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Founded in 2018, Cryptopolitan has grown from a popular blog into a trusted source of news and analysis for millions of readers worldwide. Over the years, we have expanded our coverage to include a wide range of topics, from market trends and technological innovations to regulatory changes and industry events.
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Bankers are shopping Hugging Face at triple the price it gave Nvidia
Hugging Face has been approached at a $13 billion valuation and is working with banks on bids, months after turning down Nvidia at $7 billion.
Tue, Aug 25
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip beats Nvidia's GB300 on inference
OpenAI has published its first benchmark results for Jalapeño, its in-house inference chip built with Broadcom. The company claims that the chip does more AI work per watt and returns answers faster than the Nvidia GB200 and GB300 rack systems that it was measured against. How does OpenAI’s new chip perform? OpenAI has published benchmark...
Tue, Aug 25
TRON Surpasses 400 Million Accounts as Total Transfer Volume Nears $30 Trillion
Geneva, Switzerland, August 25, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), announced today that the number of total accounts on the TRON blockchain has exceeded 400 million. The milestone reflects sustained activity across the network and reinforces TRON’s position as...
Tue, Aug 25
Thailand SEC opens public comment on crypto ETF framework through September 20
The consultations put out by the Thailand SEC are at least two steps from being finalized as a formal rulebook. The regulator still needs to collect comments, revise recommendations, and then decide whether to authorize the products. The August draft by the SEC follows its April consultation, where comments, most of which backed the regulator’s...
Tue, Aug 25
Morpho leads Ethereum, Solana curated DeFi TVL as market concentrates with top-five curators
A report published by vaults.fyi on August 24 shows that curated DeFi vaults hold $11.29 billion, and five managers control more than two-thirds of it. While Vaults.fyi and DeFiLlama published two reports that disagree on totals due to the fact that they count vaults and protocols differently, where they see eye-to-eye is that the market...
Tue, Aug 25
AI and crypto hype collide in a $24M Ponzi conviction
Brent Kovar was convicted on August 24 of running a $24 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, a verdict that comes as the digital-asset industry grapples with record illicit activity and tries to keep fraud cases from undermining investor trust. The Las Vegas businessman ran Profit Connect, which presented itself as an artificial-intelligence company mining cryptocurrency on...
Tue, Aug 25
Thomson Reuters builds a Claude alternative on Chinese Qwen
Thomson Reuters has started transferring some of its legal AI tasks from Anthropic’s Claude to Thomson-1, which is an in-house model that uses Chinese open-source technology. This change is expected to reduce its costs, but at the same time raises another question concerning the security of using Chinese AI solutions in the uncertain environment of...
Tue, Aug 25
BPI: Digital gold was Bitcoin's least popular angle as narratives define adoption
A national study released by the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) shows that Bitcoin’s most repeated selling line, which is that it works as “digital gold,” barely lands with everyday Americans. Studies by the Bitcoin Policy Institute and the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank suggest that Bitcoin’s growth runs on storytelling and trust. What will make Americans...
Tue, Aug 25
NEAR targets post-quantum consensus by 2027 year-end
NEAR has started rebuilding its security model for a future where quantum computers could defeat signature systems used across crypto today. The work began in Q2 2026, according to Anton Astafiev, CTO at Near One, and Mally Anderson, a writer at NEAR. The initial modification included ML-DSA or “Dilithium” to the protocol. Users will be...
Tue, Aug 25
Unitree’s 45% post-IPO slide fuels fears robot hype outran fundamentals
Unitree, the most popular manufacturer of humanoid robots in China, has seen its shares go down by almost 45% after debuting on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on August 19, 2026. The downturn brings into question whether the enthusiasm surrounding artificial intelligence and robotics has been overvalued. Unitree reportedly experienced a spike of 460% on its...
Tue, Aug 25
How to get on the Anthropic pre-IPO action as a retail investor
Are you a retail investor wanting Anthropic exposure before Wall Street has a few indirect ways in, while the company stays private? Well, welcome! As Cryptopolitan recently reported, Anthropic ended July with annualized revenue above $65 billion, which is ahead of expectations. The Claude creator filed an early S-1 in June, according to CNBC, and...
Tue, Aug 25
XRP spot ETF saw inflows exceeding $1.56 billion, with prices surging 70%. How can holders earn $5,500 per day?
US spot XRP ETF have recently seen a significant resurgence, with cumulative net inflows surpassing $1.55 billion—a new all-time high. Meanwhile, the price of XRP has rebounded sharply after a mid-August correction that saw it dip below $1.00, climbing as high as $1.70 and reigniting market interest. Latest data shows that XRP spot ETF recorded...
Tue, Aug 25
Ethereum developers advance post-quantum readiness with deposit contract proposal
The Ethereum Foundation’s push to advance post-quantum readiness on the network’s mainnet got a new chapter on August 24 as a contributor presented a draft plan to integrate quantum-safe keys into the contract validators use to join the network. The proposal draft, if it scales all the stages through finalization, would set off a process...
Tue, Aug 25
Arthur Hayes says Bessent is now repeating all of Yellen’s mistakes
Arthur Hayes says Scott Bessent is becoming Janet Yellen through Treasury liquidity. Arthur opens “Same Same But Different” with a night at Pacha. Scott, his “Buffalo Bill,” runs into Yellen. Yellen mocks him because his buyback increase calmed yields for only one session. Arthur’s point is that Scott sounded different from Yellen, yet both reach...
Tue, Aug 25
Saylor argues Bitcoin can absorb Wall Street without changing
Michael Saylor claims that when banks, corporations, insurers, and governments introduce financial instruments based on Bitcoin, it doesn’t change the identity of Bitcoin. In his Strategy article, Saylor claims that the asset in itself stays unchanged, while the capital markets are evolving above it. This poses a challenge to the worries that many Bitcoin owners...
Tue, Aug 25
AI Agent Payments Hit 2026 High as Weekly Transfers Reach 8.7 Million
Agentic onchain payments have shown signs of a rebound over the past few weeks, with last week registering their busiest week year to date. According to the latest data from Token Terminal, there were 8.7 million x402 stablecoin transfers in the week starting August 17, which was more than double the 4.1 million recorded the...
Tue, Aug 25
China’s CXMT hits a DRAM production ceiling as global memory prices keep climbing
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) was reported by Omdia to have peaked at approximately 240,000 wafers monthly at the end of the previous year, but the shortage in memory found worldwide that prompted its expansion continues pushing prices up. A hard ceiling, not a temporary lull Those looking for increased Chinese supply to ease market conditions...
Tue, Aug 25
Coinbase taps Chainlink to bring tokenized stocks deeper into DeFi
Coinbase has chosen Chainlink to offer price infrastructure for its tokenized stocks, thus allowing shares of companies like Apple and NVIDIA to move around freely in decentralized lending and trading marketplaces. The agreement is of particular importance for crypto users outside the US, as it allows them to take advantage of blockchain-based versions of US...
Tue, Aug 25
SEC probes Wall Street banks over loans tied to 67% AI hedge fund collapse
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a subpoena to Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Bank of America for their loans to Situational Awareness, the hedge fund that is focused on AI and saw its value drop by 67 percent in July. A source with knowledge of the issue provided this information to...
Tue, Aug 25
Standard Chartered becomes first bank to distribute Hong Kong's HKDAP stablecoin
Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) said on Monday that it has become the first bank authorized to distribute HKDAP, the city’s first regulated Hong Kong dollar stablecoin. Asset managers and multinational companies that want blockchain settlement can now explore that option without leaving the banks they already use. What banks can issue HKDAP? HKDAP, short...
Tue, Aug 25
