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The US Treasury expects to borrow $739 billion from July through September while paying investors to hand back some of its older bonds. The pairing looks self-defeating because both transactions involve the same issuer. However, they are on separate ledgers and solve separate problems: auctions finance the government and create liquid benchmarks, while buybacks retire […] The post How $739B in new US debt could absorb crypto’s liquidity before buybacks even reach Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Russia’s largest bank, Sber, plans to accept USDT and Ether alongside Bitcoin as loan collateral as the country introduces regulated crypto trading under a new law. Russia’s largest bank, Sber, plans to expand its crypto-backed lending to accept Tether’s USDt stablecoin and Ether as collateral alongside Bitcoin, according to a senior executive. Sber will adapt its existing products and gradually expand its offerings as Russia’s new crypto law takes effect, Deputy Chairman Anatoly Popov said, according to a Friday TASS report. The bank plans to add the assets as collateral after the Bank of Russia permits them for public trading, he said. The plans come as Russia rolls out a regulated crypto market under a law signed by president Vladimir Putin on Aug. 4, with core provisions taking effect Sept. 1. Read more

BHWI has published parity tests, but downstream wallets still face packaging, platform and integration work. The post Popular Bitcoin wallets risk losing support for new hardware devices as critical security bridge stops accepting new devices appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Delaware Life Insurance Company's 2025 balance sheet took on a startling new shape when the insurer corrected its annual filing: roughly $17 billion of investments were classified as related-party holdings, about 39% of invested assets, versus roughly $1.4 billion and 3% in the earlier version. Clear Spring Life and Annuity Company made a separate correction […] The post The next shadow-banking problem comes from insurance companies, where nobody was looking for a bank run appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Trump-linked Real Trump Coins said it never authorized GOLD or any digital token as questions persisted over its X account, associated domains and the concentrated token supply. Real Trump Coins has denied launching, promoting or authorizing the Trump Digital GOLD token that briefly appeared across its online presence before collapsing, blaming the promotion on “third-party bad actors.” The denial came after the Real Trump Coins X account promoted the Solana-based token on Saturday and directed users to RealTrumpCoins.com, where GOLD was also advertised. The X posts were later deleted, while the account now links to a separate domain, TrumpCoins.com. “Trump Coins has not authorized and will not launch, promote, or authorize any digital token,” Real Trump Coins said in an X post on Saturday, adding that it was working with authorities to investigate the matter. Read more

The short squeeze sparked the rebound, but ETF and on-chain data suggest broader demand is now helping.

Price moves will not trigger margin calls, but 60 days of delinquency can put the pledged Bitcoin at risk of sale. The post Borrowers can now use $250k in Bitcoin for a house down payment without margin calls, but one trap remains appeared first on CryptoSlate.

UNI is today's top performer, skyrocketing by over 11%.

August was quite the rollercoaster for Ripple's token, even though history suggested more pain ahead. What's next in September?

The exploit caused the neobank's AVICI token to drop 49% from a 24-hour high, hitting a record low before paring some of the losses.

The Sept. 1 change removes a client Merkle check, leaving VARA reports and audited materials that are less public. The post Deribit moved 90% of client assets to Coinbase, then killed its daily proof-of-reserves check appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The company’s $4 billion contracted AI run-rate target was four times the $1 billion operating level measured Aug. 26, with recognition still gated by delivery and customer acceptance. The post Bitcoin miner IREN still gets 82% of revenue from BTC after clearing room for Microsoft AI cloud appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Social chatter around ZEC hit six times its August baseline before the price peak, then vanished as the ETF launched.

Armstrong’s launch-week chart captured $104 million in turnover, while one later snapshot left persistence to open interest and repeat sessions. The post Coinbase’s $104M US500 trading spike hits an early reality check appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The vulnerabilities posed denial-of-service and validator resource risks but were patched before Polygon publicly disclosed them. Polygon has disclosed several previously private security vulnerabilities that could have disrupted its proof-of-stake network, after deploying fixes through two recent hard forks. The vulnerabilities affected Polygon’s Bor and Heimdall clients and included denial-of-service risks, validator resource exhaustion and flaws affecting checkpoint and milestone processing, according to a Thursday disclosure from Polygon Labs’ Validators Support Team.  Polygon said the flaws were fixed through the Austin and Kyoto hard forks, which were deployed privately and tested before being activated on mainnet and publicly disclosed. Read more

Its first crypto gains table covers 17,600 taxpayers, while CARF data will begin reaching the agency in 2027. The post UK crypto investors declared £1.38B in gains, but half came from just 240 people appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Charles Schwab announced it is expanding its recently released crypto trading business by adding three major altcoins.

Stellar’s real-world asset market has expanded rapidly this year as institutional adoption and tokenization activity grow across the network. The value of tokenized real-world assets (RWA) on Stellar has climbed roughly 360% in 2026 to nearly $4 billion, up from $868.8 million at the end of last year, according to a Dune Analytics dashboard maintained by Stellar. The network’s RWA market cap stood at $3.996 billion as of Aug. 29, spread across US Treasurys, private and public credit, non-US government debt and other tokenized asset classes. The market is concentrated among a handful of issuers. Spiko accounted for $1.55 billion of Stellar’s RWA value as of Aug. 27, followed by Realiz at $559 million, Tradable at $548 million, Franklin Templeton at $546 million and Ondo at $535 million. Read more

Luke Dashjr's conditional rehearsal still lacks settled activation settings, disclosed day-one hash, named service policies and universal replay protection. The post Bitcoin Knots is trying to fork Bitcoin again after its last chain died in two blocks appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The $201.9 million reversal left Bitcoin's week positive and supplied only one session of evidence for a cross-asset shift. The post Bitcoin ETF inflows snap after $3 billion streak as ETH, XRP and Solana keep buying appeared first on CryptoSlate.