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Core developers are working to trim a long list of Ethereum Improvement Proposals ahead of the network's next major hard fork. Ethereum developers are working through a list of 66 proposals tied to the network's next major upgrade, known as Hegotá, according to reports from crypto.news and Cointelegraph.

Two structural reallocations, one in hash rate and one in corporate capital, say more about what is moving before the open than any single crypto headline does. Two structural reallocations, one in hash rate and one in corporate capital, say more about what is moving before the open than any single crypto headline does.

Brandt's blunt remark comes as XRP price recovers above the $1 mark. Peter Brandt, a trader known for decades of commentary on commodities and crypto markets, dismissed interest in XRP with a pointed question. U.Today reported his remark, "Who cares about XRP?", circulated among traders on August 16.

First-half data shows German companies pulling back on American investment as trade policy risks weigh on decisions. German companies scaled back investment in the United States during the first half of the year, pushing the total to its lowest point in three years.

Large-holder inflows to the exchange have slid to levels last seen in 2021, even as institutional interest in XRP-linked funds grows. Large XRP holders are sending far fewer tokens to Binance than they were earlier in 2025. CoinTurk News reports whale inflows to the exchange have dropped 87% from their peak this year.

The figure that runs across every market dashboard each evening measures net share creation and redemption, not gross Bitcoin trading. Here is what it does and doesn't show.

The billionaire investor points to computer chips, not Bitcoin, as the next asset drawing speculative excitement. Mark Cuban, the billionaire entrepreneur and longtime crypto commentator, has predicted that computer chips will become the next hot asset class.

Paolo Ardoino pushed back on speculation, according to a report from BeInCrypto. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has pushed back on rumors related to blockchain activity involving the company, according to a report from BeInCrypto published on August 15.

A Merkle-tree proof of reserves checks that an exchange's coins match a summary of what it owes, on one date. A financial audit checks the whole business. Here is where the difference actually matters.

A funding rate is the periodic payment that keeps a perpetual futures contract's price tethered to spot. When it goes negative, shorts are paying longs — not proof the market is crashing.

Vivek Raman, CEO of the Ethereum-adoption firm Etherealize, says Wall Street's rush into gated blockchains is 'consortium chain 2.0.' The mechanism he's describing is checkable. His prediction about how it ends is not - and he runs a company whose success depends on the answer.

Weakening mining economics push listed miners to redirect capacity and capital toward artificial intelligence infrastructure. Publicly listed Bitcoin miners collectively shed over 21% of their hash rate during the second quarter of 2026. The decline marks one of the sharpest quarterly contractions in mining capacity reported in recent years.

Cryptopolitan and Coinfomania both report ABFinance's closure on the same day but disagree on whether the platform had ever launched trading operations. Cryptopolitan and Coinfomania both report ABFinance's closure on the same day but disagree on whether the platform had ever launched trading operations.

A firmware bug fed the wallet's random-number generator too little entropy at the moment a seed was created. Because the flaw lived in that one step, an air-gapped device offered no protection — and a software wallet flagged separately by researchers shows the same weakness can turn up wherever a key is generated, hardware or not.

Comparison sites credit each exchange with specific licenses in specific countries. Almost none of those claims trace back to a regulator, a filing, or even a dated source.

A $4.3 billion settlement, a monitorship whose status nobody has confirmed in months, and a reserves report that is self-verified, not audited. Here is what each of those actually means.

The exchange has set a deadline to cut off transfers with a group of unnamed platforms, according to a report from CryptoBriefing. Binance intends to cut off transaction processing with 11 crypto platforms beginning August 23, according to a report published by CryptoBriefing.

An attestation, a full audit and an on-chain proof-of-reserves feed each verify something different about a stablecoin's backing. Tether's August 2026 KPMG opinion shows exactly where that line falls.