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The exchange has not set suspension times as block 963,648 opens an Alpha stage for practice ECX. The post Bitcoin holders face potential exchange freezes as new chain rollout tests replay safety and market stability appeared first on CryptoSlate.

HYPE neared its all-time high marked just over two months ago.

The prediction market operator is seeking CFTC approval for a copper perpetual as it moves further into traditional derivatives markets.

A Fairshake spokesperson said that the PAC was “just getting started“ on its expenditures as part of efforts to fill US Congress with lawmakers friendly to the crypto industry. Update (Aug. 19, 8:27 pm UTC): This article has been updated to clarify that Lois Frankel won the Democratic primary in Florida’s 23rd congressional district and not re-election. Four of the five candidates supported by ads funded by the cryptocurrency-aligned political action committee (PAC) Fairshake won their primaries or otherwise advanced on Tuesday, potentially a bellwether for the industry’s influence in the 2026 midterm elections. On Tuesday, Democratic and Republican candidates supported by media funded by the Fairshake-affiliated PACs Protect Progress and Defend American Jobs, respectively, notched wins across three US states. Altogether, the PACs spent about $3.6 million on House and Senate races in Alaska, Florida and Wyoming. Read more

A Korean regional bank just became the first of its kind to run Ripple Payments, and Grok AI predicts and opens a door for others to follow through. The price prediction places XRP at $1.80 to $2.60 by the end of 2026, with $2.10 as the realistic base case.The Jeonbuk Bank partnership handles 24/7 near-real-time […] The post Elon Musk Grok AI Just Made a Surprisingly Bullish XRP Price Predicts appeared first on Cryptonews.

The analyst argues that each cycle has produced a smaller drawdown before pushing Bitcoin to a higher peak.

DEFI holders await a late-August cash payout exposed to closing costs and Bitcoin prices after NYSE Arca trading ended Aug. 17. The post Hashdex liquidates $14.7 million Bitcoin ETF as IBIT draws $143.6 million appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin jumped by roughly 6% earlier today as a surprise expansion of US Treasury bond buybacks sent yields lower and boosted demand for risk assets.

The cross-chain protocol said an attacker exploited six software flaws to drain Bitcoin and other assets, sending its CACAO token plunging.

In a race that drew criticism to crypto's leading political action committee for featuring fake headlines in ads, Fairshake's expensive effort fell short.

The new term opens 60- and 90-day cure paths, followed by possible exclusions and up to 12 months of payments. The post Circle renews Coinbase deal creating two ways to challenge Coinbase’s USDC payouts, but neither works quickly appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The $1 billion facility will deploy assets backing USDe into overcollateralized institutional loans, expanding Ethena’s sources of returns beyond crypto basis strategies. FalconX and Ethena have launched a $1 billion secured lending facility that will use assets backing USDe to fund overcollateralized loans to institutional borrowers. The facility is structured through a special purpose vehicle, with FalconX originating and servicing the loans and managing collateral. Assets securing the loans will be held at qualified custodians, while the facility gives Ethena access to institutional lending as an additional source of returns on the assets backing USDe beyond the crypto basis strategies it has traditionally used. FalconX said the facility can support financing for institutional trading strategies, corporate treasury management and payments. The companies did not disclose the facility’s expected returns, loan terms, borrowers or how much capital has initially been deployed. Read more

The project would reward miners for supplying useful computing work to AI agents rather than conventional mining activity.

The US banking regulator released a 376‑page proposal in February, calling for public comment on rules to implement the stablecoin bill ahead of its January 2027 effective date. US Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould said that his agency would have final rules related to the implementation of a payment stablecoin law out by November.  Speaking at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium on Wednesday, the regulator said that following the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC’s) proposal to implement the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act, OCC would release finalized rules ahead of the law’s scheduled January 2027 enactment. Gould said that the OCC “will have a final rule out by November” as the agency considered feedback from the crypto industry following the release of its proposed rules in February. He added that he expects the regulator could begin processing applications related to stablecoin issuers starting in 2027. Read more

A Phase 3 win against the standard of care sent the biotech's shares up 131% and left short sellers down $4.8 billion.

Base is narrowing its accelerator to 10 startups as it looks for teams building AI agents, payments, trading, and financing products.

The transaction connected the banks’ separate tokenized deposit systems through Swift’s ledger, marking a step toward interoperable, 24/7 cross-border payments. Standard Chartered and HSBC have completed the first live cross-border transaction on Swift’s blockchain-based ledger, demonstrating interoperability between the banks’ tokenized deposit systems a month after the ledger’s launch. The transaction involved payment messages exchanged between the two through Swift’s ledger, with the resulting obligations recorded on HSBC’s Tokenised Deposit Service and StanChart’s tokenized deposit infrastructure. Swift’s ledger acted as an orchestration layer, matching and netting the obligations between the banks before final settlement through existing payment systems. Read more

Bitcoin trailed the Nasdaq 100 by 68 percentage points over the past year, and it has spent the last 60 days turning that deficit into a five-point lead. According to Glassnode's cross-asset return table, Bitcoin fell 44% over the past twelve months while the Nasdaq climbed 24%, making crypto the only asset group in the […] The post How crypto turned a 68-point deficit into a market lead as Bitcoin and top altcoins outrun the Nasdaq appeared first on CryptoSlate.

BTC rose about 6% while ether, solana and crypto stocks climbed after the Treasury doubled the size of its bond buybacks.

A White House sitdown with crypto's biggest names and softer Fed signals lit the fuse. But the charts show why the pain for bears might not be over yet.