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The Ohio spending comes days after the Senate blocked the crypto industry’s Clarity Act.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says crypto event contracts are already outpacing sports bets, and could become the platform’s dominant category within a few years.

A lawsuit accuses UK users of running six coordinated accounts to pull at least $278,000 from X’s now-defunct Creator Revenue Sharing Program.

Eligible customers can request shares at the offering price, but allocations are not guaranteed.

The central bank plans to buy euro-denominated public-sector debt and settle the transactions through its new Pontes service.

Venice (VVV) has clawed back from under a dollar to a record $34, and the pitch behind it is simple: an AI chatbot that promises to forget you the moment you close the tab.

The HashFly browser experiment uses a digital neural model for Bitcoin hashing and projects greater efficiency from a hypothetical biological version.

xAI says the new model is a “notable improvement” over Grok 4.6 at the same price. The benchmarks say it’s still in second place.

Crypto advocates argue that NFTs can deliver real digital ownership, but privacy gaps and integration hurdles have held the tech back.

The senior roles cover Apple’s consumer payment products and Google Cloud’s institutional blockchain business in Asia.

The rally cleared an eight-month ceiling on a short squeeze and falling oil prices. The next three weeks will decide if it sticks.

The purchase lifts Bitmine’s stash to nearly 5.99 million ETH—4.9% of supply—as chairman Tom Lee argues Ethereum’s outperformance signals a stronger move ahead and institutions remain underweight.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin pushed up to $85,000 and a new local high and altcoins soared in a huge overnight rally.

The Bitcoin treasury firm’s holdings bottomed at 840,447 BTC in August. They have since climbed 5,553 BTC, to within 0.2% of the high.

A short squeeze started the move, but spot buyers have sustained it, and one measure of selling pressure is near a record low.

France is the worst-hit country in the world for these attacks, with more than 70 logged in the first eight months of 2026.

After banks lost their push for tighter stablecoin rules in the failed Clarity Act, JP Morgan scored a narrower win as Visa moves to stop meme coin purchases from being coded as ordinary “digital media” and earning card rewards.

A Glassnode and Bybit report frames the divergence as the defining feature of this cycle, with froth pooling in the market’s riskiest corners even as Bitcoin does the heavy lifting.

The Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate, shifting the industry’s focus to a new wave of action from the SEC and CFTC.

A Glassnode and Bybit report found Bitcoin climbed 24.6% in five August days even as active leverage fell, with short positions supplying 89% of every liquidated dollar.

The Zcash ETF is splitting its shares three ways after pulling in more than $233 million in under a month, as Wall Street piles into crypto’s hottest privacy trade.

The network’s clock just sped up again, but the extra speed goes to freshness, not capacity.

The filing seeks CFTC approval for contracts giving US traders 24/5 leveraged exposure to individual stocks without ownership.

A new upgrade would cut Zcash block time from 75 seconds to 25, while quietly rewriting how the network pays for its own security after 2031.

Kevin O’Leary believes Bitcoin could hit $1 million if crypto beats its quantum computing problem, and explained why he’s ditching Ethereum.

XRP is roaring back as Bitcoin claws its way above $800,000 again, but the charts continue to give traders mixed signals.

The agency submitted a prerule on crypto asset transactions and markets to the White House for review, signaling it will build a derivatives framework on its own authority after the Clarity Act’s collapse.

Bitcoin just ripped 5.88% higher in a single session, tearing back toward its 2026 highs. The charts say the move is real, but they also say it’s gotten ahead of itself.

Internal memos warned of a “doom loop” threatening the quality of the very models it was building with OpenAI.

It came just hours after S&P Global announced its acquisition of OpenZeppelin, as everything TradFi moves onchain.