Raw News Items
33 itemsAugust 29, 2026
- CoinDesk
A $1.1 million crypto card hack crashed a neobank's token 49%
The exploit caused the neobank's AVICI token to drop 49% from a 24-hour high, hitting a record low before paring some of the losses.
- CryptoSlate
Deribit moved 90% of client assets to Coinbase, then killed its daily proof-of-reserves check
Deribit will remove its public Proof of Reserves page on Sept. 1, ending a daily check customers could use to verify balance inclusion and compare aggregate liabilities with published wallet holdings. Regulator-required reserve, reconciliation and audit controls will remain, but they do not provide ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
The SEC is reviewing automatic filing pathways after exotic crypto and event-linked ETF proposals flooded the market
Wall Street now wants a ticker to hold almost any financial idea an investor might type into a brokerage search bar, from Bitcoin and funds promising two or three times a stock's daily return to private assets and contracts tied to elections or economic events. The ETF began as a cheap way to own a ...
- The BlockScore: 85
Layer 1 blockchain Fogo halts mainnet after attacker receives 400 million FOGO tokens, 10% of circulating supply
The affected tokens make up about 4% of FOGO's genesis supply and were worth about $3 million at the time of the incident.
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Ripple is preparing XRP Ledger for quantum computers before ‘Q-Day’ arrives
An Anthropic model cut the work needed to break a leading post-quantum signature candidate by a factor of 67 million last month, while Bitcoin and Ethereum published their own migration plans this week.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Kraken and Galaxy flipped late as Solana approved a major supply cut
The proposal to double Solana’s annual disinflation rate has been marked Accepted after closing with 176.29 million SOL For, 66.19 million SOL Against and 20.63 million SOL Abstain, according to Validator Info. The result gives Solana validators and stakers a directional mandate to accelerate the ne...
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Bitcoin ETFs end 9-day inflow streak as BTC dips below $78K
US spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $201.8 million in net outflows Friday, led by ARK 21Shares, as total fund assets slipped back below $100 billion.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Crypto ETFs appeared to hit $10B in hours, but filing data exposes where that money really came from
US spot Ethereum ETFs appeared to begin trading with $10.36 billion already inside them, an opening balance large enough to resemble an institutional buying wave before the first full session ended. However, almost all of that amount came from ETH that Grayscale's older trusts already held, so the l...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Polygon Labs issues urgent client upgrade notice following Austin and Kyoto hardforks
Polygon Labs said any Polygon PoS node that stayed on pre-hardfork Bor or Heimdall binaries past two August activation heights has already fallen out of canonical consensus. In practice, the stale node must upgrade and catch up before it can follow the network’s accepted history again. The company’s...
- DecryptScore: 75
BitGo Buys NYDIG's Institutional Trading Arm to Beef Up Derivatives and Financing
The roughly $42.5 million cash-and-stock deal adds derivatives, structured products and capital-markets capabilities, while letting NYDIG focus on its power and data-center business.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Evernorth’s XRP strategy hinges on one number after Nasdaq vote
Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders will vote Sept. 30 on Evernorth Holdings' Nasdaq merger, which would give the XRP treasury firm authorization for up to 10 billion shares as it targets growth in XRP per share. According to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the pr...
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Swift’s $1.5 quadrillion network faces a blockchain test
Crypto executives say new blockchain payment infrastructure could make Swift obsolete. Bankers say its 11,500-institution network gives it the power to absorb the technology instead.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin faces a new macro test as Fed Chair Kevin Warsh highlights sticky inflation metrics
Bitcoin has 54% as a new macro number to defend against, the share of the personal consumption expenditures basket that Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said has risen faster than 3% over the past year. His Jackson Hole speech turned an abstract argument about sticky inflation into a measurable tes...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin ETF inflows snap after $3 billion streak as ETH, XRP and Solana keep buying
US-listed Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) lost $201.9 million Friday, ending a nine-day inflow streak as Ethereum, XRP and Solana funds kept attracting cash. The reversal came as Bitcoin fell about 3.2% to $77,696 on Aug. 28. Meanwhile, Ethereum, XRP and Solana ETFs attracted a combined $145 mi...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
UK crypto investors declared £1.38B in gains, but half came from just 240 people
HMRC has disclosed £1.38 billion in reported UK crypto gains, with just 240 investors accounting for more than half. The figures mark the first time HM Revenue & Customs has published crypto-specific Capital Gains Tax data, giving the agency a formal baseline before new reporting rules begin supplyi...
- The BlockScore: 70
Former White House teleprompter operator ordered to pay $172,000 for Kalshi trades on mention markets
The fine marks the CFTC's second insider trading case against a federal employee trading event contracts and its second related settlement in four weeks.
- DecryptScore: 70
Bitcoin's Oldest Coins Are Waking Up in 2026 at a Pace Rarely Seen
Galaxy Research shows coins untouched for 10-plus years moving at an unusual pace in 2026, with six ancient wallets shifting $40 million in a single 10-day stretch this month.
- The BlockScore: 70
Cosmos Labs says it wrongly cleared the bug behind a $5.7 million six-chain hack
MANTRA Chain, which lost $3.6 million, claimed the patch was only released 20 hours before the attack began and did not identify the flaw it fixed.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Coinbase’s $104M US500 trading spike hits an early reality check
Coinbase US500 futures reached a $100 million milestone, giving the exchange an early test of whether a crypto-native trading mechanism can travel into regulated US equity markets. The chart attached to Armstrong’s Aug. 28 post tracked trailing 24-hour matched volume after US500 began trading on Aug...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Bitcoin’s failed $81,000 breakout just put $75,000 back on the table
Bitcoin trades near $78,000 heading into the weekend, sitting almost between $77,000 support and $80,000 resistance after a sharp rejection from above $81,000 hit on Aug. 28. A confirmed break below $77,000 opens the mid-$75,000s, while a reclaim of $80,000 puts the roughly $81,300 high from Aug. 28...
- CoinDeskScore: 65
Bitcoin wallets untouched for 10 years moved $40 million. Most avoided exchanges
Six decade-old wallets moved $40 million this month, but Galaxy's data shows dormant coin activity at its lowest since 2022 and 2026 on pace for under half of last year's total.
- CointelegraphScore: 65
Stablecoins not credible for payments at scale, BIS chief says
BIS chief Pablo Hernández de Cos said stablecoins lack credibility for payments at scale, while a new FSI study highlights sharp differences in issuer rules.
- CointelegraphScore: 65
Tokenized stock transfer volume jumps 415% in 30 days to $29.5B
Tokenized equities saw a sharp rise in onchain activity as active addresses and holders more than doubled over the past month.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Bitcoin Knots is trying to fork Bitcoin again after its last chain died in two blocks
Bitcoin Knots is preparing a Sunday rehearsal for a BLAKE2b fork after its previous breakaway BIP-110 chain stalled. On Aug. 29, Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr told SHA-2 miners to stop mining ahead of an Aug. 30 test that would replace Bitcoin’s SHA-256d proof of work with BLAKE2b on the proposed br...
- CointelegraphScore: 65
Stellar tokenized RWA market more than quadruples to nearly $4B
Stellar’s real-world asset market has expanded rapidly this year as institutional adoption and tokenization activity grow across the network.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Bitcoin miner IREN still gets 82% of revenue from BTC after clearing room for Microsoft AI cloud
IREN is still mostly a Bitcoin miner by revenue, even as it retires mining hardware to make room for AI infrastructure and grow IREN's AI cloud revenue. The company’s fiscal 2026 results, filed Aug. 27, show Bitcoin mining generated $578.2 million of IREN’s $707 million in annual revenue, or about 8...
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Trump-promoted brand touts GOLD before token collapse
Real Trump Coins promoted GOLD before deleting related X posts, while team-linked wallets sold 224.5 million tokens and the price plunged about 98%.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Bitcoin miners are no longer pure crypto proxies and are morphing into high-performance computing hubs
Bitcoin gained 21.5% from the Aug. 17 close through Aug. 21, yet six of seven large US-listed miners finished the same trading stretch much lower. MARA Holdings rose 16.1% and came closest to BTC, while Cipher Digital fell 14.8%, TeraWulf lost 11.2%, Hut 8 dropped 8.1%, and IREN declined 6.8%. The s...
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Polygon discloses security flaws fixed in recent hard forks
The vulnerabilities posed denial-of-service and validator resource risks but were patched before Polygon publicly disclosed them.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Tokenized assets are busier than the data shows
When you strip out what was never mobile, correct for who's holding what and why, add back what works off-contract, the utilization of tokenized assets looks close to 20%, argues Katana’s Matthew Fisher.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
The next trillion-dollar currency may not be a stablecoin — it might not even have a name yet
AI agents are coming. They will need to pay each other. Crypto executives agree on the problem but disagree sharply on the solution, and one thinks the answer has not been invented yet.
- DecryptScore: 40
Bernie Sanders Vows Legislation to 'Stop Flock and AI Mass Surveillance'
The Vermont senator warned that the surveillance company's 120,000-plus AI cameras are pushing the US toward a "surveillance state," adding a prominent voice to a growing bipartisan backlash.
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Ditching 'digital gold': BPI study suggests everyday Americans prefer control and micro-investing
A new survey suggests some of bitcoin's most familiar sales pitches of changing the world may be poorly suited to a majority of prospective buyers.