Polygon Patches Critical Security Flaws in Austin and Kyoto Hard Forks Before Public Disclosure
UK Tax Authority Reports 17,600 Crypto Taxpayers Declared £1.38B in Gains
Bitcoin Bear Market Over, Says CryptoQuant CEO as Profitability Metric Mirrors 2023
Trump Digital Gold Token Crashes 98% in Alleged $330K Rug Pull After Account Hack
Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $202M on Friday, Snapping 9-Day Inflow Streak as BTC Falls to $77,500
Bitcoin Drops to $78,442 After Warsh Hawkish Pivot; Corporate Buyers Step In
Avici Neobank Exploit Drains Over $1M From Solana Card Vaults as AVICI Token Drops 44%
Ninth Circuit Rules Kalshi Sports Contracts Are Not Swaps, Dealing Blow to CFTC Jurisdiction Claim
Evernorth XRP Treasury Firm Clears SEC Hurdle, One Shareholder Vote From Nasdaq
The Sandbox Pledges 1:1 SAND Repayment After Bridge Exploit Drains 14.7 Million Tokens
Ethena Adds Equities and Commodities to USDe Basis Trade, Closes HIP-3 Market on Hyperliquid
Bybit Launches 24/7 Options on Synthetic SpaceX and Nvidia Perpetuals Starting Sept. 17
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UK Tax Authority Reports 17,600 Crypto Taxpayers Declared £1.38B in Gains
Bitcoin Bear Market Over, Says CryptoQuant CEO as Profitability Metric Mirrors 2023
Trump Digital Gold Token Crashes 98% in Alleged $330K Rug Pull After Account Hack
Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $202M on Friday, Snapping 9-Day Inflow Streak as BTC Falls to $77,500
Bitcoin Drops to $78,442 After Warsh Hawkish Pivot; Corporate Buyers Step In
Avici Neobank Exploit Drains Over $1M From Solana Card Vaults as AVICI Token Drops 44%
Ninth Circuit Rules Kalshi Sports Contracts Are Not Swaps, Dealing Blow to CFTC Jurisdiction Claim
Evernorth XRP Treasury Firm Clears SEC Hurdle, One Shareholder Vote From Nasdaq
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Polygon Patches Critical Security Flaws in Austin and Kyoto Hard Forks Before Public Disclosure
Polygon quietly patched two significant security vulnerabilities through its Austin and Kyoto hard forks before disclosing them publicly, following responsible disclosure practices. The vulnerabilities posed denial-of-service and validator resource exhaustion risks to the network.
Bitcoin Bear Market Over, Says CryptoQuant CEO as Profitability Metric Mirrors 2023
CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju declared on August 28 that Bitcoin's bear market is over, pointing to a profitability metric that produced the same reversal signal at the start of the 2023 recovery cycle.
Trump Digital Gold Token Crashes 98% in Alleged $330K Rug Pull After Account Hack
A token branded as Trump Digital Gold lost 98% of its value within hours of launching on August 29, 2026, after a Trump Organization-linked social media account was compromised and used to promote it. On-chain analysis identified 15 wallets that collectively offloaded approximately $330,000 in...
Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $202M on Friday, Snapping 9-Day Inflow Streak as BTC Falls to $77,500
Nine straight days of institutional buying ended Friday when US spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $201.8 million in net outflows, dragging total fund assets back below the $100 billion mark and pushing BTC down 2.1% to approximately $77,500.
Regulation
UK Tax Authority Reports 17,600 Crypto Taxpayers Declared £1.38B in Gains
HMRC released its first detailed breakdown of crypto tax declarations, revealing that 17,600 UK taxpayers reported £1.38 billion in taxable cryptocurrency gains during the 2024 to 2025 tax year. Just 240 individuals accounted for roughly 52% of total gains.
Ninth Circuit Rules Kalshi Sports Contracts Are Not Swaps, Dealing Blow to CFTC Jurisdiction Claim
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Kalshi's sports event contracts do not qualify as swaps under federal law, affirming the dissolution of an injunction and directly challenging the CFTC's assertion of exclusive jurisdiction over derivatives markets.
Bybit Launches 24/7 Options on Synthetic SpaceX and Nvidia Perpetuals Starting Sept. 17
Bybit is launching 24/7 options on synthetic equity perpetuals for SpaceX and Nvidia starting September 17, 2026. The product combines options with perpetuals, USDT settlement, and fractional sizing, but raises regulatory and leverage concerns.
Predictions.io Launches Free Comparison Tool Across 9,700 Markets
Predictions.io has launched a free comparison tool that indexes over 9,700 prediction markets across major venues including Kalshi and Polymarket, allowing traders to spot price discrepancies on identically worded questions. The launch comes as prediction market volume reaches record highs.
DeFi
Ethena Adds Equities and Commodities to USDe Basis Trade, Closes HIP-3 Market on Hyperliquid
Ethena is broadening the collateral strategy underpinning its USDe stablecoin to include equity perpetuals and commodities, while simultaneously shutting down its HIP-3 market on Hyperliquid and overhauling ENA tokenomics in what the protocol is framing as a push to reignite growth.
Bullish Commits $100M to USD.AI for GPU-Backed Loan Products
Bullish has committed $100 million in financing to USD.AI, a lending platform using GPU hardware as collateral for digital asset loans. The deal marks a major institutional bet on computational assets as a DeFi lending primitive, following broader adoption of real-world asset lending.
Virtu and Tradeweb Complete First Onchain Repo Trade Using Marshall Islands Digital Bond
Virtu Financial and Tradeweb have executed what appears to be the first onchain repurchase agreement using a sovereign digital bond as collateral, completing the full transaction cycle in under 10 minutes on the Canton Network.
Aave V4 Deposits Hit $806M After 30% Weekly Surge, But V3 Still Dominates at $31B
Aave V4 deposits surged to $806 million following a 30% weekly gain, with EtherFi Cash accumulating $257 million as the second-largest market. The growth occurred without major external catalysts, suggesting organic adoption as V4 enters early scaling phase.
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Nvidia Earnings Beat and $12.9B Hugging Face Deal Push Nasdaq Futures Up 1.1%
Nvidia stock jumped 7% in premarket trading Thursday after posting an earnings beat and announcing a $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face. Nasdaq futures climbed 1.1% on the news, arriving ahead of the Federal Reserve's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.
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A new AI model called Ox Alpha has surfaced with no identifiable creators, a free price tag, and benchmark scores that outperform Anthropic's Claude Fable. The model ships with a 1 million token context window, accepts video as input, and is available at no cost.
Inception Labs' Mercury 2 Outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma in AI Showdown
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Quantinuum Surges 13% on Nasdaq IPO Debut, Raising $1.68B
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