Raw News Items
27 itemsAugust 30, 2026
- Decrypt
Ex-White House Teleprompter Operator Fined for Prediction Market Insider Trading
Gabriel Perez used his access to Trump's speeches before delivery to bet on "presidential mention market" contracts, profiting more than $107,500 before the CFTC caught up with him.
- Cointelegraph
Bitcoin’s new quantum defenses, 18.9M SOL cancelled: Hodler’s Digest
Bitcoin moves toward a post quantum future, Solana validators agree to curb rampant inflation and the bull case from Bernstein is for Bitcoin to peak at $500K this cycle.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Treasury proposed GENIUS change forces US exchanges to audit foreign stablecoin or face delisting
Treasury’s proposed rules under the GENIUS Act, the new US stablecoin law, would let US exchanges and other digital-asset service providers keep offering some foreign-issued payment stablecoins, but only if they can defend why they trusted the issuer’s promise to comply with lawful US orders. Under ...
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Michael Saylor hints at first bitcoin purchase in two months as bitcoin nears $79,000
Bitcoin rebounds from Friday’s low as Strategy’s valuation expands and bitcoin dominance climbs above 60%.
- The BlockScore: 85
Crypto.com-linked Cronos network halts after Tectonic exploit estimated at $75 million
Li says the attacker manipulated the price of Tectonic's illiquid TONIC token before borrowing against the inflated collateral, a Mango Markets-style hack.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
White House aide turned secret speech text into $107k on prediction markets before CFTC stepped in
A White House speech insider who worked as a teleprompter operator must surrender $107,539.02 in prediction-market profits after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission found that he traded on advance access to presidential speeches. The settled administrative order also requires Gabriel Perez to p...
- CointelegraphScore: 80
Russia’s Sber eyes USDT loans, questions digital ruble demand
Russia’s largest bank, Sber, plans to accept USDT and Ether alongside Bitcoin as loan collateral as the country introduces regulated crypto trading under a new law.
- The BlockScore: 75
Chainalysis accuses ICE of unfairly steering $95 million blockchain contract to TRM Labs
The lawsuit asks a federal court to block the $95 million TRM contract and require ICE to conduct a full and open competition.
- DecryptScore: 75
Strategy’s Bitcoin Is $2.8 Billion in Profit—Is Saylor Teeing Up a Buy?
A Bitcoin rally to around $79,000 lifted the company's 840,447 BTC roughly $2.8 billion above its cost basis, as Saylor's "We're Back" post fueled speculation that Strategy may resume buying.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Popular Bitcoin wallets risk losing support for new hardware devices as critical security bridge stops accepting new devices
Bitcoin HWI, a widely used interface for connecting wallet software to hardware signing devices, is moving toward retirement, while the Rust project its maintainer cited as a promising successor has not yet demonstrated a production handoff. The maintainer of Bitcoin Core’s Hardware Wallet Interface...
- DecryptScore: 75
Bitcoin ETFs Snap Nine-Day Inflow Streak as Ethereum Funds Extend Their Run
Spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $201.9 million on Aug. 28, ending a nine-day inflow run, even as Ethereum funds extended a 10-day streak with fresh cash.
- DecryptScore: 75
Polygon Quietly Patched Security Flaws in Two Hard Forks Before Disclosing Them
The Austin and Kyoto hard forks, deployed quietly on the Bor and Heimdall clients before public disclosure, closed denial-of-service and consensus-hardening flaws that Polygon says were never exploited.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
One mid-tier Bitcoin treasury just gambled its entire BTC reserve on a single 30-day reset price
PowerCompute, a Bitcoin treasury and mining company, added $3.765 million to its debt after an early Bitcoin collar reset involving 307 BTC. The executed schedule records the unwind cost as added principal rather than cash or USDC. The company’s Aug. 28 filing disclosed a $21,892,131.88 replacement ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
US treasury relies on stablecoins to fund short-term debt, but they can’t fix its $28B long-bond problem
Stablecoin demand is becoming consequential in the U.S. government debt market, but the maturity of that demand matters more than the headline total. Washington now has two debt-market stories running at once. The federal framework for permitted payment stablecoins channels reserves into cash-like i...
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Crypto market makers are cashing in on bitcoin's rally - without betting on direction
As bitcoin surges back above $80,000, sophisticated trading firms are quietly collecting yield rather than making directional bet.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Veteran Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr exits OCEAN pool – Will hash power follow him to new pool?
OCEAN Mining has completed a buyout of co-founder and 16-year veteran Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr, ending his ownership and three leadership roles at the Bitcoin mining pool. Dashjr resigned as chairman, chief technology officer and director, while OCEAN repurchased all of his equity, accordi...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Wall Street’s favorite Bitcoin broker just walked away from institutional trading to chase gigawatts of power
BitGo's NYDIG deal transfers its institutional trading business to the digital-asset custody and trading infrastructure provider, while NYDIG says it is concentrating resources on power, Bitcoin mining and high-performance-computing data centers. The closing terms disclosed by BitGo put roughly $42....
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Borrowers can now use $250k in Bitcoin for a house down payment without margin calls, but one trap remains
Better Mortgage and Coinbase announced on Aug. 26 that Better's token-backed conforming mortgage had reached general availability. Better's product page says interested borrowers can start an application. The structure does not use Bitcoin to secure the primary mortgage. Instead, a homebuyer takes t...
- DecryptScore: 60
After Their AI Models Hacked Real Companies, AI Labs Call for Stronger Cyber Defenses
More than 100 AI, security, finance, and technology organizations want governments and industry to prepare for attacks powered by increasingly capable models.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Saylor signals Strategy is ‘Back’ to Bitcoin buying
Michael Saylor’s “We’re Back” post hints Strategy may resume Bitcoin buying after a two-month pause to strengthen its balance sheet.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
How $739B in new US debt could absorb crypto’s liquidity before buybacks even reach Bitcoin
The US Treasury expects to borrow $739 billion from July through September while paying investors to hand back some of its older bonds. The pairing looks self-defeating because both transactions involve the same issuer. However, they are on separate ledgers and solve separate problems: auctions fina...
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
Crypto stock tokens barely move over weekend, revealing markets become illiquid when Wall Street goes offline
Coinbase’s new B20 stock tokens on Base place Apple, Alphabet, Meta and Nvidia-linked exposure on a blockchain that keeps trading through the weekend. AAPLc, GOOGLc, METAc and NVDAc confer beneficial claims on underlying shares held within Coinbase’s tokenization structure; they are designed for eli...
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
CEO Jeremy Allaire says Circle built “the platform for the internet financial system”, but cirBTC has only 40 BTC
Circle's wrapped Bitcoin product entered the market with unusually strong institutional credentials and almost no visible scale. The company paired cirBTC with segregated reserves, a federally supervised custodian, direct minting and redemption for eligible businesses, and the distribution infrastru...
- CoinDeskScore: 30
From Hawala to Swift: Inside the 1,000-year battle to move money safely
Finance has spent centuries decoupling wealth from physical transport, but constantly erasing friction creates vectors for increasingly high-tech exploits.
- CryptoSlateScore: 30
The next shadow-banking problem comes from insurance companies, where nobody was looking for a bank run
Delaware Life Insurance Company's 2025 balance sheet took on a startling new shape when the insurer corrected its annual filing: roughly $17 billion of investments were classified as related-party holdings, about 39% of invested assets, versus roughly $1.4 billion and 3% in the earlier version. Clea...
- The BlockScore: 30
Kalshi becomes exclusive prediction market partner of US Open: report
As part of the agreement, rival prediction market platforms are reportedly barred from advertising at the tournament and on its ESPN broadcasts.
- CointelegraphScore: 20
Real Trump Coins denies launching GOLD token, blames ‘bad actors’
Trump-linked Real Trump Coins said it never authorized GOLD or any digital token as questions persisted over its X account, associated domains and the concentrated token supply.