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This public company now controls 18% of Zcash mining power after $33 million Winklevoss-linked deal

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This public company now controls 18% of Zcash mining power after $33 million Winklevoss-linked deal

August 18, 2026

Cypherpunk Technologies acquired roughly 18% of Zcash’s mining power in a $33.33 million equity deal that could...

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Shifting $576M of forced sales off public order books saved Hyperliquid from a systemic crash

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Shifting $576M of forced sales off public order books saved Hyperliquid from a systemic crash

August 18, 2026

Hyperliquid, an on-chain perpetual futures venue, sent most of the forced selling in the worst minute of...

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Solana’s Alpenglow bug hunt charges researchers 0.5 SOL to report flaws

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Solana’s Alpenglow bug hunt charges researchers 0.5 SOL to report flaws

August 18, 2026

Anza is charging security researchers a non-refundable 0.5 SOL to file each Alpenglow finding before the competition...

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Bitcoin ETF flows jumped by $137 million, but it only recouped a third of recent losses

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Bitcoin ETF flows jumped by $137 million, but it only recouped a third of recent losses

August 18, 2026

Farside’s currently reported $137.3 million U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF inflow on Aug. 17 rested heavily on Fidelity,...

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Ethereum wants to hide your trades from bots before they can attack

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Ethereum wants to hide your trades from bots before they can attack

August 18, 2026

Ethereum developers are weighing a new defense against predatory trading bots that exploit pending transactions before they...

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Circle still tells users to buy Noble USDC on Coinbase after cutoff date passes

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Circle still tells users to buy Noble USDC on Coinbase after cutoff date passes

August 18, 2026

Coinbase’s announced Aug. 17 cutoff for USDC deposits and withdrawals on Noble had passed, but Circle’s public...

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Blockchains may finally break their hidden reliance on a ticking randomness clock to keep networks secure

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Blockchains may finally break their hidden reliance on a ticking randomness clock to keep networks secure

August 18, 2026

A paper accepted for Crypto 2026 in Santa Barbara says it resolves a theoretical gap in permissionless...

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Strategy raised $334 million from MSTR shareholders last week — Bitcoin got none of it

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Strategy raised $334 million from MSTR shareholders last week — Bitcoin got none of it

August 18, 2026

Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) directed all $333.7 million raised from common-stock sales last week toward preferred-stock obligations and...

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Singapore consortium tackles permissionless blockchain risks for APAC banks

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Singapore consortium tackles permissionless blockchain risks for APAC banks

August 18, 2026

A consortium of industry bodies and law firm Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow has launched Project Pigeon,...

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Peter Todd reopens Bitcoin’s 21M cap debate because transaction fees make up just 0.5% of miner revenue

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Peter Todd reopens Bitcoin’s 21M cap debate because transaction fees make up just 0.5% of miner revenue

August 18, 2026

Early Bitcoin developer and self-proclaimed “Bitcoin thought leader,” Peter Todd, has revived debate over Bitcoin’s 21 million-coin...

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Half of Aave’s debt sits in just 9% of positions built around one Ethereum correlation trade

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Half of Aave’s debt sits in just 9% of positions built around one Ethereum correlation trade

August 18, 2026

Galaxy’s Aug. 7 snapshot of Aave V3 Core found 19,073 loans on the protocol after applying standard...

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Bitcoin faces its highest Treasury hurdle since 2007 with $22.5B less crypto credit to unwind

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Bitcoin faces its highest Treasury hurdle since 2007 with $22.5B less crypto credit to unwind

August 18, 2026

The US 30-year Treasury yield crossed 5.3% on Aug. 17 for the first time since June 2007,...

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Polymarket’s 20% CLARITY Act odds sit on a market one $100K trade could radically reprice

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Polymarket’s 20% CLARITY Act odds sit on a market one $100K trade could radically reprice

August 18, 2026

An anonymous trader on Polymarket holds a No position on the CLARITY Act worth about $414,895, roughly...

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Bitcoin turned $10,000 into $870,000 in a decade where 87% of active stock funds failed to beat passive rivals

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Bitcoin turned $10,000 into $870,000 in a decade where 87% of active stock funds failed to beat passive rivals

August 18, 2026

Bitcoin returned 87 times over a decade, while only 13% of actively managed US large-cap equity funds...

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KuCoin’s new perp rule can turn one funding-rate extreme into 36 hours of hourly settlements

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KuCoin’s new perp rule can turn one funding-rate extreme into 36 hours of hourly settlements

August 18, 2026

KuCoin activated a rule after 08:00 UTC on Aug. 17 that moves USDT- and USDC-margined perpetual contracts...

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