Crypto

Circle becomes Chelsea's principal and front-of-shirt partner for 2026/27, putting USDC branding on the men's, women's and academy kits. The post USDC gets promoted to the Premier League with Chelsea main shirt sponsor deal appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin failed to make a decisive break above $80,000 as traders digested Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole keynote speech, which remained wary of US inflation trends. Bitcoin (BTC) saw volatility after Friday’s Wall Street open as markets reacted to US Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh’s comments on future monetary policy. Key points: Data from TradingView showed BTC/USD dipping to $78,442 on Bitstamp in volatile trading conditions, down around 1% at the time of writing. Read more

Bitcoin is consolidating near $79K after a sharp breakout from a multi-week consolidation structure. The move has significantly improved the broader technical picture, although momentum is now showing some signs of cooling as BTC approaches a major resistance area around $80K. Bitcoin Price Analysis: The Daily Chart The daily chart shows a decisive breakout from […]

Fed Chair Warsh's first Jackson Hole keynote doubled down on giving markets zero rate hints as inflation runs hot and Bitcoin traders wait on September's call.

IBIT exceeded the market’s $242.3 million net gain as five smaller positive funds failed to keep non-IBIT flows above zero. The post BlackRock just pulled in 115% of all Bitcoin ETF inflows in a single day as rival funds bleed cash appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin’s $80,000 rebound lifts crypto stocks as Circle, Strategy and Solana show how capital markets, stablecoins and onchain growth are driving crypto’s recovery. Bitcoin’s return above $80,000 is exposing just how much the crypto industry now runs through traditional capital markets. Michael Saylor’s Strategy needs a receptive market to finance its Bitcoin machine (BTC), Circle’s outlook increasingly resembles a bet on the growth of dollar-denominated financial infrastructure and Treasury bond buybacks helped provide the backdrop for the latest surge in crypto equities. This week’s Crypto Biz looks at how that relationship is reshaping the companies, balance sheets and networks behind the market’s rebound. Bitcoin’s rally above $80,000 lifted crypto stocks as miners and digital asset treasury companies posted double-digit gains, tracking a broader recovery fueled by the US Treasury’s plan to double certain long-dated bond buybacks. Read more

SOL is among the top performers over the past week, alongside ZEC, RAIN, XMR, and a few others. HYPE charted a new ATH.

The deal to buy NYDIG IF Holdings comprises $7 million in cash and around $35.5 million in stock, as well as the $15 earnout.

Nine straight sessions have brought in $1.4 billion, with Thursday marking the funds' strongest day in 10 months.

XRP has staged a sharp recovery from its August lows against USDT, breaking above the descending large channel and reclaiming key moving-average levels. However, the rally has now reached a major resistance area around $1.50, while momentum is beginning to cool down. The broader structure is therefore improving, but the token still needs a sustained […]

Warsh's highly anticipated remarks at the Kansas City Fed's annual symposium Friday morning leaned hawkish, prompting traders to quickly raise bets on a September rate hike.

IBIT’s published Aug. 26 close left investors in unlisted debt while preliminary terms layer on SOFR-linked financing. The post JPMorgan’s IBIT Bitcoin ETF bet just missed its escape hatch to avoid 6% deduction appeared first on CryptoSlate.

If your personal AI agent goes rogue and causes harm or financial damage in the real world, can you be held liable? Autonomous AI agents can behave in highly unpredictable ways. Give an AI Agent a goal such as passing a test of its capabilities, and it might just decide the best way to score highly is to break containment and hack into a competing company in search of the answer sheet. That’s what happened when Open AI’s GPT-5.6 Sol hacked into Hugging Face last month. Anthropic and Meta subsequently admitted their models had also escaped testing sandboxes to hack third parties too.  But who is legally liable for agents that have minds of their own? OpenAI didn’t intend for the model to go rogue, and issued no instructions for it to do so. If your personal AI agent decides on a course of action that results in harm or financial damage in the real world, can you be held liable if it’s something you could have reasonably foreseen?” Magazine spoke with Rikka Law Group owner and CEO Charlyn Ho to find out the sta...

A footnote to Circle's announcement states that it "does not constitute an invitation or inducement to acquire, hold or trade any cryptoasset, or to use any financial service."

Polish Olympic Committee president Radosław Piesiewicz faces charges as prosecutors investigate his ties to collapsed cryptocurrency exchange Zondacrypto. Polish prosecutors charged the head of the Polish Olympic Committee in an investigation linked to defunct cryptocurrency exchange Zondacrypto. Authorities detained the committee’s president, Radosław Piesiewicz, in connection with the Zondacrypto probe, Poland’s Justice Minister and Prosecutor General Waldemar Żurek announced in an X post on Thursday. Żurek later said prosecutors charged Piesiewicz under two provisions of Poland’s Penal Code, involving allegations of influence peddling and favoring some creditors over others while facing insolvency. Read more

[PRESS RELEASE – Washington, United States, August 28th, 2026] As prediction-market volume hits record highs and regulators circle, identically worded midterm questions are trading several points apart depending on the venue. Predictions.io now tracks 9,700+ markets across Kalshi, Polymarket and Manifold in one place – with free fee and odds calculators so traders can see […]

But every month without settled rules quietly rewards the walled garden, writes Matter Labs’ Vassilis Tziokas.

The company plans 51.6 million new shares against fewer than 5 million outstanding, while any Nasdaq cure remains conditional. The post A zero-revenue public company tried to copy Michael Saylor to avoid delisting, but its stock immediately crashed 25% appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The issuer of the $4 billion USDe token said it expects real-world asset perpetuals to eclipse crypto derivatives in its backing within 12 to 24 months.

The Japanese financial giant is acquiring a 20% stake in the Indonesian online brokerage to build a cross-border, blockchain-based settlement network.