Strategy Buys $370M of Bitcoin in First Purchase Since June
The 4,603 BTC cost an average of $80,318, some 29% above what the company took for the coins it sold this summer.
Month: August 2026
Strategy returns to bitcoin buys, adding $370 million of BTC last week
It’s the first week of bitcoin purchases for the Michael Saylor-led company in about two months.
Robinhood Chain beats Ethereum in daily revenue as memecoin trading takes over
The two-month-old network processed a record 5.52 million transactions on Aug. 30 as users launched 22,600 tokens and memecoin trading tools drove most of the $2.66 million in revenue.
Holden’s Lightning Flight
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Sberbank plans to add ether and USDT as collateral for crypto-backed loans: Report
The Bank of Russia recently included ETH and USDT in a draft list of cryptocurrencies approved for public trading on Russian exchanges.
Here’s 1 metric on U.S. debt that makes bitcoin’s bull case look stronger than ever
Your day-ahead look for Aug. 31, 2026
Hyperliquid, Pump.fun account for nearly 90% of record $638M crypto buybacks: FT
Crypto projects spent a record $638 million on token buybacks so far in 2026, as more protocols are turning their revenue into buybacks to return more value to token holders.
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Ireland Bars Crypto From State Savings Scheme Targeting $203B in Deposits
Shares, bonds, funds, ETFs and insurance products will qualify for the tax-advantaged accounts, which open next year.
Markets pivot to September Fed rate hike: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin approached the August monthly close below key resistance with markets once again pricing in a Federal Reserve interest-rate hike in September.
U.S. strikes on Iran fail to stir bitcoin, on track for best month since November 2024
Bitcoin held steady despite a broader risk-off move after the first U.S. strikes against Iran for weeks sent oil higher and stocks lower. The cryptocurrency has gained 24% this month.
Nimiq’s Mini Apps Framework Charges 0% Where Apple Charges 30%: Inside Open Framework for Developers
Nearly a billion people in China open an application inside another application every month, and almost none of them think of it as an app at all. That is the model Nimiq is now importing into crypto payments, and it has put $50,000 behind persuading developers to help build it. Cycle II of the Nimiq … Read more
The Data Center Your Neighbors Actually Want
What if the most hated building in American land use became the anchor of the local food system? Last week, at POLITICO’s California Agenda summit in Sacramento, OpenAI’s vice president for global policy, Ann O’Leary, said something you rarely hear from inside the AI industry: “If you think about the amazing work we’re trying to … Read more
Crypto.com’s Cronos Halts Entire Blockchain After $75M Tectonic Exploit
Some $6 million reached Ethereum before validators froze the chain, stranding the rest on a network that still is not producing blocks.
Startup Founder Interview: afka, The AI Employee Built to Run a Business, Not Just Chat With It
Welcome to HackerNoon’s Writing Prompts! Would you like to take a stab at answering some of these questions? The link for the template is HERE. 1. What is your company in 2–5 words? afka. One AI Brain that runs your company. Not a chatbot and not a pile of separate tools: one brain that plans, decides … Read more
More Markets lending reserve drained for $9.3M: Blockaid
Blockaid said an attacker used an Ankr liquid staking token and E-mode to overborrow from More Markets and drain about $9.3 million in WFLOW from a lending reserve.
Designing An AI 3D Logo Workflow With Honest Input And Review States
Disclosure: I work on AI3DLogo, the AI 3D logo workflow used as the concrete example in this article. An image-generation interface becomes much easier to reason about when it treats the user’s starting material as an explicit contract. That idea connects to the broader engineering discussions in HackerNoon’s software development and product management archives: a … Read more
U.S. jobs report, Russia’s digital ruble rollout: Crypto Week Ahead
Your look at what’s coming in the week starting Aug. 31.
Live updates: Bitcoin holds $78,000 as yen breaks 160 and rate-hike bets lift the dollar
Bitcoin is holding just under $78,000 as August closes. The dollar strength that pushed the yen past its intervention line is the same force capping crypto.
Luke Dashjr exits mining pool Ocean after split over Bitcoin mining’s future
The split was mutual, with both parties citing differing views on the future of Bitcoin mining and recent protocol developments.
Your Executives Are Faking It on AI. The Machines Aren’t Waiting
By Wendy Lynch, PhD Three out of four C-suite executives recently admitted, in a confidential survey, that they had projected more confidence in their AI strategy than they actually felt. Seventy-four percent. Read that again: by their own account, most of the people signing off on AI are acting on mission-critical issues they do not … Read more
September Fed rate hike fears look overblown as the probability stands at just 58%, not 90%
Odds of a rate hike in September remain below 60% despite Warsh’s hawkish speech on Friday. Observers downplay fears of tightening.
Zcash private transactions could go from three-second waits to under 200 milliseconds
Zakura says a new cryptography stack makes mobile proof generation more than 14 times faster, removing one of the biggest delays users face when sending private ZEC.
Cronos halts blockchain after $75 million lending exploit hits lending app Tectonic
An attacker allegedly pushed Tectonic’s thinly traded TONIC token up 100-fold, used it as collateral to borrow real assets and left most funds stranded when Cronos validators paused the network.
Bitcoin barely blinks as U.S. hits Iran, sending oil higher and stocks lower
BTC remains August’s best-performing asset after the latest escalation in geopolitical tensions.