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Bitcoin holds near $64,000 as BTCPay backers pledge 3 BTC exploit bounty
On Monday, Bitcoin hardly shifted at all and was traded around the figure of $64,000; meanwhile, supporters of BTCPay Server promised a bounty of up to 3 BTC to recover stolen funds that resulted from a critical weakness in the open-source payment software. The lack of enthusiasm means that traders likely view the event as...
Tue, Aug 11
Defense tech firm Lyntris seeks $2.5 billion US IPO
Lyntris Inc., a U.S. maker of military sensor systems, is looking to raise $528 million in a US initial public offering that would value the company at about $2.53 billion, according to a filing on Monday with the U.S. SEC. The stock is set to go live on the New York Stock Exchange under the...
Tue, Aug 11
AgiBot has surpassed Unitree in H1 shipments of humanoid robots
IPO-poised AgiBot has overtaken Unitree Robotics as the leading humanoid robot vendor after record H1 sales. AgiBot shipped about 8,400 humanoid robots in the first six months of 2026 to take 44% of the global market, edging out fellow Chinese firm Unitree Robotics for the top spot. Research firm Smart Analytics Global puts AgiBot’s...
Mon, Aug 10
Sharplink posts $394 million Q2 loss as ETH writedowns swamp revenue
Sharplink (NASDAQ; SBET) has reported a $394.3 million net loss for the second quarter of 2026 despite an elevenfold jump in its revenue. The loss on the company’s balance sheets is due to non-cash writedowns on its Ethereum treasury. Sharplink’s stock (SBET) has also taken a hit, falling 6%, How did SharpLink lose $394 million?...
Mon, Aug 10
Bitfarms successor powers down every US mine as $141 million loss funds the AI buildout
Keel Infrastructure shut every US bitcoin mine and sold 1,085 BTC for $75 million as it converts the sites into AI data centers, posting a $141 million loss.
Mon, Aug 10
Casar asks Speaker Johnson to put Altman and Amodei under oath after AI models breached real firms
House Democrats asked Speaker Mike Johnson to compel OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs to testify under oath after their AI models breached real company systems.
Mon, Aug 10
BlackRock, Goldman, Apollo, Blackstone, Brookfield and KKR are in talks with Nvidia on an AI buildout that could reach $500 billion
BlackRock (NYSE: BLK), Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO), Blackstone (NYSE: BX), Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE: BAM) and KKR (NYSE: KKR) are lining up with Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) for a giant new round of AI spending that could eventually reach $500 billion. According to the Financial Times, the collaboration is expected to...
Mon, Aug 10
Korea's FSS overhauls refund system to cover crypto voice-phishing losses
South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has begun rebuilding the software it uses to return money stolen through voice phishing. The change will make it so that from October, the software will be able to calculate and repay losses held as cryptocurrency rather than only in won. What is changing about how victims of voice...
Mon, Aug 10
TSMC’s July revenue jumps 44.7% year over year to $14.5 billion
TSMC (NYSE: TSM) pulled in NT$467.58 billion, or about $14.5 billion, in July, putting sales 44.7% above the same month in 2025. The Taiwanese chipmaker released the figure Monday as AI hardware orders kept feeding its factories. TSMC manufactures semiconductors for firms like Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL), belonging to Alphabet. This customer...
Mon, Aug 10
Trump-linked American Bitcoin jumps on $1.9 million insider buy
American Bitcoin (NASDAQ: ABTC) shares have risen after filings showed board director Justin Mateen spent about $1.9 million buying its stock. Despite being more than 95% down from its high, American Bitcoin stock experienced a 10% increase over a 24-hour period. What is American Bitcoin currently trading at? Following the purchase of $1.9 million worth...
Mon, Aug 10
SpaceX briefly returned to its $135 IPO price after its latest earnings beat revenue expectations
SpaceX (SPCX) got a lift Monday after investors digested its first earnings report as a listed company and Wall Street stayed bullish on the numbers. The SPCX briefly returned to the $135 IPO level, coming right after last week’s second-quarter results, where revenue came in above expectations, as Cryptopolitan reported live. Analysts kept their upside...
Mon, Aug 10
Vitalik updates 2023 Ethereum roadmap diagram: What has changed?
Vitalik Buterin has published a revised version of his 2023 Ethereum roadmap diagram, laying its old items over the Ethereum Foundation’s newer “Strawmap” to show which priorities held and which moved. In his X post that was shared on August 10, Buterin said the two diagrams share “a lot of overlap,” but a few things...
Mon, Aug 10
Dollar stablecoins take 84% of card spend as euro-backed coins collapse to 2%
Crypto payment card spending hit $759 million in July, about 2.5x a year earlier, with USDC settling 58% of volume.
Mon, Aug 10
Seoul opposition bill chooses 2030 for the 22% crypto levy
An opposition lawmaker filed a bill to delay South Korea's 22% crypto tax to 2030, days after the finance ministry confirmed the January 2027 start date.
Mon, Aug 10
Maia 300 reveal could land in September as Microsoft books TSMC capacity for 2027
Microsoft is targeting a September reveal for its Maia 300 AI chip and is in talks with TSMC for more than 300,000 units, with delivery planned for 2027.
Mon, Aug 10
Kimi K3 rivals top US AI models in finding software bugs, tests show
Kimi K3, an open-weight model from China’s Moonshot AI, is performing on par with leading US AI systems at finding software vulnerabilities, according to US startup Frontier Security. The results point to a capable alternative for security teams frustrated by the restrictions surrounding America’s most advanced models. Frontier Security creates assessments to analyze the capability...
Mon, Aug 10
PBOC pledges steady digital yuan growth in its 2026-2030 plan
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said it will “steadily develop” the digital yuan over the next five years. The e-CNY is now listed as one of the central bank’s core tasks in a recently published reform blueprint. What provisions has China made for the development of its digital yuan? The People’s Bank of China...
Mon, Aug 10
Zuckerberg names AI's biggest risk as Meta releases Glimmer open-weight model
Meta (NASDAQ: META) has released an open-weight AI model called Muse Glimmer alongside a manifesto from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who stated that the real danger from advanced AI is a single government or company controlling the technology, not rogue machines. Muse Glimmer is a dense model with 30 billion parameters that fits on a laptop...
Mon, Aug 10
Intel plans to offer $15 billion in shares as AI demand increases
Computing and chip-making giant Intel has announced on Monday that it will sell $15 billion in new common stock, taking advantage of a year-long rally in its share price to raise cash for the company’s manufacturing and product interests as customers pour more money into AI computing. Intel said the timing of the sale is...
Mon, Aug 10
Cardano Foundation’s CTO to step down this August
Giorgio Zinetti is stepping down as the Chief Technology Officer at Cardano Foundation after 2.5 years at the company. Zinetti took to X on Monday to announce he would be leaving the organization on August 31, with plans for a new adventure later in September. After 2.5 years, I’ll be stepping down as CTO of...
Mon, Aug 10
