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Riot Platforms entered 2026 with 3,977 BTC pledged against a $200 million Coinbase loan. Bitcoin then fell far enough that the agreement required another 1,825 BTC, taking the collateral balance to 5,802 in February.Those coins still belonged to Riot and sat in a segregated custody account under Coinbase’s lien. Riot couldn’t deploy them elsewhere while they protected the loan, so the selloff restricted more of its treasury at the same time its core asset was weak.Now that mechanism is reversing. Bitcoin’s three-day rally carried it close to $78,000, its highest price in three months. If Riot’s latest disclosed balance of…

Bitcoin enters the weekend within striking distance of $80,000, registering an intraday high at $79,500 on Aug. 21.The move caps the biggest weekly rally in two years, built on a rare combination. A surprise Treasury intervention, roughly $1.6 billion of spot ETF inflows, and billions of dollars in forced short liquidations all landed together.That combination is also what makes the next two days a genuine test. ETF trading stops until Monday, Treasury markets close, and much of the leveraged short positioning that fueled the squeeze has already been forced out.What remains once those three mechanical supports pause is Bitcoin’s native…

By July 18, 2028, a stablecoin could still move freely across blockchains and yet disappear from the buy menu on an American exchange. Under the Treasury Department’s proposed GENIUS Act rules, a digital asset service provider wouldn’t be able to offer or sell a payment stablecoin to someone in the United States from that date unless its issuer fits one of the law’s permitted categories.The proposal doesn’t ban an offshore token from circulating abroad or moving between private wallets; it just controls how regulated businesses distribute that token inside the US. For Tether’s USDT, the biggest issue is therefore whether…

Adam Back-led BSTR’s plan to become a public Bitcoin treasury company through Cantor Equity Partners I, a special-purpose acquisition company, ended on Aug. 20. The collapse leaves a $15 million cash obligation with two fixed deadlines.Under the executed termination agreement, BSTR Holdings (Cayman) must pay Cantor Equity Partners I. The entity, defined in the contract as the Seller, can request Blockstream Capital Partners to make the payment instead, in which case Blockstream Capital Partners must pay.The first $10 million must be paid on or before Sept. 19, and the remaining $5 million on or before Dec. 1.A delay of more…

Illuvium co-founder and CEO Kieran Warwick said Aug. 21 that six months of cost reductions and a further wage cut had restored more than 12 months of operating runway for the web3 gaming studio.Warwick said the remaining workforce is now almost entirely focused on an MMO and that most team members have been with Illuvium for more than three years. He did not disclose the studio’s current cash balance or monthly burn.Illuvium last published a monthly burn figure in December 2024, putting the cost at about $900,000 after its administrators stopped taking salaries and cut overall wages by another $85,000.…

Ethereum’s better.codes contest now measures a cryptographic proof gap that researchers can attack from both sides.At 15:44:47 UTC on Aug. 21, the live leaderboard showed a 63.99-bit lower certificate and a 116.13-bit upper certificate for koalaIRS12. The two results left 52.14 bits unresolved after nine promoted submissions from seven solvers.KoalaIRS12 is a fixed parameter profile for an interleaved Reed–Solomon reduction used in proof-system research. The challenge repository defines its score as a spot-check quantity and expressly excludes interpreting it as minus-log2 of whole-system soundness or as full-protocol security.Researchers now have a public, reproducible measure of the distance between what the…

MANTRA Chain remained halted on Aug. 21 after the team said an attacker exploited a vulnerability in an upstream dependency. Transactions, transfers, and staking are unavailable while the mainnet is paused.MANTRA identified the vulnerable software only as an upstream dependency. In its official incident record, the team said it was tracing fund movements, working with exchange partners, and continuing to assess the complete scope.The incident record shows MANTRA first froze endpoints and transactions while reviewing the root cause and impact. It later attributed the precautionary halt to an attacker exploiting the upstream dependency, then announced the patched release and testnet…

Justin Sun escalated his public fight with Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial on Friday, accusing its USD1 stablecoin of carrying administrative powers that allow privileged operators to move funds from frozen wallets without holder consent.On Aug. 21, the Tron founder alleged that World Liberty’s published source code does not match the contract currently running on-chain, arguing that the discrepancy amounts to evidence of deceptive deployment and comparing it with techniques used in rug pulls.Sun said the live USD1 implementation can drain or reallocate balances after an address has been frozen, meaning cold storage or multisignature custody would not prevent intervention…

Olenox Industries is an energy company that acquired Bitcoin miner CS Digital Ventures in May. It reported preliminary July production of 15.13 BTC against a June 30 balance sheet. The balance sheet carried $1.21 million of cash and $26.26 million of current liabilities.However, the output had a gross value of about $1.16 million at the Aug. 21 Bitcoin spot price of $76,371.25. It was not equivalent to disclosed revenue, sale proceeds or available cash. For part of the fleet, Olenox received the full Bitcoin output. It still owed a hosting invoice for power, management fees and profit share that had…

The United States Mint has presented the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum with 2,983 specially struck 1776 ~ 2026 Enduring Liberty half dollars, each carrying a 9/11 privy mark. The mintage matches the 2,983 names inscribed on the Memorial, honoring those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the Feb. 26, 1993, World Trade Center bombing. Special issue 1776 ~ 2026 Enduring Liberty half dollar with an enlarged view of the Always Remember 9 11 01 privy mark Struck at the West Point Mint in New York, the coins were delivered ahead of next month’s 25th-anniversary observances and during…