CoinMarketCap Top 10 Holds as STX, GNO Enter Top 100
CoinMarketCap's top 10 recorded no entries or exits as of 15:00 UTC on 22 Aug 2026. At the top-100 boundary, STX and…
CoinMarketCap Top 10 Holds as STX, GNO Enter Top 100
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Polymarket’s Top 1% Drive 68% of Midterm Betting Volume
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Polymarket’s Top 1% Drive 68% of Midterm Betting Volume
The $133M headline oversells the audience: 80% of Polymarket congressional markets have fewer than 100 wallets, and a tiny pool of capital sets the probabilities media and campaigns treat as public…
CryptoSlate
Perp DEXs Push Open Interest Above $20B in 2026
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Perp DEXs Push Open Interest Above $20B in 2026
The rebound puts on-chain perpetual trading back in focus, but open interest still has ground to cover before matching its 2025 peak.
Crypto Rank News
Bitcoin blasts past $70K as $4B in shorts liquidate
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Bitcoin blasts past $70K as $4B in shorts liquidate
Beyond the squeeze, Washington advanced crypto rules across the CFTC, SEC and Treasury, and Visa, Swift and X all pushed deeper into stablecoin rails in the same week.
CoinDesk
Riot Could Unlock Up to 1,547 BTC From Coinbase Loan
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Riot Could Unlock Up to 1,547 BTC From Coinbase Loan
The mechanism works both ways: the February crash forced Riot to lock up 1,825 BTC; the rally to $78K has now dropped LTV to 44.1%, below two of three release thresholds in the loan.
Treasury Targets Offshore Stablecoin Sales by July 2028
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Treasury Targets Offshore Stablecoin Sales by July 2028
Self-custody and on-chain transfers stay outside the framework, so the regulatory gate sits at the US exchange level, where $183B of USDT liquidity currently lives.
Bitcoin SPAC Deal for Adam Back Collapses With $15M Fee
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Bitcoin SPAC Deal for Adam Back Collapses With $15M Fee
The seven-day grace clause on the $15M is the structural tell: a missed payment voids Cantor's releases, reopening exposure the termination was meant to close.
Zcash Surges Past $800 as Spot ETF Filing Fuels Rally
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Zcash Surges Past $800 as Spot ETF Filing Fuels Rally
ZEC’s move above its January 2018 high is being amplified by futures activity and Grayscale’s effort to convert its Zcash Trust, though regulatory approval remains pending.
Solana Cuts Storage Costs 90% With Agave 4.2
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Solana Cuts Storage Costs 90% With Agave 4.2
The cost cut lands alongside a staged slot-time reduction and a Q3 Alpenglow target, while SOL clears $92 on a seventh straight week of ETF inflows and a $115 2026 base case.
Crypto News
Bitcoin Surges 25% to $78K as Treasury Buybacks Cut Yields
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Bitcoin Surges 25% to $78K as Treasury Buybacks Cut Yields
About $650M in spot ETF inflows and a roughly $4B short squeeze amplified the rally, but Bitcoin still competes with Treasuries offering returns near 5%.
Bitcoin Tops $78K as Crypto Shorts Face $4B Liquidation
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Bitcoin Tops $78K as Crypto Shorts Face $4B Liquidation
$4B in crypto shorts liquidated in 72 hours tells you this is not a normal bear-market rally. The PMI just crossed 55, the same threshold expansion that preceded the 2017 and 2020 altcoin seasons.
Crypto Capital Venture
Crypto Trade Groups Sue Illinois Over 0.2% Digital Asset Tax
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Crypto Trade Groups Sue Illinois Over 0.2% Digital Asset Tax
With three industry groups now aligned against the levy, the suit escalates from a state-budget line item into a precedent fight over digital asset taxation.
USD1: Deployed Code Outpaces Its Own GitHub
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USD1: Deployed Code Outpaces Its Own GitHub
Sun's attack lands a week after World Liberty Trust Company received preliminary OCC approval, with USD1's circulating supply already down more than $1.3B from its February peak.
Bitcoin tops $79K as short squeeze breaks key resistance
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Bitcoin tops $79K as short squeeze breaks key resistance
Funding rates sit at exchange maximums after Binance printed $1.26B of BTC futures in a single 60-second window.
Bitcoin jumps as Treasury doubles bond buybacks in Twist 2.0
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Bitcoin jumps as Treasury doubles bond buybacks in Twist 2.0
Treasury says it isn't YCC or money printing, but doubling bond buybacks with 30-year yields at 2007 highs reads as a pre-commitment to defend the curve. That's the bitcoin bid.
HYPE surges 20% as Trump backs Hyperliquid's US launch via CFTC
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HYPE surges 20% as Trump backs Hyperliquid's US launch via CFTC
Selig is sketching a 'crypto asset market' category that, if finalized, hands every offshore perpetuals venue a concrete rulebook and potentially a US passport.
BTW soars 612% as BTC rally lifts top-100 altcoin board
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BTW soars 612% as BTC rally lifts top-100 altcoin board
The breadth across DeFi, memes, AI-adjacent, and exchange tokens suggests sidelined capital is finally chasing beta, the classic late-stage risk-on pattern.
Clarity Act Heads to Sept 15 Senate Vote as ABA Seeks Edits
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Clarity Act Heads to Sept 15 Senate Vote as ABA Seeks Edits
Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger warns that reopening the stablecoin-yield provision less than three weeks before the procedural vote would restart a settled negotiation and likely sink…
Dalio warns US debt crisis looms within 3 years
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Dalio warns US debt crisis looms within 3 years
The Bridgewater founder ties the call directly to the investment case for Bitcoin and gold over Treasuries, framing the deficit trajectory as structural rather than cyclical.
CoinTelegraph
Olenox flags going-concern doubt after $22.9M deficit
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Olenox flags going-concern doubt after $22.9M deficit
Off-grid compute economics sound attractive, but Olenox already carries $30M of acquisition debt and no committed capital.