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Hyperliquid's native token HYPE climbed to a fresh all-time high of $77.55 on Aug. 21, extending a rally that accelerated after U.S. President Donald Trump publicly discussed bringing the decentralized derivatives crypto exchange into the United States. The price surge followed Trump's Aug. 19

Hyperliquid's HYPE token continues outperforming during the bear market as the platform prepares to activate AQAv2 on August 26, according to onchain analyst Pentosh1. The upgrade will route roughly 90% of reserve yield from over $5 billion in USDC into HYPE token burns, adding an estimated $135

Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, is exploring conventional banking licenses outside the United States. Co-CEO Dave Ripley announced the plan at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium 2026, stating the company is considering becoming a full bank in international markets. The m

Sui, a Layer-1 blockchain focused on high transaction throughput, has introduced programmable transaction block technology designed to make blockchain operations more efficient for artificial intelligence agents. The technology allows multiple blockchain operations to be grouped into a single transa

Laser Digital, the digital asset subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, completed registration as a crypto asset exchange service provider in Japan on Friday under the Payment Services Act. The registration makes Laser Digital the first new entrant on Japan's register of licensed crypto exchanges in about f

MBK Partners escalated its legal dispute with Korea Zinc management ahead of the company's September 9 shareholder meeting, sending an official letter on May 20 demanding deletion of materials it claims contain false information. The dispute centers on Korea Zinc's explanatory materials for the shar

Bitcoin.com Wallet added native support for the TRON network on August 21, 2026, enabling users to hold, send, swap, and buy TRX and USDT-TRC20 directly within the mobile application. The integration addresses user demand for USDT transactions on TRON, which Bitcoin.com CEO Corbin Fraser described a

Bitcoin climbed 7.9% over 24 hours to around $77,137 on Friday, touching an intraday high of $79,320. The rally triggered a short squeeze, with CoinGlass logging roughly $1.21 billion in liquidated short positions across 178,777 traders in the same period. The surge followed a week of bullish

The USD-KRW exchange rate traded at mid-1,380s in the New York session on the 21st. As of 9:27 PM in the foreign exchange market, the rate stood at 1,386.80 won, down 5.80 won from the previous session. The decline was driven by export company negotiation volumes and offshore investor selling

On Aug. 18, 2026, data from the U.S. Treasury showed that the federal government's total outstanding public debt had reached $40.05 trillion. This marked the first time U.S. Treasury debt had surpassed the $40 trillion threshold. From first reaching $1 trillion in 1981 to $40 trillion today, U.S. debt expanded 40-fold over 45 years. The most recent $1 trillion increase—from $39 trillion to $40 trillion—took less than five months. Surpassing a round-number debt threshold does not itself constitut

MANTRA's OM token fell approximately 18.5% to a record low of $0.004126 at around 11:10 p.m. UTC on Thursday after MANTRA Chain halted block production following a software exploit. The network suspended transactions and related operations while developers investigated a vulnerability in upstream de

Kalshi, a prediction market platform, filed with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to launch a perpetual futures contract for copper. The proposed COPPERPERP contract would track the spot price of copper in U.S. dollars per pound using a price feed from Pyth Network, a blockchain-based d

Tether abandoned its Bitcoin mining operation in Uruguay after investing an estimated $120 million in two sites, following an electricity supply dispute with state utility UTE. The stablecoin issuer announced the project in May 2023, citing Uruguay's renewable energy resources and reliable grid,

Strategy's Bitcoin holdings returned to an unrealized profit of approximately $1.4 billion on Friday as Bitcoin traded around $77,000, reversing billions in paper losses from earlier this summer. The Michael Saylor-led company holds 840,447 BTC purchased at an average price of $75,385, yielding a 2.

The US dollar declined on the 21st at 8:08 AM Eastern Time, with the Dollar Index (DXY) falling to 98.657, down 0.227 points or 0.230% from the previous close of 98.884. The dollar faced downward pressure as the euro and British pound strengthened following improved private sector activity data from

Sharplink Gaming staked 39,319 ETH worth approximately $91 million on August 21, according to onchain tracker Lookonchain. The Nasdaq-listed company, ticker SBET, has built its corporate strategy around Ethereum accumulation and staking under Chairman Joseph Lubin, the Ethereum co-founder and

On August 20, 2026, security researchers identified a coordinated supply chain attack targeting three widely used Rust crates on crates.io—arrayref version 0.3.10, internment 0.8.7, and append-only-vec 0.1.9—which were modified to include a malicious dependency executing remote code during

Anthropic is preparing for a public listing that could rival SpaceX's $85.7 billion raise in June, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. A public filing could arrive as soon as the end of August, although Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao has not disclosed a target

The three major US stock indices opened higher on the New York Stock Exchange at 9:51 AM local time August 21, driven by bargain buying. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 356.67 points (0.68%) to 53,115.88, the S&P 500 gained 26.24 points (0.34%) to 7,667.40, and the Nasdaq Composite

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated on the 21st (local time) that Iran holds the upper hand over the United States and it is time to end the months-long Middle East war between the two nations. Speaking at the Islamic Medical Association General Assembly, Pezeshkian argued that with Iran in a