90 million into altcoins as XRP, SOL and HYPE rip higher
US-listed crypto exchange-traded funds outside Bitcoin and Ethereum drew nearly $90 million last week. Investors followed a sharp market rally into XRP, Solana, Chainlink and Hyperliquid. XRP products led the group with $39.78 million of net inflows in the week ended Aug. 21, their strongest showing...
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Layer 1 network dilutes supply by 75% overnight to fund survival after main developer quits
Secret Network executed a 1.079 billion-SCRT mint on Aug. 21 as backers of Proposal 365 moved to keep the Cosmos-based layer 1 operating ahead of SCRT Labs’ Sept. 1 support cutoff. Proposal 365 passed and scheduled the v1.26.0-community-continuance upgrade for block 26,790,327. Results from that blo...
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Crypto card spending tops $1 billion as stablecoins move into everyday purchases
Tracked card volume more than tripled in a year, with USDC and USDT funding over 70% of spending as users increasingly paid for groceries, rides and subscriptions.
- The BlockScore: 70
Tether’s $120 million Uruguay bitcoin mining project collapsed over a power contract dispute: Reuters
UTE cut power to Tether's mining sites in July 2025 after Tether representatives did not attend the signing of a revised contract, per the report.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Ripple relies on locked XRP reserves to back a $275 million institutional credit line
Ripple Prime closed an upsized $275 million private placement of senior unsecured notes, giving the non-bank prime broker a new pool of capital for its U.S. expansion. KBRA’s investment-grade assessment makes the parent-support mechanism the central credit issue. KBRA’s BBB assessment depends partly...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
As foreign investors dump $29 billion in Treasury bills, Washington pivots to stablecoin issuers to back US debt
Foreign investors sent a net $133.5 billion into US financial markets in June. During the same month, they sold $29 billion of Treasury bills. Those numbers describe two different tides in the same month. Most of the incoming money went into US stocks, while demand for government debt was much weake...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Bitcoin miner IPO demands 99.8% of funds from public buyers while handing them just 10% equity
Bitari Inc., a Bitcoin mining host pursuing a planned Bitcoin mining IPO and Nasdaq listing, is asking public buyers to provide nearly all of the consideration shown in its prospectus table while receiving about 10% of the company after the deal. The company's preliminary S-1 proposes selling 4,285,...
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Crypto treasury firm seeks 20B share ceiling and reverse splits after launching $300M stock offering
Shareholders of Chaince Digital Holdings, a crypto treasury firm, will decide Monday whether to increase the company’s authorized ordinary shares from 1 billion to 20 billion and give its board broad reverse-split authority. The vote comes days after Chaince established an at-the-market program allo...
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
How a $20M crypto payout left a micro-cap firm with under $83K in usable cash reserves
ZK International said it received 205,512.5 AWA tokens on July 30 to settle a $20.02 million equity-financing receivable, but disclosed that the tokens remained unmonetized and their receipt-date fair value was unresolved. The update matters because management’s going-concern doubt persisted while t...
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Fed study finds crypto investors driven by beliefs, easily swayed by returns
A Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland study finds crypto investors hold sharply different views on returns and risk, while information about Bitcoin’s past gains can increase both desired allocations and actual crypto purchases.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Crypto’s next billion users might be AI agents, and they’re paying with stablecoins
According to Coinbase’s head of AI product, we’re currently in the “Napster/LimeWire era” of agentic payments.
- DecryptScore: 30
Robot Brains Could Have Their ‘ChatGPT Moment’ by 2027, ACE Robotics Chairman Says
The breakthrough could come from AI models that help robots understand and interact with the physical world, though widespread adoption may still be years away.
- CryptoSlateScore: 20
The next phase of tokenization is utility
The following is a guest post and opinion from Vincent Maliepaard, VP of Marketing at Sentora. Tokenized funds have stopped being a novelty. Tokenized US Treasury funds alone now hold roughly $16 billion in distributed value and the list of issuers includes most of the largest names in traditional a...
- DecryptScore: 10
63% of Religious Books on Amazon Are Likely AI-Written, Study Finds
Witchcraft books had the highest rate of likely AI-generated content at 78%, according to an Originality.ai analysis of more than 2,000 titles.