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Duffy raised concerns that some prediction-market contracts could be manipulated and questioned why Kalshi could offer products that CME could not yet list. Lopes Lara challenged CME over its own history with market manipulation, leading to a pointed exchange over regulatory resources, efficiency and market credibility. The confrontation occurred amid a broader federal-state dispute over prediction-market jurisdiction and planned CFTC changes concerning event contracts and consumer protection. CME Group Chairman Terry Duffy and Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara clashed over prediction-market regulation during a Commodity Futures Trading Commission meeting on Thursday, highlighting a growing divide between traditional exchanges and newer…

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Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan doesn’t think Washington’s crypto-friendly turn is the moment that completely unlocks Wall Street.In an interview with CryptoSlate, he described the real barrier as something far less dramatic than a single landmark bill. The “brutal real answer” is that it comes down to a million small steps, and some of them are deeply unsexy.The SEC unveiled its Regulation Crypto Assets proposal on Aug. 18, describing a fit-for-purpose framework for certain crypto investment contracts with exemptions reaching up to $75 million over 12 months.A day later, President Donald Trump used a White House crypto event to push the…

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Key takeaways Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP have gained nearly 20%, over 25%, and almost 30%, respectively, this week. Expanded U.S. Treasury debt buybacks have improved liquidity expectations and boosted demand for risk assets. Bitcoin trades around $76,800 after breaking above its 50-day, 100-day, and 200-day exponential moving averages. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP extended their rallies Friday as improving liquidity expectations continued to lift the broader cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin has gained nearly 20% this week, while Ethereum has risen more than 25% and XRP has advanced almost 30%. The rally gained momentum after the U.S. Treasury announced plans to double the…

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AI agents and robots may increasingly drive blockchain activity as autonomous systems need transaction infrastructure, says Chainlink’s McCormick Advances in AI could cheapen blockchain development, producing many interconnected chains where cross-chain interoperability becomes essential. Humanoid robots may eventually use stablecoins and blockchains to communicate and transact within physical work environments. AI agents and robots could drive a growing share of blockchain activity as autonomous systems increasingly require infrastructure for communication and transactions, Chainlink Labs executive Andrew McCormick said. McCormick, the company’s head of institutional strategy, believes the expansion of agentic AI could create new applications for crypto infrastructure, including autonomous…

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XRP jumped roughly 22% in 24 hours, trading near $1.26 and clearing the level CryptoSlate had flagged in July as the upside target of its breakout setup.That July framework had put $1.18 as the breakout line, with open interest surging as traders positioned for the move.XRP has now cleared the $1.26 shelf that framework was built around, pushing the market question above $1.26 and onto higher levels on the chart.The liquidation ladder is pointing toward $1.38Fresh Hyperliquid positioning data shows cumulative short liquidations around $607,000 at $1.28, climbing to about $1.4 million at $1.32, and reaching roughly $2.2 million at…

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Bitcoin traded at US$74,926 at 04:37 UTC on Friday, up 8.19% over 24 hours with a session high of US$75,528. US spot bitcoin ETFs took a net US$517.19 million on 19 August, on US$6.89 billion of value traded, SoSoValue figures show. CoinGlass put short liquidations across crypto at US$2.7 billion in the 24 hours to Wednesday, with about US$1 billion of Bitcoin shorts closed in roughly an hour. Bitcoin climbed as high as US$75,528 (AU$106,494) in the 24 hours to early Friday and traded at US$74,926 (AU$105,646) at 04:37 UTC, an 8.19% gain over 24 hours, after running up from…

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Ethereum’s shortcut to smart wallet behavior arrived with a new trust problem: a wallet can make a regular address programmable without moving the user’s assets, while the delegated code gains power to act with that account’s authority.A peer-reviewed study released for USENIX Security ’26 found that attacker-linked contracts were associated with 2,322,548 of the 3,664,166 EIP-7702 authorization transactions it observed across seven chains through July 15, 2025. That is 63% of the historical transaction volume in the researchers’ dataset.The authors tied a relatively small set of malicious contracts to repeated authorizations and described some attacker-controlled activity as likely practice or…

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Rapid7 Labs recovered roughly 885,000 phone numbers from an exposed server, the largest single file holding 316,002 German mobile numbers. Account-checking tools confirmed 43,066 of those German numbers as Crypto.com account holders, a hit rate Rapid7 puts at about 13.6%. Counterfeit Trezor Suite, Ledger Live and Exodus builds were made to drain wallets, with the Trezor clone sending stolen recovery phrases to a Telegram bot. Rapid7 researchers Anna Širokova and Jan Recinsky have discovered Operation Asterix, finding a misconfigured web directory exposing a fraud operation’s entire working environment, including phone-number datasets, account-validation tools, phishing panels, dialler scripts, counterfeit wallet builds…

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Nasdaq-listed Ethereum infrastructure company BTCS swapped ETH into USDT to pay down Aave loans in the second quarter and ended June 30 with $317,113 in cash and stablecoins.It also held about $88.1 million in other current digital-asset categories, making the issue less a lack of assets than how much of the balance sheet was exposed to crypto markets and DeFi.Comparing BTCS’s first-quarter filing with its second-quarter filing shows about $8.27 million of the second-quarter ETH-to-USDT swaps for principal and $381,103 for accrued interest. BTCS described the move in its results announcement as an $8.2 million Aave repayment.At quarter-end, BTCS reported…

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Fortitude Mining, Digital Currency Group’s Zcash-focused miner, bought a 9.4% stake in Nasdaq-listed HeartSciences for about $1 million, giving its proposed merger partner cash for operating expenses while shareholder approval remains pending.The Aug. 12 private placement covered 411,522 HeartSciences common shares at $2.43 each. A beneficial ownership filing put Fortitude’s exact cash outlay at $999,998.46 and its post-purchase stake at approximately 9.4%.HeartSciences said the price represented a 22% premium to its closing share price on the purchase date. The target said it would use the net proceeds for operating expenses before the proposed combination closes, making the transaction a cash…

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