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ETH exchange balances have fallen sharply since June, while Bitcoin balances moved slightly higher.

The approved proposal doubles Solana’s annual disinflation rate from 15% to 30%, reducing future SOL issuance while leaving its long-term inflation target unchanged. Solana validators have approved a proposal to double the network’s annual disinflation rate, reducing future SOL issuance. According to finalized voting results, the proposal received 67% support, with 25.16% voting against and 7.84% abstaining. Overall participation reached 60.7% of eligible stake. The proposal, known as SGP-0002 or Double Disinflation, increases Solana’s annual disinflation rate from 15% to 30%, while leaving the network’s long-term inflation target of 1.5% unchanged. Read more

Evernorth has gained SEC clearance, teeing up a shareholder vote on its Nasdaq listing—while the firm's XRP stash sits well below what it paid for it.

Austin is the latest city to consider restrictions as communities challenge the water and electricity demands of AI infrastructure.

XRP faces its heaviest 2026 derivatives selling as open interest climbs. Full price analysis, key levels, and an early-stage Bitcoin Layer 2 alternative. The post XRP Price Prediction: Ripple Faces Strongest Derivatives Selling Pressure appeared first on Cryptonews.

The proposed preferred raise covers 1.51% of the target before AI allocations and an 18-month dividend reserve. The post After selling all its Bitcoin to pay off debt, AI firm tries to rebuild $827 million treasury from scratch appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin fell below $77,000 Friday after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh revived the threat of higher interest rates at Jackson Hole. Data from CryptoSlate shows the largest cryptocurrency dropped to as low as $76,909 before recovering to $77,712 as of press time, down about 4% over the previous 24 hours. The retreat accelerated a broader crypto […] The post Fed Chair Kevin Warsh triggers a $488 million crypto liquidation cascade as rate-hike expectations rise appeared first on CryptoSlate.

"XRP is going to reach $20, and there's nothing anyone can do about it," one popular X user forecasted.

BTC has reclaimed several major technical levels that previously acted as resistance, and it could resolve the remaining ones in a few days.

According to Circle, the USDC stablecoin name will appear on the front of club jerseys for Chelsea’s upcoming football season. Circle, the issuer behind the USDC stablecoin, will be the latest sponsor for the Chelsea Football Club just months after the UK’s financial watchdog warned about “questionable sponsorship deals with unauthorized financial firms,” including crypto companies. In a Friday announcement, Circle said its name and USDC would appear on jerseys for Chelsea FC players in the 2026/2027 season. The partnership deal between the football club and the digital asset company came about three months after the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it had sent warning letters to clubs in the Premier League, potentially including Chelsea. The letters concerned “unauthorized” companies, including crypto businesses, using sponsorship deals to target football fans, potentially breaching UK financial services laws. Read more

Ripple is moving to shrink the XRP Ledger’s (XRPL) attack surface as it prepares to expand native lending. The company has recommended removing more than 10,000 lines of unused XChainBridge code while Lending Protocol V1.1 undergoes an AI-only security review through Sherlock’s Audit Engine. The parallel efforts come as crypto platforms face renewed pressure to […] The post Ripple moves to shrink XRP Ledger attack surface as AI audit tests lending push appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The "Double Disinflation" proposal squeaked through by a razor-thin margin after Kraken nearly sank it, while a separate fee-burning measure failed.

XRP is among the poorest performers now, dropping by 5% on a daily scale.

Fed Chair Warsh devoted a full section of his speech today at Jackson Hole to AI's weight on the economy. Here are the biggest takeaways.

A new Tier 2 framework lowered qualifying gates to $25 billion in AUM and 5 million monthly options sides, bringing IBIT back during Q3. The post BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF regains key weekly options expiries after rule overhaul appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The brokerage will expand Schwab Crypto trading to Solana, Avalanche, and Chainlink, but has not given a launch date for the three tokens.

The institutional crypto exchange is providing $100 million in stablecoin liquidity to support loans backed by AI computing infrastructure. Institutional crypto exchange operator Bullish has provided USD.AI with a $100 million stablecoin-based debt facility to finance loans secured by GPU infrastructure, the companies announced Friday. USD.AI will use the facility to lend to AI infrastructure operators, with the loans secured by the underlying GPU hardware rather than the borrowers’ broader corporate assets. USD.AI is an onchain financing platform developed by Permian Labs that provides financing backed by AI computing hardware, connecting stablecoin liquidity with demand for GPU infrastructure financing. Read more

Solana's first network-wide vote went down to the wire, with Kraken and Galaxy-linked validators switching sides before the disinflation proposal narrowly passed.

Despite its pullback, ADA continues to trade above $0.20.

AI cloud revenue topped Bitcoin mining for the first time as IREN accelerated its data center conversion.