Cryptocurrency

Nasdaq-listed SharpLink plans to stake $200 million of Ether through Lido and hold the resulting wrapped staked ETH with Anchorage Digital, expanding its strategy for generating returns from its corporate…

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is reviewing prediction market “mention markets” over concerns that contracts tied to specific spoken words may be unusually easy to manipulate, NPR reported late Aug.…

The White House has reportedly planned an Aug. 19 meeting with crypto and prediction market executives as Polymarket traders place the CLARITY Act’s 2026 passage odds at 21%. Summary Crypto…

Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman Robert Kaplan has backed the Federal Reserve’s 9–3 decision to keep interest rates at 3.50%–3.75% in July, arguing that policymakers needed more time to assess inflation…

Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman Rob Kaplan has backed the Federal Reserve’s 9–3 decision to hold interest rates at 3.50%–3.75% in July while urging policymakers to keep their options open before…

Ether.fi has upgraded its non-custodial neobank with tokenized stocks and metals, portfolio-backed loans near 4%, payments in over 30 currencies, and programmatic ETHFI buybacks. Summary Ether.fi users can trade tokenized…

Conflux Network has scheduled its v3.1.0 hard fork for Aug. 25, requiring node operators to install the update before seven network proposals and a private security fix take effect. Summary…

Neutrl has suspended minting, redemptions, and other protocol functions while it assesses an unspecified reserve issue affecting roughly $53.7 million of NUSD in circulation. Summary Neutrl stopped core protocol functions…

UBS has increased its BlackRock Bitcoin ETF holding to about 2.5 million shares worth nearly $90 million as of June 30, lifting the position’s value by roughly 230% during the…

Ethena has appointed FalconX as an institutional lending partner, adding an overcollateralized stablecoin credit facility to the assets backing its synthetic dollar business. Summary Ethena will provide a revolving senior…