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Ontology suspended mainnet block production to investigate a potential security concern, pausing the network while its technical team and validators reviewed the issue.A public-node snapshot showed a gap of about five hours and six minutes since the chain’s last recorded block.The project announced the pause at 09:09 UTC on Aug. 31. Ontology called it a preventive measure and said it had not confirmed a security incident or found any indication that user assets had been lost or compromised. Based on the project’s assessment at the time, its ONT and ONG crypto assets, along with other on-chain assets, remained unaffected.Public node…

Bitcoin traded near $77,700 today, Aug. 31, putting the largest crypto asset up about 23.5% over 30 days. CryptoSlate’s market signal registered a bullish 68 out of 100 after a late-week pullback. The score measures trailing market conditions.CryptoSlate published its latest Bitcoin September forecast at the Aug. 30 close. The model used a $77,667 reference price and produced an $81,319 median for Sep. 29. The projected gain is about 4.7%, compared with Bitcoin’s 23.5% advance during the preceding month.Actual daily closes run from $62,813.75 on Jul 31, 2026 to the $77,667.57 reference close on Aug 30, 2026. The projected median…

Every answer you get from an AI chatbot begins with electricity. The words appear on your screen, but the actual work happens in a distant building packed with computer chips. Those chips draw power, move data, and produce enough heat to require heavy-duty cooling from AI data centers.When you multiply that process across millions of prompts, image requests, and business tasks, you begin to understand why a quick answer to a question that feels weightless becomes a physical demand on power plants and wires.Electric utilities are being asked to supply that demand in enormous, concentrated blocks. Your average large data-center…

During the three months ending June 30, CleanSpark put 9,400 Bitcoin-equivalent call contracts through Spot+, its strategy for selling options around ongoing sales from its corporate Bitcoin treasury. Because the figure is expressed in Bitcoin equivalents, it can resemble a balance-sheet position even though it measures a quarter’s trading flow.In its Aug. 6 quarterly filing for the period ended June 30, CleanSpark reported $8.017 million in premium proceeds from those calls. Bitcoin averaged $68,766 when the contracts were entered, against an average strike price of $76,383.The distinction exposes a blind spot in corporate Bitcoin treasury analysis. A headline holding tells…

Five collector seminars will anchor the educational programming at the 2026 Great American Coin & Collectibles Show (www.GACC.show), with sessions devoted to classic U.S. commemoratives and several aspects of Morgan and Peace silver dollar collecting. The seminars will be held Friday, Oct. 2, during the three-day show at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois. The event runs Oct. 1-3 in Hall F. Four of the five sessions are National Silver Dollar Round Table Educational Forums covering grading and pricing, Prooflike and Deep Mirror Prooflike Morgan dollars, high-grade Peace dollars, and Morgan dollar varieties and die clashes. Friday…

Leveraged funds held a 41,252 BTC-equivalent net short across CME Bitcoin futures, including standard and Micro contracts on Aug. 25, while the CFTC snapshot showed the same category net long just 151 BTC in Coinbase’s nano Bitcoin perpetual-style contract.For the next forced unwind, the important distinction is scale rather than an evenly matched directional split. The report showed 118,267 BTC-equivalent of open interest across the two CME products, compared with 2,322 BTC on Coinbase. CME was about 51 times larger by that measure, and its leveraged-fund net short was roughly 272 times the magnitude of Coinbase’s net long.A standard CME…

Bitcoin is on track to log its best August performance since 2017, demonstrating remarkable resilience against back-to-back macro shocks as escalating US-Iran hostilities and a hawkish pivot from the Federal Reserve test the durability of the digital-asset rebound.Data from CryptoSlate shows that the largest cryptocurrency is trading near $78,400 as of press time, bringing its monthly advance to more than 24%. This represents its strongest August rally in nine years and its biggest single-month gain since November 2024, per CoinGlass data.The advance comes even as crude oil jumped above $90 a barrel following American airstrikes on Iranian targets and Tehran’s…

The SEC’s proposed Regulation Crypto Assets offers a $75 million fundraising ceiling. A Senate market-structure framework starts with a greater-of-$50-million-or-10% formula. Those numbers look comparable, but they attach to different legal mechanisms.The SEC proposal would create exemptions by rule for certain crypto-asset offerings. Section 103 of the Senate’s version of the CLARITY Act would create a statutory exemption for certain transactions involving ancillary assets sold pursuant to an investment contract. The distinction changes which issuers and instruments qualify, what buyers receive, and how the two paths could interact.Neither route is currently available. The SEC proposal remains subject to public comment…

Malicious actors exposed two decentralized finance (DeFi) lenders to over $84 million in losses over four days, using variations of a price-manipulation strategy previously targeted by US regulators.The larger incident hit Tectonic on the Cronos blockchain, where security firm GoPlus estimated roughly $75 million was affected.Three days earlier, Moonwell’s MAMO lending market on Base was left with about $9.1 million in residual debt following another attack involving an illiquid token. Related ReadingUS Court orders detention of Mango Markets exploiter over flight risk Illiquidity becomes a weaponThe Tectonic attacker appears to have exploited the protocol’s treatment of TONIC, a relatively thinly…

USBC has registered a block of already-issued shares equal to almost its entire outstanding common stock for potential resale, creating a potential market overhang alongside a balance sheet that relies heavily on Bitcoin.The company’s August 27 amended preliminary prospectus covers up to 359,815,000 shares held by selling stockholders. That equals about 92.7% of the 388,144,429 common shares outstanding as of August 24. USBC would receive no proceeds from any sale or other disposition by those holders.No transaction is disclosed. The covered shares already exist, and the selling stockholders may dispose of all, some or none of them. The filing creates…