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Analysts discuss the cartoon-themed price action as prices for major cryptocurrencies wilt.

The Treasury Department's announcement led to major gains for several assets. Gold, though, has lost its own.

Remixpoint sold $5.5 million in ETH, SOL, XRP and DOGE, booking a $736,000 net gain as it narrowed its crypto strategy to focus on Bitcoin. Remixpoint, one of Japan’s largest corporate Bitcoin holders, sold all its altcoins, leaving about 1,506 BTC ($115 million) as its only cryptocurrency holding as it concentrates its crypto strategy around Bitcoin. Remixpoint sold its Ether (ETH), Solana (SOL), XRP (XRP) and Dogecoin (DOGE) holdings for a combined 878.8 million yen ($5.5 million), generating a 117.8 million yen ($736,000) gain, according to a Wednesday company disclosure. The company recorded gains on its ETH, SOL and XRP sales but sold its DOGE holdings at a 3.26 million yen ($20,000) loss. The company completed the sale on Tuesday and expects to book the gain in the second quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2027. Read more

The plaintiffs didn’t dispute their involvement in the pig butchering scam, but claimed that Tether did not have the authority to freeze the $42 million at the time. Two Thai businessmen sued stablecoin issuer Tether in a New York district court, claiming it illegally froze $42.4 million in Tether USDt (USDT) in October, as part of a broader case tied to a pig butchering scheme. In a Monday court filing, the plaintiffs claimed that Tether illegally froze the $42 million without a warrant in October 2025, following an informal request from US Homeland Security Investigations. Authorities in the Eastern District of North Carolina only issued a seizure warrant for the funds later in February 2026, as part of a $61 million pig butchering case. The warrant directed the burn and reissuance of the tokens to a government wallet.  Read more

So far, Rektember is living up to its name as Bitcoin slips. Will this September follow the historical averages, or break the trend?

An emergency patch disabled binary-options settlement after an exploit, while about 1,980 ETH remained at an address linked by researchers to the incident. The post A layer-1 blockchain froze for 4 hours to stop a $4.9 million hack, then claimed it was just an upgrade appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Euronext Growth Paris-listed firm issued 13,181,030 shares with four warrants each at 58 euro cents per share, according to a filing on Wednesday.

CrowdStrike and the DOJ isolated more than 15,000 infected machines in a malware takedown spanning four countries.

Standard Chartered estimated in January that stablecoins could pull about $500 billion from US bank deposits by the end of 2028. Regional banks looked especially exposed given how much they depend on the spread between what they pay depositors and what they earn on loans. Now, 21 major financial institutions, including Bank of America, Citi, […] The post Wall Street is now racing to control the $1.9T stablecoin shift to avoid losing its customer base appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Your day-ahead look for Sept. 2, 2026

The plaintiffs allege that Tether acted in response to an informal U.S. law-enforcement request more than three months before a seizure warrant was issued.

OpenPayd is targeting a Nasdaq debut after agreeing to combine with Titan Acquisition Corp. in a major public-market deal.

Thailand adopted a crypto Travel Rule requiring digital asset operators to verify control of self-custodial wallets and retain transaction data for five years. Thailand is tightening oversight of crypto transfers, including transactions involving self-custodial wallets, as it moves to align with global Anti-Money Laundering (AML) standards. Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued new Travel Rule regulations requiring digital asset operators to collect information about parties involved in crypto transfers, the regulator announced Wednesday. The rules will take effect on Feb. 27, 2027, giving crypto businesses nearly six months to develop systems for transmitting, receiving and monitoring transaction information. Read more

XRP ETFs pull in fresh institutional inflows while price tests $1.33 support. Full technical breakdown plus an early-stage L3 presale alternative. The post Ripple Sees XRP ETFs Pull In $170M as Institutions Build Their Positions appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin fell 1% since midnight as Brent jumped past $93 and Treasury yields climbed toward 4.8%.

Eligible users trade physically settled contracts through Binance while Nest routes orders and Alpaca executes, settles and custodies the shares. The post Binance deepens TradFi push with physically settled options on over 1,000 US equities appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The former prime minister said U.K. is among the worst examples of rising debt and warns the situation may have gone too far.

New Form TA-2 questions would make agents report how many share registers they keep on distributed ledgers.

$308,000 loss instead of a $3 million profit: check out what happened with this trader.

Bitcoin fell 1.4% to $77,670.6 as higher Treasury yields and renewed U.S.-Iran strikes reversed part of August’s gains. The post Bitcoin August Rally Is Being Put to the Test With Higher Treasury Yields appeared first on Cryptonews.