Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. For Filipinos, especially crypto users receiving money from abroad or transferring funds across borders, moving digital dollars on the blockchain, particularly via non-custodial wallets, has long come with a frustrating chore: to send standard stablecoins…
Harmony’s ONE token plunged sharply on Aug. 12 after the Layer-1 blockchain suffered a suspected exploit that reportedly allowed an attacker to mint roughly 4 billion ONE without authorization. The newly created tokens represent about 26% of the roughly 15 billion ONE that were circulating before the incident, raising concerns about a sudden increase in…
Regions such as Galicia, Asturias, Castile and León, Madrid, Aragon, Catalonia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands experienced the path of totality, while the rest of the country saw a partial eclipse. The solar corona glows as the moon completely blocks the sun during the totality phase, as seen from San Asensio in the…
Key Takeaways On Aug. 8, BIP-110 failed after drawing only 2.5% miner support, triggering a chain split at block 961,632. Industry leaders like Leo Fan noted Bitcoin’s difficulty rules successfully halted minority forks. Disillusioned nodes using Bitcoin Knots are planning a hard fork to adopt a brand-new PoW algorithm. A Fracture in Node Sovereignty In…
Anchorpoint Financial has appointed HashKey Exchange as an authorized distributor for its Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin HKDAP, giving eligible institutions and professional investors access to minting, redemption, and fiat conversion during the token’s beta rollout. Summary HashKey has joined HKDAP Beta Access as an authorized distribution partner. Eligible institutions and professional investors can access HKDAP…
Anthropic recently made the decision to watermark Claude’s outputs — inserting invisible code into the chatbot’s editorial text that marks it as AI-generated. Anthropic rolled out this new policy to satisfy the EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which now requires tech companies to label content that has been AI-generated or edited in a manner identifiable…
Important TRX operations will once again be paused. The world’s leading crypto exchange will briefly halt certain trading services later this week to successfully perform a scheduled upgrade. It will also delist trading pairs and digital assets that no longer meet the necessary standards. TRX Investors, Take Note Binance will conduct wallet maintenance for…
Lovable has raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, more than doubling its value in eight months as investors place another large bet on software built through natural-language prompts. The Stockholm-based company is nearing a $600 million annual revenue run rate and plans to expand its workforce by 50% to about 450 employees this…
Key Takeaways Binance launched new product to give VIP users higher quotas and 10% to 20% higher APRs on 20+ tokens. Exchange platforms are shifting toward multi-asset models to keep institutional capital unified on-chain. Binance plans to expand SAPI integrations for algorithmic asset strategies across its institutional suite. Lowering Barriers for High-Tier Users Binance has…
Hawaii has enacted an October 1 ban on cash-to-crypto kiosk transactions after the FBI recorded 92 related complaints and $3.85 million in adjusted losses among state residents in 2025. Summary Cash purchases of crypto at Hawaii kiosks will become illegal on Oct. 1, 2026. The FBI recorded 92 Hawaii kiosk complaints and $3.85 million in…
