Month: August 2026
XRP traders bet on a rebound as price slips to $1 and bearish chatter surges
Futures open interest climbed to $2.78 billion and traders on Binance and OKX leaned heavily…
Bitcoin tops $64,000 in Asia morning hours as HYPE jumps 8% on the week
Every major gained on Sunday, though bitcoin, ether, XRP and solana are all lower over…
Are Microsoft’s AI plans being held back by a shortage of chips?
Guardian investigation finds apparent discrepancy between what tech company has said about its AI capacity…
The SEC meeting that wasn’t: State of Crypto
There were hopes that regulators could move if the Clarity Act didn’t advance, but those,…
Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought
Suppliers could factor water scarcity into charges as part of Ofwat proposal to reduce consumption…
Crypto investors are looking past market-cap rankings and back to fundamentals
Investors are starting to judge crypto tokens on usage, economics and value capture rather than…
Crypto wallet SafePal reveals a data breach exposing nearly 40,000 customers’ order info
While the data breach exposed the personal order details of thousands of customers, all private…
Deepfake Anthony Albanese used in celebrity scams duping Australians out of $7.4m, Asic warns
Australia’s corporate watchdog says PM is the figure most commonly used in deepfakes to promote…
MiCA’s cleanup is creating a new scam wave across the European Union
Fraudsters impersonating regulators and licensed crypto exchanges to steal funds from users forced to migrate…
The stablecoin yield clash that won’t go away has banks, crypto battling over tradition
The bankers want people kept in lower-yield deposits for the good of the financial system…