Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

The 2026/27 Bundesliga season officially kicks off at 2:30 a.m. Beijing time on August 29, with defending champions Bayern Munich hosting last season’s fourth-place team, Stuttgart, at the Allianz Arena. As the last of the top five leagues to begin its season, the Bundesliga’s opening round features a matchup with a stark gap in paper strength. Data from the Gate event market shows that the current market is pricing Bayern Munich’s win probability at 80%, the draw probability at 13%, and Stuttga

According to OneKey's security team, the open-source wallet provider successfully reproduced a transaction replacement attack against Ledger's outdated Ethereum app 1.22.1 on Thursday. The exploit allows attackers to overwrite a transaction while users are still reviewing the legitimate transaction,

Arthur Hayes announced that users can continue creating unique DID keys for agents on Technocore.chat. Next week, Hayes will reveal additional agent collaboration methods and explain how to qualify for additional FLOP airdrop distributions. The initiative aims to connect meaningful participation in

According to Deribit and reports from CNBC and Reuters, $6.44 billion in Bitcoin options covering 81,700 contracts settle today on Deribit at 08:00 UTC Friday, coinciding with Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's first keynote address as chief at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium. The option

Strategy Inc., formerly known as MicroStrategy, ranked as the 10th-most actively traded equity in the United States, generating $4.4 billion in daily trading volume and outpacing companies like Microsoft and Meta in share turnover. The surge is driven by the company's Bitcoin treasury strategy,

New Zealand's Association of Consumers and Taxpayers (ACT) party, which holds 11 seats in the country's Parliament, on Thursday proposed waiving capital gains tax for taxpayers holding cryptocurrency assets for over a year. The proposal aims to boost long-term retail investments and exempts small

According to The Sandbox, the blockchain gaming platform pledged Thursday to repay eligible SAND holders on a 1:1 basis following an Aug. 21 bridge exploit that drained 14.744 million SAND tokens, worth approximately $700,000, from an Ethereum vault. The compensation will be drawn from The Sandbox t

According to Gate trading data, SOL/USDT is currently trading at $104.95, down below the $105 level with a 24-hour increase of 0.53%.

On Thursday, New Zealand's ACT party proposed exempting capital gains tax for individual retail investors holding crypto assets for over one year, seeking to boost long-term crypto adoption. The proposal also exempts small personal purchases made with crypto from taxation. The conservative party,

HM Revenue and Customs reported on Thursday that 240 individuals declared over £1 million ($1.36 million) each in crypto capital gains during the 2024-25 tax year. This marked the first year HMRC included a dedicated section for crypto capital gains on Self Assessment tax returns, previously reporte

According to ChainCatcher, USDD and Pendle launched the second phase of their sUSDD market incentive program on August 27 with a total reward pool of $600,000. The incentive period runs from August 27 through November 26, 2026 (91 days). The first phase concluded with over $300,000 in rewards and

According to ChainCatcher, AEON, an AI Agent economic settlement protocol, announced today the integration with Kenya's M-Pesa mobile payment platform. The integration allows users to complete payments using crypto assets while merchants receive settlement in Kenyan shillings. AEON stated its settle

BitGo completed the acquisition of NYDIG's institutional trading business under a definitive agreement announced Thursday. The transaction adds derivatives, structured products, financing, and capital markets capabilities to BitGo's institutional crypto services. The acquisition includes NYDIG's ins

The Central Bank of Brazil built a real-time alert system with Hypernative to prevent cryptocurrency cyberattacks, responding to a July 2025 exploit where cybercriminals stole $180 million from the financial system and cashed out using bitcoin and USDT via exchanges. Regina Pedroso, executive

According to Arthur Hayes speaking on Laura Shin's Unchained Podcast, MicroStrategy's (Nasdaq: MSTR) mNAV premium compressed to 0.74x as of August 27, erasing the company's historical market advantage. MSTR holds 840,447 BTC but faces annual dividend obligations of approximately $1.5 billion on