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Bitcoin

The Dip Gets Bought: Bitcoin Recovers to $77,000 Into the Weekly Close

The flash-crash dip stretched to $75,546 early Sunday, then got bought back to $77,400. Ether goes into the 00:00 UTC weekly close sitting on its $2,450 trigger.

· 23 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Two Chains Hit the Kill Switch in One Day

MANTRA halted its chain over a Cosmos EVM module flaw as OM hit an all-time low, while BounceBit chose to shut its L1 for good after a 286.5M-BB exploit.

· 22 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Altcoin

Zcash Trades at an Eight-Year High on Grayscale's ETF Amendment

ZEC touched about $855 on Saturday, its highest price since January 2018, after Grayscale amended its filing to convert its Zcash Trust into a spot ETF.

· 22 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

A $2.6B ETF Week Lands the Same Morning the First Longs Get Liquidated

The best combined ETF week since October 2025 landed the same morning a 04:00 UTC flash crash handed the rally its first long-side liquidation flush.

· 22 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Binance Opens Its Exchange to AI Agents With Agent OS

Binance's Agent OS connects ChatGPT, Claude Code and Cursor to its exchange over MCP, with withdrawal-blocked subaccounts, optional approvals and no loss caps.

· 21 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

An SEC No-Action Letter Lets Franklin's Tokenized Shares Into Ordinary Funds

An SEC staff letter dated 12 August, reported eight days later, clears Franklin Templeton's traditional funds to hold tokenized BENJI shares for cash management.

· 21 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Ether's Four-Day Run to a Four-Month High Near $2,400

Ether hit a four-month high on Friday, four days after trading at $1,905 under its 200-day average. A $1B short squeeze led and $512M of ETF inflows followed.

· 21 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

BitGo Becomes the First Global Custodian Licensed in South Korea

BitGo Korea won VASP registration from the KoFIU, with Hana Financial and SK Telecom as shareholders. No foreign digital asset firm held the licence before.

· 20 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Gnosis Votes on Dissolving Its L1 Into an Ethereum ZK Rollup

Gnosis Chain will dissolve into a ZK rollup on Ethereum after GIP-153 passed almost unanimously, freeing 27% of GNO supply. The token hit a three-month high.

· 20 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Clears $72,000 After the First $1B Short-Liquidation Day

Bitcoin traded above $72,000 intraday as roughly $3 billion in crypto shorts were liquidated, a day after the US Treasury doubled its long-dated bond buybacks.

· 20 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Fed Minutes Show a Divided Committee as Bitcoin Breaks $65,000

The July FOMC minutes showed officials divided, with "many" saying rate hikes may be needed. Bitcoin held near $64,296 all session, then broke $65,000 into the release.

· 19 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Harmony Plans to Roll Back 141,628 Blocks After a Forged Mint

Harmony will return two shards to an 11 August state after a cross-shard receipt flaw minted trillions of ONE, discarding 141,628 blocks and 109,441 transactions.

· 19 Aug 2026· 🕐 3 min read