The timing raised some concerns within the community as the number of treasury companies selling BTC has been gradually increasing lately. The world’s third-largest public holder of Bitcoin made a substantial transfer hours ago, which raised some questions given the peculiar timing. Metaplanet, which adopted its BTC strategy a few years ago and was…
Accel has closed a new $550 million India fund, less than two years after raising its previous India-focused vehicle, as part of a coordinated $3.5 billion global fundraising effort. The new India fund was oversubscribed and closed within weeks, people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Accel still has more than 55% of its previous…
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. MariBank users in the Philippines may soon be trading digital assets and holding dollar stablecoins inside the same app they use for daily transfers and shopping savings. The digital bank has begun circulating an in-app…
H100 Group appointed Peter C. Warren as chief investment officer on Aug. 12, placing the veteran markets executive in charge of derivatives and risk management after the Swedish company nearly tripled its Bitcoin treasury through a Norwegian acquisition, according to a release. Summary H100 appointed Peter C. Warren chief investment officer after completing its 2,455…
Meta and TikTok failed to secure an early appellate ruling that could have cut off a major wave of social media addiction lawsuits. The Ninth Circuit dismissed their appeals on August 10 as premature, leaving thousands of cases against major platforms moving forward in lower courts. The ruling does not decide whether Section 230 ultimately…
Key Takeaways XRP millionaire wallets rose by 32 in three months as Santiment tracked continued whale accumulation. XRP trades near $1.02, down about 69% from its 2025 peak near $3.66. Large holders added 380M+ XRP last week even as 81% of Binance outflows went to self-custody. Whale Wallets Keep Climbing Despite the Slump The XRP…
The stolen XRP was converted to ETH, routed through THORChain and ultimately sent to Tornado Cash after the bridge was drained. On August 9, a bridge connecting the XRP Ledger and Coreum (now rebranded as tx) lost close to 200,000 XRP after an attacker tricked its deposit-checking system into treating a wallet-to-wallet transfer as…
Trump Media entered the second quarter with the model of a media company, but its financial results were instead dominated by bets on digital assets. The parent company of Truth Social reported a net loss of $238.1 million in the second quarter of 2026, a sharp increase from the $20 million loss recorded in the…
TL;DR: Unblock Pornhub from Texas with a VPN. The best service for unblocking porn sites is ExpressVPN. More than a third of U.S. states have introduced age verification laws for online adult content, including Texas. In response, Pornhub has blocked users in those locations from accessing their site. That means millions of users in Texas…
Harmony said on Aug. 12 that it was working with cryptocurrency exchanges to stop and freeze funds after a suspected security incident on its Layer 1 network. Summary Harmony is working with exchanges to freeze funds while developing patch and evaluating rollback options. Analyst Juiceberg reported roughly four billion ONE were minted without authorization through…
