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Kalshi permanently banned former Republican politician George Santos after an insider-betting investigation and suspended Laurie Buckhout for three years. Cointelegraph described the Santos action as the platform’s first lifetime ban involving a politician.
CoinDesk reports that wallets tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group sold more than $30 million in Bitcoin on Hyperliquid over the past three weeks, as Donald Trump pushes to bring the crypto platform onshore.
CryptoSlate says AI data centers are adopting a power-management lesson associated with Bitcoin miners. AI computing relies on electricity, generates substantial heat and requires heavy-duty cooling as services scale to millions of users.
Former SEC and CFTC officials are urging lighter crypto rules, warning that excessive regulatory burdens could leave a $90 trillion perpetuals market offshore as agencies pursue work on derivatives and custody.
CryptoSlate reports a major Bitcoin derivatives imbalance: CME exposure stands at 41,252.1 BTC versus Coinbase’s 151.62 BTC residual. Any associated hedge could offset a squeeze, but the gap raises the risk of a sharp position shakeout.
South Korea plans free AI access for every citizen, with three consortia sharing up to 512 state-supplied Nvidia B200 chips. Beta testing is scheduled for September, and the service is expected to offer unlimited tokens.
Robinhood Chain recorded $2.66 million in revenue and 5.52 million transactions on Aug. 30, surpassing Ethereum’s daily revenue as memecoin tools drove most activity and users launched 22,600 tokens.
CryptoSlate reported that XRPL consensus simulations froze after 12% of central nodes were removed. At 60% participation, adding two random links lifted simulated quorum-failure thresholds from 11% to 38% and from 12% to 33%.
Cointelegraph reports that Bitcoin is developing post-quantum defenses, while Solana validators agreed to cancel 18.9 million SOL to reduce inflation. Bernstein’s bullish case sees Bitcoin reaching a $500,000 peak this cycle.
Polygon quietly fixed denial-of-service and consensus-hardening flaws in the Austin and Kyoto hard forks before disclosure. The network said the vulnerabilities, patched in Bor and Heimdall clients, were never exploited.
More than 100 AI, cybersecurity, finance and technology organizations are urging governments and industry to improve defenses against attacks powered by increasingly capable AI models, following cases in which AI systems hacked real companies.
Crypto stock tokens barely moved over the weekend, while four Aerodrome pools displayed $6.07 million in liquidity. CryptoSlate said Aave V3 records listed no liquidity for the B20 assets examined.
Bitcoin traded near $78,000 after rejecting levels above $81,000. CryptoSlate cited $77,000 support and $80,000 resistance, with a break below support exposing the mid-$75,000s and a recovery potentially targeting $81,300 and $82,000-$83,000.
Real Trump Coins promoted GOLD before deleting related X posts, while wallets linked to the team sold 224.5 million tokens. Cointelegraph reported that GOLD’s market value subsequently fell by about 99%.
Polygon Labs called for an urgent client upgrade after the Austin and Kyoto hardforks addressed block-stall, peer-crash and validator risks. Nodes using older binaries are now outside the network’s canonical consensus.
