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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The European Union has expanded its Russia crypto sanctions to 14 foreign service platforms while creating a country-level transaction ban that could cut EU operators off from crypto providers in jurisdictions accused of repeatedly enabling sanctions evasion. According to the Council of the European Union, the measures were adopted on July 23 under the bloc’s 21st sanctions package against Russia, extending transaction bans to crypto platforms based in Georgia, Panama, the United Arab Emirates, the Marshall Islands, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus. The package also added four designations connected to Russia’s cross-border A7 payments network, including entities linked to its operations in…

The valuation gap inside Bitcoin mining is no longer about hashrate alone. Operators that locked in AI and high-performance computing revenue are trading like a different asset class, while pure-play miners absorb the full weight of lower bitcoin prices and compressed hashprice margins. That divergence is laid out in the original report, which notes that miners with AI and HPC contracts have commanded higher valuations as declining bitcoin prices squeeze operators focused only on block rewards. Contracted compute changes the underwriting model AI and high-performance computing contracts shift the revenue base away from daily bitcoin exposure. Instead of depending on…