Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

According to StarkWare, the first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction was confirmed in block 964,199 on Wednesday, August 26 at 8:48 p.m. UTC, mined by MARA Pool. The transaction combined 39,179 and 10,000 satoshis into a 44,000-satoshi output, paying 5,179 satoshis in fees, and was designed to

According to analyst firm The Kobeissi Letter, Solana processed a record 4.2 billion transactions in July, up 13.5% from June and 91% above December 2025. On Aug. 28, validators entered the final epoch of the network's first formal governance vote, with three measures on the ballot including

Strive Inc. (ASST) shares gained more than 7.5% at close on Thursday after the company posted strong quarterly results earlier this month and purchased 1,110 BTC between Aug. 17 and Aug. 21, bringing total holdings to 21,356 BTC. The purchases, averaging $73,409 per BTC, occurred as Bitcoin (BTC)

According to Stocktwits, Strive Inc. (ASST) shares gained more than 7.5% at close on Thursday and are tracking their best monthly performance since May 2025, following strong quarterly results and continued Bitcoin accumulation. The company recently disclosed in a regulatory filing that it

Hyperliquid Strategies, trading as PURR on Nasdaq, raised approximately $646.6 million through an equity facility and more than doubled its HYPE token holdings to 29.3 million tokens, valued at roughly $1.9 billion at the end of June. The company generated $305.5 million in net income for the

According to Inco Network, the blockchain privacy layer was deployed on Celo Sepolia testnet on August 27, enabling private digital asset balances within Celo-supported wallets. The deployment allows developers to test privacy-focused applications and explore confidential asset functionality in a co

Gate News bot message: Gate market data shows that ETH has fallen below 2,500 USDT and is currently priced at 2,499.11 USDT.

Sportradar Group AG (NASDAQ: SRAD) expanded its partnership with Polymarket today to cover 20+ sports leagues and competitions globally, adding roughly 300,000 matches per year of premium data, live streaming, and integrity services. The expansion includes exclusive streaming rights for Germany's

Ethena Foundation optimized ENA tokenomics over the past 24 hours, with ENA trading up more than 15% during the same period.

According to The Sandbox official statement on Aug. 28, the blockchain gaming platform pledged to repay eligible SAND holders 1:1 after an Aug. 21 bridge exploit drained 14.744 million SAND, worth approximately $700,000, from an Ethereum vault. Compensation will come from The Sandbox treasury with n

LBank launched its Physical Card, extending its cryptocurrency ecosystem into everyday payments through the global Visa network. Eligible users can apply through the official platform and use funds held in their LBank spot accounts at supported Visa merchants and ATMs worldwide. The card is

Dallas Fed researchers Rosie Levy and Srini Ramaswamy published research warning that 24/7 tokenized deposits could reduce the U.S. banking system's capacity for maturity transformation by approximately $580 billion. The report argues that instant settlement technologies and automated

According to 0xbow.io, the Ethereum Foundation-backed privacy and compliance tool has paid researcher ross.wei a $5,000 bounty for disclosing a vulnerability in Privacy Pools v1 SDK that could reduce entropy in user account master key generation. The vulnerability was patched in March with a

On Thursday, New Zealand's ACT Party proposed waiving capital gains tax on cryptocurrency assets held for over one year to encourage long-term retail investments, according to the party's official statement. The conservative party, which holds 11 seats in Parliament, exempts individual investors

According to Odaily, the probability that Moonshot will rank second among Chinese AI companies on Arena.ai's Text Arena Overall leaderboard reached 91% on Polymarket as of late August, up 72% in 24 hours. The ranking will be determined on September 1 at 00:00 Beijing time (August 31 at 12:00

According to BlockBeats and CoinGlass, on August 28, Bitcoin trades at $79,564.25 (up 1.24% in 24 hours) with weighted funding rates of 0.0070% and 0.0057%, both in neutral territory. Ethereum trades at $2,482.63 (down 0.07% in 24 hours) with weighted funding rates of 0.0027% and 0.0039%, both