[PRESS RELEASE – Miami, Florida, USA, August 16th, 2026] BiggerZ is strengthening its position as a fairness-first betting platform, bringing casino gaming, sports betting and prediction markets together under one account while making transparency, verifiability and clearly defined rules central to the player experience. As online betting platforms expand across crypto, casino gaming, sports and…
Harvard Management Company kept its position in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust unchanged during the second quarter, ending two consecutive quarters of reductions in its publicly disclosed Bitcoin exposure. Summary Harvard held 3,044,612 IBIT shares worth $101.4 million at June 30, unchanged from March quarter-end. Harvard previously cut its IBIT share count 43% during first quarter…
The big elephant in the XRP ETF room is back. In a rather interesting week in terms of reveals of who owns shares of the spot XRP ETFs, the funds actually ended it in the green, but only one day saw any action. This is a recurring development that has frequently emerged, and the…
Mark Cuban said on Aug. 16 that “chips as an asset class will be the new crypto,” offering a one-line prediction as artificial intelligence drives demand for advanced computing hardware. Summary Mark Cuban said chips as an asset class could become the next crypto-like investment category. CoreWeave closed a $2.6 billion facility this month backed…
The native token is actually in the green on a 2-week scale, but remains below the $0.09 level. While the vast Pi Network community anticipates an official confirmation of the successful deployment of protocol version 26, the Core Team actually surprised them by announcing that the Pi Node version 0.6.2 has been released. Here’s…
A $550,000 community audit contest uncovered two critical vulnerabilities in XRP Ledger features that could have drained user accounts without private keys. The findings reveal how Ripple’s audit-before-release model diverges sharply from the broader crypto industry’s patch-after-exploit norm. Summary Sherlock’s two-week audit contest, which opened on April 13, 2026, uncovered 96 valid vulnerabilities across five…
XRP, ZEC, ADA, and BCH stand in one corner, while XMR and LINK are in the opposite. As it happened during the past few weekends, bitcoin’s price volatility has essentially disappeared once Saturday and Sunday come, with the asset remaining stuck at $63,000 for roughly 36 hours now. Most altcoins have performed similarly, which…
The Iran conflict grounded flights, cratered Maldives tourism arrivals by double digits, and forced the Trump family’s crypto venture to shelve what was billed as the world’s first tokenized luxury hotel development. The episode exposes a structural question the real-world asset market has avoided: what happens to a token when the real world breaks? Summary…
XRP still battles for that key level as of press time. But is the worst behind it? After several months of flirting with the psychological support level at $1.00, Ripple’s XRP finally dipped below it on a couple of occasions in the past week, which aligned with many analysts’ expectations for such a move…
World Liberty Financial has received preliminary OCC approval to establish a national trust bank that would oversee more than $4 billion in USD1 stablecoin circulation. Summary World Liberty Trust must meet the OCC’s conditions before it can begin operations. The proposed bank would issue USD1, manage its reserves, and serve institutional custody clients. WLTC must…
