EscalationStrategy Resumes Bitcoin Purchases After 10-Week Pause
Strategy is buying Bitcoin again. After a 10-week pause, the corporate accumulation machine built by Michael Saylor has restarted its purchases, ending the long...
Crypto Industry Update: Winners, Losers and Market Tensions | Morning Briefing, August 31, 2026
The crypto market opened on Sunday, August 31, 2026, with no clean verdict on who is winning and who is losing, and that uncertainty is itself the story.
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Early SignalDTCC Partners With BitGo on Tokenized Treasuries and Equities Infrastructure
DTCC has been vocal about moving tokenization from concept to production, laying out its case in a July 2026 announcement on turning tokenization into reality .
Market ReactionSberbank Plans USDT and Ethereum Loans Pending Russian Approval
Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, is planning to offer loans tied to USDT and Ethereum, a move that hinges entirely on approval from Russian regulators before an...
Conflicts
Regulation, company disputes, and ideological fights shaping the industry.
RISK: MEDIUMDTCC Partners With BitGo on Tokenized Treasuries and Equities Infrastructure
DTCC has been vocal about moving tokenization from concept to production, laying out its case in a July 2026 announcement on turning tokenization into reality .
RISK: HIGHSberbank Plans USDT and Ethereum Loans Pending Russian Approval
Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, is planning to offer loans tied to USDT and Ethereum, a move that hinges entirely on approval from Russian regulators before an...
RISK: HIGHCelina Texas Helium Network Integration Signals Adoption
Celina, Texas is putting blockchain to work in the real world, integrating the Helium Network to support decentralized wireless service in the fast-growing city...
RISK: HIGHHong Kong SFC Flags Star Bridge Capital Group, Related Entities as Unlicensed
The Securities and Futures Commission published the entry on its official alert list , the regulator's public register of suspicious or unlicensed entities. The...
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The institutions, exchanges, and narratives driving crypto direction.
EscalationStrategy Resumes Bitcoin Purchases After 10-Week Pause
Strategy is buying Bitcoin again. After a 10-week pause, the corporate accumulation machine built by Michael Saylor has restarted its purchases, ending the long...
Early SignalBitcoin dips to $78.4K as Fed's Warsh downplays softer inflation prints
Bitcoin slid to $78. 4K after Federal Reserve figure Kevin Warsh played down a run of softer inflation prints, reminding traders that cooler data does not guara...
Market ReactionBitcoin Miner IREN Shares Fall as AI Conversion Costs Mount
Bitcoin miner IREN saw its shares fall as investors zeroed in on the mounting cost of its pivot toward artificial intelligence, turning a growth story into a sp...
EscalationStrive Raises $100M to Buy Bitcoin for Treasury
Strive has raised $100 million through a preferred equity offering, and the money is earmarked for one thing: buying more Bitcoin for its corporate treasury. It...
People
Founders, influencers, and institutions behind crypto's next moves.
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Vitalik Buterin
Co-founder of Ethereum
Co-founder of Ethereum, the first global smart-contract platform. He remains one of the most influential technical and p...
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Magic Eden Drops Bitcoin and Ethereum for iGaming Amid NFT Volume Slump
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Changpeng Zhao (CZ)
Founder and former CEO of Binance
Founder of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. He now focuses on the nonprofit education project Giggl...
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Michael Saylor
Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy
The most visible corporate Bitcoin advocate, known for turning MicroStrategy into the largest public-company holder of B...
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Strategy Resumes Bitcoin Purchases After 10-Week Pause
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Brian Armstrong
Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase
Co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, the leading US crypto exchange and the first major crypto company to go public on Nasdaq...
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Charles Hoskinson
Founder of Cardano and IOG, and Ethereum co-founder
Former Ethereum co-founder who left to build Cardano, a blockchain ecosystem centered on academic research and peer-revi...
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COLLAPSEBitwise Fund Becomes First Solana ETF to Reach $1B AUM
Bitwise's Solana fund has crossed a line no rival product had reached before: it is the first Solana ETF to hit $1 billion in assets under management, a milesto...
FRAUDProShares XRP ETF Appears in SEC Filing as U.S. XRP Fund Market Grows
The product appears in a document filed under ProShares' EDGAR registrant record, available on the SEC's public archive . ProShares is the named issuer tied to...
FRAUDXRP Treasury Company Clears SEC Hurdle for Nasdaq Listing
An XRP treasury company has cleared a key SEC hurdle tied to its planned Nasdaq listing, moving a token-focused public vehicle one step closer to Wall Street. T...
FRAUDSolana Votes to Cancel 19M SOL Issuance in Close Governance Decision
Solana just held its first binding governance vote, and the headline result was a decision to cancel roughly 19 million SOL of future issuance in a closely cont...