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Altcoins captured 65% of Binance trading volume during a recent market rally, according to an analysis published by CryptoQuant on Aug. 25. Bitcoin held a 21% volume share while ether represented 13.6% during the same period. The shift followed a sharp Bitcoin advance that drew liquidity and

Anthropic has signed a roughly $45 billion cloud computing deal with Nscale, a UK-based artificial intelligence infrastructure company, CNBC confirmed on Wednesday. The agreement addresses Anthropic's infrastructure capacity needs as demand for its Claude AI models has caused strain on reliability a

Chainalysis estimates potentially taxable onchain crypto activity reached at least $457 billion globally in 2025, while international reporting rules may capture only a fraction of it. The gap exists because the OECD's Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework covers just 14% of the onchain taxable activity

Jon Atack, a Bitcoin Core developer living in El Salvador, recently made a Bitcoin payment at a restaurant in El Zonte that was the establishment's only cryptocurrency transaction all month. Restaurant employees confirmed that card payments have become significantly more common than Bitcoin for

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams argued on 18 August 2026 that automated market makers are structurally built to dominate tokenized equity trading. The claim rests on pairing correlated tokenized assets, such as individual stocks against broad index ETFs, to sharply reduce impermanent loss and make

Bitcoin is struggling to hold above $80,000 on Wednesday after climbing roughly 22% since Aug. 20, marking its strongest weekly rally in more than three years. The cryptocurrency traded slightly above $78,000 at 1:24 p.m. ET after briefly topping $81,000 earlier in the session. The rebound

Nvidia (NVDA) shares fell 1.3% in midday trading Wednesday, but Cantor Fitzgerald analyst C.J. Muse expects the chipmaker to deliver a 'monster beat' when it reports second-quarter earnings after the market close, according to a CNBC interview. Muse told CNBC three potential catalysts to watch

Judge Samuel Goozee rejected former Saitama CEO Manpreet Kohli's extradition challenge on August 19, sending the case to UK ministers for a decision on the US extradition request. Kohli faces charges including wire fraud, market manipulation, and operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business t

Meta Platforms reached an $18 billion settlement with attorneys general from 48 US states, the District of Columbia, and three territories to resolve youth social media addiction claims, Jim Cramer said during the Investing Club's Morning Meeting on Wednesday. The settlement halts a landmark

Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) stocks surged 39% on Wednesday after the apparel retailer reported record second-quarter net sales of $1.27 billion and raised its fiscal 2026 earnings guidance. The company beat Wall Street estimates with earnings of $4.17 per share versus expected $1.96 per share and

KiiChain announced its integration of the TRON network on August 26, 2026 in Bogota, Colombia to expand its 24/7 foreign exchange infrastructure and stablecoin payment capabilities across global markets. The integration enables KiiChain to leverage TRON's high-throughput, low-cost stablecoin

XRP is consolidating around $1.46-$1.48 after its recent surge, with the cryptocurrency currently trading at $1.38 following a rejection near $1.50, according to CoinCodex data. Market analyst Diana identifies the pause as a potential setup for another move higher, noting that short-term momentum is

The U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis published the PCE price index on Tuesday, revealing inflation rose 0.2% in July compared to June and 3.7% from a year earlier. The data shows inflation remains above the Federal Reserve's 2% target despite expectations for a July

Binance listed a tokenized version of Trump Media & Technology Group stock as eligible margin collateral on 26 August 2026 at 12:00 UTC. The token, trading under the ticker DJTB against USDT, is the latest addition to the exchange's bStocks programme, which surpassed $1 billion in assets under

The Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633) remains in procedural limbo after the Senate recorded a cloture motion on the motion to proceed on August 8, 2026. The congressional record shows the House passed the bill on July 17, 2025, by a vote of 294-134, but no Senate passage has been

More than three-quarters of Americans view cryptocurrency in workplace retirement plans as risky, according to a survey from The National Institute on Retirement Security conducted between Oct. 24 and Nov. 14, 2025. The survey found that 77% of Americans consider crypto in workplace retirement plans

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran's Parliament Speaker and chief negotiator with the United States, wrote in a letter on the 26th (local time) that negotiations are neither inherently valuable nor taboo, stating they are neither absolutely good nor absolutely evil. The letter was addressed to the

The Dallas Federal Reserve published a report on Tuesday warning that tokenized deposits could reduce banks' capacity for interest-rate risk by approximately $700 billion. The report examines how instant settlement enabled by distributed ledger technology could allow deposit holders to switch banks

Hyperliquid Policy Center and perpetuals trading platform trade[XYZ] submitted a letter Wednesday urging the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to adopt a regulatory framework for energy perpetual contracts in the United States. The organizations argued that American businesses need access to 24/7

Crypto investment firm RockawayX has acquired hedge fund Relayer Capital, adding an actively managed long-short strategy to a platform that oversees roughly $2 billion in assets. The acquisition expands RockawayX's investment business in the United States and brings aboard Relayer founder Austin