Market-moving crypto headlines from the last 24 hours.
Self-custodial BTC time-locked on Bitcoin's base layer is the structural pitch, but the ~3% target yield is paid in STX and rides on Stacks miner economics, not a clean native return.
Treasury buybacks, not a Fed pivot, lit the rally. Bessent's failed bid now risks inviting the bond vigilantes it was meant to preempt.
Stablecoins inside the Fed's official theme, not a side panel, is the structural shift: payments innovation has crossed from crypto-native venues into the central bank's own framing of its remit.
The integration moves agentic crypto beyond payments into collateralized credit, but AI controls do not remove liquidation risk or jurisdiction limits.
Behind the arrest sits a $94M customer-loss probe, roughly 4,500 inaccessible BTC, and a 2026-2028 Olympic sponsorship deal now sitting inside the Polish criminal file.
If approved, the changes would make Solana governance a direct driver of SOL's supply, combining slower issuance with higher burns over six years.
More than $5B has already moved through IBIT's in-kind program while Bitwise cut its own floor 97% to $3M, turning a whale-only back-office tool into wealth-management plumbing.
The hash-based spend proves workable approaches exist for coins with hidden keys, but the ~7M BTC with already-exposed public keys have no migration path yet.
Killing the VC unlock schedule and routing 95% of net protocol revenue to ENA buybacks targets the two structural overhangs, but the buyback only fires once USDe regrows past $7.5 billion.
August's monthly take is now $113M, second only to May 2026, and the week is pacing for the strongest since Nov. 28, 2025, fueled by SOL's reclaim of $100.
Nearly half of US states are suing Kalshi as courts split 50-50, putting prediction markets' fate in the Supreme Court's hands.
A sustained premium would make the return of US buying pressure more credible, while a quick reversal would leave the signal as a one-off.
The potential stake would tie U.S. investment to energy diplomacy, with the 90B-barrel reserve base giving the deal long-term supply and geopolitical weight.
The record concentration in GLD and IBIT signals that large investors are treating scarce assets as a broader hedge against fiscal pressure and dollar weakness.
The ownership link gives a Trump-family crypto project a cross-border institutional profile and puts UAE-linked foreign investment into the crypto-banking spotlight.
Operators can't inspect the threat yet, so signed binaries carry the trust load. Cautious nodes going offline could thin Lightning routing capacity until CLN lifts the embargo.
The expansion places Ripple Prime at the intersection of crypto-native finance and TradFi, with equities now part of its institutional market footprint.
The planned expansion would move SOL, AVAX and LINK deeper into mainstream brokerage infrastructure, broadening distribution beyond specialist crypto venues.
The funding targets the custody, clearing and settlement layer needed as stocks, funds and bonds move onto blockchain rails.
Glassnode's on-chain read shows every wallet cohort accumulating, exchange supply draining, and 1.05M $BTC of long-term holder cost-basis stacked at $83K-$86K as the recovery's first real test.
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