Japan’s FSA requested to exempt trust-type stablecoins from mandatory tax filings starting in fiscal year 2027, arguing that it would improve their use as transaction tools.
The Japanese Bitcoin treasury company has transferred 10,270 BTC to Coinbase Prime this week, an amount equal to more than 29% of its reported holdings.
“AI creator” accounts like Aitana Lopez will get a new “AI-generated profile” label. | Image: Aitana Lopez Instagram is finally taking steps to address the rise of fake AI-influencer accounts that have gotten harder to spot. It’s also renaming the “AI creator” label to “AI-generated profile” to make it clear when a profile features an … Read more
Circleback is also introducing new pricing plans starting from $14 per month
Company Chairman Lee said crypto’s recent outperformance could draw more institutional investors.
Strategy added to its BTC treasury for the first time in two months, while continuing to bolster its cash reserves and buy back its perpetual STRC preferred stock.
Vlad Tenev’s new blockchain is soaring in all metrics as memes paired with tokenized stocks start to take off.
The 4,603 BTC cost an average of $80,318, some 29% above what the company took for the coins it sold this summer.
It’s the first week of bitcoin purchases for the Michael Saylor-led company in about two months.
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.
The Bank of Russia recently included ETH and USDT in a draft list of cryptocurrencies approved for public trading on Russian exchanges.
Your day-ahead look for Aug. 31, 2026
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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Shares, bonds, funds, ETFs and insurance products will qualify for the tax-advantaged accounts, which open next year.
Bitcoin approached the August monthly close below key resistance with markets once again pricing in a Federal Reserve interest-rate hike in September.
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.
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
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
Some $6 million reached Ethereum before validators froze the chain, stranding the rest on a network that still is not producing blocks.
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
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.
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
Your look at what’s coming in the week starting Aug. 31.
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.
The split was mutual, with both parties citing differing views on the future of Bitcoin mining and recent protocol developments.
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