Crypto

ADA rallied to $0.87 on surging volume, ignoring the SEC’s pause on Grayscale’s ETF and hinting at institutional interest.

Metaplanet issues up to 555M new shares to bankroll a $1.2B Bitcoin-and-yield bet—$835M to buy BTC and $440M to sell covered calls on its holdings. The post Metaplanet Eyes $837M Raise to Buy More Bitcoin After Hitting 18,991 BTC Stash appeared first on Cryptonews.

Whales have reduced Bitcoin positions and accumulated $456M in Ether, adding to speculation of an upcoming altseason as Ethereum posts stronger performance than Bitcoin. The post Whales Dump Bitcoin, Snatch Up $456M in Ethereum — Altseason Next? appeared first on Cryptonews.

A solo miner struck gold with a $373,000 Bitcoin block. With persistence and a stroke of luck, the miner got ahead of millions of competing miners. On July 26, 2025, a solo Bitcoin miner achieved an ultra-rare feat by mining block 907,283 through the Solo CKPool.  They overcame steep odds in a network dominated by industrial-scale operations to claim the full block reward of 3.125 Bitcoin (BTC), worth about $372,700. The block included 4,038 transactions and $3,400 in fees.  Read more

"Cardano is probably one of my top favorites. ADA probably going to $3 - $5," one X user stated.

Rex Shares and Osprey Funds seek to follow up their Solana staking ETF with an equivalent vehicle for BNB, which would also be introduced under the Investment Company Act.

BitMine's $8B ETH treasury and Arkham whale activity depict growing confidence as Ethereum eyes its breakout threshold.

What's the latest around XRP's price?

The options market is braced for a $270 billion swing as Nvidia results approach.

Plus crypto majors are rebounding, with SOL leading the way and HYPE hitting a new ATH.

Decentralized AI project Swarm Network has raised $13 million, including $10 million through NFT-based agent licenses and $3 million from strategic investors. Decentralized artificial intelligence protocol Swarm Network raised a total of $13 million to build an AI verification protocol. According to a Wednesday announcement shared with Cointelegraph, $10 million of the raised funds was secured through the protocol’s licenses to operate agents. A project spokesperson told Cointelegraph that each license is a non-fungible token (NFT) that allows its holder to obtain daily rewards for operating agents and maintaining the network. The remaining funds comprise a $3 million strategic investment from investors, including Sui (SUI), Ghaf Capital, Brinc, Y2Z and Zerostage. The investments by Sui, Ghaf and Brinc were secured by Swarm’s participation in SuiHub’s Dubai-based global accelerator. Read more

The PSG1 comes with gaming-ready specs, a built-in crypto wallet and fingerprint security, marking Solana’s latest push into consumer hardware and Web3 gaming. The Solana ecosystem is taking a leap into hardware with the forthcoming launch of its first handheld gaming console.  Play Solana, a project dedicated to building a Web3 gaming device on the Solana blockchain, announced that it will start shipping its Play Solana Gen 1 (PSG1) device on Oct. 6.  The device comes with gaming-ready specs, including an octa-core ARM processor, 8 gigabytes of RAM, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity and a touch LCD display. It also includes a built-in hardware wallet and fingerprint authentication, allowing users to store crypto assets while playing games.  Read more

Glassnode warns profit-taking and slowing activity suggest BTC may be in the late phase of its bull run, with selling pressure mounting.

USDT0 expands to 11 networks with Polygon integration, while XAUT0 grows following its TON debut and HyperEVM integration. Polygon, a layer-2 (L2) scaling solution for Ethereum, is about to upgrade to the USDT0 standard, the unified liquidity network that introduced the omnichain versions of Tether’s USDT and XAUT. USDT0 (USDT0) and XAUt0 (XAUt0), cross-chain liquidity stablecoins enabled by LayerZero's Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT), are launching on the Polygon blockchain, USDT0 operator Everdawn Labs announced to Cointelegraph on Wednesday. The integration marks a milestone for XAUt0, with Polygon becoming its third blockchain integration following XAUt0’s debut on TON and Hyperliquid’s HyperEVM. Read more

The new feature is designed to let networks offer their own token-based incentives to stakers and node operators.

The crypto firm claims lawsuit distorts record as Unicoin CEO vows to fight regulators in court

Four whales realized a cumulative $47.5 million profit on Hyperliquid, spurring price manipulation allegations related to XPL’s 200% rally. Update (Aug. 27 at 5:44 pm UTC): This article has been updated to reflect that a blockchain analyst retracted a claim linking Justin Sun to a whale wallet. Four whales, or big cryptocurrency investors, were accused of price manipulation that resulted in a $4.59 million loss for one unfortunate trader, raising questions about the reliability of decentralized trading platforms over their centralized counterparts. Four whale addresses profited a combined $47.5 million after the recently launched Plasma blockchain’s (XPL) token soared 200% to over $1.80 in minutes on the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid.  Read more

Coinbase, Kraken, Ripple, a16z and others pressed the Senate to add explicit protections for developers and non-custodial services in the market structure bill. A coalition of 112 crypto companies, investors and advocacy groups has called on the US Senate to include protections for software developers and non-custodial service providers in upcoming market structure legislation. A letter sent Wednesday to the Senate Banking and Agriculture Committees, authored by the DeFi Education Fund and its coalition partners, said the industry spoke “with one voice,” urging lawmakers to ensure developers and non-custodial actors are not misclassified as intermediaries under outdated financial rules. “Provide robust, nationwide protections for software developers and non-custodial service providers in market structure legislation,” the letter said. “Without such protections, we cannot support a market structure bill.” Read more

Crypto has the potential to make ordinary people hilariously rich. Here’s three real life tales, and one guy who sold free Bitcoin too early. A surprise manila folder with millions of Bitcoin, a memecoin that went to the moon and a series of high-stakes poker games these are some true-life tales of people who struck it rich with crypto. While there are many stories of skilled traders, miners and gamers who became self-made crypto millionaires, the more interesting ones are those who stumbled into crypto and accidentally struck digital gold. It was 2013. Two freshman students were sitting at a bar. The guy, a nerdy computer type, was interning at Goldman Sachs. He told the girl lets call her Anna You should invest in Bitcoin. The girl, who had the resources, said, Sure. $10,000 was exchanged, and Anna forgot about it.  Read more

China’s control over crypto liquidity and its buying power gives Beijing unprecedented leverage over the Trump family’s digital fortune. Opinion by: Joshua Chu, co-chair of the Hong Kong Web3 Association China’s control over cryptocurrency liquidity in Hong Kong gives it unprecedented power over the Trump family’s crypto wealth. This leverage lets Beijing influence the family’s financial fate — and potentially US-China relations — through market moves. As Eric Trump visits Hong Kong, this crypto-political nexus signals a new era of global power. Cryptocurrency is no longer seen as just the new financial innovation around the block. Virtual assets have become powerful geopolitical instruments determining the fates of nations.  Read more