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An SEC filing shows Grayscale's XRP Trust holdings fell by more than half as redemptions drove token sales and share count lower. The post XRP Trust Shares and Holdings Plunge in First-Half Filing appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin’s BIP-110 push failed to gain meaningful mining support over the weekend, leaving the proposal stranded on a minority chain that produced only two blocks before stalling at height 961,633. The soft fork was designed to temporarily restrict several forms of arbitrary data on Bitcoin and required 55% miner signaling during its deployment window. Instead, […] The post Bitcoin’s BIP-110 fork is back, but its backers want to replace the miners and change PoW appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The new Lend v2 product turns deposits and borrowed assets into trading liquidity, tying higher returns to whether Jupiter’s router can send enough swap flow to the new vaults.

[PRESS RELEASE – Road Town, British Virgin Islands, August 10th, 2026] Deposits Are Open for hBTC, the Vault Token for Hilbert Group’s BTC Basis+ Strategy Syntetika, a tokenization hub for regulated investment strategies, opened deposits today for its first strategy: BTC Basis+, managed by the publicly traded Hilbert Group. Syntetika makes investment strategies that run […]

Bitmine has reported 4.8% of the supply for five straight weeks, leaving its 'Alchemy of 5%' target roughly 230,000 tokens away.

Chairman Tom Lee said easing financial conditions could support crypto, even as the CLARITY Act failed to reach a Senate vote before the August recess.

"In 12 months, nobody will care whether they bought BTC 10% cheaper. They will regret not buying more," a popular X user stated.

New positions stop Aug. 26, while contracts left open face a wind-down that ends in forced closure Sept. 23. The post Traders holding $39.5 million in BitMEX Bitcoin perps have 16 days to exit before forced closures begin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Solana vault splits income from Strategy’s preferred stock into a lower-risk senior token and a higher-risk junior token.

Bitdeer mined 2,694 BTC in Q2, but ended the quarter holding just 150 BTC after liquidating its treasury earlier this year. Bitdeer mined 2,694 Bitcoin during the second quarter of 2026, up nearly fivefold from 565 BTC a year earlier.  The miner closed the quarter with 150 BTC held on its balance sheet, down 90% from 1,502 BTC a year earlier, according to the company’s Q2 report published Monday. Bitdeer liquidated its entire 943 BTC treasury in February, citing liquidity decisions rather than a shift away from its core Bitcoin mining business.  Read more

The latest ETH purchase was significantly smaller than many of the previous ones.

The 2025 statements recorded €5,315 in other income and €373,857 in cash before the April acquisition. The post Bakkt promised a $44 trillion payment revolution, but its key acquisition made just €5,315 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Strategy sold 1,690 Bitcoin to repurchase STRC shares as its US dollar reserve rose to $4.65 billion and its Bitcoin holdings fell to 840,447 BTC. Strategy, which holds the largest corporate Bitcoin treasury, sold BTC for the second week in a row to repurchase its STRC preferred stock. The company sold 1,690 Bitcoin for $108.6 million between Aug. 3 and Aug. 9, according to a Monday 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Strategy used the proceeds to buy back 1.15 million shares of its STRC preferred stock for $108.6 million. STRC is a variable-rate preferred stock designed to pay monthly dividends. Read more

And the ETH inflows were even bigger, when factoring in market cap.

All of the proceeds went into a $109 million STRC buyback, while the company sold six times as much again in its own stock.

Daily totals shrank as the week wore on, and analysts are split on whether the return of institutional money marks a genuine turn.

The company increased its USD reserve to $4.65 billion while reducing its bitcoin holdings to 840,447 BTC

So, this is what the 'Doing Business' message from yesterday meant.

U.S. persons must block and report covered property while foreign institutions risk sanctions for significant continued dealings. The post US sanctions exposed a $6.3 billion crypto pipeline linking Iran and Russia appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Onchain forensics tie a single actor to an $8 million coordinated drain across TRON and Ethereum, with most funds routed through FixedFloat and the attack vector still unknown.