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Bitcoin Miners AI Pivot Doubles Valuations Despite Bitcoin’s 45% Price Drop

Bitcoin’s price has been sliding for months, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the miners who bet on artificial intelligence instead of pure crypto mining. The bitcoin miners AI pivot that started quietly a few years ago has turned into one of the more consequential capital-allocation stories in the crypto-adjacent stock market, rewarding companies that redirected their power infrastructure toward AI and high-performance computing while pure-play miners watch their margins shrink. Key takeaways Miners with AI and HPC contracts trade at 12.3 times enterprise value, versus just 5.9 times for pure-play bitcoin miners, according to CoinShares. Bitcoin’s price…

MiningAug 19

Bitcoin Whales Scoop Up Over $127M in BTC as Retail Sells—Can BTC Price Break Above $67,000?

Bitcoin price has continued to trade within a narrow range around the $65,000 mark, but on-chain data suggests large investors are quietly accumulating despite cautious retail sentiment. Fresh whale transactions worth over $127 million, coupled with Santiment data showing continued accumulation by key stakeholders, indicate growing confidence among institutional players. As $BTC approaches a major resistance zone around $66,500, investors are now watching whether sustained whale buying can provide the momentum needed to fuel a breakout toward $71,000. Whale Accumulation Signals Growing Institutional Confidence Bitcoin’s latest on-chain activity suggests that large investors continue to accumulate despite the asset trading below…

BitcoinAug 19

Bank of Korea tests tokenized reserve transfers through BIS Project Agora

The Bank of Korea has successfully completed live cross-border payment tests using tokenized central bank reserves under the Bank for International Settlements-led Project Agora, processing transactions across six currencies and multiple payment scenarios. According to the Bank of Korea, the central bank participated in the latest round of Project Agora real transaction testing alongside 27 other central banks and private financial institutions, confirming that the platform’s core functions and operating processes worked reliably in an environment designed to mirror real-world payment operations. The exercise covered the Korean won, U.S. dollar, euro, British pound, Swiss franc and Japanese yen. South Korea’s…

RegulationAug 19

Could Top-Profit Cashcat (CASHCAT) Whale Be an Insider? 90% of His Sales Had Perfect Timing

A cryptocurrency trader stunned the market by making an incredible $2.85 million profit on the quickly expanding memecoin $CASHCAT from just 1.6 $ETH, which was worth about $3,000 at the time of purchase. In the early phases of the project, the trader purchased 16.3 million $CASHCAT tokens for 1.6 $ETH, according to on-chain data. Taking profits These holdings saw a sharp increase in value over time as the token's market capitalization and popularity increased. In the end, the trader sold the entire position for 1,527 $ETH, or roughly $2.855 million, earning an incredible 952x return. Although remarkable profits are not…

AltcoinsAug 19

what killed crypto’s best shot at US regulation

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act was not supposed to fail. It had bipartisan committee support, a White House willing to sign, and an industry that spent over $100 million lobbying for it. Six months ago prediction markets gave it better than four in five odds. The collapse from 82% to under 20% is not the story of a bill that lacked support. It is the story of a bill that could not survive the collision between three constituencies whose demands were mutually exclusive, on a calendar that left no room for compromise. This piece traces the three disputes that…

LegalAug 19

Polymarket US Tests Parlays as Kalshi Banks $25M in Fees

An API-Only Launch 11 Weeks After Certification Polymarket US processed its first multi-leg sports trade on Aug. 5, 11 weeks after certifying the product with federal regulators, according to InGame’s analysis of the exchange’s trade data. The outlet counted 16,173 trades totaling $7.4 million in volume and $928,093 in stakes from the taking side, with most of it arriving after Aug. 13. Volume on prediction exchanges counts both sides of every trade, so the stake figure is the closer measure of money actually put up. The option does not appear in the Polymarket US app, the exchange has not widely…

ExchangesAug 19

DMND Integrates Mempool Accelerator With Miner Revenue Sharing Using StratumV2

Last week on August 14th DMND, the Stratum V2 mining pool, announced an integration with Mempool Accelerator to introduce new transaction acceleration functionality to Stratum V2 miners. This will put individual miners in control of transaction acceleration and prioritization. This is a fundamental shakeup to the legacy model of a transaction accelerator. These products have been historically offered by mining pools, rather than actual miners, and as such the pools have traditionally been the ones to both decide which transactions to prioritize in their templates and pocket the additional revenue for accelerating them. Now, individual miners at DMND can handle…

MiningAug 19

BIP-110 Signaling to Begin in About 40 Hours

Bitcoin Knots advocate Dathon Ohm has stated that signaling for BIP-110 is expected to begin in approximately 40 hours. BIP-110 is a proposal aimed at reducing the amount of data that can be stored in Bitcoin transactions, specifically targeting non-monetary uses such as Ordinals. What is BIP-110 and Why It Matters BIP-110, short for Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110, seeks to impose limits on the data embedded within Bitcoin transactions. The primary goal is to curtail the use of the blockchain for storing arbitrary data, such as images or text, which has become popular with the rise of Ordinals—a protocol that…

BitcoinAug 19

Crypto-Backed Lending Drops 17% in Q2 as CeFi Surpasses DeFi for First Time Since 2023

The crypto-backed lending market contracted to $56.16 billion in the second quarter, a 16.78% decline from the previous quarter, according to data from Galaxy Research. This marks a continued deleveraging trend, with the figure now 40.13% below the $78.69 billion peak recorded in the third quarter of 2025. DeFi and CeFi Divergence Decentralized finance (DeFi) lending experienced a sharper contraction, falling 27.61% quarter-over-quarter to $20.43 billion. In contrast, centralized finance (CeFi) lending declined by a more moderate 9.62% to $22.98 billion. This shift pushed CeFi lending ahead of DeFi for the first time since the third quarter of 2023, signaling…

DeFiAug 19

Shiba Inu Reaches 21,000 Total Burn Transactions in Key Milestone

Dog-themed cryptocurrency Shiba Inu has scored a new milestone, this time in the total number of burn transactions. According to Shibburn, Shiba Inu burn transactions have surpassed 21,000 in a new milestone. As given on the Shibburn website, total burn transactions are currently 21,169, yielding a total of 410,840,379,271,575 $SHIB burned presently. This represents 41.08% of Shiba Inu's initial supply of 1 quadrillion, with the remaining supply given as 58.92%. Shiba Inu's total supply is 589.15 trillion $SHIB, while circulating supply is given as 585.61 trillion $SHIB according to the Shibburn website. In the last 24 hours, 2.85 million $SHIB…

AltcoinsAug 19