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The Jeonbuk Bank collaboration marked Ripple's third Korean partnership this year, following those with Kyobo Life Insurance and Kbank.

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Bulls are stacking longs, liquidity is thinning and one key level could trigger large liquidations.

Jeonbuk Bank will use Ripple’s 24/7 cross-border payment service for business remittances, but it is unknown whether the flows will use XRP or Ripple’...

Investor capital in South Korea largely shifted toward domestic equities, with the benchmark KOSPI more than doubling in H1 2026.

The program came three months before investor unlocks begin, with MON trading below its public-sale price and most of the token supply still outside c...

Developers have been urged to test on Plataberget before Glamsterdam’s new gas model reaches Ethereum’s other testnets and mainnet.

Miners have cut their computing power by a fifth over three quarters to make room for AI, and Venice's token jumped 10% after the company said it cros...

Prosecutors allege Edward Zimbardi collected crypto from thousands of investors, lost over $34 million on currency trades and spent at least $10 milli...

Binance’s bStocks are the second largest tokenized stock issuer just two months after launch, and BitMart’s internal feud erupts into the spotlight ah...

Payward is joining Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s program for giving vetted organizations access to its powerful cybersecurity AI.

Stablecoin market cap on the chain has reached $640 million, the bulk of which has come from USDe.

Elon Musk’s AI firm says the state’s first-of-its-kind nudification ban violates the First Amendment. Minnesota says it regulates a tool, not speech.

Payward will use Anthropic’s cybersecurity model to hunt vulnerabilities and share open-source findings.

The US financial regulator gave conditional approval for World Liberty Financial’s charter bid as ten Democrats signed onto a bill to “prevent corrupt...

Traders across Polymarket, Kalshi, and Myriad are leaning the same way: no change at the September meeting.

Tokenized stock market share has grown to 15%, up 3x from the start of the year, with the total market cap around $2.8 billion.

Circle's EURC hits €400M in circulation, dominating euro stablecoins with MiCA compliance and expanded blockchain integrations. (Read More)

Exchanges and other crypto platforms would face new restrictions on selling stablecoins to US customers beginning in 2027.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury is asking for public comment on the upcoming implementation of new stablecoin rules. The GENIUS Act, signed by US ...

OpenAI President Greg Brockman's new essay cites his company's own hack of Hugging Face to push urgent AI-powered defense.

IREN is targeting 480 MW of AI cloud capacity in 2026 and 1.2 gigawatts by 2027 as it continues to pivot away from bitcoin mining.

XRP is clinging to the dollar price line it's defended since Trump's 2024 win. But both the daily and weekly charts are now flashing red.

Strategy is prioritizing STRC, cash reserves, and its credit business over stock buybacks, Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said Monday.

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVFP4 leverages QAD and NVFP4 to deliver 4x throughput. Learn how this LLM innovation reshapes AI efficiency. (Read Mo...

Binance’s UK arm has been barred from offering regulated activities in the country since June 2021, but the company will reportedly move to secure lic...

The native token of Solana's Pump.fun is up 8%, and the pattern bulls have been waiting for is starting to form on the daily chart.

A proposed package would let privacy pools pay their own transaction fees without relying on intermediaries.

CleanSpark is up 6.4% year to date, while BitFuFu and Canaan have fallen more than 50% and 70%, respectively.

The regulatory review could shape an emerging market that lets companies and investors trade and hedge the cost of increasingly scarce AI computing po...

Binance's promotion lets users experience VIP 6 status for up to six months, offering lower fees, higher limits, and exclusive perks. (Read More)

Binance Pay integrates with DK Bank's QR system, enabling crypto payments at 3,700+ Bhutanese merchants. Here's why it matters. (Read More)

Sheldon Lee said a Chinese-language X account making the claims was hacked. Users want wallets, assets and liabilities disclosed.

Binance's bStocks now offers enhanced charts, financial metrics, and stock transfer features, expanding its tokenized stock platform. (Read More)

The stablecoin bill signed into law last year is scheduled to go into effect in January 2027, potentially without finalized regulations from US govern...

The securities regulator cited an "unforeseen scheduling issue," but sources point to a legal threat from Wall Street trade group SIFMA and an adminis...

Bitcoin price strength saw BTC/USD pass $64,000 on 2% daily gains as gold pushed higher while US stocks wobbled on fresh US-Iran rhetoric.

Tom Lee’s Ethereum treasury company keeps buying the second-biggest crypto through the downturn, while more than 5 million staked ETH is projected to ...

Stripe just bought the layer that decides which AI model answers your prompt—and it was already collecting the money for it.

The firm says it's 96% of the way to owning 5% of Ethereum's total supply, according to Chairman Tom Lee.

The protocol pioneered decentralized finance lending, but assets locked have tumbled from a peak five years ago. Now it's looking to attract instituti...

Harmony considered alternatives, including a token burn & blacklisting wallets, but concluded a rollback was "fairest and most secure."

NVIDIA partners with SB Energy to host exclusive AI infrastructure at PORTS-Pike, investing $1.5B and securing 4.25 IT-GW capacity for OpenAI. (Read M...

The Treasury proposal would establish some of the core definitions and jurisdictions in the law Congress completed last year.

NVIDIA partners with SB Energy to secure a 4.25GW AI factory site in Ohio, anchoring OpenAI's future compute capacity and $600B in potential revenue. ...

OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project in Ohio, aiming to support AI infrastructure, create 37,500 jobs, and invest $160M in community development. (Read Mor...

BNB Agent Studio introduces AI stock analysts for bStock trading, with a $100K USDC prize pool. Competition runs Aug 17–Sep 1. (Read More)

A community built on verification spent five years outsourcing its judgment to one man, writes Foundation CEO Zach Herbert.

The crypto treasury company bought another 9,926 ETH last week, extending a buying streak that began in June 2025.

Crypto’s favorite maxim, “don’t trust, verify” wasn’t followed in the case of Coldcard’s code.

Bitmine added 9,926 ETH last week, taking holdings to 5.82 million tokens while buybacks reached 20.8 million shares since July.

The Dutch cyber agency says attackers exploited an authentication flaw in macOS Screen Sharing to gain root access and plant Monero miners, with publi...

The meeting comes while progress on the Clarity Act has been delayed and the SEC's latest rulemaking postponed.

Austria's FMA fined Bitpanda €70,000 in its first published MiCA penalty, citing white paper and marketing disclosure failures.

The Bitcoin treasury firm halted BTC sales after three weeks, with equity issuance covering dividends, a STRC buyback and the dollar reserve.

Proceeds funded STRC dividends and repurchases, while $149.1 million was added to Strategy’s US dollar reserve, which reached $4.8 billion.

Hyperliquid's $200B 30-day perp volume and 0.07-second finality push institutions to rethink manual trade approval processes. (Read More)

Bitcoin holds at $63,501 (+0.85%) as August trading sees cautious consolidation. Macro events and ETF flows remain key catalysts. (Read More)

Harmony said selectively restoring transactions could create inconsistent chain state, as Ravencoin faces a separate rollback dispute after an exploit...

Bitdefender says fake downloads of the newly released blockbuster are already spreading Lumma Stealer, malware that scrapes crypto wallets, passwords ...

Led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, the company raised $333.7 million via the sale of common stock.

Strategy's total holdings account for around 4% of the 21 million bitcoin supply cap — worth roughly $53.4 billion.

Developers are narrowing the list for the Hegotá upgrade, including a package to change how wallets approve and pay for transactions, giving developer...

Funds and digital assets were not touched, but names, bank account details, and national ID numbers may have been exposed in what the company says was...

Bitcoin’s implied volatility is near a seasonal floor, but options continue to price substantially more movement than the market is delivering.

Bitcoin confirmed a weekly candle close below its 200-week moving average, copying the 2022 bear-market as traders warn of further BTC price downside ...

Reuters reported that Binance supplied transaction records and identity documents later used in a terrorism-financing case against Yuri Belenkiy.

Your day-ahead look for Aug. 17, 2026

PLTR is jammed at $173.49 with MACD momentum dead flat and two-thirds of both retail and smart money sitting short — a test of the $170-$172 support z...

HOOD is locked in a razor-thin compression zone at $96.14 with whale positioning aggressively long and year-end analyst targets ranging from $70 to $1...

Coinbase's tokenized stock sits at $150.15, pinned beneath every meaningful moving average after back-to-back quarterly revenue collapses. Smart money...

BABA tokenized stock sits at $125.51, pinned dead on its 20-day average at a textbook decision point — with smart money running 64.6% net long and a t...

Netflix Tokenized Stock is pressing against a wall at $79.99 with momentum visibly exhausting near the upper Bollinger Band; a decisive close above $8...

AMD tokenized stock is coiling against a dense $525–$530 resistance cluster with all moving averages stacked bullishly below — but a flat MACD and agg...

HKMA's Q2 2026 credit card lending data shows a 2.1% decline in receivables to HK$154.6B, with charge-off and delinquency ratios remaining stable. (Re...

The macro fund raised its iShares Bitcoin Trust stake 18.9% to 688,529 shares worth $22.9 million in Q2, while sharply cutting its call options—a shif...

HIVE's BUZZ HPC signed a five-year, $350M GPU cloud deal, adding $70M in ARR, its second large NVIDIA cluster deal in two months.

Amazon Tokenized Stock is coiling at $266.10 with MACD momentum completely flatlined and top-trader positioning sitting 55.8% net short — yet stochast...

META tokenized stock is pinned at $589.37 in a near-momentum blackout, with taker sell flow dominating the tape even as whales sit 66.6% long. The $58...

MSFT tokenized stock sits at $491.67 with momentum flatlined and 68% of the market positioned short — a dangerous combination that sets up either a vi...

The trustee says Knaken bought the coins in its own name, leaving customers with a euro claim against a company that has collapsed.

QQQ is coiling at $735.31 with a dead-flat MACD and a stochastic screaming overbought at 96.57 — the highest-probability near-term move is a mean-reve...

MSTR's tokenized price sits at $93.73, pinned below every key moving average and grinding into a pivotal support zone at $92.82; with smart money runn...

Ethereum debuts Platåberget testnet for Glamsterdam upgrade testing. Developers urged to prepare for breaking changes, including gas repricing. (Read ...

Apple tokenized stock is coiling at $307.14 beneath a wall of stacked moving averages, with momentum flatlined and an unusually crowded long book from...

The price of bitcoin tracked a bounce in equities, but a $390 million ETF outflow streak and 10% odds on landmark crypto legislation leave markets sea...

NVDA tokenized stock is grinding against the $226.96–$227.68 resistance ceiling with a flatlined MACD and 54% of top traders positioned short — the hi...

AAVE is grinding at $85.93, pinned near its Bollinger lower band with stochastics in deeply oversold territory. A tactical bounce toward $88–$90 is on...

LDO is clinging to $0.31 with zero momentum conviction and a structurally broken trend — but smart money is quietly leaning long while retail bets aga...

HBAR is locked in a brutal volatility compression at $0.07, trading below its 200-day MA while top traders position 56% net long against a slightly ne...

WIF is pinned at $0.14 with every major moving average stacked overhead and sell-side flow dominating intraday tape — a breakdown to $0.13 carries rou...

The FMA said Bitpanda breached MiCA rules on crypto white papers and marketing communications, with the decision now final.

PEPE is pinned against its lower Bollinger Band at $0.00000236, with stochastics screaming oversold below 15 — a technical bounce toward $0.0000030 is...

A flaw in an order-tracking plug-in of bitcoin wallet provider SafePal exposed names, addresses and phone numbers of nearly 40,000 customers.

Algorand is pinned at $0.0787 with momentum flatlined and price buried 21% below its 200 SMA — but smart money is quietly stacking longs at a 62% rati...

FILE is bleeding into its lower Bollinger Band at $0.66 with taker sell volume running nearly 2:1 over buys, while smart money sits defiantly 62.4% lo...

Binance says it cooperates with lawful requests, despite exiting the Russian market in 2023 to improve its compliance strategy.

INJ is pinned at $4.09 with every moving average stacked above it and sell-side order flow running nearly 2:1 over buyers — but stochastic readings at...

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Aug. 17

CRV is frozen at $0.245 while aggressive sellers are running a 1.65:1 sell-to-buy ratio on the futures tape and open interest quietly bleeds out; the ...

FLOKI is coiling near its lower Bollinger Band with stochastics deep in oversold territory and volume on Binance spot running at a skeletal $286K in 2...

TON is pinned at $1.60 with MACD momentum flatlined and price sitting below every meaningful moving average except the SMA 200 — the last line of defe...

SHIB is hemorrhaging inside a falling channel at $0.00000444, with Shibarium's DEX volume at near-zero and Bitcoin pinned under $63,000 ahead of FOMC ...

Worldcoin is pinned at $0.36, pressing against upper Bollinger Band resistance with overbought stochastics and a dead MACD — a setup that resolves vio...

Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has ground to a near halt as the 60-day truce lapses with no deal, reviving the oil-price risk that has capped c...

Optimism is clinging to critical support at $0.08 with aggressive sell-side pressure overwhelming retail bulls — a decisive breakdown opens a near-ter...

BitMart’s Chinese-language X account demanded an Aug. 19 repayment plan, while Sheldon Xia called its claims of blocked withdrawals and non-payment of...

Soft economic data has Goldman Sachs doubting a September rate increase, offering good news for bitcoin bulls.

Litecoin at $44.10 is trapped beneath every major moving average with momentum flatlined and spot volume running near zero — a short-squeeze bounce to...

ATOM is locked in a $0.05 dead zone with momentum indicators reading flat zero and smart money leaning long — a break above $1.50 unlocks $1.53 and po...

BCH is clinging to $205.60 by its fingernails, pinned below every major moving average while takers dump aggressively into the bid. A clean break of $...

UNI is pinned beneath every major moving average at $3.29 while smart-money traders quietly load longs — a $3.19 hold opens a shot at $3.65–$3.83, but...

Chainlink trades at $9.42, pressing against its upper Bollinger Band while MACD momentum goes completely flat — a setup that historically precedes eit...

Polkadot is pinned at $0.76, buried beneath every major moving average while taker sell volume dominates and open interest bleeds out. The next 7–30 d...

MATIC is pinned at $0.38 with every significant moving average stacked overhead as a wall of resistance and spot volume near non-existent; the 60/40 p...

DOGE is grinding at $0.070273 — more than 55% below where analysts were projecting it in early 2026 — while taker buying pressure spikes aggressively ...

SOL is coiling at $75.82, pinned just below a confluent resistance wall with momentum dead-flatlined at zero. Either buyers push through $76.51–$77.21...

ADA is coiled at its pivot with smart money stacking longs and the stochastic in deeply oversold territory — but with MACD flatlined and paper-thin vo...

XRP is coiling at $1.01 with every meaningful moving average stacked overhead and MACD momentum dead flat — the high-probability near-term path is a f...

BNB is nailed to $605.80 with momentum completely exhausted and nearly 70% of the market already long — the path of least resistance is a short-term f...

ETH is compressing into a $1,922–$1,939 resistance band with momentum completely flatlined and retail traders sitting 70% long — a confirmed daily clo...

Bitcoin is coiling at $63,572 in a dangerously crowded long setup, with 67% of derivatives traders positioned long while price sits below the SMA 20, ...

A peer-reviewed analysis identifies widespread address misuse on Ethereum and BSC, resulting in over $574.8 million in permanent asset losses from com...

SafePal is disclosing an authorization flaw in its order-tracking plug-in that exposed names, emails, addresses, phone numbers, and purchase details f...

Greenlane recorded a $19.1 million noncash valuation loss as BERA’s price fell nearly 76% year to date.

The market may be facing a dangerous liquidity mismatch as futures open interest outpaces trading volume by a significant margin.

Futures open interest climbed to $2.78 billion and traders on Binance and OKX leaned heavily long, even as social sentiment hit a three-month low.

The sealed complaint leaves Chainalysis’ specific objections and requested remedy undisclosed as briefing continues.

Owners of Trezor and SafePal crypto wallets at high risk of phishing attempts after separate data leaks, CLARITY odds at 10% despite White House meeti...

Novig, which recently announced a partnership with the New York Mets, has sued officials in five states including Wisconsin since Aug. 4.

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 ...

A Michigan woman lost more than $45,000 after scammers allegedly posed as Amazon, a bank and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in an elaborate fraud ...

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 ...

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.

The University of Michigan consumer sentiment index declined in August as households expressed growing economic worries. The drop adds to evidence of ...

A California bill is awaiting an Assembly vote to "place guardrails" around AI chatbots and prevent them from acting as therapists.

DefiLlama’s founder said Apple removed one fake app within days after the company documented it draining funds from a small crypto wallet.

A Georgia man lost $30,000 after scammers allegedly posed as bank and law enforcement officials and convinced him to hand over his savings for “safeke...

The Hegotá upgrade aims to introduce more native privacy for Ethereum applications.

A Pennsylvania man lost $35,000 after scammers allegedly impersonated federal officials, gained remote access to his computer and arranged for courier...

Rising fear language around 'crypto is dead' is appearing on X, Reddit, Telegram and elsewhere, framed as a potential contrarian signal near Bitcoin b...

Polymarket has moved its accounts to a lender the report could not identify but says it still maintains a "close, active relationship" with JPMorgan.

The additions come as Bybit’s TradFi perpetuals lineup grows to more than 200 products spanning equities, ETFs, commodities, indices and private compa...

UAE-based Mubadala Investment Company and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council also retained their combined 22.9 million IBIT shares.

Tokenized equities reached 1.31 million holders over the past month, as monthly transfer volume surged 179% to $23.13 billion and distributed value ro...

Apple is pairing its in-house model with Alibaba’s Qwen as it prepares to bring Apple Intelligence to Chinese iPhones.

The personal and medical records of millions of Americans are at risk after a cyberattack hit an Ohio-based healthcare software and revenue cycle firm...

The session is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday and is intended as a kickoff for the CFTC's first Innovation Advisory Committee meeting the nex...

The filing would turn raw footage into labeled clips of who did what, without anyone opting in.

A Louisiana man has lost $30,000 of his life savings after scammers allegedly impersonated bank fraud investigators and convinced him to hand over the...

The trillions required to boost Bitcoin to a price of $1 million per coin is not going to happen by 2030... or perhaps ever, says party pooper Markus ...

The proposed World Liberty Trust Company would take over issuance of the USD1 stablecoin from BitGo.

Klippsten said Bitcoin could bottom about a year after its previous peak and argued that crypto’s best outcome is to become part of TradFi.

Kalshi must implement initial geofencing by Aug. 19 and a GeoComply multi-source geofencing system by Sept. 2.

Galaxy cited unresolved ethics, stablecoin yield and developer protection issues, along with a narrow Senate window when lawmakers return in September...

Binance data showed Gen Z allocating a growing share of equity activity to ETFs while trading less frequently and using less leverage than older worki...

President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial secured preliminary approval to become a national trust bank on Friday.

The proposed policies under Ireland’s AML framework included stricter measures on transfers from private crypto wallets and overseas digital asset com...

A hacker is reportedly selling personal and financial records tied to more than 678,000 taxpayers and businesses in France.

The Chinese lab says the release beats comparably sized open models on code benchmarks. The blog's own numbers show it trails the closed frontier and ...

Mizuho views the company as a "high-growth/recurring revenue business," citing a 27% year-over-year increase in the customer base.

Sharplink plans to stake roughly 12% of its total Ethereum holdings through Lido, earning yield while staying active in DeFi.

Current and former OpenAI employees reportedly say pressure to release new AI products made it harder to prioritize safety.

Galaxy Research says the lull likely means vulnerable holders migrated, or were already emptied.

Bank Leumi's 2022 attempt died at the Bank of Israel. A softer regulatory line and Galaxy's custody stack now give it another shot in early 2027.

Bitcoin miner Hyperscale sold most of its Bitcoin but said it plans to rebuild its holdings through mining and future purchases.

Malware planted during a bogus coding assessment harvested a session token, bypassing multi-factor authentication to reach a code repository.

The country's first strategy of its kind also brings stricter due diligence for firms dealing with overseas crypto companies.

It seems Tether passed, putting an end to the longest-running open criticism of the leading stablecoin company.

No replacement date has been set for the meeting, which was cancelled due to an “unforeseen scheduling issue.”

A King County judge gave the exchange until August 19 to stop offering sports, election and politics wagers in the state.