Archives for August 17, 2026

“$57,000 is a key region to watch. If Bitcoin trades down into that area, we could see a massive wave of long liquidations,” Joao Wedson, CEO of crypto analytics platform Alphractal, said. The risk is amplified by thin trading volumes. As CoinDesk reported Monday, the number of active contracts is unusually large relative to trading […]

Fiona Murray, Ripple’s managing director for Asia Pacific, said the deal reflects growing momentum across Korea’s institutional financial sector, with banks building digital asset capability and looking for long-term infrastructure partners. Regional banks play a vital role in the real economy, she said. The company has spent the past year pushing RLUSD, the dollar-pegged token […]

Investors were allocated about 19.7 billion MON, nearly 20% of the original supply. Those tokens were locked when Monad’s public network launched last November and begin unlocking after a one-year wait, followed by monthly releases over the remainder of a four-year schedule. That makes November the first point at which early investors begin receiving tokens […]

Bitcoin rose above $64,000 on Tuesday, up over 1% on the day and marginally higher on the week, the only major with a meaningful gain as the rest of the market drifted lower. Ether eased half a percent to just under $1,900, though it holds an almost 1% weekly gain. XRP fell over 1% to […]

AI is also emerging as a growing threat to crypto companies, giving attackers tools to find vulnerabilities faster, automate attacks and make phishing and social-engineering campaigns more convincing. That raises the stakes for an industry already a frequent target for hackers, while fueling a race to deploy the same technology on the defensive side. Claude […]

It’s not a priority, said Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, but Strategy (MSTR) could buy back its own shares if they become cheap enough. The comments during a Monday Q&A follow a rough stretch for Strategy’s common shareholders. MSTR is down about 38% this year and 73% year-over-year, driven in large part by bitcoin’s BTC$64,282.99 decline, […]

“We have collected full evidence of the content on X, all of which is fabricated rumors,” Lee said. “During daytime US time, we will file a police report and send a lawyer’s letter to X, demanding technical and data forensics.” Regarding unpaid staff, the founder of the Cayman Islands-based crypto exchange said, employee assets “are […]

“DeFi is a remarkable innovation; however, it has achieved limited institutional adoption,” Schnarch said in a statement. “Current product offerings fall short of meeting the traditional finance bar, especially as it pertains to compliance and technical requirements.” The move is a logical response to the shift in DeFi’s user base, according to Ran Hammer, chief […]

However, the proposal notes, “Treasury believes that the Act evinces a clear intent for payment stablecoins to serve as an effective means of payment and settlement, including across borders, and application of traditional investment rules to payment stablecoins may frustrate that goal.” Monday’s action is a follow-up to the Treasury advance notice of the rule, […]

Nobody can measure how much licensing pressure shaped the scope or speed of that rewrite, and the overhaul also pursued legitimate technical goals. The documented facts are narrower and still damning: a license change made to restrict competitors preceded a rushed replacement of battle-tested cryptographic code, and the replacement contained the flaw now draining wallets. […]