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DGAI nearly doubled in its first day of trading as DGrid expands its distributed AI inference network and rolls out hardware for its personal AI agent. DGrid AI’s DGAI token nearly doubled in its first day of trading as the decentralized AI inference project rolled out its native token. DGAI was trading around $0.73 on Tuesday, up nearly 93% over the previous 24 hours, with a market capitalization of about $110 million and trading volume topping $165 million, according to CoinGecko data. Source: CoinGecko Read more

US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) extended their inflow streak to six trading days on Monday, adding another $337.6 million and pushing the run to roughly $2.26 billion. The latest intake has put the funds on course for their strongest month of 2026. Bitcoin ETFs have attracted about $2.72 billion in August, according to CryptoRank, […] The post Bitcoin ETFs inflow streak reaches $2.2 billion in 6 days as assets near $100 billion appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin bulls battled for control of the $80,000 zone as gold came off its highest levels since mid-May on falling US bond yields. Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $80,000 into Tuesday’s Wall Street open as crypto and gold gave way to gains in US equities. Key points: Read more

Japheth Dillman told investors that Block Bits Capital's "Autotrader" software was finished and running, and took nearly $1 million.

The crypto ETF issuer is pushing deeper into onchain asset management as tokenization create new ways to build and manage investments.

Hayes sees Treasury policy, rather than Federal Reserve cuts, as a potential catalyst for Bitcoin's next leg higher.

The United States is threatening to eject Iran’s trading partners from the dollar system while widening its power to sanction the country’s crypto sector, escalating a financial campaign that is already testing Washington’s leverage over China. On Aug. 24, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent launched “Operation Economic Outcast,” imposing sanctions on nearly 60 individuals, entities and […] The post US widens Iran crypto sanctions as dollar threat revives Bitcoin and gold debate appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Forty are confirmed malicious, impersonating OKX, Rabby and TronLink to harvest recovery phrases from anyone who types one in.

Arcus introduced transferable ERC-20 tokens for perpetual positions and lets tokenized stocks back leveraged trades without requiring users to sell their holdings. Arcus, a decentralized exchange (DEX) built by the team behind dYdX, has launched a protocol on Robinhood Chain that converts perpetual futures positions into transferable ERC-20 tokens and allows tokenized stocks to be used as collateral for leveraged trading. The launch includes products such as pBTC3x and pHOOD3x, offering 3x exposure to Bitcoin and Robinhood’s HOOD stock token, respectively, the DEX announced in a Tuesday press release shared with Cointelegraph. “Traditional markets have spent decades making sophisticated investment strategies easier to access through products like leveraged ETFs. We believe the next step is making those strategies native to blockchain infrastructure,” Arcus CEO Eddie Zhang said. Read more

Once valued at $2.5 billion, Copper was being marketed by investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald at around $500 million in May this year.

A $13.4 million operating loss sat beneath net income that met one condition for potential awards covering up to 12% of shares. The post This crypto firm lost $13M operating, but paper gains on its own token cleared a path to major payout bonuses appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Hugging Face relies on open weight Chinese models to defend itself from rogue AI agents. But a lack of safety guardrails makes those models potentially dangerous too. “AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman back in 2015, roughly six months before OpenAI was founded. Seven years later, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei struck a similarly cautious note: Yet, both of those companies now sit at the forefront of that race. In July, we got a real-world glimpse of AI models going rogue during internal testing of GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased research model by OpenAI. Multiple AI agents escaped a restricted test environment to the wider internet and hacked the AI-centric GitHub equivalent Hugging Face in an attempt to cheat on the test. Read more

Hugging Face relies on open weight Chinese models to defend itself from rogue AI agents. But a lack of safety guardrails makes those models potentially dangerous too. “AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there’ll be great companies,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman back in 2015, roughly six months before OpenAI was founded. Seven years later, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei struck a similarly cautious note: Yet, both of those companies now sit at the forefront of that race. In July, we got a real-world glimpse of AI models going rogue during internal testing of GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased research model by OpenAI. Multiple AI agents escaped a restricted test environment to the wider internet and hacked the AI-centric GitHub equivalent Hugging Face in an attempt to cheat on the test. Read more

"Liquidations accelerate, sentiment collapses, and I think we go straight toward $40K," one popular X users suggested.

Operation Lighthouse generated 14,300 investigative leads across 11 crypto exchanges and payment services and flagged over 7,700 suspect accounts. Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis said a global operation it led identified more than 7,700 suspect accounts linked to child sexual abuse material (CSAM). According to a Tuesday press release shared with Cointelegraph, Operation Lighthouse investigated 29,120 crypto addresses and digital identifiers connected to over 100 CSAM platforms, forums and distribution networks across the surface and dark web. The operation also generated 14,300 investigative leads across 11 crypto exchanges and payment services and flagged suspects across 125 countries. Among the suspects identified were 16 registered sex offenders. Read more

'Operation Lighthouse' went after child sex abuse materials, working with law enforcement to round up more than 14,000 investigative leads.

Many in Poland may look back at 2026 as the year European crypto finally grew up, and one of Poland’s brightest economic ambitions faded into darkness, writes Mateusz Kara, founder and CEO of Morphic Financial Group.

The Sept. 15 authority is optional, while treasury stock could feed a plan reserve that can grow through 2029. The post Why major crypto asset manager’s 25% buyback plan might recycle shares to employees instead of shrinking supply appeared first on CryptoSlate.

India plans to test tokenized corporate bonds in a September pilot, with state-controlled REC issuing the debt and select investors using wholesale CBDC payments. India reportedly plans to launch its first tokenized corporate bonds in September as part of a pilot involving blockchain-based transactions settled using a central bank digital currency (CBDC). REC Limited, a state-controlled Indian power infrastructure finance company, plans to issue less than 5 billion Indian rupees ($57 million) in tokenized bonds, Reuters reported on Monday, citing three sources with direct knowledge of the plans. The pilot will initially be open only to a select group of investors and could be unveiled at an annual financial technology event in Mumbai in September. “India’s central bank digital currency will be used to buy the tokenized bonds,” Reuters reported, citing one of the sources. Investors will need two digital accounts to participate: a wholesale CBDC wallet provided by a bank and a new electronic securities wallet. ...

Bitmine now holds $15 billion in Ethereum and is about 187,000 ETH short of its 5% supply target after another major purchase. The post Bitmine Is 187,000 ETH Away From Owning 5% of All Ethereum, And It Just Got a Lot Closer appeared first on Cryptonews.