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Bitcoin fell below $77,000 Friday after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh revived the threat of higher interest rates at Jackson Hole.Data from CryptoSlate shows the largest cryptocurrency dropped to as low as $76,909 before recovering to $77,712 as of press time, down about 4% over the previous 24 hours. The retreat accelerated a broader crypto deleveraging that erased nearly $488 million from derivatives traders.The selloff followed a sharp repricing of Federal Reserve expectations. Traders lifted the probability of a September rate increase to about 60% from roughly 35% before Warsh spoke, while short-term Treasury yields rose and the dollar strengthened.Warsh says…

Ethena is expanding USDe into equity perpetual-basis trades, targeting funding yields more than five times higher than Bitcoin’s as the synthetic dollar looks to recover from its 2026 contraction.On Aug. 28, Ethena revealed plans to extend the basis strategy behind USDe into equity perpetual futures, where open interest has surged to about $6.2 billion from less than $1 billion in March. Funding rates in this market have averaged about 14% on Hyperliquid and 17.5% on Binance in recent months.By comparison, Bitcoin perpetual funding averaged 2.2% this year through Aug. 11, down from 4.9% in 2025 and 11% in 2024.Ethena founder…

A Cosmos EVM vulnerability exploited across six networks, including MANTRA, exposed a security gap spanning around 40 blockchains.On Aug. 28, Cosmos Labs said the same accounting flaw was exploited on six networks, including MANTRA, TAC, and KiiChain, before an emergency response spread across the broader Cosmos EVM ecosystem.Attackers converted about $2.87 million through decentralized exchanges and an estimated $2.85 million through centralized venues, according to a Cosmos security postmortem. Accounts connected to the centralized-exchange activity have since been frozen.MANTRA suffered the largest publicly detailed hit. An unprivileged wallet moved about 720.9 million tokens from two addresses that had not authorized…

Genius Group, an AI-powered education company that previously used Bitcoin as a treasury asset, has proposed a $12.5 million perpetual preferred offering to restart a Bitcoin treasury it says should reach $827 million by fiscal 2031. The opening raise would cover just 1.51% of that target, leaving at least $814.5 million still to finance before any non-Bitcoin allocations.Even that comparison overstates how much of the first raise could reach Bitcoin. Genius said the proceeds would be divided among its Bitcoin treasury, an AI portfolio and a dollar reserve equal to about 18 months of preferred dividends. The company has not…

Ripple is moving to shrink the XRP Ledger’s (XRPL) attack surface as it prepares to expand native lending.The company has recommended removing more than 10,000 lines of unused XChainBridge code while Lending Protocol V1.1 undergoes an AI-only security review through Sherlock’s Audit Engine.The parallel efforts come as crypto platforms face renewed pressure to strengthen their defenses. More than $1.31 billion was lost across 344 security incidents in the first half of 2026, with code vulnerabilities remaining the industry’s most common attack category.Axelar leaves Ripple with 10,000 lines it no longer wantsThe original case for keeping XChainBridge (XLS-38) weakened after Ripple…

MIAX, the U.S. options exchange group, restored Monday and Wednesday short-term expiries for options on BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF after dropping IBIT from its third-quarter roster.A MIAX listing alert said the exchange group would begin listing IBIT under a new, lower-threshold Tier 2 framework on Aug. 18, 2026. It named IBIT expirations for Aug. 19, 24, 26 and 31, confirming that the fund returned during Q3 instead of waiting for the next quarterly eligibility review.IBIT was part of MIAX’s initial January 2026 roster and remained eligible in the second quarter. It then disappeared from the Q3 list published July…

Chelsea Football Club has named Circle Internet Group as its principal and official front-of-shirt partner for the 2026/27 season, putting USDC on the club’s kits as the stablecoin company seeks a larger mainstream audience.The deal announced by Chelsea covers the men’s, women’s and academy shirts. Circle and USDC branding is scheduled to appear for the first time on Aug. 30, when Chelsea’s men’s team plays its first Premier League home game of the season against Brighton. Related ReadingChelsea’s new shirt sponsor is a crypto platform USDC is far more prominent in sponsorship placement than Circle itself. The partnership announcement frames…

A Crayola classic has been recreated in silver, with the familiar Blue crayon reproduced as a 1.5-troy-ounce collectible. The piece is the first release in the new Crayola Precious Metals Crayons Collection, a licensed multiyear series from Crayola and Kevin Lipton Rare Coins of Beverly Hills, California. It was introduced Aug. 25 on opening day of the American Numismatic Association’s 2026 World’s Fair of Money in Pittsburgh. Crayola and Kevin Lipton Rare Coins launch a new multiyear series of 15 troy ounce 999 fine silver crayons beginning with Blue Each collectible is designed to match the dimensions and appearance of…

BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) pulled in more money than the entire US Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) market gained on Aug. 27.IBIT attracted $277.6 million during the trading session, while US spot Bitcoin ETFs collectively recorded $242.3 million in net inflows, according to Farside Investors data. That means BlackRock’s fund accounted for roughly 115% of the market’s net result.The notable gap came from redemptions elsewhere. Fidelity’s FBTC lost $83.6 million, and Grayscale’s GBTC shed $27.2 million, producing $110.8 million of combined outflows.Meanwhile, smaller products offset part of that pressure. Bitwise’s BITB, ARK 21Shares’ ARKB, VanEck’s HODL, MSBT and Grayscale’s lower-fee…

The iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) closed at $44.46 on Aug. 26, about 30.2% below the $63.69 price needed to trigger an early exit from a $21.374 million JPMorgan structured note.The securities are bank debt linked to IBIT, not shares in the exchange-traded fund. Under the note’s final terms, JPMorgan Chase Financial Company LLC would automatically call them only if IBIT closed at or above its starting price on that date. BlackRock’s fund page reported a $44.46 close, leaving the condition unmet on the published, unadjusted figures.No standalone issuer or calculation-agent notice in the public record confirmed the final treatment…