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Bitcoin Red Team Says AI Is Finding Critical Exploits Across Core Projects

In brief The initiative says it has scanned about 150 Bitcoin repositories and made more than a dozen vulnerability disclosures. The team is developing an open-source AI platform for auditing Bitcoin software. Developers say the effort is uncovering critical vulnerabilities across wallets, cryptographic libraries, and infrastructure. A volunteer security initiative says it used frontier AI models to scan 150 Bitcoin repositories and found more than a dozen vulnerabilities as developers increasingly use artificial intelligence to audit blockchains. In a post on X earlier this week, AnchorWatch CEO Rob Hamilton said the group has spent about $20,000 on AI services while…

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39.27 Trillion SHIB on Robinhood, So Who Holds More?

Brokerage platform Robinhood remains atop Shiba Inu's holder list with more than 39.27 trillion $SHIB currently held in a wallet related to the trading platform. According to Etherscan data, 39,273,242,865,360.9000 $SHIB currently sits in a Robinhood-named wallet, or 3.9274% of Shiba Inu's supply, currently worth $161,805,760.61. While this figure seems significant, Robinhood isn't the biggest holder of $SHIB. Another wallet contains a far larger $SHIB balance, accounting for 41.0441% of its supply. Shiba Inu's burn address surprisingly holds the largest amount of $SHIB, with Etherscan giving this quantity as 410,433,377,893,806 $SHIB worth $1,695,089,850. A burn address is a wallet address…

Altcoins

BIP-110 Breakaway Chain Faces a Long Fight to Survive

What Happened? The BIP-110 faction broke from the main Bitcoin network and managed to grind out a microscopic four-block chain tip. That would normally kill a fork cold, but BIP-110 proponents have another escape route: ditch the minority chain’s crushing SHA-256 difficulty by replacing its PoW cryptographic hash function entirely. Word on the street is that the PoW switch could land in September. The four blocks mined by Roughnecks. As of today, Roughnecks had dragged the minority chain to block 961635, only for it to stall again after that block was mined three days ago on Aug. 12. Block 961636…

Blockchain

Bitcoin’s BIP-110 enters mandatory signaling with miner support below 3%

Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 entered its mandatory-signaling phase at block 961,632 on Saturday, with miners signaling support in just 51 of the preceding 2,016 blocks, or 2.53%, well below the 55% threshold required for early activation, according to the BIP-110 monitor. Starting at block 961,632, nodes enforcing BIP-110 began rejecting blocks that did not set version bit 4, while ordinary Bitcoin nodes continued accepting both signaling and non-signaling blocks. A minority BIP-110 branch subsequently emerged, but quickly fell behind the dominant chain. The low signaling rate makes a sustained rival chain unlikely without substantially greater miner participation. With relatively little…

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Everyone has the perps convergence backwards

That has changed. The same structure is now applied well outside crypto. Traders can hold perpetual positions on gold, major currency pairs, and equities and stock indexes, settled onchain, on venues that did not exist three years ago. Decentralized platforms list synthetic exposure to individual large-cap stocks alongside bitcoin and ether, and centralized exchanges are extending perpetual products into commodities and indices. The growth is not incremental. According to CoinDesk Research, real-world-asset perpetual volumes reached a record $211 billion in May 2026, roughly sixteen times their level of about $12 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025, with equity perps…

Regulation

XRP Ledger Back Above 140,000-User Threshold Despite Upcoming Weekend

With the number of active users on the network once again surpassing the crucial 140,000 mark, the $XRP Ledger is exhibiting fresh indications of activity. The most recent XRPL data shows that active users recently reached about 141,800 addresses, which is one of the highest readings over the previous month. Engagement around $XRP grows The timing is especially significant because, as trading volumes and transaction counts decrease throughout the larger cryptocurrency market, blockchain activity frequently slows down before weekends. Rather, despite the customarily slower trading period, $XRP Ledger participation has managed to stay high, indicating that user engagement is still…

Altcoins

Bitcoin whales accumulate for 5 days – Can BTC escape THIS channel?

Bitcoin [$BTC] trended higher after rebounding from $62,000 a few days ago. It remained inside a broader descending channel, although upside pressure strengthened. At press time, Bitcoin traded near $64,903, up 1.6% daily and 3% over the past week. Are Bitcoin whales buying $BTC? Bitcoin hovered near $64,000 as it searched for a breakout. Whales appeared to offer support. CryptoQuant’s Spot Average Order Size showed large whale orders between $63,000 and $64,000. That made these prices key whale zones. Lookonchain reported that a newly created wallet received 1,346 $BTC, worth $87.28 million. Of those holdings, 614.95 $BTC came from Galaxy…

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Coinbase spent 5 years building a life raft away from Bitcoin and still managed to lose $359M

Coinbase told investors on Thursday that 88% of its second-quarter net revenue came from something other than Bitcoin spot trading. The same release reported a $359.5 million net loss under US accounting rules, the company's third consecutive losing quarter. Both numbers describe the same three months. Taken together, they get closer to the truth about Coinbase than either one does alone. The arrangement the company carried into its 2021 listing was easy to understand. Retail customers traded more when Bitcoin went up, and they paid a fee on every transaction. So when prices flattened, the revenue flattened with them. Almost…

Regulation

Japanese Banking Giant SBI Inherits 1.11 Trillion Shiba Inu (SHIB) in Coinhako Acquisition

Japanese financial conglomerate SBI Holdings has officially completed the acquisition of a controlling stake in Singapore-based crypto exchange Coinhako through its subsidiary SBI Ventures Asset. The transaction received full approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and has now been formally closed. In their official statements, the management teams of both companies emphasize institutional infrastructure, including the creation of cross-border B2B corridors between Japan and Singapore, the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA), and the launch of the regulated yen-denominated stablecoin JPYSC. However, on-chain data from the Arkham platform reveals an important structural detail of the acquisition. Along with the…

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Blackrock's IBIT Captures $479M as Bitcoin ETFs Extend Streak

A Fifth Day, Right on Schedule The latest numbers mark the fifth straight trading day of net inflows for U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs and the fourth for their Ether counterparts. Weekly bitcoin ETF inflows have now topped $750 million, a pace that would have looked out of reach a month earlier. The streak traces back to Monday, August 3, and has run through Friday without a single down day. This lies in stark contrast to the choppy, stop-start pattern that defined bitcoin ETF flows for most of the year. Solana and XRP ETF products, by comparison, logged effectively zero net…

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