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The bank's economists see little chance policymakers raise rates at next month's meeting, a call with implications for risk assets including crypto. Goldman Sachs economists have described a September interest-rate increase from the Federal Reserve as 'very unlikely,' CoinDesk reported.

Creditors of the collapsed exchange may recover only a fraction of their original claims after the court-ordered sale Dutch prosecutors have completed the sale of cryptocurrency assets seized from Knaken, a crypto exchange that collapsed, generating roughly €2.2 million.

CryptoBriefing and Coinfomania both report a terrorism-financing case tied to Binance data-sharing with Russian authorities, but disagree on how much crypto was involved, when the data-sharing began, and whether the suspect's identity is known.

The new issuance lifts Ripple's stablecoin's circulating supply to roughly 1.71 billion tokens amid rising institutional interest. Ripple has issued another 10 million RLUSD tokens, bringing the stablecoin's total circulating supply to approximately 1.71 billion. The mint was recorded on-chain and confirmed by blockchain trackers, according to reporting on the issuance.

The crypto miner's fiscal Q1 2027 results show strong top-line growth offset by a one-time tax hit tied to its Swedish operations. HIVE Digital Technologies, a bitcoin mining and data center operator, reported fiscal first quarter 2027 revenue up approximately 74% from the same period a year earlier.

Crypto derivatives tracking Sandisk shares now carry the largest open interest of any stock perpetual contract Open interest in perpetual futures contracts tracking Sandisk stock has reached $1.73 billion. That level makes SNDK perpetuals the largest stock perpetual market currently tracked, according to data reported by BlockchainReporter and crypto.news.

CoinDesk and CryptoSlate both cited Coinglass data on bitcoin futures within 48 hours of each other in August 2026 and got meaningfully different numbers. Here is what the open-interest-to-volume gap actually measures, and what it doesn't.

The latest purchase continues a pattern of incremental Bitcoin accumulation by the company. Capital B has bought 5 more Bitcoin, according to reports from CryptoBriefing and crypto.news. The purchase lifts the company's total Bitcoin treasury to 3,145 BTC. Both outlets confirmed the same figure for the updated holdings.

Crude markets show little reaction despite stalled diplomacy and reduced shipping through a key chokepoint. Oil prices held steady this week even as diplomatic talks between the United States and Iran appeared to stall, according to a report published by CryptoBriefing.

The arithmetic behind the DeFi liquidity-provider risk, reproduced across four sources and three different dollar scales, and what the formula leaves out.

Wealth manager questions Bitcoin's real-world utility and points to gold and an emerging AI shift instead. Ross Gerber, a prominent wealth manager, has raised fresh doubts about Bitcoin's role as a practical financial asset. He argued that gold is easier to use than Bitcoin in real-world transactions, according to a report from U.Today.

The public company's altcoin treasury strategy backfired as BERA holdings shrank to roughly $16 million by quarter's end. Greenlane, a publicly traded company, disclosed that its $70 million treasury allocation to the Berachain token BERA had shrunk dramatically. By the close of the second quarter, the holding was worth approximately $16 million.

CryptoBriefing reports Washington is urging other nations to align with American AI infrastructure over rival systems. CryptoBriefing reported on August 15 that the US government has warned other countries to choose sides in the global race to build and control artificial intelligence infrastructure.

Kraken has, at times, published a cryptographic proof of reserves. Bitstamp points to a traditional outside audit. Neither is the same claim, and neither exchange has a fresh, independently corroborated reserves figure on record in the reporting we hold.

Thielen argues the math behind a seven-figure Bitcoin price within four years does not add up. Crypto analyst Markus Thielen has rejected the popular forecast that Bitcoin will hit $1 million by 2030. He described the target as mathematically impossible, according to a report from Cointelegraph.

TVL is the number DeFi uses to signal size and trust. DefiLlama's own rules show what it includes, what it excludes, and how the same tokens can get counted twice.

The posted maker/taker rates say OKX is cheaper on spot limit orders and Bybit costs slightly more on futures market orders. Neither number accounts for the bid-ask spread, and no source reviewed here measures it for either exchange.

CryptoBriefing and Cointelegraph give conflicting filing dates and contract valuations for Chainalysis's lawsuit over the TRM Labs award. CryptoBriefing and Cointelegraph give conflicting filing dates and contract valuations for Chainalysis's lawsuit over the TRM Labs award.