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Thailand is proposing a crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) framework that would give domestic fund managers, the Stock Exchange of Thailand and locally regulated custodians a structural advantage as the country opens the market to Bitcoin and Ethereum products.On Aug. 24, Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) opened public comment on rules that would initially allow passive, single-asset funds focused on Bitcoin or Ethereum. Each fund would need to maintain an average net exposure of at least 80% of net asset value to its chosen asset over an accounting year. Related ReadingThailand’s SEC gives Tether and USDC the green light for…

Bitcoin Core has merged a redesign of its optional transaction index that cut about 40 GB from the database in one contributor’s mainnet test. Operators using -txindex retain their existing indexes through an upgrade; capturing the full saving requires recreating the database.Pull request #35531, merged into Bitcoin Core’s master branch on Aug. 15, reduced the author’s rebuilt mainnet txindex from about 66 GB to 26 GB. The roughly 61% reduction is confined to this optional index. Bitcoin’s blockchain and the rest of a node’s data directory remain outside the measurement.The code is merged upstream. Stable binaries follow a separate release…

Bitcoin’s sharp two-week recovery, which briefly pushed its value above $80,000, has brought Michael Saylor’s Strategy BTC treasury back into profit and lifted its common stock faster than the cryptocurrency.BTC’s price rebound accelerated after the US Treasury moved to expand buybacks of longer-dated government debt, easing pressure on yields and weakening the dollar.Renewed optimism around US crypto policy, heavy short liquidations, and stronger demand for spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds added further momentum to the upward move.As a result, Bitcoin briefly topped $81,000 on Tuesday, its highest level in more than three months, after spending much of the first half of…

REX-Osprey’s XRP ETF held 40.25% of its assets in the CoinShares Physical XRP ETP on Aug. 24, routing $22.87 million of a $56.68 million portfolio through another listed product. That structure means XRP ETF fees and trading costs can stack up across two listed products. The same holdings snapshot reported 59.74% as XRP, with 4.7 million XRPR shares outstanding, a $12.09 net asset value and a $12.06 closing price.That split is not evidence that the CoinShares position lacks XRP backing. CoinShares says its product is 100% physically backed. Nor should XRPR’s XRP line be read as proof that the parent…

Bitcoin’s security-budget debate usually starts with one total: how much miners collect in transaction fees as the block subsidy shrinks.A July 2026 NBER working paper by Fabian Schär, Dario Thürkauf, and David Yermack points to a second variable. Using data from 2017 through 2025, the authors report that larger fee differences between adjacent Bitcoin blocks are associated with more competing blocks at the same height and a longer wait for the next block.The evidence is observational and identifies a network-level relationship, while miner intent and the cause of any individual block race remain unresolved. The finding still gives wallets, miners,…

Banks defend themselves against stablecoins by saying they are building tokenized deposits to modernize payments, with programmable money and around-the-clock settlement.Falcon Finance chief RWA officer Artem Tolkachev told CryptoSlate that the explanation covers only half the reason:“It is the balance sheet, not the technology.”A tokenized deposit keeps the money a stablecoin would move off a bank’s balance sheet, leaving it as a deposit the bank can still lend against. Tolkachev said:“A stablecoin competes with the deposit. A tokenized deposit is the deposit, just programmable.”Underneath stablecoins and tokenized depositsTolkachev said that, to whoever is holding them, a tokenized deposit, a reserve-backed…

At 8:30 a.m. ET on Aug. 26, Bitcoin’s seven-session spot ETF inflow streak faces a concentrated macro test as three U.S. reports land at the same minute.The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis is scheduled to publish July Personal Income and Outlays, including the PCE inflation indexes, alongside its second estimate of second-quarter GDP. The U.S. Census Bureau will release July advance durable-goods orders at the same time.Ahead of the data, CryptoSlate’s Bitcoin market data put BTC near $78,508, down about 2% over 24 hours but still up roughly 22.8% over seven days. The asset therefore enters the release window with…

Strategy, the Bitcoin treasury company formerly known as MicroStrategy, raised $2.0065 billion by selling common shares from Aug. 17 through Aug. 23 and bought no Bitcoin. The transaction left its $1.59 billion USD Cash balance at the center of a wider capital-allocation contest.The company sold 18,261,118 shares of MSTR, its common stock, then used $136.4 million to repurchase 1,431,212 shares of STRC, a variable-rate preferred stock. It transferred another $300 million to its separately designated USD Reserve. The remainder, $1.5701 billion, went into USD Cash, according to Strategy’s Aug. 24 filing.Strategy reported ending balances of $5.10 billion in the reserve…

LND, a Lightning Network node implementation, has disclosed a channel-close flaw that can put an entire channel balance at risk in the reproduced maximum-loss scenario. Operators using standard releases below 0.21.0 should treat their nodes as lacking the official fix unless they were independently patched.The Aug. 13 disclosure describes how a malicious channel peer could combine a one-block Bitcoin reorganization with an old, revoked commitment transaction after a cooperative close. Bastien Teinturier, who published the disclosure, said no affected users were known. Related ReadingResearchers discover vulnerabilities in Bitcoin layer-2 Lightning Network Before the fix, LND could forget a cooperatively closed…

XRP is on course for its strongest monthly gain in more than a year after recovering from below $1, even as a fresh pullback and heavy whale activity test the durability of the rally.CryptoSlate’s data shows the token trading near $1.40 as of press time, down about 5% over the past 24 hours, after climbing as high as $1.70 during last week’s broader crypto market surge.This price performance contrasts with the fact that XRP is on track for a roughly 32% gain in August, per CryptoRank’s data. This would mark its best monthly performance since July 2025, when it advanced…