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…
Even though Google still has its Made by Google event scheduled for later in the evening, the company still went ahead and announced what it has in store for its Pixel 11 launch. The livestream itself will serve as a more hands-on, celebrity-sponsored event, mostly as a showcase of what Gemini AI can bring to…
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs absorbed about 13,300 BTC last week, more than four times the roughly 3,150 BTC newly created by the network. Bitcoin moved toward the top of its range last week as institutional demand through U.S. spot ETFs strengthened. Cooler employment data reduced expectations for an immediate Federal Reserve rate hike, but…
White House officials are almost certain to revise the Trump administration’s new artificial intelligence guidelines and expand its oversight of AI models, according to people familiar with the matter. The White House announced this month that it had developed an AI framework, where the most powerful models created by US labs would be tested for…
