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Solana sets new weekly record for non-voting transactions
Solana activity increased steadily over the past four weeks, with over 1.3B non-voting transactions for the past week. Solana got a boost from the FOMO app, and a return to meme trading on Pump.fun.
Mon, Aug 24
Fasset raises $68 million in SBI-led round, reaching $1 billion valuation
Fasset, a stablecoin-based digital bank, has raised $68 million in a Series C round led by Japan’s SBI Group at a $1 billion valuation. This funding round has pushed the payments firm into unicorn territory less than three months after its last raise. Fasset becomes a unicorn Fasset’s total fundraising for 2026 has hit $119...
Mon, Aug 24
Taiwan moves to prosecute Nvidia, Super Micro staff over illegal AI server export to China
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Super Micro (NASDAQ: SMCI) staffers were among the nine facing prosecution in Taiwan after prosecutors initiated charges against the group accused of operating a shadow route where AI servers somehow landed in China, even though those specific shipments are currently banned. The Nvidia employee linked to the illegal export of AI...
Mon, Aug 24
US AI investment jumps 40% as Europe falls further behind
Since the pandemic, American businesses have stepped up their AI investments, pouring cash into the sector at nearly three times the rate of European firms. Oxford Economics projects that US corporate spending on new AI hardware and infrastructure will grow 40% between 2021 and the end of next year. A Stanford AI Index report also...
Mon, Aug 24
Binance Blockchain Week heads to Bangkok as exchange advances financial superapp pitch
Binance has announced that its flagship event, Binance Blockchain Week 2026, is coming back to Asia, with all roads leading to Bankgok, Thailand. The organizers say that the event will be held between November 28 and 29 at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center. Last year, the event was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates,...
Mon, Aug 24
LIVE: Bitcoin ETFs had their best week in nearly a year as crypto rally holds firm
Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $1.92 billion last week, their biggest haul in 10 months, as Bitcoin jumped 23% to around $78,000; BlackRock’s fund alone took in $1.3 billion. Bitcoin is now pushing toward $79,500-$80,000 resistance, with support around $75,000-$76,000 and then $71,500 if the rally cools. U.S. stock futures are slightly lower after the Dow,...
Mon, Aug 24
Meta pulls OpenAI veteran into Superintelligence Labs talent war
Meta has added another high-profile AI researcher to its Superintelligence Labs. Luke Metz, who was part of the early team behind ChatGPT at OpenAI, has joined the company. This marks a new high in the war for AI talent that is changing leading laboratories around the world. While it may not be significant as an...
Mon, Aug 24
Phantom drops Sui support as the network struggles to regain momentum
On the 24th of September, Phantom will cease its support for the Sui blockchain, providing its customers with a couple of weeks to transfer their SUI and eliminating a platform that allowed users to enter one of the most talked-about Layer 1 solutions of 2025. As mentioned by the Sui Foundation, when Phantom initiated support...
Mon, Aug 24
Zondacrypto vanishes with executives missing and customer funds frozen
Zondagrypto, which used to be the leading cryptocurrency platform in Eastern and Central Europe, has vanished after both its top managers have disappeared and hundreds of thousands of users are blocked from accessing their funds. The incident serves as a reminder to the crypto industry, which is still struggling for recognition, about how swiftly people’s...
Mon, Aug 24
OpenAI and Anthropic’s $200 AI plans can deliver thousands in API-equivalent usage
According to a study by the research company SemiAnalysis, it appears that two flat-rate AI subscriptions that charge $200 per month can provide more usage than what is suggested by the actual price. For OpenAI and Anthropic, this forces the question: how long can subsidized access to technology last while there is pressure in the...
Mon, Aug 24
Term Labs suffers a governance attack, with $8.5 million drained
Term Labs is the latest Web3 protocol to suffer a governance exploit. The attacker had enough voting influence to drain five lending USDC vaults, with a total value of $8.5M in ETH and DAI.
Sun, Aug 23
Wintermute is short on all big assets except for BTC
Wintermute switched short on most crypto assets, with the exception of a long position on BTC.
Sun, Aug 23
Trump buys Berkshire Hathaway stock for the first time amid more than 1,000 trades in a month
Donald Trump bought Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) shares for the first time in June while making 1,051 separate financial transactions across stocks, bonds, and exchange-traded funds, according to Trump’s latest financial filing released on Aug. 22. The trades ranged from $78.1 million to $263.1 million as the disclosure law provides that transactions may be disclosed...
Sat, Aug 22
Carney says Canada is now in an economic war with Trump after trade talks collapsed
Mark Carney is now calling the Canada-US trade fight what he thinks it is: an economic war. Speaking Saturday on Parliament Hill, the economic legend said: “It is evident it is a new attack by the Americans on Canada. So, it is an attack in a war. It’s not a good choice. We want a...
Sat, Aug 22
Anthropic could seek a valuation of about $2 trillion in its planned IPO
Anthropic is getting ready to hit the stock market, while more Americans are pushing back against AI data centers being built around them. People are also growing uneasy about AI, a pushback that is expected to show up as a serious risk in the company’s IPO papers. Anthropic quietly filed to go public in June,...
Sat, Aug 22
HumidiFi suspends trading after network incident, limits impact to our internal funds
HumidiFi, one of the most active decentralized exchanges on Solana, has suspended trading on its platform after it disclosed a security incident against its network. The exchange maintains that the damage was confined to its own funds and no customer or third-party assets were affected. What did HumidiFi disclose? HimidiFi revealed on its official X...
Sat, Aug 22
Jesse Pollak defends Coinbase from 'badly misplaced' ETH sales criticisms
Jesse Pollak, VP of Engineering at Coinbase, was active on X, fighting accusations that Coinbase has been dumping Ethereum. The Base creator has been telling those who care to hear that the exchange is the largest holder of Ethereum in the world. How a “badly misplaced” comment started the argument The argument erupted when chaskin.eth...
Sat, Aug 22
Arthur Hayes shuts down links to FLOP meme tokens, airdrop still months away
Arthur Hayes, the cofounder of the crypto exchange BitMEX, clarified to his audience on Saturday that Flop Labs has issued no token, run no pre-sale, and put out no memecoin. He warns that anything trading under the FLOP name today is not the genuine token. Is the $FLOP token trading yet? Arthur Hayes, the cofounder...
Sat, Aug 22
AI’s memory crunch just made Amazon devices more expensive
Amazon has raised prices across several of its consumer electronics. This comes amid soaring memory-chip costs that put pressure on the company’s hardware business. Echo speakers, Fire TV devices, Kindle e-readers and eero routers are among the products affected. Some prices are rising by as much as 60%. The increases show how the AI boom...
Sat, Aug 22
Trump memecoin jumps 80%, $30M liquidations hit traders
Official Trump (TRUMP) rallied by over 80%, breaking above $3 for the first time since April. The meme token rallied on rumors the Trump family would launch a new asset on Robinhood.
Sat, Aug 22
