Market-moving crypto headlines from the last 24 hours.
The $100M is small relative to USD.AI's $225M TVL, but it institutionalizes a template: tokenized GPU credit, listed on a tier-one exchange, with stablecoin rails.
If approved, XRPN becomes the first major U.S.-listed XRP treasury vehicle, putting a Strategy-style public equity wrapper behind the asset through Ripple and a roster of crypto-native backers.
Dollar gains reflect Bitcoin's price base, while percentage gains measure relative momentum; together, the two benchmarks show why the move stands out.
ETF demand has held up despite futures pricing a 35% chance of a September hike, making Kevin Warsh's first Jackson Hole keynote the rally's next test.
US-side demand is re-engaging. The Coinbase Premium flipping positive has historically preceded every major BTC rally, but the print needs to persist above zero to clear the 50-week SMA at $81K.
Two MANTRA wallets were touched, but no addresses, hashes, or exploit path have been disclosed. Operators are now re-pulling a tag whose changes they cannot fully audit.
SOL’s issuance proposal has 68.77% support, but a fee-burn measure needs 66.67% and remains below the threshold. Approval would mandate further technical work, not an immediate network change.
The early turnover makes liquidity the key read for SOL exposure, but volume alone cannot establish net inflows or sustained demand.
The policy signals coordinated tightening across Binance, KuCoin, and EU authorities simultaneously targeting HTX. For users, compliance risk now follows the transaction path rather than the endpoint.
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.
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