US targets Iran’s crypto sector, cites over $100M in oil-linked payments
The US Treasury expanded sanctions to Iran’s digital asset sector, alleging a UAE-based broker processed over $100 million in crypto for oil sales.
Month: August 2026
Bitcoin tops $80,000, solana jumps 8% but rally now runs into overbought warning
BTC is up more than 25% on the week after Treasury’s bond-buyback expansion sparked a rally, while Solana led majors Tuesday as validators vote on proposals to slow new SOL creation and raise daily burns.
Claude Opus 5 Code Quality: What Sonar’s Benchmark Reveals
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s latest flagship, released on July 24. Anthropic describes it as delivering frontier intelligence at half the price of Claude Fable 5, and calls out one capability in particular: Opus 5 is unusually good at verifying its own work and catching logical flaws while it plans. That’s an interesting claim to … Read more
How to Govern AI in Production With WSO2 AI Gateway
I remember the exact moment I realized we had a problem. It was a Tuesday afternoon, and our team had just integrated an LLM into a customer-facing support chatbot. The model was brilliant : fast, articulate, and impressively knowledgeable. Everything worked flawlessly in staging. We shipped it to their (luckily) QA environment on a Friday … Read more
BNB Chain activates Pasteur hard fork to strengthen bridge security
BNB Chain activates the Pasteur hard fork on BSC, closing bridge and validator security gaps while targeting greater transaction capacity.
India’s Airbound bags $37M to take on trucks with rocket-like drones
Airbound’s ultra-lightweight approach to drone delivery has attracted backing from Greenoaks, DoorDash, and Silicon Valley investor Lachy Groom.
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Korean bank taps Ripple for payments, Pakistan opens crypto licensing: Asia Express
Asia’s biggest crypto hubs are locked in a tax-cut arms race, while Ripple will help Korea’s Jeonbuk Bank move money across borders.
Bitcoin hits $80,000 for the first time since May as crypto recovery accelerates
BTC has now surged 38% following its June plunge as shifting U.S. Treasury policy helped bring buyers back to crypto, rejuvenating ETF demand.
Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC
The AI hedge fund went from “the talk of Wall Street” to “subject of federal subpoenas” faster than you can say “diversify your portfolio.”
Lenovo confirms Legion Go issues after gamers report bricked devices
Cursed BIOS. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge When a company’s software update turns your computer into a useless brick, should fixes be free? Framework, the modular computer startup, apparently thinks so. But it’s not clear that computing giant Lenovo will go that far. Three weeks after a Redditor presented a nearly $300 … Read more
Oura is reportedly eyeing a September IPO that could value it at more than $16B
We all knew it was coming. The expected valuation may surprise, though.
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Hugging Face Explores $13 Billion Sale a Month After a Rogue OpenAI Agent Hacked It
The open-source AI hub is fielding buyout interest at nearly triple its 2023 valuation, weeks after a security breach and days after Stripe’s OpenRouter deal reset the price of AI infrastructure.
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Building Memory for AI Agents: From Episodes to Knowledge
Why episodic, semantic, procedural, and working memory should not be dumped into the same bucket. An AI agent completes a task successfully. It finds a flight, compares the options, applies the travel policy, and books the right itinerary. What should it remember? Everything, of course. Embed the conversation, persist the tool calls, store the final … Read more
CFTC, US soldier accused of illegal Polymarket bet spar over interpretation of prediction markets
A judge stayed the CFTC’s civil case against a soldier who allegedly used nonpublic information for a Polymarket bet, but the regulator is trying to weigh in on the criminal case.
Strive Buys $81.5 Million in Bitcoin After Issuing More Shares
The company increased its Bitcoin holdings by 5.5%, but its Bitcoin per fully diluted share rose only about 1.4%.
Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO
The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading on Monday back at its IPO price of $135.
I Planted 10 Goroutine Leaks to Test Go 1.27’s New Leak Detector
A worker blocks on a channel nobody reads, the handler that spawned it returns, and your process now carries a goroutine that will live until the next deploy. Nothing in your logs mentions it. Do that once per request, and you have a memory graph that climbs for days before anyone opens an issue. Go … Read more
Best AI Crypto Trading Bots in 2026: A Complete Guide to AI-Powered Crypto Trading Platforms
Introduction: The Evolution of AI Crypto Trading The cryptocurrency market operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, creating both opportunities and challenges for traders. Unlike traditional financial markets, crypto markets never close. Monitoring price movements, analyzing market data, and executing strategies manually can be extremely time-consuming. This has accelerated the development of AI … Read more
human.tech Launches Wallet Protocol on Ika Network for Decentralized Apps and AI agents
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, August 24th, 2026/Chainwire/–The human.tech Wallet Protocol is live today on the Ika decentralized network. This extension lets developers build multi-chain apps across EVM, Sui, and Solana, with additional chains to be added. CEO of the parent company, Holonym Foundation, Dr. Shady El Damaty said, “This is the first chain-agnostic and decentralized … Read more
Gemini plans to distribute crypto prediction markets through Apex brokerages
The proposed deal would make Gemini the exclusive venue for crypto event contracts offered through Apex’s FCM, expanding its prediction-market reach to brokerage clients.
AI Model Ox Alpha Is Free, Beats Claude Fable, and Nobody Knows Who Built It
Ox Alpha is topping benchmark scores, reads a million tokens, takes video as input, and has developers guessing who’s behind it.
Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case
Zillow and Redfin reached a settlement with the FTC, which requires Redfin to reenter the rental advertising business.
FlyEdge Opens Public Preview of Aviation-Focused Blockchain for Tokenized Airline Loyalty
Seoul, South Korea, August 24th, 2026/Chainwire/–FlyEdge, a B2B platform focused on tokenizing airline loyalty value, has opened a multilingual public preview that allows airlines and travelers to experience and independently verify the full on-chain process—from token issuance and conversion to transfer and redemption. The preview runs on StreamChain, an EVM-compatible mainnet founded by GW Lee … Read more
Why the Bitcoin Rally Looks Like a Vote Against the Dollar
Bitcoin and gold rose as the dollar weakened following expanded Treasury bond buybacks, reflecting concerns about U.S. fiscal policy, analysts say.