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Bitcoin faces a fresh macro test as Fed Chair Kevin Warsh points to sticky inflation metrics. ETF inflows and larger Treasury buybacks may reduce volatility, but CryptoSlate says they cannot substitute for disinflation.
Tokenized equity transfer volume climbed 415% to $29.5 billion over 30 days, while active addresses and holders more than doubled, according to Cointelegraph.
The SEC is reviewing automatic filing pathways after a wave of proposals for crypto, leveraged, private-asset and election- or economic-event-linked ETFs reached the market, CryptoSlate reports.
Crypto executives agree AI agents will need to transact with one another, but they disagree on the solution. CoinDesk reports the eventual machine-payment currency could be a stablecoin—or an asset that has not yet been invented.
Blockchain payment infrastructure is challenging Swift’s established role, while bankers argue its 11,500-institution network can absorb the technology. Crypto executives instead see blockchain as a potential replacement for Swift.
A BPI study cited by CoinDesk suggests everyday Americans may respond more to bitcoin’s personal-control and micro-investing features than to broader “digital gold” or world-changing narratives.
BitGo is buying NYDIG’s institutional trading arm in a roughly $42.5 million cash-and-stock deal, adding derivatives, structured products and capital-markets capabilities while NYDIG focuses on power and data centers.
Bitcoin climbed 21.5% between Aug. 17 and Aug. 21, while six of seven large US-listed miners fell. The performance gap underscores how mining companies are evolving beyond pure Bitcoin exposure toward high-performance computing operations.
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.
BIS chief Pablo Hernández de Cos said stablecoins lack credibility for payments at scale. A new FSI study also found sharp differences in rules applying to stablecoin issuers across jurisdictions.
US spot Ethereum ETFs appeared to launch with $10.36 billion in assets, but CryptoSlate’s review of filing data found that most came from ETH already held by Grayscale’s older trusts rather than new institutional buying.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $201.8 million in net outflows Friday, ending a nine-day inflow streak. ARK 21Shares led withdrawals, while total ETF assets fell below $100 billion as Bitcoin dipped under $78,000.
