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Real Trump Coins promoted GOLD before deleting related X posts, while team-linked wallets sold 224.5 million tokens as its market value fell about 99%. A Solana-based token promoted by a Trump-linked coin brand collapsed within hours of its launch, raising questions over who was behind it and its unusual trading activity. Real Trump Coins, a brand US President Donald Trump publicly promoted in 2024, touted the “Trump Digital GOLD” token on X before deleting related posts on Saturday, according to blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain. The Real Trump Coins website continued promoting GOLD as of publication, advertising a 4% trading fee and pledging to use 99% of trading fees to buy back the token in an effort to make it a top-10 crypto asset by market capitalization. Read more

The completed upgrades closed separate block-stall, peer-crash and validator-work risks, leaving nodes on older binaries outside canonical consensus. The post Polygon Labs issues urgent client upgrade notice following Austin and Kyoto hardforks appeared first on CryptoSlate.

"Major countries have built complete valuation, reserve, and trading systems around gold, so a shift to Bitcoin will not happen overnight," he said.

BIS chief Pablo Hernández de Cos said stablecoins lack credibility for payments at scale, while a new FSI study highlights sharp differences in issuer rules. The Bank for International Settlements is renewing its criticism of stablecoins, questioning their credibility as everyday money as governments worldwide build regulatory frameworks around the tokens. BIS General Manager Pablo Hernández de Cos, a candidate to succeed European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde next year, argued that stablecoins do not credibly function as a means of payment at scale. He said tokenized bank deposits offer a stronger alternative, Reuters reported on Friday. “Tokenised deposits offer a more direct path to harness tokenisation while preserving the monetary system’s foundations,” de Cos said. Read more

US spot Ethereum ETFs appeared to begin trading with $10.36 billion already inside them, an opening balance large enough to resemble an institutional buying wave before the first full session ended. However, almost all of that amount came from ETH that Grayscale's older trusts already held, so the launch moved an existing pool into exchange-traded […] The post Crypto ETFs appeared to hit $10B in hours, but filing data exposes where that money really came from appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The total crypto market cap shed over $80 billion after the Jackson Hole speech by Kevin Warsh.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $201.8 million in net outflows Friday, led by ARK 21Shares, as total fund assets slipped back below $100 billion. US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) ended a nine-day inflow streak as Bitcoin fell below $78,000, while several altcoin ETF categories continued to see inflows. Bitcoin ETFs recorded $201.8 million in net outflows on Friday, ending nine consecutive trading sessions of inflows, according to SoSoValue data. The reversal followed more than $3 billion of net inflows during the nine-session run, while August flows remained positive at $3.3 billion with one US trading session left in the month. Total net assets fell to $97.6 billion after topping $100 billion on Thursday. Read more

Another Trump-themed digital asset delivered an expensive and painful lesson to traders chasing quick gains through meme coins.

BTC was rejected at over $81,000 once again. This time, though, there was an evident catalyst.

Six decade-old wallets moved $40 million this month, but Galaxy's data shows dormant coin activity at its lowest since 2022 and 2026 on pace for under half of last year's total.

Is XRP heading for a market cap nearly 2x higher than ETH's current one?

Abstentions created the smaller public margin, while on-chain finalization remained pending at the latest check. The post Kraken and Galaxy flipped late as Solana approved a major supply cut appeared first on CryptoSlate.

An Anthropic model cut the work needed to break a leading post-quantum signature candidate by a factor of 67 million last month, while Bitcoin and Ethereum published their own migration plans this week.

The planned 270 BTC nearly offsets the placement, while full warrant exercise would cut the displayed ratio about 24%. The post Capital B’s €21 million Bitcoin raise comes with heavy warrant dilution risk appeared first on CryptoSlate.

"Real value of TRUMP lies below $1," one analyst claimed.

Ethena is expanding USDe into equity perpetual-basis trades, targeting funding yields more than five times higher than Bitcoin’s as the synthetic dollar looks to recover from its 2026 contraction. On Aug. 28, Ethena revealed plans to extend the basis strategy behind USDe into equity perpetual futures, where open interest has surged to about $6.2 billion […] The post Ethena is targeting the $120 trillion Wall Street stock market to hunt yields 5x higher than Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

This latest U.S. appeals court ruling sets up a rift between federal courts on event contracts, suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court may need to settle the matter.

BTC gave back some of its gains after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh talked tough on inflation, but prediction market traders are still leaning bullish.

The company says it needs more skilled workers as its AI infrastructure expands, but employees fear automation could reduce or eliminate some roles.

The upstream fix reached release branches hours before the incident, while MANTRA says none of the tokens have been recovered. The post Cosmos misjudged a critical bug for 4 months before hackers stole nearly $6 million across 6 chains appeared first on CryptoSlate.