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Bitcoin reached $78,960 on Sunday, gaining 1.5% as buyers challenged the $79,000 resistance zone at 10:10 a.m. Eastern time. The price rise followed a recent pullback, with seven-day statistics showing BTC up 1.8% and a 23.5% climb since July 30 against the U.S. dollar. Coinglass data

Cursor CEO Michael Truell stated on August 29 that OpenAI's models account for roughly 5% of the platform's total user traffic, one day after OpenAI announced it was terminating their model-supply contract on August 28. OpenAI cited compliance concerns related to SpaceX following SpaceX's $60B all-s

Strategy Inc. Executive Chairman Michael Saylor posted a cryptic message on Aug. 30 suggesting the company may resume bitcoin purchases after a two-week pause. Saylor shared a chart on X showing Strategy holding 840,447 BTC valued at $65.72 billion, accompanied by the two-word caption 'We're

Meta is testing robots to handle tasks such as plugging in cables, resetting servers, and power cycling inside its data centers, according to several current and former workers familiar with the projects. The effort aims to operate Meta's rapidly expanding data center footprint with fewer humans, ke

Bitcoin's recent breakout held through Thursday's close, supported by U.S. equities that remained flat to slightly positive, driven almost entirely by Nvidia's nearly 9% Thursday surge. Following bitcoin's major move last week, Tether minted three billion USDT last Friday alone, signaling

The Swedish Tax Agency issued proposed value-added tax decisions against subsidiaries of Northern Data AG and secured appellate court rulings against two Swedish units of HIVE Digital (NASDAQ: HIVE), asserting that their computing activities constituted cryptocurrency mining outside the VAT system r

Pablo Hernández de Cos, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), stated at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's Jackson Hole annual retreat that stablecoins "do not yet uphold the foundational properties of money." De Cos flagged four specific failures in stablecoins

The crypto industry experienced multiple significant developments this week, with U.S. equities remaining flat to slightly positive through Thursday's close, driven almost entirely by Nvidia's nearly 9% Thursday surge that offset Monday's semiconductor selloff. Tether minted three billion USDT

JaredfromSubway.eth, Ethereum's most prolific sandwich-attack bot, extracted over 117,000 ETH (~$295M) from trades since March 2023, only to lose $7.5M in June 2026 when an attacker deployed 66 fake token contracts mimicking WETH, USDC, and USDT. The bot's automated logic granted spending

Meta agreed this week to pay almost $17 billion in a landmark settlement with a coalition of state attorneys general that sued the company for misrepresenting the extent of child mental health damage caused by Facebook and Instagram. Mike Moore, the former Mississippi attorney general who led the 19

European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel stated that central bank money must move onchain, announcing two projects to integrate ECB reserves with distributed ledger technology. Project Pontes will launch in September 2026 to synchronize the ECB's TARGET Services payment

Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) Executive Chairman Michael Saylor posted a cryptic message on Aug. 30 showing the company's bitcoin holdings chart, renewing speculation about a potential bitcoin purchase. The post followed two consecutive weeks without a bitcoin transaction, during which Strategy

Real Trump Coins denied launching or authorizing the Trump Digital GOLD token on Saturday after the token briefly appeared on its X account and website before collapsing. The company blamed third-party bad actors for the promotion and stated it was working with authorities to investigate. The

Major US retailers handled tariff refunds differently during second-quarter earnings reports following a Supreme Court ruling in February that tariffs were unauthorized. Walmart received approximately $2.9 billion in refunds, Home Depot got $730 million, and Target saw a $752 million boost to net ea

Russia's largest bank, Sber, plans to expand its crypto-backed lending to accept Tether's USDT stablecoin and Ether as collateral alongside Bitcoin, Deputy Chairman Anatoly Popov confirmed according to a Friday TASS report. The bank will add the assets as collateral after the Bank of Russia

Russia's largest bank, Sber, plans to accept Tether's USDT stablecoin and Ether as collateral for crypto-backed loans alongside Bitcoin, Deputy Chairman Anatoly Popov said in a Friday TASS report. The bank will adapt existing products and expand offerings after the Bank of Russia permits the

The Sandbox’s SAND token suffered a major cross-chain exploit on August 21-22, allowing an attacker to create roughly 329.24 trillion unbacked tokens over about five hours. Despite the staggering figure, the attacker extracted only about $675,000 in real economic value. The incident highlights the

A security exploit in crypto card infrastructure drained roughly $1.1 million from several Solana-based programs, triggering a sharp sell-off in Avici’s AVICI token. The token fell as much as 49%, dropping from a 24-hour high of about $0.43 to a record low near $0.217 before recovering some

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix dominated Korean investor attention during August 18-24 following major shareholder return policy announcements, according to search data from financial information provider FnGuide. Samsung Electronics recorded 2,880 searches while SK Hynix captured 1,895 searches d