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The funding round fuels speculation that Anthropic's valuation could approach $2 trillion. Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H funding round, according to reports from CryptoBriefing and The Cryptonomist. The raise arrives alongside the launch of Claude Opus 5, the company's latest large language model, which has reportedly topped multiple AI performance benchmarks.

Rising borrowing tied to AI infrastructure has pushed Oracle toward a junk-level credit rating and put Meta under closer investor watch. Meta and Oracle are facing increased attention from bond markets as their debt loads grow alongside heavy spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure.

The enterprise-focused blockchain network's activity surge pushes cumulative transaction volume past a new milestone. XDC Network processed 27.7 million transactions in the past month, marking an all-time high for the platform. The figure was reported by CryptoBriefing and The Cryptonomist on August 17, 2026.

Founder says he will report employee claims to police as exchange winds down operations BitMart's exit from the crypto exchange business has taken a contentious turn. Employees have publicly alleged unpaid wages connected to the platform's shutdown process, according to reporting from Cryptopolitan.

Two outlets report personal data tied to SafePal wallet users was exposed, raising fresh questions about crypto custody security. SafePal, a crypto wallet provider, is at the center of a reported data exposure affecting tens of thousands of customers. Coinfomania put the figure at 39,798 affected users.

Ethereum co-founder praises Bitcoin's Utreexo technology as a model for lighter, more efficient blockchain scaling. Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, has credited Bitcoin developers with scaling innovations that could inform Ethereum's own technical direction.

Regulatory filings show the billionaire investor's fund sharply increased exposure to AI infrastructure while cutting semiconductor holdings. Duquesne Family Office has exited its stakes in chipmakers Micron and Intel, according to disclosures reviewed by financial news outlets.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao says clearing unwanted tokens from wallets remains too difficult, prompting calls for a design fix. Changpeng Zhao, widely known as CZ, has called on Trust Wallet to rework how it lets users manage and hide unwanted tokens.

The Austrian financial regulator's action marks the first publicly disclosed enforcement case under the EU's new crypto rulebook. Austria's financial market regulator has fined Bitpanda 70,000 euros, according to reports from Bitcoin.com News, Finance Magnates and Cointelegraph.

The bank's economists argue traders have gone too far in pricing additional Federal Reserve tightening. Goldman Sachs has pushed back against market expectations for additional Federal Reserve rate hikes, according to a report from CryptoBriefing. The bank's economists reportedly view current pricing for further tightening as overdone relative to the underlying economic backdrop.

The e-commerce giant is reportedly shedding its gaming business as it redirects resources toward artificial intelligence. Alibaba is moving to divest Lingxi Games, its gaming unit, in a transaction reportedly valued at more than $2 billion. The deal was first reported by Yahoo Finance, citing an unnamed source, and was subsequently covered by CryptoBriefing.

The company introduces Blockstream Swaps for Bitcoin, Lightning, and Liquid users days after Boltz halted operations. Blockstream has launched a new offering called Blockstream Swaps, according to reports from crypto.news and CryptoBriefing.

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.