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Bitwise’s HYPE ETF clients add $5M despite token 14% slide
Bitwise’s ETF clients spent $5 million plus on Hyperliquid’s HYPE token last week and have not sold any of it since July. HYPE’s price has dropped by more than 14% over the last 30 days. However, it remains up by 118% YTD. According to Arkham data, Bitwise is one of the biggest HYPE ETF issuers...
Wed, Aug 12
Bitcoin's biggest buyer turned seller. Ethereum's may be next
Ethereum could soon join Bitcoin in losing its biggest and most consistent buyer as Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NASDAQ: BMNR) inched closer to its goal of controlling 5% of all the ETH in circulation after the firm touched 4.8% in its latest disclosure. Bitmine has already started to temper the pace of its accumulation, extending its...
Wed, Aug 12
Metaplanet sparks sales speculation as 4,176 BTC moves from public wallets
Metaplanet moved 4,176 BTC from one of its wallets, though without an official announcement of preparing to sell. The move may be a technical shift in holdings to improve security or switch to new addresses.
Wed, Aug 12
Harmony’s ONE sinks 40% after apparent 4B-token mint
Harmony’s ONE token dipped by about 39% on August 12 after data on the blockchain indicated the illicit creation of approximately 4 billion tokens. This could have rendered the current holders of the token nearly a quarter poorer and has also raised concerns over the security issues once again. The mint was reported by the...
Wed, Aug 12
Bitwise shrinks to 155 staff as its index fund bleeds and its staking arm grows
Bitwise cut 14% of staff to about 155, six months after buying Chorus One's 50 engineers, while its BITW index fund lost 48.27% of net assets.
Wed, Aug 12
Institutions hit record 72% of Wintermute’s OTC trades
Institutional clientele contributed 72% of Wintermute’s spot over-the-counter (OTC) trading volume in the first six months of 2026, an all-time high for the firm. This is an indication that large transactions in the crypto world are gradually shifting away from public exchange order books. Wintermute made its announcement of the figure on July 30, an...
Wed, Aug 12
SEC, CFTC sue Goliath Ventures over alleged $425M crypto fraud as global market expands
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have separately filed lawsuits against Goliath Ventures and founder Christopher A. Delgado related to alleged crypto fraud that involves hundreds of millions of dollars, ushering in more discussion on the protection of investors in light of the growing digital asset market. On...
Wed, Aug 12
Ethena’s USDe grabs 43% of Robinhood Chain stablecoins as capital parks
Ethena’s USDe has quickly become a major source of dollar liquidity on Robinhood Chain, growing from about $17 million a month ago to roughly $253 million, or close to 43% of the chain’s stablecoin supply, according to The Block. The jump is notable because USDe is more than a digital dollar. It is a synthetic...
Wed, Aug 12
Arthur Hayes says Trump’s Bessent wants to use dollar-yen exchange rate to force the Fed into printing money
Arthur Hayes believes US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is preparing a way to strengthen the yen that could also force the Federal Reserve to create a large amount of new dollar liquidity. Arthur’s case centers on the Fed’s FIMA Repo Facility. In his latest essay titled ‘Yen-Quake,’ Arthur said that Japan could place its US...
Tue, Aug 11
Musk replies to OpenAI exodus as veteran exec Brad Lightcap exits
Elon Musk gave a one-word reply when he saw the news of another high-level executive leaving OpenAI. Barely 24 hours passed between Musk’s “Wow” reaction to the news that Chloe Bakalar, former head of ethics, was leaving before Brad Lightcap, one of OpenAI’s longest-serving executives, announced his departure. Musk has had public spats with the...
Tue, Aug 11
ENS plans institutional expansion push with Foundation launch
ENS token holders have ratified the “Next Era of ENS DAO” proposal and pushed the executable onchain, standing up the ENS Foundation as a working organization with a paid executive director, staff, and a board of five, ENS Labs said in an August 11 blog post. The change gives ENS its first legal body able...
Tue, Aug 11
Pudgy Penguins co-founder ColeThereum sells out 44,444 NFTs on Robinhood Chain
Cole Villemain, the Pudgy Penguins co-founder who holders voted out in 2022 over accusations that the team drained the project’s treasury, has sold out a 44,444-piece NFT collection on Robinhood Chain. On-chain observer @0xmani reports that the collection was sold for more than 684 ETH (roughly $1.28 million). Is Cole Villemain running an NFT scam?...
Tue, Aug 11
New Twenty One Capital CEO outlines new priorities after $413.5M Q2 loss
The new CEO of Twenty One Capital (NYSE: XXI) Raphael Zagury has announced to shareholders that the Bitcoin treasury firm must grow beyond its balance sheet. He made the announcement on Tuesday, even as he listed out five main objectives for the Tether-controlled firm following a $1.27 billion loss in H1 of 2026. Bitcoin’s slump...
Tue, Aug 11
Bank of Russia clears Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether for public trading
The Central Bank of Russia has greenlighted Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether’s stablecoin for trading on licensed cryptocurrency exchanges. The leading coin will be admitted to the regulated Russian market for digital assets as part of new purchase rules for non-professional investors. Russia’s central bank whitelists BTC, ETH, and USDT The monetary authority in Moscow has...
Tue, Aug 11
BRICS nations explore linking CBDCs and payment systems, RBI chief says
BRICS members are exploring plans to connect their CBDCs and fast payment systems, a move that could cut the cost of moving money between the bloc’s economies, Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra said on Tuesday. Malhotra spoke at an event in Mumbai, where he described cross-border transfers as one of the priorities the...
Tue, Aug 11
Tokayev signs decree giving crypto holders a three-year tax break
Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed a decree exempting individuals from income tax on digital-asset gains for three years. The decree is expected to move an estimated 1 million crypto wallets off foreign platforms and onto licensed domestic exchanges. Three-year tax-free period in Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed a decree created by three bodies;...
Tue, Aug 11
IBM signs multi-year agreement with Together AI for $240 million Nvidia-powered inference cluster
IBM has committed to a multi-year, $240 million agreement with Together AI to build a dedicated Nvidia inference cluster on IBM Cloud, the two companies announced on Tuesday. The new deal hands the open-source AI provider a block of enterprise-grade GPU capacity as it pushes deeper into large corporate accounts. HGX B300 systems to hit...
Tue, Aug 11
eToro slides on US expansion plans as 70% crypto activity slowdown clouds estimate beat
eToro (NASDAQ: ETOR) beat Wall Street expectations for its business when it reported $53 million in Q2 net income as markets opened on Tuesday. The trading platform announced that it had reached a $231 million deal to acquire the US brokerage TradeZero in the same disclosure that also revealed a sharp drop in its crypto...
Tue, Aug 11
AI is coming for crypto compliance, just not the way most people think
By Pierre Gérard, CEO and co-founder, Scorechain When we founded Scorechain in Luxembourg in 2015, “blockchain analytics” was not yet a category. We spent the first few years explaining to banks and regulators why the transparency of a public ledger was an opportunity rather than a threat. A decade later, I am watching the same...
Tue, Aug 11
Sony, TSMC to invest $4.7 billion in image sensor joint venture
Sony Group and TSMC signed a binding agreement on Tuesday to build a $4.69 billion joint venture in Kumamoto, Japan, to make next-generation smartphone image sensors in a deal that helps to track where the world’s camera chips get built and how much Taiwan’s top chipmaker is betting on Japan. The venture will be called...
Tue, Aug 11
