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Cboe pushes for 3x Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs after 2x crypto funds suffer losses of up to 96%

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Cboe pushes for 3x Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs after 2x crypto funds suffer losses of up to 96%

August 16, 2026

Cboe BZX is asking the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an exception to its own generic...

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Over 1.3 million staked tokens remain stranded onchain after a major validator missed its deadline to exit Aztec

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Over 1.3 million staked tokens remain stranded onchain after a major validator missed its deadline to exit Aztec

August 16, 2026

DV Labs’ planned Aug. 15 Aztec exit was still incomplete by 2 a.m. UTC on Aug. 16:...

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A $48 billion Bitcoin leverage trap is about to trigger a massive forced exit the moment price boundaries break

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A $48 billion Bitcoin leverage trap is about to trigger a massive forced exit the moment price boundaries break

August 16, 2026

Bitcoin’s calm near $62,941 masks a split in Bitcoin futures positioning: either a downside break or an...

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Record user activity and a collapse in whale selling should send XRP soaring, so why is it still pinned at $1?

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Record user activity and a collapse in whale selling should send XRP soaring, so why is it still pinned at $1?

August 16, 2026

XRP is back near $1 even as network activity rebounds, whale deposits to Binance collapse, and derivatives...

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Texas refuses to sell as its $10 million Bitcoin bet sinks to $6.6 million

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Texas refuses to sell as its $10 million Bitcoin bet sinks to $6.6 million

August 16, 2026

Texas kept its 197,844-share position in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) unchanged during the second quarter even...

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Wall Street finally turned staking into a dividend, now Ethereum and Solana want to shrink it

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Wall Street finally turned staking into a dividend, now Ethereum and Solana want to shrink it

August 16, 2026

Grayscale’s July 17 SEC filings said its Ethereum and Solana staking ETFs would convert staking rewards to...

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Trump-linked World Liberty Financial wins OCC bank approval as $112 million DeFi position sits near liquidation

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Trump-linked World Liberty Financial wins OCC bank approval as $112 million DeFi position sits near liquidation

August 16, 2026

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) gave World Liberty Financial, a DeFi venture associated...

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Trump to meet Coinbase, Ripple and crypto leaders as CLARITY Act odds collapse to 10%

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Trump to meet Coinbase, Ripple and crypto leaders as CLARITY Act odds collapse to 10%

August 15, 2026

President Donald Trump and the heads of the SEC and CFTC are expected to meet crypto and...

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Crypto crash liquidations face massive data gap as public records contradict $18B Solana claim

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Crypto crash liquidations face massive data gap as public records contradict $18B Solana claim

August 15, 2026

Solana Research Institute, a Solana-aligned research group, used an Aug. 14 post to revive a July open...

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A staked Ethereum ETF processed $48M in redemptions while keeping 86% of ETH locked, 21Shares filing shows

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A staked Ethereum ETF processed $48M in redemptions while keeping 86% of ETH locked, 21Shares filing shows

August 15, 2026

The 21Shares Ethereum ETF, which trades as TETH, reported $48.4 million in TETH redemptions during the first...

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How a public crypto firm’s 4.3% AI gain hides millions in balance sheet losses

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How a public crypto firm’s 4.3% AI gain hides millions in balance sheet losses

August 15, 2026

SRX Global reported a 4.3% EMJX gain that the company labels hypothetical, but its first post-acquisition disclosures...

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Bitcoin’s $16.3 billion Wall Street stress test splits into four positional patterns

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Bitcoin’s $16.3 billion Wall Street stress test splits into four positional patterns

August 15, 2026

The $16.3 billion in Bitcoin ETF positions that CryptoSlate recently tracked ahead of the Q2 filing deadline...

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Institutional investor Paul Tudor Jones adds 109,446 BlackRock Bitcoin ETF shares while cutting calls by 85%

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Institutional investor Paul Tudor Jones adds 109,446 BlackRock Bitcoin ETF shares while cutting calls by 85%

August 15, 2026

Tudor Investment reported 18.9% more direct shares in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF at June 30 than...

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Solana treasury earns $2.5M in staking rewards but had to sell equity to raise $12M in cash for operations

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Solana treasury earns $2.5M in staking rewards but had to sell equity to raise $12M in cash for operations

August 15, 2026

Solana Company, a Nasdaq-listed SOL treasury under the ticker HSDT, recognized $2.512 million of staking revenue in...

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Why a weekend break below $62,500 could unleash a Bitcoin selling wave toward $58,500

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Why a weekend break below $62,500 could unleash a Bitcoin selling wave toward $58,500

August 15, 2026

Bitcoin trades near $62,900 heading into the weekend, having touched an intraday low of $62,538 on Aug....

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