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Nexo introduced regulated, cryptocurrency-backed credit lines that allow users to access liquidity in Australian dollars or stablecoins by borrowing against their digital assets. Nexo Australia launched crypto-backed credit lines after becoming a credit representative under Australia’s National Consumer Credit Protection Act, the company said in a Tuesday announcement shared with Cointelegraph. The new credit lines allow eligible clients to borrow Australian dollars or stablecoins by using their cryptocurrencies as collateral without having to sell them. Funds are generally available within 24 hours with flexible repayments, with no fixed term or origination fees. Interest rates range from 0.9% to 21.9%, depending on the credit line and the client’s loyalty tier. Read more

Here's the latest notable developments in the broader Ripple ecosystem, as well as XRP's price update as the fight for $1.00 continues.

The feature, which follows earlier moves into financial transactions, is not yet being tested anywhere, a spokesperson said.

Ripple Prime's inaugural senior notes carried an investment grade rating and drew institutional investors across key financial markets.

The SEC's new crypto fundraising proposal deliberately treats tokens as free to trade as soon as a buyer acquires them, unless the issuer or another law says otherwise. Insiders typically know more than the public while a token project is still being built, and their incentives do not always line up with everyone else's. The […] The post SEC opens door to day-one crypto insider sales that Senate draft would block appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The altcoin in question has skyrocketed by over 80% in the past day alone.

The Nasdaq-listed privacy firm launched Cypherpunk Mining through a $33.33 million equity deal with Winklevoss Capital, adding roughly 18% of the Zcash network's hashrate to accelerate its treasury ambitions.

The SEC proposes crypto funding exemptions and a conditional token safe harbor, with disclosure rules and a 60-day public comment period. The post SEC Unveils Two Crypto Funding Exemptions and Token Safe Harbor appeared first on Cryptonews.

Widening losses and intensifying competition coincide with a pause in frontier reinforcement-learning training as openai strengthens its safety controls.

U.S. Treasury yields retreat from the highest levels in decades, while bitcoin holds above $64,000.

Wall Street has stopped valuing this company of rockets, Meta AI, however, predicts the market prices of Starlink monetization, and the price prediction ladders from $205 in 2027 to $410 by 2031.The 2027 case rests on subscriber economics. Starlink ended Q1 with 10.3M subscribers and revenue up 91.9% year over year in the August 4 […] The post Mark Zuckerberg Meta AI Predicts Where SpaceX Stock Could Be in 5 Years appeared first on Cryptonews.

Hayes revealed his new role as Flop Labs CEO and teased a “massive airdrop” from the AI inference protocol in the fourth quarter of 2026. BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes said he would lead Flop Labs and updated his X profile to identify himself as the company’s CEO. Flop Labs is developing a proposed network through which AI agents would pay for computing and other services. “I’m coming out of retirement to lead @flop_labs,” Hayes said in a Tuesday X post. Cointelegraph has approached Hayes for comment and asked whether this position would affect his existing role as chief investment officer of Maelstrom Fund. Read more

Even after its estimated C$22 million unencumbered crypto, roughly C$12.2 million of the illustrative gap remains. The post This Solana treasury company may sell SOL as a DeFi loan ties up more than half its treasury appeared first on CryptoSlate.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $189 million on Tuesday, lifting August net inflows to $951 million, while Ether ETFs added $71.5 million. US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds drew $189.3 million in net inflows on Tuesday, lifting August net inflows to about $951 million. The latest gains followed $297.6 million in net inflows on Monday, bringing the two-day total to $487 million, or more than half of the funds’ net inflows so far this month, according to SoSoValue data. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust led the day’s inflows with $143.6 million, while Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund added $23.9 million. Read more

XRP tests critical $1.00 support after dipping to November lows. Full technical breakdown, key levels, and an early-stage Bitcoin L2 alternative traders are watching. The post XRP Price Prediction: Lowest Since 2024, $1 at Risk appeared first on Cryptonews.

The public will be allowed to comment on the proposal for 60 days after it appears in the Federal Register.

[PRESS RELEASE – Willemstad, Curaçao, August 19th, 2026] 1win, a crypto entertainment platform, has added Crypto Genesys, Pragmatic Play’s new crypto-themed slot, giving its players access to a title currently available across only a limited selection of gaming platforms. As one of the few selected gaming platforms that offer Crypto Genesys, 1win is expanding its […]

Its claimed 9.62-second p99 fits Ethereum's latency target, while workload, proof and whole-system power details remain undisclosed. The post Ethereum’s 12-GPU proving problem just got a 4-GPU answer appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A chain of six flaws caused the cross-chain trading network to credit a pool with nearly 50 million tokens that were never properly funded, letting an attacker drain real assets.

A Hyperliquid perp priced Unitree far above its IPO valuation before Shanghai trading began, but the robot maker’s first public trade still opened roughly 75% above crypto traders’ implied price.