The Latest Desk
Crypto Sentiment Flips to 'Extreme Greed' for the First Time Since Late 2024
The Fear and Greed Index printed 81 after sitting at 36 a month ago — a 45-point sprint between extremes that has no precedent in the gauge's history.
Mistral and Saudi-Backed HUMAIN Strike Hundreds-of-Millions Deal for 'Sovereign AI'
The Paris lab will localize its open-weights models on Saudi infrastructure — the latest sign that states now want AI they control, not AI they rent.
StablecoinX Pushes $6.9M of Defaulted SPAC Debt Into Future Equity Instead of Cash
The Ethena-linked treasury company will settle old notes with about $344,000 in cash and warrants for roughly 7.6 million shares — dilution deferred, not avoided.
Bitcoin Has Entered the 'Initial Phase' of a New Bull Market, CryptoQuant Says — With $83K the Line That Matters
The firm's Bull Score jumped from 30 to 80 in a week as spot and futures demand grow together for the first time since October.
Solana Processed a Record 4.2 Billion Transactions in July — Then SOL Rallied 40%
Network usage hit an all-time high before the price moved, and tokenized real-world assets on the chain are closing in on $4 billion.
Ethereum's Proposed Staking Tweak Would Let Validators Choose When Rewards Get Swept
Draft EIP-8148 would make the 2,048 ETH sweep threshold configurable down to 32 ETH — a small knob with real consequences for how staking rewards compound.
Gold Hits a Three-Month High as Bitcoin Tests $80,000 — the Hard-Asset Bid Is Back
Spot gold touched $4,696 and Bitcoin $81,237 in the same session, both feeding on a weaker dollar and falling Treasury yields.
US Turns Its Full Sanctions Arsenal on Iran's Crypto Economy
Treasury placed Iran's digital-asset sector under the same authority long used against its oil and banking industries — and put foreign exchanges everywhere on notice.
Strategy's $66B Bitcoin Machine Runs on Capital Markets, Not Bitcoin's Price
A stress test finds BTC would need to fall 96% to threaten the convertible notes — but $1.76 billion a year in interest and dividends has to be paid regardless.
Bitcoin Is Outrunning the Market It's Supposed to Lead
BTC is up 24% in a week while the ex-BTC, ex-ETH market shrank — and Bitcoin dominance near 61% says the money is staying at the top.
Bitwise Launches Self-Custodied Portfolios of Tokenized US Stocks
Model portfolios of Coinbase's tokenized equities, rebalanced automatically by Glider, held in the investor's own wallet — TradFi packaging, DeFi custody.
Crypto Lobby to Regulators: Don't Stretch Stablecoin KYC to Peer-to-Peer Transfers
The Blockchain Association's comment letter backs identity checks at the issuer level — and warns that pushing them downstream could 'cripple the industry.'
Someone Filed 'GTA VI Token' Proposals With the SEC Under Take-Two's Name — and a Memecoin Moved
Two PDFs on an SEC docket describe a Solana-based 'Sharkbux' currency with Rockstar branding. Nothing about them is verified, which hasn't stopped traders.
Human Rights Foundation Grants 500 Million Satoshis to 16 Projects Across Three Continents
The ~$397,000 round funds Lightning-to-mobile-money bridges, dissident communication tools, and protocol work across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
DGrid's AI Token Nearly Doubles on Debut as Its Decentralized Inference Network Goes Live
DGAI hit a $110 million market cap on day one, and the project says it sold 140+ of its personal AI hardware boxes within hours.
Bitcoin ETF Inflow Streak Hits $2.26 Billion Over Six Days as August Becomes the Year's Best Month
Monday added $337.6 million, IBIT is swallowing most of it, and weekly turnover more than tripled to $22.1 billion.
Bitcoin Slips Back Under $80K as Gold Cools and Stocks Shrug Off a US-Canada Tariff Spat
BTC touched 14-week highs at $81,265 before US trading hours pulled both crypto and gold lower — while equities quietly went the other way.
Bitcoin Tops $81,000 for the First Time Since January — and the Debasement Trade Is Talking Again
A Treasury buyback expansion hurt the dollar and lit up everything that can't be printed. The 2025 playbook is suddenly current affairs.
Crypto Fund Founder Convicted of Fraud Over a Trading Bot That Never Worked
A San Francisco jury found Block Bits' Japheth Dillman guilty of selling investors an 'Autotrader' he knew didn't function — a 2017 story with a 2026 verdict.
40 Fake Firefox Wallet Extensions Caught Stealing Seed Phrases — Some Spent Months Posing as Sports Apps
Socket researchers linked 77 extension identities to one campaign that impersonated OKX, Rabby, and TronLink — with sleeper apps converted into malware by update.
The9 Lost $13M Operating — Then Its Own Token's Paper Gains Delivered a $32M 'Profit'
A $47.2M fair-value gain on 9BIT, plus an $11.1M token reward, exceeded the Nasdaq-listed company's entire net income. Revenue: $712,000.
CoinShares' 25% Buyback Authority Might Recycle Shares to Employees Rather Than Shrink Supply
The asset manager's September 15 EGM pairs a big repurchase authorization with treasury-share powers and an employee equity plan — read together, the math changes.
For Some Bitcoin Holders, the Tax Bill Now Arrives at the Border, Not the Sale
Canada and Australia tax unrealized crypto gains at the moment tax residency ends — and with CARF reporting going live across 76 jurisdictions, the move itself is visible.
Cypher Tank Returns to Lugano With Bigger Stakes for Bitcoin Founders
Season two of the Shark Tank-style pitch series expands to 12 finalists and three $100,000 prizes, after a debut that drew 4,000 participants from 64 countries.
40% of UK Bank-to-Exchange Transfers Are Blocked, Policy Group Tells Parliament
Bitcoin Policy UK's evidence to a parliamentary inquiry says nothing has improved in three years — and blames rules that treat all 'crypto' as one thing.
Strive's Stock Jumps 7% After Its Biggest Bitcoin Buy in Months — 1,110 BTC at $73,409
The Dallas asset manager's treasury now holds 21,356 coins. Notably, it paid up: this buy landed well above the low-$60,000s it averaged all summer.
Bitcoin Nears $80,000 After ETFs Post Their Best Week Since the Record Days of October
$1.9 billion of inflows in a week, a 25% price surge, and Balchunas' verdict: 'a commodity in a constant state of supply shock.'